The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-11

so low that he is actually losing
money!" Who is getting the differ
ence; is it the packer, or it is our
market man? We are surely paying
the outside price, or going hungry for
meat, and somebody must bank that
extra coin. There can be no other
conclusion, after admitting that labor
gets its share.
The compiler Of this bulletin infers
that the hotel and high class family
trade are not consuming as much
choice beef as they did before the
war, and also that families Of moder-
ate income are "eating only the cheap
er cuts, the price OF which must COM
pensate for that OF the cuts for which
there is a smaller demand" Cheap
er cuts!" heaven save the mark.
Certainly the high-priced hotels are
not serving so much high-class meat
as formerly. The portions are smaller
and the prices ever-so-much larger.
This has a tendency to scare the aver
age man who would really like to get
real food in sufficient quantity to ap-
pease his appetite, when he pays an
exorbitant price for 1t. For this reason
he rooms at eXtraVagant rates but
goes out Of his hotel to dine, at one
third to one-half the cost, and where
a reasonable tip is accepted with
pleasure.
The Rich Also Economic
AS to the highest class Of family
trade mentioned, war time Limitation
and self.denial has doubtless had an
effect which still persists. The feed.
ing of a retinue Of servants costs a
lot of money, at best, and if only the
choicest cuts Of meat are served, the
expense will be largely increased. 1t
is not to be expected that the con-
sumption Of beef and lamb will be
| nearly so great at the high figures
SO long prevailing. 1t is noticeable
too, that the demand for the cheaper
cuts has so greatly added to their
price that there really are no cheaper
cuts" by comparison with old-time
prices.
Time was when there was a marked
difference in the prices charged fol-
porterhouse, sirloin and round steaks
and when choice T-bone steaks figured
in butcher shop ads. Not that porter
house and all other steaks were dear;
they weren't, but there was a marked
| percentage of difference in price, low
as prices may have been. Since the
wartime demand awaited all prices
round steak has become good eat
ing" at any old price, in circles where
its flavor was unknown, except in thu
form of thick, juicy roasts.
But so far as the people are con
cerned the porterhouse has disap
peared. Only the Idle Rich,' if 70,
know any such, get a look-in on tina
delectable fraction of a beef, and w
common folks can hardly imagine hov
m 70 wi
D, French fried and a few trimmings, a
& fashionable city grill.
Live Stock Men Advertise
AS the elimination to this pressur
to force larger consumption of fres
meats twenty great live stock an
cattle raiserS' associations, includin
the National Wool Growers associs
ton, have just placed their first adve,
tisement in the large city dailies, heac
lined: Now You May Eat More Bee
and Lamb" They inform us that a
restrictions on meat are off, and tha
We may eat with a free conscienc,
beef. lamb and veal-three times
day, if you wish"
The advertisement goes on to sa
that England and other Europea
countries do not have to depend el
tirely upon us any more, and tha
} ever since the beginning Of the wa
American live stock raisers have bee
raising so much more live stock tina
usual that there is plenty to g
) round"
= These twenty associations are sea
I tered from Oregon to Texas and tn
l list includes the Indiana Cattle Fee,
2 ers' association, together with a nun
Der of state and sectional organic
tions Of stock men.