New Britain herald., 1917-10-27
HOOVER READY FOR
FOOD PLEDGE drive
America to Be Asked to Conserve
Necessities by Substitution

| al Food PledS0 w eek only a rev uiyS
off, the Food Administration today an
| nounced that it's army of half mil
| lion men and women volunteer can
vassers is modified and ready for the
campaign under the various state food
administrators.
Food Pledge Week begins Sunday.
October %. and ends November 4.
The 100000 canvassers reported on
preliminary survey several days ago
that they were sure to get the sigma
lures of approximately 100000
American housewives to the food
pledge. A million and q quarter of
the country's 100000 housewives
already have signed the card promis-
ing to conserve food. This leaves be-
tween seven and eight million unac-
counted for. and the food administra-
ton today expressed the conviction
that all of them will be pledged be-
fore the campaign ends.
Reports show that school chill
dren are organized in many places as
volunteer assistant units to help in the
campaign to enlist all the country's
twenty-five million housewives in the
work of conserving war foods or
which there Is a world shortage.
War Mothers in Campaign.
Among the 100000 workers who
will visit every home in the country
is a large number of war mothers
women whose sons or other male rela-
tives have gone to the front or are
in training in this country.
Sunday. the opening day of the
campaign, will be marked by war
food conservation sermons by the
country's 100000 ministers in
churches all over the land. The Food
Administration states that the re-
Spouse Of the ministers has been
spect.
State. city, county and local organ
izations constitute the working ma
chinery of the campaign. Beginning
and continuing until Saturday, these
workers will make a house-to-house
canvass of the country, inquiring OF
each housewife Of the 22,000,000 fam
lilies in the United States whether she
has enrolled as a member Of the Food
Administration by signing the food
pledge card
The workers will carry cards for
those housewives who have not yet
enrolled. To each housewife who
hasn't a home card" telling what
foods the government would like to
have them conserve and why. they
The workers will explain briefly and
clearly what the governments food
conservation idea is and what Is asked
of each housewife.
The food pledge is not, food admin |
officials pointed out today, |
an effort to get people to eat less, but |
to substitute those foods Of which the
country has an abundance for those |
that are urgently needed by the peo-
pies Of the allied countries II Europe
and their armies and ours.
Appeal from President
President Wilson. in a letter to the
food administrator, has said:
I'm no other way can they Gamer
lean women) so greatly assist as by
enlisting in the service Of the - Food
Administration and cheerfully accept
ing it's directions and advice. BY do
of food available for our own army
and for export to our allies.
ITO provide adequate supplies for
the coming year is Of absolutely vital
Importance to the conduct OF the war.
and without very conscientious
elimination of waste and very strict
economy in our food consumption, we
cannot hope to fulfill this primary
duty. trust, therefore, that the Wom-
en- of the country will not only re-
spond to your appeal and accept the
pledge to the food administration
which you are proposing, but that all
men also who are engaged IN the per-
sonal distribution of foods will CO.
operate with the same earnestness and
in the same spirit
The obligation assumed in enrolling
as a member Of the food administra-
ton is simple. 1t involves no dues
or other fees.
The Pledge.
Following is the briefyworded
pledge each housewife is asked to
sign:
II am glad to join you in the serv-
Ice of food conservation for our ma
ton and I hereby accept membership
in the United States food administra-
ton, pledging myself to carry out the
directions and advice Of the food ad-
ministrator in my home, insofar as my
circumstances permit
A membership window card will
be delivered to each enrolling men,
Der upon receipt of the signed
pledge, and from time to time sug-
gestions will be sent out, these sus-
| gestions. taken as whole. consti-
| tuting a series of lessons In home
economies.
There is no threat of privation."
| said the food administrator in a
statement formally announcing Food
pledge week" I'VE wish only that
| our people should eat plenty, but
| wisely and without waste.
Wisdom in eating is to make pos
! sible such adjustments in our food
consumption, shipping and war neces-
sites as will allow us to fulfill our
! duty in exports to our allies. BY
! elimination Of waste we serve our
| selves economically and morally.