The Ordway new era., 1918-02-01
ANOTHER WHEATLEss DAY AND
MORE MEATLEss MEALS AN
NoUNcEp BY PRESIDENT.
FULL TEXT OF MESSAGE
CONTINUED ECONOMY IN USE OF
SUGAR AND ALL FoopSTUFFs
URGED IN PROCLAMATION.


sued the following proclamation on
food conservation:
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for more inten-
sive effort on the part of our people
to save food in order that we may sup
ply our associates in the war with
the sustenance vitality necessary to
them in these days of privation and
stress. The reduced productivity of
Europe because of the large diversion
of man power to the war. the partial
failure of harvests and the elimination
of the more distant markets for food
stuffs through the destruction of ship
ping. places the burden of their sub
sistence very largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has formu-
lated suggestions which. if followed,
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility. without any real incon-
venience on our part
In order that we may reduce our
consumption OF wheat and wheat prod
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for overseas-wholesaler job
hers and retailers should purchase
and resell TO their customers only 10
per cent OF the amounts used in 1871.
All manufacturers of alimentary
pastes. biscuits. crackers. pastry and
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat flour to 10 per cent OF
ers 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 ceresl
breads from the bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal food.
homes. public eating places. dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes. vegetables. corn. barley. oats
and rtce r-ctuc,s. and the mixed
cereal s-sxt and o1he- products of the
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II is imperative that an waste and
unnecessary consumption all sorts of
.oo6Svuffs should Be rtsitly eliminated
The maintenance os the health and
strength OF our people is vitally nee
esSary at this time. and there should
be no dangerous restriction of the
food supply, but the elimination Of
every sort OF waste and the suhsti-
tuition Of other commodities OF which
We have more abundant supplies for
those which we need to save. will in
no WAY impair the strength OF our
people and viii enable US to meet one
war.
l. therefore. in the national inter
est. take the liberty of calling upou
every loyal American to take fully to
heart the suggestions which are being
circulated by the Food Administra.
I tion and Of hegsing that they be fol-
/ lowed
l am confident that the great body
OF our women who have labored so
LOYALTY in cooperation with the Food
Administration for the success OF food
conservation will strengthen their et-
/ forts and will take IL as rart OF
their burden in this period VI national
service to see tina, the above suSges,
tions sre observed throughout tho
land. WOODROW WILSON ,
The White House. January. 1915.
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