Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-16
MAY SEEK TO REPLACE
WHEAT BREAD WITH CORN
Food Administrator Hoover's Con
servation Plans Present This
Possibility
MAIZE DISLlKED IN EUROPE
Effort to Popularize It at Convention
in Vienna Failed-Not n Good
Diet for Children

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IN restaurants. To- cut out certain noncsscn-
tiaI ingredients. TO prevent waste generally
ana 10 pat a checkrcin on manufacturing
methods. Distribution Of foodstuns ana
foods Is also 10 be further regulated and
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iar Hs ms own products ar" '"hcotheu anu
If the Committee on Agriculture prevails, the
right to use food in private homes is apt 10
be invaded
In hacking nm AIR lIooyer's request for
more poyer over food production and dis
trilution the Committee on Agriculture in
sists that "fhe food situation as IL affects us
and Our Allies il becoming so critically Sc
rous as to warrant the committee in the
belief that the necessity is upon us Of adopt
ing compulsory methods OF cOnscrNatio.! IN
certain w>il-delined directions
Among the suggested methods Of food re-
trerChment is one affecting bread. 1T would
Ice possible To effect n great saving in food
products" observes the committee. by re-
quirng higher milling. or the mixture of
ingredients in bread which cannot be so
readily shipped abroad" This recommended
tton is supposed to refer to the repeated
proposals tlnanatIng from the Hoover admin
for our Allies we should use more corn in
our American dietary. 1t is especially In
tcresting at this time in view Of the warm
ing recently uttered at the Atlantic city
mia welfare congress of Mothers and Par
"nt Teachers Association as TO malnutriton
among N'hooI 'hiidren in the United states,
uo,y.r and wh..,
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III, i '., P, i,.l9 ~ pec lINtu on wheat
."'I '''. nut y's.| ue",'u' some OF 'hoSe
81. Wv ,,,,'',, ''N 'sl III. c'""nui"s advances
i ',,'-n- - ,..0'''' .o' 'r'u ~ eNpeCteu
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,Il - ~ S',"c ln.' II Is pe'nE
r"'' E'u '.'"l sum- o, t'e farmers are hoard-
'''E ""''' 'o' nIE"'r prices meanwhile
w" j, "o"'E us" "I'o '"e "'ar"et ana IN
O'"'r !" e"'""'"Ee Gov" J" america IN" ad-
h'his,'"tioh mas levied an embargo ON corn
"'t"''" I'"'" -NtehuuH
Apart from certain littie tests Of the mcttle
of our war administrators. however. thc
feeling prevails that Hoover will got the
5o,Ooo"o" bushels Of wheat said 20 "hc abso-
lutolN necessary to keep the Allies in fighting
form for the next -four months or So. and
conservation will hc effective in the United
states 10 mat extent.
Europe Doesn't Like Corn
TIL" problem here is whether while We are
getting wheat 10 our allies. corn il to take
the plac" ot wheat in the United states in
such measure rs to upset certain American
dictetlc standards Mr.. Hoover holds To tho
opinion that we should rise more corn The
corn Growers who seeks TO mt corn q,
level with wheat, encourages that notion
80 dn certain large Interests which r,anuf,c
uure glucose cornstarrn and the like Then
there are many people who like corn hread
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nry shouid nat oniy me assured Inn sho,Il
Lr So thorourhly established AS To hc alb.
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vsionn,sut ,f All tho tissues of the bod,, is +,
| d;ntati, rrhn.',, and ms to wheat broad he
attacked % in this way, WAY We }h,Yaton , IT. the Whole whole
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