The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-12
war MOTHERS TO
LEAD DRIVE FOR
FOOD PLEDGES
Membership In Conserva-
ton Army Calls For No
Money-Only Thought
PLEDGE CARDS ARE
BEING DISTRIBUTED
War Creed Of the Kitchen
Lists The Foods
Most Needed

An army OF war mothers-womea
whose sons have been called to the
colors--has been breveted for front
rank service in the national food
campaign to be conducted In North
Dakota by the United States food i'd
ministration during the week OF Get.
81 to 2s.
! DR.. Edwin F. Ladd, federal food
administrator, today welcomed the
war mothers into the ranks of the
food conservation army that Is being
recruited in North Dakota in support
of policy that will enable the Unit
ed States to guarantee that the de-
mands made upon 1t by reason OF the
world war will all be met. DR.. Lhdds
statement is an appeal to the country
to help the war mother help her boy.
II is the first step in q plan that
contemplates the organization OF the
war mothers as q recruiting force in
every county. They are to be formed
in recruiting groups engaged in the
work of making the war creed OF the
kitchen an effective agency in solv-
ing the war food problem.
In welcoming their services IN con-
nection with the Food Pledge Week
campaign, Federal Food Administra-
tor DR.. Edwin r. Ladd today says:
I The Mothers Right.
"The food problem that menaees
our allies is likewise the food prob
lem that menAces the sons of opr
war mothers. That problem is one
that touches the honor, the heart,
and the patriotism Of the American
people. The woman who gives her
son 60 fight has q right to demand
that he be fed. She has q right to
demand q place in any movement
designed to guarantee the food sup
ply of our armed forces.
But the war mother has more
than right to seek service for her
Eelf. She has the right to plead that
the woFnanhood OF the nation he
Joined In sisterhood pledged TO
protect her boy with all the resources
Of the home. N
THE war mothers who have volun-
teered for service stand for the war
creed OF the kitchen, the doctrine that
it 10 patriotic duty TO conserve the
food supply necessary for the main
tenancs OF the hghtinE forces OF
democracy.
"The nation has aasked sacrifice
at the hands Of the mothers. She in
her turn asks but q service. She
asks that each one in his own home
Voluntarily anu - q AAAhItSE OA 4Il0A-
vidual conscience, administer the
food supply at his disposal as though
he were the guardian OF the total
store. lf,
America must have a food pro-
gram If IL is to play fitting part In
the world war. This program, TO De
effective, requires the people In this
country to conserYe those food prod
ucts that our allies and our own
soldiers must have.
The war mother has a right to
ask that every family make this pro-
gram a vital part of it's daily life.
There must be more than war
munitions in the hands we stretch
across the sea. The cause OF democ-
racy must be fed an well as armed.
an behalf OF its war mothers our
government and our allies can con-
fidently appeal to the American home
for q policy of food conservation that
will render IL certain funds contri-
buted by patriotic citizens will not
90 begging in the markets OF the
world for foodstuffs that do not
exist.
Cards Being Distributed.
Managers of the Food Pledge
Week campaign at state headuuart srs
and workers in the field report that
the food crusade of the war mothers
will itself bring hundreds Of them
out upon the firing line. Thousands
upon thousands OF window cards,