The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-10-18
PLEDGE CARD
CAMPAIGN ON
BLOWERS URGES NEED OF SAVING
School Superintendent Gibson is Local
Food Administrator School
Districts to Help

Blowers has issued the following proc
lamation:
I'VE are engaged in the greatest
war of all time. The armies of Napo-
leon, Wellington or Grant would make
but eorporal's guard as compared
with the mighty armies of today.
'"These men cannot exist-much less
fight without proper food, and while
all of us cannot take part in the firing
line, all men and women can do their
bit in this war for democracy. 1t is
the duty of every housewife to see
that not particle of food, so sorely
needed in France and Belgium, is
wasted. Enlist under Hoover's banner
and help carry the war to victorious
conclusion.
With J. 0. Mclaughlin and Mrs. F.
W. Rand lin charge, the pledge card
campaign has been given an impetus in
the city. Prof. Gibson Monday began
the organization of every school dist.
rict in the county to promote the food
conservation campaign.
Prof. Gibson has received the fol-
lowing letter from Mr.. Aver:
81 am especially anxious that you
should enlist the leading men and
women in Hood River county in sup
port of this movement. You will need,
and should have, their influence and
every bit of backing they can give.
This campaign, as they will not fail to
understand, is not one whit less i'm.
portant than the Liberty Bond cam
paign. The two should go hand in
hand and should stir every one of US to
most enthusiastic participation.
The following is the advice issued
on cards by Food Administrator Hoov-
er.
The men of the allied nations are
fighting; they are not on the farms.
The production of food by these coun-
tries has therefore been greatly re-
duced. Even before the war it was
much less than the amount consumed.
The difference came from America and
few other countries. Now this diff
ference is greater than ever and, at the
same time, but little food can be
brought in from the outside except
from America.
Therefore, our allies depend on
America for food as they have never
depended before, and they ask US for
it with right whichsthey have never
had before. For today they are our
companions in the great war for de.
mocracy and liberty. They are doing
the fighting, the suffering, and dying
lin our war.
Why we must send more wheat
England, France. Italy and Belgium,
taken together, import in peace time
40 per cent of their breadstuffs. But
now, with their reduction in harvest,
they must import go per cent. We
must increase our normal export sur
plus of $4,000, 900 bushels to 200, ,00O,-
900 bushels. 1t can be done but in one
way; by economizing and substituting.
The people of the allies cannot substi-
tute corn alone for bread, as we can.
They are using other cereals added to
wheat flour to make war bread, and
thus use up to 25 per cent of corn for
wheat. We have. plenty of corn to
send them, but, except in Italy, whose
people normally use it, our allies have
few corn mills and corn meal is not
durable enough to be shipped by US in
large quantities. Moreover, the allied
peoples do not make their bread at
home; it Is all made in bakeries, and
corn bread cannot be distributed from
bakeries. There is but one way; we
must reduce our use of wheat. We use
now an average of five pounds of
wheat flour per person per week. The
whole problem can be met if we will
substitute one'pound of corn and other
cereal flour for one pound of wheat
flour weekly per person; that is, If we
reduce our consumption of wheat flour
from five pounds week to four pounds
a week.
Why we must send more meat-The
food animals of the allies have de-
creased $4,000, 900 head since the war
began; thus the source of their meat
production is decreasing. At the same
time the needs of their soldiers and
war workers have increased the neces-
sary meat consumption. Our meat ex-
ports to our allies are now already al
most three times what they were be-
fore the war. The needs of the allies
will steadily increase because their
own production of food animals will
steadily decrease because of lack of
feed for them. If we save one ounce
of meat per person per day we can
send our allies what they need.
Why we must send butter and milk
The decreasing herds and the lack of
fodder mean steady falling off in the
dairy products of our allies. .They
have been asking for larger and larger
exports from us. Last year we sent
them three times as much butter and
almost ten times as much condensed
milk as we used to send them before
the war. Yet we must not only keep
up to this level, but do still better.
Why we must send Before
the war France, Italy and Belgium
produced as much sugar as they used,
while England drew most of its supply
from what are now enemy countries.
France and Italy are producing lees
than they need, while England is cut
off from the source of 70 per cent of
her usual imports.
These cards will be distributed to
be place on the walls of all kitchens.
On the reverse side of them Mr.. Hoov-
er tells as follows how housewives
may aid in winning the war:
Our problem is to feed our allies this
winter by sending them as much food
as we can of the most concentrated
nutritive value in the least shipping
space. These foods are wheat, beef,
pork, dairy products and sugar.
Our solution is to eat less of these
and more of other foods of which we
have an abundance, and to waste less
of all foods.
Bread and cereals Have at least
one wheatless meal day. Use corn,
oat, rye, barley or mixed cereal rolls,
mullins and breads in place of white
| bread certainly for one meal and. il