Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-07
ENGLAND TO COPY
NOW AFTER GERMAN
May Adopt the RfdiGuIed Idea
Of Having "MeatIess Days."
(By International News servioel

10y international views OCiNlCE}
London, Oct German meatless
days, so much ridicnled here. may
soon be copied by Great Britain.
4 suggestion that the consumption
Of meat be stopped for one day in
the week is contained in the recon
mendations Of the official department
al committee appointed by the
Board of Trade 10 consider the high
cost Of living problem
Only those engaged in severe man
iual labor should eat meat seven day.
week. the committee urges Il
also recommends the opening oil
municipal shops IN districts where
retailers are obtaining excessive pro
fits and the revision Of payrolls to
improve the position of those who
have not benefited in the general up
ward trend both of commodity and
! labor prices.
Other recommendations include the
speeding up of building Of merchant
ships, especially those intended for
the conveyance of refrigerated meat,
and provision for adequate labor at
fhe docks. Seven members of the
committee further recommends that
there should be public control Of
prices of primary foodstuffs produc-
ed at home. In many cases it is stat
ed far too much profit is being made
by home producers.
The committee reports against the
proposal to import live cattle from
Canada. Il says;
without going into the vexed
question of the alleged danger Of
disease We have to report that there
seems TO be at present no likelihood
of any considerable supply of cattle
from that source, even if the scarcity
Of shipping did MOI make the impor-
tauon of live as AGAINST dead meat
uneeonomicaI"
On two other matters, the sueees-
ton of meatless days for the rich
and higher WAGES for the lower-paid
grades of labor. the committee eX-
ports those concerned to voluntary
action. With regard 10 the first sug.
gestion the report says
I'VE urge all those who are not
engaged in severe manual labor and
who at present eat butchers meat
every day to obtain from consump-
ton one day each week. We believe
a large number of patriotic citizens
are only waiting for clear and author
itatiye guidance and thar such volun-
tary absention on the part of the
more fortunate while it will have no
harmful effect on health. will appre-
Gladly enlarge the supply of meat
available for poorer members of the
The committee touches on the Wit
al point in the meat problems when
It recommends that in disposing of
meat which is purchased for the civ
4 population the government should
impose such conditions not only on
merchants but also on re
alters as would tend to secure the
sale of such meat to ultimate con
;umer at reasonable prices
A table of retail food prices shows
hat since the beginning of the war
hey have increased on an average !
IS per cent. Evidence taken by the
committee showed there was less to-
al distress in the country than in
IN ordinary year of peace, the ma
GRITTY of the classes which suffer
from distress being in
regular employment. This.
ogether with higher wages earned /
" and the greater needs of so
many workers employed in the re-
luetion of munitions has tended to
Increase considerably the total de-
nand for food.
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