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for peace with those who died to
preserve it,"
He told the press the committee
will ask all Americans to waste less,
rot to serve too much, to buy the
cheaper cuts of meat, to use left
overs and in general to obey the
same conservation rules in force
during the wartime shortages.
He would not say at first, however,
that this would mean that con-
sumers should "eat less" Finally,
after being pressed on the point, he
said it would amount to that, at
least for certain items.
He told reporters he plans to ask
for smaller bread loaf Cat pro-
portionately lower price,, that he
will seek to have the distillers cut
their use of grain for liquors and
the farmers to cut the use of wheat
for feed. But he stressed the point
that his committee can only ask
that this be done-that it has no
authority to order any one to do it
and does not plan to ask for such
power.
1--WE will work on this problem
from an overall standpoint" he
said, "and consider every section Of
the eeonomy-consumers, farmers,
distributors and the commercial
professors"
The reporters pressed relentlessly
for details rather than generalities,
but Mr.. Luckman told them it was
too early to give them. He said
that after all, the drive will begin
on Sunday night and that details
will be given out as the campaign
goes along.
On the question of whether the
committee is going to do anything
about high prices, Mr.. Luckman
said he feels the law of supply and
demand will continue to operate
and, therefore, for example. as the
prices of the less expensive meats
go up, because housewives switch to
them, the consumers will become
disinterested and switch once more.
Mr.. Luckman said the figures he
was given show there is a 10 to Is
per cent waste of foods by the
housewives of the Nation, but sew
eral reporters said they doubted it.
One Of them quoted a survey in The
Star recently, showing residential
garbage collections irf Washington
were at a wartime low.
Denies Any Idea Of Boycott.
"I'm sure there are families where
some bread is allowed to mold, and
it can be saved" Mr.. Luckman re-
piled.
He denied he was suggesting a
boycott Of high prices by consum-
ers when he said consumers should
buy the cheaper cuts.
No time limit on the campaign
has been set, Mr.. Luckman said in
reply to q question, but he added
his committee will meet from time
to time to appraise the results of
the voluntary campaign. Another
meeting is scheduled for next week.
Meanwhile, he will open Offices in
the old State Department building
across the street from the White
House and will direct the campaign
from there. He said he would work
full time on the job but that none
of the other committee members
will devote all their time to it.
In reply to several questions on
the goal Of the saving campaign,
he said he does not think there Is
q real difference between the two
recent food reports to the President,
one blythe Cabinet Food Committee
(Secretaries Marshall and Hartman
and Secretary of Agriculture An
derson) group, set up to appraise
the European requests for Mar
shall plan help. But ne said
the Citizens Food Committee is
shooting for the higher figure OF
$4,000 900 bushels of grain for
Europe, rather than the 470, 0,000, 900
figure of the cabinet committee.
Secretary Anderson, Secretary