Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-29
FOOD SUBSTITUTION
CAMPAIGN HAS BEGUN
If You Have Not Signed Gard
Do So at Once and Then
Display 1t

"service by substitution army to do
your duty toward winning the war for
democracy and in the cause of human
lity and justieef
| If you have not signed pledge
card which was brought to you by the
children of the public or private
schools of Salem it is your duty to sign
it at once and return it to the child
SO that it may be taken back to the
school and a membership card, indi-
eating that you have joined the United
States food administration.
| If you have not procured a pledge
and home card through the medium Of
the schools, or other source, the vol
unteer workebs assigned to leanvass
duty in your district, will call upon
you either Wednesday morning or af-
.ernoon, or some later time during the
week until Sunday November 4, and
ask you to sign.
| If YOU are not to be at home on We'd
nesday please leave word with neigh
Dor as to when you will return for the
information of the district workers, to
save them further necessity of inquiry
and loss of valuable time and to insure
you that the worker will return and
present the pledge card for your sig
mature.
| If you have been missed by the dis
ltrict worker after Thursday telephone
your name and address to 302. At any
rate one must be sure that he or she
has signed pledge card and secured
a window membership card not later
than Sunday, November 4.
If YOU have secured your home mem
bership card please display it in your
front window, or some other conspicu-
Gus place not later than Tuesday ev-
enine This will not only save you un-
necessary annoyance on the part of
the district workers, but it will save
them unnecessary time and worry in
covering their districts. They will call
at homes only in which window cards
are not on display after Wednesday
morning
| Hoover's big food conservation
drive is on in full blast throughout Sa-
lem and Marion county and it is pro-
posed and earnestly hoped to have ev-
cry household in Marion county enlist
| ed in the big "service by substitution
armv before the close of the campaign,
Sunday November A.
The Salem committee is getting the
Organization in good order and it is
expected that over 300 district work
ers will start Wednesday morning to
make the canvass of the homes of the
| city which have not been reached thru
the schools. AIS
! Each committeeman, as chairman of
certain portion of the city assigned
to him, has selected district leaders for
each of his subdivisions. These district
leaders have aglist of volunteer work.
ers in their districts and it is up to
them to get every workers under his
direction and assemble them for in
struction and organization in the work
These district leaders, in the major
Iity of cases, received notification of
their selection ny the committeeman
ON Saturday and many of them have
already taken hold and arranged meet
ings with their corps of workers for
this evening, at convenient point
within the district. At this meeting
the workers are to be arranged in pairs
or teams and assigned to a detIni e
territory within the district A speci-
fled time of meeting u I'll workers
and district leaders at central point
within the district will also be arrang-
ed at this meeting and the workers
will start out simultaneously under the
direction of the leader.
City School Superintendent John W.
Todd reports this morning that he is
confident that the school system win
deliver the goods in the return OF
pledge cards and. distribution of the
window membership cards. These lat
ter go out to the families Today.
County School Superintendent Smith
as chairman of the scnool districts ous
side of Incorporated towns, reports
that everything is shipshape in the
county.
The latest list Of volunteer workers
lis as follows:
Lincoln school parent-teachers asso-
eiation- Mrs j. II. Fairchild, 1920 5
Church; Mrs. F. L. Dawson, 1907 S.
Cottage; Mrs. w. Perry, 265 Mission;
Mrs. Mason Bishop, 1910 S. CONNER
eial; Mrs. A. f. Fellows, 1896 S. Lib
erty; Mrs. II. N. Aldricn, 34S Myers;
Mrs. Frank Mimic, S95 Saginaw; Mrs.
=. e. Scott, 1760tS. Liberty; Mrs C. T.
Mcintyre, 10 Lincoln; Mrs. ]. w. Har
bison, 1S45 S. Commercial
Council of national defense-Mrs.
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