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Show pSno President Wilson Prescribes Pre-scribes Rationing System Sys-tem in Proclamation and Food Administrator Administra-tor Hoover Issues Statement Giving All the Necessary Details. SPECIAL APPEAL TO HOUSEWIVES Existing Regulations to Be Enforced, but for the Most Part the Saving Sav-ing of Wheat and Meat Is V oluntary ; Self-denial Begins Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Tho American Ameri-can people will go on a war bread diet Monday as a part of a war rationing system prescribed tonight by President Wilson and the food administration. "Victory bread," the fuod administration calls it. The reduced rations are asked ior the purpose oi creating a larger export cur-plus cur-plus of food for the allies. Curtailment of consumption will be accomplished largely by voluntary offort, but force will be employed wherever permitted under the food control act. The rationing system, as presented by the president in a proclamation and by Food Administrator Hoover in a list of regulations, forms the food administration's administra-tion's 1916 food conservation programme, on which the chief features are: Bakers' bread of mixed flours, beginning Monday, with a 5 per cent substitution of other cereals for wheat until a 20 per cent substitution sub-stitution is reached February 21. Sale by retailers to householder!) of an equal amount of substitute Hours for every ev-ery pound of wheat flour purchased at the time the wheat flour is bought. Restrict Millers' Sale. Sale by millers to wholesalers nnd wholesalers to retailers of only 70 percent per-cent of tho amount of wheat flour sold last year. Two wheatless days a week Monday and Wednesday and one wheatless meal a dav. One meatless day Tuesda y and one meatless meal a day. Two portions days a week Tuesday and Sa tin-day. Manufacturers of macaroni, spaghetti, nood lew, crackers and break fa Mt toodt pie cake and pastry will be permitted to buy only 70 per cent nf their last year's purchases, and are asked 1o perform a patriotic servico by using aubst I tutu flours. Flour will be sold through the regular channels and in Hindi a manner that --aeh coin muni ly will receive its equivalent sha re. The food administration will purchase for the rtny and tor l lie allies, as announced an-nounced recently, ':.() per rent of ibe flour output and oui of thin store will fill emergen emer-gen ey requirements if stocks run low in any part of the count ry. No Patent Flours. Wheat millers are required to nroduc one barrel of flour of Unj pounds from 2 (J 1 pounds of wheat . which represents a V ( per cent flour. No pu tent or spec la 1 flours may be nianutaeturc.d, although whoie wheat Hour may lie mude as usual. Hotels and restaui ;iuls will ho classeu as bakeries and will ho required to serve the new "Victory 1-rend." SI -i te food administrators will be per-mitter) per-mitter) lo designate the wheatless meal In each state. Where this is not done, the food administrator it-quests that the eve-nine eve-nine meal he nbf-'erved as whatlc. Th president's proclamation, besides calling on the public for a further reduction re-duction in consii mp; ion. makes a renewed appe'tl to the housewife to stop the waste of food. it. asks g"iicial observance of t lie food administration's regulations and calls on tin; people, m re hi it ion, to hold down their consumption of tiugar. No Forcible Limitation. There 5 s no fon ible limit at ion of purchases pur-chases by householders, and in this connection con-nection the fonfi administrator say"'. "The effectiveness of these rules is dependent de-pendent solely noon the good witl nd willingness of the American peopl. to , . i , (Continued on Page Two.) h AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GO Dnl WAR BREAD DIET (Continued from Page One.) sacrifice. In the last analysis the success or failure of any such plan as outlined rests with the people. We have hut one police force the American woman and we depend upon her to see that tiiese rules are observed." Of the nearlv 20,000,000 householders in the Fnited States, about 13,000,000 have signed the food administration's pledge to follow its food conservation directions, and food administration officials believe that the regulations will be generally observed. ob-served. Mr. Hoover estimates that observance of the reflations will save about 15,-0o0,i00 15,-0o0,i00 bushels of wheat a month for shipment abroad. This will enable the allies to subsist, although their ration will be short. All of the allies, and the central cen-tral powers as well, are on a war" bread diet now. Most of the allies are mixing about 40 per cent of corn meal and other substitutes with wheat flour in all bread baked, and all of Europe is milling a large amount of the whole wheat grain. Both France and England have recently cut down the bread ration by almost half. If the voluntary rationing system fails in this country, it then, Mr. Hoover said today, "is up to congress. Wo have no powers under the law to compel people to eat less." Hoover's Statement. The food administration tonight issued this statement: The following is a summary of the rules that have been formulated b the United States food administration, administra-tion, with the approval of the president, presi-dent, in order to effect the further conservation in foodstuffs necessary to support the allies and our own armed forces over the next four months. These rules are effective from the morning of Monday, January Janu-ary 28. The effectiveness of these rules is dependent solely upon the good will of, and the willingness to sacrifice by, the American people. In the last analysis, the success or failure of any plan such as here outlined rests with the people. We are dependent upon the co-operation of the trades. We have but one police force the American Ameri-can woman and we depend upon her to organize In co-operation with our state and local food administrators to see that these rules are obeyed by that small minority who may fail. Part of the rules will be enforced under un-der the Lever food act ; other parts are voluntary and will depend for their success upon public sentiment. Our experience hitherto has shown a willingness of the vast majority of consumers, and a full co-operation of . the trades, to undergo .the self-sacri- f ice necessary to render such measures mea-sures effective. The small minority who refuse to co-operate should not be allowed to defeat the nation's necessities. ( Duty of Purchasers. 