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U. S. Must Cut Use
Of Wheat by One-Half
America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly.
From Now Until Harvest Must Use
Only 21,000,000.
RATION PER PERSON IS 1J POUNDS
OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY
Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Here ? Allied Wai
Bread Must Be Maintained ? Our Soldiers and
Sailors to Have Full Allowance.
If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary propor
tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the
next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce
our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, a3
against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels,
or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situa
tion as set forth by the U. S. Food Administration at Washing
ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for
Bpecial cases, leaves for general consumption approximately
1 '/?} pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food
Administration's statement continues: Many of our consumers
are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and
navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than can the poor. In addition, our population in
the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abun
dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these
other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations.
With improved transportation conditions we now have avail
able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months
a surplus of milk, and we i?ave ample corn and oats for hurryan
consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has
already greatly exhausted the supply of these jrrains.
To effect the needed uviog of wlieut
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall he observed:
1. Householders to use not to exceed
a total of 1 % pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1^ pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, ull combined.
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate of hreadstuffs. macaroni,
crackem, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a totul
of more than two ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more
than six pounds of wheat products for
?ach ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
3. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
rot more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and In no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery of 'he three quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before, and corresponding proportions
In other weights. We also ask bakers
not to Increase the amount of their
wheal flour purchases beyond 70 per
Great Wheal Stocks
Isolated.
It's the shortage In ships that
Is putting the Allies and the
United States on wheat rations.
Great stocks of wheat are Iso
lated In India, and Australia. At
great sacrifice In ship space and
use the Allies are forced to se
cure some wheat from Argentina.
On January 1, Australia had
stored 100.000,000 bushels of
wheat that was ready for ex
port ? hut there were no ships.
Then came the new crop with
an exportable surplus of 80,000,
000 bushels. Now Austrnlla has
approximately 180,000,000 bush
els waiting for ships.
India, at the same time, had
70,000,000 bushels of wheat
stored for export. During April
50,000,000 bushels more out of
the new crop will be added to
the pile.
Argentina closed the last ship
ping season with 11,000,000
bushels of wheat left In the
stock available for export. The
new crop will add 135,000,000 to
the left over.
It Is not a problem that the
wheat does not exist In the
world ? It Is entirely a problem
of shipping, which has thrown on
America the obligation of divid
ing our stock with the Allied.
I cent, of the average monthly amount
purchased In the four months prior to
March 1.
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
G. Tlu re Is no limit upon the use of
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
harley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
cetera. ,
Many thousand families throughout
the laud are now using no wheat prod
ucts whatever, except a very surnll
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so In perfect health and satisfac
tion. There Is no reason why alt of
the American people who are able to
cook in their own households cannot
subslst^perfectly well with the use of
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask the well-to-do households in the
country to follow this additional pro
gramme in order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the community less able
to adapt themselves to so large a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of the
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-opera
tion of the public by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arrival
of harvest we should be able to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and co-operation of the distributing
trades.
ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS
REACH LARGE TOTAL.
A general Men of the quantity of
food sent to European allies by the
United States from July 1, 1814, to
January 1, 1918, is Riven by figures
Just announced by the U. S. Food Ad
ministration. In that period the Unit
ed Stntes has furnished complete year
ly rations for 57,100,933 people. In
addition there was enough extra pro
tein to supply this portion of the diet
for 22,19-1,570 additional men.
The total export of wheat and whe.at
flour to the three principal allies is
equivalent to about 384.000,000 bushela.
Pork exports for the 8*4 years amount
ed to almost 2,000.000,000 pounds. Ex
ports of fresh beef totaled 443.4S4.400
pounds. The amount of food exported
to Russia Is negligible compared with
that sent to the western allies.
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* ONLY AMERICA CAN HELP. *
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* "On your side are boundless ?
* supplies of men, food, and mate- *
* rial; on this side a boundless de- *
* mand for their help. *
* "Our men are war-weary and *
* their nerves have been strained *
it by more than three years of ?
