Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-10-12
SAVE FOOD AND
LEND YOUR COIN
Hoover's Men VIII Make Bin
Drive Throughout Nation for
Sale of New Bonds.
YOU CAN HELP Whip KAISER
Great Program Is Outlined for e.,
Pledge Week Campaign, October
Fl to 2s-Those Who FIGHT
Must Be Fed.

Washington.-Ten million food cor.
Servation pledges Twenty-Five million
homes visited! A national cauuaio,,
projected so large in its scope thar tb..
work to be accomplished is az great
as though census of the country were
to De taken in IA week
Such is the program outlined for
the food pledge week campaign. Oc-
tobtr p to 2S.
What is it all about?
Why so much fuss?
What are the motives back of such
a tremendous drive?
In every state thousands of people
are asking these questions while thou
san Is 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
have been stated in the compass If
card-a card that it is proposed 10
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 twill win the war
There are stores of wheat in Aus
traIia. There is food in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time is
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 De
sent across the sea. Corn will not
serve the need; our allies have never
used it as a food; they have no mills
to grind it; turn it into meal in this
country and it would spoil before II
could reach an European port There
are Just four classes of products, the
experts say, that we must send to our
allies if our duty to them is 10 be as
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 demahu
,pon 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 u
food. There would be an autocralc
food control. The mailed fist Woul"
rule in the kitchen. Imperial FOOD ue-
crees would be enforced at the point
of the bayonet. But ours is not a'
autocratic country. Food control i ]"
the hands of the people themselves,
and it is to the people that the 100"
administration has appealed IN ''7
food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this az
peal an unprecedented adventure ~
democracy"-an adventure that NI'
determine whether or not a democrat,
form of government is. after all, h''''
to engage in a death grapple with "n
autocracy.
The food pledge work campaign re-
solves itself into an effort TO secure a.
result of voluntary agreenl'".
pledges insuring the general Supp
for well defined program Of 1000 con-
servation. The food pledge week can
paign represents an effort to induS0 "7
MANY of the American homes as l"'>
sible to unite in common policy -
wheat reserves can be conserFeu -
everybody helps.
The American people are asHe"
ioin together in a common Guns
tion pciicy. AS evidence that tleN Az
supporting this policy they are "s
TO hang a card denOting mempt'Si.F
in the United States food admIhI> ,,,
ton in their window. In order ','..
the conservation policy may be ul'9.
stood, the reasons for it made pa.
and the manner Of observing II ~"
To- mott
War Creed of the Kitchen are o.
hung in the home. cool
And that is what the national gov
ptedge week campaign is all ahou"