Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — MUST STILL CUT DOWN ON WHEAT [ARTICLE]

MUST STILL CUT DOWN ON WHEAT

PEOPLE MUST MAKE FURTHER SACRIFICE IN .WHEAT |T SAYS CONGRESS. Ship losses and crop failures abroad have brought about such a serious food situation in the allied countries that the United States is planning, to release for export an additional 90,000,000 bushels of wheat, although the country’s export surplus has been shipped by mid-December. # The American people will be asked by the food administration to cut their consumption to make the amount to be exported. Unless they do the nation is threatened with a flour shortage in May before the new wheat crop is harvested ip June. The food administration is considering legislation to make the saving of wheat compulsory and has opproved a bill drawn by Rep. Lever, author of the food control bill, to enforce wheatless days. Proposals for mixed flours and for a form of war bread of mixed grains also are under consideration as possible measures to reduce the use of wheat flour. In preparation for dealing with the situation the food administration has decided to purchase from the mills 30 per cent of their output. Out of the flour purchased it will supply the allies, the army and the navy, and will maintain reserve stores to meet any local shortage that may arise. Some food administration officials think a slight flour shortage next spring would have a wholesome effect in causing the people to turn . to other cereals. The shortage of food abroad probably will bring an early determination of a policy respecting the situation generally and touched only slightly upon the acute shortage in their own territory.