The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18
Mrs. Eddy Takes Charge.

Mrs. Eddy Takes Charge.
Mrs. George II. Eddy succeeds Miss
Harriet Balm as chairman of the organ
ization committee. Women of Kenosha
will be given another opportunity to
become members of the United States
food administration by means of the
food pledge system. All districts not
covered by the recent canvass will be
visited by members of Mrs. Eddy's
committee at this time
An urgent appeal to the women and
children to invest their savings in Lib
erty Loan bonds will be made during
the present campaign.
Mr.. Hoover Sees It Through.
The following is a letter from Herb
ert Hoover which was printed in Coun-
try Life in America:
My Countrywomen:
ask your help.
The President has laid upon me and
has asked me to assume great response
bility in the conservation of the food
supplies of our country. It would be
an unbearable burden but for two
reasons:
One is that I am sure every loyal
American will at this time undertake
unhesitatingly and intellectually
whatever service is required of him.
The other reason is-the American
woman. believe you have only to I'M
derstand the food needs of this nation,
of the Allies, and in fact of the entire
world, in order to enlist your immedi-
ate and intelligent support.
I realize full well that 20 per cent of
our households are conducted with
thrift and without waste, but even in
these we need to secure the use of
equally good food in substitution for
those commodities which are of SO con-
centrated character that they can be
shipped over the seas in these times of
short shipping.
Among the 80 per cent, it is true
enough that we have deserved the repu-
tation Of the most wasteful housekeep-
ing in the world, and the time has come
to turn our faces squarely in the oppo-
site direction, and make our country
throughout a model of economical man
agement.
Indeed, if our American ideal of a
square deal is right, we can do no less.
For three years now the people of
the Allied countries have borne the bur-
den Of this struggle for life and liberty,
and are bearing it with pain and priva
ton. There are millions of women in
Belgium and northern France today
who for three years have heard no
word of their husbands, their sons, or
their brothers, who go about their daily
tasks provided with the most meagre
with smile on thei- lips.
It is for women such as these, for
soldiers gallant beyond description, for
little children Of Europe, that you now
face the immediate duty Of taking up
arms, as it were, in your households.
You are great army drafted by con-
science into what is now the most
urgent activity of the war-that Of in
creasing and conserving the food sup
ply.
Conditions which have brought about
a world shortage of food have placed
upon the shoulders of you, the women
of America, to great degree, the re-
sponsibility of winning this war, for
the wolf is at the door Of all the world
except our own country, and we have
superabundance.
We are not appealing alone to the
women; we are actively organizing SO
far as possible without legislation, the
men in trades, hotels, restaurants, and
in food distribution, hoping not only to
eliminate waste, but to moderate the
burden of speculation and extortionate
profits.
It stands to reason that your first
| duty is to the members of your family.
They must have all the food they re-
quire to keep them in good health and
capable of performing efficiently their
daily tasks. Information for your
| guidance as to the food needs of the
average family will be put in the hands
of every earnest woman in America.
In confidence I turn to you so to con-
duct your affairs, and so to influence
the activities of your community, that
we may largely pay for the war as we
go along out of our savings in food and
in human production.
| With deep gratitude for the earnest
support already given me, am,
Faithfully yours,
| Herbert Hoover