The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-04-11


Telling blows against the Germans
are being struck by the Food Army of
Kentucky-the army which includes
all the farmers of the country. all the
city people who are raising war gar
dens, and all the people in both city
and country who sit down to three
square meals a day. All parts of the
state are represented in the army
raised by the Food Administration and
which, under the banner reading Food
Will Win the War" is conducting the
big Spring Offensive against waste at
home and hunger and want in the
ranks of the Allied soldiers and their
dependents.
Federal Food Administrator F. M.
Sackett is pleased at the work being
done. Kentucky is q hard state to
reach. but it can be reached, and it has
been reached. Mr.. HOover's admon.
ition, Food VIII Win the War" is be-
ing needed, and President Wilson's in
junction TO enlist in the service OF
the Food Administrators" is being fol
lowed unreservedly.
Every county in the state has Food
Administrator Any mill. any mer.
chant, any farmer. any consumer trou-
bled by a vexing technical regula-
ton can get his troubles removed, or
settled, by going to the nearest county
seat. And the administrators without
exception report willingness to CO.
oh l. ..~st
IF wheat is needed, wheat will be
raised in my county. even though a
financial loss is entailed," Is the way
one administrator put it in converse
tion recently. Then if 1t is necessary
the people who raise it will sell it all.
so our soldiers and their associates
in arms can get it. and themselves eat
cornbread all the year"
Something of that same spirit has
been manifested both by producers and
consumers everywhere in Kentucky.
Mr.. Sackett was not at all surprised
at the composure with which the latest
wheat-saving regulation was promul
gated, for this very reason. The latest
regulation says no person must eat
AACAO oAA RCahUS Va a
month, which is one and one-half
pounds a week
"And that means six pounds OF all
kinds of wheat products, too" one ad.
ministrator explained. 1T doesn't
mean six pounds of bread. and then a
lot OF maccaroni and cakes and crack
ers, too. II means six pounds of wheat
products per person per month"
Soldiers and their families must
have bread. Wheat is the only bread
making product which can be sent to
Europe now. Corn would terminate
during the long journey American
and Allied soldiers must have wheat
bread or quit fighting; hence the Food
Administration has asked the people
of Kentucky to limit themselves to six
pounds o. wheat -four per month.
Continue Wheatless Days.
Federal Food Administrator F. M.
Sackett advises the continuance OF
wheatless days. Continued observ,
ance of wheatless days and meals will
aid in keeping consumption down."
Mr.. Sackett said. People are offered
the alternative OF saving wheat by
doing without entirely on certain days
and meals, or by using less at all
times, but | would recommend both.
Saving wheat is a military necessity
and individual consumption must be
held to six pounds a month IL we are
to win the war"
Potato Week" has been highly sue.
cessful Merchants everywhere push.
ed the sale of potatoes and II is be.
lieved potatoes were found on the din.
ing table at every meal in a majority
of homes. Mr.. John w. Burns, Of the
Food Administration office in Louis
vile, who has had years of experience
in the milling business. estimates that
the people of Kentucky have saved
10000 barrels OF -four by eating pota'
toes during Potato Week"
No Seizure Needed Here.
The announcement comes from
Washington that the appeal TO farm.
ers OF the whole United States to be
patriotic and bring all their wheat to
market has met with an unsatisfac.
tory response in some sections OF the
country that has been rather distress
ing. II the Washington announcement
had been put in palmer words, II
would rea,: "Some American farm
ers are not patriotic. They think more
OF getting a little extra money for
their wheat than they do OF the Amer
lean and associate soldiers who need
bread so badly"
But Washington has sent out anoth
or announcement. II is that unless
the farmers market their wheat by
May the Government may seize IL.
Kentucky farmers can not under
stand why such drastic action should
be necessary. Kentucky farmers. real
lie that farmer who holds on to his
wheat when the army needs II. trying
10 extort more money in payment
therefor, is Just as heartless as the
man who refuses 70 give . soldier Q