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Show RETAIL MERCK GOING TO MEETING Will Make Protest on Ruling Rul-ing Regarding Substitutes With Flour Purchases. To wage a campaign through which to secure for Salt Lake the 1919 convention conven-tion of the National Retail Dealers' association, as-sociation, a strong delegation of alt La"ke retail grocers was sent this week to attend the national convention In Chicago. Chi-cago. Those composing the Salt Lake delegation are: D. A. Afleck, president of the Utah State Retail Grocers' association; William Wil-liam Murdock, secretary; B. M. Olson and John S. Harper, editor of the Retail Merchant, trade journal of the association. associa-tion. With this party went J. S. Carver of Ogden, a member of the executive board of the National Retail Dealers' association. as-sociation. The party will be augmented along the way with other retailers' delegations, dele-gations, pledged to strive for the 1919 convention for the west. The Chicago convention is scheduled to open in Chicago, May 20, .and prior to that meeting the Utah delegation will call on the food administration in Washington Wash-ington to try to effect a modification of the flour substitute rules, so that they can be made to apply more effectively to local western conditions. The delegation will attempt to demonstrate demon-strate to Administrator Herbert Hoover that a rule that operates successfully in the east is diametrically in opposition to food and living conditions obtaining in the west, and will strive to have the things produced in abunda.nce in the west made the principal substitutes for wheat, rather than the things that are native to farther eastern climates arid conditions. condi-tions. One of the modifications the Utah dele-, gation will urge is the replacing of potatoes po-tatoes on the western substitute list. |