The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-27
Begins Sunday, Oct. 2s, and Ends Sun
day, Nov. 4, and During That Time
the Signatures of 100000 Amer
lean Housewives Were Ex-
pected to Be Received.

| IHey were sure 10 get tHe slRudIuIes VI
approximately 100000 American
housewives to the food pledge. A mil
lion and quarter of the country's %,
100000 housewives already have signed
the card promising to conserve food. This
leaves between seven and eight million
unaccounted for, and the food admins
tration to-day expressed the conviction
that all of them will be pledged before
the campaign ends.
Reports show that school children are
organized in many places as volunteer
assistant units to help in the campaign
to enlist all the country's 22,000,000
housewives in the work of conserving
war foods" of which there is a world
| shortage.
Among the 100000 workers who will
visit every home in the country are a
large number of "war mothers; women
whose sons or other male relatives have
gone to the front or are in training in
this country.
Sunday, the opening day of the cam
paign, will be marked by war food con-
servation sermons by the country's l00,-
600 ministers in churches all over the
land. The food administration states
that the response of the ministers has
been extraordinarily generous in this re-
spect.
State, city, county and local organiza-
tions constitute the working machinery
of the campaign. Beginning and con-
tinuing until Saturday, these workers
will make a house to house canvass of
the country, inquiring of each housewife
nf he ~, TH,t tol
States whether she has enrolled as a |
member of the food administration by
signing the food pledge card.
The workers will carry cards for those
housewives who have not yet enrolled. |
To each housewife who hasn't ''home |
card" telling what foods the government |
would like to have them conserve and
why, they will present one.
The workers will explain briefly and
clearly what the governments food con-
idea is and what is asked of |
each housewife.
The food pledge is not, food admins
trations pointed out to-day, an effort to
get people to eat less, but to substitute
those foods of which the country has an
abundance for those that are urgently
needed by the peoples of the allied coun-
tries in Europe and their armies and
ours.
President Wilson, in letter to the
'ood administrator, has said; "lns no
,ther way can they (Ameriean womenl
10 greatly assist as by enlisting in the
Iervice of the food administration and
heerfully accepting its direction and ad /,
ice. By so doing, they will increase the
surplus of food available for our own
lrmy and for export to our allies.
ITO provide adequate supplies for the .
oming year is of absolutely vital i'm
to the conduct of the war, and
without very conscientious elimination
4 waste and very strict economy in our
ood consumption, we cannot hope to
ulfill this primary duty. l trust, there
ore, that the women of the country will Q
ot only respond to your appeal and ac-
ept the pledge to the food administra Q
ion which you are proposing, but that !
IL men also who are engaged in the per-
onal distribution of foods will cooper :
he same spirit.
The obligation assumed in enrolling as P
member of the food administration is n
mple 1t involves no dues or other fees. z
Following is the briefly worded pledge n
ich housewife is asked to sign;
Il am glad to join you in the service
food conservation for our nation and
hereby accept membership in the Unit v
| States food administration, pledging
yself to carry out the directions and
ivice of the food administrator in my
ome, insofar as my circumstances per- tc
it," Va
"a membership window card will be OF
,livered to each enrolling member upon SC
ceipt of the signed pledge, and from
me to time suggestions viii be sent out, ca
ese suggestions, taken as a whole, con Ia
ituting a series of lessons in home eco
,mics. al
''There is no threat of privation," said er
e food administrator in statement NJ
rmally announcing food pledge week" OF
We wish only that our people should va
{ plenty, but wisely and without tr
aste. Wisdom in eating is to make
'ssible such adjustments in our food tit
nsumption, shipping and war necessi- err
IS as will allow us to fulfill our duty co
exports to our allies. BY elimination au
waste we serve ourselves economically da
d morally.
"This is duty of necessity, humanity tn
d honor As free people we have de
,cted to discharge this duty, not under Al
tocratic decree, but without other re- in
'aint than the guidance of individual
1science. Upon the success of this un me
ecedented adventure in democracy viii th'
.gelv stake the issue of the war ly
-- off
Charles II. PRESLEY returned to his Sa
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