Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-30
Have YOU RECEIVED
MEMBERSHIP CARD
IN FOOD CAMPAIGN?
If So Display 1t Prominently
In Front Window Of
Your Home

II you nave received your WINDOW
card emitting you to membership in
the United States food administration
by reason of the fact that you have
signed a food substitution pledge card,
please place the membership card in
lyour front window or some other prom
inent place in front of your house be-
fore tomorrow morning.
This is very important as it indi-
Gates to the district workers, who are
to visit every house wherein card
is not displayed in the window, that
the household head has signed the
pledge card and that there is no need
of making a call. If the card is not on
display the doorbell of the household
may be sounded many. times and this
not only makes extra work for the vol
unteer workers but it is source of an
noyance to the members of the house
hold.
1t was learned yesterday evening
that, through a misunderstanding, the
pledge and home cards were not sent
out to- the families of the district in
one or two of the public schools on
Friday of last week, as scheduled,
hence many homes were without cards
in their windows today. But this mis-
take has been reetified and all of the
homes in such districts will be supplied
with cards today.
The work of organizing the volun-
teer workers into active working units
has been progressing very satisfaetor-
/ lily throughout the several districts in
to which the city has been divided and
everything will be in readiness tonight
for the big clean up pledge card cam
Ipaign which opens tomorrow (Wednes-
Iday) morning and will continue until
Sunday night or until the entire city
has been thoroughly caIlvassed and
the head of every household given an
opportunity to enlist in Hoover's big
"service by substitution army.
Since the active campaign has open
ed and window cards have begun to
be displayed in the windows all over
TIE city through the medium of the
school organisation of the city, many
family headk are beginning to get
anxious and want OF sign pledge cards
and secure a window card.
81 want one of those food member
ship cards. said an old lady as she
encountered Chairman James Elvin of
the Salem food administration commit
tee Yesterday Mr.. Elvin explained to
her that the cards had not been dis
tributed generally as yet, only to thoIa
families who have children in the
schools and that all would be given
the opportunity to secure one in due
course of time.
1"Well, +" declared the kindly old
lady, "T have no children in the
schools. | am ali alone here and / want
to sign pledge card and do all can
to help win this war against those
cruel Germans. Ny neighbors have
cards all around me and it looks to
other people as though / was not pa
triotic and want everybody to under
stand that / am, just as patriotic as
anybody else and anxious to do my
share and / am just as much entitled
to a card as anyone
This is the disposition that is being
displayed everywhere throughout the
citv Nobody need worry, however, for
all families il the city will be visited
and given an opportunity to join this
big and vitally important movement
within the next day day or so, SO all
they need do is to wait patiently. If,
however, your home has not been visit
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IN al parts Oh MARION county IN the
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