The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-28

900 families in the United States
whether she has enrolled as member
of the Food Administration by sign
ing the Food Pledge Card.
The workers will carry cards for
those housewives who have not yet
enrolled. To each housewife who
hasn't "Home Card telling what
foods the government would like to
have them conserve and why, they
will present one
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
istration 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 peoples of the allied countries in
Europe and their armies and ours.
President Wilson, in a letter to the
Food Administrator has said: I'm
no other way can they (American
women) SO greatly assist as by enlist
ing in the service of the Food Adj
ministration and cheerfully accepting
its direction and advice. By so do
ing, they will increase the surplus Of
food available for our own army and
for export to our allies.
"To 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. 1 trust, therefore, that the
women of the country will not only
respond to your appeal and accept
the pledge to the Food Administra-
ton which you are proposing. but
the personal distribution of foods
will cooperate with the same earn
estness and in the same spirit"
The obligation assumed in enroll
ing as member Of the Food Admin
istration is simple. 1t involves no
dues or other fees.
Following is the briefly-worded
pledge each housewife is asked to
sign:
81 am glad to join you in the SER
vice of food conservation for our ma
tion and hereby accept membership
in the United States Food Admins
tration, pledging myself to carry out
the directions and advice of the Food
Administrator in my homes insofar as
my circumstances permit"
"A Membership Window Card win
be delivered to each enrolling MEM
Der upon receipt of the signed pledge,
and from time to time suggestions
will be sent out, these suggestions.
taken as whole, constituting a series
of lessons in home economics.
There is no threat of privation.n
said the Food Administrator In
statement formally announcing GOOD
Pledge Week" 1--WE wish onlv that
our people should eat plenty. but
wisely and without waste. Wisdom
In eating is to make possible such
adjustments in our food CONSUMPTION.
shipping and war necessities as will
allow US to fulfill our duty in exports
to our allies. BY elimination of
waste we serve ourselves economically
and morally.
"This is a duty - necessity. hui
manity and honor. As a free people
we have elected to discharge this
duty, not under autocratic decree. but
without other restraint than the guild
ance of individual conscience Upon
the success of this unprecedented adj
venture in democracy will largely
stake the issue of tht war;
The problem of America, as the |
Food Administrator sees it, is to feed |
our allies this winter by sending |