The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-03
CONSERVE FLOUR;
HELP WIN THE WAR
FOOD ADMINISTRATION OF TEN.
NEssEE ExERTs EVERY EN-.
ERGY TO SAVE WHEAT.
ENFORCE LIMITS ON SALES
"Eat Corn Bread and Save the Wheat
Bread for Our Boys in the
Trenches" ls the Slogan
In Tennessee.

Nashville, Tenn.-Wheat conserv4.
ton. the saving OF flour, so that one.
half of the amount ordinarily needed
for consumption by the American peo-
pie may last until the next harvest is
the crying need Of the hour. To that
end the Food Administration in Ten.
nessee Is bending its energies In
every way possible, through the news
papers, the pulpit, the schools, the
campaign for wheat conservation Is
being carried on. In order that there
may be enough flour in the country to
go round and at the same time do our
duty to our allies, consumption must
be reduced in the nation to less than
six pounds per person per month. The
average family of five therefore should
not use more than thirty pounds OF
wheat flour in any month.
However, DR.. Morgan, Federal Food
Administrator in Tennessee, appreciat-
ing the fact that in some sections it
will be impossible to reduce the flour
consumption to this amount, appeals
to the people of Tennessee to use less
than the minimum. DR.. Morgan says:
"In the great Industrial centers like
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, De-
troit. Pittsburg, etc, where millions Of
people have never baked their bread
at home, but who live altogether on
bakers bread, they simply cannot ad'
Just themselves to the change that we,
who bake the greater portion Of our
bread In the home, can easily make.
We must avoid as far as possible any
labor discomfort as result Of the
food rules In Tennessee and the
South generally our people have been
eating large quantities Of corn bread
from choice Now / appeal 10 them
to largely increase this consumption
as a patriotic duty to the nation, in
order that there may be plenty OF
wheat flour in the great industrial cen
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gagged in making machinery Of war and
building ships, etc, The bread sold
from the bakeries must have larger
wheat content than flour baked at
home because 1t must have keeping
qualities.
in Tennessee the people are es-
pecially fortunate because here our
corn comes, nearer maturing to per
rect for human consumption than in
any other state In the Union. II Is no
great sacrifice upon the part Of our
people who have for generations
known and appreciated corn bread to
increase the amount used by them. |
know that If the people of this State
once recognized that saving wheat
flour was necessary to the winning of
this war as 1t is, that they would not
hesitate to practically eliminate It
from their daily menu"
Limits on Sales.
The Food Administration has in.
structed all Of its staff, the county adj
ministrators, and the inspectors. CO.
operating with city, county and state
officials, to see that the new regula.
tons which limit the sales of flour to
country customers to forty-nine pounds
and to city customers to twenty-four
and one-half pounds are rigidly enforc.
ed. Where a farmer has his own wheat
and takes it to the mill he is under the
same restrictions that he would be
under we're he to purchase the flour
outright. Not only is the amount that
he can obtain limited, but he must
either buy or show that he has at
home an equal amount Of substitutes
before he can obtain the flour.
Food Sign on Capitol.
From Church street, two blocks dis
tant, visitors to Nashville can now see
on the south entrance of the ornate
State Capitol a huge sign that Food
Will Win the War" and appealing to
all to have share in victory through
this means. Similar signs are being
placed at McKendree church in Cen
tennlal park, at the Elks' club and 9th
or prominent places. They were the
patriotic contributions Of organizations
and individuals and did not cost the
government dollar.
To Increase Production.
Cooperating with the state and ma
tional departments of agriculture, the
| Food Administration in Tennessee ii
now in the midst of its big drive t.
stimulate an increase in production Of
food commodities during the coming
season. Especially is the Food AID
ministration anxious to have grown
as much food for home consumption
as possible, thereby helping to relieve
the transportation system.
Food will win the war-produce It.
sssse
Conservation, concentration and con
secration--for the sake Of those at tn.
front,
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It doesn't matter who started thu
war, Uncle Sam viii finish II.
seees
II you use bacon extravagantly some
soldier boy at the front has to &
without It Just that much, and b
might be your soldier boy
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