The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-14

| anee OF the regulations will save about
Is, 900 900 bushels OF wheat month
for shipment abroad. This will enable
the allies to subsist, although their "a
ton will be short.
All of the allies and the central
Powers as well are on a war bread
diet now. Most of the allies are mix
ing about 40 per cent of cornmeal and
other substitutes with wheat flour in
all bread baked, and all of Europe is
milling a large amount Of the whole
wheat grain. Both France and Eng
land have recently cut down the bread
ration by almost half.
If the voluntary rationing system
fails in this country, it then, Mr.. Hoo
yer said, is up to congress. We have
no powers under the law to compel
people to eat less"
The Presidents Proclamation.
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for a more inten-
siEe effort on the part of our people
to save food in order that we may sup
ply 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 part failure of
harvests and the elimination of the
more distant markets for foodstuffs
through the destruction of shipping,
places the burden of their subsistence
more largely on our shoulders.
The Food Administration has formu-
lated suggestions which, if followed
| will enable US to meet this great re-
sponsibility. 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
perative1y necessary to provide the
supply for overseas wholesalers, job
I bers and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only 20 per
| cent of the amounts used in 1917. All
manufacturers of elementary pastes,
biscuits, crackers, pastry and break
| fast cereals should reduce their pur-
chases and consumption of wheat and
wheat flour to 20 per cent of their
1917 requirements, and all bakers Of
bread and rolls to 80 per cent of their
!
| should reduce their purchases of wheat
products for home preparation to at
most 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
bakers which contains 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
wheatless meal
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the con-
sumption of beef, pork and sheep prod
ucts, Tuesday should be observed as
meatless day in each week, one meat
less meal should be observed in each
| day; while, in addition, Saturday in
/ each week should further be observed
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.
1t is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
Of foodstuffs should be rigidly elimi-
mated
The maintenance of the health and
strength of our people is vitality neces-
sary 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 for 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 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 strengthen their eff
forts and will take it as part of their
burden in this period of national SER
vice to see the above suggestions are
observed throughout the land.
WOODROW WILSON.
PACKERS HEAD OFF STRIKE