The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-26
GOSPEL PREACHED At MOVIES
Prominent Business Men Lend Support
to Movement by Addressing Audiences
at Theatres Saturday Eve.-Pledge
Card Shortage Soon to Disappear.

The patriotism of Kenosha women
was tested this morning when the rain
threatened to Interfere with the sched-
ule for the canvass Of the housewives
of the city or food conservation
pledges, but with vim and vigor,
suitable to the cause, the women sur
mounted all inconvenience and sue
cessfully enlisted many Kenosha wom-
er in the cause which is destined to be
leading factor in the overthrow of
the submarine menace.
Miss Harriet Balm, chairman Of the
committee of the Women s County
Council Of Defense, which has the cam
Iaign in charge, reported this morning
that 1900 food pledge cards had been
received by the local board and that
$500 more would be added in the mid
die of this week. Because of the tenn
porary shortage of cards the work was
confined this morning to the first, sec
ond and sixth wards of the city, but
will be extended to the remaining dis
triets as soon as it is possible.
There are absolutely no refusals, y
said one canvasse, this morning, "and
the women talk like they will live up
not to the letter but to the spirit Of
the pledge. The committee, as form
eYy announced, will visit sooner or
later every home in the city and hopes
to send to Mrs. Morgan Of the Wiscon-
sin State Council of Defense a report
that Kenosha women are unanimously
IN support Of this and any movement
which will help our own country and
humanity in this great struggle for
freedom. @
The immediate response which came
this morning is partially accounted for
by the publicity which was given the
movement by several prominent bust
ness men by their addresses to the
crowds at the motion picture theatres
of the city. These men in the name of
the County Council of Defense pleaded
with Kenosha women to realize the
gravity of the situation and do every
thing within their power to conserve
the food supply by the means to be
suggested later by Food Dictator Her
bert G. Hoover; they pleaded with the
husbands, who were accustomed to
complain, that they should be willing
to " eat, drink aid be merry on
fare, which though not as luxurious, is
as strengthening as the opulence of the
past. They were careful to explain
that this was not a movement to stop
the spending of money, on which the
prosperity Of business depends, but an
attempt to to stop the wasteless ex-
pendtture of those vital resources,
which are the sineWs for war. Rich
ard F. Kaiser, secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce, in. his short addresses
to the crowds at the Rhode and Burke
theatres set forth the following rea-
sons why Kenosha men and women
should cooperate in this movement:
The war, ir which we are now en-
gagged will be won by food as well as
by men and the more food we save,
the more men we save. Ninety per
cent of the ultimate food conservation
OF the country is in the hands of the
women and it is fitting that they make
the first move in this food campaign.
At the same time this movement will
be good for economy and for your own
pocket.
First and foremost, food conserva-.
ton applies te- the saving of those
kinds of food, which are non perishabIe
and can be stored away or sent to our
allies. Our wheat harvest is far be-
low normal. If each person would save
weekly one pound of wheat flour. it
would mean one hundred and fifty mil
lion more bushels to help save democ
racy. We are killing the dairy cows
and calves as the result of high prices:
therefore eat less and no young meat.
1t we save one ounce Of meat each dav
per person, we will have an additional
supply equal to 100000 cattle this
year IS everyone in the United states
saves one ounce of sugar daily It means
100000 tons this year. Millions of
young men are preparing to sacrifice
their lives, if need be, for the cause If
victory. How much more willingly
should all who are LEFT at home nrac-
tice the small sacrifice of asino little
extra care to make certain that no food
Is wasted Without thrift AZ homa III
the bloot split on foreign fields NAV be
In vain
Inese arguments We're as convincing
= delivered to the. suu1ences Of the
MAJESTIC and Butterfly theatres by II.
Y. Maddox Of the Kenosha Retailers
Association and to the crowd At fine
Crystal Theatre by Z. T. O'Brien of
the Citizens Bank /