The labor standard., 1918-05-01
TO CUT WHEAT
 USE ONE-HALF
Military Necessity Demands That Each American Eat Only 112 Pounds Wheat Products
 Weekly. -
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES.
ANtes Musk Have Wheat Enough to Maintain Their War Bread
 Till Next Harvest


 Till Next Harvest.
 H we are to furnish the allies with the necessary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21,OOO,OOO nal consumption of about 100000 bushels, or 50 per cent. of our normal consumption. This Is the situation as ssk forth by the D. s. Food Adminis- txation at Washington Reserving . margin for distribution to the army and for special cases, leaves for gen. erMl consumption approximately 1h pounds of wheat products weekly per person, the Food Administrations statement continues: Many of our consumers are dependent upon bakers hread. Such bread must be durable md therefore requires a larger propor- ti0n of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and navy require full allow ance The well-to-do in our population cansmaEe greater sacrifices in the con- suxnptfon of wheat products than can the poor In addition, our population in the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant, are more ski1Eed In the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial popula- tiops,
 < s5a a<afitN t,r,,,,ovo<, +~.csror+o+ +3cv ccn1,a- Mu5f9 we now have available surplus 101 rDtatoes. We also have in the ppffng months a surplus of milk, and ,Ske have ample corn and oats for hu- man consumption. The drain on rye and barley as substitutes has already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
 To effect the needed saving of wheat we are wholly dependent upon the voluntary assistance of the American people and we ask that the following rules shall be observed:
 1. Householders to use not to exceed q total of 1M pounds per week of wheat products per person. This means not more than 1A pounds of Victory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes and one-haH pound of cooking four, macaroni, crackers pastry. pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all combined. - Public eRtfng places and clubs to
 rve~two @he4tiess days per week.
 day and Wednesday. as al. present.
 ddition thereto. not to serve to
 one guest at any one meal an Egregnte of breadstuffs. macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, containing total X Of more than two ounces of wheat -four. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eat ing establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for each ninety meals served, thus con- forming with the limitations requested of the householdera
 8. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of barrel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-Quarter of a barrel to any country customer at any one time. and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals.
 4 We ask the bakers and grocers to
 
 sold, by delivery of the three-quarter pound loaf where one pound was sold before, and corresponding proportions in other weights. We also ask bakers not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per cent of the average monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March l.
 a Manufacturers using wheat prod acts for non-food purposes should cease such use entirely.
 6. There Is no limit upon the use of other cereals, Hours, and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, ct cetera.
 Many thousand families throughout the land are now using no wheat prod nets whatever, except a very small amount for cooking purposes, and are doing so in perfect health and satisfac- ton. There is no reason why all of , the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one half pounds week, and we specially ask the well-to-do households in the country to follow this additional pro- gramme in order that we may provide the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less able to adapt themselves to so large pro- portion of substitutes.
 In order that we shall be able to make the wheat exports that are ab- solutely demanded Of us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-opera- don of the public by a further limita- ton of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution which will be adjusted from time to