Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1918-09-20
BUT EDGES OF DISASTER WE'RE
NARROWLY skiRTEp IN DARK
DAYS OF LAST WINTER.
STRAIGHT ROAD LIES AHEAD
New Conservation Rules Must D
Strictly Observed to Prevent
Return Of Those Grill
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food controller OF Great Britain. -
a cablegram from the United
States Food Administration saying:
I'VE have sent you the last Of tho
surplus wheat Of the 1917 harvest. All
the wheat we can send you from jan
uary to September must come from
the savings Of the American people.
There will be none to send II they eat
they have done before"
Lord Rhondda laid down the paper.
""The war is over" he said. 1--WE arc
beaten"
Hold on a while" this country
pleaded. America means business
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 in
Europe than by any other thing that
had been done up to that time.
Disaster Narrowly Averted.
The edges Of disaster were narrow
~ skirted, but the corner In wheat has
been turned safely. And now a straight
road Of saving lies before us, y road
from which there must be no turning
until after the Hun has been con-
WINGED his self-appointed task OF ruiz
ing the world IL 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 q large yield, all con-
servation cannot be thrown aside; .
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. n
~servation Of wheat must be continued.
But such stringent economy as was
patriotically observed by the Aineri-
can people last year will not be heces-
sary. 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b. bought, has been rescinded.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 n pound OF
substitutes with every four pounds of
wheat flour, or they may buy Victory
Mixed Fours containing 20 per cent
substitutes mixed at the mill.
Allied Bread All Alike.
At the recent conference In London
Of the Food Administrators Of tho
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 Administers
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 war
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 flour
and mixed wheat and rye flour. Mixed
To Be Labeled With Contents.
These flours. which will be mixed At
the mills. will be labeled with the ON
tents and must not be sold 1T more
than the standard wheat flour. When
buying the mixed flours or whole
wheat or graham flour containing -
per cent Of the wheat berry no sub
%Etitutes need be bought.
Retailers selling standard wheat
flour are required to carry in stock
barley flour, corn flour and corn meal.
and to sell a combination OF some n
or more of these in the proportion Of
enc pound of substitutes to each four
pounds of wheat flour. No dealer may
force any other substitutes In combi-
nation upon the consumer.
Where other substitutes are avail
able, however. and are carried by the
merchant, they may be sold with
wheat flour, IL the purchaser desires
them, in the same proportion. These
substitutes are: Kaffir flour. mile
flour, feterita flours and meals, rice
flour, oat flour, peanut flour. bean
flour. potato flour, sweet potato flour
and buckwheat flour.
Pure rye -four or meal may be solc
as a substitute. but 1t must be sold In
the proportion Of not less than two
pounds Of rye with each three pounds
of wheat -four.
The rules limiting sales by retailers
of wheat -four to an eighth OF a barrel
in towns and a quarter OF a barrel IN
sparsely settled districts are rescind-
ed, but purchasers are urged by the
Food Administration to buy in mod
GRAFTON and not attempt to lay IN
large supplies.
Many persons have believed the
substitute rule would be abolished en-
urely with the coming OF the new mar
vest, but substitutes undoubtedly WI
have to be used until after the war. IL
ia believed " officials of the Fo0d
-fz. that the oiOhfv-fWoUfy