The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-24
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER.

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part of the country would now be
suffering from hunger. In order
to save a large part Of the world !
from hunger, the United States food !
will devote every |
energy to the fuller saving Of food /;
from now until June.
John NJ. Parker, Food Admins
traitors for Louisiana, returned to
his office Monday after week at
Washington, where he attended a
war council of the State Food Ad-
ministrators with their chief Her
bert Hoover, and his staff. The
above was the concrete CONCLUSION
he drew from the sessions reports
and resolves.
Five national experts who had
just completed personal surveys at
and behind the battle lines in Europe
made their first statements to the
meeting. The story of the suffer-
ing they saw, their analysis of the
situations needs, coupled with
knowledge of the food ships sunk
and the loss of food stuffs in other
WAYS, aroused the Administrators to
the imperative necessity of speeding
I'D their work and of stirring the
people to complete cooperation. MI
Parker. like the other Admlnlstra-
traitors. came back home impressed
with the duty of forcing results,
Wheat, n,eas. sugar and fats mist
be saved in larger quantities so that
the armies can be sustained, and the
reoples behind the armies protect
ed against famine. It is not ques-
ton of trying, said Mr.. Parker, but
Of doing it Meatless and wheatless
davs must be observed. Tuesday and
Friday are meatless days in Louisl-
ana The Food Administration has
added Saturday as porkless day,
and It also asks that there be one
meatless meal on each of the other
DAYS of the week. Wednesday IS
wheatless day. 1t is urged that there
be also a wheatless meal on each OF
the other days. The wheat crisis
is so acute that all bread for all the
meals will soon have to be made OF
mixed flour, so as to save more
wheat The nations surplus has all
been shipped, and the wheat on hand
must be divided if the soldiers are
to be fed before the next crop comes
! in. To make surer of this, the con-
servation will be done at the mills.
Mr.. Parker says the conservation
days are being kept more sacredly
by the hotels and restaurants of the
East. They must be kept as strictly
by the eating places in Louisiana,
not because the East is doing it, but
because the welfare of the nation de-
mands it. There is no more excuse
for ignorance, and disregard now
must be considered defiance of the
nations will or disregard Of the ma
tons need. Nobody in the latter
category should be tolerated in this
/ country, and he felt sure that the pa
triotic people of The state would see
to it that no such public enemie:
were permitted to operate. The peo
pie are further concerned because
the slackers have claimed public
pressure a sthe obstacle to their OBJ
servance of the food regulations.
The Food Administration pro
poses to employ more drastic mean:
to curb disloyal caterers and op
pressive and profiteering food mer
chants. Even where there is no di
rect power to punish, the Food AID
ministration will exercise its au
thority to prohibit licensed whole
salers from selling supplies to tn
=. caterers or dealers declared unfair
Mr.. Parker was told at Washington
; that President. Woodrow Wilson
; would back any action taken by tn
) Food Administration, issuing exec
/ utive orders to close establishment
> under the food ban and keeping
: them closed until the end Of tn
) war. Mr.. Parker was in hopes tina
: there would not be any such place
in Louisiana.
, The Food Administered ton is still
). depending largely upon education
, and voluntary cooperation, and
: constantly receiving gratifying ev
. idence confirming its faith. Tn
campaign Of education will be ex
: panded and energized. Mr.. Hove
5 has promised to send several of tn
:, distinguished men who toured til
. battle Zone. Other national speal
: ers will also be detailed. A speal
e ers' bureau will be organized herr
3 and many prominent lawyers, teacf
. ers and other citizens have alread
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