Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-11-08
ITO Be Continued.)
FEDERAL FOOD ADMINS
TRA1i0H.
Official International Message
To The Housewife.

LOT q snort time recently ue ISCe4Fcu
fifty-fiye Thousand letters from British
children thanking the American peo-
pie for what they had done in saving
and sending food to Great Britain. In
France his experience was similar. AS
he said in his speech to the Local Food
Administrators for Virginia in their
conference on Friday, October 4th, ev-
cry child over five years old in the
Allied countries and in Belgium knows
something of what our food did for
them and for their nations. For one
whole generation" said Mr.. Hoover,
"wo have planted our flag in their
hearts"
But he was far indeed from leading
Us to think our task was done or would
be easier this year. He declared, ca
the contrary, with absolute conviction,
that we had a, harder task before us.
More food must be saved this year
than last He has already promised
the Allies, on his faith in the American
people. Fifty per cent more food
must be saved. More intelligence must
be used In saving it. More of the
War Conscience must be developed in
each individual. Meatless days and
like methods Of conservation, easily
observed, were introduced last year as
necessary emergency measure. But
their tendency is to disturb distribu-
ton and prices, and the time has come
when we can do without them and
still save more food, Ration cards
might perhaps work with numbers OF
police officers and millions Of expense.
But they are undemocratic. MI.
Hoover believes. that the time has
come when he can trust to the intel
Egcnce Of the American housewife and
the individuals War Conscience, guild
Ing the individuals actions by answer
ing the questions: will what | am
doing help win the war? If everyone
did what l am doing would they help
to win the WARP"
There is no longer anything prosaic
about pots and pans and kitchen work,
when every handling Of food by the
housewife can help-or hinder-in the
saving of one hundred and twenty mil
lion of our associates in the war, in
the winning of the war In nine months.
in the saving Of one million Of our
boys. The longer this war lasts the
greater the chance that your lad and
my lad" will never come home. EVer.v
housewife can help by her handling OF
food to shorten or prolong - the
worlds agony.
The American people justified Mr..
Hoover's faith in them when he prom
ised last December to send twelve mil
lion bushels Of wheat month TO the
Allies, when all the visible surplus
had already been shipped. He is ask
ing a harder thing now-the saving OF
more food with only general directions
about saving it. He believes the Amer
lean people will again justify his faith.
Every housewife will respond to his
words: 81 believe myself that we are
past the stage where we have Sot to
tell a housewife that she must save
two ounces Of butter in order to save
the Allies. I believe she will
show more pride and more national
service in it IL we give her a general
job than II we laid out everything for
her step by step. But l go into that
only because of the rather despairins
remarks l heard this morning that Eve
are letting down" We are not letting
down We are asking more intelll-
gence than we have ever asked"
Some Practical Suggestions.
Increasingly the Allies are demand
ing Of us butter, cheese and condensed
milk, Of which they are very, very
short, even dangerously so. Children
should have butter on their bread; it
has vital food value for them. But use
none in cooking. Save and render
drippings and use bacon gravy.
Sugar furnishes prompt stimulation
for tremendous physical exertion. 1t
provides the extra heat needed to rest
and restore the body after long strain
or exposure to cold and damp. Honey,
maple syrup, other syruDs and sweet
eners furnish the same thing as sugar.
We can get them. The soldiers can't.
They need lots Of sugar. We can do
very we'll with little.
The rule this year Is never to use
wheat -four unmixed with substitute
in the proportion of four pounds Of
wheat -four and one Of substitute. The
Allies bread Is twenty per cent. sub
stitute. Mr. Hoover has said, ut is
patriotic and right for every person In
the United States to eat the same
character of -four during the next IL
months that is eaten by the whole OF
the Allies countries" The mixed flour
Is just as nutritious and wholesome
and digestlble as the straight wheat
-four. In mixing corn meal with wheat
-four bakers have obtained the best
results by making a mush Of the meal
with water twelve hours before mixing
It with the wheat -four. Use just rs
much straight corn bread as ever.
The Southern woman Is likely to
say:
"But I had rather have my corn
meal straight, and then occasionally
have straight white flour biscuits.
Won't that save just as much wheat
as if l used the mixed -FOUR" No.
If the rule is followed NEVER TO
USE UNMIXED- WHITE FLOUR there
Is obliged to be more conservation OF
wheat in Virginia, in the South, and
all over the country.
The new new list of wheat flour
substitutes contains nothing which
cannot be used in making a mixed
flour; that Is, corn -four, barley -four,
corn meal, kafir -four, milo flour, fe-
terita -four and meal, rice -four, pea
NUT. -four oat -four, bean -four, potato
-four, sweet potato -four, and buck
wheat -four. ANY Of these may be
used. The point Is to make bread
that Is only fourAfths wheat -four.
If the war were to end next week,
there would still be the necessity for
continued food con aarvafjon