Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
PROCLAMATION or PRES'T
WILSON PUTTING U. S.
ON WAR FOOD


President Wilson Last night issued
fhe following proclamation.
Many causes have contributed to ne
cessity for a more intensive effort on
the part Of our people TO save food in
order that we may supply our associa-
ties in the war with the sustenance VII
tally nece ssary to them in these days
OF provation and stress. The reduced
productivity Of Europe, because of the
large diversion of man power to the
war, the partial failure of harvests and
the elimination of the more distant
markets for foodstuffs, through the
destruction of shopping places, puts
the burden of their sustenanCe very
largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has. for
INFLATED suggestions which, if follow
responsibility, without any real incon-
venience.
Thirty Per Cent Less Wheat.
In order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat pro-
ducts by 30 per cent-a reduction inn
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for worcestershire lesalers, job
bers and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only seventy
per cent Of the amounts used In 1917.
All manufacturers of alimentary
pastes. biscuits. crackers, pastry, and
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat flour to 10 per cent of their
1917 requirements, and all bakers Of
bread and rolls to 80 per cent Of their
current requirements Consumers
should reduce their purchases Of wheat
products for home preparation to at
most, 10 per cent Of those of last year.
sor, when buying bread should pur-
chase mixed cereal breads from the
bakers.
Substitutes.
To provide sufficient foods, homes
public eating places, dealers and man
ufacturers should substitute potatoes,
vegetables, corn, barley, oats and rice
products, and the mixed cereal bread
and other products of the bah ers
which contain an admixture of other
cereals.
In order that consumption might be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
4 Wednesdays should be observed as
Wheatless days.
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the con-
sumption of beef, pork and sheep
products. Tuesday should be observed
as nieatless day in each week. one
meatless meal should be observed in
each day; while. in additio4., Saturday
in each week should further be OBJ
served as o day upon which there
should be no consumption Of pork pro
ducts.
4 continued economy in the use of
sugar will be necessary until later In
the year,
Eliminate Waste.
1t Is imperative hat all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
OF fcodstuffs should be rigidly elimi.
mated,
The maintenance of the health and
strength of our own people Is vitality
necessary at this time. and there
should be no dangerous restriction of
the food supply; but the elimination OF
every sort of waste and the substitu
ton 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.
/, therefore, in the national interest,
take the liberty of calling upon every
loyal American to take fully to heart
tile suggestions which are being cir
culated by the food administration and
of begging that they maybe followed.
I am confident the great body of our
women who have labored so loyalty in
cooperation with the food admins
tration for the success of food conser-
walton will strengthen their efforts
and Will take 1t as q part of their bur-
den In this period of national service
to see that the above suggestions are
observed throughout the land
"WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, Jan. Is, 1918.