The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03
Every Patriotic American
Household Urged to OBJ
serve "Porkless" Day.
SAVE AND SUBSTITUTE
SAYS HERBERT HOOVER

Suggestions Given = Food
instruction Card for Every
Household in Entire State.
Raleigh, Dec. 22-The State Food
administration has just let contracts
or the printing Of 100000 supplement
airy home instruction cards to be dis
rfbuted one for each household in the
Intire State. The issuance of these
additional instruction cards is prompt
I'd by the increased seriousness of the
! oOd situation in Europe both from the
standpoint Of military necessity and
Tor 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 wheatless and
meatless meal each day. The con-
sumner is urged to use sugar on q basis
of not more than three pounds per per-
son per month. Mr.. Hoover, on one
| side of the card, frankly and impress
sive1y presents the food situation as
1t is.
LAS a nation we eat 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. 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 ii
| addition to Tuesday, which shall be
Saturday. By porkless we mean 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
not consume more.
We Are a Wasteful 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 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 harm.
We eat and waste $40 per cent more
fat- than is necessary.
Of the carbohydrates we can just
as well consume corn, oats an ID other
cereals as wheat and we have abund
ant supplies of potatoes and vegetar
bles.
Do not limit your supplies Of milk
and table butter, but consume 1t 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 boarding Does.
Any person in the United States who
buys more foodstuffs than he custom.
arily keeps at home in peace times Is
defeating the Food Administration in
It's purpose to secure a just distrfcu'
ton of food and in its great endeav
ors to reduce prices. The boarding OF
food in households is not only unneo
essary, as the government 10 protect
ing the food supply Of our people, but