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f. J**?,-* In business, fortunes are not retRied Unless your goods are amply advertised. VOL. 34. NO. 31 DEATH RATE IN BELGIUM IS HIGH Under German Occupation, IJ I Treatment and Poor Food Kill Thousands. WORSE THAN AN EPIDEMIC Mortality In Civil Life Greater Than on BattlefieldSituation Can On ly Be Worse, Says Legation One Execution Daily. Washington.The existing death rate in Belgium is as high as at the time of the most terrible epidemics and greater than that on the battle field, due to the extremities to which German occupation has reduced the country. In addition, at least one Bel gian daily is executed by the German authorities, according to a statement made public by the Belgian legation. The statement came from Havre and read as follows: "Not taking into account the losses on the field of battle Belgium has suf fered heavily In its civilian population through the invasion and occupation of its territory by the Germans. "1. Civilians killed during the in vasion, August-September, 1914Al- though we are not yet in possession of a complete list of the civilians killed by the Germans during those fateful days, we know the number of victims to be well over 5,000. For the follow ing provinces we have approximate estimates: Namur, more than 1,800 Luxembourg about 1,200 Liege, more than 1,000 Brabant, 897 Hatnaut, about 300. Most of these victims fell tn the towns where, under pretext of the existence of sharpshooters, Ger man fury knew no limits. Dinant counted 606 victims Andenne, more than 200 Tannines, more than 400 Louvain, 210 Aerschot, about 150 Namur, about 75. Deportees' Death Rate High. "2. Among the deportees the mor tality resulting from privations, ill treatment, underfeeding, etc., exceeds largely the normal percentage of deaths. Some, too, have met death on the battle fields, where the Germans forced them to do auxiliary work. If we possess ample information about Individual places and undeniable tes timony on the broken health of the re turned deportees in general, we are, however, unable to quote figures. "3. The electrified wire which makes the Belgians prisoners in their own country accounts for a great number of victims, especially among young people, who try to escape In order to join the army, or among couriers, who try to smuggle news In or out of Bel gium. In less than a year, between August, 1916, and July, 1917, 160 per sons were electrocuted. Since then the average number of victims has in creased, owing to the strengthening of the guards and the putting up of new wires. "4. The death penalty, pronounced by the German military courts for crimes of patriotism, levies a heavy toll on the population. It Is estimated that each day one Belgian at least suf fers the supreme penalty. "The unsatisfactory food situation, 'due to the requisition of the home grown foodstuffs and the sinking of many relief ships, the use of unsuit able substitutes, the lack of fuel, aa a result of the exploitation by Germany for her own consumption, and for ex portation, of the Belgian coal fields, has dangerously increased the death rate. "Deaths from hunger and cold are not unusual, but It is mostly indirectly that the underfeeding of the popula tion causes numerous premature deaths, for, through lack of physical strength, many people are subject to rickets or pretuberculosls, and so be come unable to resist slight Illness which, under normal conditions, would not prove fatal. As to the bad effect of unsuitable substitutes, it will suf fice to recall the diseases contracted by the deportees through the use of raw rutabagas and the paralysis of the brain and of the marrow or the special kind of jaundice provoked by the use of lupin seeds as a substitute for coffee berries. White Plague- Prevalent. ""The death rate all over Belgium, but especially in the large towns, is as high as at the time of the most terrible epidemics. A Brussels paper, appearing with the consent of the Ger man censorship, admits that there are more civilian dead from lack of suf ficient food than Belgian soldiers fall en on the battlefield.' On the other hand, a report, on the 'Work of the War Orphans' in Belgium shows that in 1917 there were fewer orphans of /soldiers fallen in the war than of civ ilians killed during the same period and of deportees dead in consequence of their deportation. "Cardiac affections and cerebral hemorrhages account for the greater part of the deaths, tuberculosis, espe cially under the form of tubercular meningitis, for almost as many. Ty phoid fever, caused by the occupying army, has occasionally levied a heavy toll on the civilian population. "The situation in 1918 can only grow worse it is undeniable that the phy sical standard of the nation is lower ing dangerously and that the effects of the German occupation on the health of the people will make them selves felt for a long time after the i*-v 3&%*M&Ji GAVE PENNY UNDUE CREDIT Story Will Please Those Who Have Small Belief That Pocket Pieces Bring Luck. "Superstition is a relic of the dark ages," observed one of the supposedly wise men, "and it has no place on the battle ground of modern thought. "I don't believe in planting pota toes on Good Friday, nor in seeing the moon over my left shoulder. I think that a fisherman is foolish If he spits on his bait, and I don't be lieve in walking around a stump three times to change my luck. Neither am I afraid of black cats that cross my path. In my opinion all such things are nonsense. They are in the same class with that old idea about hang ing a horseshoe over the door. That's, an old, played-out scheme*.,., and St never was worth a whoop. 