Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-02
WHEATLEsS HOTEL FARE
Many Landlords Respond to Hoover's
Appeal.

Many Landlords Respond to Hoover''
Appeal.
Wheat and wheat products wcr,
wiped OF the menus Of several hundret
OF the country's leading hotels last
Friday in response to a request Of ths
food administration that every indie
pendent. every well-to-do person ir
the United States" should pledge com
plete abstinence from wheat until the
next harvest.
Hotel managers who assembled In
Washington from every state in the
Union to hear new conservation reGu-
lations explained. were told by Food
Administrator Hoover that census OF
supplies revealed that the harvest had
been less than estimated. that shipping
difficulties made II imperative to feed
the Allies from here instead OF from
the Argentine and that II Is impossible
to ship corn. owing to loss from ger
mination.
Mr.. Hoover said the rcnunciation OF
luxurious food must begin at the top
of the social scale. not only TO set an
example, but because the industrial
population Is dependent to large ex-
tent on bakers bread. which must
have considerable proportion OF
wheat to be durable. Therefore. he
asked the hotels. which have as pa
irons people OF wealth. 10 refuse TO
serve any wheat whatever until the
new crop comes in. using other cereals
and potatoes instead.
I'VE stand at the most critical
period of our national history since
the battle of Gettysburg" Mr.. Hoover
declared. I'VE may have to cut our
wheat consumption more than one
half, but the sacrifice must come from
those who have the most. not from
those who have the least.
"Our wheat acreage this year will
he greater than ever before and If
the Lord is good to us in the matter
of weather, our difficulties will be at
end by September l. That is not n
long period Of sacrifice"
The reply was an outburst OF ap-
plausc which died away as John McE.
Bowman of New York. head of the
food Administrations hotel division,
stood up.
How many will rise with me to
signify they will comply with the
chiefs request?" Mr.. Bowman asked.
II seemed as If everyone In the hall
rose simultaneously. waving flags
taken from the luncheon tables and
cheering. I'VE have pledged our
selves to save wheat for victory" Mr..
bowman announced when quiet was
restored.
DIR. Alonzo Taylor. the food admin
istrations representative on the war
trade board. told the hotel men wheat
was not n necessary element Of diet.
but q luxury.
Wheat has no advantage in nutri-
ton or taste over corn, barley, rice or
other cereals" Doctor Taylor declared,
land the patron who comes to you
with the demand that he must have
wheat and can.t~sat--sYhst YhstitktsS. Is
either a Stacker or crank-and
must not humor either.
1.-THE breakdown in the German
food distribution system was due tt
the fact that the system was admin
istcrcd for the upper classes who coulo
get dellcacics at the best hotels II the!
had the money to pay. The poor peo.
pie could not pay and were forced
to suffer. There was great contrast
| in England where the leading hotel:
were the first to cut Off their menus
the food needed for soldiers and work
ers."
Mr.. Hoover made 1t clear that sue
cess in rationing the Allies could no
be achieved other than by sacrifice ir
the United States.
"Our wheat situation is today thu
most serious situation in the food sup
ply of the whole allied world" he be-
gan, speaking with evident feeling
I'VE have had a stock taking in th'
early days OF March," he continued
"and we find that our harvest was les:
than 1t was estimated. There is alst
another and more bitter difficulty II
the delays of shipping, in the growing
scarcity Of ships. that has thrown
larger burden upon the American peo'
pie in feeding the Allies than we hac
anticipated. We had all expected tha
the Argentine supply would be avail
able in Europe before this time. Those
supplies will not arrive for another
two months, and even then will he less
than we had expected. The conse'
duCnce Is that the supply Of bread
stuffs in Europe is at its lowest ebb
There is but one source Of supply ant
that Is the United States"