Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-13
SHOWING
is CONSERVATION DRIVE
Executive Committee Well
Pleased With Results AL
ready Achieved

AFTER going oveE the plans and pro-
gress made in the food substitution cam
paign by the different committees as
signed to the work for Marion county
the Marion County Executive Commit
tee of the Federal Food Administration
for Oregon, of which Fred w. Stems
!off is chairman, yesterday afternoon,
the committee was unanimous in its
praise of the splendid showing that has
already been made in the comparative
ly short time that has been devoted to
the. work and highly pleased with thu
prospects for the ultimate success of
the movement-which means the enlist
ment of every family in Marion county
in the "Service by substitution cam
paign long before the expiration of the
time allotted for the completion of the
task, October 81.
County Clerk U. G. Boyer and A A..
Lee this morning completed the big
task of districting the city of Salem
into sections comprising from so to 800
families and delivered a map to the
Commercial club upon which the dis
tricts are outlined. This map is to be
used by the Salem committee in assign
ing the work of canvassing the city by
the 100 or more volunteer workers af-
ter the pledge cards are sent in through
the medium of the school organization
and the window membership cards ara
on display. L will be the DUTY of this
small army of volunteer workers to call
upon each family in whose window the
membership card is not displayed, in
eating that no. solicitation has been
for the enlistment of that family in
the service and explain the objects and
necessities of the food substitution or
gan4zation to such families.
When the Salem committee meets, at
4 O'Clock this afternoon, preliminary
matters will have been so arranged for
them that they can go ahead with the
outlining of the details of their as
Invites and mobilize and assign their
forces accordingly. This committee mas
been very active and enthusiastic in the
work assigned to it and every member
is devoting all of the time at his COM
mand to the cause.
Chairman August Huckestein, of the
committee on towns outside of Salem,
is in receipt of a letter from Mayor
II. L.. Earl of Turner, in reply to the
notice to mayors and postmasters to ar
range meetings of citizens in line with
the organization movement, stating that
he will secure the use of one of the
churches for a mass meeting for Mon
day or Tuesday of next week. Mr..
Huckestein has notified Mayor Fart
that Tuesday evening will be acceptable
and that he will be on hand with speak
ers who will explain the objects of the
food substitution movement and a per-
manent local organization will be eff
fected to handle the situation for the
Turner community.
Mayor Earl's letter indicates that
there is a misunderstanding on the part
of the people as to the purposes of the
food substitution campaign, which ap-
pears to be the case in the great ma
jority of instances-the feeling being
pretty generally entertained that the
government is calling upon the people
to undergo unreasonable sacrifices as to
the amount and nature of food consum-
ed. AS a matter of fact the food sub
stitution movement contemplates no
great degree of sacrifice on the part of
anyone; merely calling attention to hun-
dreds of instances where unnecessary
waste can be avoided and by substitu-
ton of foods of equal nourisning value
but lesser keeping and shipping qualities
for the more concentrated forms of
foods WHICH can be used for the main
~tenance of our armies abroad and for
sustaining the lives of the families of
our allied soldiers in Europe, whose
food supply is very seriously curtail-
ed for numerous reasons, principally be-
cause the men who originally attended
the crops are fighting in the trenches
for the cause of liberty and democracy.
AS Herbert Hoover has very aptly
said: "Apart from the patriotism in
volved in joining this national move
ment you must not forget the excellent
argument that the universal regulation
of food supplies and prices instituted
under the Food Administration will in
evitably keep the present prices from
climbing higher and may reduce to nor
NAL the swollen prices of the common
necessities of life, which are now bur-
dening the community. Do not forget
that in the food-controIled countries of
Europe the average prices of many COM
modities are lower than here at home.
Even the dullest will grasp the bear
ing of these crucial facts on their own
situation"
Every member of every active COM
mittee assigned to work in the s'ser-
vice by substitution" food campaign
for Marion county is urged to be pres
ent at the 11:30 O'Clock luncheon at
the Royal Cafeteria tomorrow morning
and all business men and citizens are
also cordially invited and urged to he
present to hear o. NJ. Plummer, of Port
land, talk upon the subject. The meeting
at the high school auditorium, at 2
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon, for the es-
peeial benefit and instruction of school
principals and teachers will be very
interesting and instructive, as well as
the Parent Teachers Association meet
ing at the Lincoln school, at s O'Clock
tomorrow evening, which is also public,
should have the attendance of all pat
riotic and public-spirited citizens who
can possibly come.