Evening journal., 1918-01-04
POTATO DAY" NOW
IS HOOVER PLAf
Food Administrator Urge
Al 10 Buy Heavily
OF TuberS
MISS JOHNSON
ADDRESSES WOMEN

A"nolato day each week in the hopes
y conserving other foods through an
utracrd.norily large and increased con
.dmpii Of tubers, is the latest nation
xida plan Of the food administration
Josiah MarN cl, acting food director, said
1day that the administration hopes 20
'lace tho Irish potato every day in the
'ear on oyery table In America
Grocers will be urged TO inaugurate
1 potato day" each week. selecting
whatever day Is slack in deliveries and
making O special price on potatoes de-
livered Housewives will be asked to
buy potatoes, a weeks supply, on each
potato day Continuing. Mr. Marvel said !.
"The Food Administration declares
that 10 IS necessary right now as a
war measure for everybody TO eat pO-
tatoes and also 20 purchase them in
fairly regular quantities week by week,
80 that distribution will be equal every
where for the next five or six months.
relieving railroad congestion and en-
abline growers and distributors 10
handle potatoes at the most reasonable
prices and to furnish announcement
for production Of a larger crop this
spring.
"1he Department Of Agriculture is
working 20 improve potato CROWNS
methods and TO increase our crops. The
ro-operation OF the consumer and the
grocer are needed more now than ever
before Every American family is
urged 10 buy and TO eat potatoes freely
through the winter and into the sum-
mer. Hotels and restaurants are being
asked 10 serve potatoes literally.
"Co-operating with the Department Of
Agriculture, the Food Administration
mas taken definite measures TO stabil-
ize the potato industry, both as TO pro.
ductlon and as TO distribution stand
ard grades and the system of sale by the
hundredweight basis have already been
introduced.
The potato today is plentiful, cheap
and the best substitute for food staples
we are being asked TO save for the
Allies, the army and navy 10 furnishes
nourishment. bulk mineral salts and o
corrective alkalinity In the diet
"Germany plants more than twice as
many potatoes as the United states
Germany gets more than twice as many
bushels per acre. and she eats three
times as many potatoes Germany's wise
use Of potatoes helps her TO hold out
against the Allies.
II we are going TO win this war
we must fight &c many man for man
she'll for she'll potato for potato. The
food admlnlst at on declares we raise
200 few potatoes on too great an acre
age II our yield per acre was as
ueat as Gamany's the State Of New
York alone. or Michigan, or Wisconsin,
or Minnesota, might raise all the pota-
toes we eat. We eat too few potatoes
because the quality is not good. We
speculate from year to year-farmer,
jobber, retailer, everybody That makes
luctuation in price, for which we dear
.y pay"
Mr.. Marvel addressed a meeting Of
Me Corn Growers Association az Md
lletown last night His address referred
to the war and the reasons why all
Americans should do their duty in con-
serving food. That il was not so much
the money that was to be derived
from the sale OF produce or vege-
tables, but their patriotic duty to raise
all they could for the sake Of the ma
tion. lie told The members that 4 they
raised extra acreages simply for the
Vlbulf thNt IL was AAlutAlaNiN oiA Aul
10 be commended.
January is meat conservation month
in Hoover Club circles, and at the dem
onstration at St. Andrews parish house
yesterday, Miss Charlotte Johnson. food
expert, dwelt on meat and what could
be used as a substitute
First Of all, the Hoover expert eX-
planned to the women what meat was
comprised Of. what calories there was
Of this and what calories of that. Cal
ories meaning nutriment or tissue
builders She said that the reason that
potatoes were usually included 10 a
meal with meat was because the po-
tatoes contained starch sugar and
cellulose that the meat did not. Chief
meat substitutes she explained, were
found in fish. game and poultry. What
is most essential ia food conserva-
tion Is common sense and Intelligence,
that will enable a housewife 60 cook a
meal that combines the saving Of meal
Through a substitute With the other
nutriment, needed 20 make mp a sat-
lsfying meal
Miss johnson then cooked scalloped
rice and peanuts, showing that sci
ence proclaimed this combination to
be one OF the many that can be pun
together which is a perfect food OF
tissue builder
Another dish she prepared was seal
lOped ham and potatoes
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