'There's only one thing in the whole list of lucky or unlucky omens that works out in every detail, and that's the idea of finding a penny and keep ing it for good luck. "About three months ago I picked up an old green penny that was ly ing in the gutter. I chucked it in the match pocket of my coat, and I have kept it there ever since. "Before I took to carrying the penny I couldn't turn my hand over without losing money, and ever since then I've made money at every turn of the road. That's why I know it is lucky." "Let me look at your lucky pennyV* remarked a bystander. *Td just like to touch the thing." The penny-wise man ran two fingers into his match pocket, and as he did so he exclaimed: "By cracky! I'll bet I've lost the blamed thing. In fact, I know I have. I sent this coat to the dry cleaner the day after I found the penny, and I for got to remove it from the pocket." Moral: Prosperity seems to be, in some measure, psychological The Good That Comes of It. Do you think that the war is making people less selfish in the world and in the United States? Surely it must, when in so many places people are sac rificing their dear ones and their money for a cause. Even if it seems to some more a question of honor and family or national tradition than jus tice or freedom. I often think of the rank and file of the German army, and even the junior officers. They are suf fering untold hardships and showing magnificent bravery in the face of heavy odds, as much as, perhaps more than, the soldiers of the allies. Al though one must be here to realize that men have risen to a height of courage and endurance in this war that people living in modern civilization never dreamed of. Surely some gain must come from this tremendous ef fort and conquest of self, and Germany must not be entirely a loser, when her sons, even if forced, have paid such a price.Edwin A. Abbey, H, in the At lantic. Cosmopolitan Odessa. Odessa, recently entered by German troops, furnishes the most remarkable instance in Europe of a rapid growth, like that of the mushroom cities of the New World. Founded in 1794 on the site of a small Turkish fortress which had been taken by the Russians a few years previously, it does not possess a single building which by any stretch of imagination could be described as old. The city as well as the port owes Its origin to a Frenchman named De Rlbas, an officer in the Russian army who had led the attack on the Turkish stronghold. French Influence is strong, and there are important commercial French and British colonies. Italians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Tartars, Arme nians, Georgians, and other races in addition to the Jews and Russians make up the population of this cosmo politan city. Quitting Work for War. "Selling out have to join the col- ors," has become quite a common sign in business places in many parts of New York. Investigation has shown some of them to be fakes, too. In all parts of England such notices are nu merous. Among those of an unusual nature Is the following, put up by a monument builder: "Having been called up for military service, Mr. Kennedy is forced to close down his business, all the other male members of the family being already in service. He begs to take this op portunity of thanking all patrons who have accorded him support in the past, and he hopes that any who might have business requiring his attention may be able to hold over the same until his return to business." Cautious. Mrs. FlatbushYou don't think the war will reach over here this year, do you, dear? Mr. FlatbushWhy, no. Why do yon ask that question? "Because I want to know whether to hang the hammock under the trees where it was last year, or in the cel- lar." Inclination to Experiment "Why are yon in favor of govern ment ownership?" "Fm not exactly clear," replied the candid man. "But rve a vague idea that I'd like to see some lines of busi ness in the hands of elected officers who might try to make a hit by low ering prices instead of raising them." Pork to Win the Wan FlatbushSo you're raising pigs? BensonhurstYes, yon know the pen Is mightier than the sword. "Well, I guess you're right for food will win the war." ,'4$^KS,vs.*?v- -*r"-" MOVIES MUST DRIP GLOOM Picture Dramas That Have Happy Endings Can Never Attain Popu larity In Russia. Four and five-act movie dramas of the highly emotional and sentimental kind are popular in Russia. Cowboy activities, murders and burglaries do not appeal to these audiences. Rough comedy is wasted even on the cheap est Russian audience. They do not understand it. American pictures, as a rule, do not appeal to the Russian taste. They want a drama woven usually around the "eternal triangle the men must be ardent lovers, and the women weak A weeping mother or the deathbed of a beloved father is always'very im pressive, There must be a death in the drama, preferably the suicide of hero or heroine, with the other one going into the cloister at the end. The. ideal picture play for Russian popular audiences must not, under any circum stances, have a happy ending. The Russians use a great deal of de scriptive and explanatory material on the films in showing their own dramas. They depend upon It largely for the "action." They do not care nearly so much for action in the pictures as for postures indicating emotions. Ama tory and deathbed scenes should al ways be photographed to the