The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-03-27

| washington, March 23.-Herbert
Hoover, food administrator, an
nounced tonight that the country mus
go on bread rations.
Householders and restaurants mus
use not to exceed / 1-2 pounds o
wheat products per person n week.
The monthly consumption of az,
100000 bushels of wheat must be Gu
to II 1000, 900 bushels in order to sup
ply the allies.
Furthermore the probability wa
who are holding their wheat for tn
higher price of $3.50 a bushel as pro
vided in the Gore amendment ma,
have it requisit;oned by the govern
ment. Already one New Mexico farm
er has had his boarding of 18O,OOl
bushels requisitioned on the grount
I that it was "enemy action"
While the rationing system will b.
voluntary, the food administrator, b,
his power Of limiting the distribution
can make it practically compulsory.
The chief provisions of the ration
ing system are:
l. HOuseholders to use not to
exceed total of IA pounds per
week OF wheat products per per-
son. This means not more than
l 3-5 pounds of victory bread,
containing the required percent
age of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes,
wheat breakfast cereals, all COM
bincd.
2. Public eating places and
clubs to observe two wheatless
days per week, Monday and
Wednesday, as at present. In ad-
dltlon thereto not to serve to any
one guest at any one meal an aC-
gregate of breadstuffs, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes,
wheat breakfast cereals contain
ing a total of more than two
ounces of wheat flour. No wheat
products to be served unless Spe-
cIally ordered. Public eating es-
Establishments not to buy more
than six pounds of wheat prod
ucts for each 80 meals served,
thus conforming with the limita-
tions requested of householders.
3. Retailers to sell not more
than One-eighth of barrel Of
flour to any town customer at
any one time, and not more than
one-quarter of a barrel to any
country customer at any one
time, and in no case to sell wheat
products of an equal weight of
other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and gro
GERS to reduce the volume of
victory bread sold by delivery of
the three-quarter pound loaf,
where one pound was sold before,
and corresponding proportions in
other weights. We also ask bak-
ers to increase the amount of
their wheat flour purchases be-
yOnd 70 per cent of the average
monthly amount purchased in the
four months prior to March I.
so Per Sent in Normal COnsumptio,
Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes shoul,
cease such use entirely.
There is limit upon the use of othe
cereals, flours and meals, corn, bar
ley, buckwheat, potato flour, etc.
Mr. Hoover in explaining the dras
tic action, makes it clear that it wa
war step. 1t means cut OF SO pc
cent in normal consumption.
"Reserving margin for distribr,
tion to the army and for specia
cases." says Mr.. Hoover, leaves fo
general consumption approximate
l IL pounds of wheat products weekl
per person. Many flour consumer
are dependent upon bakers bread
Such bread must be durable and there
fore requires larger proportion 0
wheat products than cereal bread
baked in the household.
Our army and navy require a full
aallowance. The we'll to do in our pop
ulation can nal Ike greater sacrifice il
hn ~ tfAN
than can the poor In addition ou
population in the agricultural dis
tricts, where the other cereals ar
abundant are more skilled in tn
preparation Of breads from these oth
er cereals than the crowded city an
industrial populations.
with improved transportation con
ditions we now have available a sur
plus of potatoes. We also have in tn
spring months surplus of milk an,
we have ample corn and oats for hu
man consumption The drain on ry
and barley as substitutes already ha
greatly exhausted these grains"
No Fear of Health Impairment
There need be no fear, Mr.. Hoove
said, that health will be impaired d,
the substitution of cereals.
| No reason exists, he said, wh,
American women who io their owl
cooking can not use less than the ra
! tion specified. Families are asked t.
restrict themselves even more I'm or
der that supplies can be provided TO
those communities less able to adap
themselves to large proportion o
substitutes.
Giving the method by which tn
voluntary rationing becomes practi
cally compulsory Mr.. Hoover said:
In order that we shall be able t,
make the wheat exports that are alb
solutelY demanded of us to maintai,