Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard.

Federal

Food Administrator for Indiana.

More than forty Indianapolis bakers, confectioners and restaurant keepers have been cited'to appear before the federal food administrator during the past week for failure to make correct reports and for not conforming to the regulations as to the use of substitutes. Various excuses were offered and all were released on parole, on their promises to reform. Warnings were issued that further violations meanT suspension of federal licenses in all cases. Licenses of Nickolas Prescan and N. K. Manolea, Indianapolis bakers, were revoked for their failure to make proper reports and not using the required substitutes on bread and rolls. Wm. Greisinger, a South Bend confectioner, was found to have made a false affidavit as to having purchased sugar on contract and as a result AE. Eby, St. Joseph county food administrator, was directed by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, to take charge of his business and not permit him to handle it until July 15. The sugar secured through misrepresentation was seized. Roast beef at noon Monday; stewed or boiled beef or beef hash at noon Wednesday; beef steak or hamburger steak at noon Thursday; stewed beef, boiled beef or beef hash at noon Saturday; with by-products such aa ox-tails, livers, tongues, sweetbreads, hearts, kidneys, brains and tripe at any time, is Hoover’s suggestion of a meat menu in order that beef consumption be limited to 1% pounds per person per week. Hotels and public eating houses have been directed by the food administration in Indiana to fix some such arrangement and then refrain from advertising the service in order not to induce an excess consumption on the days when beef is served. . <

To be wholly patriotic a Fourth of July celebration must not include iced tea or lemonade, nor candy in which sugar is used in excess of the three pounds per person per month ration. The sugar syruped Sundae at soda fountains is prohibited in Indiana and county food administrators have been so notified. Afll special and fancy concoctions in which sugar syrups are used also are under the ban. Sales of sugar have been limited to two pounds for city customers and five pounds for rural customers, with a maximum limit of 25 pounds for canning and preserving purposes. Purchase of sugar for the latter purposes must be on a sworn affidavit. Manufacturers of non - essentials Such as candy, chewing gum, etc., are no longer permitted to buy sugar in anticipation of their allotment for the three months following July 1. No sugar sales are legal in Indiana except upon certificates and thep proportioned as per the recently promulgated regulations. No relaxation in the conservation rules that have enabled the United States to feed Europe out of a short harvest, will be possible if a surplus is to be built up against the chance cf crop shortage next year or in 1920, says Herbert Hoover. The American people who have shown that they can save, must conserve still further if the benefits already secured are to be permanent.