The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-28
new FOOD CARDS FOR
KENTUCKY HOUSEWIVES
Universal Checking System which
Covers Every Transaction Where
ever Food Is Produced.

heHluCky HOuseWlle TeCelNes ueI hSM
Food Card during the week OF Deem
Der 1, she will have before her the
standardization of a universal check
ing system which covers every trans
action wherever food is produced
transported, sold or consumed. She
will be asked to follow the instruc-
tions contained on these cards, not-in
the "hope" that good will result, but
with the absolute certainty" that the
cause of America and her associates
at war will be immeasureably bene-
fitted thereby.
From all over the world reports
Come daily giving definite shape to the
program of the United States Food
armies in Europe, the people of the
Allied countries and the hungry ma
lions behind the battle lines" FEEDER
al Food Administrator Fred M. Sack
EFT said today Mr.. Sackett considers
the coming Food Card Distribution
Campaign the very cornerstone of the
American food program during the
remainder of the war, and is devoting
considerable of his time to cooperat-
ing personally with Mrs. Morris Gift
ford, State Conservation Chairman
and Miss Alevina Both, State Chair
man for College Women, in their pre-
liminary work of organization and
preparation.
Asked to go into detail, Mr. Sackett
continued: early calculations of
harvest are daily verified or modified
by the Food Administration, tally is
kept on the increase or shrinkage Of
food stocks, inventory is corrected as
resources of the last harvest are more
quickly or slowly consumed; totals
are revised for new supplies discover
ed, or expected supplies cut off.
THE shipping situation is review
ed daily. Ships are sunk, lost ships
are repaired; the yards in America
launch new vessels. In a month $780,
900 soldiers from America go to swell
our fast gathering forces in France,
and supplying and maintaining them
calls for more than million tons adj
ditional shipping. The daily reports
show how we are running behind or
gaining on tonnage.
SHIFTS of war affect the plans. We
have taken 250,0O0 German prisoners
who must also be fed. But what is
that, when we are sharing our re-
sources with 22O,OOO,OOO people of the
Allies?
Though details of the program
change every day, almost every hour,
the main outline is not altered, since
the inter-Allied Food Council agreed
that America should provide this year
1850, 900 tons of food, an increase of
so per cent, over last years achieve
ment.
This vast program of food exports
is to be met by home conservation. We
can send half as much food again as
before only as we save it. We have
nowhere near that much surplus in
sight.
THE largest item in the program of
food exports is 100000 tons-more
than 400,0O0,000 bushels-of bread
making flour and grains. Part of that
is the surplus of one of the largest
wheat crops ever harvested in this
country-reduced again by a shortage
of corn. A substantial part of this
saving will come from the conscious,
deliberate saving of one hundred mil
lion American citizens, male and fe-
male, big and little. The saving must
amount to more than one bushel of
grain per capita. Eating Victory
Bread, but must eat less of all kinds
of bread. The food conservation pro-
gram this year means the saving of
all food, Every ounce saved sets free
an equivalent proportion of staples
to carry out the victory program.
"At one end of the scale is the
ceaseless stream of reports coming to
Washington from all over the world
showing the needs to be met At the
other is the effort of twenty million
homes to save so much that the pro-
gram can be fulfilled.
Every American table should be
spread, and every meal should be eat
en- until the war ends, with the wants
of all the world in mind, eaten with
war consciousness to guide. This
campaign is to be placed before the
twenty million homes by the new
Home Card. But putting it into effect
need not be postponed another day. II
goes into effect, as far as possible
now. 1t is to be carried out by an in
tensive program of food saving in
each family as a separate unit in the
invincible American army.
Miss Leta Hurley, the accommodate
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