Newport daily independent., 1918-04-18
HELP 50-50 PLAN
PLEDGE TO CARRY OUT FOOD ADMINISTRATION
 PROGRAM.
POST CARDS IN STORES.
Explain New Wheat Ruling to
 Thousands of Customers-In- Sures Greater Food Saving.


 Enthusiastically the 50-50 basis for tn, purchase of wheat flour and are doing
 their utmost to explain the new regu
 Aation to the housewife. This ruling by Y the U. s. Food Administration requires zeach purchaser of wheat flour to buy
 Tone pound of cereal Substitute, one
 lind or assorted, for every pound o1
 wheat flour. It was necessary to re gtrict the use of wheat flour in order
 that the allies and our fighting forces 5z k abroad might be assured of an ade. k Quate supply of wheat to meet their
 vital needs This supply must come
 frQm our savings because we have al
 Gady sent our normal surplus.
 Wheat saving pledge cards were for X warded by the Food Administration to
 all retail food merchants, and these E are being signed and posted in stores
 throughout the country. This card
 8tates. we pledge ourselves Loyalty to
 curry out the Food Administration pro-
 gram. In accordance with this order
 we will not sell any wheat four except 3 There the purchaser buys an equal
 eight of one or more of the following,
 greater use of which in the home VIII save wheat:
 Cornmeal, corn flour, edible corn starch, hominy, corn grits, barley four. $ p0tat0 flour, sweet potato flour, soy
 bean flour, feterita four and meals, ' rice. rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats and H5 I ,lrxs,l,.n .nnt Anv,v
 Some confusion has resulted on the part of the consumer in construing 1hlS "50-50" ruling to mean that an &qual amount in value of substitutes must be purchased with wheat flour.
 This Is mistaken idea. The ruling &t6tes that the consumer in purchasing 4lOur shall "buy at the same time an
 GQual weight of other cereals"
 One exception to this ruling is con- eernitig graham flour and whole wheat
 lour, which may be sold at the ratio Q& three pounds to five pounds of
 vheat flour. This provision is made because approximately 9 per cent. more of the wheat berry is used in the Manufacture of these Hours than stand 2 '6fd wheat four
 ss Another exception is that concern I'm mixed fl0Gus containing less than a50 per cent of wheat four, which may he sold without substitutes. Retailers, However, are forbidden to sell mixed Hours containing more than 50 per cent of wheat four to any person un- less the amount of wheat flour substi- atutes sold is sufficient to make the to- tal amount of substitutes. including Those mixed in Hours, equal to the to- fal amount in wheat four in the mixed Hour For instance. if any mixed flour s1s purchased containing 60 per cent wheat flour and 40 per cent. substi- flutes 1t is necessary that an additional 920 per cent of substitutes be pur-
 6ased. This brings it to the basis of Bne pound of substitutes for each pound of wheat four
 special exemption may be granted upon application in the case of special " prepared infants and invalids' food containing flour where the necessity is shown.
 Some misunderstanding seems to ex- fist on the part of consumers in assum- Eng that with the purchase of wheat -Four one must confine the additional |z0 per cent. purchase to one of the < Substitutes. This is not the case. One |znay select from the entire range of Substitutes sufficient amount of each 10 bring the total weight of all substi- tutes equal to the weight of the wheat .1, snc purchase of 24 pounds of wheat flour lis made range of substitutes may be selected as follows:
 C0rnmeal, pounds; corn grits, 4 l pounds; rice, pounds; buckwheat, ? pounds; corn starch 1 pound hominy. l 2 pounds; rolled oats. 3 pounds. These substitutes may be used in the following manner:
 Cornmeal. Pounds.-Corn bread, no flour: corn mullins or spoon bread, | one-fourth flour or one-third rice or one third hominy; 20 per cent. substi- |tutes in whole bread.
 Corn Starch, l Pound.-Thickenin | IVY. making custard, one-third sub
 2lte in cake.
 . Born Grits, Pounds.-Fried like Ssh. used with meal in making corn
 Sad.
 Rolled Oats. Pounds.-One-fourth 0 one-third substitutes in bread, one half substitute in mullins; breakfast porridge use freely; oatmeal cookies, soup.
 Buckwheat Flour, Pounds.-One- fourth substitute in bread. buckwheat cakes
 Hominy. ? Pounds Boiled for din ner. baked for dinner, with cheese 5nuce.
 < Rice, Pounds.-One-fourth substi- lGte in wheat bread. one-third substi- kute In corn bread, boiled for dinner Ca bread cu), as breakfast food. to [hicken soups, rice pudding instead of Enke or pie. rice batter cakes.
 xeveral grocers have stated that ...<.