Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1918-04-25
CONSERVE FLOUR;
HELP IIG THE WAR
FOOD ADMINISTRATION OF TIN.
NEssEE ExE8Ts EVERY en-
ERaY TO SAVE WHEAT.
ENFORCE LIMITS ON SALES
"Est Corn Bread and save the Wheat
Bread for Our Roys in the
Trenches Is rhs Slogan
In Tennessee.

Nashville, Tenn Wheat conserva.
ton, the saving OF flour so that one
half Of the amount ordinarily needed
for consumption by The American peo-
pie may last until the next harvest is
the crying need or the hour. To that
end the Food Administration in Ten
nessee is bending It's energies In
every way possible, through the news
papers, the pulpit, the schools the
campaign for wheat conservation Ia
being carried on In order tina, there
may be enough flour in the country to
go round and at the same time 40 our
duty to our allies consumption must
be reduced in the nation to less than
six pounds per person per month The
average family Of five therefore LIQUID
not use more than thirty pounds Of
wheat flour in any month
However Or Morgan, Federal Food
Administrator in Tennessee appreciate
ing the fact that IN some sections it
win be impossible to reduce the flour
consumption to this amount, appeals
to the people of Tennessee TO use less
than the minimum. Dr. Morgan says:
'Tn the great industrial centers like
New York. Chicago, Philadelphia, De-
troit, Pittsburg, ETC. where millions of
people have never baked tLair bread
at home, but who live altogether on
bakers bread they simply cannot adj
Just themselves to the change that We,
who bake the greater portion OF our
bread in the home, can easily make.
We must avoid as far as PEGS Die any
labor discomfort as result OF the
food rules. IN Tennessee and the
South generally our people have been
eating large quantities Of corn bread
from choice Now ! appeal to them
TO largely increase this consumption
as a patriotic duty TO the nstion, in
order that there may be plenty or
wheat flour iii the great industrial cen
ters where millions OF laburefs are en-
gagged in making machinery OF var and
building ships etc, The bread sold
from the bakeries must have larger
wheat content than flour baked Al
home because it must have keeping
qualities
In Tennessee the people are es-
pecially fortunate because here our
corn comes nearer maturing to per-
fect for human consumption than in
any other state In the Union 1t Is no
great sacrifice upon the part Of our
people who have for generations
known and appreciated corn bread to-
increase the amount used by them. |
know that if the people of this State
once recognized that saving wheat
flour was necessary to the winning OF
this war as it is, that they would not
hesitate to practically eliminate 1t
from their daily menu"
Limits on Sales.
The Food Administration has In
structed all of its staff, the county adj
ministrators, and the inspectors, CO.
operating with city, county and state
officials, to see that the new regula-
tons which limit the sales Of flour to
country customers to forty-nine pounds
and To city customers to twenty-f0ur
and one.half pounds are rigidly enforc-
cd. Where farmer has his own wheat
and takes 1t to the mill he is under the
same restrictions that he would be
under were he to purchase the flour
outright Not only is the amount that
he can obtain limited but he must
either buy or show that he has at
home an equal amount OF substitutes
before he can obtain the flour.
Food Sign on Capitol.
From Church street, two blocks dis
tant, visitors to Nashville can now see
on the south entrance Of the ornate
State Capitol a huge sign that Food
VIII Win the War and appealing to
all to have a share in victory through
this means Similar signs are being
placed at McKendree church in Cen.
tennisl park at the Elks club and 9th
er prominent places They we're tho
patriotic contributions OF ORGANIZATIONS
and individuals and did not cost the
government a dollar.
To Increase Production.
Cooperating with the state and IA.
! uonal departments OF agriculture. the
Food Administration in Tennessee is
now in the midst OF is bis drive TO
( stimulate an increase IN production Of
food commodities during the coming
season Especially is the Food Ad-
ministration anxious 10 h4ve grown
as much food for home consumption
as possible. thereby helping TO relieve
4 the transportation system.
I Food viii win the war-producs Il
Conservation, concentration and con