Show PATRONS ARE THE PATRIOTS customers of some hotels profit very I 1 little by new plan of conserva i tion of bf Food Supply the food administration Is pleased to pieces with the new york hotels for saying saving anore more than a th busand barrels of flour a week and some 17 tons of meat a day by these ess meatless occasions that flint al are re so popular now a writer in colliers observes ob seres pro pio vision dealers report leport a falling oft off in sales and all Is lovely cly and statistical a fair picture to gaze upon but lionor honor where bicie honor Is duel due I 1 that patient kero hero the hotel patron ought to come in for a few kind words since lie pays pas the full price and eats the half portion save when t use acornl corn bread Is 10 rents cents corn bread bicad la Is 15 cents As d a transient consumer the other noon we paid 90 00 cents centa for a slice of beef as large asa as a postal card plus one tablespoonful of creamed potatoes plus a lit bit of york shire pudding about the kize of a natch no doubt it was nil all that wag was good for us but tha price was more if the widely known knon principles of economics are still working we helped make meat and bread cheaper and paid as much as it if wo we were making them dearer A patriot Is a noble thing but it better to b be 0 o one than to trim one the hotel keepers of manhattan are playing both sides of the game and the food administration furnishes a jazz band of statistical admi admiration ratton for their efforts these boni bonifacas faces who gre are shrinking the meals m eals and swelling the prices need something all right but not governmental encouragement meanwhile the hotel user can feel sure that thai the war ar has not changed his function tion nt at all hes the paying goat now nov just as lie he ivied IT to h 1 |