The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-08-16
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1t has been some months now since
the United States severed diplomatic
relations with the imperial government
of Germany and started to assemble
the forces and resources of the great
democratic government for the purpose
of assisting the allies in putting a stop
to and crushing the aggressions OF au-
tocracy. And yet, it seems, the seri-
BUSINESS of the great task has not pene-
trated the callous indifference of many
Americans. This attitude of indiffer-
ence. it is true, has been accentuated
by the cloud of pettifoggery that has
issued out from the halls of congress.
But day by day the lesson is sinking
home and we millions of Americans
are gradually being welded into
unity of thought and purpose. Petty
lines of sectionailsm and politics are
falling and we are really becoming pre-
pared in the true sense of the word.
Every family of this great land,
whether one of its members is of mill:
tary age or not, may participate in the
winning of the war. The sacrifices,
although each one of them may be of
rather a trivial nature, when consid-
cred in the sense of accumulation are
gigantic in their power, and to point
this out we have taken as an example
a recent circular sent out by the Cha m
ber of Commerce of the United States.
The letter was transcribed by the North
western Fruit Exchange, member
of the national commercial body, and
copies were sent to all of its members.
We herewith give the document in
full
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States frequently
ask If there is not some service in con.
nection with the war which they can
render while at home attending to their
accustomed tasks. There is now such
an opportunity for every organization
member and for everyindividual men,
ber, and this committee of the Cham
ber believes that in offering this op-
portunity in concrete form it is leading
where all members will be glad to fol-
low.
Herbert Hoover, at the request of
the president, is endeavoring to reduce
our consumption of food supplies so
that we may ship to our allies the food
that will keep men, women and chill
dren from starving. To reduce our
consumption of food he has asked the
following of each individual:
To eat one wheatless meal day.
To eat beef, mutton or pork not
more than once day.
To economiZe in the use of butter
To cut the daily allowance of sugar
in tea or coffee and in other ways.
To eat more vegetables, fruit and fish.
To urge in the home or the restau-
rants frequented the necessity of econ
omy.
However good may be the individual
intention, these requests are not going
to be lived up to on any large scale
unless men and women take concerted
action. To assist in bringing about
this concerted action every organiza-
tion member of the Chamber is hereby
asked
To form committees to make and
follow up among its members the three
requests made below of individual
members, and to send the names of
these committees to the undersigned
committee.
To promote, in any possible way, the
actual and continued observance in
each community of the six requests set
forth above.
Each individual is requested
To undertake to live up to the above
six requests, and to ask his friends
and employees to do so.
To ask clubs and associations of
which he is member to appoint COM
mittees to assist in making general the
observance of the above six requests.
To put into effect other ways and
means OF making general in his COM
munity the observance of the above
six requests, advising the undersigned
committee of anything he is able to do
in this respect which might be of as
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