Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-10
Feminine Leaders in New York
Mobilize Forces Already
Proved Strong

NEW YORK, n. Y-The National
Housewives League. best known 10:
ATS successful Ooycotts. began recent.
ly the recruiting of an army Of l.
ooo, 600 housewives To put the families
Of the United States on rations for the
duration Of the. war While food con-
seFyation is the immediate purpose OF
the army, it viii offer its services To
Washington to put into effect any reg.
ulation the national authorities think
wise for the country.
The Housewives krmy for National
Defense is to be formed ON strictly
military lines, Mrs. Julian Heath, hea /
OF the Housewives League, was des.
ignated yesterday Major General
there will be a Colonel at the head Of
a regiment of 1000 women, to be com.
posed of ten companies, each with q
Captain. Mrs. Frank Z. Wallace was
named Colonel OF the First New York
Regiment of the Housewives Army
for National Defense" The mobiliza
tion orders of Mrs. Heath, just Issued,
affect 10000 women, as members OF
the league or affiliated organizations,
and she said she expected no Difficult
~ in getting the million recruits, Re.
cruiting stations will be opened IN
every city and town in the country
this week, and Il is agreed, Mrs Heath
promises, that there a.. all be no dues.
The slogan Of The ar,4.] viii be Save
to Win" At the headquarters OF the
league on the sixth floor OF 20 West
| Eorty-fifth Street Mrs. Heath gave
this outline of her plans;
The army headquarters in New York
proposes to do far more than supply
neat platitudes on food conservation:
1t is to conduct a campaign that is,
| above all things. practical. Al corps or
| food experts win supply weekly bull
letins from all army headquarters Of
what is cheapest In the local market
that week. ALI CT the housewife sol
diers will be taught to feed their fami.
lies by calories; that means they viii
be supplied with scientific menus.
listing foods that are reasonable In
price and giving recipes for mock
food for those that are expensive. In
connection with this work there will
be an educational campaign to teach
reduction in menus.
There will be four sets of Classes or
ganized at all army headquarters 1,
for housewives who have two or more
servants; 3, for housewives who have
enc servant; 3. for housewives who
have no servants, and 1, for cooks.
Experts viii lecture to these classes
on what can be done by the housewife
/. In food conservation. Those who are
! used To having follr-course dinners
win be asked to have two or three
course dinners; those who have meat
every day will be urged to have meat
every other day; those who are fond
OF cream soups will be urged to have
soups that do not contain milk and
eggs, and so on.
Mis-. Heath said that the housewives
of the east side had shown great
eagerness to join the army, after they
/ learned that 1t wasn't to be. merely a
rich woman's organization. Il is un-
derstood that the army will have the
cooperation OF one Of the large Jewish
social welfare organizations In getting
recruits on the east side.
In every Kitchen of members OF the.
army viii be placed poster, copies
Of which went to the printer yesteF-
day. The poster viii be headed.
Housewives, Your Country Needs
Yor.
Beneath this win be an American
flag and under IL the words: Save to
VIM At the bottom Of the poster viii
be this quotation from President VIII
sons proclamation: Every housewife