The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-30
FOODPLEDGE
CARD DRIVE
IN PROGRESS
Y q.
Girls Are Making Canvass Of
Bennington
ALL WOMEN ARE ASKED
Card is Promise to be Careful Not
{ To Waste Food During contn.
uance of the War.

A girl at the front door or the side
door or some other door this week is
a sign that the head OF the family,
meaning the wife. mother or spinBters
aunt who bosses the household, is
e5paId uS!s OF peHsB 90 o. lnoqa
card
1t isn't g pledge against the Demon
Rum but is a pledge not to let the
Demon Waste enter the house while
the war lasts. e
In order to carry on the war the
United States has to feed itself and
its allies and the food supply in this
country isn't big enough so we can
be. wasteful Certain kinds of food
which can be shipped best must be
saved for shipping while folks safe
at home must eat something else
This food pledge card isn't a hard
thing to live up to. 1t puts no one on
short rations nor compels anybody to
suffer 1t is simply promise to our
country TO do our little part to pre-
vent waste of food
The girls on the local committee
started out yesterday. This awful
weather makes 1t hard for them. No
one refuses to sign after they under.
stand the matter, but quite a number
hesitate to sign until they hear the
story. On the fourth page of this
paper is a longer article on the sub
ject headed Food viii Win the War
and Vermont Must Do Its Part" The
article also contains copy OF the
pledge card.
Bennington housekeepers OF all
walks Of life should read up on the
subject and be ready to sign the
cards at once when the girls come
around with them. Don't keep the
girl standing around with her feet
wet. Sign up because it is the right
thing to do. 1t is also interesting to
know that this is one of the few
things in this war that doesn't cost
anything
The canvass here is under the aus
pices of the Woman's Committee OF
the Council of National Defense.
which through its state chairman Mrs
John f. Weeks of Middlebury, APP
pointed Mrs. Edward b. Huling,
chairman OF Bennington county
Mrs. Huling's appointees are as fol-
lows: Chairmen, Mrs. George NJ.
Hawks, Bennington; Mrs Guy B.
Johnson, Old Bennington; Mrs. Geo.
B. yelling, North Bennington Miss
Ide Harrington, Shaftsbury; Mrs. A.
r. Edgerton, West Arlington and
Sandgate; j. ]. Mann, Arlington;
Miss Margaret Graves, Sunderland:
Mrs. J. G. Bacon, Manchester: R. NJ.
Campbell, Dorset; Miss Mildred
Danforth, Rupert; Mrs. NJ. J. Hap
good, Peru; Mrs. Loren Whitney.
Landgroye Mrs. Wilson Rathbun.
Pownal Mrs J. R. Sanford. Stam-
ford; Miss Mary l.. Sanford, Reads.
boro
The Bennington County Improve.
ment Association through It's Presi.
dent, Guy b. Johnson, has ap-
pointed man chairman In each
town, to cooperate with the woman
chairman and has also attended to
the placing OF posters in this village
and stands ready to assist in the
work in every way
The Pledge Card campaign drive
started Monday in every town and
city not only in Vermont but in the
United States. Already there are
Goodly number OF the window cards
in evidence, although the day was q
stormy one and the canvassers un-
able to accomplish much.
The quota for Bennington county in
over 1000 families and 1t Is hoped
there will be more than that number
of signed Pledge Cards to return 20.
Washington at the end of this cam
paign.
The names OF the local COMMITTEES
will be published in few days to-
gether with the number OF Pledse
Cards signed,