Arizona republican., 1917-10-27
MOBILIZATION FUR FOOD CONSERVATION
 |S NOW COMPLETED
[Republican A. p. Leased wire]


 WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-With Ma tional Food Pledge Week only a few days off, the food administration to- day announced that its army of half million men and women volunteer canvasscrs is mobilized and ready for the campaign under the various state food administrators.
 Food pledge week begins Sunday October 2S and ends November 4.
 The 500,o10 canvassers reported on 2 preliminary survey several days ago that they were sure to get the sig ratues of approximately 13.000,0 00e American housewives to the food pledge A million and d quarter of the country's 22,000,000 housewives already have signed the card promis ing to conserve food This leaves be- tween seven and eight million unac- counted for, and the food adniinis- trator today expressed the conviction that all of them will be pledged be- fore the campaign ends.
 Reports show that school children are organized in many places as vol cnteer assistant units to help in the ~ampalgn to enlist all the country's twenty two million housewives in the work of conserving war foods" of hich there is a world shortage. Among the 50G,0C0 workers who will visit every home in the country, is 1 t large number of war Mothers" | women whose sons or other mac relatives have gone to the front ol are in training in this country. , Sunday, the opening day of the campaign, will be marked by war food conservation sermons by the country's 100000 ministers in churches all oveV the land. The food ad- ministration states that the response of the ministers has been extraor- dinarly generous in this respect State, city, county and local orga nizations constitute the working ma chinery of the campaign. Beginning and continuing until Saturday, thes, | workers will make a house to house canvass of the country, inquiring of each housewife of the 22,000, 900 tam lilies in the United States whether she nas enrolled as a member of the food administration by singing the food pledge card.
 The workers will carry cards foi those housewives who have not ye enrolled. To each housewife who has not a home card" telling what foods | the government would like to have them conserve and why, they will pre- sent one.
 The workers will explain briefly ant clearly what the governments fooC conservation idea is and what is asked of each housewife
 The food pledge is not, food ad- ministration officials pointed out to- day, an effort to get people to ca less, but to substitute those foods O hich the country has an abundanc; for those that are urgently needed b! the peoples of the Allied countries in Europe and their armies and ours
 President Wilson, in a letter to tn food administrator has said: In n other way can they American wom en) so greatly assist as by enlistin. in the service of the food admins trator and cheerfully accept it's di rections and advice. By so doing they will increase the surplus of foo, available for our own army and fo export to our allies.
 ITO provide adequate supplies fo the coming year is of absolutely vita importance to the conduct of the Wa. and without very conscientious eli
 
 economy in our food consumption, " cannot hope to fulfill this primar duty. 1 trust, therefore, that tn women of the country will ont onl respond to your appeal and accep the pledge of the food administra tion which you are proposing. bu that all men also who are engage in the personal distribution of food will cooperate with the same earn ness and in the same spirit
 The obligation assumed in enroll ing as a member of the food admins tration is simple. It involves no due or other fees.
 Following is the briefly worde pledge each housewife is asked t sign:
 'I am glad to join in the servic of food conservation for our natio and I hereby accept membership the United States food administration pledge myself to carry out the d rections and advices of the food ad ministrator in my home. insofar 2 my circumstances permit
 "A membership window card wi be delivered to each enrolling membt upon receipt of the signed pledg and from time to time suggestion will be sent out. these suggestion taken as a whole, constituting series of lessons in home economic
 There is no threat of privation said the food administrator in a stat; ment formally announcing "Foc Pledge Week." "We wish only tn: our people should eat plenty. bl wisely and without waste. Wisdo in eating is to make possible sue adjustments in our food consumI tion, shipping and war necessiti, as will allow us to fulfill our du in exports to our allies. By elim nation of waste we serve ourselv economically and morally.
 This is a duty of necessity, human ity and honor AS a free people V have elected to discharge this dut not under autocratic decree, but witt put other restraint than the guidan of individual conscience. Upon u success of this unprecedent adventu in democracy will largely stake u issue of the war
 The problem of America, as Il food administrator sees it, is to fe' our allies this winter by sendir them as much food as we can
 he most concentrated nutritive wall in the least shipping space. The foods are wheat. beef, pork, dairy pr | 115rt I,