Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-14
new FOOD ORDER
IS FAR-REACH|NG
More Than 100000 Bushels
of Wheat Necessary to
Win the War. .sN


Win the War. s.y
CONFUSION WAS UNAVOIDABLE
Not More Than 70 Per Cent Of
Normal Supply of Flour Will
Be Available from Now Until
Next Harvest - Substitute
Cereals Plentiful, of Great
Variety and No Less Nutri-
tious Than Wheat-No Elk
ceptions Can be Made and
Dealers and Consumers Must
Act in Good Faith.
Raleigh.-Ths recent order of the
Food Administration under authority
of President Wilson's proclamation for
bidding the sale OF wheat -four except
in combination with an equal weight
OF cereal substitutes Is the most far
reaching and radical order that has
been issued since the beginning of the
war with the possible exception Of the
Fuel Administrations order closing
down all industries for period of Ave
days on account Of the fuel situation.
Did Not Come Too Soon.
The order OF the Food Administra~
ton, in the opinion Of well informed
men, did not come too soon. This ma
ton faces the absolute necessity Of
supplying out Of its normal coRsump-
ton OF flour more than 100000, 900.
bushels of wheat and this must come
during the next FIVE months or 30. The
government 10 taking 80 per cent Of
the output Of all OF the larger -four
mills, which means that none Of our
merchants during the next Ave months
can hope to secure more than 70 per
cent of their normal demands OF -four.
In NO other way, except by the order
requiring combination sales, could an
equitable distribution Of this reduced
supply of -four have been sold.
The fear that some people have had
that they may go hungry is not only
greundless but is absolutely ridiculous
because this country has a list Of
cereal substitutes that is almost mex
haustible insofar as human consump.
ion is concerned. These substitutes
resi- xryhN1acnrno xph
Some Confusion Unavoidable.
Naturally there Is now and will be
for some time confusion and some in
convenience and some slight hard
ships imposed upon some people be-
cause Of the low supply of cereal sub
stitutes in the channels of trade, the
demand for these cereal substitutes
having been much smaller up to this
time than they will be. This matter
will quickly adjust itself, however,
with due regard to cost to the con-
sumer. In other words, the Food Ad-
ministration Is not going to permit
profiteering in these substitutes
simply because they are scarce. 1t has
absolutely controlled the situation
with regard to sugar and -four price
and there is no reason to believe that
it will not control this situation effect
lively. The Food Administration has
already indicated by actions as we'll as
by words that any merchant who dis
regards the new order or who does not
act in good faith will be promptly
death with.
Must Be Good Faith.
Corn meal and edible wheat shorts
and middlings are included in the list
of cereal substitutes that may be sold
in combination with -four only when
they are Of edible quality and are go
ing to be used for human consumption
and not for livestock feed. Ordinary
shipped stuff and similar products
may not be regarded as q cereal sub
stitute.
It has been suggested that retail
merchants confine their sales of -four
along with cereal substitutes to very
small amounts until they are able to
replenish their stocks of cereal sub
stitutes. This course is being general
ly followed by retailers who desire to
protect all Of their customers.
List of Substitutes,
Cereal substitutions that may be
sold in combination with -four are
corn meal, corn -four, edible wheat
shorts and middlings, edible corn
starch, hominy, corn grits, barley -four,
rolled oats, oatmeal rice, rice -four,
potato -four, sweet potato -four, buck
wheat -four, cottonseed -four, milo,
kaffir and feterita fours and meals,
soya beans -four, peanut -four, casava
-four, taro -four, banana -four. No
other product other than those named
may be substituted.
INCONVENIENCE TO FARMER IS
SLIGHT.