The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-23
DEMAND SACRIFICE
 ID CONSERVE FOOD
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO BE PART OF NEW PLEDGE
 CARD BEING SENT OUT.
Hamp Williams Notified by Hoover in Most Impressive Communication issued Thus Far Regarding Food.

one "parkless" day, with an urgent plea for the conservation ot sugar every meal of the week, are the ad- dflional features included in the new food pledge card 10 be issued to the people of Arkansas who promised Uncle Sam when they signed the first food pledge card they would con- serve on food. This, too, in addition
 to "me1tless Tuesday" and 'Nueat- less Wednesday,
 IIamp Williams, federal food ad- ministratOr for Arkansas. received word from Herbert C. Hoover that the new cards were being prepared and would be shipped in q few days from Washington Last Sunday attention was called to the fact that over 50O00 families in Arkansas had signed to
 conserve food. That story judging by the letters received by Mir Williams has created a great deal Of patriotic comment throughout the state. It has also resulted in the sending to Mir Williams office several hundred cards | from varlcGs parts of Arkansas. while I1om Washington, in a special ship ment, came over d,000 signed food Ipledge cards that had been sent direct to MT Hoover instead of being for
 warded to ahe food administrators 5ffice in Little Rock The additional cards will bring the total number Of signers in this state in the food con servation campaign to over G0.000 a record, Mir Williams says. Arkansas has every reason O feel proud of, as the signatures represent the heads of families only
 There have been many impressive statements issued by Mr. Hoover since the food conservation -campa gu started, but it is doub,fulsSe~n ny con tained a deeper note of ty than that in reference to g,uc ' food pledge cards no wbeinss.. sssared in Washington. In his comnYmica ion t9 .Mr Williams, Mir. Hoover says:
 Uncle Sam is today the quarter master of a hungry world. He is play ing the game squarely and counts on the people to do the same The Amer ican people cannot expect more thm their share q. the food supply Wnicn for 1918 does not mg3sure up 70 eX- pectations lt is now time for every American to get these facts by heart and make frontal attack on the sit- uation.
 The mes age gives you the f5cts The directions on the old food card and the new directions tell you wlat
 to do. The new card asks for a porkless Saturday, a wheatless meal each day, as well as wheatless We'd nesday a meatless meal each day as well as meatless Tuesday, and re duction of sugar to a monthly allow ance of three pounds Der person.
 "M0re than ten million families have pledged themselves to help make
 the food go around--this pledge uu- less we interpret patriotism as mere lip loyalty and insincere affecatiou, is Q pledge to service as real as that or the soldier. The pledge card is not a mere scrap Of paper, but inc pledge 3f the Ameucan people 90 stand by the declaration Of war" Relative 10 the additional rcques
 for food conservation. and spe -ic reference to the saIra, the following specifications are set forth bg Mr.
 Hoover;
 "One Hheatless day each week and one wheatless meal each day. the wheatless day 10 be Wednesday, By wheatless we mean to eat no wheat products.
 One meatIcss day each week. which shall be Tuesday and one imeauess meal each day. By meatless
 we mean to eat no red meat-b pork, mutton, veal lamb. no preserved neat-beef, bacon ham or lard.
 one porkless day each week in addition 10 Tuesday N4ith slall be Saturday By porkle-s we mean no fresh or salted pork. bacon lard or ham.
 "Sugar-You can materially reduce sugar by reducing the use of candy and sweet drinks We win make every endeayor to see that the coun- try is provided with a supply oC house. hold sugar on the basis of three pounds of sugar for each person per month. Do not consume more"
 + might be interesting to note that statistics show that as a nation we are eating and wasting so per cent more protein than is required to maintain heal h and we eat and waste 2i0 per cent more fat than is necessary The food administration is requesting the people to consume corn, oats and oth- CT cereals in place of wheat, and att tenticn k also called to the abGndan, supply fl potatoes and vegetables.
 The hoarding of food products, whether in wholesale lots or in the private home, is especially condemned.
 Any person in the United States who buys more foodsuffs than he eustomarily keeps at home in peace times is defeating the food adminis- tration in its purpose to secure a just distribution of food and in its gredt endeav0rs to reduce prives. The hcarding Of food in households is not only unnecessary, as the government latffv