Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-02-01
AMERICAN PEOPLE
ON WAR BREAD DIET
REDUCED RATioNs ASKED FOR
PURPOSE OF CREATING LARGER
SURPLUS FOR THE ALLIES.
Bakers viii Make Victory Loaves with
Mixture Of Other FIour.-Two
Wheatless, One Meatless and
Two Porkless Days Week.

notwithstanding American people
went on war bread diet on January
~, as part of war rationing sys-
tenn prescribed by President Wilson
ana the food administration. "Victory
bread, the food administration calls it,
The reduced rations are asked for
the purpose of creating a larger export
| surplus of food for the allies. Curtail-
ment Of consumption win be accom-
plished largely by voluntary effort. bur
foree VIII be employed wherever per-
mitted under the food control act.
The rationing system, as presented
py the president in proclamation and
Dy Food Administrator Hoover In d
list OF regulations, forms the food adj
mlnistration's 1918 food conservation
program, on which the chief features
are: Bakers bread OF mixed flour. be-
ginning Monday, with s per cent sub
stitution of other cereals FOR wheat I'M
til 20 per cent substitution is reached
February "a.
sale by retailers to househOIders of
an equal amount of substitute fiours
for every pound of wheat flour pur-
chased at the time the wheat -four is
bought.
Restrict Millers' Sale.
Sale by millers to wholesalers and
wholesalers to retailers Of only 20 Der
cent of the amount OF wheat -four sold
last year.
Two wheatiess days week-Mon-
day and Wednesday-and one wheat
less meal a day.
One meatlesS day-Tuesday-and |
one meatless meal a day.
Two porklesS days week-Tuesday
and Saturday.
Manufacturers of macaroni. spa.
ghetti, noodles, crackers and breakfast I
foods, pie. cake and pastry win be per
mitted to bny only 20 per cent of their
last years purchases, and are asked to
perform patriotic service by using
substitute fours.
Flour will be.sOld through the regu-
lar channels and In such a manner that
each community will receive it's equiv
alent share.
The food administration will pur-
chase for the army and for the allies.
as announced recently, 80 per cent of
the flour output and out of this store
VIII fill emergency requirements If
stocks run low in any part of the coun.
try.
No Patent FIours.
Wheat millers are required to pro-
duce one barrel Of flour of 1866 pounds
from 264 pounds of wheat, which repre-
sents "A per cent flour. No patent
or special flours may be manufactured.
although whole wheat flour may be
made as usual
Hotels and restaurants will be
classed as bakeries and viii be re-
luired to serve the new "Victory
bread''
State, food administrators will be
permitted to designate the wheatless
meal In each state. Where this is not
done, the food administrator requests
that the evening meal be observed as
wheatless.
The presidents proclamation. besides
calling on the public for further re-
duetion in consumption, makes d re-
neWed appeal to the housewife to stop
the waste of food. 1t asks general OBJ
~ s1ASN Va bAAC AOOU administration
regulations and calls on the people, III
addition, to hold down their consump
ton of sugar.
No Forcible Limitation.
There is no foreible limitation of
purchases by householders, and in this
connection the food administrator :
says:
THE effectiveness of these rules is
dependent solely upon the good will
and willingness Of the American PEG.
pie to sacrifice. In the last analysis
he success or failure of any such plan
IS outlined rests with the people. We
lave but one police force-the Ameri-
an woman-and we depend upon her
Q see that these rules are observed"
OF the nearly 2O,O0O,OO0 householders
a the United States, about 1900, 900
AVE signed the food administrations
hedge TO follow Its food conservation
directions, and food administration Of
lcials believe that the regulations will
e generally observed.
Packing House Strike Prevented.
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