Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-05
GOVERNOR ASKS
SAVING OF FOOD
Urges Everyone to. Support
the Government by Self
Denial at Table Daily


People of Pennsylvania were today
called upon by Governor Brumbaugh
to cooperate to the utmost with the
national and state authorities in food
conservation and even to go to the
extent of denying themselves foods
which are needed for the soldiers
People of Pennsylvania were to-
day called upon by Governor Brum-
baugh to cooperate to the utmost
with the national and state autnorl-
les in food conservation and even tC
go TO the extent OIL denying them
selves foods which are needed for the
soldiers. The Governor calls on peo'
pie to sacrifice until they feel 1T ano
demands that no one indulge in any
trick or scheme to make undue prof
its out of the food supply. The proc
lamation contains what the Governor
said to-day he intends shall be di'
rect message for every one in tht
state.
The proclamation is as follows:
WHEREAS, the wise use of
our food supply is essential to
lllt VI lilio wal 1AAo
WHEREAS, We have been
urgently warned by national
and state officials, to exercise
the greatest care in the conser-
Vation of essential foodstuffs,
which warning has led to proc
lamations and to price-regula-
ton, and other acts deemed es-
sential to the proper care of our
food supplies and thus to the
success of our great struggle to
make democracy safe in the
world and later to make the
world safe for democracy. and
WHEREAS. Certain days
have been set aside as meatlesS
days, as breadless days, and
other days have been designated
as special occasions for the dis
play of patriotic support to ma
tional endeavor by voluntary de-
nial of certain foods vital to the
welfare of our people and to the
sustenance of our Army and
Navy and to the sustenance OF
our Allies, and
WHEREAS, We have not yet
in any important or serious way
sensed the gravity of the situa-
ton confronting us, because we
have made no denial that has in
the least disturbed our accus-
toned life of abundance, and
have not made any sacrifice OF
personal comfort in appetite
such as a patriotic people should
gladly make, and
WHEREAS, We have been
wasting needlessly much nour-
ishing food which we may,
fear, soon greatly need and have
gone ahead in a wave of patri-
otic endeavor which has as yet
not touched us Vitally but which
we must feel and feel keenly II
we are in any proper way to
give unstinted loyalty and un-
Yielding support to our nation
in this increasingly critical per-
iod.
THEREFORE, I, Martin
Grove Brumbaugh, Governor of
the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, acting from a sense of
public responsibility and in con-
cord with the earnest wish OF
our national and state Food
Administrators do hereby call
upon and urge all our people to
plan deliberately and carefully
to conserve all forms of food
stuffs, especially those of direct
importance to our soldiers and
sailors and our Allies in the
/ trenches. We are not true
Pennsylvanians, not loyal Amer
leans, il we eat to satisfy and
neglect daily to save for those
| of our own blood who need and
| must have an abundance of
good food. We do little when
we give only our surplus money
and our surplus crops. We must
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it keenly. The real patriotism
of our people will be shown by
their Willingness voluntarily to
make this sacrifice and make it
now. Whatever we are request
ed by national officials to do. let
us do gladly. If they ask us
not to hoard foodstuffs let name
he boarded. If they fix a price
for staple foods let us all accept
it, willingly. Let no one dare
by any trick or scheme or con-
nivance attempt to make undue
profits by any juggling of the
markets or the means of trans
porting food supplies. The
whole strength of law in this
Commonwealth will be invoked
speedily to punish any such CEN
surable action. Let us take
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is intended for you. You cam
not pass it over to your neigh
Dor and continue to consume
and waste unduly any important
item of food, and your willing
ness or ability to pay the price
of luxury is no valid excuse for
your wastefulness. Let us all
solemnly and steadily give heed
to our urgent need and in the
spirit of true patriotism make
due sacrifice in the interest of
the nation we love and in whose
behalf we are bound to give
loyal service.
GIVEN under my hand and
the great seal of the state, at
the City of Harrisburg, this
third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One Thous-
and Nine Hundred and Seven
teen, and of the Commonwealth
the one hundred and forty sec
ond.