The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-25
'bACK UP HOOVER IN KITCHEN, IS SLOGAN 'OF MASS MEETING. CALLED FOR TODAY. Food COnservatiOnists Will Tell How to Aid in War
 on Waste
 MRS. ECHOLS, HEAD OF COMMITTEE URGES LARGE ATTENDANCE The Chamber of Commerce Gathering to Give Every
 body an Opportunity to Learn
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

ny DOLLI NAA Ah The big mass meeting this afternoon in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce is purely educational; It Is designed to try to help our people to better understand how and why Amer lea should conserve her food; we don't want people to stop buying food prod ucts; that would ruin our merchants; but we do want to teach them what to buy and what not to buy; the foodstufrs which are available for feeding our sol diers should be avoided by our people; let them buy all the lobster and shrimp
 and fish they can eat but leave the beef and pork for our fighting boys Mrs. D. A. Echols, chairman of the woman's division of the executive com mittee for Jefferson county. of the food conservation movement, made the above statement yesterday when she enthusias- tically urged everybody in Jefferson county to take an active interest in backing up MT. Hoover in the kitchen MT. Hoover up at Washington town who is manfully struggling to conserve 1 food for the nation, for the world, and who has asked every woman in this country to be his aide.
 
 vision," said Mrs. Echols, Ito give pub licity In an educational way. to help the housekeeper. the hotel man, the restau- rants the downtown lunches to do their | bit toward winning this great world | war. The United States food admins tration is asking the American people | to enroll themselves as volunteer mem I bers of the food administration by sign ing the food pledge card to conserve l the food of America. Our problem is to | feed our allies this winter by sending them the most concentrated nutritive
 Value in the least shipping space. Our solution is to eat less of these and
 more of other foods of which We have
 an abundance, and to waste less of all
 foods. The five commodities the gov
 ernuent must provide are wheat, beef pork, dairy products and sugar. l MT. Hoover is not asking the American l people to starve themselves, but to eat plenty. yet wisely, and without waste, substituting when possible" Mrs. Echols l continued. "It is estimated that there l are 20,000.000 Kitchens and 20000OOO tables l multiplied by 100.000,0O0 consumers in | American homes today Our allies are ! depending on our kitchen soldiers to help l them win the war and our soldiers in the making are depending on the stay-at- home soldiers (for that's what we are) to l buy liberty bonds. to conserve our food 1 II 1 can continue to equip and provide for ! these war necessities.
 | "The Woman's division of the Jefferson l county food conservation committee" 1 said Mrs. Echols, "has an efficient corps l of co-workers. and we are speaking at all | fraternal meetings, religious meetings /! women's clubs and other organization I meetings, endeavoring to create an in- 1 telligent understanding of the great i'm portance of signing the food pledge card 1 when they are presented for signature by | the Boy Scouts during conservat tion l week. We have been fortunate in secur- l ing the cooperation of Scout Master IT. l w. Wester and his scout master assist ants, who will have full charge of the | big task of getting the food pledge cards l distributed and signed. Seven hundred l Boy Scouts will literally fail upon Biz | mingham next Monday. October 29 and 1 will continue the good work until No | vember 3. Greater Birmingham and Bes- semer will be worked by districts and I Scout Master Wester with his usual ef- ficiency will be in full charge of the en- l tire plan.'
 ''This was a happy thought" Mrs | Echols said. "engaging the services and cooperation of the Boy Scouts. We are l proud of our Scout Boys; they are pa 1 triotic and loyal and are a great asset l to Birmingham.
 | Il would uK6 to remlnu people that tHe I womans division headquarters arc ir l the reading room of the Chamber o1 l Commerce. and everybody Is invited tc l come and get the government literature ] which we are distributing and which Is l in charge of the club women who have l so generously offered their time and services, and I urge Birmingham to give I us larger attendance at the mass meet. I ing this afternoon"
 i Following is the programme for thu I mass meeting this afternoon:
 R. B. Smyer, chairman Jefferson county food administrator.
 Senator oscar Underwood. Why thu 1 Government Is Calling on America 10 1 Food Conservation."
 Richard M Hobbie. Alabama food ad ministrator, Food Conservation in Ala bama."
 Short talks: Congressman George Hud ] dleston, Mrs D. A. Echols. O. l.. Bum Mrs. G. H. Mathis, T. P. Hay Jr., Mrs w. L. Murdoch, pr George Stuart. Mrs c. H. Ohme.