last de tail, but nearly everything else may be written and read. IN DAYS OF PONY EXPRESS 8erviee, of Course, Would Be Laughed at Now, But Was Really Re markable Then. The pony express, a romantic fea ture of the West of that day, was part of a mail line from New York to San Francisco. Between St Joseph. Mo., the western terminus of the railway, and Sacramento, the distance was traversed by horsemen mounted on swift and durable ponies, each of which traveled sixty miles, and then turned over his mail bags to another. The weight carried was not to ex ceed ten pounds, and the..charge wa* $5 In gold for each quarter 'of an ounce. A letter or parcel weighing an ounce, now carried for 8 cents, cost $20 In the days of the pony express. By the aid of the pony carriers the distance be tween New York and San Francisco was covered in 14 days, a truly re markable performance, considering the vast distance and the character of the country traversed by the brave rid ers. The horsemen were In constant danger In many sections of the route from hostile Indians, but they were well paid, their salary being $1,200 a month. The pony express lasted two years, being abandoned when the tele graph line across the continent was completed. How Do Men Break Down? Be assured that there Is no chance of your breaking downalthough there will be times when you will try .to fool yourself wit, *hls idea. This thought of breaking down Indeed it one of the illusions of mediocrity. It Is the excuse which every lazy man presents to himself. It is moral astig matism. The great fact is that men do not break down from overwork so much as is commonly supposed. As they go upward in the scale of in creased activity, increased responsi bility only acts upon them as a natural stimulant and carries them along. It hard work and worry killed men so easily, most of the successful business men of America would be dead al ready. No! What kills men Is due mors to what they take Into their stomachs rather than what they take into their minds.Physical Culture. When Sick, Gs to a "Vet" "Some of the best medicines for peo ple are dog medicines," said a phy sician. "You see, all sorts of remedies arc prescribed for human complaints, and sometimes they are beneficial. Many people have faith In patent medicines, which may be mors or less justified. "But a dog medicine is very sure to be a good thing. It wouldn't sell if it wasn't And what is good for a dog is likely to be good 'or a human being supposing that he really knows what Is the matter with him. "A doctor who started in business with no other equipment than a dosen prescriptions representing first-class dog medicines (supposing him to be a fair diagnostician) ought to make a fair professional success." Famous Military Commanders. Napoleon regarded Wellington as able, but lucky. He considered Tilly and Wallensteln far better generals than Gustaf Adolf. Turenne he placed far in advance of Frederick the Great "If I had a man like Turenne as my second in command during my cam paigns," he said, "I should now be mas ter of the world." Hannibal, accord ing to Plutarch, sometimes ranked Al exander, sometimes Pyrrhus as the foremost general of all time. Sdpio he placed second. Himself he ranked but third or fourth. Posterity has modified his verdict to the advantage of his fame. He Had Changed. Mother-Why didn't you speak to that little boy who just passed? TommieI don't know him, mama. "Yes, you do know him. He's the little boy who just moved in next door to us. You were playing with him yesterday." "Well*mama, if that's the sains bey, he's over-washed today." Defective Page ST. PAUL AND 1ONN1AP0US. MINN.. SATUEDAY: AUGUST 3,1918 T.\",)l-ffv'.,Jli.t .wi-i'-M i Ail. J*M. -jwifti.i -i-I. i.ii i. FOOD CONTROL MEANS VICTORY European Shortage Places Prob lem Before American Govern- mentFarsighted Policy Adopted. NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT. Food Administration Asks Aid of Every American in^Glgantio Task of Feeding Millions. It Is the food problem over there that makes a food problem over here. If we wished to be supremely selfish and supremely shortsightedwe could go on eating as much as we like and whatever we like, without much dlftl culty or interruptionat least, until the Germans camel But we are not doing things In that selfish and suicidal way. We are try ing to make a great common pool of all of our food, and all of the food of the allies, and all of the food we can get from South American and other neutrals, and dividing it up fairly among America, England, France, Bel glum and Italy. This does not mean that all of the people in the great pool are going to have the same ration, but means that we are trying to arrange to have enough for everybody, so that the sol diersour soldiers and their soldiers will be well fed, as they have to be to fight hard and continuously, and that the munitions workers and the workers in all the other necessary in dustries, and the men and women at home will all have enough to keep alive and well. It is absolutely neces sary to do this If the war is to be won, and we are going to do it, but it means planning, working, arranging, cooper ating, being careful, not wasting, sav ing. And it means that each and every one of us has "got to helg. Now, we have enough and more than enough food for ourselves, and the Government is going to see to It that we keep here at home a sufficient sup ply of every essential kind of food to support our people. But over there they simply have not enough. Lord Rhondda, the English