The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-25
HOUSEWIVES CAN
HELP WIN THE WAR
Congressman Greene Says They Weld
q Tremendous Weapon Which
Will Hasten Victory.
Especial to The Ref0rmcr.) J

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Congress |
man Frank /. Greene Of the First Yer !
mont district is giving his support to
the food conservation movement to
strengthen which a pledge card cam
ipaign vii be waged i'll Vermont during
the week beginning Oct. 2lst, when 1t
is hoped every housewife III the state
will enlist in the conservation army, to-
day declared that the cooperation of
| Vermont women in this move means
! hat q tremendous weapon, defensive and
offensive, will be welded in this war
right in our own commonwealth by the
mothers, sisters, daughters, sweethearts
and wives of the boys who are to fight
the country s battles somewhere in
France Mr. Greene S statement is
as follows:
= would not presume to counsel the
Vermont housewife to be prudent and
thrifty now or at any other time, be-
!cauSe She knows her own business better
, than ] do. and it is her own business,
anyway. Besides, if she were not habit
: ,ually prudent and thrifty the state
] would not have more money IN savings
banks according to its population than
any other state in the Union. But when
we begin to talk about defeating Ger
mang III this great world war in which
America is playing such a responsible
part, we arc talking OF the business Of
all Of US loyal Green Mountain people
, and mighty serious business, too.
80, then, if we suggest to the Yer
imont housewife that an additional IN
ccntive to her customary thrift an,
prudence is TO help our country ana
+ our soldier. boys win this war, we ar
e sure Of the same patriotic response tina
a has characterized Vermont womanhoo'
y since the days OF Widow Story and he
y famous cave. The, conservation of foo
'e in the home under the careful admins
tratiou Of Vermont housewives. mean
= that 4 tremendous weapon, oficnsiv
: and defensive. will be welded in thi
II war right in our own commonwealth l.
= the mothers, sisters daughters, swee
" hearts, and wives Of the boys who are I
fight the country 5 battles someWhe.
IN France.
And il means that our boys will /
reinforced and strengthened in the
il, eombat by FORCE in some respects eye
more powerful than gun, powder an
bullets. Ii America can feed her ow
no and the peoples Of her allies in tn
"a avn III era OF the NoIlt turned upSIt
down, with the children Of men III cvel
~. land more anxious for their daily hrc;
!, and in some of them often nearer al
i,a nearer starvation a. each day goes
i in prayer for peace, Just SO much Of t
ii victory we must and shall gain on
i Germany in the end viii be broug
,rt about with so much less OF the sacrili
of previous lives Of Yankee boys
itE khaki, because food, IN these mode
the times. is an absolutely essential j:
gat Of the sinews of war
}st Housewives Of Vermont, in /
re homelv phrase Of simple old Gre
ed Mountain life. see to il that there is
ceh ways .more down cellar IN 4 tea esp
il Your grandamcs did that very thing
sels the days OF long ago and used to ma
nix q familiar jest Of it at the Thanksgivi
day table regularly as the festival ca
a. and went But it was always an oc
$ sion for Thanksgiving, bear in mind, {
ats; that 5 what the victory over Germ
:, frghtfumess win be-