The Monticellonian., 1917-10-12
PLEDGE CARD WEEK
PROCLAIMED BY GOV.
EVERY CITIZEN OF STATE is
URGED TO HELP IN FOOD
OBSERVATION.
WORK BEGINS OCTOBER Fl
Three Hundred Thousand Pledge
Cards Have Been Prepared For Dis
tribution, and in Addition Are
Having Display Cards Printed.
Little Rock

Little Rock
Hamp Williams. federal food admin
istrator for Arkansas, and j. b.
Dickinson, campaign manager, have
set in motion a statewide publicity
campaign preliminary to the card
pledge wee Z. which begins October q
and VIII end october IS They have
prepared 100000 pledge cards for dis
tribution not later than October 10,
and in addition are having printed
$4,000 window display cards.
Governor Brough issued as procla-
nation, as follows:
Governors Proclamation.
TO all to whom these presents
shall come, greeting:
Know We that, whereas, the sue
cess of our brave troops and our he
role allies in this unprecedented cru.
SADIE in behalf of democracy and lib
erty against autocracy and despotism,
will largely depend upon our food sup
plies, Napoleon's famous adage Being
true, that an army travels on its bel
ly. and.
Whereas, the United States faces
decrease in its staple crops which
have hitherto been consumed at home,
that too, despite the fact that we have
$4,000. 900 families in the United
States to feed and 394,00 families in
Arkansas to feed, in addition to TO-
100000 of our allies on the firing line
aud the destitute women and children
of France, Russia, Italy, Belgium,
Serbia, Reumania. Poland and other
allied countries; and.
"WEe4va, the president and Con-
gress of the United States have ap-
pealed to our patriotic people, espe.
eially in the homes of our land. for
food conservation, and have appoint
ed the Hon. Herbert Hoover federal
food administrator of the United
States, and the Hon. Hamp Williams
of Hot Springs federal food admins
traitor for the state of Arkansas, men
who are unselfishly devoting their
time and energy to the service of their
country without peeuniary reward:
and, $50
Whereas, the problem of food con-
servation will be solved very simply
if our people willseat less of the
foods which, because of their concen-
trated nutritive properties. must be
sent abroad, such as wheat beef
pork, sugar, dairy products, and eat
more of other foods of which there is
an abundance, such as vegetables.
poultry, corn meal and fish-one day
each week of such economy represent
Ing a saving of between 100000 and
10000, 600 bushels of wheat and two
billion pounds of meat, these ealcula-
lions being based on normal per cap
tia consumption of these commodities
in the United States;
Now, therefore, I, Charles H.
Broush. = vernon of the State of Ar
kansas. by virtue of the authority
vested in me, under the constitution
and laws of said state. do hereby set
apart. and proclaim the week begin
ming October 21st. and ending Octo-
Der 2Sth. at National Pledge Card
Campaign Week in Arkansas. and call
upon the wives, mothers and daugh-
tiers in the 1874 600 families in our
state to sign the Pledge Cards, which
viii be furnished them by the county
Of nf
Defense, which cards will be distrib
uted by the county clerk of each OF
our rs counties, and may be sent back
to the proper authorities without even
The expense of postage. earnestly
hope that the State of Arkansas,
which has already raised over 100000
for the Red Cross. subscribed over
100000 for the Liberty Loan, nearly
$4,000 for the Library Fund. in add
ton to furnishing a quota of over
10000 selected troops and over 1000
volunteers in the National Guard, will
take the leadership in this great
movement of food conservation and
will win for the State the beautiful
SILK nag WHICH Will De presented TO
the state showing the greatest proper
tomato number of signatures to these
pledge cards.
IN test'~ony whereof have here
unto g hand and caused to be
affixed the Great Seal of State, in the
Executive Chamber. Little Rock, Ark
ansas, on this sixth day OF October.
D. 1917.
Charles H. Trough,
Governor"