The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-11-09
Food Conservation.
Mrs. Prince Georges County House
Wi 70

MRS. Prlnce NeorSe SouHCy IAoo'e
wife,
| Dear Madam:
! Do you love your county deeply
enough to m axe special effort to lift
! it's record on the National Food Conser-
walton campaign opened last week
i from a foot of the ladder rating to the
! stellar class?
You will undoubtedly answer affirm
atively but you have been waiting for
the pledge card Lieutenants t. tinkle
the door cell and show their nice splck
and span commissions before you signed
up to save loaf of bread week to
use sugar sparingly.
You, Mrs Housewife, are requested
| to seek out your community Recruiting
officer for card. if you have not al
ready been enlisted in the kitchen brig
ade.
This is an open letter of explanation
and appeal to you from the women's
section of the County Council OF De
tense. This is particularly a word the
County Captain of the Food Army,
Mrs. V. K. Chestnut OF Hyattsville to
urge that the seventeen per cent re-
ported for this county on its returns be
inceeased to one hundred per cent pure.
But in spite of congestion of mails
and unpleasant weather, Kent County
returned ninety one per cent of its al
lotment, with Baltimore County as the
second highest, according to reports
made public several days ago as the
outcome of the first week. You can
do your part towards bringing your
own county closer to these first raters
than sixth from the bottom where it
now rests. Approximately twelve
hundred pledge cards had been sent out
by Mrs. Chestnut last week and 787 of
these were signed and returned. Rural
homes and little representation In this
aggregate however as Hyattsville is |
credited with having supplied at least
five or six hundred of this total from |
its patriotic housewives, under the
Lieutenancy of Mrs. j. w. Aman.
So you see its just been the unavoid-
able kind of delays that has hampered
the women working in the more isolat-
ed districts of the county. You can
very well appreciate too, their feelings
of relief when they received woid
Monday to continue their work for
another week to flush up their under
taking for Uncle Sam and Sunday even
ing has been set as the last minute for
getting the pledge cards into the CAP
tain's hands. The time extension was
made for twenty states which asked
for it because it had been impossible
to get supplies to the more distant
parts of the counties in time to make
d quick canvas.
Upon hearing of the second week OF
opportunity, Mrs. Chestnut mailed out
letters to her various Lieutenan, 8, ad
vising them to get every housewife
available that Prince Georges may
cover her quota and declare to tn.
state, the amount of cooperation the
Food Administration may expect from
the women who purchase, plan ano
prepare the diet schedules for the
county population. What you have
realized long ago is that between The
High cost of Living and Mr.. Hoover,
your old routine worn business OF
housework has become one of the mol
important executive positions in al:
America organized for war and that
you are part of voluntary Amy of Sc
lected women who must be mentally
and courageously fl to PASS the test OF
self denial and extra energy requisite
in the kitchen line of defense. You
have also recognized the elements OF
Mr.. Hoover's food defense in the sub
stitution of the handy. perishable food
for the staple which can be shipped |
abroad. 1t may cost you more to eat
corn meal, rye flour or oatmeal but
even under this condition, it becomes
your duty to save the wheat and white
flour for the Europeans who have neye:
learned the delight of the corn pone
habit with vegetable dinners and who
would be forced to subsist Oh musty
meal, perhaps, due to the time taken
IN transit.
Haven't you found too, that this food
conservation campaign in your OWL
cosey, peaceful kitchen comes to be d
sort of game? 1t comes to be your
own competition with the Kaiser, as
innocent in its manipulation as a game
of checkers but as effective as ii
machine gun in its ultimate outcome
Then you prepare meal smbodying all
the ideals set forth by the Food Admin
lstratlon, you score one point on his
autocratic majesty for American
democracy and when you have one OF
those pre- war four lawyer cakes with
chocolate frosting several inches thick,
you must be haunted by visions of the
Hun smiling over their point scored on
you.
And nearest the heart of you too, is
the thought of your soldier in camp.
which has the effect o. squirting you up
in your game as the cheering friends
do in football match. The invisible
spirits of countless men in blue and
kakl peer DIT You from every nook and
spice jar of your kitchen cabinet to
applaud you winning and sight over
your Ii tie disasters of too much sugar,
wasted fats and careiessness of white
-four.
Sign your pledge card now.
Inc Fu,,u Conserv alton |
ampagn Committee. |
$l00 Reward, 500
The readers of this Taper will be |