The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-10-25
URGES USE VICTORY
FLOUR BY PEOPLE OF
COUNTY AND STATE
FOOD ADMINISTRATION WOULD
ENCOURAGE COOKING or
MIXED PRODUCT.
CONTRIBUTION 70 THE WAR BATTERY IN 1Hicklsr OF nj
In this Way the People VIII Be Eat
ing at Common Table With Their
Heroic Allies During the Coming
Year.

Use of Victory mixed flour is urg-
ed by the United States Food Admin
istration wherever the supply of it is
adequate to meet the demands of the
people. Prof. John p, Graham, county
food administrator, is in receipt Of
the following letter from II. A. Nor
gan, federal food administrator.
October is, 1918
John p. Graham,
County Food Administrator,
Columbia, Tenn.
Dear Mr.. Graham:-
Our new conservation program
/ calls for reduction in our pre-war
consumption of wheat products of
20 per cent. This reduction should
be affected by the use only of wheat
| flour containing an admixture of not
less than 20go of recognized substi-
tutes This flour should be mixed
either at the mill, or where the
straight flour alone can be secured,
the mixture should be added in the
household before the bread is baked.
Our allies during the coming year
will use no wheat flour but that hav-
| ing an admixture Of twenty per cent
! of substitutes and our president has
well stated that we should "eat at
a common table" with them. Unless,
therefore, we effect our savings Of
wheat by the actual use of Victory
mixed flour we are not doing this;
we are not keeping faith with the
spirit of our agreement with our asso-
ciates in this war.
! We should feel during the coming
year, when we sit down to ours daily
meals, that we are Joint partakers
of sort of communion with all men
who hold to the faith of freedom. To
do this we must eat of the same bread
of which our devoted associates in
the struggle to make the world free
must partake.
At the same time the Food Admin
istration in Tennessee appreciates the
fact that only few mills have the
facilities for making and mixing the
Victory Flour; that in consequence
the supply would be inadequate for all
the people. 1t would be very incon-
venient for many people in the small
towns and rural sections to obtain the
mixed Victory flour, but they are ex-
pected, every household in the state
included, to use only the mixed flour
even if the substitutes are added in
the home.
But in the centers of population,
| like your county, we feel sure that an
adequate supply of the Victory mixed
flour can be obtained to meet the
needs of the people. The use of this
flour is not only a compliance in let
ter and in spirit with our agreement
with our allies and an observance of
our program, but it will be much more
convenient since no purchase of sub
stitutes will be required.
You are, therefore, urged to call
upon the retail grocers OF your coun-
ty and urge them to encourage in ev.
cry way the purchase of Victory mix
ed flour; make the same appeal to
the jobbers and wholesalers, and get
them all lined up in an active cam
paign to put your county on Victory
flour basis. This flour must selfat
price not exceeding the price for the
standard wheat flour so that its pur-
chase will not entail any additional
burden either on the dealer or the
consumer.