Evening journal., 1917-04-28
FOOD
committee ACTIVE
Will Clean Up City and Then
Plant on All Available
Lots
PROFESSOR HAYARD
PROMISES SUPPORT

AT the meeting OF tue Nallohdl bo-
tense Committee in the old City Hall
last evening the committee on sup
plies. through David Snellenburg. the
chairman, reported that it had stop
ped making reports and gone to work,
and that it was accomplishing some
thing of definite and decisive value to.
the movement. The report stated that
the Community Gardens Committee OF
the Womens Defense League, CO.
operating with the Committee on
Supplies of the General Committee.
has organized as the Community Food
Committee OF Wilmington, with head
quarters on the second floor of the
Public Library Building telephone
J No. 625. There will be a permanent
} secretary in charge of the office and
) organization work. and special super
visors and instructors will oversee
the cultivation and gardening. Con-
, siderable ground has been registered
, for use, and practical work already
r is in progress under the women's COM
mittee Professor Hayward, OF Della
ware College. expects to furnish the
b committee with an additional super
) visor for cultivated lots.
The working plans OF the Communu-
. ity Food Committee are as follows;
The immediate proclaiming or q
/ Cleanup Week" in order that all
lots and back yards may be ready for
4 use The provision for planting days
S to stimulate cooperative spirit m
j. starting the crops. The appointment
/ of a committee to establish planting
clubs as a number of public schools.
The organization OF the Boy Scouts
as guards for all cultivated lots. Pro
vision TO put the Court House lawn
into model gardens. A publicity CAM
! paign on rational food economy ana
1 elimination OF waste in households
! and hotels. A study OF storage facili-
ties and needs Arrangements for
z drying and canning processes to pre-
3 serve fruit and vegetables. Extension
e OF poultry raising and the use OF table
r waste as poultry food.
d In view of these plans the commit
/. tee requested authority to contract
II iexpenses for seed fertilizers, blowing
10 and a certain amount OF necessary
n paid help.
: The Community Food Committed
p, proposes the organization Of JONI
Committee on Civil Preparedness
- under the Defense Leagues. The pur
II pose and slogan of this COMMITTEES
= would be "A clean healthy well-or
n dered town is the best preparedness
n for war or peace" Three lines OF ac
,e tivity are Immediately before IN
=, Civic Preparedness Committee
y l. Healthy homes for the worker
lv OF this city: all streets and alleys
" be clean and we'll lighted.
"a .. Wholesome recreation Tor IA
~ working people.
~ 3. To see that food economy an
W food prices are not carried TO IN
~, point of starving or under-nourishln
y workers and children. The establish
ment of school lunches for anem
and under-fed children wherever nee
Il essary.
~ To secure the best results this con
mittee should work through the e1
listing official and volunteer agencie
in these lines OF work.
Us Mrs. J. +. Price. wife OF Mayor Pric
lg has been appointed chairman OF n
he subcommittee on garden cultivate
of in the Ninth ward by Mrs. w
an Sprutnce. chairman OF the Women
q. Defense League committee on garden
- ing. Mrs. Price would be glad to hay
or any woman resid ng in her dlstrl'
n volunteer her assistance in this worl
a. addressing her at her home, No. 25l
C. Washington street. -.
~ The general committee mas issue
an the following appeal
nv To the Citizens of Wilmington
he You are urged to register with tn
W Wilmington Community Food Con
he r1ittee. for service in cultivating LOT
and gardens
There are ten ways in which 20
can help the patriotic work or Il
~ creasing the national food supply.
oo 1. Undertake the cultivation CT
a. plot of ground yourself or in COO
80 Grafton with others.
~, .. Give the committee the use
any ground at your disposal.
3. Notify the committee If yC
have teams or plows TO hire or len
DC before May 10.
ID 4. Lend any garden tools not
use
ID 5. Give the committee any seed
ill or plants you do not need.
8. Notify the committee Of an
&. volunteer or paid help available Il
~ planting, cultivating or giving II
.en struction.
=
20, 20 and clear lots and yards of tin car
no. and. rubbish.
" s. Plant beans, peas. beets an
49,, turnips in your own yard or garde
~ potatoes if you can afford them,
~ save the eyes from potatoes used f.
a., food.
'ne 9. Promote poultry raising in SUI
=, urban districts.
IN, 10. Send contributions Of money
~, Charles c. Kurtz, Wilmington Tru
IN, Co. city, to be used for the food COZ
=, mittee.
VI Apply for registration blanks al
instructions at the headquarters
VI the committee-second floor of q
Public Library Building-PhOne 625.
EAGLES WILL ATTEND CHURC
Ivanhoe Castle. No. 21, Knights