The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1918-01-31
help TO Save FOOD
President Calls [ 3on All Loyal
Americans 10 Unite
in Campaign
Suggestions Of Food Administration
Will Enable the United States to
Meet Great Responsibility If Promp:
Action Is Taken, Declares President.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Following Is
text of President Wilson's food-saving
proclamation:
Many causes have contributed to
sive effort on the part of our people
to save food in order that we may sup
ply our associates in the war with the
sustenance vitality necessary to them
in these days of privation and stress.
The reduced productivity of Europe
because of the large diversion of man.
of harvests and the elimination of the
most distant markets for foodstuffs
through the destruction of shipping,
places the burden Of their subsistence
very lal gely on our shoulders.
The food administration has formu-
lated suggestions which, if followed i,
sponsibility.
In order that we may reduce our con-
by thirty per cent-a reduction imper-
atively necessary to provide the sup
ply for overseas-wholesale jobbers
and retailers should purchase and re-
sell to their customers only seventy
per cent Of the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers of alimentary pastes,
biscuits, crackers, pastry and break
fast cereals should reduce their pur-
| chases and consumption OF wheat and
wheat flour to seventy per cent Of
their 1917 requirements, and all bakers
of bread and rolls to eighty per cent
! of their current requirements. Con-
sumers should reduce their purchases
of wheat products for home prepare
| ton to at least seventy per cent of
those of last year, or, when buying
bread, should purchase mixed cereal
| breads from the bakers.
Substitute Potatoes.
To provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products, and the mixed &C.
real bread and other products of the
! bakers which contains an admiXture
of other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
| restricted to this extent, Mondays and
| Wednesdays should be observed as
wheatless days each week, and one
meal each days should be observed as
wheatless meal.
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the consump
ton of beef, pork and sweet products,
| Tuesday should be observed as meat.
less day in each week, one meatless
meal should be observed in each day;
while, in addition, Saturday in each
week should further be observed as j
day upon which to eliminate pork
continued economy in the use OF
sugar will be necessary until later in
the year.
1t is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all sorts
of foodstuffs should be rigidly elimi
mated.
The maintenance of the health and
strength OF our own people is vitality
necessary at this time, and there
should be no dangerous restriction OF
the food supply; but the elimination
Of every sort of waste and the substi
| tuition of other commodities of which
we have more abundant supplies fol
those which we need to save, will II
no way impair the strength of oul
people.
Urges Cooperation.
I, therefore, in the national inter
est, take the liberty of calling upon
every loyal American to take fully to
heart the suggestions which are being
circulated by the food administration
and of begging that they be followed
I am confident that the great body Of
Our women, who have labored so 10y
ally in cooperation with the food ad
ministration will strengthen their eff
forts and will take it as part of theil
burden in this period of national serv
i've to see that the above suggestions
are observed throughout the land.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House,
Is January, 1918,