The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-31
TO boost SECOND
LIBERTY / BOND SALE.
Food Administration Forces Will
n Help Raise F;a New Loan for
I. H.. War Purposes.
SAVE. FooD: AND LEND MONEY
Dig Drive Throughout Nation Coming
Week Of October 21-2e-How All
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.

MUST Unite 70 whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again:
Washfngton.-The food pledge cam
paign is projected upon broad lines
but it is very simple and very plain.
The food administration will mar
shall it's whole force of half million
campaigners organized for food-pledge
week, to promote the second Liberty
loan. The week Of October 21 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.
paign will be at it's height at the SAME
lime. Herbert Hoover, the food ad
ministrator, in a message to the fe1
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers of the food enrolment
campaign, instructing them to exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan, called this a 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
card-a card that it is proposed tC
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 O!
| the struggle must be fought out in tn,
American kitchen.
If soldiers are to fight, they mus
be fed. For the past three years, on,
by one, our allies across the sea hav'
been taking the. men from the farm
and from the factory and sending then
to the firing line. Each man sent tt
the firing line meant one less WHIT
could be relied upon to help produce
the food that twill win the war;"
If the iaborer is worthy Of his hire
surely the fighter is worthy Of his
food. That is a principle universally
! accepted by the American public
However, it Is not every product tha,
can be sent across the sea. Corn will
not serve the need; our allies have
never used it as food; they have NJ
mills to grind it; turn it into meal If
this country and it would spoil before
it could reach European port. There
are just four classes Of products, thu
experts say, that we must send to oul
allies if our duty to them is~to be dis
charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
serve our wheat by increasing oul
consumption of other grains. We car
conserve our meat by making a great
er demand upon the resources of thu
fish market. All Of these are expedi
ents known to the American house
wife.
| If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no popu
lar appeal for the conservation o.
food. There would be an autocrati,
! food control The mailed fist woult
rule in the kitchen. Imperial foot
| 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 thai
| the food administration has appealed
in the food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap
peal an unprecedented adventure IL
democracy"-an adventure that will
determine whether or not a demo
cratic form of government is, aftel
Pll, fitted to engage in death grapplt
with autocracy.
The food pledge week campaign re
solves itself into an effort to secure
as a result of voluntary agreement
pledges insuring the general support
for the well defined program of fooG
conservation. The food pledge cam
paign represents an effort to induce
as many Of the American homes al
possible to unite in common policy
Our wheat reserves can be conserved
If everybody helps. Our meat re
serves can be conserved If the whole
public co-operates.
The American people are asked to
join together in a common conserva
ton policy. As evidence that they are
supporting this policy they are asked
to hang a card denoting membership
In the United States food administra-
ton in their window. In order that
the conservation policy may be under,
stood, the reason for it made plain
and the manner of observing it rem.
dered certain, instruction cards-"The
War Greed Of the Kitchen"-are to be
hung in the home. &c. =. !,
And that Is what the national food
pledge week campaign is all about. J
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