The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-28
N Fe0D-PlED(f WEEK
j, MANY ARE 70 ENGAGE
Twenty-Five Million House.
wives Of America Unite
Against the Kaiser.
SERMONS AT OPENING
Ministers Will Explain Today
Why Government Wants
Eatables Saved.

Washington. Oct. 27-Food- pledge
week begins throughout the United
States tomorrow. 1t will be the Gull
Anihating seven days following months
OF preparation TO enlist Americas
Ss'VO0.O0O housewives IN the govern
megts food conservation campaign.
Inc opening smash Of the big drive
VIII be food conservation sermons on
SUNDAY morning ana evening by ma :
5ofity Of the country's hundred thou
sand ministers. This will be followed
Monday morning by the active field
work Of the national army OF 800. 900
men and women volunteers which has
been organized and preparing for the
drive for weeks.
Ministers Will Explain.
The ministers verbal explanation Of
how and why the government wants
Its s2.0O0.000 housewives to conserve
wheat, meat. fats and sugar so we can
make up our EuropeaQ allies food
shortage VIII be emphasized by the vol
nnteers personally visiting each
housewife.
special statements indorsiug Food
Jleuge week have been issued by high
dtgnitaries and divines Of the yarIous
churches.
Cardinal Gibbons made this plea to
the Catholic women of America to toin
the food conservationers:
1T gives me great pleasure to say
mat the patriotic work which Is being
r
state organizations has my hearty SUP.
port and approval and sincerely hope
mat our Catholic women viii, every
where give him their earnest assist
a,lce IN this campaign"
bishop William Fraser Mcdowell Of
the methodist Episcopal church, urg.
ing MS people to sign the pledge card
ana Join the campaign. said.
INC Methodist Episcopal church is
supporting this righteous war in every
possible way. Part of that support re.
lates to the vital matter Of food con-
servation. We have heartily indorsed
the program for Food Pledge week and
We urge all our families to unite in
the food-saving campaign as presented
10y the government. 1t would help
''hshtiiy If We had a hundred per cent
Oh our families signing the pledge
carus. The war for freedom must be
won. we must help at every point"
What Quick Says Of u.
Directing himself to the farm women
OF the nation. Herbert Quick of the
federal farm board, and editor of farm
papers and magazines. said:
Food Pledge week is a big and n
splendid thing. The attention OF the
nation must be centered upon 1t. Do
you know what the Food Pledg: week
drive will be? Every home in the
United States will be visited during this
Week by patriotic people who will tell
now food may be saved for our SOL
diers. the soldiers of our allies, for the
poor people of the warning nations and
Tor ourselves. Get into the Food
fledge Week campaign. Make your
Kitchen food pledge kitchen and 10
all you can to make all other kitchens
1ood-pledge kitchens. You will thus
help win the war"
The United States food administra-
ton tonight expressed its anxiety that
the 100000 men and women volunteers
who go up and down the land ringing
doorbells this week put 1.-THE simple
though vitality important food conser-
walton plan clearly before every house,
wife. impressing upon each the real
Significance of the old song:
Every Little Bit, Added to What
You've Got, Makes Just Little Bit
More"
1t Is the Little Bit" added by each
of our 100000 housewives. which is
going to make up the food shortage and
avert famine and disaster among our
European allies, the administration
points out.
Wilson Is interested.
President Wilson has evinced his
personal interest In the Importance. Of
Food Pledge weeks success.
II We are to supply our allies with
the necessary food" said the president
IN q letter to the food administrator.
anent Food Pledge week. land arc to
reduce our own prices of foodstuffs
during the coming winter 1t can only
be accomplished by the uttermost self
denial and service on the part of all
our people through the elimination of
waste and by rigid economy in the use
Of food"
Recent cables to the American gov
eminent from the government of
France have stressed the imminent
FOOD shortage in that country and
begged that no effort be spared to get
the needed supplies to keep hunger
from descending upon the people Of
France. Thousands Of school children
will follow up the work of the $780, 900
volunteers. These children have been
organized and working on preliminary
Food-Pledge week campaign work
throughout the country for weeks. The
same Is true Of the churches.