The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-10-16

work to be accomplished is as great a
though a census of the country wer,
to be taken in week!
Such is The program outlined for tn
Food Pledge Week Campaign, Octobel
81 to %.
What is it all about?
Why so much fuss?
What are the motives back of sucl
a tremendous drive?
In every state thousands of people
are asking these questions while
thousands Of others are preparing
themselves to furnish a complett
answer to the query.
The reason why the food pledg'
campaign has been projected upol
such broad lines are simple enough
plain enough.
So simple and so plain that the!
have been stated in the compass of ;
card-a card that it is proposed tt
hang in every home of the land;
card that is the "war creed of tn,
Kitchen" because, so closely are tn,
people in this country linked to thu
world-war, that one of the phases O.
the struggle must be fought out in thu
American kitchen.
If our boys are to fight they mus
be fed. For the past three years, on
by one, our allies across the sea hay,
been taking the men from the farm
and from the factory and sending
them to the firing line. Each mai
sent to the firing line meant one less
who could be relied upon to help pro
duce the food that twill win the war.
England, France, Italy and Bel
GUM, says the war creed of the kitch
en-, which, after all, completely state!
the problem and presents the solution
taken together, even in times of peace
import forty per cent. of their fooC
stuff, but now with their millions
upon the firing line, they must impor
more heavily than before.
There are stores of wheat in Aus
tralia. There is fodo in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time is {
vital factor. The voyage to Australis
and to South America takes too long
If the needs of those who fight for III
across the sea are to be met, the fooC
that sustains those fighters must come
from this country.
If the laborer is worthy of his hire
surely the fighter is worthy of his
food. That is the principle universal
ly accepted by the American public
However, warns the United States
Food Administration, it is not every
product that can be sent across the
sea. Corn will not serve the need; oul
allies have never used it as a food
they have no mills to grind it; turn il
into meal in this country and it woulC
spoil before it could reach a European
port. There are just four classes OF
products, the experts say, that we
must send to our allies if our duty tc
them is to be discharged. they need
meat, wheat, sugar and dairy pro
ducts. BUT, say the experts, who have
gathered the figures, unless American
consumption of those food stuffs is re.
duced below the normal consumption
our reserve will not be large enough
to meet the need. And so the prob
lem becomes simple one-at least
when studied. We can conserve ou1
wheat by increasing our consumption
of other grains. We can conserve oul
meat by making a greater demand
upon the resources of the fish market
All of these are expedients known to
the American housewife.
If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no popu-
lar appeal for the conservation OF
food. There would be an autocratiC
food control The mailed fist would
rule in the kitchen. Imperial food
DEGREES would be enforced at the
point of the bayonet. But ours is not
an autocratic country. Food control
is in the hands of the people them
selves, and it is to the people that the
Food Administration has appealed in
the Food Pledge Card Campaign.
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap.
peal an unprecedented adventure il
democracy'-an adventure that viii
determine whether or not a demo
cratic form of government is, after
all, fitted to engage in death grapple
with an Autocracy.
The appeal in the Food Pledge
Week Campaign is that the homes Of
this country be enrolled as members
of the United States Food Admins.
tration. Broadly speaking the United
States Food Administration includes
every man, woman and child in the
United States, because food control is
in the hands of the people.
The Food Pledge Week Campaign
therefore, resolves itself into an effort
to secure as a result of voluntary
agreement pledges insuring the gen.
eral support for well defined pro.
gram of food conservation. The Fooc
Pledge Week Campaign represents ar
effort to induce as many of the Amer
lean homes as possible to unite in 6
common policy. Our wheat reserve
can be conserved if everybody helps
Our meat reserves can be conserved i
the whole public co-operates.
The Food Pledge Week Campaign
therefore, turns out to be simple
enough in its outlines. The Ameri
can people are asked to join togethe
in common conservation policy. A.
evidence that they are supporting thi
policy they are asked to hang carr
denoting membership in the Unite,
States Food Administration in thei
window. In order that the conserva
ton policy may be understood, tn
/ reasons for it made plain, and tn
manner of observing it rendered Ger
tain, instruction cards-"The Wa
Greed of the Kitchen. are to b
hung in the home.
And it is what the National Foo
! plod0a Waalx CamnaiOn iS all ahout