Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10
"MOM" LENNING
FOOD CONSERVER
She's Going to Sign Card,
but Won't Stint u. of
P. Boys
PATRIOTIC, BUT HUMANE
Police Have Gigantic Task in En-
rolling Philadelphia's Army
of Housewives
BY M'LISS


MON" Icuniug is going to sign her food
card
TO YOU and to me this means nothing,
but to scores Of boys who live in the Uni
vcrsity uf Pennsylvania "Dorms' which
are opposite MONS" place, II means a
heavy melancholy feeling I'm that region
which is cclinged by the diaphragm.
"Mum" conducts the college Lunch Buff
fet." where any nustagic college youth
viii tell YOU "jit' goes further than any
where else and where for twenty-five cents
a meal can be had, guaranteed to make
one forget the groaning board back in the
ancestral home.
when the big bluecoat from the Thirty
second street and Woodland avenue police
station stopped al "Mom's" with the Hoover
food card and the letter from the Mayor
calling on every woman in the city to sign
up with Uncle Sam in his gigantic feminine
food-saving army the fat little German
proprietress trembled with agitation.
Mon" comes Of a nation of economic
hausfraus But MONS" problem. like
MON" herself, has been transplanted.
MON" has hungry, husky American college
boys to deal with.
sure. be patriot and safe the food"
she spread her pudgy hands out in
gesture expressive of entire Willingness TO
become one Of the food army being mobl
zed in Philadelphia, but the customers,
how viii dey take it?'
MONS" accent Is an enemy one, but
her intentions are loyal
II sign de card" she continued. and do
all | can to stop de vaste--der amt much
and IN tell YOU dat-but | cannot sign up
to cir de boys mcatless day. De Won't
stand for i'd
~ tell Won vot." MON" made her great
decision, "I'll do the right ding. I'll gif dem
meat only Nuuce a day But do not egspect
IN hoNS. | n
not do"
She flushed with the enthusiasm Of her
petriotism and expressed her intention of
having the card ready and signed by the
time the cop returns to collect it.
In she meantime the distribution of the
cards which was started yesterday is pro-
CeedinE today At police headquarters 1t
was said that it would not be humanely pos
sibe to finish the work Of giving out the
cards to the 6O5,000 women Of Philadelphia
in the two days allotted for the task In
the thickly populated districts the police
are swamped by the magnitude Of their
job. out at Manayunk, the Thirteenth
District, which received 1900 cards. sent
in a hurry call this morning for more and
this request was followed by a similar
one from the Thlrty-fourth district, which
had received 1000 cards.
Some time ago that Hun, Mr.. High Cost
Of Living. stepped in ahead of Herbert
Hoover and made virtually every woman
with a family to feed a food economist
And when the women discover that the
signing Of the food card means no labor
OF any kind on their part. but will make
them instead the recipients of valuable
food tips from Washington they will sign
with a rush
Captain Nicholas j. Kenny in charge Of
nine districts in the central and most con-
gested part of the city, declared today that
the canvass had been ordered at an inop-
perfume time, due to the fact that the police
force is depleted somewhat by vacationists
The depletion was further aggravated by
the strike of the meat wagon drivers, who
need a special detail Of cops to keep them
out OF mischief Police have also been
withdrawn from regular duty to guard
bridges in the central parts Of the city
and also TO keep the enemy away from
independence Hall and it's historic en-
virons.
At the Office Of the Food Commission in
the Widener Building no irritation was
expressed at the delay
Just so it gets done as quickly as nos
sible, we are not worrying" was the phil
osophic comment of one of the officials.
WOMEN VOLUNTEERS.
But 14O Philadelphia women, representa-.
tive O. forty organizations, have gone into
training as "slacker officers" for the food
army.
The women have been formed into Hoover
pledge committees by Mrs Henry d. Jump,
at the order of the Women's State Com
mitee on National Defense. Their organiza-
tion was completed today. Committees
have been formed in every ward.