Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-01
GERMAN
PROPACAND|ST
FIGHT SLOGAN
Best Evidence of Necessity
for Food Conservation in
Idaho Given by Enemy
Sympathizers.
State Commissioner Points
Out That on Success of
Campaign Will Largely
Depend Issues of Present
European War.

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The foods that must be saved are
wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and
sugar Those that should be used
generously are fish, poultry, vegetables
and cereals, except wheat.
Food will win the war" the slogan
adopted by Herbert Hoover, federal
food administrator, in his stirring an
peal TO ldahoans published in yester
days papers in auguration of the food
! pledge campaign for the week of Oct
Il to 2S, finds its justification from the
enemies camp, as is evidenced by the
! pro-German propaganda to defeat the
| coming canvass and its purposes to
line up Americans in the interests OF
food conservation.
! Ihere is constantly increasing
amount of evidence in the hands of the
United States food administration that
! SHOWS beyond a peradventure that the
Germans recognize the importance Of
the movement and are fighting it hard.
WARNING ISSUED
| NO less an authority than DR. r. T..
Wilbur president of Stanford univer-
sity and head of the food conservation
division of the United States food ad-
mnistration, finds:
That our enemies on the other side
of the fence are fighting our plan. is
one of the best recommendations that
plan can have, and to me the most sig
nihcant sign TO the value of Food
Pledge week is the fact that the pro-
Germans here have recognized its i'm
portance and are lighting it hard" DR..
Wilbur made this statement while dis
cussing the antagonlsm of the Prus-
sian propaganditsts TO the coming
campaign to line up every man and
woman in this country in the interests
of food conservation
OTHER EVIDENCE PRODUCED.
Evidences of the absolute accuracy
of Or. Wilbur's statement are brought
to light daily from all parts OF the /
country and some of the opposition is
shown in the most subtle ways. One
bit of evidence is found in this express |
sloni IF you sign the pledge card. |
NourE home will be invaded later and I
the goods You have canned will be
taken away" another, 1T is a trick T
OF the government, whose officials will .
requlsitton all your preserves" Mr. +
Hoover has already in an official COM
munication shown the utter falsty OF
both statements, although he was re-
luctant to dignity them with recogni-
ton.
In the south among the colored peo-
pie, the propagandists have been cir
culating rumor that the intention is
to take food away from the negroes
and give it to the whites. There is evil
dence that pro-German baker en-
ployes have done their bit for the
kaiser by burning the bread in their
charge.
CAN OVERCOME ATTACKS.
The department is satisfied that such
attacks can be easily overcome, once a
group of lighting American women line
up and insist on food conservation.
This they will do by enlisting in the
food administration during the week
oct. Fl. Their chief sig
concluded DR. Wilbur. lis to
show that the pro German propa gand-
lists realize as well as we do, that a
huge American food conservation
army will be the biggest thing in
American history. and will test whether
Or not a democratic people can organ
Ize themselves sufficiently to prove
their form Of government worth fight-
ing for"
IDAHO COMMISSIONER SPEAKS.
In this connection, r. F. Ricknell.
Idaho's food administrator, called at
ention Monday to that part of Mr.
E4oover's appeal "As free people we
nave elected to discharge this duty,
lot under autocratic decree. but with
put other restraint than the guidance
IF individual conscience. on the sue
'ess of this unprecedented adventure
n democracy will largely stake the is
sue of this war" Mr.. Bicknell further
as did Mr.. Hoover, be-
Ween the condition Of European peo-
)les. all of whom are "on rations and
supplies" and the situation
,ere where. each one is permitted TO
Judge for himself the duty he owes his
'ountry In food conservation, when the
world depends upon us to guard and
'rovide its food supply.