The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
PRESIDENT URGES
SAVING OF FOOD.
RATioNINc SYSTEM NECESSARY
IN ORDER TO SUPPLY NEEDS
OF OUR ALLIES.
iesues Proclamation Recommending
the Elimination Of Every Sort Of
Waste and Substitution Of
Abundant Supplies.


Abundant Supplies.
Washington.-The following procla.
nation on food conservation was issued
January 26 by President Woodrow
Wilson:
A Proclamation.
Many causes have contributed to Gre
ate the necessity for more intensive
enOrt on the part of our people to save
food IN order that we may supply our
associates In the war with the sus-
tenance vitality necessary to them In
these days Of privation and stress. The
reduced productivity of Europe be-
cause OF the large diversion of man
power to the war, the partial failure
OF harvests and the elimination of the
more. distant markets for foodstuffs
through the destruction Of shipping.
places the burden of their subsistence
very largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has formu.
lated suggestions which, If followed,
Will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility without any real inconve-
Dtence on our part.
Reduction Necessary.
In order that we may reduce our
consumption Of wheat and wheat prod
ucts by 80 per cent-a reduction i'm
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for Overseas-whOlesale job
Ders and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only 20 per
cent of the amounts used in 1917. All
manufacturers Of alimentary pastes,
biscuits. crackers, pastry and break
fast cereals should reduce their pur-
chases and consumption of wheat and
four to 20 per cent of their 1917 re-
Quirements, and all bakers of bread
and rolls to 80 per cent Of their cur
rent requirements. Consumers should
reduce their purchases of wheat prod
ucts for home preparation to at most
20 per cent of those of last year, or,
when buying bread, should purchase
mixed cereal breads from the bakers.
Mixture Of Cereals.
To provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products, and the mixed CO.
real bread and other products of the
bakers which contain an admixture of
other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
Wednesdays should be observed us
wheatless days each week, and one
meal each day should be observed as
$ ~heatless meal.
IN both homes and public eating
places, In order to reduce the consump-
ton of beef, pork and sheep products,
Tuesday should be observed as meat
less day in each week, one meatless
meal should be observed in each day;
while, in addition, Saturday in each
week should further be observed as a
day upon which there should be no
consumption of pork products.
A continued economy In the use OF
sugar will be necessary until later in
the year.
1t Is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
of fOodstuffs should be rigidly elm
mated
Elimination Of Waste.
The maintenance Of the health and
strength Of our own people is vitality
necessary ut this time, and there
should be no dangerous restriction of
the food supply; but the elimination
of every sort of waste and the sub
stitution Of other commodities of
which we have more abundant sup
plies for those which we need to save,
will In no way impair the strength of
our people and will enable us to meet
one OF the most pressing obligations of
the war.
], therefore, In the national interest.
take the liberty of calling upon every
loyal American to take fully to heart
the suggestions which are being circu-
lated by the food administration ana
Of begging that they be followed.
am confident that the great body of
our women who have labored so 10y
ally In cooperation with the food ad
ADMINISTRATION for the success of food
conservation will strengthen, their ef
forts and will take 1t as part of
their burden in this period of national
service to see that the above sugges.
tiOns are observed through the land
WOODROW WILSON.
Training Camps for Philippines.