The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-03
MENDENHALL CITIZENS ARE
 SAVING FOOD
Entire Community Assist ing in Serving Wheat less, MeatIesS and
 WaSteleSS Meals
GAINS MADE IN JUNEAU

From Mendenhall comes encour- aging reports concerning the enthus- asm manifested in the matter of conservation of food. Mrs. c. J. Skuse. chief of that division, reports that every family in that section is actively engaged in cooperating in war. Pledge cards have been signed by every family and the number of Wheatless, meatless and wasteless meals served is up to the average of other divisions, in proportion to the population.
 Campaign Work
 Campaign work among the local divisions, including Thane, Perse- verance and the Basin Road, con tinues unabated, with excellent re- suits. The various campaigners are active in the work of collecting the weekly reports, forwarding them to their captains, who in turn pre- sent them to the chiefs of the re- spective divisions, by whom recapi- tulations are made and sent in to the office of the central committee, where they are audited, tabulated and recorded and final reports for. warded to Washington, D. C. to the headquarters of the National Food Administration under the su- pervision of Herbert c. Hoover.
 Appreciable gains have been made each week during the campaign in the number of wheatless, meatless out the entire community. Addi- tional pledges are received weekly
 Thane Is Loyal
 All of the boarders at the Thane boarding house, about 175; over six ty at the Alaska-Juneau mess house; and in excess of two hundred and sixty at the Perseverance boarding house, have signed the cards re questing the management to conform to the directions and advice of the United States Food Administrator. This large aggregate, also, consti- tutes portion of those signing original pledge cards Nearly eight hundred original pledge cards have been signed in the six divisions, which with these signed by the in dividual boarders, above mentioned, make total of approximately 1900 pledge cards signed
 The fourth week of the nine weeks campaign, the duration named for the present campaign, ended last Saturday Reports from the various chiefs have not yet been received out are expected to be in day or two. at which time they will be
 Report of Meals
 The excellent showing made dur ing the first three weeks, ended No vember 24th, is as follows: All six divisions, first week, 4713 wheatless meals; 7298 meatless meals and 10,S94 wasteless meals.
 All six divisions, second week: 5,79S wheatless meals; S6S3 meatless meals and 13.037 wasteless meals.
 All six divisions, third week: 6,2S4 wheatless meals; 9,511 meat less meals, and 1f,503 wasteless meals.
 The total for the three weeks is I6,795 wheatless meals, 25,492 meat less meals, and 3S,434 wasteless meals.
 Window cards, instructions, pledge cards, literature, etc, may be had at the general office of the Juneau Food Saving Committee, in the law offices of Gunnison and Robertson Seward Building, where all the bus mess pertaining to the work now in progress by the food committee is transacted.
 At the conclusion of this weeks work full and complete statement will be made showing results ob- tained in each division
 Eiks' Hall Meeting
 At the Elks' Hall tomorrow even ing. at s o'clock, will be held a big meeting of all committees, chiefs. captains and campaigners, engaged in the food conservation campaign now under way in Juneau and vic inity Important matters are to come up for consideration and a large attendance is earnestly re- quested.