The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-03
FOOD ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.
Hotels, Restaurants and Boarding
Houses Warned to Obey Regula-
tiOns.

A. Lennon, desires to inform all
public eating places in this city, and
in Sumter county. and that means
every restaurant, lunch counter
boarding house. regardless Of how
many boarders. and all hotels. and
any and all places serving meals or
lunches. that 1t Is now no longer op-
tional. but II is compulsory to OBJ
serve the wheatless day and other
wheat programs of the Food Admin
istratfon, and further that the Food
Administration il actively at work un-
dertaking to detect any violations Of
these rules.
1t has been reported to the local
food administrators that some per-
sons are or have been seeking to In
duce restaurants to serve them wheat
and meat on wheatless and meatless
days. and being refused. these people
have left the loyal and patriotic res
taurants and gone to other eating
houses. To begin with. no self-re-
specting. loyal or patriotic individual
will try to entice a restaurant. hotel
or boarding house proprietor to vio-
late the laws or requests of the gov
ernment. and all who do exhibit de-
cidedly low ideals of decent and pa
triotic citizenship. .
Being compulsory now the wheat
less days must be observed in all pub
lie eating places. and the food ad-
ministrators have been explicitly in
structed to use every possible means
to detect violations of these rules.
The administrators also respectful
ly request and urge upon all loyal and
patriotic. law abiding citizens to re-
port to either Mr.. G. A. Lennon.
County Food Administrator. or his as
sistant Mr.. f. I. Reardon, all VIOLA
tions within the knowledge or hear
ing of anyone.
The new rules regarding the reduc-
ton OF wheat consumption to one and
a-half pounds of wheat products
weekly per person. have been widely
published and there is no excuse to
plead ignorance Of these rules, or to
fail to continue to observe two wheat
less days each week. Mondays and
Wednesdays, in addition to the one
and a-half pound Of wheat weekly
per person.
There are methods OF finding out
violations which will undoubtedly
sooner or later. detect violations. and
detection and proof of guilt simply
means prosecution. heavy fines and
possibly Imprisonment. and suspen-
sion Of business.
Mr.. Lennon. the County Food Ad-
ministrator, urges the twenty-three
food administration representatives in
this county to rigidly enforce this law
and requests them and all law abiding
citizens to promptly report to him or
his assistant or to any Of the twenty
three food administration representa-
tives any violations.
The wheatless program is still op-
tional with private families. but the
government depends upon the patriot
ism. loyalty. and gratitude OF our
citizenship TO our soldiers and sailors
to voluntarily make this small sacri-
flee I'm order to avoid the necessity
OF absolutely depriving the civilian
population OF eating any wheat at all.
The allies must also be provided with
wheat and meat, and unless we con-
serve fifty per cent of the present sup
ply. until the next wheat harvest. our
armies must go without the necessary
wheat and meat that they need to sus-
tain life.