Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-25
ARMY OF HALF
MILLION IS
Modified
FOR FOOD
PLEDGES

WASHINGTON, ID. C., Oct. 25.-With
National Food Pledge Week only few
days off, the fodd administration today
announced that its army of halt millien
men and women volunteer canva>ser> l.
inobilized and ready for the campaign un-
der the various state food administrators.
Food Pledge Week begins SUNDAY or-
tober IS and ends November 4.
The 100000 canva~~er> reported on i
preliminary survey several days ago that
they were sure 10 get the signatures 81 APP
proximately $4,000 600 American house
wives to the food pledge. 4 million and
quarter of the country's 22,no0.ooo
housewives already have signed the card
promising Ia conserve food. This leaves
between seven and eight million unaccount :
ed for, and the food administration today
expressed the conviction that all Of them
will be pledged before the campaign ends.
Reports show that school children are
organized in many places a volunteer a.
sistant units to help in the campaign ~
enlist all the country's twenty-five million
housewives in the work of conserving
shortage.
Among the 100000 workers who will
visit every home In the country l. large
number of ''war Mothers women whose
sons or other male relatives have gone 10
the front or are in training IN tins country.
Sunday, the opening day Of the cam
paign, will be marked by war food CON
servation sermons by the conntry's 100000
ministers in churches all over the land.
The food administration states that the
response of the ministers has been ex-
traordinarily generous in this respect.
State, city, county and local organiza
tions constitute the working machinery of
the campaign. Beginning and continuing
until Saturday, these workers will make a
house 10 house canvass of the country
inquiring of each housewife of the -
00U. 900 families in the United States
whether she has enrolled a. a member of
the food administration by signing the
Food Pledge Cards.
The workers will carry cards for those
housewives who have not yet enrolled. To
each housewife who hasn't "IIome
Card telling what foods the government
would like to have them conserve and why
they will present one.
The workers will explain briefly and
clearly what the governments food con
servation idea j. and what j. asked of each
housewife.
Thee Food Pledge j. not. food admins
toation officials pointed out today. an ef-
fort TO get people To eat less, bat To sub
>iItute those foods of which the country
has an abundance for those that ar,
urgently needed by the peoples of the allied
countries in Europe and their armies anc
ours.
President Wilson, in a letter To the food
administrator, has said: I'm no other way
can they (American womenD % greatly
assist by enlisting in the service Of tn,
food administration and cheeriulIv ac-
cepting its direction and advice. By y,
doing, they will increase the surplus ot
food available for our own army and iol
export To our allies.
ITO provide adequate supplies for IN,
coming year l. of absolutely vital import
ance to the conduct of the war, and with
out very conscientious elimination -
waste and very strict economy in our foo,
consumption, we can not hope 10 fulfil
this primary duty. ! trist therefore. tha
the women Of the country will not only ~
spond TO your appeal and accept "a
pledge to the food administration whicI
you are proposing, but that all men ais
who are engaged in the personal distribu
tion esfoods will cooperate with the sam
earnestness and the same spirit"
The obligation assumed in enrolling a
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