The Green Forest tribune., 1917-10-19
ID BOOST SECOND
 LIBERTY BOND SALE
Food Administration Forces Will Help Raise New Loan for
 War Purposes.
SAVE FOOD AND LEND MONEY
Big Drive Throughout Nation Coming Week of October 21-2s-How All Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
 and Bring Peace Again.

] " tiNIilll ' tNlll. llS lOOtl DlphSe CbIIl- paign k projected upon broad lines, but it is very simple and very plain.
 The food administration will mar shal it's whole force of half million campaigners organized for food-pledge week, to promote the second Liberty loan. The week of October 21 to 2S has been set for the big drive the food administration has planned to enroll ali American families for food con servation. The Liberty loan cam paign will be at it's height at the same time. Herbert Hoover, the food ad- ministrator, in a message to the fed eral food administrators. and cam paign managers of the food enrolment campaign. instruCting them to exert every effort to promote the Liberty loan, called this fortunate coinci- dence, since both are aimed at the same end and each will supplement the other. The Liberty loan, he says, will enable the government to lend money to the allies, and the food pledge cam paign is designed to make certain that there shall be food available to pur- chase.
 So simple and so plain that they have been stated in the compass of q card-a card that it is proposed to hang in every home of the land-a card that is the war creed of the kitchen" because, So closely are the people in this country linked to the world war that one of the phases of the struggle must be fought out in the American kitchen.
 If soldiers are tO fight. they must be fed. For the past three years. one by one. our allies across the sea have been taking the men from the farm and from the factory and sending them to the firing line. Each man sent. to the firing line meant one less who could be relied upon to help produce the food that will win the war
 If the laborer is worthy of his hire, surely the fighter is worthy of his food. That is q principle universally accepted by the American public. However it is not every product that can be sent across the sea. Corn will not serve the need; our allies have never used it as a food; they have no mills to grind it; turn it into meal in this country and it would spoil before il could reach a European port. There are just four classes of products. the experts say, that we must send to our allies if our duty to them is to be dis charged: they need meat, wheat, sugar and dairy products. We can con serve our wheat by increasing our consumption of other grains. We can conserve our meat by making q great or demand upon the resources of the fish market. All of these are expedi- ents known to the American house. wife
 If the United States were an auto- cratic country there would be no popu- lar appeal for the conservation of food There would be an autocratic food control The mailed fist would rule in the kitchen Imperial food decrees would be enforced at the point of the bayonet. But ours is not an autocraGc country Food control is in the hands of the people them selves, and it is to the people that the food administration has appealed ill the food pledge card campaign.
 Herbert Hoover has termed this ap- peal an unprecedented adventure in democracy adventure that will determine whether or not demo- cratic form of government is, after all, fitted to engage in a death grappIe with autocracy.
 The food pledge week campaign re- solves itself into an effort to secure as result of voluntary agreement pledges insuring the general support for the well defined program of food conservation. The food pledge cam paign represents an effort to induce as many of the American homes as possible to unite in common policy. Our wheat reserves can be conserved if everybody helps. Our meat re- serves can be conserved if the whole public co-operates.
 The American people are asked to join together in a common e0nServa- tion policy As evidence that they are supporting this policy they are asked to hang a card denoting membership in the United States food admlnistra- ton in their window. In order that the conservation policy may be under stood. the reason for it made plain and the manner of observing it rem derad certain, instruction cards-"The War Creed of the Kitchen''-are to be hung in the home.
 And that is what the national food pledge week campaign is all about.