The Monticellonian., 1917-10-19
SAVE FOOD AND
 LEND YOUR COIN
Hoover's Men Will Make Big Drive Throughout Nation for
 Sale of New Bonds.
YOU CAN HELP WHIP KAISER
Great Program Is Outlined for Food Pledge Week Campaign, October 21 to 23-Those Who Fight
 Must Be Fed.

WaShington.-Ten million food con servation pledges Twenty-two million homes yisited national campaign projected so large in it's scope that the work to be accomplished is as great as though q census of the country were to be taken .n il week
 Such is the program outlined for the food pledge week campaign, 0c- tober 21 to 2S
 What is it all about?
 Why so much fuss?
 What are the motives back of such a tremendous drive?
 In every state thousands Of people are asking these questions while thou sands of others are preparing them selves to furnish Il complete answer to the query.
 The reasons why the food pledge campaign has been projected upon snch broad lines are simple enough; plain enough.
 So simple and Sd plain that they have been stated in the compass of card-a card that il is proposed to hang in every home of the land-a card that is the war creed of the kitchen because, SD closely are the people in this country linked to the world war. that one of the phases of the struggle must be fought lout in the American kitchen.
 If soldiers are to fight they must be fed For the past three years, one by one, our allies across the sea have been taking the men from the farm and from the factory and SCI ..nS tnem 10 the firing line Each m n sent fo the firing line meant one less who could be relied upon to hel prothee the food that will win the var."
 There are stores of whe; in Aus tralia. There is food in So ith Amer ica, but ships are scarce. inc is |. vital factor. The voyage to Australia and to South America takes too long. If tue needs of those who if nc for us across the sea are to be met the food that sustains those 1Ahters ust came from this country. ss
 II the Iaberer is worthy of ids hire, surely the fighter is worthy of ills food. That Is I principle universall accept ed by the American public. However, it is not every product thai can be sent across the sea. Corn will not serve the need our allies ha q never used t as food; they have no mills to grind it.; turn it into mea in this country and it would spoil iefore it could reach an European DOT There are just four classes of prodt cts, the experts say, that we must sen to our allies if our duty to them is t' be dis charged they need meat, whe; [, Sugar and dairy products. We can observe our wheat bF increasing our c nsurnp- ton of other grains. We can 1fiserye our neat by making 4 greater ieniand upon the resources of the fish market.
 If the United States were auto- cratic country there would be lospop- ular appeal for the conserva ian of food. Yhere would be an aul ocratic food control The mailed fist Would rule in the kitchen. Imperial d de crees would be enforced at tn, point of the bayonet. But Jrs is 0t an autocratic country. Fobd contr' is in the hands of the people them eNes, and it is to the people that tn food administration has appealed II the food pledge card campaign.
 Herbert Hoover has termed Il iss ap- peal an unprecedented advent re in democracy''-an adventure tha will determine whether or not Il demo sr1tic form of government is, after all, litted 10 engage in q death grapple wi if an autoeraey.
 The food pledge work campais nj re- solves itself into an effort to sec, re as. result of voluntary agree u1ent pledges insuring inc general su )pert for a well defined program of fooc coa- servation The food pledge week cA,n- paign represents an effort to indu a as many of the American homes as IDS sible to unite in a common policy. Cur wheat reserves can be conserve s-if- everybody helps.
 The American people are asked to join together in d common consersa- tion policy. As evidence that they are supporting this policy they are asked to hang card denoting membership in the United States food administra- ton in their window. In order tbat the conservation policy may be under stood. the reasons for it made plain and the manner of observing il ren- dcred certain, Instruction cardS-'1fhe War Creed of the Kitchen" n"-are to be hung in the home.
 And that is what the national food pledge week campaign is all about.