The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-31


 Birmingham is always at the front
 when it comes to uplift and progress, and
 1t seems to me that it would be q splen- did compliment to Herbert C. Hoover, the
 national food administrator. if we would
 inaugurate a movement here for ma
 tional Hoover luncheon for business
 men and women, the cafes restaurants hotels, and lunch stands. helping us tc popularize it by beginning at once te serve such luncheon"
 Mrs. George F. Harrington, who Is ac- lively and periodically engaged in the great food conservation fight in Birming. ham, made this unique and original statement yesterday when she gathered about her a little coterie of food conser- vationists who are eager to aid in every
 way in winning the great world war
 now waging.
 '"The Hoover lunch would mean patri-
 otic service" said Mrs. Harrington, "tc
 eat substitutes for wheat, beef and other commodities, knowing that out of our plenty. we are saving for others somewhere over there"
 "The popular priced Hoover lunch
 for busy men and women who haven't time to figure out of long list of this
 and that, Just the foods that ought to
 be conserved, would be welcomed" Mrs
 Harrington said
 Fish and fowl, corn and graham muf- fins vegetables, fruits (cooked), and, leaving off wheat, beef, pork, mutton,
 much sugar in certain kinds of deserts; this would certainly appeal to the hungry men and women in many ways. Some how, since I have been doing my bit In war service for my country, I fec every time l eat much soldier food Chats what meat, beef and wheat are) that I am almost a 'slacker,' in that ] am slack in my Hoover responsibility. ; It is said one-half the world thinks for the other half, so food preparers think for the eating public just like the housewife thinks what is best for hel family.
 Birmingham housewives, hotels, res- taurants and boarding house keepers have signed the food pledge cards; we have become "Hooverites," followers oi Herbert Hoover. Let's do more; let's 1 honor him by putting On our menu cards a Hoover lunch,' Mrs. Harrington con. 1 tnued
 Conserve. eliminate and substitute ar, three words that have been indelibly impressed upon the minds and hearti
 of the American people by Herbert Hoo yer. Conserve all food, eliminate waste and substitute for beef, pork mutton dairy products, wheat and sugar sucl foods as will be appetizng and nutri ! tious. These will be the fighting imple ments of the stay-at-hone soldiers in oui land of peace and plenty to help win tho war"
 1 MT. Hoover knew that the American people would rally to the call, and al ready the housewives are pledging theil 1 support by signing the conservation foot pledge cards and will live up to the | pledges, but there are thousands of ho. tels and restaurants, eating shops ane boarding houses where hundreds of thou sands of people eat that which Is se before them. They select eat, pay fol l and go on, giving no thought to foot i conservation. Who is responsible for thii consumption of foodstuffs that should b, | conserved and other things substituted l Who? The answer is easy: Those wht buy the foodstuffs; the housekeepers ant the preparers of menus; now, let al l these get busy this week and take al
 active step toward remedying all this l W. soAA'oA s@'.oii " tio Tii0lictIi peo 1 pie will mean, first, cutting down waste
 second, keeping the conservation though alive; third, from q health standpoin
 people are better off for not eating s,
 much meat and heavy food; fourth, i
 individualizes America fifth. feeling O 1 helping to win the war and, sixth, i
 would cut down household expenses ant
 make for saner and safer living.'' b "As said at the beginning" Mrs liar rington repeated. T think Birmingham i big enough and patriotic enough to star
 the national Hoover lunch plan, and don't think it would be long before i would be taken up. MT. Hoover, the mal who is teaching us to live and let live l by right eating and judicious cconomiz 1 Ing. would aid us, Tin sure, in n1akin, 1 the plan a success
 TIP VETING DTIRITC