The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-16
MEATLESS DAYS-4
EXPECTED SOON !
TO Be RESTORED
Three LumpS Of Sugar in Cof-
fee Aid 10 the Kaiser.

PHILADELPHIA, PSSA-The restora- +
| ton OF meatless days and more strn-
gent orders regarding conservation OF
meat are in sight. according to Howard
Heinz, United States food administra-
tor for Pennsylvania, who discussed
| food matters before an audience OF ~
| 10 500 women, most OF them wives ,of
railroad men, at the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Young Mems Christian associa-
ton auditorium 7
Mr. Heinz explained the SUDDEN
order OF the food administration abol-
shing meatless days BY saying that un-
expected large stocks OF cattle were
put on the market early in the year.
having been "ripened" for market
earlier than usual by feeding on wet"
corn The lack OF ships to transports
meat 10 Europe caused the backing
up" of meat products in the storage
houses. and the food administration.
in order 10 restore consumption 10 nor
NAL, even for a brief time. abolished
the meatless day in the full expecta-
ton OF being obliged later in the year
10 restore H. The time for establish-
ing meat regulations is not far distant.
, because more ships are now available
and the surplus stock OF cattle has been
slaughtered
Sugar for Canning.
Mr. Heinz also predicted some com-
paratiycly small changes in the reau-
= lations concerning tho consumption
{ and sale OF sugar, but gave the assur-
= ance that sugar for canning and pre-
l. serving would be available. He urged.
however, the utmost care in the use of
: sugar pointing out that 80 percent of
q the usual consumption should be max
= imum He explained thai while there
= was supply Of 100000 tons of sugar
e in Cuba there we're not enough boats
o TO transport IT all.
Z The person who uses three Jumps
OF sugar in his coffee is helping the
= kaiser You should cut your consump-
a ton one-fifth or one-quarter," said Mr..
r. Heinz.
r The food administrator spoke vigor-
Il ously on the wheat situation, pointing
= out the dire needs Of France and the
. extreme difficulty OF Transporting
n wheat thither.
1T is our duty he said, TO send
% 100000 bushels OF wheat to Europe
j. before June |. The U-boats are watch
c, Ing for every cargo. Some OF these
~ ships go to the bottom"
re Mr.. Hoover is sending wheat to make
30 up these losses and still TO preserve the
full quota of 100000 bushels for our
allies.
Problems Of France.
d. Fifty percent of the whole French
a food consumption is bread and IL is
-. baked in bakeries under governmen,
ed control-not in the home The problem,
q OF France in rationing its civil popula
ed ton as we'll as its armies is therefore
ID: serious. The morale OF the FRENCH
people must be preserved Ttalys
n armies experienced a period Of demor-
U slization on account OF starvation con-
n ditions at home The Germans seized
this opportunity to break through and
= drive them back Mem will not fight
= when they are worried about their fam
J. lilies. when they know that their wives
and children are starving"
He asked his audience il they did not
believe, in the present food crisis, that
= they could do as much in the way OF
wheat rationlng as the French nation Is
compelled 20 do, explaining that the
French child under the age of ) years
s IS permitted TO have only two or three
slices pf bread a day. the child between
'e. ) and IS years only seven slices, and
az the adult between Is and 90 years oniy
q one and onehalf slices a day.
"a Mr. Heinz urged the use of auics
~ breads as an excellent method of ssv.
y ing wheat, and he suggested total ab.
- stincnce from wheat in all the horffes
, where possible He cited the instance
Of one county in which 1890 womer
, had pledged themselves to bar wheS,
flour from their homes for ninety days
War Gardens Urged. -.
He commended the cash and earsy
system Prices he said, should shos
the difference whenever the consume,
ie- relieves the dealer OF the burden Of de,
~, livery. Forty-three percen, OF the ia.
ed come Of the American householder ],
,,sd spent in food, and the cash and carr
es. system ought to save percent OF tina
niy expense, or, in other words, about y.
ie- percent OF the householders total in,
on come 90
as as He urged also the installation OF wal
ith gardens TO help meet the food shortag,
-, threatened by the loss OF farm labor
yh, He asked his hearers to help "mak'
Ter potatoes fashionable" and to eat then
"a three times a day.
-. Mr. Heinz pointed out also the neces
VII sity of everyone making this war hi
own war. This in the case OF the stay
at-home, can be done by sacrifice ant
N: aid TO the government in its variou'
~ enterprises which have TO do with thu
niss transaction OF the war.
n. | --w.s.s.--
,E More than 800 women, many OF thea
college girls, have registered for ssfs
ice on New England farms this sum
ell -w.Ga,--
"a The employment Of women az 81