The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-11-09
MEATLESS DAYS
FOR BRITAIN, TOO
Royal Commission Suggests A.
stinence for Rich and Better
Pay for Poor.
MASSES IN GOOD CONDITION
Investigation Shows Less Distress Now
Than Last Year-Almost Everyone
Steadily Employed at Higher
Pay Than Heretofore.

LOndOn.-German meatleSS days, 80
much ridiculed here, may soon be cop
led by Great Britain
A suggestion that the consumption
of meat be stopped for one day in the
week is contained in the Recommended
tons of the official departmental COM
mittee appointed by the board Of trade.
Only those engaged in sever manual
labor should eat meat seven days q
week, the committee urges. 1t also rec
Ommends the opening Of municipal
shops in districts where retailers are
obtaining excessive profits and n re-
vision of pay rolls to improve the posi-
tion of those who have not benefited in
the general upward trend both of com
modify and labor prices.
: Other recommendations include the
speeding up of building Of merchant
ships, especially those intended for h
conveyance of refrigerated meat, and
provision for adequate labor at the
docks. Seven members of the commit
tee further recommend that there
should be public control of prices OF
primary foodstuffs produced at home,
In many cases, it is stated, far toe
much profit is being made by home pro
ducers.
Live Stock Not Wanted.
The committee reports against the
proposal to import live cattle from
Canada. It says:
without going into the vexed ques-
ton of the alleged danger Of disease,
we have to report that there seems to
be at present no likelihood Of any con-
siderable supply Of cattle from that
source, even if the scarcity of shipping
did not make the importation of live
as against dead meat uneconOmical."
With regard to the first suggestion
the report says:
= "We urge all those who are not en-
gagged in severe manual labor and who
at present eat butchers meat every
day to refrain from consumption n
day each week. We believe a large
number of patriotic citizens are only
waiting for clear and authoritative
guidance and that such voluntary alb
stentation On the part of the more for
tunate, while it will have no harmful
effect on health, will appreciably en-
large the supply of meat available for
| poorer members Of the community"
Poor People Well Off.
The committee touches on the vital
point in the meat problem when it rec
ommends that "in disposing of meat
which it purchases for. the civil popu-
lation the government should impose
such conditions not only on wholesale
merchants but also on retailers as
would tend to secure the sale of such
meat to the ultimate consumer at rea-
sonable prices" =
A table of retail food prices shows
that since the beginning of the war
they have increased on an average IS
per cent. Evidence taken by the COM
mittee showed there was less total dis
tress in the country than in al ordinary
year of peace, the majority of the
classes which suffer chronically from
distress being in unusually regular EN-
ployment. This, together with higher
wages earned by, and the greater
needs of, so many workers employed in
the production of munitions has tended
to increase considerably the total de-
mand for food.