The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-04-18
Louisville, Ky.

/ Telling blows against the Germans
are being struck by the Food Army Of
Kentucky--the army which includes
all the farmers Of the country. all the
city people who are raising war gar
dens, and all the people in both city
and country who sit down 70 three
square meals day. All parts OF the
state are represented in the army
raised by the Food Administration and
which. under the banner reading Food
VIII Win the War" is conducting the
J big Spring Offensive against waste at
home and hunger and want in the
ranks OF the Allied soldiers and their
dependents.
! Federal Food Administrator +. NJ
Sacket; is pleased at the work being
done. Kentucky is a hard state to
reach. but il can be reached, and it has
been reached. MIR Ilooyer's admon
ition. Food VIII Win the War" is be
ing needed. and President Wilson's in.
junction 10 enlist in the service OF
! the Food Administration" is being fol
| lowed unreseryedly.
Every county in the state has a Foou
Administrator. Any mill, any mer
chant. any farmer. any consumer trou
bled by a yeNing technical regula.
ton can get his troubles removed, OF
settled by going to the nearest county
| seat. And the administrators without
exception report willingness to co
operate which is met with everywhere
III wheat is needed, wheat will be
raised in my comfy. even though 9
| financial loss is entailed," is the way
one administrator put it in converse
ton recently Then IL 1t is necessary
| the people who raise II will sell IL all
so our soldiers and their associates
in arms can get II, and themselves eat
coTnbread all the year"
Something OF that same spirit has
| been manifested both by producers and
| consumers everywhere In Kentucky
Mr.. SaCkett was not at all surprised
at the composure with which the latest
/ wheat-saying regulation was promul
/ gated. for this very reason. The latest
regulation says no person must eat
more than six pounds OF wheat a
month, which is one and one-hali
pounds a week.
And that means six pounds OF all
| kinds OF wheat products. too" one ad
! rninistrator explained 1T doesn't
mean six pounds OF bread, and then q
lot OF maccaroni and cakes and crack
ers. too 1t means six pounds of wheat
products per person per month"
Soldiers and their families must
have bread. Wheat is the only bread
making product which can be sent to
Europe row. Corn would terminate
during the long journey. American
and Allied soldiers must have wheat
bread or quit fighting; hence the Food
Administration has asked the people
Of Kentucky TO limit themselves to sir
pounds Of wheat -four per month.
Continue Whestless Days.
Federal Food Administrator +. NJ
Sackett advises the continuance OF
wheatless days. Continued observ
ance of wheatless days and meals will,
aid in keeping consumption down.
Mr.. Sackett said. People are offered
the alternative OF saving wheat by
doing without entirely on certain days
and meals, or by using less at all
times, but | would recommend both
Saving wheat is a military necessity
and individual consumption must be
held TO six pounds a month IL We are
10 win the war"
Potato Week" has been highly sue
cessful. Merchants everywhere push
ed the sale of potatoes and il is be
lieved potatoes were found on the din
ing table at every meal in a majority
OF homes. Mr.. John w. Burns, Of the
Food Administration office in Louis
Vile. who has had years OF experience
In the milling business. estimates that
the people OF Kentucky have saved
10000 barrels of ilo-r by eating pota
toes during Potato Week"
No Seizure Needed Here.
The announcement comes from
Washington that the appeal to farm
ers OF the whole United States to be
patriotic and brig all their wheat &c
market has met with an unsatisfac
Nols ltHlbhct III SUM ntNllbus VI lnt
country that has been rather distress
ing. II the Washington announcement
had been put in palmer words, II
would read: Some American farm
ers are not patriotic. They think more
OF getting little extra money foI
their wheat than they do OF the Amer
lean and associate soldiers who need
bread so badly"
But Washington has sent out anoth,
er announcement II is that unless
the farmers market their wheat BY
May the Government may seize II.
Kentucky farmers can not under. |
stand why such drastic action should
be necessary. Kentucky farmers, real
ize that farmer who holds on TO his |
wheat when the army needs II. trying |
TO extort more money in payment |