The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-10-24
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Wise County National Pleds e
Campaign

which opens Sunday, October
2Sth, 1917, and closes Satur-
day, November 3rd. the follow.
ing appeal is made to every
man and woman in Wise coum-
ty:
You have part to play in
the great drama OF the war.
you are enrolled rs II volunteer
IN the ''army behind the army 4"
\ our duties consist in SO con
Quoting your daily affairs that
not one of our boys who have
been called upon to surrender
home, comfort, ambition, and
possibly life itself, shall suffer
more than these hardships
which must be expected upon
the field of battle.
Millions of our people do not
yet realize that they must help
win the war by sympathetic
self-sacrifice. Our country
needs, more than anything else
national consciousness of re-
sponsibility, and in order that
every man, woman and child
may have an honorable share in
prosecuting u successful war,
this call for enrolment in the
conservation army is issued.
Our country can only remain
land of plenty during the
period of war, if each of us will
ingly and faithfully carries out
in daily practice, economy in
the use of food, especially
wheat, meat and sugar. We
are now called on to feed an
enormous army of American
soldiers abroad, as we'll as the
armies of our Allies as means
OF self protection. Unless each
person in the United States
helps in the great work of CON
serving our food supply, so that
not only our armies and our.
selves shall have food, but also
our Allies in the cause of civili
xation, we may suffer not only
disaster and defeat in the war,
but serious food shortage at
home. This is the problem TO
be solved in American homes.
1t is the desire of the Food
Administration TO pledge our
whole population so far as may
be to food conservation. The
persons TO be pledged fall rough
ly into three classes:
First, the homes, pledges for
which shall be signed by the
householder.
Second, men and women not
presiding over the huosehold.
Third, vendors of food.
You are not asked to reduce
your food consumption but YOU
are asked to substitute foods so
as to use as small quantity of
the food which we will be com.
PEELED to send to our boys in
the trenches and the allies as
you can get along with using
other food in their stead.
Wheat, meat, sugar and dairy
products will have to be sent
and you are asked To cut down
consumption of these articles
as much as you can. Following
is the pledge to be signed:
$40 the Food Administrator:
| am glad to join you in the
service of food conservation for
our nation and hereby accent
membership in t h e United
States Food Administration,
pledging myself to carry out the
directions and advice of the
Food administrators in my home
in 80 far as my circumstunc es
permit.
Signature - y
There are no fees or dues to
be paid. The Food Admins.
tration wishes to have as mem
bers all of those actually hand
ling food in the home.
Any one may have the home
card of instructions, but only
those signing pledges are en-
titled to Membership Window
Card, which will be- delivered
on receipt of the signed pledge.
Remember that whatever You
do is voluntary. You only
pledge yourself to economist in
the use of articles that must be
sent abroad. We have a com