New Species of Food Hoarder is Discovered

Oklahoma City, March 30. - What the county food administrator's office this morning termed "the most picayune way of helping the kaiser and hurting Uncle Sam" it had heard of in the course of all the food conservation campaign, was contained in these reports this morning:

A considerable number of unpatriotic persons who think the six pounds of flour per month per person is going to be too much of a hardship for them would be flour hoarders, in other words, are making a practice of going among farmers and buying one or two bushels of wheat.

They are usually persons having the use of an auto and after they have bought the wheat, they hunt up some country miller and pay him 25 cents a bushel for milling their wheat. Then, according, to the food administrator's office, thinking they have "beat the barrier," they return home with their flour and add it to whatever other flour they have been able to accumulate.

--The Ada Weekly News, Ada, Oklahoma, April 4, 1918, page 9.