The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-06-08
AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.

AN AT CEAA ~ EANs
The secretary of agriculture in re-
Spouse to requests from many editors
for a statement as to service women
car render the nation in the direc-
ton of producing and conserving ag-
ricultural products, has issued the
following:
To the Women of the United States:
Every woman can render import
ant service to the nation in its pres
ent emergency. She need not leave
her home or abandon her home duties
to help the armed forces. She can
help to feed and clothe our armies and
help to supply food to those beyond
the seas by practicing effective thrift
in her own household.
Every ounce of food the housewife
ave from being wasted in her home
all food which she or her children
produce in the garden and can or
preserve-every garment which care
and -skillful repair make it unneces-
sary to replace-all lessen that house.
holds draft on the already insufficient
world supplies.
ITO saw food the housewife must
learn to pla neconomical and proper
ly balanced meals which, while nour-
ishing each member of the family
properly dot not encourage evereating
or offer excessive and wasteful va
riety. 1t is her duty to use all effect
i've methods to protect food from
spoilage by heat, dirt, mice, or in
sects. She must acquire the culinary
ability to utilize every bit of edible
food that comes into her home. She
must learn to use such foods as vege-
tables, beans, peas, and milk products
as partial substitutes for meat. She
must make it her business to see that
nothing nutritious is thrown away or
allowed to be wasted.
"Waste in any individual household
may seem to be insignificant, but if
only a single ounce of edible food, on
the average, is allowed to spoil or be
thrown away in each of our 10000, 900
homes, yer 1900, 900 pounds of ma
terial would be wasted each day. 1t
takes the fruit of many acres and
the work of many people to raise.
prepare and distribute AGA, 900 600
pounds of food each year. Every
ounce of food thrown away, therefore,
tends also to waste the labor of an
army of busy citizens.
"Clothing is largely an agricultural
product and represents the results OF
labor on the sheep ranges, in cottor
fields and in mills and factories
Whenever a useful garment is need
lessly discarded material needed tC
keep some one warm or dry may be
consumed merely to crafty a passing
fancy. Women whould do well to lool
upon clothing at this time more par
ticularly from the u~tilitarian point OF
view.
Leather, too, is scarce and tn
proper shoeing of armies calls fol
great supplies of this material. Their
r only so many pairs of shoes il
each hide, and there is q shortage O
animals for leather as we'll as TO
meat. Anything that a be done u
encourage adults or children to taxi
are of their shoes and make then
last longer means that so much NOR
leather is made available for othe
purposes.
Employed women, especially thos
engaged in the manufacture Of foo
or clothing, also directly sserve thei
country and should put into thei
tasks the enthusiasm and energy tn
importance Of their product wa,
rants.
"While all honor is due 70 the We
men who leave their homes to nurs
and are for those wounded in bal
tie, no woman should feel that, b
cause she does not wear . nurse
uniform. she is absolved from patri<
tic service. The home women Of Il
country. II they will give their mint
fully 70 this vital subject OF Toe
conservation and train themselves