The Washington herald., 1918-01-19
Hoover Has Confidence
Nation Will Support Him
Food Administrator Says, "Attacks by Baked
Prohteers Will Not Hurt Us ANY,
Puts Faith in the People,

Also by voluntary agreement 1t
was arranged their profit for refining
the sugar should be $40 per 100
pounds instead of X.S7 they had en-
joyed before. This item saves about
SIS, 10000 a year.
! I'VE then, through our power TO
license wholesalers, limited the price
SO that the consumer got sugar at
91-2 to 10 cents per pound. and be-
yond this. by buying the Cuban sugar,
we assured a steady price through the
year
What we did had nothing to do
with a sugar shortage. Oh the con
trary. by means of an embargo upon
shipments to neutrals and by requisi-
tion, we actually increased the supply
for America The shortage in the
Eastern cities was caused by the al
lies drawing Sugar from Cuba and the
United States instead of Germany as
before the war
The story Of wheat and flour is
now an old one AL that is neces-
sary now is to point out that Congress
fixed the price of 1918 wheat at 81 per
bushel as against an average of 81
cents for he five years preceding the
war and that when we took hold -four
was selling at $17.10 per barrel and
going up. By an independent commits
Stop it was determined that a fair
price for wheat was $50 per bushel.
By licensing the millers and fixing
their profit and carrying this prin-
ciple along in dealing with the whole
saler We have cut flour down to SO a
barrel at the mill door and reduced
the price of bread
Conditions Not Serious.
There were times last year when
the bread situation was more Sc
rious than the people realized. New
York City had only 26 hours sup
ply of flour. Philadelphia only a
weeks supply.
by, speeding up production and
shipping the stock we were able IL
overcome these serious shortages,
The prices of many other goods
wholesale have been reduced by i'm
proving the handling conditions.
But now 1 would rather talk to
the readers of The WASHINGTON
Herald about the Immediate and
serious future. Great Rritain
france and Italy, which are hold
ing the line while we make ready
need our food. On December 1 We
nan exported to them every-ounce of
wheat and flour we could snare
oased upon our normal consumption,
II we do not save for them they
VIII not have sufficient bread for
july when the 1918 harvest supply
comes in.
IN France they have cut the ra-
tlon OF bread down to seven ounces
d oay. That means five thin slices
OF war bread.
SO that every time an America n
man woman or child dispenses with
eatlng wheat bread or cake inst
mat much is made available for
some French soldier holding a
.rench in zero weather or for some
prave French woman worlxino IN n
munitions factory. 1t is inst as al
rect an action as if an Amsr;can :
woman were literally to hand q
slice of bread to a French citizen
we 90 not cut down our wheat
suhptlon ,sp during the next six
nn.' nlhs' we will have failed the
tbn ana our own cause in one of
rne most critical periods of the
onn noie war. We must save 100 :
OVU,ooo bushels of wheat.
oro oy good fortune we have a hummer
ooo oop p OF corn in this country-oyer 2 :
SpvO bushels of it. That is thirty
uSheis per capita and ordinarily we
hot consume one bushel per capita
rlcans are used to cornmeaI prod-
1es. ee II they will substitute cornbread
tor wheat bread, they will win tbis
SIeat food battle we are waginp with
germany. Europe has not the me
ahcal equipment to prepare corn
s. anu corn bread, although thew now
So per cent In the wheat bread.
sloes, the people have not been
uucated .r to eating corn products.
=, IN aooltion to urging consumption
corn, 1 would like to see the peo-
pc eat more potatoes. Americans
should remember that so far potatoes
nave enabled Germany to Withstand
2 Worid IN arms. We can Dit Ameri-
tai 1ah potatoes against German potatoes.
the many who have written ask
ins What they can do to help win the
war 1 can give no more urgent mes
sage than this:
save wheat, meat, fat and supar
aor the allies for the next six months,
Iney are threatened on the Western
'front.' by the troops the Kaiser is able
70 Wlthdraw from the Russian sectors.
They should also not be threatened
with a>dearth of food. 1t is our job
g see that @sy are rot 50 thrsst-
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