The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-20
SAVE FOOD AND
LEND YOUR COIN
HOOvePs Men Win Make Big
Drive Throughout Nation for
Sale of New Bonds.
YOU CAN HELP Whip KAISER
Great Program Is Outlined fer Food
Pledge Week Campaign, October
ri 70 2e-Those Who Fight
Must Be Fed.

ServauOn pledges Twenty-Five million
homes visited! A national campaign
projected so large in its scope that the
work to be accomplished is as great
as though a census of the country were
TO be taken in Il week!
Such is the program outlined for
the food pledge week campaign, Oc-
tOber p to 2S.
What is it all about?
Why so much fuSS7
What are the motives back of such
tremendous drive?
In every state thousands of people
are asking these questions while thou
sands Of others are preparing them
selves TO furnish a complete answer
to The query.
The reasons why the food pledge
campaign has been projected upon such
broad lines are simple enough; plain
enough.
So simple and so plain that they
nave been stated in the compass "
card-a card that it is proposed to
hang in every home of the land-a
card that is the war creed of the
| 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.
If 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
| could be relied upon to help produce
| the food that "wiH win the war"
There are stores of wheat in Aus
| tralia There is food in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time is a
vital factor. The voyage to Australia
and to South America takes too long.
If the needs Of those who fight for US
across the sea are to be met, the food
that Sustains those fighters must come
from this country.
If the laborer is worthy OF his hire
surely the fighter is worthy Of his food
That is a principle universally accept
ed 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 it as foSd; they have no mills
to grind it; turn it into meal in this
country and il would spoil before il
could reach an European port There
are Just four classes Of products, the
experts say, that we must send to OuI
allies if our duty to them is to be dis
charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
and dairy products. We can conserve
our wheat by increasing our cOnsump
ton of other grains. We can conserve
our meat by making greater demand
upon the resources of the fish market
If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no pop
ular appeal for the conservation o.
food. There would be an autocrat'
food control. The mailed fist wOUl'
rule in the kitchen Imperial food de
crees would be enforced at the pOin
of the bayonet But ours is not al
autocratic country. Food control is il
the hands OF the people themselves
and it is to the people that the fOO'
administration has appealed in TIL
food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap
peal an unprecedented adventure il
democracy'-an adventure that vii
determine whether or not u demOcrat
form Of government is, after all. 1tte'
to engage in a death grapple with a
auTOcracy.
The food pledge work campaign re
solves itself into an effort to secure a
Il result Of voluntary agreemen
pledges insuring the general supper
for a well defined program OF food COZ
servatiOn The food pledge week cam
paign represents an effort TO induce a
many of the American homes as pos
sible to unite in a common policy Gu
wheat reserves can be conserved
everybody helps
The American people are asked {
join together in q common coaSerFs
ton policy. As evidence that they ar
supporting this policy they are aSke
10 hang a card denOting membershi
in the United States food ADMINISTERS
: ion in their window. In order ths
the conservation policy may be under
stood, the reasons for it made plaiI
= and the manner OF observing il rer
dered certain. instruction cardS-''Th
War Greed OF the Kitchen''-are TO
hung in the home
And that is what the national foo
pledge week campaign is ali about