Cutrate Dinner

Down to table at the Executive Mansion in Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week sat Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and 49 other persons unaccustomed to dining on black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger steak. With many a polite smile and exclamation they proceeded to eat not only black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger but also cornbread, spinach, apple & orange salad, ice cream. Not because Governor Gifford Pinchot was serving them the menu did his guests exclaim, but because he had paid for each one's food (except the ice cream, which came extra) only 5 1/2-c-.

Mrs. Roosevelt was in Harrisburg to speak at a conference on malnutrition. Mrs. Pinchot wanted to show her how well and economically Pennsylvania is feeding its unemployed. Governor Pinchot wanted to show critics of the State's relief work. At the community market in York, maintained with State and Federal relief funds, they bought for $2.72 enough to feed 75 people. Oranges they got for 1-c- each, eggs for 17-c- the dozen, cabbage, onions, apples for 1-c- a lb., beef for 8 1/2-c-.

Not every Pennsylvanian could have performed the feat of which Governor Pinchot was last week so proud. The community market sold him the food at cost. The State Relief Board says that, by buying for community markets in large quantities, it gets food from wholesalers 30% cheaper than retail merchants can.

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