The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-20
Food Bulletin
issued by U. s. Food AdmInistra.
ton.
Total Abstinence Club.

| It's going to be a mighty popular
] thing to belong to the new kind Of To-
| tai Abstinence club now forming
Throughout Iowa and the other states.
/ This club pledges its members to
abstain from the use of wheat flour
until after harvest in order to save
our allies from starvation.
| America now has not only sufficient
corn to permit total abstinence from
the use of wheat, but there are also
immense quantities of potatoes avail
able, as well as other cereal substi-
tutes, such as oats, rice, barley, etc.
/ The United States doesn't need the
I wheat flour The soldiers and our
allies abroad must have it. The new
total abstinence pledge deprives our
people only Of q little surplus luxury,
but it supplies a necessity for those
who are fighting for us over there.
! Food Administrator Deems is conf
dent that every Iowan will join the
movement just as every man in
Grimes county, Texas, is going in and
500 hotel men few days ago pledged
! themselves to abolish wheat products
altogether from their dining rooms I'M
| til harvest.
At Mt. Gilead, Ohio, every person
attending big meeting joined the
new total abstinence club. In ons
Texas county all flour has been di
verted in transit to the seaboard for
export to our allies. Forty-two coun-
ties in Arkansas have turned over
more than 100000 pounds of flour TO
| the government. Sebastian county
Smith gave up fifteen carloads and JEFF
Z 70 rtHy <yfrp ~ -.
loads.
The United States cannot suffer
from abstaining wholly from the use
/ of wheat flour. Administrator Deems
announces that the milling output OF
corn meal has increased from 5000 900
barrels in October to 5000, 900 barrels
| in March, and the mills have a ca
pacity 200 per cent over that of last
| year. The output will be greater each
month.
TWO Pounds Of Flour Now.
| State Food Administrator Deems an
nounces that, pending the total absti-
hence movement, the sale of flour in
/ packages of less than twelve pounds
is no longer prohibited.
! In order to make 1t easier for the
housewife to comply with the fifty
/ fifty" regulations it was deemed adj
visable to enable her to purchase flour
| in smaller quantities. Licensed deal
ers in flour have been advised that
they may market several sized pack
ages weighing less than twelve
pounds, with a two-pound minimum.
The smaller packages, in addition to
making it unnecessary for the house
wife to purchase wheat substitutes in
large quantities, will reduce the con-
sumption of wheat, for holders OF
small quantities will be more inclined
to conserve.
Farmer Gets More.
The Iowa farmer has been getting
nearly twice as much money in pro-
portion out of every loaf of bread as
he did five years ago. Food Admins
traitor Deems has pointed out that in
1918 but &c per cent of the cost Of the
loaf OF bread to the consumer went
to the farmer, as compared with As
per cent at the present time. In 1913
6S per cent of the price of bread was
added after the flour left the mill
door. as compared with 40 per cent
at the present time.
The table presented by Administra-
tor Deems is striking illustration of
the benefits derived by both the pro-
Queer and the consumer through the
control Of wheat products: