Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-17
TO BOOST SECOND
LIBERTY BOND SALE
Food Administration Forces Will
Help Raise New Loan for
War Purposes.
SAVE FOOD AND LEND MONEY
Big Drive Throughout Nation Coming
Week of October 2t-2s-How ~.
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.

MUST Unite 10 Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.
Washington.-The food pledge cam
paign is projected upon broad lines.
but it is very simple and very plain.
The food administration will mar
shall its whole force of half million
campaigners organized for food pledge
week, to promote the second Liberty
loan. The week of October 81 to 2S
has been set for the big drive the food
administration has planned 20 enroll
all American families for food con-
servation The Liberty loan cam
paign will be at its height at the same
time. Herbert Hoover, the food ad
minlstrator, in a message to the fec
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers of the food enrolment
campaign, instructing them 10 exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan, called this fortunate coinci-
dence. since both are aimed at the
same end and each will supplement the
other. The Liberty loan, he says, Will
enable the government to lend money
to the allies, and the food pledge cam
! paign is designed to make certain that
| there shall be food available TO pur-
| chase.
So simple and so plain that they
/ have been stated in the compass of a
card-a card that 1t is proposed to
| hang in every home of the land-l
| card that is the war creed of the
| kitchen" because, so closely are the
people in this country linked to the
world war, that one of the phases OF
the struggle must be fought out in the
American kitchen.
If soldiers are to fight, they mus
be fed. For the past three years, one
by one, our allies across the sea have
been taking the men from the farm
and from the factory and sending then
to the firing line. Each man sent t
the firing line meant one less wht
could be relied upon to help produce
the food that will win the war"
If the laborer is worthy of his hire
surely the fighter is worthy of hi
food. That is a principle UNIVERSAL!
accepted by the American public
However, it is not every product tina
can be sent across the sea. Corn vii
not serve the need; our allies hav
never used it as food they have n
mills to grind 1t; turn it into meal II
this country and it would spoil befor
1t could reach a European port. Their
are just four classes of products, tn
experts say, that we must send to OF
allies If our duty to them is to be dis
charged they need meat, wheat, suga
and dairy products. We can cor
serve our wheat by increasing on
consumption of other grains. We ca
conserve our meat by making a great
er demand upon the resources Of tn
fish market. All of these are exped
ents known to the American house
wife.
II the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no popl
lar appeal for the conservation {
food. There would be an aurocrati
food control The mailed fist woul
rule In the kitchen. Imperial foo
DEGREES would be enforced at ii
point of the bayonet. But ours is M
an autocratic country. Food contr'
is in the hands Of the people then
, selves. and 1t is to the people tn;
the food administration has appeale
, In the food pledge card campaign.
: Herbert Hoover has termed this a
peal an unprecedented adventure
democracy"-an adventure that wi
. determine whether or not dem
! cratic form of government is, aft
\ all. fitted to engage in a death grapp
I with autocracy.
!. The food pledge week campaign r
: solves itself into an effort to secu
o as a result of voluntary agreeme
$ pledges insuring the general suppo
o for the well defined program of fOt
n conservation. The food pledge cal
+ paign represents an effort to indu
4 as many of the American homes
/ possible to unite in common polio
8 Our wheat reserves can be conserve
f If everybody helps. Our meat
: serves can be conserved if the who
public c0-OpefateS.
+ The American people are asked
Il 1oin together in common conserv
n ton policy. AS evidence that they q
q supporting this policy they are ask
n to hang card denoting membersh
:. In the United States food administr
~ ton in their wiadow. In order tn
Q the conservation policy may be undo
: stood. the reason for 1t made pla
n and the manner of observing it r
Il dered certain, instruction cards-"T
n War Greed of the Kitchen"-are to
hung in the home.
And that is what the national TO
pledge week campaign is all about.