Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-28
HOUSEWIVES CAN HELP WIN.
Congressman Greene Says They Weld
Tremendous Weapon Which Will
Hasten Victory.
Especial to The Phoenix.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Congress-
man Frank L. Greene of the First Yer
mont district is giving his support to
the food conservation movement to
strengthen which a pledge card cam
paign will be waged in Vermont during
the week beginning Oct. 21st, when it
is hoped every housewife in the state
will enlist in the conservation army, to-
day declared that the cooperation of
Vermont women in this move "means
that tremendous weapon, defensive and
offensive, will be welded in this war
right in our own commonwealth by the
mothers, sisters, daughters, sweethearts
and wives of the boys who are to fight
the country's battles somewhere in
France. - Mr.. Greene IS statement is
as follows:
81 would not presume to counsel the
Vermont housewife to be prudent and
thrifty now or at any other time, be-
cause she knows her own business better
than l do, and it is her own business,
anyway. Besides, if she were not habit
ually prudent and thrifty, the state
would not have more money in savings
banks according to its population than
any other state in the Union. But when
we begin to talk about defeating Ger
many in this great world war in which
America is playing such responsible
part, we are talking of the business of
all of us loyal Green Mountain people,
and mighty serious business, too.
$50, then, if we suggest to the Yer
mont housewife that an additional in
centive to her customary thrift and
prudence is to help our country and
our soldier boys win this war, we are
sure of the same patriotic response that
has characterized Vermont womanhood
since the days of Widow Story and her
famous cave. The conservation of food
in the home under the careful admins
tration of Vermont housewives, means
that a tremendous weapon, offensive
and defensive, will be welded in this
war right in our own commonwealth by
the mothers, sisters daughters, sweet
hearts, and wives of the boys who are to
fight the country's battles somewhere
in France
g And it means that our boys will be
reinforced and strengthened in their
combat by force in some respects even
more powerful than gun, powder and
bullets. If America can feed her own
and the peoples of her allies in this
awful era of the world turned upside
down, with the children of men in every
land more anxious for their daily bread
and in some of them often nearer and
nearer starvation as each day goes by
in prayer for peace, just so much of the
victory we must and shall gain over
Germany in the end will be brought
about with so much less of the sacrifice
of previous lives of Yankee boys in
khaki, because food, in these modern
times, is an absolutely essential part
of the sinews of war.
Housewives of Vermont, in the
homely phrase of simple old Green
Mountain life, see to it that there is al
ways "more down cellar in a tea cup"
Your grandames did that very thing in
the days of long ago and used to make
a familiar jest of it at the Thanksgiving
day table regularly as the festival came
and went. But it was always an occa-
sion for thanksgiving, bear in mind, and
that s what the victory over German
Ifrightfulness will be.'