The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-04
WOMEN's CLUB URGED
.=:..* ~ TO CONSERVE FOOD
Federation Official Asks Minnesota
Club Won,en's Help in Saw
ing Program.


because America is facing the re-
sponsibility of supplying food for it's
own people and because we must
share with our allies to the last
crust" Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman
of Longs Peak, Easter Park, COL,
chairman of the Minnesota Fedora
ton of Women's clubs, is forwarding
the general call from Mrs. Sherman
for ''food conservation" to the
state clubwomen.
Famine threatens a large part
of the world. Americas RESPONSE
bility is just the same. We must
feed ourselves and our allies till nor
NAL conditions return. Food con-
servation is therefore a duty which
every citizen owes the country a
dictate of patriotism which, in the
words Of the President, mo one can
now expect ever to be excused or
forgiven for ignoring" says Mrs.
Sherman in her appeal.
"Half Of this responsibility lies
with the women of the nation.
We can help to increase production.
We can dry, can and conserve food.
We can control household waste.
We can set the example of intelli-
gent economy" says Mrs. Sherman,
urging women to live up to the fed
Grafton pledge:
II will use only amounts of food
required for adequate nourishment.
| will endeavor to control the waste
in all kinds of materials in the
household and to live simply. /
will begin now"
'That the work Of food conserva-
ton must be intelligent and persist
ent, that it must be done through
individual effort and through CO.
operation with established agencies u
Mrs. Sherman said. She advocates
making use of all available soil, even
that along the highways and rail-
roads, cultivation of products suit
able to dry, can and store, that in
addition to the local agencies of in
struction, women call upon the ma.
tional food garden commission, en-
Urgency food garden commission Am.
erican Forestry association, Wash
ington, DC, for more full inform
alton and direction for the care of
home gardens, organization and fin.
ancing of boys and girls clubs
for canning and drying and storing
perishable and surplus products;
arranging with state secretaries or
raising calves, pigs and poultry and
commissioners agriculture and state
directors Of the cooperative exten.
sion service to use the general FEEDER.
alton machinery of the state and
agree with them upon the kind of
service to be rendered and the co.
operation with the existing federal
and state machinery.
Five departments DEMONSTRATION CT
WIGS, home economics, education and
legislation-are concerned with the
handling of food product problems.
Their activities have been defined in
the following groups:
general food growing, food storage,o
food Storage, food transportation,
food distribution.
Civics (the community commun-
ity food growing, food distribution,
municipal regulation.
Home economics, (the individually
use Of food in household, amounts
of food in family, amounts of money
and other resources used, amount of
waste in household, regulation by
the individual.
Education, promoting school clubs
for preservation of food, simpler
life among high school girls, in
struction in thrift.
Legislation, laws regulating the
above.