Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard. Federal

Food Administrator for Indiana.

Ice problems will be referred to county food administrators when presented to Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator. Dr. Barnard is recommending the appointment of representative committees of citizens who shall have authority to determine upon a fair price for ice, which finding shall be binding. Other food problems will be handled in a similar manner, where practical Miss Mabie Wellman, head of the home economics department of Indiana university will organize college women of the state for the furtherance of the food administration’s program of production, conservation and substitution. Lawrenceburg and Aurora grocers have adopted the cash and carry system of merchandising, which according to figures compiled by the food administration serves to effect a saving of from 2 to 10 per cent, to consumers. The food administration is claiming priority for food production ovea all other purposes to which it is proposed to put the use of tillable land. This ruling by Dr. Barnard came in connection with the possible destruction of hundreds of acres of growing wheat and other food crops by the removal of a gas pipe line from Greentown to Hammond.

There is no foundation for the terrorism that has been created in some sections of the state by the alleged introduction of ground glass into bread and other foodstuffs. The food administration asks all patriotic people to be careful of their statements and report promptly to the proper authorities all circumstances that suggest such attempts at poisoning. Up to this time, Dr. Barnard believes the cases of this kind have been deliberately for the purpose of terrorizing people and prevent their consuming perishables that are perfectly safe. The food administration has accepted the tender of 320 sacks of 98 pounds each of Kansas hard wheat flour from the West Baden Springs Hotel company. This is in line with the appeal of the food administration for voluntary contributions of flour from private holdings, which will serve to release an equivalent amount of flour at seaboard, for export to the hungry people of Europe. Bring-in-the-Wheat week was very satisfactorily observed, it being estimated that 2,909,000 of bushels —a surprising quantity—was brought to the mills. The food administration has directed county food administrators to report all wheat still in storage. Steps will be taken to requisition all except barely enough for seeding. if the surplus is not in trade channels by May 1.

Manufacturers of soft drinks and confections who have started business since. January 1 will not be supplied with sugar. Older establishments must agree to restrict themselves to 80 per cent, of last year’s requirements. Individuals must conform to the three pounds per person per month ration. This is to guarantee a sugar supply for the canning and preserving season. The food administration announces a card system of distribution in many communities. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts of soldiers are asked to desist from further use of sugar in confections sent to camp and cantonment.

There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F- J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio; is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. —Advt.