The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-12
ICE CONSERVATION ORDER
IN EFFECT LAST FRIDAY

| Alanta, Ia.i June 1.-The enforce
ment of the ice conservation order
issued Friday night by DIR. Andrew
M. Soule, federal food administrator
publication of which, DR.. Soule says
is to be accepted as official by coun-
ty administrators and all parties con-
cerned, has not yet gone far enough
to meet the actual demand in hand
ling the peach crop movement and
meeting essential domestic ice con-
sumption.
The order today was continued by
DR.. Soule as follows:
Il. The use of cracked, crushed or
shaved ice is prohibited in service of
individual soft drinks or beverages
over the counter or at table by soda
founts, soft drink dealers, clubs, ho-
tells and public eating houses.
20. This is intended to apply and
prohibit the use of ice in individual
glasses of beverages or soft drinks
as has commonly been the custom at
fountains in the counter or table serv-
ice and at resorts in similar service;
to the use of cracked or crushed ice
in Individual glasses at table in the
service of table waters and beverages
served iii hotels clubs and public pla-
ces. It's purpose is to eliminate the
unnecessary use of additional ice in
cases where refrigeration in quantity
is equally serviceable. 1t is not to
be construed as prohibiting the serv-
ice of ice water to guests in their
rooms in hotels and clubs by pitcher
or other container service, in which
cracked iuv IS used However, num-
erous hotels have adopted guest
room thermos bottles for ice water,
which vastly reduces the room service
of ice, and this is particularly en-
couraged by the administration.
%. All dealers in and manufac-
turers of ice are prohibited from de.
livering, by daily delivery or other
wise, any quantity of ice greater than
rs per cent of the daily average
amount delivered during the week
beginning May 26, to any soda foun-
tain, soft drink dealer, club, hotel, res.
taurant or other public eating place
"The foregoing limitation is not
equal to the increased actual demand
for ice in handling the peach crop, in
meeting the necessities of the increas-
ed population in certain centers due
to military activity and protecting the
homes against serious ice shortage.
Computation shows necessity for a
minimum 50 per cent restriction, but
the administration is o. the opinion
that strict and uniform conservation
by all consumers under merely rs
per cent restriction can be made to
meet the actual demands.
- In all homes the housekeeper is
particularly urged to guard refriger-
ator practices and to see that the
doors and ice compartments are kept
tightly closed; to refrigerate the
drinking water rather than using
cracked ice and to eliminate in par
ties and entertainments those refresh
ments which are heavy consumers of
ice; to purchase ice cream from a
manufacturer rather than freezing at
home.
"The foregoing is in the interest
of home conservation. Refrigerated
waters and beverages, for home use,
snswer every requirement, and the
freezing of ice creams in bulk by
large makers requires, comparatively
far less ice than for individual freez-
ing, and in large centers is an entire
saving since the freezing is by re-
! frigerating plants of the manufacture
er.
Finally, the administration again
urges the canning or preserving Of
peaches as literally as possible to
prevent loss of any part of the cror
which may not or can not be shipped
Publication of all of the foregoing
to be accepted by county administra-
tors, and all parties concerned as Of
fetal"