Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 1 | U. S. Ready to Increase Food

II. S. REM TO IKCREASE FOOD Can Send 5,730,000 Tons More Abroad Than Last Year. Hoover Issues Statement Concerning Conditions Throughout Nation. i ' "WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Hoover, in outlining' in a statement issued tonight the food conservation con-servation projrram recommended for the American people during the '. coming year, said the United States was prepared pre-pared to ship 5730,000 more tons of foodstuffs to its armies and allies than last year, and still have a margin over the amount necessary to maintain health and strongth at home. The great undertaking cannot be accomplished, ac-complished, however, Mr. Hoover emphasized, em-phasized, . without due regard to tho importance of saving by every person. "With no prospect, as he saw it, of a proper ending of the war before the summer campaign of 1919, the food problem, the food administrator declared, de-clared, is no small part of the issue. The allied civilians and the armies, the American armies, the Belgian relief and certain neotrals who are dependent, depen-dent, upon the United States, will require re-quire 17,550,000 tons of foodstuffs for the year beginning Julv 1. This, in ronnd numbers, will include meats and fats, 2,600,000 tons; breadstuifs, 10,-400,000; 10,-400,000; sugar, 1,850,000, -and food grains, mostly army oats, 2,700,000. No More Rationing. There will be no food rationing in this country so long as the people continue con-tinue to subsist as - in the -ast, Mr. Hoover said.' "Of our imports,1 ' Mr. Hoover said, "we shall apparently have sufficient sugar to maintain the present consumption consump-tion and take care of the extra drain of the allies from our markets, instead of compelling them to send their ships to the far east. We can secure in sailing sail-ing vessels the coffee we need, if no one makes an overbrew. Of our own prodncta we must secure a reduction in consumption and waste in the two great groups of, first, breadstuffs, and, second, sec-ond, meats and fats; that is, in all bread and cereals, beef, pork, poultry, dairy and vegetable-oil products. "The average consumption of our people of breadstuffs amounts to about six pounds per week, and of meats and fats to four pounds a week for each person. A reduction in consumption of less than one-half pound per week per person in each of these two Teat groups of foods would accomplish our purpose. "We wish to emphasize, however, how-ever, that we do not want curtailment in the use of milk for children." Can Do More. "Some of our homes, by reason of limited income, cannot now provide more food than they should have to maintain health in the family. They cannot rightfully be asked to make the suggested reduction in consumption. But the great majority of our homes can do more than sug""ted- "We need even greater simplicity nf living than last year. "We estimate that nearly 9,00,000 people eat at our public eating places - hotels, restaurants, . boarding houses, clubs, dining ears, and so forth. The food confum ;on in these places is larger than in the average homos. We are asking the pnmrietors and employees em-ployees of these institutions to undertake under-take in many particulars a more strict program than last year, and we are confident con-fident that they will willingly do this. "This is not rationing, a thin we will rover have if our people continue to support us as in the past. "Wo have so arranged the international interna-tional food program that except for a moderate substitution of other cereals in bread, it win not, we bo.. be necessary neces-sary to substitute one foodstuff for another, nor to report to wbeatless and I meatless davs. "It is necessary that every family in the United States stnv its food buoget and food wavj, to see if it cannot can-not buv les, serve less, return Dothing to the kitchen and practice the gospel of the tlain plate 11