Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-03-29
NEW RULING CUTS
BREAD RATION HALF
RICH CAN STAND MORE sACRI-
FICE OF BREAD THAN POOR.
SAYS ADMINISTRATOR
TWO wHEATLEss DAYS
HOusehOlders Not To Use More Than
One and One-Half Pounds Per
Week Of Wheat Products Per
Person Is New Order

New and sweeping rules for the
conservation Of wheat flour, which be-
came effective Sunday through the or
der Of the U. S. Food Administration,
have occasioned a change Of menu to
the housewife and hotel keeper alike
The amount of flour permissible to
sell to one person at q time has been
reduced and every housewife is asked
to reduce the flour used in her home
greatly.
Under the new ruling, commencing
At once, bakers are to use only 70 PEI
cent of the flour they used on an aver
lge for the four months prior Il
March l. This will result in a cur
.ailment of bread available for sale.
The rules have been drawn up rs
var measure and were the outcome
If a meeting Of the state food admin
strators with Herbert Hoover when
1 complete survey of the available
wheat supply of the United States and
he Allies was made.
Following are the rules asked to be
adopted:
First-Householders are asked to
Use not to exceed q total Of one and
lne-half pounds per week Of wheat
products per person. This means not
more than one and three-fourths
pounds of Victory bread containing
he required per centage Of substi-
.utes and about one-half pound OF
cooking flour-macroni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast
cereals, all combined.
Second-Public eating places and
.lubs to observe two wheatless days
per week, Mondays and Wednesdays,
Is at present, and in addition there
o, not serve in the aggregate a total
# more breadstuffs, etc., containing
l total of more than two ounces Of
Wheat flour to any guest at one meal
No wheat products to be served I'M
ess specially ordered. Public eating
Establishments are not to buy more
han six pounds of wheat products
yer month per guest, thus conforming
With the limitations requested Of the
householder.
Third-Retailers are required to
ell not more than one-eigth of bar
eel of flour to any town customer at
me time and not more than one-quar-
err of q barrel to any country custom
II at any one time and in no case to
sell wheat products without the sale
If an equal amount of other cereals.
Fourth--We ask the bakers and
5rocers to reduce the volume of Vic
DRY bread by delivery Of the three
quarter pound loaf where one was
sold before and corresponding pro-
portions on other weights. We also
.lsk bakers not to increase the amount
If their wheat flour purchased beyond
seventy per cent of the average
monthly amount purchased in the
our month prior to March l.
Observation-Disclosures using wheat
products for non-food purposes should
ease such use entirely.
Sixth-There is no limit upon the
Use of other cereals-flOur and meals,
orn barley, buckwheat, potato flour
etc.
Many / thousands of families
throughout the land are now using no
wheat products whatever, except a
cry small amount for cooking pur-
roses and are doing so in perfect
ealth and satisfaction. There is no
reason why all Of the American peo-
pie, who are able to cook in their own
cannot subsist perfectly
veil with the use of less wheat pro-
lucts, in order that we shall be able
% make the wheat exports that are
absolutely demanded of US to main
ain the civil population and soldiers
If the Allies and our army. We pro-
pose to supplement the voluntary CO.
operation of the public by further re-
strictions on distributions which will
oe adjusted from time to time to Sc
cure as near equitable distribution as
nossihle.