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Show AMERICAN PEOPLE ; ON WARBREAD DIET (REDUCED RATIONS ASKED FOR I.PURPOSE OF CREATING LARGER ! SURPLUS FOR THE ALLIES. J3ker Will Make Victory Loaves With ' Mixture of Other Flour. Two I Wheatless, One Meatless and I Two Porkless Days a Week. I Washington. The American people iwent on a war bread diet on January 28, as a part of a war rationing system sys-tem prescribed by President Wilson lend the food administration. "Victory brefld," the food administration calls it. The reduced rations are asked for .the purpose of creating a larger export surplus of food for the allies. Curtailment Curtail-ment of consumption will be accomplished accom-plished largely by voluntary effort, but itorce will be employed wherever per-, per-, mltted under the food control act. The rationing system, as presented fbj the president in a proclamation and ty Food Administrator Hoover in a 1.1st of regulations, forms the food administration's ad-ministration's 1918 food conservation program, on which the chief features are: Bakers' bread of mixed flour, be-Blnnlng be-Blnnlng Monday, with a 5 per cent substitution sub-stitution of other cereals for wheat until un-til a 20 per cent substitution is reached February 24. Bale by retailers to householders of nn equal amount of substitute flours for every pound of wheat flour pur-tchased pur-tchased at the time the wheat flour is bought. Restrict Millers' Sale. Sale by millers to wholesalers and wholesalers to retailers of only 70 per eent of the amount of wheat flour sold last year. Two wheatless days a wek Monday Mon-day and Wednesday and one wheatless wheat-less meal a day. One meatless day Tuesday and .one meatless meal a day. Two porkless days a week Tuesday nd Saturday, Manufacturers of macaroni, spaghetti, spa-ghetti, noodles, crackers and breakfast foods, pie, cake and pastry will be per-Wtted per-Wtted to buy only 70 per cent of their last year's purchases, and are asked to perform a patriotic service by using ,obstitute flours. Flour will be sold through the regular regu-lar channels and in such a manner that ach community will receive its equivalent equiv-alent share. The food administration will purchase pur-chase for the army and for the allies, 's announced recently, 30 per cent of the flour output and out of this store , will fill emergency requirements if stocks run low in any part of the country. coun-try. No Patent Flours. wish some ot my friends at home could see the wonderful manifestations manifesta-tions from God that I have seen here. How I do wish they could enjoy the spirit of a missionary just for a short time. When I behold the terrible war and bloodshed and sorrow and suffering in the world I am impressed that these tilings are the fulhlmeut of prophecy and that the time of Christ's coming is near. J am thankful for the home paper, which comes to me regularly and I enjoy it so much. May God's blessing" bless-ing" rest down upon you is the wish of your brother. Elder Fred J. Fjeldsted. What millers are required to pro-duoe pro-duoe one barrel of flour of 196 pounds from 264 pounds of wheat, which repre-tants repre-tants a 74 per cent flour. No patent or special flours may be manufactured, Although whole wheat flour may be made as usual. Hotels and restaurants will be classed as bakeries and will be required re-quired to serve the new 'Victory bread." State food administrators will be permitted to designate the wheatless oal in each state. Where this is not done, the food administrator requests that the evening meal be observed as "wheatless. The president's proclamation, besides railing on the public for a further reduction re-duction in consumption, makes a renewed re-newed appeal to the housewife to stop the waste of food. It asks general observance ob-servance of the food administration's regulations and calls on the people, in dditlon, to hold down' their consumption consump-tion of sugar. No Forcible Limitation. There Is no forcible limitation of purchase by householders, and in this xnnectloa the food administrator oays: "The effectiveness of these rules is dependent solely upon the good will nd -willingness of the American people peo-ple to sacrifice. In; the last analysis the success or failure of any such plan M outlined rests with the people. We have but one police force the American Ameri-can woman and we depend upon her to see that these rules are observed." Of the nearly 20,000,000 householders in the United States, about 13,000,000 have signed the food administration's pledge to follow its food conservation flirections, and food administration officials of-ficials believe that the regulations will ) generally observed. Packing House Strike Prevented. Washington. Settlement of the in-dugtrla4 in-dugtrla4 dispute threatening a strike in the, country's ten largest packing house canters was effected Sunday in an aaretmept providing that there shall be ootiicrimiration against union mem-tieni mem-tieni ajjd that questions of hours and "wsgieq Shull be referred to an arbitrator arbitra-tor appointed by the secretary of labor. This rwurdfi of the arbitrator, not yet oppointed, will be effective as of Janu-,nry Janu-,nry J-i . |