Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-01-29

Now Face Big responsibility.
A Proclamation: Many causes
have contributed to create the ne
cessity for a more intense effort on
the part of our people to save food
in order that we may supply our as
sociates in the war with the sus-
tenance vitality necessary to them in
these days of privation and stress.
The reduced productiveness of Eu-
rope because of the large diversion of |
man power to the war; the partial |
failure of harvests and the elimina-
ton of the more distant markets for
foodstuffs through the destruction of |
shipping, places the burden of their
subsistence very largely on our Shout
ders.
The food administration has for
mulated suggestions which, if fol |
lowed, will enable us to meet this |
great responsibility without any real
inconvenience on our part.
Nearly Half of Wheat
In order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat pro-
ducts by 80 per cent-a reduction i'm
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for overseas-wholesale job
bers and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers only 20
per cent of the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers of alimentary paste
and biscuits, crackers, pastry and
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat flour to 20 per cent of
their 1917 requirements, and all ba-
kers of bread and rolls to so per
cent of their current requirements.
Consumers should reduce their pur-
chases of wheat products for home
preparation to at most 20 per cent of
those of last year, or, when buying
bread, should purchase mixed cereal
bread from the bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, deal
ers and manufacturers should sub
, stitute potatoes, vegetables, corn, bar
ley, oats and rice products and the
, mixed cereal bread and other prod
ucts of the bakers which contain an
admixture of other cereals.
Wheatless Meal Every Day.
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
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 meat
less meal should be observed in each
day; while, in addition, Saturday in
each week should further be observed
as a day upon which there should be
, no consumption of pork products.
A continued economy in the use of
sugar will be necessary until later in
|. the year.
1t is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
of foodstuffs should be rigidly elm
mated
, Must Eliminate All Waste.
I The maintenance of the health and
a strength of our own people is vitality
e necessary at this time, and there
I should be no dangerous restriction of
q the food supply, but the elimination
! of every sort of waste and the sub
: stitution of other commodities of
S which we have more abundance 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.
: l, therefore, in the national interest,
/ take the liberty of calling upon every
/. loyal man to take fully to heart the
4 suggestions which are being circu-
3 lated by the food administration and
+ of begging that they be followed.
am confident that the great body OF
our women who have labored so 10y
ally in cooperation with the food ad-
ministration for the success of food
( conservation will strengthen their eff
5 forts and will take it as a part OF
: their burden in this period of nation
) al service to see that the above sug-
r gestions are observed throughout the
land.
WOODROW WILSON,
President