* hard, relentless toll. it
it "Our position is critical, par- it
it ticularly until the next harvest, it
it but the United States can save it
? the skill, and the material to *
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You Americans have the men. *
* save the allied cause."
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SIR JOSEPH MACLAY. *
British Shipping Controller. *
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ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re
laxed to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En
larged ? Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste.
The allies have made furtlwr and
Increased demands for breadstuff*,
these enlarged demands being caused
to some degree by shortage In arrivals
from the Argentine. It is, therefora,
oec? >-ary for the U. S. Food Adminls
I tration to urge a still further reduction
in the consumption of bread and bread ?
stuffs generally if we are to meet our
export necessities. The Food Admin
istration lias Issued a statement ex
plaining the situation in detail, partic
ularly the reasons which lead if, for
the purpose of centering effort for the
time being upon the cereal situation
to relax temporarily the restrictions on
meat consumption.
Experience shows, this statement
says, that the consumption of bread
stuffs is intimately associated with the
consumption of meat. For various
reasons our supplies of meat for the
next two or three months are consif^
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies with all of the meat products
which transportation facilities render
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption.
In these circumstances the Food Ad
ministration considers it wise to relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con
sumption to some extent with a view
to further decreasing bread consump
tion.
Conservation of food must be ad
Justed to meet necessities from time to
time, for neither production, nor al
lied demands are constant factors, nor
can any of these factors be anticipated
for long periods in advance in the dis
turbed conditions in which we at pres
ent live. While the world situation is
not one that warrants any relaxation
in the efforts to eliminate waste or to
relax economy In food, the Adminis
tration desires to secure better adjust
ment in food balances
So long as the present conditions
continue the only special restrictions
we ask are the beefless and porkless
Tuesday.
The meatless meal and the porkless
Saturday are no longer asked.
The farmers of the United States
are responding to the national call to
increase hog production. Their In
crease, to all appearances, Is being at
tained more rapidly. Of more imme
diate Importance, however, are several
complex factors which have effected
an Immediate ' Increase In meat sup
plies.
The transportation shortage before
the government took over the rail
roads, the bad weather In January and
early in February, the large percent
age of immature corn In the last har
vest and the necessity of feeding this
corn as rapidly as possible to save it
from decay, have not only resulted in
backing up the animals ? particularly
hogs ? on the farms for a longer pe
riod of feeding, but have resulted in a
great increase in their average weight
and will result, with Improved trans
portation conditions, which already ap
pear, in larger than normal arrivals at
market for the next two or three
months. The weight of hogs coining
to the market for the past two weeks
indicates an increase in weight of
from an average of 1103 pounds last
year to the almost unprecedented
average of 282 pounds, or a net in
crease in their meat value of over 15
per cent. This is a distinct addition
to the nation's meat supply. It there
fore now seems certain that we have
such enlarged supplies for at least
some months to come, that we can not
only Increase our exports to the allies
to the full extent of their transporta
tion facilities, but at the same time
can properly increase our domestic
consumption.
The response of the public to our re
quests for reduced consumption of
meat during the past few months has
been most gratifying, and this service
alone has enabled the government dur
ing this period to provide such sup
plies as transportation to the allies
permitted.
The Administration also suggests
that in those parts of the country
where the old fashioned home preser
vation of pork is still the custom, this
practice should be extended at the
present time, as it will relieve the bur
den upon transportation to and from
the packing bouses and Is economical
lv sound as saving the cost of packing
operations and at the same time will
provide home supplies of pork to last
over ^he months of deceased supplies
The Food Administration desires to
repeat that it does not want to give
the impression that these are times
when simplicity and moderation of liv
ing are not critically necessary, but
that its sole desire is to secure an ad
justment between our different food
supplies atid meet changing < ?>?idltions
from time to time and to keep the pub
lie fully and frankly advise 1 of it
position with the full confidence and
reliance ti nt whenever it becomes ne*
essaiy r*newed appeals for saving wil
met the same 'oyal response as in th?
pa*t
GROCERS HELP
IN 50-50 PLAN
SIGN PLEDGE TO CARRY OUT
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
PROGRAM.
