The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
Save FOOD AND
Lend YOUR COIN
Hoover's Men Will Make pin
Drive Throughout Nation for
Sale Of New Bonds.
YOU CAN HELP WHIP KAISER
Great Program Is Outlined for Fooa
Pledge Week Campaign, October
21 to 2s-Those Who Fight
Must Be Fed.

WashlngtOn.-Ien mlliOn food m,
servatiOn pledges twenty-five mlllio
homes visited A national campolr
projected so large In its scope that m
work TO be accomplished is as gres
as though census of the country wer
TO be taken In Il week
Such Is the program outlined N
the food pledge week campaign Cd
tober u TO 28.
What is 1t all about?
Why so much fuss2
What are the motives back Of sud
tremendous drive?
In every state thousands Of peOp|
are asking these questions while thoj
sands Of others are preparing the
selves to furnish complete answj
TO the query.
The reasons why the food pied
campaign has been projected upon SO
broad lines are simple enough; pla
enough.
So simple and so plain that d
have been stated in the compass Of
card-a card that 1t is proposed
hang in every home Of the land
card that Is the "war creed Of
Kitchen" because, so closely are
people in this country linked to
world war, that one Of the phases
the struggle must be fought out
the American kitchen.
II soldiers are to fight they must
fed. For the past three years, one
one, our allies across the sea ha
been taking the men from the ID
and from the factory and sending ID
to the firing line. Each man sent
the firing line meant one less
could be relied upon to help prod
the food that twill win the war"
There are stores of wheat in 4
tralla. There Is food In South AH
lea, but ships are scarce. Time
vital factor. The voyage to AuSt1
and to South America takes TOO
| II the needs of those who fight fO1
across the sea are to be met, the
that sustains those fighters must 9
from this country.
If the laborer is worthy Of his
surely the fighter is worthy Of his
That is a principle UNIVERSAL: ac
ed by the American public. Howe
1t is not every product that cal
sent across the sea. Corn VIII
serve the need; our allies have .
used it as a food; they have no
to grind It; turn ii into meal 10
country and 1t would spoil DelOl
could reach an European port
are Just four classes OF products
experts say, that we must send
allies IL our duty to them Is 10 "
charged they need meat, wheat
and dairy products. We can con
our wheat by increasing our cons
ton of other grains. We can con
our meat by making Il greater uel
upon the resources of the iish mT
II the United States were an
cratic country there would De 10
ular appeal for the cOhSer'auv
food. There would be an au'O
food control. The mailed ns!
rule In the kitchen. Imperial lO'
crees would be enforced at lne
of the bayOnet But ours Is
autocratic country. Food conuOl
the hands of the people thell1
and It is to the people that Wv
administration has appealed
food pledge card campaign d,
Herbert Hoover has terlGeu !.
peal an unprecedented au'em
democracy"-an adventure 'na
determine whether or not d uelY
form Of government is, after alI
n engage in a death grapple
autOcracy. ,,.l
The food pledge work campu
solves itself into an effort 'oN
result of voluntary aF1
pledges insuring the genei~
for n well defined program VI ~
seryation. The food pledge wee
paign represents an effort D ~"
many of the American DO'nsI ,,
sible to unite in n common ~" ",
wheat reserves can be co'''''
everybody helps. .S
The American people are ~, as
Join together in a common ,,, n n
lion policy. As evidence Il ln's a..
supporting this policy they ,,'" %I
TO hang n card denotins n'5~ '~
in the United States States, '0Jr IN ord,
ton. in their window !" I No
the conservation policy may 'Ia A
stood, the reasons for II aS lnaa'
% anI tbe manner of oOservlns;
dered certain, instruction S.ap S"
War Greed of the Kitche"
hung in the home. .oaOu
And that is what '"' al at