Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — ASKS FOR A WHEATLESS DIET [ARTICLE]

ASKS FOR A WHEATLESS DIET

County .Food Administrator John Eger received the following telegram Monday afternoon from State Food Administrator Barnard: Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1, 1918. 1:41 p. m. Johh Eger, Federal Food Adm. Give fullest publicity to following, it represents the policy of the administration and is in no sense an exaggeration of the vital seriousness of the situation: “I am today asking the peotple of Indiana to go on a strictly wheatless diet. I ask them to refrain from the use of wheat flour and other wheat products until the next harvest. I ask this because I know we have lived on corn and can do so again. I know that our wheat situation is even more pretentious than Hindenburg’s army in Picardy. I know as Hoover points out, this is the most critical hour in our national history since Gettysburg. Indiana patriots do not need a command, they have arisen to every patriotic request made of them to this hour. They will comply with this request. Their devotion to the cause of world freedom will be equal to the

test.”

H. E. BARNARD.