The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-05-10
CONSERVATION
LEAGUE TRYING
TO LOWER THE
FOOD PRICES

The 6uD-cOmmlttee6 OF tue w Oih-
ems Committee on Conservation of
the Canon City Government Support
and Home Protection League met on
Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 at the
home of Gov. and Mrs. Jas. H. Pea
body The chairmen OF the various
sub-committees were inaattendance
and about forty ladies were present.
Mrs. w. Boucher. chairman of the
executive committee, took up the
work by committees and outlined to
each chairman the purposes of the
sub-committees and made suggestions
as to how they might best be carried
into effect.
The marketing question was dis
cussed at considerable length. near
ly every lady present expressing her
views and offering suggestions on the
subject The organization is strong
ly committed to personal buying with
market baskets and is convinced the
plan will become better understood
and more generally practiced after
its advantages are experienced.
hSie NCi q PISnCht WhO hno
lived in towns where the plan sought
to be inaugurated here is already in
practice and they assured the assem-
blage that such plans had met with
success. One lady who had lived in
California told how it worked there.
The grocers in the towns where the
plan has been adopted in California
give a discount of 10 per cent. on
purchases of fifty cents or more
where the purchaser pays cash and
takes the goods away; when cash is
paid and the grocer makes the deliv-
cry the discount is five per cent. and
when the goods are charged and the
delivery made by the dealer there is
no discount given.
The proposition from number of
the Canon City grocers-not all of
them signing-was read before the
meeting Tuesday afternoon. The Can
on City grocers offer a discount of
five percent on purchases amounting
TO IS or more when cash is paid, and
sugar, flour and some other of the
staples are excluded from the artic-
les on which a discount is offered.
The committee rejected the offer of
the Canon City merchants, and will
continue negotiations along the lines
of the California plan.
In this connection The Record is
requested by the ladies to make it
clear that the League does not wish
the other hand the League sincerely
hopes to be able to cooperate with
the home merchants for mutual bene-
fits and believes an agreement profit
able alike to buyer and seller can be
arranged. That there is large
wastage between producer and CON
sumer is realized by every thoughtful
person and the problem OF eliminating
some of this waste is one that is en-
gaging the attention of some of the
best thought in America. especially
at this time when our country is at
war and facing a food shortage. II
is estimated by some that the de-
livery system of Canon City wastes
approximately $1,000 a month. Waste
costs somebody something but does
nobody any good, and one of the OBJ
jects of the League is to eliminate
waste or reduce it to a minimum, and
in such effort the ladies' feel that
they should have the support and co
operation of every citizen.
There are already approximately
two hundred ladies enlisted in the
work of the League and new names
are being enrolled daily. Every wom-
an in the Canon City territory is in
.yited and expected to join in the
movement Ghairmen OF the sub-com-
mittees have been provided with mem
bership cards and are asking their
neighbors to sign. These cards may
be had from Mrs. Boucher, Mrs w.
H. Dozie, Mrs. James H. Peabody.
Mrs. Frank Hemphill, Mrs. D. L.
Robson, or by calling at Gov Pea
body's office. 402 Main street. Ladies
who have not already Joined are
urged TO procure cards Of membership
and join in the work. which in a way
is as vital to the country as going TO
the firing line.