1. As their part in reducing the consumption of wheat flour, the consumers con-sumers of the country are called upon, in purchasing such flour, to buy at the same time an equal weight of the other cereals (cornmeal, corn starch, corn flour, hominy, corn grits, barley flour, rice, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats, -buckwheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, soya bean flour and feterita flours and meals). The housewife may use these products separately in making bread, cakes and pastry, or mix them as she thinks best. The retailers are to sell wheat -flour only with an equal weight of these other cereals. 2. Consumers will be able to obtain ob-tain mixed cereal bread from their bakers, who will be required, under the license regulations, to mix five per cent (5 per cent) of other cereals with their wheat flour, both in bread and rolls, and will be required gradually grad-ually to increase this substitution until, un-til, beginning February 24, a minimum mini-mum of twenty per cent (20 per cent) of such cereals is to be used. The food administration strongly urges upon consumers the buying of this bread, which will be known as "victory "vic-tory bread" and will contain not less than twenty per cent (20 per cent) of cereals other than wheat. Graham Gra-ham or whole wheat bread will also be given that name, because, containing, con-taining, as they do, twenty-five per . cent (25 per centO more of the wheat grain than ordinary white bread, they," too. will serve the purpose of saving wheat flour. Should Use Substitutes. If you bake bread at home, use wheat substitutes; if you buy it, buy only Victory bread. 3. Manufacturers of macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, crackers, breakfast break-fast foods, pie, cake and pastry are not to purchase to exceed seventy per cent (70 per cent) of the wheat flour they used during the corresponding months of 1917. These manufacturers manufactur-ers will be performing a patriotic service by using cereals other than wheat in their productions. 4. Wholesalers will be required, under license regulations, not to buy more than seventy per cent (70 per cent) of their purchases of flour from millers as based on their purchases for the corresponding Tnonths of the preceding year, and their sales to the retail trade must be in the proportion of one pound of wheat flour to one pound of other cereals, this being the same proportion in which the retailer sells to the consumer, unless the wholesaler satisfies himself that the substitutes have been already purchased pur-chased from another source. No Profiteering. A ruling has been made that in making any combination sales under this programme, dealers shall name a price for each of the articles so sold, which shall not represent more than I a normal pre-war profit on any one of the articles sold. 5. Millers of Hour are to distribute their output through their customary channels and markets in such a. manner man-ner that each city, town and district may receive its usual proportions. The wheat millers have been required re-quired to produce one harpd of flnur pounds ) from 264 pounds of wheat. This is a wiiite flour i nd represents from two per 'ent (2 per rent) to four per cent (I per cent) higher extraction than from last year's harvest. (. To asl.t further in conscrva-i conscrva-i tion, Monday and Wednesday of each week are to be observed as wheat-less wheat-less days and one meal of each day as a wheatless meal. This applies both In the home and in the public eating places, and on such days and meals no crackers, pastries, macaroni, maca-roni, breakfast food, or other cereals ce-reals containing wheat should be used. The only exception to this -is such small amounts of flour as may be needed for thickening soups or gravies or as a binder in corn bread or other cereal breads. Wheatless Days. 7. On wheatless days and at wheatless meals the food administration administra-tion urges that bread baked in the home be other than wheat bread. Yvhere bread is purchased, either for use in public eating places or in tho home, Victory bread should be used, if noWheat substitutes can be found. The federal food administrator in each state will announce the meal to be observed as a wheatless meal in his state. If no meal is designated, desig-nated, the United States food administration admin-istration prefers that the evening meal be wheatless. S. It is further desired, in order .that meat and pork products be conserved, con-served, that one meatless day (Tuesday) in every week and one meatless meal in every day be observed, ob-served, and. in addition, two porkless . davs (Tuesday and Saturday) in every ev-ery week, be strictly kept. By "meatless" "meat-less" is meant without hog. cattle or sheep products. On the other days use mutton and lamb in preference to beef or pork. By "porkless" is meant without pork, bacon, ham, lard or pork products, fresh or preserved. pre-served. Use fish, poultry and eggs. 9. For local situation where ex-, ceptions are necessary application should be made to the state food administrators. |