POST CARDS IN STORES.
Explain New Wheat Ruling to
Thousands of Customers? In
sures Greater Food Saving.
Grocer* of the nation have accepted
enthusiastically the 50-50 basis for the
purchase of wheat Hour and are doing
their utmost to explain the new regu
lation to the housewife. This ruling by
the U. S. Food Administration requires
each purchaser of wheat flour to buy
one pound of cereal substitute, one
kind or assorted, for every |>ound of |
wheat flour. It was necessary to re
'strict the use of wheat flour in order !
that the allies and our lighting forces
abroad might be assured of an ade
quate supply of wheat to meet their
\ ital needs. This supply must come
from our savings because we have al
ready sent our normal surplus.
Wheat saving pledge cards were for
warded by the Food Administration to
all retail food merchants, and these
are being signed and posted In stores
throughout the country. This card
states, "We pledge ourselves loyally to
carry out the Food Administration pro
gram. In accordance with this order
we will not sell any wheat flour except ]
where the purchaser buys an equal ]
weight of one or more of the following, I
a greater use of which in the home
will save wheat :
"Cornmeal, corn flour, edible corn
starch, hominy, corn grits, barley flour,
potato flour, sweet potato flour, soy j
bean flour, feterita flour and meals,
rice, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats and
buckwheat flour."
Some confusion has resulted on the
part of the consumer In construing
this "50-50" ruling to mean that an j
equal anioant in vaiue of substitutes
must be purchased with wheat flour.
This is a mistaken Idea. The ruling
states that the consumer In purchasing
flour shall "buy at the same time an
equal weight of other cereals."
One exception to this ruling Is con
cerning graham flour and whole wheat
flour, which may be sold at the ratio
of three pounds to five pounds of |
wheat flour. This provision Is made
because approximately 25 per cent. |
more of the wheat berry is used in the j
manufacture of these flours than stand
ard wheat flour.
Another exception is that concern
ing mixed flours containing less than
50 per cent, of wheat flour, which may
be sold without substitutes. Retailers,
however, are forbidden to sell mixed
flours containing more than 50 per
cent, of wheat flour to any person un
less the amount of wheat flour substi
tutes sold is sufficient to make the to
tal amount of substitutes, including
those mixed in flours, equal to the to
tal amount In wheat flour in the mixed
flour. For Instance, if any mixed flour
Is purchased containing 60 per cent,
wheat flour and 40 per cent, substi
tutes it is necessary that an additional
20 per cent, of substitutes be pur
chased. This brings it to the basis of
one pound of substitutes for each
pound of wheat flour.
A special exemption may be granted
upon application in the case of special
ly prepared infants' and invalids' food
containing flour where the necessity Is
shown.
Some misunderstanding seems to ex
ist on the part of consumers In assum
ing that with the purchase of wheat
flour one must confine the additional
50 per cent, purchase to one of the
substitutes. This Is not the case. One
may select from the entire range of
substitutes a sufficient amount of each
to bring the total weight of all substi
tutes equal to the weight of the wheat j
flour purchased. For instance, if a
purchase of 24 pounds of wheat flour
Is made a ranee of substitutes may be
selected as follows:
Cornineal, 8 pounds ; corn grits, 4
pounds ; rice, 4 pounds ; buckwheat, 2 j
pounds; corn starch, 1 pound; hominy, J
2 pounds ; rolled oats, 3 pounds.
These substitutes may be used in |
the following manner:
Cornmeal, 8 Pounds. ? Corn bread, no
flour: corn muffins or spoon bread,
one-fourth flour or one-third rice orj
one-third hominy; 20 per cent substl- j
tutes in whole bread.
