Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1917 — This Is Wheat less Day [ARTICLE]

This Is Wheat less Day

The hotels and restaurants of this city are doing the best they can to observe meatless and wheatless days. It is understood that they do not serve meat on Tuesdays nor wheat bread on Wednesday. Traveling men who come here do not make that report of our neighboring city, Monticello. A traveling man sat down for dinner at the hotel in Monticello on a meatless day and the waiter asked him for his meat order. He asked if they served meat on meatless days and was informed that they did. He got up from the table and said he would not patronize a hotel which would serve meat on meatless day?. He went down to a restaurant and there he was asked for his meat order. He refused to eat at a restaurant that would not be loyal enough to. follow this important suggestion of the government. He came to Rensselaer in the evening very hungry but found a loyal bill affair at the Makeever house. As against this loyalty of the eating houses of the city we must place the fact that the -meat markets report that they will sell almost the usual amount of meat on Tuesday now as they did before the Food Administrator asked that Tuesday be made a Meatless day. The bakeries also report that they are still selling a large amount Ipf wheat bread on Wednesdays. This should not be, and will not be done if our loyalty is what it should be. Let us have real MEATLESS AND WHEATLESS let us with that loyalty that knows no bound do whatever we are asked to do to help win the war. And God grant that it may be won without too many of the patriots of the world paying the supreme sacrifice.