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Show REMITS (BE TO CUT DOWN 01 SLL BREAKFASTS SALT LAKE. Fob. 22. The death knell was sounded for breakfast bacon, ham and eggs and "stacks of wheats" at a meeting of 200 hotel and restaurant restaur-ant men of Salt Lake and Ogden yesterday yes-terday at the Cullen hotel, at which binding pledges were taken not to serve meat or straight wheat products between 4 a. m., and 11 a. m. No days are excepted to the rule. While the new order is effective immediately im-mediately in restaurants and hotels, a new pledge went forth from the meeting meet-ing relative to closer adherence to wheatless Monday and Wednesday, meatless Tuesday and porkless Saturday. Satur-day. It is declared that in the future no patron will be able to prevail upon any restaurant or hotel man to deviate from tne orders. The meeting was presided over by James II. Waters, who in an introductory introduc-tory talk told of the importance of loyally on the part of the hotel and restaurant men to the programs of tho food administration. W. W. Armsrong, state food administrator, praised those who attended the meeting because of their loyalty, but hcadded that a resolution which had been prepared for the mooting would tend to strengthen tho pledges of the restaurant restaur-ant and hotel men. It was pointed out that breakfast being tho lighest meal of tho day it would result In no hardship whatever to eliminate meat and straight wheat from the breakfast table. In turn, the resolution provided for more uniform wheatless and meatless meals. Without a dissenting vote, the restaurant res-taurant men pledged themselves to abjde by the meatless and wh'eatlcss breakfast and to conform to the letter as to special meatless and wheatless days. In addition to Mr. Armstrong speakers speak-ers at the conference were George O. Reff, stato chairman of the hotel, restaurant res-taurant and catering division of tho United States, and Mr. Waters, tho city chairman. A group of dealers in seeds conferred con-ferred at the headquarters of the food administration yesterday afternoon with J. Edward Taylor, head of the producing division, and L. M. Eailoy, assistant in tho administration. Matters Mat-ters discussed pertained to increasing the seed supply. |
