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Show PATRONS ARE THE PATRIOTS Customers of Some Hotels Profit Vary Little by New Plan of Conservation Conserva-tion of Food Supply. The food administration Is pleased to pieces with the New York hotels for saving more than a thousand barrels of flour a week nnd some 17 tona of meat a dny by these wheatless-meat-less occasions thnt are so popular now, a writer In Collier's observes. Provision Pro-vision dealers report a falling off In sales, and all Is lovely and statistical. TIs a fair plcturo to gate upon, but honor where honor Is duel That patient pa-tient hero, the hotel patron, ought to come In for a few kind words, sine he pays the full price and eats the half portion. "Save wheat use corn" bread Is 10 cents, corn bread Is 15 cents. As a transient consumer, the other noon, we pnid 90 cents for a slice of beef as large as a postal card, plus one table-spoonful table-spoonful of creamed potatoes, plus a bit of Yorkshire pudding about the sic of a watch. No doubt It was nil that was good for us. but the price was more. If the widely known prlnclplea of economics are still working, we helped make meat and bread cheaper and paid as much as If we were making mak-ing them dearer. A patriot Is a noble thing, hut Isn't It better to be one) than to trim one? T'o hotel keepers t Manhattan are playing both sides of the game and the food administration furnishes a Jnr.z band of etntlstlcal admiration for their efforts. These bonlfnces who are shrinking the menls and swelling the prices need something all right, but not governmental encouragement. Meanwhile the hotel user can feel sure that the war hns not Thonged his function func-tion at all he's the paying goat now Just as he used to be. |