French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-17
Every Patriotic American
Household Urged to OBJ
serve "Porkless" Day.
AND SUBSTITUTE
SAYS HERBERT HOOVER

is Requested in Statement
From MI. Hoover - Vital
Suggestions Given = Food
instruction Card for Every
Household in Entire State.
Raleigh, HA @N-The State Food
Administration has just let contracts
for the printing of 100000 supplement
tary home instruction cards to be dis
tributed one for each household in the
entire State. The issuance of~thesa
additional instruction cards is prompt
ed by the increased seriousness of the
food situation in Europe both from the
standpoint of military necessity and
for the relief Of hundreds of thou
sands of Europeans who are threaten
ed with starvation unless immediate
relief can be given them.
The supplementary instruction card
calls for a ''porkless" day each week
in addition to "Meatless" and Wheat
less" days, and for a wheatless and
meatless meal each day. The con-
sumner is urged to use sugar On a basis
| of not more than three pounds per per-
son per month. Mr.. Hoover, on one
side of the card, frankly and impress
sively presents the food situation as
| It is.
"As a nation we a and waste 80
per cent more protein than we require
to maintain health" the directions de-
clare, Therefore, we can reduce the
amount of meat we eat without harm.
We eat and waste 24O per cent more
fat than is necessary"
What Is Called for Now.
Aside from the general directions
contained in the first home instruction
card the new card asks everyone to
maintain rigid economy of at least:
ONE WHEATLESS day each week
and one WHEATLESS MEAL each
day, the .wheatless day to be Wednes-
day. By wheatless we mean to eat
no wheat products.
ONE MEATLESS DAY each week,
which shall be Tuesday and one meat
less meal each day. BY meatless we
mean to eat no red meat-beef, pork,
mutton, veal, lamb; no preserved
meat-beef, bacon, ham Or lard.
ONE PORKLESs day each week in
q Idifioo m TNYrnSIou -hioh oha1I no
I Saturday. BY porkless we e no
fresh or sailed pork, bacon, lard or
ham.
SUGAR-You can materially reduce
! sugar by reducing the use Of candy
and sweet drinks. We will make ev-
cry endeavor to see that the country is
| provided with supply of household
sugar on the basis of three pounds of
sugar for each person per month. Do
Hot consume more.
We Are a WastefuI People.
Human foodstuffs comprise three
principal elements:
PROTEIN: Mainly present in meat,
beans, fish, poultry, milk, and to some
extent in grains.
FATS: That is, butter, cream lard,
bacon, margarine, cooking fats, beans,
cotton seed oil and other vegetable
oils.
CARBOHYDRATES: Grains, sugar,
potatoes and other vegetables.
AS a nation we eat and waste 80 per
cent more protein than we require to
maintain health. Therefore, we can
reduce the amount of meat we eat
without harR.
We eat and waste 24O per cent more
fat than is necessary.
OF the carbohydrates we can just
as well consume corn, oats and other
cereals as wheat and we have abund.
ant supplies of potatoes and vegeta.
bles.
Do not limit your supplies Of mink
and table butter, but consume it all.
Don't waste any
You can reduce the consumption of
fats by reducing pastry and fried
foods.
Remember the Gospel of the Clean
Plate, the serving of small portions.
the purchase of less supplies.
What HoaSding Does.
Any person in the United States who
buys more foedstuffs than he custom.
arily keeps at home in peace times is
defeating the Food Administration in
its purpose to secure a just distribu.
ton of feed and in it's great endeay.
ors to reduce prices. The hoardin. OF
food IN households is not only unnec
sssary, as the government is p~rctect
fnr fhof onf aunn1w ~ o4,r naon7os K..4