The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-10-12
THOUSANDS ORGANIZE TO
AID FIGHTING FORCES
Don't Want Hunger to BE One
of the Foes of American
Soldiers.


in the National Food Campaign to
be conducted in South Carolina by
the United States Food Administra-
tion during the week of October 21-
2S.
Mr.. David r. Coker, Federal Food
Administrators, today welcomed the
War Mothers into the ranks of the
food conservation army that is being
recruited in South Carolina in sup
port of policy that will enable the
United States to guarantee that the
demands made upon it by reason of
the world war will all be met. The
Coker statement is an appeal to the
country to help the War Mother
help her boy, 1t is the first step in
a plan that contempIates the or
ganization of the War Mothers as a
recruiting force in every county.
They are to be formed in recruiting
groups engaged in the work of MAX
ing the war creed of the kitchen an
effective agency in solving the war
food problem.
The idea of organizing War Moth
crs sprang spontaneously from the
field, women whose sons are with
the colors demanding a chance to
help solve the countrys food prob
lem. In Welcoming their services in
connection with the Food Pledge
Week Campaign, Federal Food Adj
ministrator Coker says:
Thousands of women. the War
Mothers of the land who have given
their sons to the country, are asking
the privilege of making one more
sacrifice.
These War Mothers seek the op-
portunity OF enrolling themselves
with their sons as a part Of the fight
ing forces OF the nation.
They are seeking what they can
do in order that they may be certain
hunger is not added to the foes their
sons must face.
THE food problem that menaces
our allies is likewise the food prob
lem that menaces the sons Of our
War Mothers. That problem is one
that touches the honor, the heart
and the patriotism OF the American
people. The woman who gives her
son to fight has right to demand
that he be fed. She has a right to
demand place in any movement de-
signed to guarantee the food supply
OF our armed forces.
But the War Mother has more
than right to seek service for her
self. She has the right to plead
that the womanhood of the nation be
Joined in a sisterhood pledged to
protect her boy with all the re-
sources of the home.
The War Mothers who have vol
unteered for service stand for the
war creed of the kitchen, the doc
trine that it is patriotic duty to
conserve the food supply necessary
for the maintenance of the fighting
forces OF democracy.
The nation has asked a sacrifice
at the hands of the mothers. She
in her turn asks but a service. She
asks that each one in his own home.
voluntarily and as a matter of indi-
vidual conscience administer the
food supply at his disposal as
though he were the guardian of the
total store
America must have a food pro-
gram If it is to play fitting part
in the world war. This program
to be effective, requires the people
in this country to conserve those
food products that our allies and
our own soldiers must have.
The War Mother has a right to
ask that every family make this pro-
gram a vital part of it's daily life.
There must be more than war
munitions in the hands we stretch
across the sea: The cause of de-
mocracy must be fed as we'll as
armed.
I'm behalf OF its War Mothers our
and our allies can con-
fdently appeal to the American
home for policy of food conserva- !
tion that will render IL certain |
funds contributed by patriotic citi-
zens will not go begging in the mar
kets OF the world for food stuffs that
do not exist"