Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-13
AMERICAN WOMEN
GREATEST FACTORS
In Winning This World war---Says
Charles Lathrop Pack.
FOOD FOB. The KITCHEN DOOR
Resulted In Tire iIlion War Gar
dens Being Planted This
Summer


rop Pack, President National Emer-
gency Food Garden Commission,
before Woman's National Farm and
Garden Association at Chicago, Oc-
tober 4-17.)
The alarming rush of the popula-
tion from the farms TO the cities must
be checked and il is up to the women
to help in this as a war time measure,
Charles Lathrop Pack, President of
the National Emergency Food Garden
Commission of Washington. told the
members of the Woman's National
Farm and. Garden Association in ses-
sion recently at Chicago. And the
men must be led back to the farms by
the women, "for they will not go with
out you" said the man whose Food
+ o. B. the Kitchen Door" campaign
resulted in three million war gardens
being planted this summer.
Mr. Pack gave some startling
figures which show that only "a per
cents of the population is now engag-
ed in farming. whereas So per cent
was farming in 1880, In other words
every farmer must now feed himself
and rs others under present condi-
tons. This trend to the cities has
forced prices up and the call of war
has only added to the boost, Mr.. Pack
said.
81 take ISSUE, continued Mr.. Pack,
with any one who says there is great
waste in the American home. You
cannot make me believe the American
housewife who supervises her buying
and kitchen work is waster. With
bacon at So cents and butter at "a
the American woman, who is the
greatest factor in winning this world
war, is saving as never before.
There are great plans afoot for a
campaign of education this winter
You ladies have great work before
you as you have always had since the
world began. You have arisen .tc
every emergency and you will meet
dens this year to the establishment OF
the figure experts, and you have can
ned and dried that product in record
breaking amounts. The estimates Of
the National Emergency Food Garder
Commission show that 460 million
cans are being put on the pantry
shelves this fall.
More and more the women of the
| country are realizing the joys of farm
life and the returns it brings. There
are women managers of big farms
who are making them pay. There arr
women all over the country who arr
in the garden produce business on
Zig scale. More of you must be turn
ed toward the farm where out of doc
living means wholesome living
There is a great future there and als'
the salvation of the country
1.-The rush to our cities must b.
checked In 1900 there was IS pc
! cent of our population on the farms
| In 1915 only "a per cent of the popu
| lation was occupied in farming. II
| other words now every farmer mus
| feed himself and rs other persons
Those figures are overwhelming ant
/ the call of war has taken thousand
I, more to our cities and into the army
| Here you women must play your par
and lead the men folks back to thu
| land, for the men folks will not e
without you.
Secretary Baker points to two mil
| lion men under arms. The estimated
daily cost of feeding soldier ha'
been placed at forty cents. Tha
means Uncle Sans board bill for sol
diers alone is the staggering figure o
| 100000 day. That figure does no
include the thousands who have gon'
| into war work of one kind or another
In Washington alone there are 25,00l
new government clerks and many de
| partments are being moved to New
York to find Office room.
These people must be fed. Thu
soldier in the trench must be fed
| The world must be fed. Ambassador
Gerard tells us every inch of grounC
| in German control is under intensiv,
| cultivation and that Germany hai
every prisoner tilling the ground.
THE people of this country mus
| awaken to the fact that we are at wal
| and that this is not the annual maneu
vers. You are beginning to get al
| idea Of what this means when in tears
you sent your boys away to the train
ing camps You women have gladl,
| given your sons that the world may b,
made safe for democracy, to rescue
and save civilization. Now that vol
have given them are you going to le
| thaY,o cfarva9'