Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-05
SELL No MEAT on
MEATLESS DAYS
! MASON CITY BUTCHERS AND GRO.
GERS TAKE STAND FOR REAL
CONSERVATION.
STRICT ADHERENCE TO
ADMINISTRATION RULES
No Hams 70 b Sold After Present
1 Stocks Are Disposed of-Grocers in
Agreement Not 70 Sell at Prices Over
Those Yielding Fair Profit - Push
Oatmeal Sales.

Mason City. Jan. 5.-No more meat
to be sold on meatless days. No hams
sold at all after present stock is gone.
Strict adherence to rule Of food ad-
ministration.
Those were the three principal de-
cisions reached in meeting Of the
meat dealers of the city with the food
administrators.
Not only will sales in meat markets
on Tuesday be limited to fish, poultry,
game, oysters. ETC., but persons order
ing large roasts, ETC., on Mondays will
have the meatless days approach called
to their attention. If they insist, tho
sale will be made, but their name taken
and reported'to the food administra-
ton.
Further, inasmuch as pork is scarce
and high priced and needed in the
army. Mason City butchers, as soon as
their present stock Of hams is ex-
hausted, will discontinue entirely the
sale Of hams.
Pass Resolutions.
The butchers also endorsed the reso-
buttons Of the national representatives
Of the retail grocery trade, which were
approved by the Mason City grocers
Wednesday:
The resolutions are:
1. We will, whether licensed or not,
cooperate with the United States food
administ. ration In every way possible
to insurer the enforcement Of its rules
and regulations and the success Of It's
conservation plans, and deliver to the
consumers Of the United States tae
necessities OF life as cheaply as it lies
within our power to do. We will earn
estly and vigorously recommend all
other retail grocers to pursue this
course steadfastly.
2. We recommend that retail grocers
discontinue the soliciting of orders dur
ing the period Of the war.
3. We~recommend the limitation OF
all deliveries to one day to any one
family or on any one route.
4. We recommend that under condi-
lions and in localities where It Is
feasible. the cooperative system Of de-
livery by employed.
S. We urge all retailers and their
clerks to concentrate their efforts on
selling wholesome and nutritious sub
stitutes for white flour and meat.
8. We recommend that the retailers
use their efforts to sell articles Of food
that are cheap yet Of good quality in
the place Of high priced staples. and
that in doing so they be guided by the
recommendation Of the conservation
department Of the food administration.
. 4. We urge the most strict economy
in the conduct Of all retail stores, and
constant effort to eliminate all waste
and extravagant methods, to the end
that time. energy. fuel, equipment and
men may be conserved, and that whole
some food may be placed in the hands
OF consumers at the lowest possible
prices. -
s. We recommend that retailers
turnout the country and their asso-
Citations, local, state and national. CO.
operate to the fullest extent with the
United States food administration, and
that they Immediately express their
purpose so to do by communicating
direct with the administration in
Washington.
z 9. We express our appreciation OF
the support that has been given the
food conservation work by the trade
papers Of the country and earnestly So
licit their continued corporation with
the food administration.
10. We recommend that all retail
grocers assist In the potato campaign
Of the food administration by urging
the sale Of that commodity this season.
IL. We urge that all food products,
where possible, be sold by weight in
reasonably large quantities and for
cash.
IL. We recommend that all retailers
urge the sale Of such items as small
prunes, cornmeal, oatmeal, rice, hon.
my and similar articles in bulk. 4
Is. We ask all retailers to urge the
sale of such articles as soup stock and
materials, peas, rice, barley, fresh veg
etables and fresh and canned cove
oysters.
IL. To the end that the country's in
dustries and their workers may be
maintained at the greatest efficiency,
and that any unreasonable profits or
speculation In food staples may be
eliminated, we pledge ourselves to the
United States government not to sell
any of the fundamental necessities Gas
announced by the president Of the
United States In his licensing procla-
nation Of Oct. 3, 1870 at margin
Of profit over the delivered cost to the
merchant that will yield to him more
than . reasonable living profit, ire
spect've Of the market conditions at
time Sof resale; and we pledge our
selves to urge other grocers, whether
under the licensing plan or not, to the
END that margins Of proht by retail
grocers thruoat the country over the
cost TO them shall not be greater than
prevails under normal conditions. We
urge that each retail grocer act In.
dividually, and that he sell the staple
foods Ut nossreater, profit than Is rea-
sonable In accordahce with their cost,
and his individual cost Of doing .busl-
ness. q sanctioned by the United States
food administration.
DRAFTED MEN WITHOUT JOBS.
Uncertainty ~ 20 Time Of Call Pre-.
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