Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-01-02
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THE FOOD PROBLEM OF THE
COUNTRY,

anOCneF 10 the feueTdl rOou auullHio-
TRAITOR for your state.
The Food Administration, aside from
these general directions, asks every
one to maintain rigidly minimum
of at least:
One Wheatless day each week and
one Wheatless Meal each day; the
Wheatless day to be Wednesday. BY
Wheatless we mean to eat no wheat
products.
One Meatless day each week which
shall be Tuesday and one meatless
meal each day BY meatless we mean
to eat no red meat-beef, pork, NUT
ton, veal, lamb; no preserved meat
beef, bacon, ham or lard.
One Porkless day each week in adj
dition to Tuesday, which shall be Sat |
urday, BY porkless we mean no fresh
or sailed pork, bacon, lard or ham,"
SUGAR-You can materially reduce
sugar by reducing the use OF candy
and sweet drinks. We will make ev-
cry endeavor to see that the country
is provided with supply of house
hold sugar on, the basis of three
pounds of sugar for each person per
month. Do not consume more.
Human Foodstuffs Comprise Three
Principal Elements.
PROTEIN-Mainly present in meat,
beans, fish, poultry, milk, and to some
extent in grains.
FATS-That is, bitter, cream, lard,
bacon, margarine, cooking fats, beans,
cotton seed oil and other vegetable
oils.
CARBOHYDRATES-Grai sugar,
potatoes and other vegetables.
AS a nation we eat and waste 80
per cent more protein than we re-
quire to maintain health. Therefore,
we can reduce the amount of meat we
eat without harm.
We eat and waste 24o per cent more
fat than is necessary.
OF the carbohydrates we can just as
we'll consume corn, oats and the other
cereals as wheat and we have abun-
dant supplies of potatoes and vege-I
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Do not limit your supplies of milk
and table butter, but consume 1t all.
Don't waste any.
You can reduce the consumption of
fats by reducing pastry and fried
foods.
Remember the gospel of the clean
plate, the serving of small portions,
the purchase Of less supplies 70 So"
~ HOARDING-Any person in ne
United States who buys more food
stuffs than he customarily keeps at
home is defeating the Food Admins
tration in its purpose to secure just
distribution Of food and its great en-
deavors to reduce prices. The hoard
ing of food in households is not only
unnecessary, as the Government is
protecting the food supply of our peo-
pie, but it is selfish and a cause of
high prices. '''S ~
!. Such actions multiplied by thou
sands increase the demands upon our
railways for cars and already, because
of our military demands, it is with ex-
IRENE difficulty we can now move the
vitality necessary food to markets.
There is much insidious propaganda
in the country against conservation
and increased production. All op 20
sition to these services is direct as
sistance to the enemy.
The reverse side of the card carries
message to those who have signed
the pledge card of the Food Admins
tration. It is as follows:
To Members of the United States
Food Administration: The food sit
uation in Europe is far graver than
when the preliminary survey of the
food supply of the world for this year
was made. We have an abundance
for ourselves, and tbs the firm policy
Of the Food Administration, by the
prevention Of exports, to retain for
our people an ample supply of every
essential foodstuff The harvests of
our Allies have proved less than we
had contemplated, and the great cur
tailment of shipping by the submar-
ines during the last few months has
further prevented them from access
to more remote markets. Beyond the
demands of the Allies there is call
upon US by the friendly neutrals for
food supplies, and If we can net at
least in part respond to these neutral
calls, starvation on an unparalleled
scale must ensue.
Food has now taken a dominant
position in the war, and We must ask
the American people to sacrifice far
more than was at first thought nee
essary. We have exported the whole
of the surplus of the wheat from this
harvest after reserving to ourselves
an amount sufficient for our normal
consumption of seed and -four until
the next harvest, and therefore the
amount of wheat flour that the United
States can contribute to mix with the
war bread Of orr Allies during this