The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-29

lCOnIlDuou rom 1dSe ONeD
 has been organized and preparing
 for the drive for weeks
 The Ministers verbal explanation of how and why the governmen
 wants it's 22,000,000 housewives tt conserve wheat, meat, fats and su gar so we can make up our Europ can Allies shortage will be empha sized by the volunteers personally visiting each housewife.
 Special statements endorsing Food Pledge Week have been issued by high dignitaries and divines of the various churches.
 Cardinal Gibbons made this plea to the Catholic women of America to join the food conservationers:
 ''It gives me great pleasure to say that the patriotic work which is be ing done by MT. Hoover and his var ious state organizations has my hearty support and approval and ] sincerely hope that our Catholic women will everywhere give him their earnest assistance in this cam paign"
 Bishop William Fraser McDowel' of the Methodist Episcopal Church urging his people to sign the Pledge Card and join the campaign, said :
 'The Methodist Episcopal Churcl is supporting this righteous war in every possible way Part of that support relates to the vital matter of food conservation. We have heart fly endorsed the program for Food Pledge Week and we urge all ou1 families to unite in the food saving as presented by the gov ernment It would help nightly if we had hundred per cent. of our families signing the Pledge Cards. The war for freedom must be won We must help at every point"
 Directing himself to the farm wo- men of the nation, Herbert Quick of he Federal Farm Board, and editor of farm papers and magazines, said:
 Food Pledge Week is a big and splendid thing. The attention of the nation must be centered upon it. Do you know what the Food Pledge Week drive will be? Every home Il the United States will be visited turing this week by patriotic peo- ,le who will tell how food may be 'aved for our soldiers, the soldiers If our allies, for the poor people of he warning nations and for ourselves Jet into the Food Pledge Week cam ,aign. Make your kitchen a Food Pledge kitchen and do all you can 0 make all other kitchens Food Pledge kitchens. You will thus help win the war"
 The U. s. Food Administration to- night expressed it's anxiety that the ,00,000 men and women volunteers who go up and down the land ring ng doorbells this week put the simple, though vitally important food plan clearly before ev ,ry housewife, impressing upon each he real significance of the old song:
 Every Little Bit, Added to What You've Got. Makes Just Little Bit More"
 It is the Little Bit" added by ,ach of our 22,000,000 housewives, which is going to make up the food shortage and avert famine and dis tster among our European Allies. he Administration points out.
 President Wilson has evinced his interest in the importance If Food Pledge Weeks success.
 If we are to supply our Allies President in letter to the Food Administrator. anent Food Pledge Week. "and are to reduce our own prices of foodstuffs during the com ng winter, it can only be accom- plished by the utmost self-denial and service on the part of all our people through the elimination of waste and by rigid economy in the use of food"
 Recent cables to the American government from the government of France have stressed the imminent food shortage in that country and begged that no effort be spared to get the needed supplies to keep hun ger from descending upon the peo- pl of France.
 Thousands of school children will follow up the work of the 500,000 volunteers. These children have