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Show CONSERVATION OF FOOD PROCLAMATION I WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26. The follow, ing proclnnmtion on food conservation was issued tonight by President Wilson: The President's Proclamation. Many causes have contributed to create the necessity for a more intensive effort on tho part of our people to save food in order that we may supply our associates in the war with tho sustenance susten-ance vitully necessary to them in these dayB of privation and stress. The reduced productivity of Europe because of the large diversion of mnn power to the war, tho partial failure of harvests nnd the elimination of the more distant mnrkcta for foodstuffs through the destruction of shipping ship-ping places the burden of their subsistence very Inrgcly on our shoulders. The food administration administra-tion has formulated suggestions which, if followed, fol-lowed, will enable us to meet this great responsibility responsi-bility without nny real inconvenience on our pnrt. Consumption Must He Reduced. In order that we may reduce our consumption of whent and wheat products by HO per cent a reduction imperatively necessary to provide the supply for overseas wholesalers, jobbers and rcUiileis should purchase and resell to their customers cus-tomers only 70 per cent of the amounts used in 1917. All manufacturers of alimentary pastes, biscuits, crackers, pastry and breakfast cereals should reduce their purchases nnd consumption of wheat and whent flour to 70 per cent of their 1017 requirements, and all bakers of bread nnd lolls to 80 per cent of their current requirements. Consumers should reduce their purchases of wheat products for home preparation to nt most 70 per cent of those of last year, or, when buying bread, should purchase mixed cereal breads from tho bakers. To provide sufficient cereal food, homes, public pub-lic eating plnccs, denlers and mnnufneturers Hhould substitute potatoes, vegetables, corn, bar-Icy, bar-Icy, oat and rice products, and the mixed cereal bread and other products of the bakers which contain an ndmlxturc of other cereals. In order that consumption may be restricted to this extent, Mondnys nnd Wednesdays should H be observed as wheatlesn days each week, and m one meal each day should be observed as n wheat- n less meal. M One Meatless Meal Every Day. H In both homes nnd public eating places, in or- MH Ulcr to reduce the consumption of beef, pork nnd H 'sheep products, Tuesday should bo observed as H meatless day in each week, one meatless meal M should bo observed each day, while, in addition, H Saturday in each week should further be ob- HI served as n day upon which there should be no HK consumption of pork products. HB Continued economy in the use of sugar will be M necessary until later in tho year. It is imperii- HI tivc that all waste and unnecessary consumption IB l of all sorts of foodstuffs should be rigidly clim- IB itiated. ) The mainlcnnnco of the health and strength jH of our own people is vitally necessary at this HJ time, and there should be no dangerous rcstric- Uj tion of the food supply, but the elimination of WM eery sort of waste and the substitution of other hM commodities of which wo have more abundant HJ supplies for those which we need to save will in Mj no way itnpnir the strength of our people nnd will HB enable us to meet one of the most pressing obli- HI gntions of the wnr. Wj IiOaI Americans Urged to Observe. BJ I, therefore, in the nntional interest, tnko thu H liberty of calling upon every loyal American to HJ take fully to heart thu suggestions which tiro be- ME ing circulated by the food administration and of I3B begging thnt they be followed. I am confident IHj that tho great body of our women who have HJ labored so loyally In co-operation with the food HI ndministrntion for the success of food conscrva- H tion will strengthen their efforts and will take HJ it as a pnrt of their burden in this period of tut- Hjj tionnl service to see that the above suggestions HT are observed throughout tho Innd. Hi WOODROW WILSON. Thu White House, Jan. 18, 1018. |