The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-10-18
TO BOOST SECOND
LIBERTY BOND SALE
Food Administration Forces Will
Help Raise New Loan for
War Purposes.
SAVE FOOD AND LEND MONEY
Bio Drive Throughout Nation Coming
Week Of October 21.2eEHow All
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace AGAIN.

Washington.-The food pledge cam.
paign is projected upon broad lines,
but 1t is very simple and very plain.
The food administration will mar.
shal Its whole force Of half mirISon
campaigners organized for foOd-pledge
week, to promote the second Liberty
loan. The week of October q to Is
has been set for the big drive the food
administration has planned to enroll
all American families for food con-
servation. The Liberty loan cam.
paign will be at Its height at the same
time. Herbert Hoover, the food ad-
ministrator, In a message to the fed
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers Of the food enrolment
campaign. instructing them to exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan. called this a fortunate coinci-
dence. since both are aimed Mt the
same end and each will supplement the
other. The Liberty loan, he says, will
enable the government to lend money
to the allies, and the food pledge cam.
paign Is designed to make certain that
there shall be food available to pur-
chase.
So simple and SO plain that they
have been stated in the compass Of a
card-a card that It II proposed to
hang in every home Of the land-a
card that Is the ''war creed Of the
Kitchen" because, 80 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"
II the laborer 10 worthy Of his hire.
surely the fighter 10 worthy Of his
food. That is a principle universally
accepted by the American public.
However, II Is not every product that
can be sent across the sea. Corn will
not serve the need; our allies have
never used It a. food they have NO
mills to grind 1t: turn It into meal In
this country and It would spoil befors
II could reach European port. There
are just four classes Of products, the
experts say. that we must send to our
allies II our duty to them II to be dis
charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
and dairy products. We can con.
serve our wheat BY increasing our
consumption Of other grains. We can
conserve our meat BY making q great.
or demand upon the resources Of the
lish market. All Of these are expedl-
ents known to the American house
wife.
II the United States were an auto.
cratic country there would be no popu.
lar appeal for the conservation Of
food. There would be an autocratic
food control. The mailed ilst would
rule In the kitchen. Imperial food
DEGREES would be enforced at the
point Of the bayonet. But ours 70 not
an autocratic country. Food control
10 In the hands Of the people them.
selves, and 1t 10 to the people that
the food administration has appealed
In the food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed. this ap
Peal an unprecedented adventure In
democracy"-an adventure that will
determine whether or not . demo
cratic form Of government 10, after
all, fitted to engage In . death grappls
with autocfacy.
The food pledge week campaign re
solves itself into an effort to secure
a. Q result Of voluntary agreement
pledges insuring the general support
for the well defined program Of food
conservation. The food pledge cam
paign represents an effort to induce
a. many of the American homes al
possible to unite In q common policy
Our wheat reserves can be conserved
II everybody helps. Our meat re
serves cnn be conserved II the whole
public co-operates.
The American people are asked t
joln together In q common conserva
ton policy. Al evidence that they an
supporting this policy they are asket
to hang q card denoting membershiI
In the United States food admlnistra
lion In their window. In order tha
the conservation policy may be under
stood, the reason for Il made plais
and the manner Of observing II rem
dered certain. instruction cards-"Th,
War Greed Of the Kitchen"-ars to b,
hung In the home.
And that 10 what the national foo<
pledge week campaign 10 oil about.