Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-01-25
ORDER ON CLOSING
ALL FOOD STORES
Ruling That They Cease Business
at Noon Mondays
Complaints Will Be mvestigated-Be
lief Expressed, However, of Ready
Compliance by Dealers.

If the desires of the national and state
fuel and food administrations are followed
there will be general closing of whole
sale and retail food stores in Vermont
Monday, Jan. IS, and for the remaining
eight Mondays during which Fuel Ad-
minstrator Garield's order is in effect.
The national fuel administration, be-
cause Of the confusion created by the va
rious interpretations made of the orig
inal order as affecting food stores, ruled
that on Monday, Jan. 81, food stores
might remain open all day. This sus-
pension of the original order applied only
to that Monday, however, and is not in
effect on any Of the succeeding Mondays.
Fuel Administrator Jones yesterday said
emphatically that in his opinion the spirit
of the order is beyond question that all
| stores, with the exception Of those deal
| ing in foods, shall remain closed all day
| Mondays, and there is no change what
soever in the application Of the order to
them. Mr.. Jones further says that the
| spirit OF the order is that the food stores
shall close at noon. The national fuel
and food administrators, Mr. Garfield and
Mr. Hoover, have joined in urging on
patriotic grounds, that the wholesale and
retail grocery stores shall strictly observe
the spirit of the order and close their
doors at - o'clock noon OH Mondays, be-
| ginning Jan. %.
At a conference yesterday between
Mr.. Jones and Acting Food Administra
tor John r. Cushing of St. Adams on
this point the two administrators
were in agreement that, with timely
warning to the public, the distribution OF
food would not be endangered if the gro
Gerry stores wholesale and retail, were to
close at noon on such Mondays. Conse
quently the decision of the two admin
istrations is that food stores shall close
at noon, and any complaints received tina,
such action will result in cndangerinp
necessary food distribution will be in
vestigated by each department and de
cison reached in each individual case
No such complaints are expected. how
ever, for the consuming public, with am
pie warning, can secure its food supplies
exactly as it would before any regular
holiday. Both administrators agreed that
a blanket permission should be giver
wholesale dealers to make emergency
shipments of food in the afternoon after
their doors had been closed at noon
Mr.. Cushing has ruled that grist mill.
of milling, but when with the millin.
there is combined wholesale or retail
sale of foodstuffs or animal feeds, no salet
OF either food or feed should be made il
the afternoon, this being the spirit of tn,
order.
The intention of the order is to inter
fere at minimum with the manufactur,
and the necessary distribution of foods
Consequently, Mr.. Cushing has been lib
eral in his Interpretation of the order ant
so far as its effect on food production
and on collateral industries supporting
food industries is concerned Speciti
cially the closing order does not affec
grain elevators, potato or vegetable
houses, cold storage, grain storage, glair
feed mills, necessary cereal product manu-
facturers bakers, Gamers, milk dealers
creameries, condensers, all milk product
manufactures, packing and slaughte
houses, necessary ice plants and rctrig
Grating. sugar manufacturers
Manufacturers of farm machinery
binder Irvine, ammonia, insecticides an,
fertilizers are also exempt and permissio,
to operate has been granted collatea
food industries in several instances an,
any further applications for permits vii
be passed on by Mr. Cushing