Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-01
USE IDLE TINE OF
FLOUR statesmen
Let Them Teach Food Saving
to Dealers, Mill Company
Suggests.
HOW THEY COULD SERVE

| Wheat flour statesmen, with no flour
| to sell, will be utilized as educators to
assist dealers throughout the country
| in complying with the orders of the
| food administration, if a plan worked
| out by the Eagle Roller Mill Company
| of New Ulm, Mimi. is adopted by mill
| ers generally.
| The statesmen for the mills have little
| or no wheat flour to sell, but in nearly
| all cases are being carried on the pay
| rolls of their firms. Instead OF looking
! vacation, the statesmen will go over
| their districts as usual
After acquainting the retailer as well
as the wholesaler with the conditions
which exist vt the mills as result of
+ the war, the statesmen will tell the
| dealers what the government expects
| of them. laying stress upon the neces-
| sity for urging people to use substi-
| tutes for wheat.
Salesman Lards Plan.
j. H. Janney. flour salesman of
Pittsburgh, who Is in Washington tenn
porarily, lauded the plan today.
| Il venture to say" said Mr.. Janney,
that SO per cent of the people who
| signed the pledge of the food admins
tration to conserve wheat and other
staples needed by the soldiers hung
| the cards in their kitchens and went
\ right ahead using wheat
THE result is that at the end of this
year we may have to go for sixty days
4 or more without any wheat -four at all
whereas, If all had complied with the
| been able to stretch our supply over
| until the next harvest"
| MI Janney said few people stop to
| CONSIDER the serious meaning of the
| 1000 conservation movement, especially
In relation to wheat. He said he met
a friend on the street recently who
admitted having the food pledge in his
home, but who said he was still using
wheat Hour because his family could
not eat corn bread.
/ Salesncn as Instructors.
i The plan to have the statesmen con.
stitute themselves an army of instruct
Tors to spread the food administrators
gospel Is outlined in letter sent by
the New Ulm frn to all its statesmen.
and which reads in part as follows:
/ We are sure that every one Of our
! statesmen would at this time prefer to
be useful rather than ornamental, We
have no wheat flour to sell and prob
ABLY VIII not have any for months to
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barley, we can use your services in
seLlhg TO a certain extent, but our
capacity Will BY no means be large
enough to keep our salesforce busy
l. nile we have so much time on our
nanos We can perform a patriotic duty
ana render great service to the United
states Food Administration.
1T is OF supreme Importance at this
time to conserve food supplies espe-
Icially wheat. The food admiriistration
mas formulated certain rules, and we
are sure all loyal Americans will be
more tnan glad to comply when the
understand the necessity for compIyinx
land what # means to our country and
those allied with US in this. present
great struggle. Many Of us unthink-
lnsiy eVade some OF the rules simply be-
cause we do not understand their impor.
ltance.
The object of this letter is to ask
you to start out Immediately and cover
your territory seeing not only our
Wholesale trade, but also as much of
| the retail trade as you can, talk with
| the consumers when possible, explain.
ing the rules of the food administra-
complete compliance"
Mistake ABOUT Flour Substitutes.
| The need for service such az the -four
s1lesmen propose to perform was shown
IA1onday. when the food administration
announced that many Washington
grocers we're causing people inconven-
Hence by placing wrong interpreta-
ton on the order requiring the consumer
to buy an equal amount of some other
cereal with every purchase Of wheat
four.
| Some grocers had gained the impress
ston that the substitute cereal had to
be ground into -four form. The sales
men when they pay their regular visit
to dealer, having no -four to sell, will
discuss these questions with him and
enlighten him wherever he can.
| Mr.. Janney pointed out that America
! had an enormous corn crop last year.
but that the great amount of rain and
the severe winter had left much of It
damp. The -four man expressed the be-
lief that if this corn can be transported
to the elevators and dried, the millers
can convert it into meal as a, substitute
for wheat -four.
| Mr.. Janney said the American house.
| wife can also use the potato to good
advantage as substitute for wheat
-four. The women of England, 1t was
pointed out, have used potato -four ex-
tensively since the war began.
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