The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
ANOTHER WHEATLESS DAY AND
MORE MEATLESS MEALS AN
NOUNCED BY PRESIDENT.
FULL TEXT OF MESSAGE
CONTINUED ECONOMY IN USE OF
SUGAR AND ALL FOODSTUFFS
URGED IN PROCLAMATION.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


food conservation:
Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for 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 more distant markets for food
stuffs through the destruction of ship
ping, places the burden of their sub
sistence very largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has formu-
lated suggestions which, if followed,
will enable us to meet this great re-
sponsibility, without any real incon-
venience on our part. .
In order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat prod
ucts by 30 per cent-a reduction i'm
peratively necessary to provide the
supply for overseas as-wholesalers, job
bers and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers only 70
per cent of the amounts used in 1917.
All manufacturers of alimentary
etc M
breakfast cereals should reduce their
purchases and consumption of wheat
and wheat flour to 70 per cent Of
their 1917 requirements, and all bak-
ers of bread and rolls to 80 per cent
of their current requirements.
Consumers should reduce their pur-
chases of wheat products for home
preparation to at most 70 per cent Of
those of last year, or, when buying
bread, should purchase mixed cereal
breads from the bakers.
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 contains 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
meal each day should be observed as
a >wheatless meal.
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 in each week, one
meatless meal should be observed in
each day; while, in addition, Saturday
in each week should further be OBJ
served as a 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.
It is imperative that all waste and
unnecessary consumption all sorts of
foodstuffs should be rigidly eliminated.
The maintenance Of the health and
strength of our people is vitally nee
essary 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
people and will enable us to meet one
of the most pressing obligations Of the
war.
I, therefore, in the national inter
est, take the liberty of calling upon
every loyal American to take fully to
heart the suggestions which are being
circulated by the Food Administra-
tion and of begging that they be fol-
lowed.
I am confident that the great body
of our women who have labored so
Loyalty in cooperation with the Food
Administration for the success of food
conservation will strengthen their ef-
forts and will take it as a part of
their burden in this period of national
service to see that the above sugges-
tions are observed throughout the
land. WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, January, 1918.
Record of Fires Blamed to Enemies
Seven quartermaster's storehouses
and municipal docks burned at New
ark. Conflagration followed spy
rumors. Damage, $1,O00,000. West
inghouse Electric plant, Buffalo,
burned. Damage, 100000. Celia
mills and H. w. Smith Dry Dock Com
pany plant, near Baltimore, destroyed.
Damage nearly $1,000,000.
British liner discovered on fire at
Atlantic port. Storage warehouse
burned in Paterson, N. j., with loss of
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