The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
FOOD ADMINISTRATION NEWS
Hotels and Restaurants, GrOccrs anu
Consumers to Bc Required to Obey
Rules.

| county FOod ADMINISTRATOR q. A.
Lennon, and his assistant +. i. Rear
don have had four conferences in the
past three days with the proprietors
OF public eating places. commercial
bakers. and merchants of this city
who sell bakers bread brought into
Sumter from other places.
The objects of the meetings and
discussions are two fold in character.
The first to explain to hotels. restau-
rants, boarding houses, lunch rooms
and all other places serving meals
the new regulations of the United
States Food Administration regarding
the conservation of wheat, and to
have public eating place proprietors
sign an agreement to abide by the
regulations which are now compulsory
with public eating places.
Most of the proprietors of public
eating places attended the meeting
for white proprietors of these places
last Saturday afternoon, and practical
ly every co!Ored proprietor attended
the meeting last Monday afternoon,
both meetings being held at Chamber
of Commerce, and all who attended
the two meetings signed the agree
ment. County Food Administrator G.
A. Lennon has instructed his assist
ant food administrator to wait until
nsxt Monday for those who did not
attend the meetings or who refused
to sign the agreement and If at that
time delinquents do not respond his
assistant was ordered to call upon the
delinquents at their places Of bust
ness and ask the question direct
whether these delinauents are with or
against government and the food ad-
ministration and to report to Mr.. Lem
mon just what each delinquent has to
say In order that the results of the
interview and the names of those re-
fusing to cooperate may be forward
ed to Columbia to State Food Admin
istrator William Elliott and by him
to the United States Food Administra-
tion in Washington.
The two local commercial bakeries.
the Sumter Bakery and the New
York Bakery, of Sumter. had repre-
sentatives at both meetings and ex-
planned to the propr.etors of the eat
ing places what quick bread, victory
bread. brown bread or rye are COM
posed of. and offered to bake bread
In any form required by the govern.
mcnt for the public eating places,
and for sale to the general public
through Sumter merchants.
The local food administrators de-
sire that the people of Sumter and
Sumter county and the merchants
thereof will buy and eat Sumter bak-
ed bread, and sell no other, and that
public eating places will serve none
but Sumter made bread
If Sumter people will eat only Sum
ter baked bread. and will sell only
Sumter baked bread they will help the
government to win the war by releas-
ing the railroads from hauling many
thousands of baskets of bread into
Sumter and hauling the empty bas-
kets back to where they came from.
BY eating Sumter baked bread, which
is just as good and as wholesome.
and as cheap. and much fresher.
Sumter city and county people help
to keep thousands of dollars of Sum-
ter and Sumter county money in this
city and county for redistribution
among business establishments and to
furnish Sumter people with jobs
and besides there Is no patriotism i'm
buying from or patronizing bakeries
of other towns and cities when the
government is pleading with the peo-
pie to help out by doing away with
unnecessary shipping OF food and
feedstuffs which can be produced or
home farms and Manufactured al
home. Every hotel and restaurant
of the first class i'm Sumter has agreed
20 serve none but Sumter made bread
from Sumter's two commercial baker
les