Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-14
WHEAT CAN BE SOLD BY
DEALERS WITHOUT
SUBSTITUTES
URGE CONSERVATION
SUGAR BAN PARTIALLY LIFTED
IN SOME ATES-illlNOiS
STILL THREE POUNDS PER PER.
SON.

Ottawans may again purchase
wheat -four without substitutes, and
can bake bread cakes and pies Of
pure wheat -four, according to a rul.
ing made yesterday afternoon by the
federal food administration. While
Food Administrator Axel Heiberg has
received no official notification from
Washington as yet, he has had no
cause to doubt the official press re
ports from Washington and will allow
the restriction to be raised here,
The ban on sugar was also raised
yesterday In sugar-producing states
where each person will be allowed e
have four pounds OF sugar each
month. This does not apply to Iii
nois, which does not grow either sugar
cane or sugar beets, and for the pres
ent Ottawa families will be restrcte(
to three pounds OF sugar for each per
son, and public eating places to thret
pounds for each ninety meals
Conservation. however. will be re
quested for wheat breads and people
will be urged to still eat substitute
breads
Rules Suspended by Food Bureau.
Washington, Nov. n.-With Tho
war over. the federal food admins
tration announced yesterday that al
regulations requiring the use OF whea'
substitutes in baking are suspended
and that the white loaf may return tt
its own. Restricted consumption o.
wheat bread Is still advocated, how
ever, and conservation is requested b.
the food administration.
Plans are now being worked out tC
care for accumulated stocks Of tn
substitute cereals. Under the new
program the coarse grains will be
used primarily for animal feeds. TIL,
food administration grain corporation
is formulating plans for the purchase
Ol SupollluteS WuiCu wv iiol hHu {
ready sale by the millers, dealers o
bakers, if acquired before Nov. II,
Result Of Armstce.
Relaxation of the wheat regulation
Is a direct result Of the military arm
istice The Mediterranean Sea is nov
safe for commercial transport, and the
European nations can again draw
upon the large wheat supplies il
India and Australia. With cargo ships
now released from military service
will also be possible to tap accumu
lated supplies in the Argentine.
In Withdrawing the substitute regu
lations, however, the food administra
tion emphasizes the necessity for con
tinued conservation of all staple foods
This country will be called upon il
the coming year to send at least 20,
100000 tons of foodstuifs to Europe
practically the limit of loading ca
pacity at our ports. This compares
with the export of II 1,S20,000 tons las,
year-the greatest in our history
and a prewar normal of less thar
100000 tons.
Fifty-Fifty Rule.
The food administration first com
PEELED the purchase of other cereals
with wheat -four on Jan. 2S, 1918
when the "50.50" rule went into effect
On Feb. the first compulsory bak
Ing regulations were imposed upol
the trade. On that daue bakers wer,
required to mix per cent OF othe
cereal with their wheat -four an,
gradually increased this to 20 per cen
By Feb. "a.
Bread containing 20 per cent o
wheat substitutes was given the nam
of victory bread.
In April the wheat shortage had be
come so acute that the bakers wer
compelled still further to increase tn
use OF substitutes, using % per cen
OF nonwheat cereals by April L
These baking regulations, as well a
the $3.50 rule, remained in force unit
Aug 2S, when the 50.50 rule wa
changed to 1920, and only one poun
of substitutes had to be purchase
with each four pounds of wheat fou
At the same time bakers were a
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