Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-26
TO CUT WHEAT
 USE 0NE-HALF
Military Necessity Demands That Each American Eat Only 1I2
 Pounds Wheat Products Weekly.
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES.
Allies Must Have Wheat Enouqh to Maintain Their War Bread
 Till Next Harvest.

1T we are to furnish the allies W1tn the necessary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21 100000 bushels month as against our nor maj consumption of about 42,OOO,00O bushels, or 50 per cent. of our normal consumption. This is the situation as set forth by the U. s. Food Admnis- tration at Washington. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for special cases, leaves for gen. eral consumption approximately 1k pounds of wheat products weekly per person, the Food Administrations s statement continues: Many of our consumers are dependent upon bakers bread. Such bread must be durable and therefore requires larger propor- tiOn of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and navy require full allow ance. The well-to-do in our population can make greater sacrifices in the con- sumption of wheat products than can tlN poor. In addition, our population in the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial popula- tions.
 With improved transportation condi. tions we now have available a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for hu- man consumption. The drain on rye and barley as substitutes has already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
 To effect the needed saving of wheat we are wholly dependent upon the voluntary assistance of the American people and we ask that the following rules shall be observed: -.
 1. HouseholGers to use not to exceed a total of 1h pounds per week of wheat products per person. This means not more than 1A pounds of Victory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes and one-half pound of cooking four, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all combined.
 9 Public eating places and clubs to observe two wheatless days per week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition thereto, not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs. macarOni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes. wheat breakfast cereals, containing total of more than two ounces of wheat four. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eat ing establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for each ninety meals served, thus con- forming with the limitations requested of the houSehOlderS.
 3. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of barrel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-quarter of barrel to any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals.
 4. We ask the bakers and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread sold, by delivery of the three-quarter pound loaf where one pound was sold before, and corresponding proportions in other weights We also ask bakers not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per cent. of the average monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March l.
 3. Manufacturers using wheat prod ucts for non-food purposes should cease such use entirely.
 6. There is no limit upon the use o1 other cereals, Hours, and meals, corn barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et cetera.
 Many thousand families throughout the land are now using no wheat prod uets whatever, except very small amount for cooking purposes, and are doing so in perfect health and satiSfac. ton. There is no reason why all of the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one. half pounds a week, and we specially ask the well-to-do households in the country to follow this additional pro. gramme in order that we may provide the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less able to adapt themselves to so large pro- portion of substitutes.
 In order that we shall be able to make the wheat exports that are ab solutely demanded of us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-opera ton of the public by further limita. ton of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution which will be adjusted from time to time to secure as nearly equitable dis. trihution as possible. With the arrival of harvest we should be able to relax such restrictions. Until then we ask for the necessary patience, sacrifice and cooperation of the distributine