New Britain herald., 1917-10-29
FOOD PLEDGE DRIVE
 ISLAUNCHED TODAY
Whole City to Be CanVassed by
 Volunteer Workers

The food pledge campaign which
 was announced to be set in motion
 this week was launched in a satisfac- tory manner this morning. Meetings discussing arrangements for the can wasting of the city were held recently in the mayors office in City hall and all is in readiness to bring the newly started campaign to a successful con- cl11sion the later part of this week.
 Food conservation is the object of the campaign. With this as an asset the workers have set out to canvass the entire city and secure the sigma ture of each housewife or all han dlers of food. AS the food question may decide the war, current opinion IS that New Britain people will display their patriotism in this campaign in cooperating with the committee. in charge as in other campaigns and go lover the top."
 The city has been divided into IA districts and arrangements have been made for the election of eight cap- talns who will be assigned to the fol- towing WardsI 1st district, Miss Hazel Andrews; 2d district, Mrs. D. McMil- Ian and Miss Mary Hall; Sd district, George w. Corbin; 4th district, Mrs. A. Beatrice Fox; plans are being com pleted by Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski for the canvassing of the 9th district; 9th district, Miss Elizabeth Leghorn; 7th district, Miss Andrew L. Colehan; Sth district, Mrs. Hubert s. Blake. Each captain has been supplied with a list Of the number of families to be can- vassed in her district and will arr range with the solicitors accordingly.
 Active work was commenced in the first and third districts this morning and this afternoon there was a meet Ing ot the canvassers of the second district in the Methodist church. Chairman J. B. Comstock addressed the canvassers and gave instructions relative to the canvassing of their respective districts. Ministers of the different denominational churches ad- dressed their congregations yesterday on the proposed campaign and im- pressed the importance of co-opera- tion to them.
 Superintendent S: H. Holmes has appointed 8 committee of principa1s to bring the object of the campaign home to the children who will then relay 1t to their parents. He stands ready to help in any other manner. Ie EarentS ana IeacherS association has also appointed a committee to make arrangements to give lecture on Saving of Food", the time, date and place Of the lecture to be an- nounced in the near future.
 Miss Jennie Vessel is in charge of headquarters in City hall today and to- 1 morrow and the office will be open this 1 evening.
 Through the columns of the press l the committee in charge wishes to have 1 credit given to Howard l.. Hatch for supplying a list of households in the first and third wards, to Tax Collector Bernadotte Loomis for furnishing list for the households in the fifth and sixth wards and also to Building h. spector A. N. Rutherford for securing 8 list of those in second and fourth wards. Thanks is extended to Regis trars Smith and Ziegler who divided the lists into routes for the solicitors. Especial thanks Is hereby given to F. H. Afford and Dr. G. w. c. Hill, who were the originators of the plan for the canvassing of the city and also other details concerning the cam paign.
 Acting in accordance with the cam paign the four minute speakers who are to appear this week and next at the different theaters in town, will part of their program.