The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-02-26
FOOD RATIONTNC
FOR COUNTRY
IS DRAWING NEAR
House Committee Approves Bill
Granting Further Powers But
Agrees With Hoover That
Measure Does Not Go Far
Enough

WASHINGTON, February 24-tAs-
Sociated Press Compulsory food "a
honing will he necessary in the opin-
ion OF the house committee on ngricul-
turc which was expressed in its favor
able report on the bill which gives to
the President further powers for the
conservation of the nation = food sun
plies. The report further saws that the
food situation in the nation is hpcom
ing vitality serious
In this report the house committee
comedies with the opinion voiced nv
Food Administrator Hoover when the
bill was presented to him by Represen,
tativP Anderson and when he said:
. | fear 1t does not go far enough to
meet the emergency. The points GOV.
cred by your proposal are
(a) Licensing public eating places.
(h) Percentage of wheat in -four.
|. (c) Mixing other cereals in flour.
(dl WhCatless or other less DAYS
per week.
(P) Use of foodstuffs in nonfood
products.
."(H Limitations on food served in
public eating places.
Extension of Lever Act
1.-THE extension of the measures in
the Lever Act, which our experience
and the present situation lead US to
believe are vital for conservation,
should also include:
81. Control of distribution in order
that all classes and localities NAV fare
alike and that unnecessary consumption
should be prevented.
"2. Control of use of foodstuffs in
food manufactures with a view to lin
ting the less essential manufactures.
't3. Control of commodities critically
necessary for the production and preser
ovation Of fOodstuffs in order to prevent
great losses and military sacrifices.
Must Go Deeper
"While II is vitality necessary to reg
ulate the consumption Of food in public
eating places, they consume on various
estimates, from ~ to 90 percent of the
total foodstuffs, and if they were re
duced out of all reason they would not
solve the problem. Some method mus
be devised which will cover much
| wider area of consumption.
| at appears to me that we should at
'ack the noneSsential uses of foodstuffs
and that we should attack the points OF
unnecessary consumption of foodstuffs
BY these means we can place the burden
where. it belOngs-on the luxurious anC
greedy, and not upon the poor. This i'm
plies some further measures of contro
in distribution and in noDessential use
lH you, viii give the whole problem
study ! believe You will find that some
where in the nation We consume or de
| troy over 80 percent more food thar
we need for health and strength, anc
hat this margin, if it can be nipple
mented, will supply all allied demands
But we should not draw it from tina
lass to which economy and moderat,
use is a daily necessity.
Sugar As Example
Take, for example, the case o
'ugar, the shortage in which will, W,
hope, not exceed 10 percent We shout,
be able to accomplish this by reduc
ion in the manufacture of confect ion
cry and sweet drinks Of say 20 per
cent, and these very manufacturer
could substitute other things and main
tain their volume of production During
he recent shortage we made n patrl
otto appeal to such manufacturers to re
! luce their consumption Of sugar by 81
percent and placed it at this figure be
ausP we did not wish to destroy tn
livelihood Of 100000 women and girl
lending fuller supplies of sugar
nave specifically before me the case o
me very large manufacturer who fol
lowed this suggestion implicitly, OnI
find that over a score of manufar
urers of imitation goods sprang up OF
I'll sides, supplied the trade to his gren
!amage and loss, and we were powerles
give him any protection in his pa
'riotic action. Surely, IL is better tina
he conservation of sugar should b.
made in the luxury trades and that the,
| should have protection in making it
han that we should draw upon house
| l0ld supplies.
The recent experience with ,suga
also serves to prove the necessity t.
have some further powers in distrhu
ion. During the entire recent sugar
'hortage the gross supply amounted f
81 percent of normal consumption, We
sc had sporadic famineS and privatioI
Ill over the country because no or
Ianized distribution could be effected
The greedy got sugar and others wen
without. -
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