The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-09-22
URGES THE GOSPEL
or THE CLEAN PLATE
There viii Be No Food Rationina in
iTh.s Country if the People Con,
tinue to Conserve and Cut Out All
Waste-Wheatles and MeatesS
. Days Will Not Be Necessary.

| Washington, Sept 2l--FoCd admin
istrator Hoover in outlining in a state
ment issued tonight the TODD con3er-
yaton program for the American pee
pie during the coming year, said the
United States was prepared TO snip
100000 more tons of foodstutfs 70
its armies and allies than last year and
still have margin over the amount
necessary to maintain health and
strength ~ home
The great undertaking cannot DE ac-
lcomplishcd however, Mr. Hoover en-
lphasized, without due regard to the
, Importance of saving by every person
Even under this international food
program which means further self-de-
| Inial by the allies, the allied table AT
| best, Mr. Hoover said, will be less than
ours for their people are denying
themselves more in order to transport
our soldiers.
! 1--WE can do no less than fill the ships
jthey send us, he added.
With no prospect, as he saw IT, Of Il
lproper ending of the war before the
summer campaign Of 1919, the food
problem, the food administrator de-
car5d, is no small part of the issue
The allied civilians and armies, the
American armies, the Belgian relief
and certain neutrals who are depend
en-. upon the United States win re-
lquirc 1G5O0,000 tons Of foodstuffs lor
the year beginning July J.
This, in round numbers viii include
meats ana fats. 100000 tons; bread
stuffs 10,400,000; sugar $4,000 tons
and feed grains, mostly army oats, b
100000 tons
There will 0e no food ratioIing in
this country so long as the people coal
tinue to conserve, nor will it be nece;-
sary, he hoped, to have Wheate5s anl
meatiess days.
"Of our mcatless days" Mr. Hoover
said, we shall apparently have sugar
enough to maintain the present con-
sumption and take care of the extra
drain Of the allies from our markets,
instead OF compelling them to send
| their ships to the far east. We can
obtain in sailing vessels the coffee We
need, ii no one makes an overbreW OF
our own products we must secure re-
iduciion in consumption and waste in
the two great groups Of first, bread
Istulfs; and. second, meats and fats
| that is, in all bread and cereals, beef
pork poultry, dairy and vegetable oil
products. The average consumption oil
cur people OF bread stuffs amounts tC
about six pounds per week and ol
Imeats and fats to -four pounds a weeb
for each person. A reduction in con
sumption of less than one half PEI
week per person in each of these tvs
sroups of foods would accomplish OH
purpose We wish to emphasize, how
ever that we do not want curteilmen
in the use of milk for children
Some of our homes by reason o
limited income cannot now proyid,
more food than they should have L
maintain health in the family The!
cannot rightfuily be asked to make tn,
suggested reduction in consumption
/ But the great majority of our home
can do more than suggested.
I'VE need ever greater simplicity 9
living than last year amongst all tina
section of community to whom fooc
stuffs are secondary item of eXpend
ituTe. We estimate that nearly min
- million people eat alt our public eatinj
r places hotels. restaurants, boarding
houses, Gibbs. dining cars and 50 forth
We are asking the proprietors an,
employees OF these institutions to un
dertake in many particulars NOR
strict treatment than last year. Thi