Crittenden record-press., 1918-04-25
PEOPLE DISPLAY THE RIGHT
SPIRIT TO HELP BOYS
At FRONT.
ARE WILLING TO SAVE WHEAT
Food Administrator Delighted with
Splendid Enthusiasm OF BLUEGRASS
State To Give Up Men, Money and
Food For Liberty's Cause.

all the farmers of the country. all the
CITY people who are raising war gar
dens. and all the ~ pie in both city
and country who sit down 10 three
square meals a day. All parts of the
state are represented in the army
raised by the Food Administration and
which, uAder the banner reading Food
VIII Win the War" is conducting the
big Spring Offensive against waste at
nome and hunger and want in the
ranks of the Allied soldiers and their
| dependents.
Federal Food Administrator f. NJ.
Sackett is .ieised at the work being
done. Kentucky is a hard state TO
reach, but it car be reached. and it has
been reached. Mr Hoover's admon.
Ition, FOOD VIII 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.
III wheat is needed, wheat will be
raised in my county, even though .
financial loss y entaied," Is the way
one administrator put It in converse
ton recently Then II 1t is necessary
he people who raise It will sell 1t 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
81 the oomposure with which the latest
wheat-saying regulation was promul-
gated, for this vary reason. The latest
regulation says no person must eat
more than six pounds CT wheat q
month, which is one and one.half
pounds week
And that means six pounds OF all
6!ads of wheat products, too" one ad-
m.n.s'rator explained IT doesn t
mean SIX pounds OF bread. and then a
10; Of maccaroni and cakes aVd crack
e-s, too 1t meEns six pounds OF wheat
products Ler person per month"
Soldiers and their families must
have bread Wheat ia the only bread
making product which can be sent to
Europe now. Corn would germinate
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 Whestless Days.
Federal Food Administrator +. NJ.
SacEett advises the continuance OF
whealiess days. Continued observ'
auce Of wheatless days and meals will
IA!l in keeping consumption down"
hIr. Sackett said People are offered
, the alternative OF saving wheat by
doing without entirely on certain days
Enl meals. or by using less al all
. times. hut | would recommend both
, saving wheat is % military necessity
aad individual consumption must bt
held 10 six pounds a month II We are
10 win the war"
Potato Week" has been highly sue
resstul. Merchants everywhere push
ell the sale OF potatoes and 1t is be
: lieyed potatoes were found on the din
Ing table at every meal In a majorit!
OF homes. Mr.. John w Burns, OF tht
Food Administration Office in Louis
: vile. who has had years OF experience
, In the milling business, estimates tina
the people OF Kentucky have sayet
10000 barrel, OF -four by eating pota
toes du'.ng Potato Week"
, No Seizure Needed Here.
The announcement comes fror
Warrington that the appeal to farm
ers u the whole United States to b
> patriotic and br.1s all their wheat t
4 markn, has net with an unsausfat
tory response u some sections OF tn
country that has been rather distress
lgg lgjla Washington announcement
, ari been put in palmer words.
would read some American farm
OPS are Uo. patriotic. They think NOR
90. getting a little extra money &c
their ascat than they do Of the Anne
.ran aui associate soldiers who nee
bread no badly"
pu' Washington has sent out anot
= announcement II is that unle'
"a farmers market their wheat
Nay the Government may seize Il.
4 Kentucky .armcyss can not unde
:, stand why such drastic action shou
u So necessary, Kentucky farmers, res
4 lzo that a fsrmer who holds on to b
r wheat when the army needs II, tryir
10 sItort moro money In payne
y thsrctor, Ia Just as heartless as Il
!. man who refuses to give soldier
drink cf water.
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