The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-04
LOCAL FOOD OFFICIAL EXPLAINS
BUYING SUBSTITUTES WITH FLOUR
PROF. HILL SAYS ADMlNlSTRA-
TON IDEA is TO MAKE PEO-
PIE EAT LESS FLOUR.
Declares There VIII Be No boarding
Of Substitute Commodities II More
of Them Are Consumed.

tNcSGIllIS ue Los 10
ceived large number Of inquiries
from consumers who declare that they
are forced to buy large amount of
flour substitutes in purchasing sack
Of flour and that such federal ruling
was forcing them to hoard to n certain
extent the substitutes
The matter was taken up by The In
telligencer with Prof. William Hill.
West Virginia deputy federal food adj
ministrator.
Prof. Hill. in an interview on the
-four proposition. said:
THE law requiring the purchase Of
a pound Of substitutes with each pound
OF flour doubtless works hardship on
some poor people. All war is ter
rible hardship. Shortage of flour and
other foods is always one of the seri-
GUS hardships OF war. The United
States had not been at war three
months till the price Of -four was high
er than it Is. Without Mr.. Hoover's
wise control, speculation and pro1teer-
ing would have made the price of -four
s25 10 $50 barrel With no control
Of the spectators, the millers and the
merchants, ne would be paying as
much for bag of flour today as We
pay for the flour and an equal amount
Of substitutes. The spectators and
the rich and selfish people would have
the entire supply boarded. Unregu-
lated competition and speculation
would long ago have made flour so
high in price that most of US would
be compelled to live on substitutes.
Administration Helped Farmers.
Last August, before the farmer sold
his wheat, the food administration
\ fixed a price which gives the farmer
a reasonable return for his labor, An
acre OF wheat in the United States
produces an average yield Of thirteen
bushels. The average farmer spends
six or seven days hard labor to pillow.
prepare. seed. harvest. thresh and
market an acre of wheat. He cannot
work many days in the year at wheat
production. During the winter, and
other seasons Of the year, the wheat
farmer can earn nothing. Two dollars
for bushel of wheat brings the farm
er about four dollars for a days labor
Before Mr.. Hoover stopped specula-
ton and proflteering, the farmer got
from fifty cents to dollar bushel
! for his wheat Those prices me- m from
ono to two dollars pay for long. hard
days work. Present prices enable the
farmer to get about half the wage for
his work that the industries and the
government now pay for labor that is
! less skilled and less responsible than
the farmer must be. The price Of
wheat is not yet high enough to keep
the farmer out OF the factories, the
mines or the government work. But
Mr. Hoover secures for the farmer
forty cents out Of tho consumers dol
lar paid for bread. Under free speCu-
lation, the farmer got only twenty per
cent OF what you paid for bread.
No Chance to Get Cheap Food.
There is no chance 10 get any cheap
food while half the worlds labors is
employed in war and 10 per cent OF the
food shipped is sunk by submarines.
| When you are asked to substitute COW
beets and straw bread for potatoes, as
Kaiser Bill made his subjects do, you
will think substituting graham bread
or victory bread or even corn bread
for the white bread 10 which YOU have
been accustomed is a low price for
you TO pay TO keep out Of the kaiScr'S
clutches.
THE law requiring you to buy a
pound Of substitutes with each pound
Of white flour bought IS designed IOj
do three things:
81. Prevent boarding flour.
80. Make you eat less flour.
IS. Make you cat potatoes and other
substitutes for -four. The limitation
Of the amount Of flour ynu are allowed
to purchase to 20 per cent Of wheat
YOU have been using has the same ends
in view.
we must send 50 per cent Of our
entire flour supply 10 Europe or sub
nit TO Kaiser Bill. The food admins
tration is doing its worry best 10 secure
q fair distribution Of the wheat left
among all the people.
Bread Card Proposition.
at is not easy TO issue bread caruS
TO 100 QUO 900 people If boarding Is
not prevented, and substitutes are not
freely used for -four, bread rations may
be forced on us, as they have been
forced on all the people Of Europe.
The old way of saving flour was 10 let
the speculators hoard enough 10 keep
|
moor man and his family saved flour
! by starving.
"uooycr's way of saving flour is hy.i
making you spend rs much money as
the Spectator anu profileer made you
! pay. bur for your four or live dollars
he gives you the -four and an equal
amount OF substitutes. so you can be
we'll nourished. our money wages are
about twice as high as before the war.
You sncnd them freely and thoughtleSs-
" for whatever yUu arr accustomed 10
eat. Think what freedom. and the ol'
portuuity 10 earn American wages
mean 10 YOU. Isn't it worth while 10
cal more potatoes. oats, barley. rice
and less wheat. 20 avoid being put on
the diet Kaiser Bill has forced upon
his subjects"
Buy Victory Bread.
There is one cXirmrly easy way
IN avoid the law requiring YOU 10 huE
u mound of substitutes with pound OF
flour. Get victory breau from tho
baker. The government and his own
cyncrimcnts have taught the baker toi
use substitutes in Il more economical
=! way than flour substitutes can be useu
In the home. You are allowed TO use
victory bread on whcatlrss days. but
patriotism should keep you TAR ABOVE
the strict letter Of the law.
!. "You will save fuel save your VIE
time for Red Cross or other patrlollc
work, saw, money and be better l'u
bv having graham. whole wheat or
some Other victory bread at the bakers
or sroccr's. You will save yourself