Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — WOMEN ASK FOR RATIONING PLAN [ARTICLE]

WOMEN ASK FOR RATIONING PLAN

American Women Volunteer to Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, Bread Flour, Sugar, and Butter. PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK. Idea Supplements U. 8. Food Administration's New Home Card Now in 10,000,000 Homes. The women of America, who are anxious to do their great part in the winning of the war, are now, asr a whole, familiar with the most Important aspects of food conservation. The Home Card, both m its original form and in the revised edition for 1918, which provides for two wheatless days, one meatless day a week, in addition to a wheatless meal every day, has been placed by the Food Administration after a vigorous campaign in 10,000,000 American homes. An intelligent and conscientious observance of the Home Card's requirements is all the Food Administration asks of the housewives of the country.

The Food Administration has had a great many requests, however, particularly from the homes of the well-to-do, that it should issue a worked out plan for a voluntary system of rationing. This desire for a voluntary fatlon springs from two causes—first, because it Is far simpler for the housewife to save food when she has a concrete working plan by which to proceed, and, second, because the loyal women of America desire, unselfishly, to put themselves on the same basis as the Women of the Allied countries. The ration proposed by the Food Administration is almost the same as that adopted in England for voluntary observance. All over the United Kingdom, in hundreds of houses there hangs in the front window a card with the stirring pledge, “IN HONOR BOUND WE ADOPT THE NATION. AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RATIONS.”

The ration recommended by the Food Administration, and adopted first in New York city, whence the idea has spread through the entire country, is the following: Weekly Allowance Per Person. Meat —Beef (fresh, salted, tinned and hashed) ; mutton, lamb and veal (mutton by preference) • 2% lbs. Butter lb. Cooking Fats (margarine, lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils) lb. Wheat Flour (foihuse In cooking gravies, etc., where corn starch, cracker dust or bread crumbs cannot be substituted) % lb. Victory Bread (containing at least 20 per cent, of a substitute for wheat f10ur).... 1% lbs. Sugar (Including all sugar used,- on the table and in cooking and all sweatmeats and candles, but not. that used for canning and preserving) % lb. The Items listed above are the only ones which are definitely limited. In the case of milk and cream, as much may be used as Accessary, and chilof course, must have their full allowance of whole milk. Fish and poultry, any cereal other than wheat, vegetables and fruits and cheese may be used as freely as Is desired. The above ration Is In no wise Intended to supplant the Home Card, but rather to supplement it. It has been published with the Idea that It will be a very real aid to the American* woman in her splendid effort to carry out the great food conservation program.