Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-23
D|RECT APPEAL TO
| ANNAPOLIS WOMEN
Food Conservation Plan To Be Ex-
planned To Them.
FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR"
This Slogan Of the War to be Brought
Home to Every Home in the
County Next Week.

Nouhty ltCAt WCCns
Food will win the war!" This is
tie slogan that the Woman's Section.
Council OF Defense for Anne Arundel
County. under the leadership of Mrs.
J. f. Craven, plans to bring home to
the housewives of Annapolis and the
rural sections of the county during
the next week These women, who
from the first have been active and
Rave earned the commentator of the
authorities and the public for their
efficient volunteer work, are work
ing under the plan for National Food
Conservation Campaign
At a meeting to be held on Thurs
DAY of this week further volunteers
from among the women of the town
and county are looked to to come to
the front and help spread this gos-
pei of defeating the Huns, not by
Joining such an organization as the
fl nous Regiment of Death" of their
brave Russian sisters, but through ac-
tive affiliation and assistance to the
battalion of life. AT this meeting, in
the headquarters of the local Coun-
ell of defense in the Court of Appeals
I.uilding, further plans looking to an
active house to house canvass during
the succeeding week, beginning Sun
Gay, October 2Sth, and lasting through
to November 3rd, will be laid. Dur
ing Thursday and on succeeding days
this week there will be some one on
hand to meet the volunteers and ex-
plain to them what the work demands
of them next week. II may be said
right here that the work will not be
hard, it will be something that any
Intelligent, patriotic woman can and
really should be willing to do in 10y
alty to government of and for civili-
zation
One important proposition in the
whole scheme of food conservation is
this. While the papers for months
East have been full of statements from
high authorities in the government
emphasizing the need Of care and
economy in food consumption, recent
developments show that this lesson
has not been taken to heart. That
reflection upon the loyalty of the wo-
men of the country. but rather raises
tie question of whether or not they
actively read this type of article in
the daily press. Next week this is 10
be met by house to house canvass.
The things that can be done the gov
ernment's admonition that they
should be done and to a great degree
an exposition of how they can be done
will be brought to the individual
front door Of the women of the town
and county.
At the same time the Defense Coun-
eli will personally explain to the
housewives the utter falsity of the
rumor-now almost surely establish
ed as a bit of German-inspired
propaganda the United States
Government has led women to spend
long hot hours over the preserving
kettle and pickle jars with premedi-
tated intent to commander the re-
suit of their labors.
Here are some of the things con-
tanned in the message the Anne Arun-
del Branch of the Woman's Council
of Defense will take to the women Of
Anne Arundel County and Annapo-
lis during next week.
'aThe present war has brought
American women face to face with an
absolutely new situation. Their
husbands. sons, and brothers are
lighting side by side with. the soldiers
OF the Allies The fight is Americas
as we'll as the Allies, and if they fail
we must carry it on ourselves, or else
America will witness on her own
soil the same atrocities which Belgium
ard France have suffered
"The sooner the Allies can win the
war, the fewer OF our American boys
will lay down their lives upon the
battlefield. and the sooner those who
survive can return to us.
But this war cannot be won with
out food. and the simple fact is that
the entire present supply of certain
staples is insufficient to take care of
the Allies and ourselves unless we at
home are willing TO use these staples
c. refully each day, and every day.
until the war ends.
"If we do not do this voluntarily,
ii will be necessary for the govern
ment to apportion supplies as some of
the European Governments are now
doing.
"The government, therefore, asks
every woman in America who is con-
cerned in the preparation of food for
home consumption to enroll herself
ir a volunteer army. pledged, in so
far as her circumstances make it pos
sible. to an economical use of certain
staple foods, and the substitution for
them, so far as possible, OF other ar
ticles of which there is an adequate
supply
To those who should volunteer TO
help out in spreading this knowledge
to every household in the town and
the county. this is summary Of what
is expected of them.
your duty will be to visit the fam
lilies in your immediate neighborhood