Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-28
PRESIDENT CALLS FOR
new FOOD Sacrifices
Asks Country 10 Make Further
Reduction In Use OF Wheat.
NEEDED FOR ALLIES
Presidents Proclamation Wheatlsss
Meal Daily Two Nhsatless DAYS
A Week, Now Planned

ing for greater food sacrifices, in
which lie placed drastic restrictions
upon the American kitchen In order to
answer the starvation cry from
Europe.
Your New Food Regulations.
what President Wilson asks the ma
ton to do TO conserve food:
Ito make wednesday and one meal
every day wheatless.
ITO make Tuesday and one meal
each day meatless.
S-To continue Saturday porkless.
ITO continue economy in sugar.
5-To rigidly eliminate all wastes.
Wholesalers, jobbers and retailers
to supply and resell only 20 pes
cent of amounts Of food used in
1917
Manufactures OF biscuits, crack
ers. pastry and breakfast cereals
should reduce what consumption
to 20 per cent Of 1917 require
ments.
SC Consumers to reduce use or wheat
products TO 20 per cent of last
year
so purchase mixed cereal breads
Homes and public eating places to
substitute vegetables. corn, barley,
oats and rice products.
Wholesalers must sell one pound
Of other cereal with every pound
OF wheat -four
The Presidents Proclamation.
The Presidents proclamation fol-
lows:
Many causes have contributed 20
create the necessity for a more inten-
siye effort on the part of our people
( 10 save food in order that We may sup
! ply our associates in the war with the
/ sustenance vitality necessary to them
/ Ia 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
more distant markets for foodstuffs
through the destruction of shipping,
places the burden of their subsistence
very largely on our shoulders.
The Food Administration has for
mulated suggestions which, if allow
ed, will enable as to meet this great
responsibility without any real incon-
yenience on our part
In order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat
products by 80 per cent-a reduction
imperatively necessary to provide the
supply for overseas ~ wholesalers
| jobbers and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers only 70
/ per cent of the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers Of alimentary
Dastes, biscuits. crackers, pastry and
/ breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat -four to 20 per cent of their
1917 requirements, and all bakers of
bread and rolls to so per cent Of their
current requirements.
| Reduce Wheat in Home TO 40 Per Cent.
+ Consumers should reduce their pur-
/ ehases of wheat products for home
I preparation to almost 20 per cent OF
1 those last year. or when buying bread,
should purchase mixed cereal breads
4 from the bakers.
1 To provide sufficient cereal food.
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute
potatoes. vegetables. corn, barley, oats
and rice products, and the mixed
cereal bread and other products Of the
bakers which contain an admixture Of
other cereals.
In order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent. Mondays and
| Wednesdays should be observed as
wheatless days each week, and one
mean each day should be observed as
a wheatless meal.
a Meatless Meal Every Day.
In both homes and public eating
places. in order to reduce the con-
sumption Of beef, pork and sheep
products, Tuesday should be observed
/ as meatless day n each week, one
meatless meal should be observed in
each day: while, in addition, Satur-
day in each week should further be OBJ
served as day upon which there
should be no consumption Of pork
products.
/ A continued economy in the use OF
sugar will be necessary until later IN
the year.
1t. is ii alive that all waste and
unnecessary consumption Of all sorts
Of foodstuns should be rigidly elimi-
mated
Eliminate Every sOrt of Waste.
The maintenance Of the health and
strength Of our own people IS vitality
necessary at this time, and there
should be no dangerous restriction OF
the food supply; but the elimination
/ of every sort OF waste and the substi-
tuition of other commodities OF which
( we have more abundant supplies for
/ those which we need to save will in no
way impair the strength Of our peo-
! PIE and viii enable rs to meet one Of
the most pressing obligations Of the
war.
I therefore, in the National interest.
take the liberty Of calling upon every
loyal America to take fully to heart
the suggestions which are being cir
culated by the Food Administration
and Of begging that they be followed.
| I am confident that the great body Of
our women who have labored so 10y