The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-24
FOOD CONSERVATION WORK

IOIuCe at buEllustOu, rcuSIdk i OOU fAu'
ministrator ~. +. Deems has com.
menced to distribute throughout the
state the membership cards of the Ma
tional Food Pledge campaign. As rap
idly as housewives sign food pledge
administrators Office at Burlington and
to the why and wherefore OF food con-
servation, and membership card, are
mailed OUT fEr5 ~ +. .H 4, i'--S:t.i
Membership cards are handsomely
engraved in five colors, and are to be
ung in the front window Of each home.
Ito show that the housewife is q mem
Der of the food conservation army.
! No obligation Is imposed upon the
lsigners of the food pledge other than
they will conserve food to the best Of
their ability. 81, ,,E
From time to time the food admins
TRAITOR will mail literature on food con-
servatiOn and suggestions and helps
for the housewife which will aid her
in assisting the government. a
AS rapidly as q realization of the fact
that the food pledge is simply an ex-
preston of cooperation with the gov
ernment in its food conservation i be-
icomes manifest the Get Member"
campaign will grow stronger. Each
housewife who is already member
|of the food conservation army is asked
to. explain the food pledge to her
neighbor and secure her signature II
possible These are to be mailed to
1.-THE office of the food administrator at
burlington and membership cards will
be issued from there. go 10 '.sgz
Some confusion has been created
through the illegible addresses on the
cards on the part of some signers, and
for this reason q large number Of sign
ers will not get their membership
cards. In cases where they fail to re-
lceive them, however, their name may
be again certified to the food admins
traitor by their respective, county
chairman and cards will be forthcom-
ing 3a .a.-,. r. - 81 - 81
The War Mother has right to ask
that every family make this program
vital part OF its daily life. MI.
There must be more than war NUM-
tions In the hands we stretch across
the sea. The cause of democracy must
be fed as well as armed. .t.a.. ri d
In behalf Of it's War mothers our
government and our allies can conf
identity appeal to, the American home
for a policy OF food conservation that
Twill render it certain funds contribut-
ed by patriotic citizens will not 60
begging in the markets of the world
for foodstuffs that do not exist" -
Managers of the Food Pledge Week
campaign, at state headquarters and
workers in the field report that the
food crusade of the. War Mothers will
itself bring hundreds Of them out upon
the firing line. Thousands upon thous-
ands Of window cards, pledge cards
and instruction. cards are now, being
distributed by Federal Food Admins.
traitor Deems.
The instruction cards-the war creed
of the itchen-summarize the food
needs Of the allies and of our own
the ways by which every American
home can help in meeting the nations
food problem. The pledge cards stand
as the expression of a willingness to
help win the war on the part of those
who sign them. The window cards are
to be placed in a window of every
sufficient wheat, meat, sugar and dairy
home cooperating in its task of finding
products to meet the needs of Amerf- 4!
can army forces abroad and of the !
civilian and military population of our
allies
Thousands of women, the Wart
iOthers, sisters, wives and sweethearts !
OF the land who have given their |
sons to their country, are asking the |
privilege Of making one more sacri- |
flee. r.5!. ~ g.
These War Mothers seek the oppor-
tunity OF enrolling themselves with
their sons 4as a part of tho fighting !
forces Of the nation.
''They are asking what they can do
in order that they may be certain
hunger is not added to the foes their
sons must face. ,&.F
THE food problem that menaces our I
allies is likewise the food problem that
the sons Of our War Mothers.
That problem is one that touches the
honor, the heart, and the patriotism of /
the American people. The woman who
gives her son to fight has a right to
demand that he be fed. She has a
right to. demand place in any move
lnent designed to guarantee the food
supply Of our armed forces. j +
THAT the War Mother has more
than a right to seek service for her
self. She has the right to plead that
the womanhood of the nation be joined
in a sisterhoOd pledged to protect her
boy with all the resources of the home.
"The War Mothers who have volun-
teered for service stand for the war
creed Of the Kitchen, the doctrine that
it is a patriotic duty to conserve the
food supply necessary for the main
of the fighting forces of de-;
m0cracy. /
"The nation has asked sacrifice at
the hands of the mothers. She in her Il
turn asks but service. She asks that
each one in his own home voluntarily,l
and as matter of individual conf
science, administer the food supplyl,
at his disposal as though he were the
guardian Of the total store.
SCHOOL REPORTS. /
Report of school in district No. 2,
Goodrich township, for the month end-l
Ing, October 49, Number of pupils