Connecticut western news., 1918-03-21
STATE CONSUMING
TOO MUCH FLOUR
Believed Many of the 10000
Who Signed Food Cards Are
Lax in Observing Pledge.
NEXT go DAYS ACUTE PERIOD.
Administrator ScovilIe Declares Con-
necticut Must BE Awakened to
Necessity of Reducing Wheat
Consumption.

Hartford.-Robert Scoville, federal
food administrator for Connecticut,
and George M. Landers, one of the as
sistant administrators and chairman
of the Connecticut Committee of Food
Supply, have just returned from Wash
ington, where they were in attendance
three days last week at a conference
which Mr. Hoover held with the vari-
Gus state administrators. AS a result
of this conference it is believed, by
reason of the better transportation
known to be coming, that Connect
cuts supply of wheat substitutes will
be materially increased, with CORE
spending reduction in price. The adj
illustrators were warned that because
the shipping problem had prevented
the expected exports of wheat to our
own soldiers and their comrades in
arms last December and January and
because the Dutch ships now running
to South America had been delayed in
their imports of Argentine wheat the
situation regarding breadstuffs will be
very serious during the next go days.
Mr.. Scoville said upon his return
. that too much emphasis could not be
placed upon the fact that the people
of Connecticut, in common with the
rest of the country, must Immediately
stop using so much wheat flour. He
intimated that there was only about so
much more available anyway and that
| the wise person would stretch the
flour on hand over the acute period,
which would probably extend until
along into May. Both Mr.. Scoville and
Mr.. Landers called attention to the
fact that there was a plentiful supply
Of cereal substitutes In this country
and that, IL In no other way, Con-
necticut people would be awakened to
the fact that we are at war by the
necessity OF cutting down their wheat
consumption and training their palates
to relish some of the healthful substi-
tutes.
Inasmuch as porkiess Saturday has
been removed from the list Of tabooed
days I'm the Food Administration cal
endar and as poultry and mutton are
permitted, temporarily, on meatless
Tuesdays, the Food Administration
thinks 1t only proper that increased
conservation should be conferred on
wheat. or the $4,000 families and
handlers of food who signed their
country's food pledge card In Con-
nect1cut last fall, by no means all are
observing their full pledge, in the
opinion OF the Food Administration,
and this Is believed to be especially
true In the neglect of the provision
that everybody should have at least
! oh How
Among the latest regulations OF the
Food Administration are these:
Bakers may use rye as wheat flour
substitute In Victory bread until
March 81. Rye flour Is not a substi
tute which the purchaser may take In
securing wheat flour.
Corn flakes and pulled rice are no.
wheat flour substitutes, the test OF 6
substitute, in a general way, being
whether or not it is a substitute fol
wheat flour I'm baking bread.
Potatoes, which went well for the
Connecticut farmers for some time
are no longer a substitute to be sold
with wheat flour. Every state is now
on the so called 5000" basis for pur
chases of wheat flour.
Purchasers of wheat flour, whether
city or country jewellers, may not re
ceive more than twenty-four and one
half pounds (one-eighth barrel sack)
at one time, with an equal amount OF
some of the approved substitutes.
Hoarders of flour or any other food
commodity should Immediately rid
themselves of their excess holdings
either by returning the illegal stocks 10
the merchant who sold them or by can
didly informing the Food Administers
ton, which is unlikely in such cases
to invoke the boarding penalty Of the
law, which is $1,000 fine and two
years imprisonment