The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-06-20
House Wives Must Register
Hoover Outlines Plan for Enlisting
Women as Members of Food
Administration.
WAGE WAR AGAINST WASTE
Food Controller Shows Where Mil
lions of Dollars Can be Saved
in Kitchen.

acCual members OF the food admins
tration and appealed to them to Join
him in the fight for conservation
measures and the elimination of
waste. The women will be enrolled
during period of registration from
July 1, to July Is through the Coun-
Gil of National Defense and the State
defense councils.
Mr. Hoover is proceeding at the
direction of President Wilson, who
without waiting for Congress to enact
the administration food bills, direct
ed him to proceed with organization
as it contemplates assembling volun-
teer efforts.
Asks Women to Register.
GAS required by the President
says his statement, 1--WE ask every
woman in the United States engaged
in the personal control of the food to
register for actual membership in the
food administration, thus entering di.
rectly into the national service. We
shall later on ask various classes of
men likewise engaged in food prep
aration and distribution to also vol
unteer to the national service in their
various branches.
eve must enter period of sacri-
fees for our country and for democ-
racy. Many must go into battle, but
many can only remain at home. The
worlds food supply is short and many
must suffer. We have the major
burden of feeding the whole world
Food must be managed and transport
ed in our own country and to our
allies in such way as to get the
most out of it. Those who remain at
home can also help and can fight by
helping the fighter fight and can
serve by saving
Food Will Decide War.
'Since food will decide the war,
each American woman can do a real
national service by protecting the food
supply of the nation. Ninety per
cent of American food consumption
passes through the hands of our wo-
men. In no other field do small
things, when multiplied by our hun
dred million people, count for so much
A single pound Of bread saved weekly
for each person will increase our ex-
port surplus of wheat O,OOO,OOO
bushels, and an average saving of two
cents on each meal every day for
each person will save to the nation
for war purposes $2,000,0OO, 900 per
annum.
"The proper assurance of the food
to our allies will not only encourage
them, but it will maintain them in
war Without larger margin from
our abundant food supply, only to be
secured by individual effort and volun
teer sacrifice, the war will be pro-
longed and thousands of lives, not
only of men, but also of women and
needlessly lost. The guild
ing hand Of women in the home can
alone control in this matter.
High Cost of Living.
Furthermore this is not alone a
war question. The high prices which
are bearing so hard on the poor and
the more moderate wage earners in
this country, are partially due to the
shortage Of supplies in the worlds
market and the saving in consump-
ton and waste which can be made
will lessen the prices to those of our
own people which must be our first
In all Of the arrangements
that we plan to make during the
forthcoming year for the supply of
our allies, we will bear the first re-
gard to our own people.
IAN effort at saving must be di-
rectcd toward the great national and
situation. These efforts
mnst all be made in unison and by
all of US. Therefore, the ground work
of direction must be national in char
actcr.
Begins July 1st.
"Inasmuch as before legislation is
completcd the food administration has
no representatives throughout the
the National Council of De-
Tense is kindly requesting all the
State Councils Of Defense, with the
assistance Of the women's committee
Of the National Council of Defense, to
undertake the registration. This reg
'Stration will begin July 1 and con
tinue intcnsively for fifteen days, and
will consist, simply in asking every
woman in the country to volunteer
in this important service by signing
ana mail to the food administrator,
division, Washington, the
following pledge:
Text Of Pledpc