Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Eat More Corn. [ARTICLE]

Eat More Corn.

Indianapolis, Jan. 15.—Dr. Harry E. Barnard, Federal Food Administrator for Indiana, says “EAT MORE CORN.” He offers . the following suggestion to retailers for effective :ines for advertising corn and encouraging its increase consumption. The head lines in each case should be: The United States Food Administrator says.:— The best way to take care of our enormous corn crop it to eat it. Corn is the original American grain. It saved our pioneers, it will save us now. EAT MORE CORN. We have five times as much corn as wheat in this year’s crop. EAT MORE CORN. <

/ The surplus of corn this year over any previous year is grqater than this year’s entire wheat crop. Corn cannot be economically shipped to Europe. WE MUST EAT MORE CORN HERE. Corn is king in America today. One-third of all our land under cultivation is in corn. EAT MORE CORN. We cannot send corn to Europe because.— The meal is likely to spoil in shipment. Only the whole gram can he shipped and the Allies haye few mills to grind it. The people in Europe do not know how to use corn meal. We have the com and the mills to grind it, and know how to use it. EAT MORE CORN. Corn is more than food to us; it is asymbol.* Staying right at home, it plays a colossal part in the war, for it sends the wheat abroad. Com is the Home, Guard among food products. Wheat is the soldier of the line.