The Taney County republican., 1918-12-05
CORNER IN WHEAT
IS SAFELY TURNED.
BUT EDGES OF DISASTER WERE
NARROWLY sKlRTED IN DARK
DAYS OF LAST WINTER.
STRAIGHT ROAD LIES AHEAD
New Conservation Rules Must Be
Strictly Observed to Prevent
Return Of Those Crltl-
cal Hours.

One day last winter Lord Rhondda.
food controller of Great Britain, re.
cclycd a cablegram from the United
States Food Administration saying:
I'VE have sent you the last Of the
surplus wheat Of the 1917 harvest. All
the wheat We can send you FROM Jan
nary to September must come from
the savings Of the American people.
There will be none to send II they eat
as they have done before"
Lord Rhondda laid down the paper.
"The war is over" he said I'VE are
beaten"
Hold on a WHILE" this country
pleaded, America means business.
We will save and send the wheat"
And wheat was saved and sent. And
IN saving and sending this sorely need
ed cereal the American people did
more to make their credit good n
Europe than by any other thing that
had been done up TO that time,
Disaster Narrowly Averted.
The edges of disaster were narrow.
ly skirted, but the corner In wheat has
been turned safely. And now a straight
road Of saving lies before us, road
from which there must be no turning
until after the Hun has been con-
vinced his self-appointed task of rul
ing the world Is Impracticable.
With the coming of the new wheat
crop the Food Administration has
made some radical changes in the
wheat conservation rules. Despite the
prospects for large yield, all con
.servation cannot be thrown aside; a
huge surplus Of grain must be built up
here and abroad TO prevent our skid
ding so near the edges of disaster
again, And to build up this reserve
against possible lean years ahead, con.
servation of wheat must be continued.
But such stringent economy AS was
patriotically observed by the Arneri-
can people last year will not be neces.
kbry. There will be no wheatless days
and wheatless meals this year, accord
ing to the present plans. .-
The Fifty.Fifty Rule, requiring that
with every purchase Of wheat flour an
equal amount of some other cereals
b. bought, has been rescinded. House
holders may now buy one pound of
substitutes with every four pounds of
wheat flour, or they may buy Victory
Mixed Flours containing 20 per cent
substitutes mixed at the mill.
Allied Bread All Alike.
AT the recent conference in London
Of the Food Administrators of the
United States, France, England and
Italy 1t was agreed that the wheat
bread Of the Allies shall contain 20
, per cent of other grains than wheat
The United States Food Admlnistra
ton believes 1t Is only just that we
should share in this saving and that
our bread should be universal with
those who are suffering from the wal
more greatly than ourselves.
These Victory Mixed Flours will be
Of four kinds Mixed wheat and bar
ley flour, mixed wheat and corn flour
mixed wheat, barley and corn floui
and mixed wheat and rye flour. Mixed
To Be Labeled With Contents.
These flours, which will be mixed al
the mills, will be labeled with the con
tents and must not be sold at more
than the standard wheat flour. Wher
buying the mixed flours or whole
wheat or graham flour containing 81
per cent of the wheat berry no sub
gtitutes need be bought.
Retailers selling standard whea
flour are required to carry In stool
barley flour, corn flour and corn meal
ard to sell combination of some on,
OF more of these In the proportion o
cne pound Of substitutes to each fou
pounds Of wheat flour. No dealer ma!
force any other substitutes in c3mbl
nation upon the consumer.
Where other substitutes are avail
able, however, and are carried by th
merchant, they may be sold will
wheat flour, II the purchaser S:sire
them, in the same proportion. Thes
substitutes are: Kaffir flour, mil
flour, feter.ta flours and meals, ric
flour, oat flour, peanut flour, beaI
flour, potato flour. sweet potato flou
and buckwheat flour
Pure rye nour or meal may be sol
as a substitute, but II must be sold
the proportion Of not less than tw
pounds of rye with each three pound
Of wheat -four
; The rules limiting saler by retailer
Of wheat -four to an eighth OF barr'
: in towns and quarter of barrel
sparsely settled districts are rescint
ed, but purchasers are urged by th
Food Administration to buy In mo-
Grafton and not attempt TO lay
e.isrgy sSpSes' % -.
Many persons have believed ii
substitute rule would be abolished e
tlrely with the coming of the new ha
vest, but substitutes undoubtedly wi
have to be used until after the war.