Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26
eUr EDGES OF DISASTER WERE
NARROWLY skIRTED IN DARK
DAYS OF LAST WINTER.
STRAIGHT ROAD LIES AHEAD
New Conservation Rules Must ne
Strictly Observed TO Prevent
Return Of Those CrItl.
cal Hours.

SGAN1u q all lEOL1 Iu6
States Food Administration saying:
"We have sent you the last of the
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 IL they eat
as they have done before"
Lord Rhondda laid down the paper.
"The war is over" he said. 1--WE are
beaten"
Hold on a WHILE" this country
pleaded America means business
We will save and send the wheat"
And wheat was saved and sent. And
in saving and sending this sorely need.
cd cereal the American .ieople 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
ly Bkirted, but the corner in wheat has
been turned safely. And now straight
road ofIsaving lies before us, road
from which there must be no turning
until after the Hun has been con-
Vlnced his self-appointed task of rul.
ing the world Is 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 a large yield, all con-
servetion cannot be thrown aside: q
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, con-
servation of wheat must be continued
But such stringent economy as was
patriotically observed by the Ameri-
can people last year will not be neces-
sary. There will be no wheatless days
and wheatless meals this year, accord
ing to the present plans. ~
The Fifty-Ffty Rule, requiring that
with every purchase Of wheat flour an
equal amount of some other cereals
be bought, ,shas been rescinded. House
holders may" now buy one pound of
substitutes with every four pounds of
wheat flour, or they may buy Victory
Mixed Flours containing 20 per cent
SUBSTITUTES mixed at the mill.
Allied Bread All Alike.
At the recent conference In London
Of the Food Administrators OF the
United States, France. England and
italy it was agreed that the wheat
bread Of the Allies shall contain 20
per cent of other grains than wheat.
The United States Food Administra-
tion believes 1t is only just that we
should share in this saving and that
our bread should be universal with
those who afe 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 Pc Labeled With Contents.
These flours, which will be mixed at
the mills. will be labeled with the con-
tents and must not be sold at more
than the standard wheat flour. When
buying the mixed flours or whole
wheat or graham flour containing 95
per cent Of the wheat berry no sub
atitutes need be bought.
Retailers selling standard wheat
flour are required to carry in stock
barley flour, corn flour and corn meal,
and to sell combination Of some one
or more of these in the proportion Of
one 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, milo
flour, feterita rours and meals, rice
flour, oat flour, peanut flour, bean
flour, potato flour. sweet potato flour
and buckwheat flour.
Pure rye flour or meal may be sold
as substitute, but 1t must be sold in
the proportion Of not less than two
pounds Of rye with each three pounds
of wheat flour.
The rules limiting sales by retailers
of wheat flour to an eighth Of barrel
in towns and a quarter of barrel In
sparseIy 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 tbs
substitute rule would be abolished en-
tirely with the coming of the new har
vest. but substitutes undoubtedly will
have to be used until after the war. /
is believed by officials Of the FOOD
Administration that the elghty-twert.
substitute rule will result in consid