Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
WOMEN At WORK
ASHOOvER'SA|DES
New York Starts State Wide
Food Propaganda.
ISSUE RULES OF ECONOMY

Serve Three Corn Bread Meals a Week,
Eat More Fish, Save Canned Food
and Fats, Keep a Wasteless Garbage
Pail, They CounseI-SpeciaI Courses
For Cooks.
A state wide campaign for the
spreading of government food propa-
ganda and the enlisting of women IN
the fight for the conservation of the
food supply has been started by the
National League For Woman's Service
Of New York. following Mr.. Hoover's
announcement of his plans for the
mobilizing of the housewives of the
country.
AS the first step in this campaign
the league, supplementing the general
rules of economy issued by Mr.. Hoover.
has adopted more definite set of
rules, which the women are pledging
themselves to observe. Through the
home economics departments in Its
branches throughout the state the wo
men are being given short courses In
war" cooking that are designed es-
pecially TO teach them what and how
ID cook for the aid of the government.
The rules OF economy which they are
"iedging themselves TO observe are as
-ollows:
FirSt.-To serve three corn bread
meals week.
Socond-To eat more fish and pou-
try and less meat.
Third.-To. save the canned food; it
IS needed for the army.
Fourth.-To give more study and ap-
plication TO the governments food
problem.
Fifth.-To save the fats, but at the
same time keep balanced menu.
SiXth.-To keep a waSteless garbage
pail.
Seventh.-Not TO carry enthusiasm
and patriotism 10 an impractical de-
gree
Team of Forty at Work.
In New York city a team of forty
prominent women has been formed by
Mrs. Irving Brock. chairman Of the
home economics department, TO dirset
the food campaign. and nearly 1000
women already have been lined up TO
aid Mr.. Hoover Each one Of the wo-
men is the captain of a team. and she
has pledged herself 10 enlist about
twenty others in the fight 10 keep the
wolf from the nations door. The cam
paign by team is being organized SINH
larly all over the state 49,
The women all have taken The
courses in war cooking arranged by the
.eague. From the beginning OF the
discussion of the food shortage prob
;em Mrs. Brock has considered il most
important for the women who wish tc
economic that they attend a cooking
school and prepare to conduct their
households on an absolutely business
basis.
Before she starts her economies the
housewife should know where and how
70 begin so that she will not proceed
about her economizing unwisely." said
A.rs. Brock. While saving the food
supply she can do whole lot Of harm
70 her family and give absolutely no
i.d TO the government if she has no
anowledge Of food values. Every wo
man who comes out of the leagues
cooking schools knows just what foods
the government lacks and what to sub
stitute without damage to the diet of
her family.
Because our women have adopted
war menus that does not mean they
cannot serve just as appetizing and at
tractive meals as formerly. This is
one of the things they are taught at the
cooking schools. For Che average
housewife l think that tile saving of
fats will be her most difficult problem.
and l want to warn her that fats are
very necessary to the individual and
that substitutes for them are few. For
the protection of her family she must
study such things before she rushes
blindly to the aid of her country"
As further help the league is plan
ming to give special cooking course
for cooks where they can be brought
into closer touch with the food condi-
tions.