, 1917-10-18
Food Administration Forces Will
Help Raise New Loan for
War Purposes.
SAVE FOOD AND LEND MONEY
Big Drive Throughout Nation Coming
Week of October 21-28-How All
Must Unite to Whip Kaiser
and Bring Peace Again.

Washington.-The o pledge cam
paign is projected upon broad lines,
but it is very simple and very plain.
The food administration will mar
shall it's whole force of half a million
campaigners organized for food-pledge
week, to promote the second Liberty
loan. The week of October 81 to 2S
has been set for the big drive the food
administration has planned to enroll
all American families for food con-
servation. The Liberty loan cam
paign will be at it's height at the same
time. Herbert Hoover, the food ad-
ministrator, in a message to the red
eral food administrators, and cam
paign managers of the food enrolment
campaign, ~instructing them to exert
every effort to promote the Liberty
loan, called this a fortunate coincl-
dence, since both are aimed at the
same end and each will supplement the
other. The Liberty loan, he says, will
enable the government to lend money
to the allies, and the food pledge cam
paign is designed to make certain that
there shall be food available to pur-
chase.
So simple and so plain that they
have been stated in the compass of a
card-a card that 1t is proposed to
hang in every home of the land-a
card that is the "war creed of the
Kitchen" because, so closely are the
people in this country linked to the
world war, hat one of the phases of
the struggle must be fought out in the
American kitchen.
If soldiers are to fight, they must
be fed. For the past three years. one
by one, our allies across the sea have
been taking the men from the farm
and from the factory INT sending them
to the firing line. Each man sent to
he firing line meant n less who
could be relied upon to help produce
the food tina will win the war"
If the laborer is worthy of his hire,
surely the fighter is worthy of his
food. That is n principle universally
accepted by the American public.
However, it is not every product that
can be sent across the sea. Corn will
not serve the need; our allies have
never used it rs a food they have no
mills to grind it turn it into meal in
this country and it would spoil before
1t could reach n European port. There
are just four classes of products, the
experts say, that we must send to our
allies if our duty to them Is to be dis
charged they need meat, wheat, sugar
and dairy products. We can con-
serve our wheat by increasing our
consumption of other grains. We can
conserve our meat by making a great
er demand upon h of the
fish market. All of these are expedi-
ents known to the American house
wife.
If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be nc popu-
lar appeal for the conservation of
food. There would be an autocratic
food control. The mailed fist would
rule in the kitchen. Imperial food
DEGREES would be enforced at the
point of the bayonet. But ours is not
an autocratic country. Food control
is in the hands of the people them
selves, and it is to the people that
the food administration has appealed
In the food pledge card campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap-
peal an unprecedented adventure in
democracy"-an adventure that will
determine whether or not n demo-
cratic form of government is, after
all, fitted to engage in a death grapple
with autocracy.
The food pledge week campaign re-
solves itself into an effort to secure
as a result of voluntary agreement
pledges ~insurlng the general support
for the well defined program of food
conservation. The food pledge cam
paign represents an effort to induce
as many of the American homes as
possible to unite in a common policy.
Our wheat reserves can be conserved
If everybody helps. Our meat re-
serves can be conserved If the whole
public co-Operates.
The American people are asked to
join together In a common conserva-
ton policy. AS evidence that they are
supporting this policy they are asked
to hang a card denoting membership
In the United States food administra-
ton in their window. In order that
the conservation policy may be under
stood, the reason for ii made plain
and the manner of observing it rem
dered certain, instruction cards-"The
War Creed of the Kitchen'-are to be
hung in the home.
And that is what the national food
pledge week campaign is all about.