The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1918-03-14
help TO SAVE FOOD
President Calls Upon All Loyal
Americans to Unite
in Campaign
Suggestions Of Food Administration
Will Enable the United States to
Meet Great Responsibility If Prompt
Action Is Taken, Declares President.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Following is
text of President Wilson's food-saving
proclamation:
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for a more inten-
sive effort on the part Of our people
to save food in order that we may sup
ply our associates in the war with the
sustenance vitality necessary to them
in these days of privation and stress.
The reduced productivity of Europe
because of the large diversion of man
power to the war, the partial failure
of harvests and the elimination of the
most distant markets for foodstutfs
through the destruction of shipping,
places the burden OF their subsistence
very lal %eiy on our shoulders.
The food administration has formu
lated suggestions which, if followed,
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility.
In order that we may reduce our con-
sumption OF wheat and wheat products
by thirty per cent-a reduction imper-
atiVely necessary to provide the sup
ply for overseas-Wholesale jobbers
and retailers should purchase and re-
sell to their customers only seventy
per cent of the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers Of alimentary pastes,
biscuits, crackers, pastry and break
fast cereals should reduce their pur-
chases and consumption of wheat and
wheat flour to seventy per cent of
their 1917 requirements, and all bakers
OF bread and rolls to eighty per cent
of their current requirements. Con-
sumers should reduce their purchases
of wheat products for home prepare
ton to at least seventy per cent Of
those Of last year, or, when buying
bread, should purchase mixed cereal
breads from the bakers.
Substitute Potatoes.
To provide sufficient cereal food.
homes, public eating places, dealers
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products, and the mixed &C.
real bread and other products of the
| bakers which contains an admixture
Of other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
| Wednesdays should be observed as
| ,,-l,o
! meal each days should be observed as
| a wheatless meal.
In both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the consump
ton of beef, pork and sweet products
! Tuesday should be observed as meat
| less day in each week, one meatless
meal should be observed in each day;
while, in addition, Saturday in each
week should further be observed as !
day upon which to eliminate pork.
A continued economy in the use O.
sugar will be necessary until later il
the year,
1t is imperative that all waste ani
unnecessary consumption Of all sort:
of foodstuffs should be rigidly eIimi
| mated.
The maintenance of the health an(
strength of our own people is vital.
necessary at this time, and Their,
should be no dangerous restriction O
the food supply; but the eliminatio?
of every sort of waste and the substi
tuition of other commodities of which
we have more abundant supplies TO
those which we need to save, will Il
no way impair the strength of on
people.
Urges Cooperation.
I, therefore, in the national inter
est, take the liberty of calling upos
every loyal American to take fully t.
heart the suggestions which are beins
circulated by the food administrator
and Of begging that they be followed
l am confident that the great body o
our women, who have labored so 10y
ally in cooperation with the food ad
ministration will strengthen their Ell
forts and will take it as part of thei
burden in this period of national serv
i've to see that the above suggestion
are observed throughout the land.
WOODROW WILSON:
The White House,
Is January, 1918.