The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-10-25

tko- WAo dAt pittSta ~ N''O'S Nf'N'-
time to making success of the Food
Administration Pledge Card Week
Campaign.
Colorados quota is two hundred
thousand pledges. The combined quo
Ia for the entire United States is ten
million Food Conservation Pledges'
Every home in the United States will
be visited. A National Campaign pro
ected so large in its scope that the
work TO be accomplished is as great
as thought census of the country
We're to be taken in week.
Such is the program outlined for
the Food Pledge Week Campaign,
October 2sth to November ith.
What is it all about?
Why so much fussr
What are the motives back of such
a tremendous drive?
In every state thousands of people
are asking these questions while thou
sands of others are preparing them
selves to furnish 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 simp'e and so plain that they
have been stated in the compass of a
card--a card that it is proposed to
hang in<<every home Of the land-a
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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 10 help pro-
duce the food that will win the war
England. France, Italy. Belgium.
says the war creed of the kitchen.
which. after all. completely states the
problem and presents the solution.
taken together. even in times of peace
import forty per cent of their food
stuffs, but now with their millions
upon the firing line. they must import
more heavily than before.
There are stores of wheat in Aus
tralia. There is food in South Amer
fee, but ships are scare. Time is vi
tai factor. The voyage to Australia
and to South America takes too long
If the need of those who fight for US
across the sea are to be met the food
that sustains these 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 principal universally
accepted. by the American public
However. warns the United States
Food Administration it is not every
product that can be sent across the
sea. Corn will not serve the need;
our Allies have never used ii as
turn II into meal in this country and
it would spoil before it could reach a
Ercropean port.
There are just four classes of pro
ducts, the experts say. that we must
send TO our allies If our duty TO them
is to be discharged; they need meat.
wheat. sugar and dairy products. But.
say the experts, who have gathered
the figures. unless American consump-
tion of those food stuffs is reduced
below the normal consumption our
reserve will not be large enough to
meet the need. And so the problem
becomes q simple one-at least when
studied We can conserve our wheat
by increasing our consumption of other
grains. We can conserve our meat by
making greater demand upon the re.
sources of the fish market All OF
these are expedients known TO the
American housewife.
II the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no pop
niar appeal for the conservation o.
food. There would be an autocratio
food control. The mailed first would
rule in the kitchen. Imperial food dc
crees would be enforced at the point
of the bayonet. But ours is not an au
tocratic country. Food control is in
the hands OF the people themselves
and IL is TO the people that the Food
Administration has appealed in the
Food Pledge Card Campaign