The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-09-27
CONGRESSMAN GREENE
TO VERMONT WOMEN
Save, Save, Save. There's More
Down Cellar in a Tea Cup" Should
Apply Today as Of Nore.

Down Cellar In Tea Cup should
Apply Today a. Of fore.
Washington. Sept 24-CongreSs-
man Frank L. Greene Of the first Yer
mont district, In giving his support TO
the food coyervation movement to
strengthen which pledge card cam
paign will be waged in Vermont dur
ing the week beginning October 2lst
when II Is hoped every housewife in
the State will enlist In the conserva-
ton army, today declared that the
cooperation Of Vermont women in
this move "means that a tremendous
weapon, defensive and offensive, will
be welded in this war right in our
own commonwealth by the mothers,
sisters, daughters, sweethearts and
wives OF the boys who are to fight the
country's battles somewhere In
France" Mr.. Greene's statement is
as follows:
II would not presume TO counsel
Vermont housewives to be prudent
and thrifty now or at any other time,
because she knows her own business
better than | do, and it is her own
business, anyway. Beside, if she were
not habitually prudent and thrifty,
the State would not have more money
in savings banks according TO its pop
ulation than any other State in the
Union. But when we begin to talk
about defeating Germany in this
great world war in which America is
playing such responsible part, VIC
are talking Of the business of all OF us
loyal Green Mountain people, and
mighty serious business, too.
so then, If we suggest to the Yer
mont housewife that an additional in
centiye to her customary prudence and
thrift is TO help our country and our
soldier boys win this war, we are
sure of the same patriotic response
that has characterized Vermont
womanhood since the days of Widow
Story and her famous cave. The con-
seryation of food in the home under
the careful administration of Vermont
housewives, means that tremendous
weapon, defensive and offensive, will
be welded in this war, right in our
own commonwealth by the mothers,
sisters, daughters, sweethearts and
wives of the boys who are To fight the
country's battles somewhere in
France
"And it means that our boys will be
reinforced and strengthened in their
combat by force in some respects
even more powerful than gunpowder
and bullets. If America can feed her
own and the peoples of her allies in
this awful era of the world turned up
side down, with the children of men in
every land more and more anxious for
their daily bread and in some of them
nearer SltAi Nstkio3i N'NH
day goes by in prayer for peace, just
80 much of the victory we must and
shall gain over Germany in the end
will be brought about with SO much
less of the sacrifice of previous lives
of Yankee boys in khaki, because food,
in these modern times, as an absolute
ly essential part of the sinews of war.
Housewives Of Vemront, in the
homcly phrase Of simple old Green
Mountain life, see to it that there is
always more down cellar in tea cup
Your granddames did that very thing
in the days of long ago and used to
make a familiar jest Of it at the
Thanksgiving Day table regularly as
the festival came and went. But it
was always an occasion for thanksgiv-
ing, bear in mind, and that's what the
victory over German frightfulness will
be-"