Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-19 | Page 59 | American Wheat Consumption is Cut a Third

I AMERICAN HEAT 11 CONSUMPTION IS CUT A THIRD Still Further Reduction Is Necessary If Bread H Holds Out ut I 1 By L. L JL L. H. H n. n Leech Special Staff Dispatch WASHINGTON May IS Amer IS-Amer- Amer Americans leans today are arc eating just 35 per cent as m much ch wheat as the they consume in a normal year Tho The fl figures ures of or the food administration dI tion which Uon which take account of ot every bushel of or wheat and n every pound of or show flour show that America has made good In this supreme war duty This doesn't mean that the necessity for wheat saving is any less urgent however Until August the people must continue con con- to tighten tI their belts bells largely lar be because because be- be cause improved shipping conditions arc are arenow now making it possible to ship supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to France and Britain as fast as they can be he loaded America will do this officials are sure In the v words of at one of or Hoovers Hoover's grain experts Americans have ha shown a deeper appreciation of or this wheat question than any people ever displayed on a bl big bib public issue It is isa isa a monument to the intelligence education education edu edu- cation and social efficiency of ot th the country country which surpasses anything In our history Cornmeal and potatoes have taken the tho place of ot wheat with barley flour and antI rye as runners up The consumption of oC potatoes is now 89 per cent greater than in a normal year and with double last years year's supply sup sup- supply pl ply available and powerful popular SUP SUP-I campaigns a against price gou gouging inS inS' the price of or spuds has advanced ad very lit lit lit- tle While there will be no food anywhere anywhere any any- where In the world to waste for many years cars to come after aCter August 1 the greatest strain will be over r Hoovers Hoover's aides do not want to make people foolishly optimistic but they admit that the wheat crop crop prospect is good It should be a whale of a crop and antI barley rye and oats will probably smash every record I ICorn Corn planting Is not far enough h J alon along to warrant definite promises but j I Ithe the good old grain which saved caved the republic in its cradle will probably be I doing its dut duty in 1918 1915 as it did last I year I I I I I I I