Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

The ban on the use of macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, vermicella and wheat alphabet has been raised, effective August 7. A bulletin states that the use of these wheat products will be permitted “until further notice” and bases the concession upon the fact that “the situation in rega'rd to wheat has eased up.” All public eating places are affected by the notice. J. R. Morgan, county food administrator for Howard county, discovered proof of hoarding in the residence of Fred Adler, 724* South Lindsay street, Kokomo. He confiscated two tenpound bags of sugar, three five-pound bags and seven two-pound bags and a twenty-five pound bag of flour, in excess of a thirty-day supply. He sold the surplus and permitted Adler to pay $25 to the Red Cross in lieu of more serious consequences for violating the food control law which provides for a fine up to $5,000 and prison sentence up to two years for hoarding. Releases of hotels, restaurants and homes from their pledge to do without wheat until after the 1918 harvest, announced during the past week by the federal food administration, should not be misconstrued to mean that they are privileged to use wheat flour entirely without substitutes. Hotels and restaurants are.required to use thirty-three and one-third per

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard,

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

cent, of wheat flour substitutes in all sweet goods baked and served, and twenty-five per cent, of wheat flour substitutes in all bread and rolls. Householders are still held to the 50-50 rule' in the purchase and use of wheat flour, and are asked to ration themselves and their establishments to a maximum consumption of 1% pounds of wheat flour per person per week. For having served three teaspoonfuls of sugar and five ounces of bread to a customer at one meal, the M & R restaurant of Fort Wayne has been closed for _one week. A regulation limits sugar service in restaurants to one teaspoonful and the United States food regulations fix the amount of bread to a customer at one meal to two ounces. Fred A. Stewart, county food administrator for Daviess county, Indiana, has given the separator men for all threshing outfits within his jurisdiction the power bf deputy food administrator. It will be the separator man’s duty—and he has the authority —to give orders in regard to pitching grain into the feeder, or any other orders that would save more grain. Persons disobeying his orders will be reported to the government for wilful waste. The wilful waste of any food product fit for human consumption is punishable by law under'the Food Control Act.