The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-07-05
WOMEN WILL ASSIST
WILL AID IN UNITED STATES
FOOD CONSERVATION
WORK.
HAPPENINGS OF THE STATE
What 10 Going On Here and There
That Is Of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout South Da.
kota and Vicinity.
western Newspaper Union New. serric.

Sioux FallS.-South Dakota Wom-
ems clubs, co-ordinated under the SUI
pervision of the women's committee of
the state council of national defense.
are nearing the perfection of machin.
cry which will enlist the women Of
South Dakota in the national food ad-
ministratioon. The undertaking con
templates the registration of all thc
women of the state Who will pledge
their cooperation in the nation wide
movement of food conservation under
the administrator of Herbert C.
Hoover.
Under the direction of the women's
committee of the state council the
scope OF the work will be projected
through the agency of the various
state and local women's organizations
to reach into the most remote commu.
mites. Through this means pledge
cards will be distributed to every
housewife in the state.
These cards are to be filled out by
the women and mailed to the food ad.
ministrator at Washington. The house
wife in signing the card pledges her.
self to join in the service of the food
administration and to carry out the
directions of the food administrator
in the conduct of her household in
so far as circumstances permit.
The cards bear spaces for names
and addresses, the number in the
household, the occupation of the
breadwinner, and the signer pledges
herself to take part in authorized
neighborhood movements for conser
walton Of foodstuffs.
After the pledges are signed and
sent to Mr.. Hoover in Washington
there will be returned to each signer
a household tag, to be placed in the
window of the home, to show that the
members Of the household have volun.
teered for service. Thereafter simple
instructions for the prevention of
household waste and definite informa-
ton as TO the particular goods which
it Is imperative to conserve will be
issued to the signers of the pledges
through the food administration.
The objects Of the food conserva.
ton program as announced by the ma
tional women's committee are as fol
COWS:
ITO effect an exact survey of the
amount of food on hand in this coun.
try, so that the amount available for
home consumption and expectation to
the allies may be accurately known.
AN investigation undertaken by the
department of agriculture into the nor.
NAL consumption of food by different
families from representative groups
Of population.
Some control Of food in storage,
better methods Of transportation and
the elimination of speculation In food.
stuffs.
"The enrolment of a league of won.
en- who will pledge themselves to car.
ry out the wishes of the president, the
national government and the food ad.
ministrator.
"The latter project will be accom-.
plished through the medium Of the
women's committee Of the various
state councils of defense"
With the campaign for signatures
to the food pledges 1t is planned sim.
ultaneously to launch the movement
for the registration of the women OF
the state for war service. While 1t is
announced the enrolment for war ser
vice had no direct connection with the
pledging of the support of the women
of the country in the food conserva.
tion movement, 1t is believed that
both campaigns may be united. The
cards on which val service registra.
tion will be made, unlike the food
cards which are to be mailed to Wash
ington, will be retained in the town or
city where they may be used as a
daily guide when calls for women's
service are made. Summaries Of the
registration will be SEN to the state
and national headquarters Of the
women's committee and retained
there, so that IL the government has
need of the services women can offer
II will be known definitely what places
in the country are qualified to respond.
An appeal to the newspapers of
+. South Dakota to cooperate in the ma
tional food conservation movement by
giving constant publicity to the cam
paign to enroll the housewives of the
state in the national food admins
tration has gone forth from the WON
ems committee OF the state council
Of national defense. I is urged thai
every newspaper in the state print
blank food pledges which may be clip
ed out by the women and mailed tc
Washington.