The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-04-17
PEOPLE, DISPLAY THE RIGHT
SPIRIT TO HELP BOYS
n AT FRONT.
ARE WILLING To SAVE WHEAT
Food Administrator Delighted With
Splendid Enthusiasm CT Blue Grass
State To Give Up Men, Money and
Food For. Liberty's Cause.
Louisville, Ky.

are being struck by the Food Army of
Kentucky-the army which includes
all the farmers of the country, all the
city people who are raising war gar
dens, and all the people in both city
and country who sit down to three
square meals day. All parts OF the
state are represented in the army
raised by the Food Administration and
which, under the banner reading Food
Will Win the War" is conducting the
big Spring Offensive against waste at
home and hunger and want in the
ranks of the Allied soldiers and their
dependents.
Federal Food Administrator F. M.
Sackett is pleased at the work being
done. Kentucky is "a hard state to
reach, but it can be reached, and it has
been reached. Mr.. Hoover's admon
ition, Food Will Win the War;" is be-
ing needed, and President Wilson's in
junction to enlist in the service of
the Food Administration" is being fol
lowed unreservedly.
Every county in the state has Food
Administrator. Any mill, any mer
chant, any farmer, any consumer trou
bled by a vexing technical regula
ton can get his troubles removed, or
settled, by going to the nearest county
seat. And the administrators without
exception report willingness to CO.
operate which is met with everywhere
IF wheat is needed, wheat will be
>s.aised in my county, even though
financial loss is entailed," is the way
one administrator put it in converse
tion recently. "Then If it is necessary
the people who raise it will sell it all
so our soldiers and their associates
in arms can get it, and themselves eat
cornbread all the year."
Something of that same spirit has
been manifested both by producers and
consumers everywhere in Kentucky
Mr.. Sackett was not at all surprised
at the composure with which the latest
wheat-saving regulation was promul
gated, for this very reason. The latest
regulation says no person must eat
more than six pounds of wheat
month, which is one and one-hali
pounds a week.
"And that means six pounds of all
kinds of wheat products, too" one ad
ministrator explained. 1T doesn't
: mean six pounds of bread, and then a
Not of maccaroni and cakes and crack
els, too. 1t means six pounds of wheat
products per person per month"
Soldiers and their families must
have bread. Wheat is the only bread
making product which can be sent to
Europe now. Corn would terminate
during the long journey. American
and Allied soldiers must have wheat
bread or quit fighting; hence the Food
Administration has asked the people
of Kentucky to limit themselves to six
pounds of wheat -four per month.
Continue Wheatess Days.
Federal Food Administrator F. M
Sackett advises the continuance OF
wheatless days. Continued observ
ance of wheatless days and meals will
aid in keeping consumption down.
Mr. Sackett said. people are offered
the alternative of saving wheat by
doing without entirely on certain days
and meals, or by using less at all
times, but l would recommend both
Saving wheat-is a military necessity
and individual consumption must be
held to six pounds a month IL we are
to win the war"
"Potato Week" has been highly sue
cessful. Merchants everywhere push
ed the sale of potatoes and it is be
lieved potatoes were found ON the din
ing table at every meal in majority
of homes. Mr.. John w. Burns, of the
Food Administration Office in Louis
Vile, who has had years of experience
in the milling business, estimates that
the people of Kentucky have saved
10000 barrels of flour by eating pota
toes during potato Week"
No Seizure Needed Here.
The announcement comes from
Washington that the appeal to farm
ers of the whole United States to be
patriotic and bring all their wheat to
market has met with an unsatisfac
tory response in some sections of the
country that has been rather distress
ing II the Washington announcement
-. had been put in palmer words, II
would read; "Some American farm
ers are not patriotic. They think more
OF getting a little extra money for
their wheat than they do of the Amer
lean and associate soldiers who need
bread so badly"
But Washington has sent out anoth
or announcement. 1t is that unless
the farmers market their wheat by
May the Government may seize 1t.
Kentucky farmers can not under
stand why such drastic action should
be necessary. Kentucky farmers, real
a ixe that a farmer who holds on to his
Twheat when the army needs it, trying
to extort more money In payment
therefor, is just as heartless as the
man who refuses to give . soldier Q
drink Of water.
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