Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-11
ID ADMINISTRATION
klNS SLACKERS' CLUB
taurants Will Circulate
Gard Pledging Signers
Against Conservation
fUBLIC IS ARRAIGNED
~ to Be Withholding Cooperation
in Struggle to Prevent
x Waste

q r0U-opcrate with the hotels ana reStau-
( 9ants working with the Food Admin
y 1stration to such an extent that "A slack
\ ers club Is being formed, the food Of
: hcials announced today at luncheon In
WAnamaker's tea-room.
~ Many complaints have been received
2 ~ the patriotic managers of hotels and
rontaurants against the meatless and
wheatless meais.' All OF these managers
are giving every effort to work with the
standardization. Some Of them, however,
nugUest II Is rather a temptation to
iGncre the administration orders when
ones business Is being coyralled by a
man around the corner who serves beef
ana pork on Tuesday, and wheat bread
tvery day.
In every restaurant in the city in
xood repute with the administration "a
sign will appear In a few days advising
the public Of the patriotism Of the
"eatery." Post cards. bearing Govern
ment frank. will be distributed among
all eating places working with the food
men to be signed. and mailed 10 Wash
layton. by all patrons objectlng to the
food conservation measures. These cards
VIII be as follows
POSTAL CARD PROTEST
This certifies that |. -. a cit
lien of the United States. residing at
A -, WISH TO record my ulSaI-
proval against the practice of mcatless
and weatless days as recommended
by your administration that ] am
not In favor of the conservation of
FOODS OF any kind or In any way, for
the use of the United States soldiers
to win this war. Further that on
lnisday -, - Chotel or
restaurant) - refused 10 serve
me meat or wheat bread until ! had
sikned this card releasing it's man
ngement from all responsibility for
lating the pledge given the United
states Government
Despite the Administrations campaign
70 install a universal cash-and- carry
system for groceries, announcement was
made that negotiations were 10 be car
'rted on with the large retail grocery con-
Germs In this city to put in delivery
system 1t was pointed out by Admin
istration officials that the housewife
could not carry home "A bushel of pota-
toes weighing sixty pounds. Unless some
method of delivery was found the cam
paign for the use of potatoes would fail
they said.
The increased supply of milk now
coming into Philadelphia is being used
up by the consumer, DR.. Clyde l.. King,
milk expert for the food administration,
said. The condenserieB are using less
milk than in the past. However the
popular response to the request for an
increased use of milk has been SO
great that no surplus on the market at
present. he said.
The United States must prevent Ger
many, with her newly acquired food
lands. starving the American and Allied
fighters, according to J. Miller Frazier.
manager OF the Bellevue Stratford
Hotel, who addressed the City Business
(fIv1h fnday s'Eppt
''Pennsylvania hotels saved 100000
pounds of meat and 100000 pounds OF
wheat -four in December and 1000, ,OOt
{, pounds of meat and 100000 pounds Of
z wheat hour In January. said Mr.. Fraz-
lie. who is the hotelman's representa-
rive with the Federal Food .admnistra-
ton for Pennsylvania. philadelphia
hotels and restaurants, which feed 10
Der cent of the population, have con-
served food as matter Of good busi-
ness as well as of patriotism
Mr. Frazier urged the increased use
OF corn. which. he said, could be made
into delectable dishes.
COOKE AFTER PRoFITEERs
Jay Cooke, food administrator for
Philadelphia, today began an investiga-
ton Of the charges that many South
Philadelphia grocers are not cooperating
with the food administration in con-
serving wheat and are reaping big profits
~ supplying their customers with wheat
products.
: A. several of his assistants started out
10 verify the accusation. which was made
by the Penn Grocers' Association, an or
sanitation of South Philadelphia Jewish
xrocers, Mr.. Cooke made IL plain that
he will make 1t hot for those grocers
who are aiding the Hun by wasting
wheat.
Fifty grocery brokerage firms in this
vicinity, through whose hands millions
of dollars worth Of foodstuffs pass an
nually. have formed a brokers' secticn
In the Association of Manufacturers
Representatives of Philadelphia. The
126 members OF this new body have
pledged their efforts In furthering food
administration conservation wishes.
& Nearly all the groceries consumed in
this territory go through these brokerage
firms and the pledge is highly regarded
~ the food administration.
u Philadelphia school children in the
civic courses are to be constituted vel
upteer inspectors of the. food admins
lrAtion II plans which Jay Cooke, the
1ood administrator for Philadelphia. ls
'considering are adopted. Nearly 10000
Boys and girls will be asked to volun-
tear as agents of the food administra-
tion to look for violations of the price
lists sent. cut by Mr. Cooke. With this
army OF inspectors busy 1t is believed
that most Of the profteering can be
stopped
W0MEN READY To AIN