Corn Starch, 1 Pound. ? Thickening i
gravy, making custard, one-third sub-!
stitute in cake.
Corn flrits, 4 Pounds. ? Fried like
mush, used with meal in making corn
bread.
Rolled Oats. 3 Pounds. ? One-fourth
to one-third substitutes in bread, one
half substitute in muffins ; breakfast
porridge, use freely; oatmeal cookies
oatmeal soup.
Buckwheat Flour. 2 Pounds. ? One
fourth substitute In bread, buckwheat
cakes.
Hominy, 2 Pounds. ? Boiled for din
ner. baked for dinner, with cheese
sattce.
Rice, 4 Pounds. ? One-fourth substi
tute in wheat bread, one-third substi
tute In corn bread, boiled for dinner (a
bread cut), as a breakfast food, tc
thicken soups, rice pudding instead of
cake or pie, rice batter cakes.
Several grocers have stated that'
their customers who strictly observe
the 11 heat less meals each week find
It iiri'i'iv.! y to buy substitutes in ad
dition to those ordered under the fC
Ac plau.
THE BUSINESS OF LEARNING.
In a recent number of the American
Magazine, Irving Bacheller, the auth
or of "Eben Holden," tells something
of his work as a writer, and among
other things says:
"I look backward with a deep con
viction that one's chief business here
is to learn. In that business your best
aid, I should say, is a good memory,
Your memory is your clerk, but it is
only a clerk. It needs training and
needs more or less watching, especial
ly when it is young. Most of us are
rather careless about this clerk of
ours. We permit him to get bhiftless
and untidy. We don't seem to care
much how he gets along. This lazy
young clerk keeps saying to us, "I
am sorry, sir, but I forgot it."
"The big thing to remember about
him is this: He must learn to be a good
clerk while he is young, or he will nev
er learn it.
"When I was about fourteen my
mother began to train my memory.
She gave me a penny a line for com
mitting a list of poems. They were ex
cellent, but short poems. The finan
cial return was small. I must have
seen the promise of wealth in "Para
dise Lost." Anyhow, I tackled that
poem and made a number of dollars
out of it. At first it seemed to be a
little more than a kind of copper mine.
Neither the music of the "adventurous
song" nor the power and splendor of
its phrasing meant much to me then;
but, by and by, the stately lines
trouped out of my memory at com
mand, like a well-dressed regiment of
cavalry with banners flying and trum
pets blowing. How well they rode!
They began to impress me to train
my ear and develop my imagination
and refine my taste.
"There were two or three of us
[who matched our taste and skill in
finding, committing and interpreting
strong passages of classic English,
mostly Shakespeare. I wonder at it,
for I, surely, was not fond of study,
or any kind of work, for that matter.
Somehow, we found enjoyment in this
rivalry, although we had no more se
j rious purpose than one has in shooting
craps."
Why Read Fiction!
' The most exciting pag^s in the
world's history are now being written
in blood, and spread before the news
paper readers every day. They are
full of pathos. They tell the strug
gles of great nations warring against
[ each other ? some for supremacy, some
for human rights and some to avenge
wrongs.
Each day before the eyes of the
reader the newspaper spreads a new
chapter of a history of absorbing in
terest. It is the saddest story told
since that of the Cricifixion. It is
a true story. Why read fiction!
Deeds of herioc achievements sur
passing the imagination, written on
I no other pages in all the history of
the world, death and slaughter, sin
and suffering beyond conception
make up a stcry so sanguinary that
in later years amazement will be felt
that such things could happen in the
twentieth century of civilization and
progress.
And this story, from day to day, is
being1 read, rot by a few in their
libraries, not by the millions in any
state or nation^-but by the thousands
of millions that make up the popula
tion of the globe.
It is a story stained with blood and
tears, but it marks the progress of a
new, great world-movement for the
betterment of mankind, for the
deposition of the despots and the
transformation of oligarchies ruled
by a few into magnificent republic
ruled by the many. This wonderful
page of history, this record of events
surpassing all fiction, will stand im
mortal.
