Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-01-31
PRESIDENT URGES
SAVING OF FOOD
RATiONING SYSTEM NECESSARY
IN ORDER TO SUPPLY NEEDS
OF OUR ALLIES.
issues Proclamation Recommending
the Elimination Of Every Sort of
Waste and Substitution of
Abundant Supplies.

Washlngton.-The following procla-
nation on food conservation was issued
January 26 by President Woodrow
Wilson:
A Proclamation.
Many causes have contributed to Gre
ate the necessity for a more intensive
effort on the part Of our people to save
food in order that we may supply our
associates in the war with the sus-
tenance vitality necessary to them in
these days of privation and stress. The
reduced productivity of Europe be-
cause of the large diversion of man
power to the war, the partial failure
of harvests and the elimination of the
more distant markets for foodstuffs
through the destruction of shipping.
places the burden of their subsistence
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 inconve-
nience on our part.
Reduction Necessary.
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-wholesale job
bers and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only 20 per
cent of the amounts used in 1917. All
manufacturers of alimentary pastes
biscuits, crackers, pastry and break
fast cereals should reduce their pur
chases and consumption of wheat and
flour to 40 per cent of their 1917 re
quirements, and all bakers of breat
and rolls to so per cent Of their cur
rent requirements. Consumers should
reduce their purchases of wheat prod
ucts for home preparation to at mos
40 per cent of those of last year. or
when buying bread, should purchase
mixed cereal breads from the bakers
Mixture of Cereals.
To provide sufficient cereal food
homes, public eating places, dealers
and manufacturers should substitute,
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oat
and rice products, and the mixed ce
real bread and other products of tn
bakers which contain an admixture o
other cereals.
In order that consumption may b.
restricted to this extent, Mondays an,
Wednesdays should be observed a
wheatless days each week, and on
meal each day should be observed u
| IA wheatless meal.
In both homes and public eatin
places, in order to reduce the c0nsumI
ton of beef, pork and sheep product.
| Tuesday should be observed as meal
less day in each week, one meatles
meal should be observed in each day
while, in addition, Saturday in eac
week should further be observed as
day upon which there should be n
consumption of pork products.
A continued economy in the use {
sugar will be necessary until later
the year.
1t is imperative that all waste an
unnecessary consumption of all sort
of foodstuffs should be rigidly elm
mated.
Elimination of Waste.
The maintenance of the health an
strength of our own people is vital
necessary mt this time. and thel
should be no dangerous restriction I
the food supply; but the ELIMINATE
of every sort of waste and the SUI
stitution of other commodities
which we have more abundant SUI
plies for those which we need to saw
will in no way impair the strength
our people and will enable us to me-
one of the most pressing obligations
the war.
|, therefore, in the national interes
take the liberty of calling upon evel
loyal American to take fully to hea
the suggestions which are being circ
lated by the food administration nj
of begging that they be followed.
am confident that the great body
our women who have labored so 10
ministration for the success of foo
conservation will strengthen their c
forts and will take 1t as part
their burden in this period of nation
service to see that the above sugge
tons are observed through the Ian
WOODROW WILSON.