The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-26
TALLAHASSEE CAMPAIGN
FOR FOOD CONSERVATION

Both the men and women of ITALIA
hassee and Leon county are respond
ing admirably to the campaign for
food conservation which is being re-
lentlessly waged right now by Gov
ernor Cats, the Woman's Club, the
Boosters Club, Secretary of Agri-I
culture McRae, Miss Agnes Ellen
Harris, head of the home economics
department of the Florida State Col
lege for Women, DR.. Conrad. presi-
dent OF the same institution, and
others.
Mondays rally was he'd at a most
opportune time, as Tallahassee bread
prices had raised on that morning
from five to ten cents per loaf, and
the feeling that much must be done
and at once to meet other similar
rises in prices which are surely 20
be expected, was running high. Com
missioner McRae said that three
weeks ago, by paying cash for a
number of bread tickets at time,
he had been able to buy bread at
four cents per loaf, and that, with
the rise in price TO ten. cents per
loaf, an increase of one hundred and
fifty per cent had been represented.
He urged conservation and planting
in every conceivable spot, and his
practical arguments were heard with
marked interest not only by the large
| audience down stairs, but by the col
ored people who filled the gallery.
Governor Cats said that when he
] came to Tallahassee, he began to put
on so much flesh that he had finally
| thought it best to go without dinner.
He said he had felt so much better
| by emitting the heavy noon meal that
he had already become convinced that
we eat too much as rule anyhow,
and he advocated the consumption of
about one half as much food as usual
to the individual.
| He spoke of the need of gardens
and chickens and a pig or two; he
paid tribute after tribute to the farrn-
er, who is now the most independent
man in the world, while the food that
town people would have is either at
| the bottom of the sea as the results
of the submarines, or in the hands
of the Spectator. He made homely,
direct appeal to the women to elimi-
nate their extrayagances and to the
men to make use of all their time,
| and to decide at once in favor of the
hoe, rather than for the golf stick.
Mrs. Jennings assured those who
spoke for conservation that the Ma
tional Federation of Women's Clubs
has already given it's pledge in the
| matter to the government of the
United States, and that each woman
/ had pledged herself to look after the
4 elimination of waste about the home
/ and from her own table. These wom-
en-, said Mrs. Jennings, know that,
| by saving at home they will be saw
ing their men from the necessity OF
going across the waters to fight a
foreign foe.
| Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, of the
| college, who is in charge of the cam
/ ming club girls of the entire state,
spoke of the need of being ready this
year to conserve the vegetables and
fruits as soon as prices drop so that
| this may be done. She said that the
canning club girls have already found
that tin cans and glass containers
are soaring to prohibitive prices, and
/ that information is to be secured at
/ once upon how to dry the produce
/ and keep it in such way as to pre-
| vent insects from reaching it. She
j told of the Dade County Woman's
i Club, the members of which had al
ready secured large shipment of tin
cans. and were ready last week when
the fancy bean prices fell, and they
were able to get the beans for the
picking. These beans were then
canned at the cost of five cents per
can. the same to cost in normal times
| at loo Of % cents
i Mr.. Will Crawford is at the home
of his father, Hon. H. Clay Crawford
| secretary of state, and viii remain
| at the capital city for several weeks
his physicians having prescribed g