Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-10-19
Save FOOD AND
LENDlYOUR 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 :.
2f to 2s-Those Who Fight
Must Be Fed,

Washington.-Ten million food con-
servation pledges twenty-five million
homes visited! A national campaign
Projected so large in its scope that the
work to be accomplished is as great
as though a census of the country were
ta be taken in a week!
Such is the program outlined for
tive food pledge week campaign, Oc-
tcber q to %.
What is it all about2
Why so much fuss?
What are the motives back of sucl
tremendous drive?
10 every state thousands of people
ara asking these questions while thou
sands of others are preparing them
| selves to furnish a complete answer
to The query.
The reasons why the food pledge
campaign has been projected upon such
broad lines are simple enough; plain
enough.
So simple and so plain that they
have been stated in the compass of a
carG-a card that it is proposed to
| hang in every home of the land-a
card that is the "war creed of the
Kitchen" because, so closely are the
people in this country linked to the
world war, that one of the phases of
the struggle must be fought out 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 sending them
to the firing line. Each man sent to
the firing line meant one less who
could be relied upon to help produce
the food that will win the war;"
There are stores of wheat in Aus
tralia There is food in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time is
vital factor. The voyage to Australia
and to South America takes too long.
If the needs of those who fight for US
across the sea are to be met, the food
that sustains those fighters must come
from this country.
If the laborer is worthy of his hire,
surely the fighter is worthy of his food.
That is a principle universally accept
ed by the American public. However,
it is not every product that can be
sent across the sea. Corn will not
serve the need; our allies have never
used it as a food; they have no mills
to grind 1t; turn it into meal in this
country and it would spoil before it
could reach an European port. There
are just four classes of products, the
experts say, that we must send to our
allies if our duty to them is to be dis
charged; they need meat, wheat, sugar
and dairy products. We can conserve
our wheat by increasing our conSump-
ton of other grains. We can conserve
our meat by making greater demand
upon the resources of the fish market;
If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no pop
ular appeal for the conservation of
food. There would be an autocratic
food control. The mailed fist would
rule in the kitchen. Imperial food de-
crees would be enforced at the point
of the bayonet. But ours is not an
autocratic country. Food control is in
the hands of the people themselves,
and it is to the people that the food
administration has appealed in the
food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap-
peal an unprecedented adventure in
democracy"-an adventure that will
determine whether or not democratic
form of government is, after all, fitted
to engage in death grapple with an
autocracy.
The food pledge work campaign re-
solves itself into an effort to secure as
result of voluntary agreement
pledges insuring the general support
for a well defined program of food con-
servation. The food pledge week cam
| paign represents an effort to induce as
; many of the American homes as pos
sible to unite in a common policy. OuI
wheat reserves can be conserved II
everybody helps.
The American people are asked tc
Join together in a common conserva
| ton policy. AS evidence that they are
| supporting this policy they are askec
to hang a card denoting membership
in the United States food administra
ton in their window. In order thai
the conservation policy may be under
} stood. the reasons for it made plain
/ and the manner of observing it rem
7 dered certain, Instruction cards-"Th'
/ War Greed of the Kitchen"-are to b.
hung in the home.
And that is what the national foot
pledge week campaign is all about.