Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-18
SAVE FOOD and
LEND4YOUR Coin
Hoover's Men viii Make Big
Drive Throughout Nation for
Sale of New Bonds.
YOU CAN help Whip KAISER
Great Program Is Outlined for Food.
Pledge Week Campaign, October
II to 2s-Those Who Fight
Must Be Fed.

Washington.-Ten million food con-
servation pledgesl Twenty-Five million
homes visited! A national campaign
projected so large in it's scope that the
work TO be accomplished is as great
as though census of the country were
t0 be taken in week
Such is the program outlined for
the food pledge week campaign, Oc-
tcber p to %.
What Is it all about?
Why SO much fuss?
What are the motives back Of such
q tremendous drive?
10 every state thousands of people
ara asking these questions while thou
sands of others are preparing them
selves 70 furnish a complete answer
to ,he query. '~. 49,
The reasons why the food pledge
campaign has been projected upon such
broad lines are simple enough; plain
enough.
So simple and so plain that they
have been stated in the compass OF
carC-a card that 1t 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.
II 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
the firing line meant one less who
could be relied upon to help produce
the food that will win the war;"
There are stores of wheat in Aus
tralia There is food in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time Is
and TO South America takes too long.
II the needs of those who fight for us
across the sea are to be met, the food
that sustains those fighters must come
from this country.
II the laborer is worthy Of his hire,
surely the fighter is worthy Of his food
That is q principle universally accept
ed by the American public. However
it 10 not every product that can be
sent across the sea. Corn will not
serve the need; our allies have nevel
used it as a food; they have no mills
to grind 1t; turn 1t into meal In this
country and it would spoil before II
| oo,,1d .oooI, or E,,roDaan DOrt There
are. Just four classes of products, the
experts say, that we must send to ouI
allies II our duty to them is to be dis
charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
and dairy products. We can conserve
our wheat by increasing our consump
ton of other grains. We can conserve
our meat by making a greater demand
upon the resources of the fish market
II the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no pop
ular appeal for the conservation OF
food. There would be an autocratit
food control. The mailed fist woult
rule In the kitchen. Imperial food de
crees would be enforced at the poin
of the bayonet. But ours is not al
autocratic country. Food control is II
the hands of the people themselves
and 1t Is to the people that the foot
administration has appealed In the
food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap
peal an unprecedented adventure II
democracy"-an adventure that vii
determine whether or not democratic
form of government is, after all, fitted
to engage In death grapple with al
autocracy.
The food pledge work campaign re
solves itself into an effort TO secure a.
n result of voluntary agreemen
pledges insuring the general suppor
for we'll defined program of food con
servation. The food pledge week cam
paiRn represents an effort to induce n
many Of the American homes as pos
sible to unite in a common policy. Gu
wheat reserves can be conserved /
everybody helps.
The American people are asked t.
join together in common conserVa
ton policy. AS evidence that they ar,
supporting this policy they are aske'
to hang card denoting membership
In the United States food administra
ton in their window. In order tina
the conservation policy may be under
stood, the reasons for it made plain
and the manner of observing it rem
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.