Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-27
SURE OF RESPONSE
FROM Vt. WOMEN
Congressman Greene's View of
Food Conservation In
This State.

Washington. Sept. 25.-Congressman
Frank L.. Greene of the first Vermont
district is giving his support to the food
conservation movement to strengthen
which a pledge card campaign will be
waged in Vermont during the week be-
ginning Oct. 21st when 1t Is hoped every
housewife in the State will enlist in the
conservation army, to-day declared hat
the cooperation of Vermont women in
this move means that a tremendous
Weapon. defensive and offensive. will be
welded in this war right in our own COM
monwealth by the mothers, sisters, daugh-
tiers, sweethearts and wives of the boys
who are to fight the country's battles
somewhere in France Mr.. Greeene's
statement is as follows:
Il would not presume to counsel Ver-
mont housewives to be prudent and thrifty
now or at any other time, because she
knows her own business better than l
do. and 1t is her own business anyway
Beside, IL she were not habitually prudent
and thrifty, the State woul not have
more honey in savings banks according
to its population than any other state
in the Onion. But when we begin to talk
about defeating Germany in this great
world war in which America Is playing
such a responsible part. we are talking
of the business of all of us loyal Green
Mountain people, and mighty serious bust
ness too.
80 then, If we suggest to the Vermont
housewife that an additional incentive to
her customary thrift and prudence is
to help our country and our soldier boys
win this war, we are sure of the same
patriotic response that has characterized
Vermont womanhood since the days of
Widow Story and her famous cave. The
NON ~ finn 81 food To- Nh4 ,~,A .,-I4r
the careful administration of Vermont
housewives, means that a tremendous
weapon, offensive n defensive, will be
welded in this war right in our own
commonwealth by the mothers, sisters,
daughters, sweethearts, and wives of the
boys who are to fight the country's
battles somewhere in France
And it means that our boys will be
reinforced and strengthened in their COM
bat by a force in some respects even more
powerful than gun powder and bullets.
If America can feed her own and the
peoples of her allies in this awful era
of the world turned upside down, with the
children of men in every land more and
more anxious for their daily bread and
in some of them often nearer and nearer
starvation as each day goes by in prayer
Tor peace, just SO much of the vic
tory we must and shall gain over Ger
many in the end will be brought about
with so much less of the sacrifice of
precious lives of Yankee boys in khaki,
because food, in these modern times, is
an absolutely essential part Of the sin
ews of war.
housewives Of Vermont, in the home
ly phrase of simple old Green mountain
life. see to it that there is always more
down cellar in a tea cup Your grand
danes did that very thing in the days of
long g and used to make a familiar jest
of it at the Thanksgiving day table regu-
larly as the festival came and went. But
1t was always an occasion for thanks
giving. bear in mind, and that's what the
victory over German frightfulness will
be-"