Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-07
A Proclamation


Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for a more in
tensive effort on the part of our peo-
pie to save food in order that we may
upply our associates in the war with
tie sustenance vitality necessary to
them in these days of privation 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 food
stuffs through the destruction of ship
ping, places the burden of their sub
sistence very largely on our shoulders.
The Food Administration has formu-
lated suggestions which, if followed,
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility, without any real incon-
| venience on our part.
In order that we may reduce our
/ consumption of wheat and wheat pro-
| ducts by thirty percent-a reduction
! imperatively necessary to provide the
supply overseas-w wholesale dealers
and retailers and jobbers should pur-
| chase and resell to their customers
only seventy percent of the amounts
lsed in 1917 All manufacturers of
alilnentary pastes, biscuits, crackers,
/ pastry, and breakfast cereals should
reduce their purchases and consump-
| ton of wheat and wheat flour to sew
enty percent of their 1917 require
ments, and all bakers of bread and
rolls to eighty percent of their current
requirements Consumers should re-
duce their purchases of wheat prod
ucts for home preparation to at most
seventy percent of those of last year.
| or, when buying bread, should pur-
chase mixed cereal breads from the
bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products, and the mixed ce-
| real bread and other products of the
bakers which contain an admixture of
other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
Wednesdays should be observed as
Wheatless Days each week, and one
meal each day should be observed as
a Wheatless Meal.
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the con-
sumption of beef. pork and sheep pro-
ducts, Tuesday should be observed as
Meatless Day in each week, one
Meatless Meal should be observed in
each day; while, in addition, Satut
day in each week should further be
observed as day upon which there
should be no consumption of pork pro
duties.
Il A continued economy in the use Of
sugar will be necessary until later il
the year.
1t is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
of food stuffs should be rigidly elm
mated
The maintenance of the health anc
strength of our own people is vital
ly necessary at this time, and there
q should be no dangerous restriction o
p the food supply; but the elimination
of every sort of waste and the substi
a tuition of other commodities of which
I we have more abundant supplies TO
@ those which we need to save, will il
no way impair the strength Of ou
people and will enable us to meet on
a of the most pressing obligations of tn
war
) J., therefore, in the national interest
g take the liberty of calling upon ever
loyal American to take fully to hear
the suggestions which are being Gil
# culated by the Food Administrator
) and of begging that they be followed
| am confident that the great body Q
), our women who have labored so 10y
r ally in cooperation with the Food Ac
I ministration for the success of foo
IS conservation will strengthen their e
"a forts and will take it as part {
9 their burden in this period of nations
n service to see that the above sugge
ID ticns are observed throughout til
III land.
p (signed) WOODROW WILSON.
err The White House. IS. January, 1918.
IL.
The men of the Allied Nations al
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