food controller, recently cabled the- American food ad ministrator, that unless we can send the allies before the next uropean harvest 75,000,000 bushels of wheat In addition to what had been sent up to January 1 of this year he could not assure the people of the allies that they would have a sufficient supply of food to carry on the war. He did not say anything In this cable about the other food necessary, but he has told of these needs in other cablesand by his actions in England. For example, his latest regulation compels a reduction of meat eating in the United Kingdom to a maximum of one pound per week per person, this pound Including the bone and other waste parts in the meat as bought in the shop. The allies' must have more wheat, more meat, more fats, more dairy prod ucts, more sugar. Their harvests were very shortFrance had less than half her normal crop of wheatand the available shipping is small in amount and constantly being lessened by sub marines, so that it is now practically impossible to use any ships for the long voyage necessary to bring food from Australia and other remote markets. The food must come chiefly from America. In specific figures it is nec essary for us to send to the allies 1,100,000 tons of foodstuffs a month. This is a great responsibility and sj great problem. The food must be found, and also the ships to carry It It is being done, but can only continue to be done by the help and full co operation of all of us over our broad land. We must produce and save more. To supply the wheat necessary until the next harvest, we must reduce our consumption by from one-fourth to one-third we must cut down our usual average consumption of meats and fats by from 10 to 15 per cent and dairy products by about 10 per cent Over there they are tightening their belts and doing everything they can. They are eStlng war bread they are cutting down their sugar in England to two pounds per person per month, and in France and Italy to one pound how much are you eattng?-=-and they are using ration cards for most of the Btaples. We must meet sacrifice with sacrifice. If we don't we are helping to lose the war Instead of helping to win it ^av#*~ J- Kk* &m HAVE MANY QUAINT BELIEFS Alaskan Natives Probably as Supersti tious as Any Race on the Face of the Earth. In Alaska the natives have all kinds of superstitious beliefs. They believe that everything has a spirit, and that these spirits must be respected or else bad luck will come to them. For in stance, they must not throw away any old clothing, nor burn It, for that would be the same as destroying a part of themselves. They must make a bundle of the old clothes and put It on the branches of a large spruce tree out side the village. All fish bones are carefully put away in a basket to be taken out to the middle of a river, stream or lake and there thrown over board. This is done so that every single bone, after It is put back into the water, will turn into a fish, and this Is sure to keep up the supply. When a child Is born the father has to put away all tools that are made of Iron or steel and is not al lowed to use them for 20 days. Dur ing that time he Is not allowed to go outside to do any work or any hunt ing. Should he do any of these things It would surely cause the death of the baby. When a child dies it Is not burled, but Is wrapped In a bundle and placed at the foot of a spruce sapling. If the tree dies within a year the spirit of the child dies also. When a grown person dies the body Is kept at least three days In the room In which It has died. When the time for burial comes the body Is burled on a hillside or a high bank facing the river. There Is the village of departed spirits on the side facing the river and on the other side the spirits of the dogs who have died and who belong to the people whose spirits are there. The spirit of an old woman takes care of these dogs.Southern Workman. Politeness Is Too Neglected. Courtesy! Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale university Is right In saying that the young men of today possess even a greater power of endur ance than their fathers. The war has demonstrated that the luxuries of mod ern life have not produced a degenerate race. Our own heroes of 1776 were no more hardy than the young men In khaki today after six months of train ing. The endurance of the modern sol dier is not alone a matter of physique or physical strength but of moral stamina as well. What we need to cultivate Is not simply a sturdy man hood through military discipline, but also to give our boys and girls train ing in courtesy. Military training teaches obedience, a Quality that our youth sorely need to acquire, but we need to instill into the minds of our children In the public schools lessons of politeness and respect for the rights of others. No other nation has neglected po liteness as we have done.Leslie's. Cement From Sugar-Beet Waste. A result of experiments in French factories Is the production of an ex cellent cement as a by-product of beet sugar refining. The first step in the production of sugar from beets is boil ing them. It has heretofore been cus tomary to throw away as valueless the scum formed on the caldrons. But it has now been discovered that this scum contains large quantities of car bonate of lime. It is estimated that 4,000 tons of the carbonates can be recovered from 70,000 tons of beets. To this quantity of the carbonate 1,100 tons Of clay Is added, the resultant product being a good cement. The beet scum is pumped into large