The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-08
PUBL|C-SP|R|TED
 WOMEN ID AID IN
 FOOD MOVEMENT To Distribute Pledge Cards to Enroll Helpers in Food Conservation Campaign EVERY HOUSEKEEPER WILL BE ASKED TO AID Mrs. L. G. Haley and Members of the Alabama Federation of Women's
 Clubs Will Distribute
 Pledge Cards

Distribution in Birmignham of part of the 30O000 Hoover food conservation pledge cards that have been sent by the government to Alabama to be given to housewives and those who handle the food in homes will begin next Thursday, July 12, when the organization which has been perfected in the city by members of the Alabama Federation of Women's clubs will begin the work here. When it was announced sometime ago that the honor of the work of distributing these cards would go to the Alabama Fedora tion of Women's clubs, Mrs. L. J. Haley of Birmingham, and president of the Alabama Federation, was appointed chairman of the work for the city of Birmingham. Her assistants have been announced as Mrs. Joseph McLester, Mrs w E. Fort, Mrs. Frank Clark, Mrs. J. D. McNeil, Mrs. Prentiss Reed and Mrs J. F. Jackson.
 The purpose of the pledge cards Is to- enroll helpers in the food conservation campaign of the nation and to avoid all possible waste of food. Those who sign tilC Neli us dSSCPb lHCAibSASiiiP III tiAO United States food administration, pledg- ing themselves to carry out the direc- tions and advice of the food administra- tor in the conduct of their households insofar as their circumstances permit The cards, properly filled out, also give brief information about the management of the kitchen in the homes. When signed the cards are to be sent by the signers to the flood administration at Washington.
 CARD DISTRIBUTION
 On next Thursday morning 600 public spirited women of Birmingham will begin the work, going from house to house, from East Lake to Fairview leaving one of these pledge cards with every house. keeper, who is requested to sign and re- turn it to Washington.
 The city has been divided into dis tricts with two chairmen for each. who will supervise the work in their respec- tive districts The first district comprises the territory in the city proper south of First avenue and east of Twen- tieth street. Mrs. Vassar Allen and Miss Amelia Worthington are the chair men for this district. Mrs H. H. Shell and Mrs. J. H. Wallace are chairmen for the second district, which includes the territory south of First avenue and west of Twentieth street. The third district, north of First avenue and east of TWen- tieth street, has Mrs. Richard Fell and Mrs. J. R. Hornady as chairmen. Mrs. K. T. Glass and Mrs. E. l.. Muchmore are chairmen for the fourth district; Mrs N. A. Barrett and Mrs. H. H. Eiibbs are in charge of the East Lake district. For Avondale Mrs. James Emmett Smith and Mrs Arthur Brown for North Bir- mingham Mrs H. P. Richard and Mrs. J. P. Dovel; for West End, Mrs. w. L. Simmons and Mrs. J. w. Wood; for Pratt City, Mrs c. D. Comstock and Mrs. E. o. Sanders, and for Ensley, Mrs. R. B. Tidwell and Mrs. w. E. Turnipseed.
 SERIOUS QUESTION
 In speaking of the work, Mrs. Haley said:
 q believe that one of the most se- rious questions before the American people today is the production and conservation of food. So vital IS thls question that the United States gov ernment has found it necessary to have a food administrator. MT. Hoover. with a number of expert assistants, Is busy devising means to induce the people to produce more food and waste less of it.
 ''one of the first steps MT. Hoover has taken in his food campaign is to ask every housekeeper in America to sign a pledge that she will, so far as she can, eliminate the waste of food in her household. He knows that 1t is useless to encourage the produc- tion of an extra amount of food If the wastefulness of which the Amer ican housewife Is at present gullty goes on proportionately. He knows that conservation and production must go hand in hand if America is te help feed the starving millions in Europe as well as provide for herself. So he makes a direct appeal to the women of America to help him in his great work, and urges every housekeeper in every state in the union to sign one of his food cards between July 1 and IS, thereby pledging co-opera- tion and entering her name upon the list of people to whom the govern ment will send free of charge a use full and instructive monthly bulletin.
 NOT UNREASONABLE
 These cards do not commit the sign CT to anything unreasonable or im- practical and it is hoped that every housekeeper in Birmingham will sign one. Birmingham has made an .n- yiaDle record III OV6TSuDSCrlplllG iib- erty loan and Red Cross funds and 1t rests with our housekeepers to see that larger per cent of food cards distributed in this city are signed and returned to Washington than in any other city in the United States. Will the women do 1t? Why, of course, they will"
 It is said that 1t is permissible to ask who's who in Birmingham but not who's Hoover and that every housekeeper will be expected to co operate with the flood general or the nation"
 The following is the main paragraph on the pledge cards:
 ITO the Food Administrators. Washing
 ton. D. C.:
 II am glad to join you in the serv- ice of food conservation for our na- tion and I hereby accept membership in the United States food administra- ton, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the food ad- ministrator in the conduct of my