Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-25
HOOVER HIMSELF
WILL REVIEW HOUSEWIVES
At Lyric Theatre. Baltimore, Next Sat-
urday The Pledge Gard
Campaign.

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+ Herbert c. Hoover himself will re-
view the housewives enrolled in
Maryland's Food Conservation Army
at the Lyric, in Baltimore, at great
meeting on October 81, preliminary to
the opening of the pledge-card sign
ing campaign beginning October IS
The meeting will begin at 3 o'clock
and promises to be of nation wide in
terest owing TO the fact that this is
the only occasion in connection with
the National Food Conservation Cam
paign at which the National Food Adj
ministrator will speak.
DR.. Anne Howard Shaw, head Of
the Women's Section of the National
Council of Defense, has also been
asked to speak at this meeting. Ed
win G. Baetjer, Food Administrator
for Maryland. Will preside, and Fran
els King Carey, Chairman of the Cam
paign Committee will introduce Mr..
Hoover to the army Cardinal Glib
bons will make the invocation, and
the Rt Rev John Gardner Murray,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Maryland, will pronounce
the benediction.
It is hoped that by the eve of the
campaign week in Maryland, nearly
1000 women will be enrolled as cap
tains, lieutenants and recruiting Off
GERS in Maryland's Conservation
Army These women will be admit
ted to the Hoover meeting by special
badges. All OF them will be asked to
wear white shirtwaists and skirts.
Mrs Edward Shoemaker, commanding
the Maryland Army, and the members
of her staff, will wear sashes of pur-
pie indicating their rank Seated on
the stage will be the city and county
captains, and the city precinct and
county election district lieutenants.
The former will wear badges of blue,
and the latter ribbons of yellow. pin
ned with the Hooyer button.
Recruiting officers-that is women
who enroll to aid in the house-to-
house canvass of housewives during
the week of October 2Sth-will wear
red. badges and will have seats reserv-
ed for thin in the body of the theatre
Each woman who gives her services
for the canvass win receive from the
Food Administration of the United
States commission, which will make
her an official representative of the
United States Government, and which
will be valuable souvenir of the oc-
casion Only limited number Of
these commissions will be given IN
each county and women who are will
ing to volunteer their services to aid
the government in the emergency re-
sulting from the food shortages are
asked to enroll Full information in
regard to the work required may be
had upon application to National Food
Conservation Campaign, Maryland
Headquarters. SIS North Charles St,
Baltimore All enrollments should be
made early in order that instructions
may be sent each officer
Most Maryland housewives are in
formed as to what the campaign is
and what it aims to accomplish. The
United States Government has appeal
ed to the women OF the nation to meet
the food shortage emergency. They
are asked to- conserve the food sup
ply Of the nation, especially by sub
shutting for the staple foods-wheat.
meats, dairy products and sugar
other articles Of diet which are abund-
ant. Every housewife who signs the
little Hoover pledge card. promising
to cooperate with the government. in
the conservation of food insofar as
her circumstances permit is doing a
vital service for the nation
The situation is serious Unless |
this plans of conservation is carried /
out by the women and men of the
United States. both our soldiers
abroad and our families at home will |
find themselves without an adequate