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Show lESilSES I BOUSMG Ics Cheaper Foods as !ne Means of ombat-j ombat-j ing High' Prices. L YORK. Auff. U.-novival of the t housewife's war-time con-in con-in administration of the family a.lti substitution of bread for L priced foods, such as meats, eggs ,'t-r- as a means of reducing the 0CY"'of living, were advocated by :H Barnes, United States wheat or in a statement today. ' '-.-tin on the government crop J for Julv, which shows the un- Li '' in crop prospects of d;(,b N Mr- Barnes declared '"'''''f'lrtli -r reduction in flour prices i"L ba.ed frankly upon a pokey or J..j nv,-' not authorized by congress fr ccveral weeks I have tried to get Kr.HK-nil fpprcciation into the pub- a thixi our wheat prospect was no L the fabulously favorable one still toll hv certain sections of the ! hn iaid. "But it is well, to re-t re-t r ibnt however disappointing its Krr from our hopes, we still have K a wh-at crop above the aver-' aver-' It will nillv supply us at home and Ul- sufficiently contribute to the Lefties ( Europe, i. rp'i a close adjustment too close LffTrt-between the total world f rr'fiuirement and the total bread fsunilioi. tut there is sufficient. rare There can be no longer any t that the supply and demand posi-L posi-L vneat demonstrates our guaran-briccs guaran-briccs are not maintained above a h-'eVirther movement for a reduced We mupt be based frankly upon iJ.v of food subsidy. In effect, this 1 force national charity on the table j.ery American, whether he would -he American housewife can work out j-intial relief in a natural way. The i con-timption of America fell from 'lormil of -'.r3 pounds per capita to founds during the last year. This conclusively that bread, which is b and wholesome, was displaced in vfret bv hitrher-priced goods. Two .rM and thirty-rtve pounds of flour "raplta would furnish from 30 to C5 l(-nt of the necessary food values and return lo normal flour consumption, the ronsequent saving of higher-d higher-d foofls would work out an actual Mial paving for the year of $1,000,000,-fn $1,000,000,-fn Ihp niitional food bill, ore than that, the reduction of strain liichf-r-prleed foods, such as meats. butter, would, by that very reduc-of reduc-of (ieinaiul. probably secure a lowered lower-ed the price level in those foods. , ve million housewives administered i tables during wartimes with war :nce. The same twelve million .pwlves todi'.y could greatly lighten Itrain of living conditions by a simi-llcvelopment simi-llcvelopment of social conscience." a |