The Washington times., 1917-11-17
FORM FOOD ARMY
TOCARRY MESSAGE
TO HOUSEWIVES

An army Of SOC, 900 men and women
is forming under the food administra-
ton today to get out and tell Amer
ica's 100 .ooo, 900 people to eat all they
want. All It asks Is that they con-
serve the few needed war foods
wheat, meat. fats, and sugar. Most
folks have had the idea that the food
Administration was trying to cut down
the size of the average Americans
meals.
mot at ALL" said the food admins
tratIon today. "All we're to do Is to
get people to eat more OF the good
things OF which we have an abund-
ance, and less of the necessary war
foods we haven't 90. much Of" This
good news will be carried to every
one of Americas 22,00o,000 front
doors by this volunteer army between
October IS and November 4-National
Food Pledge Week.
The 100 900 ministers Of America
will start the campaign by preaching
war food sermons Sunday, October
2s. The army will go out the follow
| ing day ringing door bells, that first
line Of Defense" in the coy trenches
Of American homes. Leading these
bread and nd-butter-and-beef battalions
will be the war mothers Of America:
women whose fathers. sons, sweet
hearts or husbands are at the front or
on their way there: than whom, the
food administration feels, there is
none better fitted in America to carry
| the message of wartime meals to that
strategic stretch of domestic terrain
between the pantry and the kitchen
range
Not Less Food.
The idea the administration wants
to stress is that It is not asking
any one to eat less food, but merely
to eat different food There is, IL
points out, plenty Of excellent food
for every one. That only this, there
Is q shortage OF some foods that can
be compactIy shipped abroad, and
I which contain tissue and energy
building elements that are vital TO
the fighting power OF our own and
4 allied soldiers.
By this5 the administration pointed
out, II means that no soldier can
fight effectively when he feels in his
heart that his women and children
are hungry at home The admins
tration feels that 1t is a vital part
of this country's war duty to see
that the civilian populations OF allleo
Europe are kept fed and contented.
Country's Duty.
The food administration also made
clear why it is urging the saving OF
these war foods as a voluntary cam
paign. '1t is because" said a food
administration official today, Amer
/ lea is a democracy, and a democracyis
people are presumed to be intelligent
and patriotic enough to do their duty
by their country promptly as soon as
they see il. In Europe. particularly
in Germany, the peoples patriotism
is not trusted. Their supplies are
seized and doled out to them by a
master. Nothing is left for the in
dividual to decide. Theirs is an en-
forced patriotism. Ours, voluntary"
The food administration is striving
to make sure that the United tSates
4 does not run short OF wheat, meats,
fats, milk or sugar to send our al
lies and our armies in Europe. A con
tihued shortage OF these things will
give Germany a much better chance
/ of winning the war by weakening the
fighting powers of the allies.
America is the only allied nation in
position TO supply these vital COM
modities to make up the shortage.
The only way America can do II is
by every Individual American doing
his or her bit OF personal conserva,
I tion.