The Cordele Dispatch

SUBSTITUTION
OF
MEAL
FOR
FLOUR WILL FIGURE IN THE
FOOD PROBLEM
Washington, D. C., Oct. 13.-American is just beginning the harvest of
her greatest corn crop-greater
by
123,000,000 bushels than any previous
crop in our history and greater by
665,000,000 bushels than the crop of
1916.
How can this enormous crop best
be used both to stabilize prices of
other foodstuffs not so plentiful and
also to release for export to our allies
the largest possible volume of sup-
plies which they need.
The answer is that we should not
only feed corn but should eat corn.
But eating more corn and less wheat
we will:
Save money!
Benefit our health!
Help win the war!
Corn meal even at the present un-
precedented prices, is the cheapest
food,
nutritive value considered,
found in a government survey of 50
food staples.
There is twice as much nutritive
value in a dollar's worth of corn meal,
at prevailing prices as in a dollars'
worth of wheat bread. In fact. the
same nutriment contained in a dol-
lar's worth of bread can be had in
corn meal for just 47.4 cents.
By substituting corn bread, corn
cakes, corn muffins or fried mush for
wheat bread, at least once each day,
the housewives of America could per-
form one of the greatest works of the
war.
With absolutely no hardship
but instead. with actual benefit to
ourselves, we would release
more
than 100,000,000 bushels of additional
wheat to our allies, who despite
all
that we can otherwise do to supply
their requirements for breadstuffs,
must exist on a rigidly restricted
diet.
But why, some ask, should we not
eat the wheat ourselves and send the
corn abroad?
In France, England and Belgium
virtually all baking is done in public
bakeries. Corn bread is essentially
a home product: it cannot acceptably
be prepared and sold over the baker's
counter. It would be impossible, in
the midst of war, to make over the
home baking facilities of these na-
tions. We must adjust our supplies
to meet their facilities for proper
handling.
Then, too, because of its additional
richness, corn meal does not keep as
well as flour and is not as suitable
for overseas export. At home
we
consume the meal as it is produced.
Corn meal sent to Europe would de-
deteriorate and grow rancid,
while
wheat flour keeps.
Everybody helps to win the war by
standing behind the government.