Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-18
KENTUCKY Wills
TO WIN The WAR
PEOPLE DISPLAY THE RIGHT
SPIRIT TO HELP BOYS
AT FRONT.
ARE WILLING TO SAVE WHEAT
Food Administrator Delighted With
Splendid Enthusiasm Of Blue-Grass
State To Give UP Men, Money and
Food For Liberty's Cause.
KY.

are being struck by the Food Army OF
Kentucky--the army which includes
all the farmers of the country, all the
city people who are raising war gar
dens, and all the people in both city
and country who sit down to three
square meals day. All parts Of the
state are represented in the army
raised by the Food Administration and
which, under the banner reading Food
Will Win the War" is conducting the
big Spring Offensive against waste at
home and hunger and want in the
ranks of the Allied soldiers and their
dependents.
Federal Food Administrator F. M.
Sackett is pleased at the work being
done. Kentucky is a hard state to
reach, but it can be reached, and it has
been reached. Mr.. Hoover's admon.
ition, Food Will Win the War" is be.
ing needed, and President Wilson's in
junction to enlist in the service OF
the Food Administration" is being fol-
lowed unreservedly.
Every county in the state has Food
Administrator. Any mill, any mer.
chant, any farmer, any consumer trou'
bled by a vexing technical regula-
ton can get his troubles removed, or
settled, by going to the nearest county
seat. And the administrators without
exception report willingness to co.
operate which is met with everywhere.
IF wheat is needed, wheat will be
raised in my county, even though a
financial loss is entailed," is the way
one administrator put it in converse
ton recently. Then il 1t is necessary
the peop,J who raise it will sell 1t all,
so our soldiers and their associates
in arms can get it, and themselves eai
cornbread all the year"
Something Of that same spirit has
been manifested both by producers and
consumers everywhere in Kentucky
Mr.. Sackett was not at all surprised
at the composure with which the latest
wheat-saving regulation was promul
gated. for this very reason. The lates
regulation says no person must ea'
more than six pounds Of wheat {
month, which is one and one-hal
pounds a week.
and that means six pounds Of al
kinds of wheat products, too," one ad
ministrator explained. ut doesn
mean six pounds OF bread, and then ;
lot of maccaroni and cakes and crack
ers, too 1t means six pounds Of whea
products per person per month"
Soldiers and their families mus
have bread. Wheat is the only bread
making product which can be sent t
Europe now. Corn would germinat
during the long journey. American
and Allied soldiers must have whea
bread or quit fighting; hence the Foo,
Administration has asked the peopl
of Kentucky to limit themselves to si
pounds OF wheat -four per month.
Continue Wheatless Days.
Federal Food Administrator F. N
Sackett advises the continuance O
wheatless days. Continued obserN
ance of wheatless days and meals wi
aid in keeping consumption down,
Mr.. Sackett said. people are offere
the alternative OF saving wheat b
doing without entirely on certain day
and meals, or by using less at a
times, but would recommend botl
Saving wheat is a military necessit
and individual consumption must b
held to six pounds month II we ar
to win the war"
Potato Week" has been highly su,
cessful. Merchants everywhere pusl
ed the sale OF potatoes and it is b.
lieved potatoes were found on the dll
ing table at every meal in a majorlt
OF homes Mr.. John w. Burns, OF tn
Food Administration office in Loui
vile, who has had years OF experienC
In the milling business, estimates thu
the people of Kentucky have save
10000 barrels OF flour by eating pot
toes during Potato Week"
No Seizure Needed Here.
The announcement comes fro
: Washington that the appeal to farr
ers of the whole United States to
patriotic and bring all their wheat
market has met with an unsatisfa
tory response in some sections OF Il
country that has been rather distres
ing. II the Washington announcemei
had been put in palmer words,
would read: "Some American farI
ers are not patriotic. They think mo
OF getting a little extra money 4
their wheat than they do OF the Anne
ican and associate soldiers who ne,
bread so badly"
But Washington has sent out anot
er announcement. II is that unle
the farmers market their wheat
May the Government may seize Il.
Kentucky farmers can not unde
stand why such drastic action shou
be necessary Kentucky farmers re,
t Ice that a. farmer who holds on to h
wheat when the army needs II, trylI
to extort more money in payne
t therefor, Is Just as heartless as Il
r man who refuses to give soldier
rink of water