Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-10-21
TO BOOST SECOND
LIBERTY BOND SALE
Food Administration Forces viii
Help Raise New Loan for
War Purposes.
SAVE FOOD AND LEND MONEY
Big Drive Throughout Nation Coming
Week Of October 21-28-How All
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.

Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.
Washington.--The food pledge cam
paign is projected upon broad lines.
/ but 1t is very simple and very plain.
The food administration will mar
shall its whole force of half a million
campaigners organized for food-pledge
week. to promote the second Liberty
/ loan. The week of October 81 to %
has been set for the big drive the food
administration has planned to enroll
all American families for food con-
servation. The Liberty loan cam
! paign will he at it's height at the same
/ time. Herbert Hoover. the food ad-
ministrator. In message to the fed
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers Of the food enrolment
campaign. instructing them TO exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan, called this fortunate coinci-
dence. since both are aimed at the
same end and each will supplement the
other. The Liberty loan, he says. will
.
( to the allies. and the food pledge cam.
paign is designed TO make certain that
there shall be food available 10 pur-
chase.
So simple and so plain that they
have been stated in the compass of
card-a card that II is proposed to
hang in every home of the land-a
cor ri n is ha al
Kitchen" because. so closely are the
people in this country linked to the
world war. that one OF the phases OF
the struggle must be fought out in the
/ American kitchen.
I IL soldiers are TO fight, they must
be fed. For the past three years. one
( by one. our allies across the sea have
been taking the men from the farm
and from the factory and sending them
to the firing line. Each man sent to
/ the firing line meant one less who
i could be relied upon to help produce
( the food that Twill win the war;"
/ If the laborer is worthy Of his hire,
! surely the fighter is worthy Of hi-
/ food. That is principle universally
accepted by the American public.
However, it is not every product that
can be sent across the sea. Corn will
not serve the need: our allies have
never used il aS Il food they have no
mills To grind IT. turn il into meal in
this country and 1t would spoil before
+ IL could reach a European port. There
/ are just four classes of products, the
experts say. that we must send to our
allies II our duty 70 them is to be dis
charged: they need meat, wheat. sugar
! and dairy products. We can CON
serve our wheat by increasing our
| consumption Of other grains. We can
conserve our meat by making a great
or demand upon the resources of the
Ash market. All Of these are eXpedi-
ents known 10 the American house
wife
If the United States were an auto
| cratic country there would he no popu-
lar appeal for the conservation Of
food There would be an autocratic
food control. The mailed fist would
rule In the kitchen. Imperial food
/ DEGREES would be enforced at the
point of the bayonet. But onrs is not
an autocratic country. Food control
Is in the hands of the people them
selves, and ii is TO the people that
the food administration has appealed
| In the food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap-
peal an unprecedented adventure In
democracy"-an adventure that Will
determine whether or not demo-
cratic form of government is, after
all, fitted to engage In a death grapple
with autOcracy.
The food pledge week campaign re-
solves itself into an effort to secure
as result OF voluntary agreement
pledges insuring the general support
] for the well defined program of food
conservation. The food pledge cam
paIgn represents an effort TO induce
as many of the American homes as
possible 10 unite in common policy.
| Our wheat reserves can be conserved
If everybody helps. Our meat re-
serves can be conserved IL the whole
public cO-Operates.
| The American people are asked to
ioIn together in common conserva-
tion policy. As evidence that they are
supporting this policy they are asked
10 hang a card denoting membership
In the United States food administra-
ton In their window. In order that
the conservation policy may be under
stood. the reason for IL made plain
and the manner of observing IL rem
dered certain. instruction cards-'"The