The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

Food Administration Outlines
Policy to Meet Desperate
Food Situation.

istration has issued the following new
conservation message, a copy of which
was wired to State Food Admfnistra
tor Henry A. Page. The statement
! follows:
If we are to furnish the Allies with
! the necessary proportion of wheat tc
| maintain their war bread from now
until the next harvest-and this is a
military necessity-we must reduce
our monthly consumption to> 81 mil,
lion bushels month, as against our
normal consumption of about AZ mil.
lion bushels, or so per cent of our
normal consumption. Reserving a
margin for distribution to the army
and for special cases this leaves for
general consumption approximately
one and one-half pounds of wheat
products weekly per person.
Many of our consumers are depend
ent upon bakers bread. Such bread
must be durable and therefore re-
quires a larger proportion of wheat
products tran cereal bread as baked
in the household. Our Army and Navy
require full allowance. The Well-to-
do in our population can make greater
sacrifices in the consumption Of wheat
products than can the poor. In addi-
ton, our population in the agricultural
districts, where the other cereals are
abundant, are more skilled in the prep
aration Of breads from these other
cereals than the crowded city and in
dustrial populations.
With improved transportation we
now have available a surplus of pota-
toes. We also have in the spring
months a surplus of milk and we have
ample corn and oats for human con-
sumption. The drain on rye and bar
ley as substitutes has already greatly
exhausted the supply Of these grains.
To effect the needed saving of wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the vol
untary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed:
First. Householders to use not to
exceed total of cne and one-half
pounds per week of wheat products
per person. This means not more than
one and three-fourths pounds Of vic
tory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and about
one-ha1f pound of cooking -four, mac
aroni, Crackers, pastry, pies, cakes,
wheat breakfast cereals, all combined.
Second. Public eating places and
clubs to observe two wheatless days
per week-Monday and Wednesday,
as at present; in addition thereto not
to serve in the aggregate a total OF
more breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast
cereals, containing total of more
than two ounces of wheat -four to any
one guest at any one meal; no wheat
products to be served unless specially
ordered; public eating establishments
not to buy more than six pounds OF
wheat products per month per guest,
thus conforming with limitations re-
Quested of the householders.
Third. Retailers to sell not more
than one-eighth Of a barrel of -four to
and not more than one-quarter Of a |
barrel to any country customer at any
one time and in no case to sell wheat |
products without the sale Of an equal |
weight of other cereals.
Fourth. We ask the bakers and |
grocers to reduce the volume Of vic !
tory bread sold by delivery of the |
pound loaf where one |
pound was sold before, and cores
ponding proportions in other weights.
We also ask bakers not to increase
the amount of their wheat -four pun
chases beyond 70 per cent of the aver
age monthly amount purchased in the /
four months prior to March LIST.
Fifth. Manufacturers using wheat
products for non-food purposes should
cease such uses entirely.
Sixth. There is no limit upon the
use of other cereal f1ours and meak-
corn, barley, buckwheat, potato -four,
etc.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using no wheat prod
lcts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes and are
1oing so in perfect health and satis-
faction.
There is no reason why all of the
American people who are able to cook
N their own households cannot sub
sist perfectly well with the use Of less
wheat products than one and a half
pounds week, and we especially ask
he we11-to-do households in the coun-
,ry to follow this additional program
n order that we may provide the nee
essary marginal supplies for those
parts OF the community less able to
adapt themselves to so large a pro- ]
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are alb
'olute1y demanded of us to maintain
he civil population and soldiers of
he Allies and our own Army, we pro-
'ose to supplement the voluntary CO.
operation of the public by a further
imitation of distribution which will {
'e adjusted from time to time to Sc