Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-21
Big SAVING IN
FOOD R||fSULTOF.
THE CAMPAIGN
Federal Administrator for
Idaho Reports on Progress
of Work for Conservation
of Supplies.
Adoption of Cash and Carry
Program Places Purely on
Patriotic Basis-Resolu-
tions Adopted by Gooding
Merchants.

Merchants.
r. F. Bicknell federal administrator
for Idaho met Thursday night in the
United States courtroom, Boise, with
the members of his state executive
committee and gave the committee a
resume of the work accomplished by
the administration in Idaho and asked
for more intimate relationship be-
tween the members of the committee
and his Office which was promised.
ldaho's administrator in reviewing
the work done in Idaho to date told
the committee that the states enroll
ment on basis of percentage of fam
lilies showed S4 per cent plus. that put
the state in third place among all the
states Of the country on a percentage
basis.
He told how in great measure the
hotels and restaurants were lined up
behind the administration in the OBJ
servance of meatless and wheatless
days and based his belief that most
of those who enrolled meant what they
did by saying in only one reported in
stance in Boise had a guest COM
planned because of his inability to get
meat on Tuesday He estimated that
as the result of the sugar conserving
campaign and the limiting of sugar
sales to Is pounds to a customer, that
Idaho consumers had made saving
over normal times of from 5000 to
$4,000 pounds of sugar.
REDUCTION IN PRICES.
The reduction of retail bread prices
to 10 cents the loaf from the former
price OF 10 cents, two loaves for 25
cents, was cited as was the apple pick
ing expedition under the auspices of
the administration in which the pub
lie spirited citizens of Boise responded
so generally. I'VE had about four
times as many pickers as we needed"
Mr. Bicknell told of the records of
their signatures from several hun
dreds of grocers of the prices at which
they buy certain staples and the re-
tail prices thereof and said about the
first of the year he would start the
publication in the press of lists of
these goods showing the wholesale
prices and the prices at which the pub
lie should buy them.
sales by wholesalers to eliminate
waste was explained as was the cash
and carry plan that will, ii is expect
cd. be made effective in Idaho Janu-
airy !. 1918. The administrator said
fully rs per cent of the grocers of the
state had already evidenced their in
tention pfsadopting the plan that he
confidently expected the public to
back up. This plan had been recon-
mended, he said, by the federal trade
commission, the war economy board OF
the council of national defense, the
food administration and the depart
nent OF agriculture.
CASH AND CARRY
After a discussion Of the cash and
carry plan by the members of the
committee it was the sense of the
meeting that the appeal for it's adop-
: ton should be made as a patriotic
measure on the part of both consumer
and dealer and the why's and where
fores should not be questioned. AS put
by one of the members, the govern
ment requests 1t and that's all there is
to it-we'll go upon the new basis of
doing business simply for patriotic
reasons If not for sound economic ones
and the reasons seem to be sound.
There was a general exchange of
ideas concerning food administration
activities and the meeting was voted
successful and profitable one.
Before the meeting ADJOURNED Mr..
Bcknell was handed a set of resolu-
tions by merchants of Goodng as fol-
. lows: whereas the business condi-
tons of the state and nation require
the elimination of all unnecessary ex-
pense and labor, and whereas the ma
tional food administration desires and
requires conservation of both labor
and food, and whereas the federal
food administrator, and the federal
food administrator for the state of
Idaho have requested as a measure of
conservation that all merchants trans
act their several business on a strict
" cash basis, 1t is therefore hereby
, resolved and agreed by the Under
signed merchants OF Gooding county.
Idaho, that from and after the first
day Of January, 1918. we will conform
tai these requests and sell all mer-
chaSdse for cash only.
THAT this resolution is taken at the
request of Herbert Hoover, federal
food administrators. it being part of the
plan advised and recommended by
him for the purpose of assisting the
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