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Show THE "FIFTY-FIFTY" FOODMnTI Food Administrator Armstrong Urges Utahns to Save for Our Soldier Boys, i ; New Regulations Made Vitally Necessary Neces-sary If the Critical Shortage of Foodstuffs to Be Sent Abroad Is to Be Avoided. . rerhups we don't know Just where our boys are In France nor how they fare. They may be cold, sick, In constant cons-tant danger. Our last thoughts at tilght are of them; let's have our first thoughts In the morning be of how ,. we can , send wem Sr- help. We know that i-rJrtK. V we 'olIow cwn" I vff mnfE etientlously the re- V II I III) a l,"'st8 ' t,1R Food VjlJI XQjtJI Administration that fcjjKpy our boys will jiever a"" have to count storv-atlon storv-atlon among their hardships, nor will" they have to go hungry. And we know also that all the food stuffs sent over to feed the boys In the trenches are saved by careful mothers. We are feeding our boys with the bread and meat we go without with-out ourselves nnd we are denying 1 them sustenance when we are careless care-less or selfish in not obeying the requests re-quests of the Food Administration. . The exigencies of war fare are ever changing, and these new regulations of the Food Administration are made vitally necessary If the critical shortage short-age of food stuffs to scud abroad Is to be avoided. The porkles Saturdays are gone, now we may Indulge in a good Saturday Satur-day night dinner of ham and eggs, or pork and beans, and still be a patriot. Mondays and Wednesdays are still to be wheatless with one wheatless meal every day throughout the week. Tuesday is to be beefless and porkless only; mutton and lamb are Just the thing for Tuesday's meals. We are also asked to observe the following regulations which have come Into existence by the extraordinarily pressing necessity for wheat conservation. conserva-tion. WHITE FLOUR may not be sold unless at the same time the customer buys and takes at least the same amount, pound for pound by weight, of one or more of the following substitutes: sub-stitutes: Bran, Shorts. Middlings, Corn flour, Corn meal. Edible corn starcu, Hominy, Corn grits, Hurley flour, Itolled oats, iatmeal.jHIce, Kice flour, Buckwheat flour, I'otato flour. Sweet-potato flour, Milo flour, Iyifflr flour, Kaffir I meal, Feterlta flour. Feterita meal, Soya bean meal, I'eanut meal. Dry beans. Four pounds of potatoes may be sold as the equivalent of one pound of above substitutes. WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR and GRAHAM FLOUR (containing not less than 20 per cent bran and shorts) may be sold six pounds of flour to four pounds of substitutes. We will nuve difficulty, of course, In finding an adequate supply of substitutes, substi-tutes, though these supplies are now rapidly Increasing, but until our local grocers have their stocks well covered, we must all be patient and remember that this Is not a question of Inconvenience Incon-venience or even of hardships, we must do these thing whether we like it or not. We must feed our boys. W. W. ARMSTRONG. j Federal Food Administrator, Utah. |
