The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-15
Food Administration Notes.

~ 'CO'''uiio VI any NlIlu WIlItt Nit
be purchased ut home, are purchased
elsewhere, because the United States
government needs every available
FOOT of transportation tonnage to haul
soldiers and their equipment, and
to haul food to the seaports to feed
our soldiers and the armies of our
allies.
Every time Sumter family orders
groceries from some wholesale house
in another and larger city that family
Is seriously interfering with the win
ming of the war ana is Gripping the
efficiency of the railway companies
and therefore crippling the efficiency
of the United States army, and that
family is working against the person
al interests and the safety Of the
hundreds of thousands of American
soldiers and OF the soldiers of Eng
land. France, and other allies OF
America who are making or Offering
to make the supreme sacrifice i'm or.
der that those who do not go and
tight, and die, may remain i'm the
comfort, prosperity. and the safety
of the home, thousands of miles
away from the battle fronts.
Any family i'm Sumter, or elsewhere
i'm America, that does not purchase
its food supplies i'm their home town,
when there are dozens Of wholesale
and retail establishments selling all
necessary foods, is exhibiting a sell
lish, unpatrotic, and unbusness- like
citizenship to say the least of it.
Then again it should be remem-
bered that Sumters wholesale ana
retail grocers pay city, county an
State taxes to help keep our Sumter
city and Sumter county schools open,
TO support our fire department and
police force and board Of health Tor
protection of life and property. to
pay Tor decent streets and rural
highways, and to otherwise support
the county and the city governments,
and these local grocery establish
ments contribute to the support of
our churches, Y. NJ. G. A., Chamber
OF Commerce, Civic League, Tubcr-
culosis Camp, Sunday schools, to sey-
eral charity associations, and all 9th
cr public activities. while the whole
sale grocers of distant cities do none
OF these necessary things for Sumter
ana the county of Sumter. Neither
do Wholesale grOcers i'm distant cities
employ hundreds Of Sumter men and
women, or rent houses, stores, and
warehouses, or cause hundreds OF
houses to he rented by men and wo-
men who are employed by Sumter
srocers and their numerous employees,
men and women, buy annually many
thousands of dollars worth of shoes.
clothing, dry goods and other COM
mercial commodities, such as drugs.
and pay local physicians. attorneys.
ana other people for services rem
dered, tc.
1t is said that the local food ad-
mlnistrators are hunting up the
Sumter people who send out of Sum-
ter for their groceries Wholesale for
tnQ nlIrnnSa nj fal Z.
patriotic they are
There are said to be some parties
i'm Sumter who object to what they
term being forced to patronize home
bakeries" when as Il matter of fact
some of these same parties didn't hes
itate to buy Spartanburg bread ship
ped into Sumter manufactured by "A
Spartanburg German baker who was
arrested and indicted for receiving
stolen food and stealing from Uncle
SANS soldier larder at Camp
WadswOrth i'm Spartanburg, and en-
ticing young soldiers to do the steal
ing for him.
Mr.. q. A. Lennon, county food
administrator authorizes the state
mcnt that he proposes to see that the
sumter baked bread measures up TO
any bread shipped into Sumter i'm
quality, palatablcncss and weight and
wholcsomencSs. That any Sumter
family having any iustiiiable or imngi-
nary justiliablc cause of complaint il
requested to notify him and that
their complaints will receive imme-
diatc and courteous consideration ana
investigation. The county food ad-
mniStratOrs are the ones to do Your
talking to if you have anythinE to
complain of.