The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-28
UNITED STATES
NOW ON WAR DIET
War Bread of 20 Per Cent
of Wheat Substitutes
Flour Sales Curtailed
PRESIDENT URGES
WASTE BE STOPPED
Food Administration Announces Broad
Plan to Economize Nations Food
Consumption-Hope to Make Saving
by Voluntary Rationing.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-The Amer
lean people will 90 on war bread
diet today as part Of war ration
ing system prescribed Saturday night
by President Wilson and the food al
nIinistration. Victory bread. the
food administration calls it. The re-
duced ration1 are asked for the pur-
pose Of creating a larger export sur
7 plus of food for the European allies
Curtaiment of consumption viii be ae-
conplished largely by voluntary effort,
bat force viii be employed wherever
permitted under the food control act.
{ The rationing system, as presented
by the president i'll a proclamation and
/ by Food Administrator Hoover in n
list Of regulations, forms the food ad-
miniStration : 1918 food conservation
program.
Among the chief features of the
program are
\ baker 5 bread of mixed fours, BE-
ginning tomorrow with ) per cent
+ ..f'''''' titA"i va bttAN.l WI d4S 1bt WHEAT
until a - per cent substitution is
reached February -
Sale by retailers to houscholders OF
an equal amount of substitute flour
for every pound Of wheat flour bought
at the time the wheat -four is bought
sale by millers to wholesalers and
wholesalers to retailers Of only 20 per
cent Of the amount Of wheat -four sold
last year
Two wheatlcss DAYS a week. Mon.
day and Wednesday, and one wheat
less meal 4 day.
One meatlcss day week, Tuesday,
and one meatlcss meal a day.
Two rorkless days a week, Tuesday
and Saturday.
The food administration will buy for
the army and for the allies. as an
nounccd 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 country.
T ldtelS and rt'staurahts Hill be tlalsed
as bakeries and will be required 10
serve the new Victory bread -
state food administrators will be per
mitted TO designate the whcatless meal
/ in each state Where this is not done
the food administrator requests that the
/ evening meal be observed as wheatIess.
I The PRESIDENT 5 proclamation, be.
sides calling on the public for a fur
thcr reduction in consumption. makes
a renewed appeal to the housewife to
sop tae waste OF food. II asks gencr-
al observance Of the food administra-
tiou regulations and calls on the peo-
PIE in addition to hold down their
CONSUMPTION of .ugar.
OF the nearly 2o,0O0,000 household
ers in the United States about $4,000.
. 600 have signed the food administra
F tion 5 pledge to follow its food con
servation directions and food admin
lstration officials believe that the recu-
/ iationa will be generally observed
Mr.. Hoover estimates that obscrv-
aucc of the regulations will save about
i l5.OpG,0o0 bushels of wheat a month
for shipment abroad. This will en-
able the allies TO subsist. although their
ration viii be short All of the allies
and the central powers as well are on :,
war bread diet now. Most of the al.
lies are mixing about 40 per cent of
corn meal and other substitutes with
wheat flour in all bread baked and all
of Europe - milling a large amount
OF the whole wheat grain. Both France
and England have recently cut down
the bread ration by almost half
If the voluntary rationing system
fails in this country, it then Mr.
Hoover said yesterday, els up to con
grcss, We have no powers under the
law to compel people to eat less. -
Il
Workers who turn ivory for billiard
balls know that as il dries ivory
.hrinks.