Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-02-02
NATION IS URGED TO
EAT VICTORY BREAD
VAR sBREAp DIET is PLACED IN
EFFECT 5Y ORDER OF THE
PRESIDENT.
SEEK AID OF WOMEN
.'vicfory Bread' Is Only TO Be Used,
and Consumers Are Placed Under
strict Meat Regulations by
Proclamation.

went On a war bread diet Monday as
part Of war Tationing system pre-
scribed Saturday by President Wilson
and the food administration. VIC
tory bread" the aobd administr alton
calls it.
The reduced rAtfons are asked for
the purpose Of creating larger ex-
port surplus of food for the European
a1lies.s CurtaiIment of consumption
viii be accomplished largely by vol-
untary efforts but force win be en-
ployed whefeyer permitted under the
food coatrol act
Presidents Food Proclamation.
a proclamation:
Many causes have contributed 10
create the necessity for a more inten-
sive effort on the part of our people
to save food in order that we may
supply 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 large diversion OF
man power to the war, the partial
failure of harvests and the elimina-
ton of the more distant markets for
foodstuffs through the destruction OF
shipping, places the burden OF their
subsistence more largely on our shout
ders.
The food administration has formu-
lated suggestions which, If followed,
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibfIity without any real incon-
yenience on our part.
In order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat prod
ucts by 80 per cent-a reduction I'M
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for overeas-wholesalers, job
bers and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers only ~
per cent of the amounts used In 1917.
All manufacturers of alimentary
pastes. biscuits, crackers, pastry and
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption OF wheat
and wheat flour to 70 per cent OF their
1917 requirements, and all bakers OF
bread and rolls to 80 per cent OF
their current requirements. Consum-
ers should reduce their purchases OF
wheat products for home preparation
to at least 20 per cent of those OF
last year, or, when buying bread,
should purchase mixed cereal breads
from the bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal food.
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products and the mixed cereal
bread and other products of the bak-
ers which contain an admixture OF
other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
Wednesdays should be observed as
wheatless days each week and one
meal each day should be observed as
a wheatless meal.
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the con-
sumption of beef, pork and sheep
products, Tuesday should be observed
as meatless day in each week, one
meatless meal should be observed IN
each day, while, in addition, Saturday
in each week should further be OBJ
served as a day upon which there
should be no consumption of pork
products.
A continued economy In the use Of
sugar will be necessary until later
in the year.
The maintenance of the health and
strength of our own people is vitality
necessary att this time, and there
should be no dangerous restriction of
the food supply; but elimination OF
every sort of waste and the substitu-
ton of other commodities Of which
we have more abundant supplies for
those which we need to save viii in
no way impair the strength OF our peo-
pIe and will enable US to meet one
of the most pressing obligations Of the
war.
/. therefore, In the national interest,
take the, liberty of calling upon every
loyal American to take fully to heart
the suggestions which are being circu-
lated by the food administration and
Of begging that they be followed. !
am confident that the great body of
our women, who have labored SO loyal
ly in cooperation with the food ad-
ministration for the success of food
conservation, will strength their ef-
forts and will take it as part of their
burden in this period of national serv-
ice to see the above suggestions are
observed throughout the land.
Woodrow Wilson.
The White House, ] n. IS, 1918.