The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-07-27
STATE OF LOUISIANA
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE

Uo lSSuCu Wy tuO " d Ahuuo'i 'NF
Board at Washington, of which
Mr.. B. nj. Baruch is chairman
Secretary John Marshall, of the
Louisiana Council of Defense, has
received the following letter from
Mr.. Ii. K. Taylor, and the head
quarters of the State Council i,
busy today mailing out this re
quest to every retail merchant, ev
cry newspaper and every CONNER
cial body in Louisiana in an effol
to comply with the request made
by the War Industries Board
Mr.. Taylor's letter follows:
"We enclose copy of request
to every retail me, chant who deli
vers merchandise. Will you com
mulicate 1t to all retail stores il
your State9
Traditional copies of the enclos
ed forms will be supplied if de
sired.
"Please advise us of the cite
and towns in your state in winch
the retail stores have adopte0
these plans. We are making al
honor list of cities and towns that
are carrying out this request il
order to designate them on mai
in the Office of the Conservation
Division. We sh all rely upon you
to keep us informed of the places
in which all the retail merchants
have adopted the program, so thai
the showing for your state may bs
as good as possible.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Ell X. TAYLOR, For
Conservation Division. !"
The details of the War Indus
tries plan to curtail deliveries il
Louisiana Is contained in the fol
lowing official bulletin:
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL
RETAIL MERCHANTS.
Every retail merchant in tn.
United States is requested:
l. To restrict deliveries to one
trip day over each route.
2. To eliminate special deliver
les and restrict the privilege of
returning merchandise to MOI
more than three days.
3. TO organize cooperative deli
very systems wherever possible
and especially in the medium ana
small sized cities and towns.
"rhe rtquest for one delivery
day Oh each route applies to al
stores that maintain any form OF
delivery service, including dry
goods, clothing, or department
stores and grocery, meat and pro
vision stores Under one delivery
a day over each route, a delivery
vehicle may leave the store twice
or three times day but over
different route on each trip No'
more than one delivery a day il
made TO any one section of tn,
city or town. Delivery companies,
whether cooperative or individual
ly owned, are also requested t.
make only one trip day over
each route.
"The restrictions Oh returned
merchandise is to be interpreted
to mean three days in the custom
eI's possession. Ii is to be ap
piled IN all cases except for error
on the part of the seller or dtfec
tive merchandise.
'.The establishment of a COOPER
alive delivery system in every
place where it can be operated is
requested. Where a delivery sys
tenn is operating and giving salts
factory service, merchants are re
quested to avail themselves of the
savings that this form of delivery
makes possible. Merchants 10
larger cities who retain their indi
vIdual delivery service should. con
fine 1t, SO far as possible, to the
central sections and adopt the CO
operative plan for SUBURBAN se,v
ice, thus saving long trips of many
partially loaded vehicles.
"Every merchant Is requested
to put this program into effect at
once in his store. Carefully com
piled reports from stores in both
large and small cities that have
adopted these plans show that
substantial savings have resulted
In this way these stores have been
able to operate with smaller
force as their men have been call
ed into military service or engaged
in essential war occupations.
They are helping to win the war.
"Should any merchant desire
further information, he should
consult with the State Council of
Defense or with the Conservation
Division of the War Industries
Board.
CONSERVATION DIVISION.
WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD.'