reser voirs and allowed to evaporate for a certain length of time' before being mixed with the clay. It Is then stirred or beaten for an hour before being fed into rotary ovens such as is used in making Portland cement Not In His Line. An auto load of Dunkards came into Winchester one day last week, and it was noticeable that the motor of their machine was "knocking." They stopped In front of the undertaking establish ment of O. O. Fraze, which is next door to the Hecker & Doyel garage. One of the men left the machine and went Into the undertaker's office think ing it was. the office of the garage. "I would like for you to look at my motor and see what's wrong with it," said the man. "It Isn't dead, is It?" queried the undertaker. "No, it is still running," said the Dunkard, whereupon the undertaker replied: "If it Isn't dead we can't do anything for It This is an undertak er's shop." The man was then directed to the nearby garage.Indianapolis News. Character Came First If you are to become capable and efficient desire, will, attention, con centration, purpose, discipline, reflec tion, analysis and research are each an exercise to be diligently applied. Wordsworth once resolved to make an excursion to the mountains, and, in spite of protests, carried out his inten tion in the face of a violent storm. He gave as his reason that "the aban doning of a plan to avoid a slight dis comfort is dangerous to your charac- ter." Mexico Expects Big Cotton Crop. A bumper crop of cotton is expected this next year in Mexico. Indications are that the cotton crop of the Laguna district of the states of Coahulla and Dnrango will be three times as great as for the past year, when it amounted to more than half a million bales of a total value of ten million dollars. None of it was exported, but it was all con sumed In the factories of the republic NOT SO EASY TO BE BAD One Who Tries It May Come to At tach New Meaning to Biblical Injunction. It Is a popular fallacy that It Is much easier to be bad than good. So firmly rooted Is this error that it Is universally accepted, H. Varley writes in Judge. Yet it Is very easy to demonstrate the absurdity of it. Imagine yourself, for a moment, having decided to be as bad as possible. Throw.off all thought of convention of law, of caring for the opinions of others and of heeding the still, small voice within you. Here you are then, ready to be bad. Not Just ordinarily, pretty badbut bad to the nth degree. What shall you do? Murder? That's silly, for there.Is none you hate enough and If there was the fear of eventual ly sitting in a chair not upholstered for comfort but for speedy demise would deter you from murder. Rob a bank? However delightful the prospect, you can't tear open iron bars with your bare hands nor dig through granite with your fingernails. Elope with your neghbor's wife? That Is the most ridiculous of all, for you know your neighbor and that re moves any wish to endure, even for a moment, what he suffers Indefinitely. So you stand, and mentally go through the whole category of badness without finding a single thing you can do without much more trouble than you could perform some good deed. The worst you can picture yourself do ing (that is feasible) Is such a com mon peccadillo that you must despise it for its very littleness. So you see the difficulty of being Just a little badthe utter Impossibil ity of being really bad. Then the Biblical injunction comes to you with an entirely new meaning: "The way of the transgressor is hard." MONKEYS ACTUALLY AT WORK Ingenious English Officer Devised Scheme by Which They Earn Their Daily Bread. Monkeys actually are made to work In Malabar, India, which Is perhaps the only place in the world where they earn their salt The Malabar monkey is of the fine species known as the lan gur. It Is very warm at Malabar, and there is a fan called the punka, which used to be kept In motion by a slave. It required a slave to work each pun ka, but now every punka in Malabar Is worked by a monkey. It was an English officer who conceived the idea of -making the langur work ta-that manner. The fan Is a movable frame covered with canvas and suspended from the ceiling. The motion Is caused by pulling a cord. The officer tied the hands of a langur to one of the cords, and then by means of another cord put the machine In motion. Of course, the monkey's hand went up and down, and the animal wondered what sort of a game was being played. Then the officer patted its head and fed it with candy till soon the langur thought it fine fun to work the punka. The experiment was successful, and now thousands of monkeys are In har ness. Who Built It? Summing up his interpretation of the Amiens cathedral, the "Bible of Amiens," Ruskln asks: "Who built it, shall we ask? God and man Is the first true answer. The stars in their courses built It and the nations. Greek Athens labors here, and the Roman Father Jove and Guardian Mars. The Gaul labors here and the Frank kingly Norman, mighty Ostrogoth and wasted anchorite of Idumea. The actual man who built it scarcely cared to tell you he did so nor do the historians brag of him. Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and faineants you may find in what they call their history but this Is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches. I say he 'scarcely cared we are not sure that he cared at all. He signed his name nowhere, that I can hear of. Yon may perhaps find some recent ini tials cut by English remarkable visit ors desirous of Immortality, here and there about the edifice, but Robert the builder, or at least the master of that building, cut his on no stone of it" Give "Overt" a Chance. Many it fine adjective has been spoiled by being hooked up, in some facile phrase, to a commonplace noun. For example, overt Never In my life, writes a L. Mencken in the New York ton, have I encountered overt save in front of act Thus joined and poisoned, it Is mouthed abominably by lawyers and newspaper editorial writers the literate fauna of a superior type avoid it almost altogether. And yet it is a fine adjective, a juicy adjective, an adjective worth knowing better. Why not overt honesty, overt destiny, overt love? I once had an overt black eye. Earlier in this life I made overt eyes at a girl overtly red-haired, and re member her oleaginous kiss every time the barber's brush slides across my face. Let us appoint a committee to get overt out of jaiL A Useful Husband. **Why in the world does his wife call him Picket Fencer "Well, she says he's easy to see through." "And, then, he's very useful around the house." Another Matter. "How do you propose to support my daughter, young man?" "But Tm only proposing to mang her, sir." -i-,Z, .~s^-*- TiSft $2,00 PER TEAR TO CUT WHEAT USE ONE-HALF Military Necessity Demands That Each American Eat Only V/2 Pounds Wheat Products Weekly. CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES. Allies Must Have Wheat Enough to Maintain Their War Bread Till Next Harvest If we are to furnish the allies with the necessary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest and this is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month as against our nor mal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels, or 50 per cent of our normal consumption. This is the situation as set forth by the U. S. Food Adminis tration at Washington. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for special cases, leaves for gen eral consumption approximately 1% pounds of wheat products weekly per person, the Food Administration's statement continues: Many of our consumers are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable and therefore requires a larger propor tion of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and navy require a full allow ance. The well-to-do In our population can make greater sacrifices in the con sumption of wheat products than can the poor. In addition, our population In the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial popula tions. With Improved transportation condi tions we now have available a surplus of potatoes. We also have In the spring months a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for hu man consumption. The drain on rye and barley as substitutes has already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains. To effect the needed saving of wheat we are wholly dependent upon the voluntary assistance of the American people and we ask that the following rules shall be observed: 1. Householders to use not to exceed a total of 1% pounds per week of wheaf products per person. This means not more than 1% pounds of Victory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes and one-half pound of cooking flour, macaroni,, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all combined. 2. Public eating places and clubs to observe two wheatless days per week Monday and Wednesday, as at present In addition thereto, not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs. macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eat ing establishments not to buy mors than six pounds of wheat products tor each ninety meals served, thus con forming with the limitations requested of the householders. 8. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-quarter of a barrel to any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals. 4. We ask the bakers and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread sold, by delivery of the three-quarter pound loaf where one pound was sold before, and corresponding proportions in other weights. We also ask bakers not to Increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per cent of the average monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March 5. Manufacturers using wheat prod ucts for non-food purposes should cease such use entirely. 6. There is no limit upon the use of other cereals, flours, and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat potato flour, et cetera. Many thousand families throughout the land are now using no wheat prod ucts whatever, except a very small amount for cooking purposes, and are doing so in perfect health and satisfac tion. There is no reason why all of the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one half pounds a week, and we specially ask the well-to-do households in the country to follow this additional pro gramme in order that we may provide the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less abls to adapt themselves to so largo a pro portion of substitutes. In order that we shall be able to make the wheat exports that are ab solutely demanded of us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-opera tion of the public by a further limita tion of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution which will be adjusted from time to time to secure as nearly equitable dis tribution as possible. With the arrival of harvest we should be able to relax such restrictions. Until then we ask for the necessary patience, sacrifice and co-operation of tbt distributing trades.