The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-02-22
FOOD EXPERT TO
ADDRESS MEETING
DEMONSTRATION
Big Gathering of Southeast
Missouri Delegates Here
March 9TH.
SCHEDULE OF MEATLESS
DAYS GIVEN TO HOTELS
Restrictions Of Sale of Wheat
aud Meat Must Be Strictly
Observed in Future.

A grand rally of representatives o
1.-THE food committees of the counties OF
{ Southeast Missouri will be held i'll the
Cape March 7, DR.. w. S. Dearmont
chairman of the Cape County Food
Administration announced Saturday
evening having received d commun
ication from the State Food Admin
| istrator Dean Mumford of Columbia
No. Dr. Julius Lincoln of the Penn
s..lvania University, and Mrs. William
Osborne Wade of New York, a member
of the National Food Administration,
will address the meeting.
The purpose Of the meeting is to
familia-iZe the members Of the coun-
ties With their duties as food conserv-
CTS and to impart the ideas of fooG
conservation TO the inhabitants of
their districts. Representatives from
The following counties have been ask
ed to attend the meeting: PemiScott,
Dunklin, Stoddard, Perry, Bollinger,
Scott, Stoddard, Perry, Bollinger,
Madison, Ste Genevieve and Cape
Girardeau.
DR.. Lincoln is reputed to be an eX-
pert on food conservation work. H
recently returned from Europe, where
he studied the system of food con-
servation and food distribution. He
has visited France, Italy and Eng
gland, where the food conservation
plan has been given thorough test.
He will explain to the food delegates
The manner in which each individual
and each district can do its share in
the conservation of food.
Mrs Wade has been an active
worker in civic and principally ma
tional affairs since the beginning of
the war. She has lectured in many
large cities on the Liberty Loan bonds
and Rcd Cross work, and on other
issues which grew out of the declara-
ton of war on Germany andAustria.
A schedule showing the meatless,
wheatlcss and porkless days, which
have been fixed by the national food
administration, was given by DR..
beaumont to the restaurant and hotel
owners Of the city Saturday.
The observance of schedule is not
d legal order set down by !
any law, but merely an urgent re-
quest of the food administration 20 |
the restaurants and hotels for the con-
Scrvation of wheat and meat. Accord !
ing to this schedule breakfast is to |
be entirely meatleSs throughout the
week, while supper is Il whcatless /
meal. In addition TO these regular re-
strictions on the use of wheat and
meat, Tuesday meal will be entirely |
all meals on Monday and
will be wheatless, No food
prepared with wheat will be served on
these two days Besides these days
Saturday has been fixed as porkless
day.
Dr. beaumont III calling attention /
TO the restrictions placed on the con
of wheat and meat brought |
before the hotel and restaurant own
crs that they were expected to strict
lyobServe the orders. The observance |
of the orders. he told them, was not !
backed by any law, but wasmerely a |
patriotic movement on the part of the
hotels and restaurants.
The sale of wheat flour in the retail |
stores has been limited by orders of
the food administration Each Gus
toner must buy the same quantity |
OF substitutes for wheat flour as eI
DC s flour and grocers have been or
dcrcd to enforce the rule. A violation !
oe the order would result in the dis
Of the sale of flour by |
the wholesale dealers to the retailers,
said Dr. Dcarmont.