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Show LOYALTY 5101 BY RETAIL BliTS Pledge Support to Government Govern-ment in Food Conservation Conserva-tion and Control. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, July 11. Pledging their support sup-port to the federal government in the control and conservation of food, delegates dele-gates in attendance at the annual convention con-vention of the I'tah Retail Merchants' association here today went on record as unutterably opposed to the hoarding of foodstuffs by unpatriotic speculators. The association will also indorse a bill to remove re-move the present government tax on oleomargarine on the grounds that it is a staple food product. The resolutions adopted -by the mer-r mer-r chants also pledge support to the national and state officials in the effort to prohibit pro-hibit the slaughtering of calves and lambs. It is contended that animals slaugntered at a weight of 100 pounds will furnish six times that amount of food when fully matured. The association will co-operate with women's clubs to eliminate much expense due to extra deliveries, it being the plan to make not more than one delivery de-livery to one family each day. Hereafter the association members will discourage the practice of soliciting grocery gro-cery orders and likewise the price cutting cut-ting on a few articles, with the resulting addition to the cost of others. The association as-sociation will support the campaign started start-ed by women of the state to close all mercantile establishments on Sundav. D. A. Affleck of Salt Lake was elected president of the state association to succeed suc-ceed Fred E Williams of this city. The other officers are: W. A. James of Og-den, Og-den, first vice president; B. M. Olson of Salt Lake, second vice president; A. Coop of Ogden, third vice president; A. E. Poulter of Salt Lake, fourth vice president; pres-ident; Edwin Wright of Salt Lake, treasurer; treas-urer; William Murdock of Salt Lake, secretary; sec-retary; John Harper of Salt Lake, assistant as-sistant vice president, and Fred E. Williams Wil-liams of Ogden, chairman of the board of directors. The new directors elected todav are: T. S. Davis. C. M. Lees, Louis Shank, John McCullough, H. P. Nielsen and J. F, Kirk, all of Salt Lake; G. A. Nicholas, H. B. Sawyer, Joseph Bingham, Lawrence Evans and George Wilson, all of Ogden. The next annual meeting will be held In Salt Lake City. About fifty delegates, almost all of them . from Salt Lake and Ogden, attended the convention, which was held in the Hermitage Her-mitage hole, Ogden canyon. President Williams presided at the business session which was opened at 2 o'clock. There was a banquet this evening, at which the- speakers were Attorney Joseph Chez, Alva Scoville, J. S. Carver ajid C. M. Lees of Salt Lake. |