Show Hats Off To The Grocer He lIe doesn't wear any ribbons He lie hasn't any Purple Heart or Silver SUver Star He lIe Is i. Just a business man trying his best to wade through unfamiliar government l regulations trying to keep his place or of business operating during wartime wartime and anO trying to cope with Inexperienced though willing help lie He Is 18 your hometown grocer the grocer the man manon manon manon on the corner The man who stays until midnight night after atter night counting his hi ration stamps and tokens making out his ration bank account cheeks and anel changing prices and point values when necessary lies lie the man you sometimes snarl at at when your own affairs are going wrong Hes He's the man man who has bas to listen to complaints complaints com com- plaints from uninformed housewives lies lie's the man who explains over andover and andover over day after day why you cant can't have more butter why you cant can't have more meat why prices have gone up and what ration points are good this month lIe He Is 18 also the man who has haa seen to tc It that prices have stayed down as low lowas aa as they have Give him some of the thi credit for keeping the Increase in tn food lood costs down to only per cent above the 1039 1939 level as compared with 81 per pel percent percent cent during the same period In the last World War Give him bim some of the credit for lor permitting yo your r food lood prides es to rise only 13 per cent since tInce September 1943 1043 and only 03 per cent cent- since cent since August Give him credit for lor keeping you well fed the best beet fed led people in the world are an we Americans Give him credit for tor doing a tough job well and with the least leas amount of grumbling Lets Let's take our hats hata off oft to the grocer Lets Let's pay him the honor bonor due him durIng dur duro Ing lug the Grocer Consumer Inflation Anti Week beginning November 13 I |