The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-27
FOOD WILL
WIN THE WAR"
And Vermont Must Do It's
Part in Pledge Card
Campaign
DURING WEEK BE-
GINNING TOMORROW
Every Housewife Will Be
Asked to Sign Card Show
ing Her Cooperation

| GOOD will win the war" is the slogan
that is behind the great drive that will
| be made through Vermont and the other
states in the union during the week be-
ginning Oct. 2S, to enlist every housewife
in the conservation army of the food ad-
ministration.
Machinery has been constructed
through the agency of state executive
committee appointed by Federal Food
Administrator Hoover, of which Gov. II.
+. Graham is the chairman, to make a
house to house canvass of the homes in
Vermont with an appeal to each woman
to sign pledge card. In every city and
town there are patriotic men and women
who will undertake the work of actual
solicitation.
The Importance of food conservation
cannot be overstated. FOOD will win
the war;" and every Vermont man and
woman wants to do his or her share to
help in the battle against Prussian mill
tarism 1t is because of his faith in the
sturdy loyalty of Vermonters that State
Food Administrator Hartness is confident
that there will be an earnest desire to
sign these pledge cards
In one sense Vermont has already gone
on record in the campaign. At the Rut-
land war convention, after Herbert Hoov-
ers personal message to the men, women
and children of the state had been read
and Mr.. Hoover's representative had
forced home the vital Importance of con
servation, the Vermonters present, as
sembled by the hundreds from all parts
of the state, amid enthusiasm, pledged
the commonwealth support to the food
administration, because they recognized
that our allies are sorely in need of addi- |
tional supplies if they are to continue
in full strength in the field and because
they further recognize that it is from |
America alone that their failing stores |
can be replenished.
The food administration asks all |
housewives and those who handle food
in the homes to sign the pledge cards
This pledges each to save small amounts
through substitution and by avoiding
waste and these small amounts, when
multiplied by millions, become an i'm
mense amount that will be of the great
est Importance The whole problem will
be solved if the American people will
make these small savings
Governor Graham is calling on the peo-
pie of the state to sign the pledge cards
md to cooperate with the food admin
stration as war duty. Congressman
Frank l.. Greene says that such co-opera
ion "means that tremendous weapon,
and offensive, will be welded
~ the mothers, sisters, daughters, sweet
hearts and wives of the boys who are to
light the eountry's battles Somewhere in
and he further declares that IF
America will feed her own people and
Ter allies, the end of the war will be
brought about with so much less of the
acrifce of precious lives of Yankee boys
n khaki, because food in these modern
lines is an absolutely essential part of
he sinews of war"
During campaign week "house card
caring valuable suggestions as to just
ow food conservation and substitution
an be effected will be placed in every
ONE And in every home that has en-
oiled in the conservation army by sign
~ a pledge card will also be placed an
rtistic card showing that the family re-
ding there has shown its loyalty in a
tactical way and is DESTROYS of lessening
ne sacrifice of precious lives OF Yankee
lys in khaki" These cards are to be
splayed in the windows so that it may =
: seen at glance who the real support
s of the government and our armies are
Food Administrator James Hartness is
ixious that the housewives of the state
spond as unit to this call to service,
1t only because it means a shortening
the war and the saving of American
YES, but also because in very definite