The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
NO MORE WHITE BREAD

One Meatless Day, One Meatlesl
| Meal Each Day. and Two Pork
less Days-Bakers Must
Adulterate Flour 40
Per Cent.
By the President Of the United States
A PROCLAMATION.
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for a more ii,ten-
sive effort on the part of our people
to save food in order that we may
supply our associates in the war with
the sustenance vitality necessary to
them in these days of privation and
stress. The reduced productivity OF
Europe because of large diversion of
man-power to the war, the part fail
ure of harvest and the elimination of
the more distant markets for food
stuffs through the destruction-of ship
ping, places the burden of their sub
sistence more largely on our shoul-
ders.
The Food Administration has FORM
ulated suggestions which, if followed
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility without any real incon-
venience on our part.
I'm order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat pro-
ducts by 80 per cent--a reduction
i,nperatively necessary to provide the
supply for Observation-Disclosures,
jobbers and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers only 10
per cent OF the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers of elementary
pastes, biscuits, crackers, pastry and
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat flour to 20 per cent OF their
1917 requirements. Consumers should
reduce their purchases of wheat pro-
ducts for home preparation to at most
70 per cent of those of last year, or
when buying bread should purchase
mixed cereal breads from the bakers.
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
cereal bread and other products Of the
bakers which contains All adnnixture
OF other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays
and Wednesdays should be observed
as wheatless days each week, and one
meal each day should be observed as
a wheatless meal.
- In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the con
sumption Of beet, pork and sheep pro-
ducts, Tuesday should b. observed
as meatless day in each week. one
meatless meal should be observed in
each day; while, in addition, Saturday
in each week should further. be OBJ
served as 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.
The maintenance of the health and
strength of our people is vitality neces-
sary at this time and there should I've
no dangerous restriction of the food
supply; but the elimination Of every
sort of waste and the substitution OF
other commodities of which we have
more-- abundant supplies 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.
II, therefore, in the national inter-
est, take the liberty Of calling upon
every loyal American TO take fully to
heart the suggestions which are being
circulated by the Food Administra
tion and of begging that they be fol-
lowed. I am confident that the great
body of our women who have laborcd :
So loyalty in cooperation with the
Food Administration for the success
of food conservation will strengthen
their efforts and will take it as a
part of their burden in this period of
service to sec the above sug
yestions are observed thr oughout the
land.
WOODROW VII. SON"
Washington, Jan. 26.-Thc Amcri-
can people will go on a war bread diet
Monday as part of war rationing
system prescribed tonight by Presi-
lent Wilson and the Food Admini;-
ration. Victory bread" the Fool