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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
6
The northeastern United States faces high population per mile of railroad and dense freight needs while the Railroad Administration moves to ease congestion. By converting passenger cars to freight and dispatching cars at full capacity, major savings and relief are achieved across routes and facilities.
Your car must give greater service this year than ever before. It speeds up your work and increases your working power. Our nearest Sales and Service Depot dealer will be glad to assist you in selection.
The text argues that saving food is essential to feed Allied soldiers and crews abroad. It emphasizes naval and air service demands, trench warfare rationing, and factory and civilian efforts in Britain and the United States to ensure full rations for those serving, highlighting moral duty and national effort.
An administrator in Burlington confronted Otto Boontyg of St Ans Bar with evidence of selling flour without substitutes and he pled guilty, paying $1000 to the Red Cross of Mitchell County. The mill was ordered closed five days and the food administration warned mills to stop crediting or hoarding flour and to account for wheat flour credits to farmers.
A Food Administration statement allows ice cream at socials but forbids use of wheat products and aims to avoid violating meatless rules. It notes milk surplus and urges substitution of milk with other forms, warning of impacts on dairy farming and prices if demand falls.
Hoover defines hoarding as any American buying more foodstuffs than usual at home. He argues it undermines the food administration and its goal of fair distribution and price reduction. The piece links hoarding to enemy propaganda and calls production resistance a form of obstruction.
A reader describes a wheatless diet plan to feed a family without bread. The account highlights increasing vegetable intake, especially potatoes, and substituting meat substitutes, fish, and dairy. It lists weekly allocations for meats, fats, sugars, cereals, vegetables, fruit, and bread substitutes to maintain a wholesome diet.
A fragmented list covers picnic foods and wheatless options. It names items like baked bread with butter, tomatoes, salads, jam, coffee in thermos, oranges, marshmallows, and a cream cheese stuffed date centerpiece. It includes a wheatless bread recipe and barley flour cookies with ingredients and steps.
Government records show Iowa farmers hold over 11 000 bushels of wheat as part of a food administration inquiry. Requisitioned wheat supports troops in France and allied efforts, while the administration continues to seek all surplus grain details from farmers. Shipments from China to the United States rise, with expectations of record this year.
Clarence L Ephec argues that Germany’s rule since Frederick the Great embodies a survival of the fittest doctrine. He cites iron and blood policies, conquests from Belgium to France, and calls for continued wartime effort against the German system, urging Americans to demand victory and reject negotiated peace.
A Union League Club of Chicago statement argues Germany seeks a global empire through Mitteleuropa, from Poland to the Persian Gulf, with a Berlin to Baghdad railway. It warns that Belgium and Serbia were sacrificed, and questions whether peace without victory would leave the world under German threat and conquest.
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