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Show B FOOD RULES AS BirauooM UTS - A number of Ogden merchants met I in the city hall yesterday afternoon to lislon to the formal orders concerning the new food regulations concerning I the sales of white flour and a percent-1 age of substitutes, the rules calling fori pound for pound of white flour and substitute when the merchant makes ' the sale. The merchants had already I been notified of the orders and had j put them, into effect 1 The ne'w rules as given out at the ! office of State food administrator W. ! W. Armstrong were brought to the Ogden Og-den merchants ycaterday by P. M. MacGregor. After Rome consideration of tho now rules and their full explanation expla-nation by M. MacGregor a committee of six merchants was formed voluntarily volun-tarily to keep watch over tho observance obser-vance of tho rules In Ogden. Rules Must Be Obeyed. Mr. MacGregor told the members present that there were some rumors that a few deals had been mado in Ogden that were not in accord with the new food regulations. Ho stated, however, that the food administration had not checked up on these to any extent at the present time, but that ho was now giving a final warning and that those merchants who continue to violate the rules, If there aro any such, will get into trouble. It was announced at the meeting that Mrs. C. F. Schramm of the food administration of Utah will como to Ogden within a few days to form a vigilance committee among the women wom-en of the city. The committee will take up maters with the merchants and will co-operato with them in enforcing en-forcing the new rules. They will report re-port to tho food administration any violations of the regulations that may come to their knowledge. Tho merchants of tho section which handles groceries expressed an appreciation appre-ciation of tho vigilance committee plan and stated thaUthoy would glvo them overy assistance. Tho following rule regarding tho Use of flour and substitutes in bakeries bak-eries became effective yesterday: "To all bakers, restaurants and hotels ho-tels in tho state of Utah. We aro In receipt of the following telegram from Washington, under dato of March 16, 1918, reading: " 'All bakers who are not using required re-quired 20 por cent of wheat flour sub -' stitutes ln bread and rolls must cease baking those products on March 20th, and will not resume operations1 until they nro prepared to uso the substitutes substi-tutes as required, upon pain of revocation revo-cation of their license.' "This order will be strictly enforced enforc-ed and It behooves you to immediately take stops to obtain tho uocessary substitutes sub-stitutes or otherwise close down. , "If unablo to obtain substitutes in sufficient quantity to continue up to your allotted capacity, you must fur nish us ovidenco that you have a supply sup-ply coming and obtain from us permission per-mission to continue business until such substitutes arrive. - "No exceptions will bo made other than the above. "Remember that potatoes make a good substitulo and should bo used wherever possible. Four pounds of potatoes to ono pound of wheat flour." i |