The hope of the peace of the world
rests on the foundation that the peo
ple shall rule. When they do rule, no
czar, no kaiser and no king assert
ing his divine right to rule, can, at
his whim or caprice, declare war on
his neighbors and summon millions
of faithful followers, while he rests
in security on his throne.
Those who liv? in this epoch will
have something to remember. It is
an experience never to be forgotten
Follow the stcry from day tc day and
bear in mind that the most impres
sive lesson it teaches is that the peo
ple must ?nd shall rule. ? Leslie's.
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KILLDEER
lOxyechui vodferuij
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Length, ten inches. Distinguished
by Its piercing and oft-repeated cry? -
kildee.
Range: Breeds throughout the Unit
ed States and most of Canada; win
ters from central United States to
South America.
Habits and economic status: The
1 killdeer is one of the best known of
the shorebird family. It often visits
the farmyard and commonly nests in
I pastures or cornfields. It is rather
suspicious, however, and on being ap
proached takes flight with loud cries.
\ It is noisy and restless, but fortunate
ly most of its activities result in
benefit to man The food is of the
same general nature as that of the
upland plover, but is more varied. The
killdeer feeds upon beetles, grasshop
pers, caterpillars, ants, bugs, caddis
files, dragonflies, centipedes, spiders,
ticks, oyster worms, earthworms,
Bnails, crabs and other crustacea.
Among the beetles consumed are such
pests as the alfalfa weevil, cotton-bcll
weevil, clover-root weevil, clover-leaf
weevil, pine weevil, billbugs, white
grubs, wireworms, and leaf beetles.
The bird also devours cotton worms,
cotton cutworms, horseflies, mosqui
toes, cattle ticks, aud crawfish. One
Btomach contained hundreds of larvae
of the saltmarsh mosquito, one of the
most troublesome species. The kill
deer preys extensively upon insets
that are annoying to man and injuri
ous to his stock and crops, and this
ehould be enough to remove it from
the list of game birds and Insure ita
protection
Send 144,000 Bats to Front.
(New York Times.)
The largest shipment of baseball
I bats in the history of the game is on
the way here from Louisville. Young
Men's Christian Association officials
I here announce that arrangements are
being made for their immediate ship
ment to the Lorraine sector of the
western front. There are 144,000 bats
in the consignment.
On everyone of the bats is the red
triangle of the Young Men's Christian
Association. They will be distributed
to the soldiers through the Young
; Men's Christian Association huts in
France. Louisville is the bat manu
facturing center of the United States
There are 12 different models of bats
in the shipment, and each one is
named after some noted present-day
player, Ty Cobb, Home-run Baker,
Tris Speaker, Benny Kauff, Eddie
Collins and others.
The bats are part of the order
which was placed in January, when
hundreds of thousands of baseballs,
mitts, fielders' gloves, chest protec
jtors, masks and shin guards, were
called for by the Young Men's Chris
tain Association for use in the camps
and cantonments of the United States
'and in France among the expedition
ary forces.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as
j Administrator on the estate of D. M.
Johnson, deceased, will sell at public
auction at the late residence of said
deceased, on the 27th day of April,
1918, at 10 o'clock a. m., the personal
property of said deceased, consist
ing of the following articles, viz:
1 mule, 9 head of hogs, 1 one horse
wagon, 1 buggy, dump cart, stalk
( cutter, plows, corn, fodder, meat, lard,
^household and kitchen furniture, and
'other articles unnecessary to men
tion. Terms of sale cash.
All persons indebted to the estate
of said deceased are hereby notified
to make immediate payment, and all
'persons having claims against said
estate will exhibit them to me on or
before the f.th day of April, 1919.
This the Gth day of April, 1918.
DELMA HARDEE.
^ Administrator.
WANTED TO RENT BY YOUNG
couple 2 or three furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Box 203,
city.
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