Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-30
NEATLESS TUESDAY
NOW RULE AT HOTELS
Approval of Managers Associa-
tion Accorded Hoover's Plan
for Conservation

Meatless Tuesday became an established
fact among the hotels OF Philadelphia To-Day
A few of the hotels had tried 1t out IN an
experimental way before, but not until TINS
week did the Hotel Mems Association as a
body inaugurate the campaign suggested by
Food Administrator Herbert {. Hoover
some time ago.
Tomorrow will be wheatless Wednesday,
and all the hotels will serve war bread,
made from -four containing not more than
So per cent of wheat content. Meatless
Tuesday and wheatless Wednesday Will
continue among the hotels and restaurants
of the city until the food situation Is re-
lieved and there is no longer any need TO
conserve the food supply.
j. M. Frazier, manager of the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel and president of the Penn
sylvania Hotel Association, said this morn
ing that, so far as he had been able 10
Judge, the food conservation plan or the
hotel men is meeting with the entire ap-
proval of the public and bids fair to be an
unqualified success.
THE public is in frame Of mind TO help
us out in what we are trying to do said
Mr.. Frazier, land while 1t is too early yet
to give any definite reports, l do not an
ticipate any complaints at ALL From let
ters that l have received from hotel men
all over Pennsylvania l am satshed tnat
the support of the hotel patrons generally
will be accorded to the food c2nserVation
plans that we have undertaken
Meatless Tuesday of Food Pledge week
finds every force in Philadelphias CIVIC llte
exerted toward the one object OF more
complete and systematic saving OF the food
supply OF the nation. All along the line,
from the little tot just beginning school to
the hard-headed business man who is ac-
customed to dining we'll and dining on what
ever kind of food might please his fancy,
the people of the city are making con-
eerted effort TO help Hoover, and through
hi INTO help Uncle Sam beat the Boches.
DR.. ]. Russell Smith, professor Of the
Wharton School Of the University of Penn
syvania, who is in charge Of the local cam
paign for Food Pledge Week, reports that
he is meeting with ready response from
all classes of citizens in the work that he
is doing
Much good is being accomplished through
the school children of the city, who are
being furnished with pledge cards to take
home to their parents and who are benG
instructed carefully by their teachers as tC
the meaning and purpose OF food conserva
tion at this time The cards being used
are identical with those distributed In the
early stages Of the food conservation cam
paigh at the time the food administration
was being organized. Strlcter concentra
ton on the necessity of food conservation
however. is being accomplished Eow thar
then.
The women's organizations OF the cltl
and State are rendering valuable aid in tn
work Of food pledge week, and II is fel
that in this way the real objects Of tn
campaign will be most directly accom-
plished. When the housewives OF the coun
try become fully alive to the necessity o
food conservation, say those in charge o
the work, and learn the simple methods b,
which Il may be brought about, the rest vii
oe an easy matter.