The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-02-01
AMERICAN PEOPLE
0N'WAR BREAD DIET
REDUCED RATIoNs ASKED FOR
PURPOSE OF CREATING LARGER
SURPLUS FOR THE ALLIES.
1 Bakers viii Make Victory Loaves With
Mixture Of Other Flour.--Two j.
. Wht4ttess e : meatiess and ~
Two P'rkss Days q Week.

= Whsattess e Meatlcss and ~
Two P'fkts p'xss Week. y.
Kashington-The American people
went on war bread diet ON Januayy
Is, as II part of II war rationing sys..
TEN prescribed bys President WileoA
and the, food admnistratfon .Eictory
bread, the food administration calls II.
The rr,luced rations are Rsked for
the purpose of creating larger expert !.
I surplus of food for the allies, CurtalIA
ment ofkconsumptidh will be accom-
pllshesl largely by voluntary effort, but
force Will be employed wherever per
mitted under the food control act
The rationing system, as presented
! by the president in proclamation and
by Food Administrator Hoover in n
Iist of regulations, forms the food adj
mnistration's 1918 food conservation
program, on which the chief features
are: Bakers bread of mixed Hour, s6e
ginning Monday, with per cent SUBJ
stitution of other cereals for wheat un,
tia 20 per cent substitution is reachesI..
February "A. :.
Sale by retailers to householdeFs OF
an equal amount of substitute fiours
for every pound of wheat Hour spQr-
chased ut the time the wheat flour IL
bought.
Restrict MIIers' Sale.
Sale by vmillers to Wholesalers and
Wholesalers to retailers of only 20 per
cent of the amount of wheat flour sold
last year.
Two wheatless days a week-Mon
day and Wednesday--nnd one wheat
less meal a day. Z.
One meatless day-Tuesday--anh-
one meatless meal day.
Two porkless days week-Tuesday
and Saturday.
Manufacturers of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers and breakfast
foods, pie, cake and pastry will be per-
mitted 20 buy only 70 per cent of their
last years purchases, and are asked to
1 perform patriotic service by using
substitute flours.
Flour will be sold through the rcgt-
lar channels and in such manner that
each community Will receive its equiv
alent shire.
The food administration will pur-
chase for the army and for the allies.
as announced recently, 80 per cent of
the flour output and out of this store
/ will fill emergency requirements If
stocks run low in any part of the coun-
try.
t No Patent FIours
/, Wheat millers are required to pro
duce one barrel of flour of 106 pounds
, from 264 pounds of wheat, which repre-
{ sents n IA per cent flour. No patent
or special flours may be manufactured.
although whole wheat flour may be
made as usual.
i Hotels and restaurants will be
: elassed as bakeries and will be re-
quired to serve the new "Victory
bread"
Y State food administrators will be
!, permitted to designate the wheatless
meal In each state. Where this is not
DONE the food administrator requests
i that the evening meal be observed ~
wheatless.
The presidents proclamation, besides
calling on the public for further re
t duction' in consumption, makes a re
Il newed appeal to the housewife to stol
the waste of food. 1t asks general oh
" servance of the food administration
o regulations and calls on the people, il
addition, to hold down their consump
ton of sugar.
No Forcibie Limitation.
There is no forcible limitation o
- purchases by householders, and in thi,
connection the food administrator
says
1.-THE effectiveness of these rules 4
dependent solely upon the good viii
and willingness of the American peo
pie to sacrifice. In the last analysis
the success or failure of any such plal
us outlined rests with the people. w
have but one police force-the Ameri
can wOman-and we depend upon he
to see that these rules are observed"
OF the nearly 10000 900 householder
in the United States, about l300O 90
have signed the food administration
pledge to follow its food conservation
directions, and food administration OF
ficials believe that the regulations will
be generally observed.