Evening star., 1947-10-06
District Restaurants
Expected 10 Agree
To MeatIess DAYS

To Meat|ess Days
Washington perpared today, to dc
its part in the Nationwide food saw
ing campaign.
The Restaurant Association, which
had opposed the idea of meatless
days, Undoubtedly" will agree to
observe Tuesday as a meatless day
and Thursday as an eggless and
poultryless day, Robert J. Wilson
the association secretary, said today
There's no doubt at all that the
restaurants will 60 along" Mr.. Will
son said. The association is to meet
with the District Commissioners to-
morrow morning to present its own
food conservation program including
such measures as less wasteful serv-
ings, use of lower priced meat cuts
and better buying practices. A
meeting Of the groups Executive
Committee today is expected to add
the meatless and poultryless-eggless
days to this program, Mr.. Wilson
said.
We think our own program will
save millions of pounds of food a
week, but II the President asks for
these two specific days, we'll CO.
operate" he added.
Some Delay Likely.
| 1t Is not likely, however, that all
restaurants and hotels here will be
able to observe tomorrow as meat
less day because of difficulty in
switching menus worked out in ad-
vance and calling for meat dishes
Printed menus showing such dishes
are often prepared a week in ad-
vance, Mr.. Wilson said, and prob
ably will not be changed so quickly.
The association already has agreed
to the Presidents suggestion that
bread not be served unless requested
Some restaurants already have put
this plan into effect, Mr.. Wilson
said.
| The restaurant group is planning
a poster campaign to 60 with the
food saving drive and will make 1t
public after approval by the Com
missioners.
Mr.. Wilson estimated that the
public eating places of the Nation
restaurants, hotels, dining cars,
drug stores and others-consume
about Is per cent of all the edible
food produced on the farms of
America. He estimated the COM
parable figure for Washington prob
ably is bit higher due to the
large number OF people who "eat
out" here.
The Washington Hotel Association
plans meeting within the next 48
hours to discuss action by local
hotels. Many members of the asso-
citation have just returned from a
hotel convention in Texas and have
not had time to consider plans for
meatless or eggless and poultryless
days.
10000 Cases Of Eggs a Week.
Figures on meat, poultry and egg
consumption in the Washington
area are not collected in any one
place, but one egg dealer was able
today to give an estimate of egg
consumption, giving an indication
of the huge savings that are pos
sible If the program is lived up
to by the public.
The Washington area uses about
10000 cases of eggs a week, said
Henry Males, egg wholesaler, and
each case contains 80 dozen, a total
of 100000 dozen eggs a week.
OF this total, about a fourth goes
to Government institutions and
Army Mayfair Force installa-
tionS, another fourth to public eat
ing places and about half to the
individual home and apartment.
A saving of one-seventh, if one
eggless day week is strictly OBJ
served, thus would be more than
85, 200 dozen eggs week.
Week to Judge Savings.
Meat and poultry wholesalers said
today it would take at least week
to tell how much is being saved.
Raymond Briggs, chairman of whole
sale meat division of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association,
said the dealers will cooperate
fully in the plan.
IF the public won't buy meat
the wholesalers won't order it and
prices should 60 down. Then this
price spiral will STOP" Mr.. Briggs
said.
Daniel Willard, of the Metropol-
itan Poultry Co., said about 80 per
cent of all the poultry consumed
in the Washington area is raised
in the Delaware Peninsula and in
Virginia. He said poultry farmers
are already saying they are going
to cut down on the amount they
raise because Of high feed prices.
If the public cuts its buying as well,
considerable grain saving will be
made.
A pledge Of cooperation came to-
day from the Progress Club, a group
of $50 business and professional
men, who meet twice month for a
Tuesday lunch. Ferdinand Ney, the
clubs house chairman, said they
will do without meat at each lunch
during the food emergency. The
club meets at the Willard Hotel.