Food Plan Hit By Zimmerman

While the Student Council yesterday considered application of the Truman food-saving plan to University dining halls, Carl C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, declared that the Presidential proposals are barking up the wrong tree.

Terming the present food crisis "more serious than generally pictured," Zimmerman stated that meatless Tuesdays and eggless and poultryless Thursdays would accomplish little in the way of grain conservation, since most American house-holds buy their provisions days in advance of consumption.

"The first step in any conservation plan should be a return to 85 percent milling of wheat flour," the professor said. Only about 70 percent of the food value of the grain is currently earmarked for human consumption, the remainder going to live-stock feed production.

During the war, flour milling reached 85 percent. "If we have a dry year in 1948, the situation will be very bad," the sociologist predicted.