Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 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
Sig Drive Throughout Nation COMING
Week Of October 21-2e-How All
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
aHd Bring Peace Again.

ava Bring Peace Again.
Washington.-The food pledge cam
paign is projected upon broad lines,
but 1t is very simple and very plain.
shall its whole force of half million
campaigners organized for food-pledge
week, to promote the second Liberty
loan. The week of October q to %
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
time. Herbert Hoover, the food ad
mlnistrator, In a message to the feL
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers of the food enrolment
campaign, instrhcting them to exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan, called this fortunate cOinci-
dence, since both are aimed at 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
cartl-a card that it is proposed to
hang in every home of the land-a
card that is the 'war creed of the
Kitchen" because, so 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
l the firing line meant one less who
could he relied upon to help produce
! the food that Twill win the war;
, If the laborer is worthy of his hire,
!, surely the fighter is worthy of his
: food. That is a principle universally
1 accepted by the American public.
4 However, 1t is not every product that
4 can be sent across the sea. Corn will
not serve the need; our allies have
never used 1t as food; they have NO
mills to grind it; turn it into meal in
this country and it would spoil before
!. 1t could reach European port. There
are just four classes Of products, the
J. experts say, that we must send to our
3 allies If our duty to them is to be dis
q charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
9 and dairy products. We can con
g serve our wheat by increasing ou1
D consumption Of other grains. We car
4 conserve our meat by making great
I er demand upon the resources of the
r fish market. All of these are expedi
i ents known to the American house
! wife.
, If the United States were an auto
!. cratic country there would be no popu
Q lar appeal for the conservation Of
/. food. There would be an autocrati,
q food control The mailed fist would
I rule In the kitchen. Imperial foot
e DEGREES would be enforced at thu
point of the bayonet. But ours is no
an autocratic country. Food contro
: is in the hands Of the people them
selves, and it is to the people tina
{ the food administration has appealed
in the food pledge card campaign.
t Herbert Hoover has termed this ap
:. peal an unprecedented adventure IL
p democracy''-an adventure that vii
l. determine whether or not demo
g cratic form of government is, aftel
III In. Int1 4, v,v,11
q with autocracy.
The food pledge week campaign re
r solves itself into an effort to secure
8 as q result Of voluntary agreemen
n pledges insuring the general supper
It for the we'll defined program of foot
8 conservation. The food pledge cam
b paign represents an effort to induce
as many of the American homes a
possible to unite in a common policy
Our wheat reserves can be conserved
If everybody helps. Our meat re
= serves can be conserved ii the who'll
. public cO-operates.
. The American people are asked t
. Join together in common conserve
. ton policy. AS evidence that they ar
. supporting this policy they are aske
= to hang a card denoting membership
. In the United States food administra
4. ton in their window. In order tina
= the conservation policy may be under
stood, the reason for it made plai
. and the manner of observing it ren
. dered certain, instruction cards-"Th
War Greed of the Kitchen''-are to b
hung in the home.
~ And that is what the national foo
~ pledge week campaign is all about.