New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-01-30
WILSON DECLARES
FOR MORE ECONOMY
ASKS PEOPLE TO SAVE MORE
FOOD FOR EXPORT TO
THE ALLIES
NAMES TWO MORE LESS DAYS
WEEKLY FOR EVERYONE.
IN AMERICA

IN AMERICA
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for a more intensive
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 the
diversion of man-power to the war, the
partial failure of harvests and the elimi-
nation Of the more distant markets for
foodstuffs thru the destruction of ship
ping, places the burden of their subsist-
ence verylargely on our shoulders.
The Food Administration has form
ulated, suggestions which, if followed,
enable us to meet this great responsibility
without any real inconvenience on our
part.
I. In order that we may reduce our CON
sumption of wheat and wheat products
by so per cent-a reduction imperatively
necessary to provide the supply for over
seas-wholesalers, jobbers and retailers
should purchase and resell to their GUS
toners only 70 per cent Of the amounts
used in 1917. All manufacturers Of
alimentary pastes, biscuits, crackers,
pastry and breakfast cereals should re-
duce their purchases and consumption:
of 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. Consumers
should reduce their purchases Of wheat
products for home preparation to at
most 70 per cent of those of last year, or,
when buying bread, should purchase
mixed cereal breads from the bakers.
70 provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, dealers and
manufacturers should substitute pota-
toes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats and
rice products, and the mixed cereal bread
and other products of the bakers which
contain an admMture of other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
Wednesdays should be observed as wheat
less 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 consump-
ton 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,
inaddition, Saturday in each week should
be further observed as day upon which
there should be no consumption of pork
products. s,
A continued economy in the use Of
sugar will be necessary until later in the
year.
It is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption Of all sorts Of
foodstuffs should be rigidly eliminated.
The maintenance of the health and
strength of our own people IS vitality
necessary at this time, and there should
be no dangerous restriction of the food
supply; but the elimination Of every
sort Of waste and the substitution Of
other commodities, Of which we have
more abundant supplies, fol. those which
we need TO save, will in no way impair
the strength of our people and will
enable us to meet one of the most pressing
obligations of the war.
I, therefore, in the national interest.
take the liberty Of calling upon every
loyal American to take fully to heart
the suggestions which are being circulated
by the Food Administration and Of
begging that they be followed. / am
confident that the great body Of our
women who have labored SO Loyalty in
cooperation with the Food Administra-
tion for the success Of food conservation
will strengthen their efforts and will
take it as part Of their. burden in this
period Of national service to see that the
above suggestions are observed through
out the land.
WOODROW WILSON.
There will be English services at the
Evangelical Lutheran Church next Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Metlnger and
children left for Orlando, Fla, Saturday