The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-11-01
EVERY WOMAN
CAN BE SOLDIER
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Gibson Asks All to Sign Pledge Cards and
and Thus Do Bit Toward De.
feating Germany

Just as truly as the man who has en-
listed and is going TO the front line Of
trenches to fight Germany and bring
to defeat her atrocious armies, SO can
every woman of America.be true sol
dier of her country by signing and liv-
ing up to the pledge cards that are be-
ing circulated this week in Hood River
county by Food Administrator Gibson.
Saturday the big drive for the Sec
ond Liberty Loan was completed with
honors to Hood River. This week ev-
cry woman of the county is asked to
sign food pledge card. Hood River
county's record should remain high.
1t is impossible that anything but
benefit can come to the American fam
lily. which signs the food administration
pledge.
Millions of women and children in
Europe-our allies-can be saved from
bitter hunger if you will eat one slice
less of wheat bread each day.
IL you want Germany to win this war
waste food-use up the food needed by
those who are fighting her..
If you think ii better to whip Ger
many in Europe, rather than fight her
here, help feed our allies and keep
them in the fight. Sign up as men,
ber of the food administration.
Germany is striving to fasten her
system on Europe and the world,
through starvation. You can help
thwart Germany's ambition by enroll
ing as an active member of the food
administration. Do not be partners Of
the Prussians.
America will deserve to lose this war
if, through unwillingness to practice
small economies, it fails to save food
necessary to keep our allies in the fight
until victory is won.
!: If American women fail to do their
part in this war, it will be their first
failure. President Wilson says the
most vital part they can play is to en-
roll as members of the food admins
tration and ''cheerfully accept its d.
rection and advice"
The women and children of our allies
in Europe know hunger in its most
bitter forms. There is no need that
the women and children of America
should be hungry. They may eat
abundantly but wisely and without
waste and still save the women and
children of our allies from the ex-
tremes of hunger. That's why every
woman is urged to enroll as a member
of the food administration.
Millions of European farmers have
left their fields to fight for the safety
of America and the world. Those
fields, therefore, haven't been produc.
ing much. Ours have. Europe's food
has got to come from somewhere.
America is the place. It's little enough
to ask the individual American to con-
serve what our fields produce, so our
European brethren can have plenty and
keep up the fight. Save your bit!
Your plans for dinner, Mrs. House
wife, are just as important in their
way as General Haig's plans for
night attack. Haig aims to get the
maximum of results with the minimum
of material. He uses plenty, but he
doesn't waste any. So should you.
That's the way you and Haig will win
this war.
The boy you cheered when he
marched away will stand knee deep in
trench mud; he will face poison gas
and deadly flame. He will endure all
the terrors of modern battle. That's
his bit. Your bit, perhaps, is to save
one slice of bread day in order that
he may not fight in vain.
And just as you say that you will
not change your style of living starv-
ing baby dies in France.