Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-18
Speed! Is Slogan
for u. s. Food Bill


Continued from Page One
to make the country safe against the
dangers it is meant to guard against
Cordially yours
WOODROW WILSON.
Congress must choose" Lever declared,
in opening the momertous debate, between
President Wilson and the German Kaiser
as to which shall control the food situa-
ton"
At the same time Senator Simmons
journeyed to the White House to personally
assure the President that the Senate would
sidetrack the war revenue measure to give
the food bill right of way Speed is the
thing, Simmons agreed.
JULY l TO BE FOOD DAY =
Coincidentally with these steps, Herbert
Hoover today named Sunday, July 1, as
food conservation day, when he urged that
newspapers magazines. minister's fraternal
organizations, motion picture theatres, bill
board owners, etc, join in a nationwide
campaign to awaken the American house
wife to her opportunity and duty"
In the campaign, by which Hoover hopes
to save 000,000,000 annually through
elimination of waste in the kitchen alone,
| all summer schools will be utilized. Through
| summer schools alone Hoover expects to
educate 100000 housewives in the art of
saving.
Specially directed campaigns are to be
| made in hotels, railroad dining cars, cafes
| anu all lldIllleI Oh puDllC tdIlIlB places.
| Hoover pointed out today that If only
two cents is saved on every meal, an annual
| saving of another S2,OO0,O00, ,OO0-equal to
the Liberty Loan-will have been saved to
this nation and her allies"
STATE COUNCILS TO AID
AS much as possible of the work will be
| turned over to the State defense councils
| cooperating with the national council Co.
| operating in this work the women's commit
| nft ha NJ al do.
telegraphed each of its forty-elght State
| divisions, Get behind Hoover"
The Agricultural Department also got
| behind" today when Carl Vrooman ar
ranged an itinerary to visit the great
farming States of the Middle and Far West
next month to launch a marketing cam
paign for the crops that will then be "in
harvest" Better prices to the farmer and
fairer prices to the housewife will be
Vrooman's slogan. Middlemen-regardless
who do not show the proper spirit will
be relentlessly crushed, Vrooman declared
VOTE BY END OF WEEK
Chairman Lever, in calling up his bill
| announced that night sessions would be in
order to expedite the bill to vote by the
end Of the week. The present plan is tc
recess each afternoon at $3.50 o'clock unit
8 o'clock, when the evening sessions will
be commenced.
Pleading for the enactment of the meas,
ure, he denounced vigorously "the heartless
unpatriotic intermediates who rob anC
gouge the farmers" "A loose-jointed unor
ganized democracy" he said. hasn't a ghos
of a chance in a contest with such an autoc
racy as Germany's organization.
J Organization is the only weapon will
whicn organization can be overcome. Al
organization, as the term is used here
means not only whipping into shape tn
man and money power of the nation bu
every resource Of the nation which may b.
4 used in the contest The people are no
going to be satisfied with silly excuse
about delegation Of autocratic powers"
Mr.. Lever read a letter from Phlladel
phia woman There are no cheap cuts 0
meat in Philadelphia today" it said. -
shin Of beef is twenty-five cents pound"
= "Do you know what a shin of beef is /?
1 he asked, 1T doesn't have enough meat o.
n 1t to feed a chicken Think of It twenty
q two cents pound for a soup bone. Goo
0 | men and women are close to desperation
Q | Twenty-Five cents pound soup bones make
q dangerous men and women out or ordinaril
: peaceful citizens"
: That some kind of food and fuel con
g troll is necessary to their most efficen
I | mobilization is imperative.
I I'VE intend to drive from establishe
agencies of distribution the market manipu
n lator and gambler the man who buys a
n cheaply as he can and sells as dearly a
9 he may--the shylock Of commerce.
a I'VE must"
o Lever declared the United States mu,
o help feed 10000 900 persons in addition
e Its own, "No honest business man." h
= said, would suffer.
n 1T Is the crook that shall suffer" h
Il said, and II is the crook, the unpatrioti,
the selfish and greedy that We are after