The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-01-28
IN ORDER To AID
OUR ALLIES
The President Asks the American
People to Deny Them.
selves
ASSOCIATED Pressl

| Washington, Jan. 27-The Ameri-
'can people will go on war bread diet
Monday as part of war rationing
system prescribed last night by Pres
ident Wilson and the food adn1inistra-
tion. Victory bread" the food ad-
ministration calls it.
The reduced rations are asked for
the purpose of creating a larger ex-
port surplus of food for the Euro.
pean allies. Curtailment of consump.-
tion will be accomplished largely by
voluntary effort, but force will be em-
! ployed wherever permitted under the
food control act.
The rationing system as, presented
by the president in proclamation
and by Food Administrator Hoover in
a list of regulations, forms the food
ADMINISTRATIONS 1913 food conserva-
ton program, of which the chief feat
pres are:
A bakers. bread Of mixed flour, be-
ginning Monday with 5 per cent
substitution of other cereals for wheat
until 20. per cent substitution is
reached February "a.
Sale by retailers to householders of
an equal amount of substitute fioura
fer every pound of wheat flour pur-
chased at the time the wheat flour is
bought.
Sale by millers TO wholesalers and
wholesalers to retailers of only 70
per cent of the amount of wheat flour
sold last year. !
Two. wheatless days week--Mon-
day and Wednesday y-and one wheat
less meal day.
One meatless day week Tuesday
-and one meatless meal day.
Two porkless days a week Tues.
day and aSturday.
Manufacturers of macaroina, spag-
hetti, noodles, crackers and breakfast
foods, pie, cake and pastry will be
permitted to buy only 70 per cent of
their last years purchases.
Flour will be sold in such man
ner that each community will receive
its equivalent share.
The food administration will pur-
chase for the army and for the allies,
as announced recently, 80 per cent of
the flour output.
Wheat millers are required to pro-
duce one barrel of flour of 1876 pounds
from 264 pounds of wheat, which rep
resents IA per cent flour. No patents
or special fours may be manufactur-
ed, although whole wheat flour may
be made as usual.
Hotels and restaurants will be
classed as bakeries, and will be re-
quired to serve the new victory bread.
State food administrators will be
permitted to designate the wheatless
meal IN each state.
The presidents proclamation, be-
sides calling on the public for a fur
ther reduction in consumption, makes
o renewed appeal to the housewife to
stop the waste of food.
There is, no forcible 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
of and the willingness of the Alneri-
can people to sacrifice"
OF the nearly 100000 household
Aers in the~United States, about 49,
100000 have signed the food admins
tration's pledge to follow its conser-
yation directions.
Mr.. Hoover estimates that observ-
ance of the regulations will save
about 100000 bushels of wheat a
month for shipment abroad. This will
enable the allies to subsist, although
their ration will be short.
Most of the allies are mixing about
40 per cent of corn meal and other
substitutes with wheat flour in all
baked bread, and all of Europe is
milling a large amount of the whole
wheat grain. Both France and Eng
land have1rEruntly cut down the bread
ration by almost half.
If the voluntary rationing system
fails in this country, it then, Mr..
Hoover said, .'is up to Congress. We
have M powers under the law to COM
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