Evening star., 1947-10-12
|Luckman Asks
Aid Of Mayors
In Saving Food
Truman Expected to
Appeal to Governors
To Form Committees
MEAT. POULTRY, EGG Sales Drop
in Week. Page AS
By Chalmers M. Roberts

Dy NhoimerS m. koDertS
Chairman Charles Luckman of
the Citizens Food Committee last
night asked the mayors of every
city of over 10000 population to
help put over the food conserva-
ton drive by organizing local
conservation committees.
President Truman is expected to
follow up early this week by tele-
graphing similar appeal to the 48
State governors for proclamations
indorsing meatless and poultryless
days and creating citizens commit
tees in each State.
The kilograms dispatched last
night to the mayors called atten-
ton to the grave emergency con-
fronting the hungry people of
Europe and the responsibility this
places on us as free people"
"The deluge of inquiries we have
already received from individuals
and corporations offering every CO.
operation requires the immediate
establishment of local citizens food
committee in your community" the
telegram read.
Full Support Asked.
"The President and the Citizens
Food Committee request most earn
estly, therefore, your full support in
organizing your community"
Mr.. Luckman promised the Mayors
that information would be sent
quickly to help the local committees
organize effective campaigns, and
suggested that each local body in
clude representatives of churches,
the Red Cross, schools, women's
groups, labor, business. civic, veter.
ans and fraternal organizations.
The mayoral proclamations, Mr..
Luckman suggested, should put spe-
cial emphasis on the four-point
White House program: 81. Use no
meat on Tuesday. 2. Use no poultry
or eggs on Thursday. 3. Save a
slice of bread every day. 4. Restau-
rants to serve bread and butter only
on request"
This latest move in the Nation-
wide drive to save" 100 900 900 BUSH
els OF grain came at the end of the
food groups first full week of activ-
ity, as busy a seven-day period as
Washington has ever seen in a new
agency.
Luckman Appoints Staff.
Mr.. Luckman, the $500, ,Oo0-a year
head of Lever Brothers who is the
voluntary unpaid chairman of the
committee, last night also announced
appointment of his staff. 1t was
the first organizational move to
bring order out of the chaos which
has surrounded the Luckman head.
quarters in the old State Depart
ment building since the program was
launched by President Truman last
Sunday night.
During the first week, as one Of
the new appointees put it last night,
Mr.. Luckman was in the position of
being so busy he didn't have time
to organize staff"
The group who will work with
him includes associates from the
advertising and business world with
a sprinkling of help loaned by
regular Government agencies. The
appointees are:
Vice-chairman for operations:
Don Belding, West Coast advertis-
ing executive and vice chairman of
the Commerce Departments Small
Business Advisory Committee.
Vice chairman for policy: David
M. Noyes, West Coast business con-
sultant who served as an assistant
to Donald Nelson in War Produce
tion Board days.
Vice chairman for industries and
labor: Austin Fisher, head of
New York labor relations firm.
Legal Aides Include Fortas.
Legal assistants to the chairman:
Abe Fortas, former Undersecretary
of the Interior, and James M.
Barnes, former member of Con-
gress and White House assistant.
Both are now Washington attorneys
representing various Lever Brothers
interests.
All of these officials will serve
(See FOOD pace A-60