The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-08-01
Food Administration

THE SUGAR SITUATION AGAIN
For family use only two pounds a.
month, instead of 3 pounds. Is now
allowed for each member of the fam
ily. excluding young children The
provision for selling p pounds for
canning still remains in force,
PRICES
There is a law against merchants
obtaining too large prott upon
their goods For instance, only one
cent per pound is allowed in the sale
of sugar above the net cost to the
merchant at his store. BY this the
Food Administration has enabled GUS
toners to obtain it. when available
at from 9 to 10 cents per pound
without this control, and where not
fully enforced, the price has gone up
as high as 90 cents Complaints have
been received and Food Administra-
tors are glad to he notified of any
avoidance of this regulation.
PENALTIES INFLICTED
Found guilty of selling excessive
quantities of sugar, Two merchants In
| Bjddeford have been debarred from
selling sugar fer the remainder OF the
year 1918. One of the offences was the
| furnishing of 100 lbs to one custo-
NOR. Mrs. Barker OF Portland, a
boarding house keeper has been
forced to suspend business because
she did not use sufficient wheat flour
substitutes and failed To present her
self when notified to appear at a
| hearing. More than S00 other penal
1,,++ ha Eo1aT11
| Food Administration.
ITALIAN FOOD SITUATION GRAVE
I The food situation in Italy continues
| to be very grave. There is short
age of meat. even with three meatless
DAYS a week. when none can be served
in public eating places or bought for
home consumption. The Italian Min
lister of Food. in a recent address TO |
the Chamber of Deputies, said that
though the people had cut down their
consumption of grain by % per cent
during the last year. (and TINS for
people who live so largely on bread
and maeorani IS great reductlon) |
the grain situation was very dllllcull.
| He said that sugar was scarce ana
unless imports could be increased
there would have to be further re
duction in distribution from ounces
week per person. This. with the
butter ration only two ounces a week
per head.
The demand for beef for our Army
and the army of our Allies and their
civil population for this summer are
beyond our present surplus. But we
have an increased supply Of pork to
enable us to use it instead Of beet
Reports also indicate an increased
production of poultry and eggs The
Food Administration, therefore, asks
that patriotic citizens will substitute
some other meat or fish for that OF
beef
BUILDING Up A RESERVE
1t has been said, truthfully, that the
return ticket of our boys in France
will be secured largely through Amer
lean savings of wheat, sugar meats
and frts.
The boys in the trenches will win
in lust such proportion as they are
backed up by the folks at home
It is essential that there be built up
in this country reserve supply OF
food lust as it is necessary that the
army be guaranteed clothing, guns
and ammunition.
Saving money alone Will not guar
antee food supply Nature seems
tickle sometimes and 1919 and l92o
may be lean years Ihereiore' OUT
of the abundance OF 1918, American
must save. even as she saved OF the
1917 crops, to feed her army and navy
and share with the armies and civil /
ians of those too busy fighting the
Hun to find time to cultivate their
own food crops.
l.. l.. WALTON,
Somerset Food Administrator. |
Holeb Is an lnorganized township. |