Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-23
FOOD WILL WIN THE
WAR Of NATIONS
An Appeal To Women If Maryland
To Conserve Supplies
THE OCTOBER CAMPAIGN
A Vital Service To Be Performed In
Saving Wheat, Meat Dairy Pro-
ducts And Sugar.

The following appeal has been sent
out to the women of Maryland through
the authority of Herbert c. Hoover,
National Food Administrators, by the
Maryland Headquarters, Food Conser-
walton Committee, Francis King Carey
| Chairman of the Executive Commit
| tee:
This country, for the first time in
recent history, faces a food shortage
OF a peculiar kind There is sufficient
| food for all, but there is not sufficient
food of certain kinds. The govern
ment appeals to the housewives of the
nation in this emergency. The week
of October 2S to November 3, inclusive,
has been set apart for a nation wide
| food conservation campaign, in which
all the women of the State are asked
to take part
A Campaign OF Substitution Rather
Than Economy.
1t is not so much a question of saw
ing money as it is question of saving
food. No matter how much one is
willing to pay, money will not grow
wheat or sugar between harvests, and
will not produce meat when the cat
tie are not in existence. What the wo-
men of the nation are asked TO do,
therefore. by the government. and
what they must do if the supply is to
last over this emergency, is to sub
stitute other articles of diet for the
staple things in which a shortage is
threatened
Save Wheat, Meat, Dairy Products
and Sugar.
The most important articles food in
which there is a serious scarcity are
wheat, meat. dairy products and sugar.
Wheat.
Wheat is absolutely essential to the
conduct of the war abroad The Eu-
ropean nations have not been trained
to the use of cornmeal and other
grains. More than that, wheat is pc
culiarly adapted for wartime uses,
because of the length time wheat
bread can be kept after baking, as
contrasted with corn bread Corn
meal is not suited for export in the
ground state, and the European coun-
tries are not in the habit of grinding
corn and are not provided with the
machinery for doing so. Many of the
sources of supply on which England,
France and Italy have drawn in the
past are cut off and the United States
is called upon to make up this short
age by expectation. If the people of
this country consume the entire
amount of what they are accustomed
to consume, the war cannot be sue
cessfully brought to a finish But the
war must go on, and therefore, the
wheat supply must be drawn upon
with care. Unless this is done both
we at home, and our soldiers abroad
must suffer from the shortage All
that is necessary is that every house
wife shall substitute, so far as posi-
BILE, corn meal and other grains for
wheat -four If this is done wisely
and universally, the supply from the
last harvest will carry both this ma
ton and the Allies until the next har-
vest
Meat.
AS in the case of wheat -four, much
of the meat supply for the army must
be exported from this country. The
supply of living animals is not suffici-
ent to meet this emergency and afford
the customary amount Of meat con-
sumed in this country The govern
ment. therefore. urges that every fam
lily, so far as POSSIBLE, substitute fish