Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-30
MUCH BOARDING
 IN SUGAR TODAY
Present Shortage Seems Due fO This Habit Among Housewives-Res-
 taurantS Observe Rules

There seems to be a good deal of hOarding in the country of many commodities. The present situation in sugar is more due to this than any other cause. It is obvious from the very demand that this trade is also affected. Salt. matches and other commodities have also been drained from many markets. The causes seem to be combination of greed. fear and in some places of propaganda.
 It is obvious that movements of this sort could quite well bring the whole Administration to disaster. For instance-if every home bought barrel of flour it would represent one- fifth of our entire annual production. It has proceeded far enough in the flour trade to make control of prices difficult: for the mills. although run ming 13O per cent normal capacity. are unable to keep pace with de- mands. It clouds the whole issue of conservation, for while the same per son may eat weekly less flour. we are simply at sea to know what our ex- portable resources might be. We do not believe it is happening in the larger cities with few exceptions as all statistics of flour car arrivals and departures indicate considerable re- duction of flour intake in those cen ters.
 Therefore. the United States Food Administration, through the Federal Food Administrator for Alaska. res pectfully asks the Press of Alaska. in so far as they can consistently do so. not to accept advertisements for spe- cial sales of sugar and flour, whether from distributor or manufacturer, the scarcity of both commodities making it unnecessary to make ex- tended efforts to promote the sale of either or both This request. of course to cover only the period of the war and pertains only to special" adver- tisement for the sale of flour and sugar.
 Conservation by restaurants and cafes is urged. Twenty-Five hotels, restaurant. cafe and boarding house proprietors at joint session with the Federal Food Administrator yes terday, all of whom conduct such places on Gastineau Channel. agreed to observe meatless Tuesday; wheatless Wednesday and porkless Saturday; not to put bread, butter or crackers on the tables until asked for by the guest, not to serve butter m any but a reasonably cold condition there being a great loss in serving frozen butter; to request grocers with whom they deal to buy and sell cube sugar; to limit the amount Of sugar to each guest; to cut bread in thinner slices. All of the restaurants Tn this section joined the Food Administra- tion and will cooperate in carrying out the wishes of the administration.
 The Federal Food Administrator earnestly asks that every restaurant. cafe, hotel and boarding house in ths Territory observe conservation days as set out above. Kindly give the widest publicity to the action of the restau- rant and cafe men in this section. as it is the hope of the food administra- tion to have these specific days ob- served throughout the Territory.
 Please anonunce to all bakers that every Wednesday is to be observed as a wheatless day by all Alaskan res taurants and cafes and public dining rooms and boarding houses to the end that the former may be enabled to co regulate tAAir output for every Wed