The daily progressive-miner., 1917-10-25
NATIONAL FOOD PLEDGE WEEK TO START NEXT SUNDAY BY ARMY
 OF WORKERS

day announced that its army of half a million men and women volunteer can vassers is mobilized and ready for the campaign under the various State Food Administrations.
 Food Pledge Week begins Sunday, October 2S and ends November 4.
 The 500.000 canvassers reported on preliminary survey several days ago that they were sure to get the sigma lures of approximately 13.000.000 Am erican housewives to the Food Pledge A million and quarter of the coun- try's 22.000,000 housewives already have s'rr ' promising to con serve food. This leaves between sev- en and eight million unaccounted for and the Food Administration today expressed the conviction that all of them will be pledged before the cam paign ends
 Reports show that school children are organized in many places as yolun teer assistant units to help in the cam paign to enlist all the country's twen- ty-two million housewives in the work of conserving war foods" of which there is a world shortage.
 Among the 500000 workers who will visit every home in the country is a large number of ''war mothers" women whose sons or other male relatives have gone to the front or are in train ing in this country.
 Sunday. the opening day of the cam paign. will be marked by war-food con- servation sermons by the country's 100000 ministers in chlrches all over the land. The Food Administration states that the response of the min isters has been extraordinarily gener- ous in this respect.
 State, city, county and local organ izations constitute the working ma ohinery of the campaign. Beginning ~~' continuing until Saturday. these N.-...ers will make a house to house canvass of the country. inquiring of each housewife of the 22000,0 ,000 fam Ties in the United States whether she
 anrol.ed as a member of the Food Administration by signing the Food Pledge Card.
 The workers will carry cards for those housewives who have not yet enrolled. To each housewife who hasn't a Home Card" telling what fods 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 conservation idea is and what is asked of each housewife.
 The Food Pledge Is not, Food Ad- ministration officials pointed out to- day, an effort to get people to eat less but 10 substitute those foods of which th ecountry has an abundance for those that are urgently needed by the peoples of the allied Countries in Flu rope and their Armies and ours
 President Wilson, in a letter to the Food Administration has said: "In no other way can they (Auferican Wo- mem so greatly assist as by enlist ing in the service of the Food Admin istration and cheerfully accepting its direction and advice. By so doing. they will increase the surplus of food available for our own army and for export to our allies.
 ITO provide adequate supplies for the coming year is of absolutely vital importance to the conduct of the war, and without a very conscientious el- animation Of waste and very strict economy in our food consumption. we cannot hope to fulfill this primary duty. I trust, therefore. that the wo- men of the country will not only re- spond to your appeal and accept the pledge to the Food Administration which you are proposing, but that all men also who are engaged in the per sonal distribution of foods will CO., operate with the same earnestness and in the same spirit"
 The obligation assumed in enrolling as a member Of the Food Administra- tion is simple It involves no dues or other fees.
 Following is the briefly-worded pledge each housewife is asked to sign:
 T am glad to join you in the ser vice of food conservation for our na- ton and I hereby accept membership in the United States Food Adminsitra- tion, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the Food Ad- ministrator in my home. insofar as my circumstances permit"
 A Membership Window Card" will be delivered to each enrolling member upon receipt of the signed pledge, and from time to time suggestions will be sent out, these suggestions, taken as whole, constituting series of les sons in home economics.
 There is no threat of privation," said the Food Administrator in state ment formally announcing Food Pledge Week" "We wish only that