Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-05
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
HOLDS MEETING
Mrs. Theodore Johnson Attends.
Mr.. Baetjer Gives Instruc-
tive Talk
FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR

Maryland Council of Defense, 200 West
Saratoga street, was attended by the
County Chairman. Mrs. Theodore w.
chairman of the Educational Propa-
ganda.
The morning session at which re-
ports of all the County chairmen were
read was. very interesting and in
structiye The women of Maryland
are doing an ever increasingly re-
markable work in the activities of the
Council of Defense.
Remarkable. because. there were no
previously laid out lines for them
to follow. Maryland had never had
Council OF Defense before. Up to
the year 1917 there had never been
need for one.
The afternoon session of the meeting
was honored by the presence of Gov
ernor Harrington who made an in
spring and most interesting address.
He said in part that he had not
come before the meeting to tell the
women what they were to do, but to
thank them for what they had done
in the past, to compliment them on the
wonderful success OF their work and
to impress upon them the need for
ever increasing efforts during the
coming winter.
Fol.nwing Governor HarriDglo:'s
speech, Mr.. Edwin NJ. Baetjer. Food
Administrator for Maryland, address,
ed the meeting.
Mr.. Daetjer's talk was most instruc-
tive and if any woman had come to
the meeting feeling that perhaps there
was to be a little "let up" in the
food situation, that woman went away
deeply impressed with the fact that
the situation practically remains the
same this year, as in that just yast
Speaking of our part in the war Mr.
Baetjer said that our losses since the
beginning of the war had been APP
proximately $4,000 men. while in En-
gland the casualty list for one week
would equal that number. England
has buried. in proportion to her pop
ulation, as many men as we have
raised
In Scotland, every man, whether
married or single, and without any
exemptions, between the ages of 20
and 40 years, has been called to ac-
tive service.
France, brave France, who ever
seeks to hide the greatness of her
losses, has done equally we'll
Had we raised and lost as many
men as France, in proportion to pop
ulation, we would have raised not
three million, but Is, and have left
alive million.
Mr. Baetjer spoke of the slogan of
the Food Administration, Food Will
Win the War He said that it had
been much criticised. That it had
been justly said that Food would not
win the war, and that perhaps it was
an unfortunate slogan to have
adopted. However, the reverse was
indisputably true, and that better
motto might be, Remember Hun
ger will lose the war"
Food is even more necessary than
ammunition. When tue Russian ar
my marched on Buda Pest, they had
only one gun for every three men.
They could not have marched ten
miles with one ration of food for
three men,
One of the most important factors
in the Bulgarian situation has heen
the acnJeness of the food shortage
there.
Mr.. Baetjer reminded the women
that even in the case of victory
in the near future and cessation of
hostilities, that in Poland, the Ukraine
and the Baltic Provinces, there were
1S,000000 people facing starvation
whom it would be our duty to aid
In closing, Mr.. Baetjer said, I'VE
must save from the beginning of the
year. If we wait until the greater
emergency arises, until the end of the
year, there won't be any food to.
save
Surely no woman left the meeting
without having determined to con-
tinue to do her utmost to aid the
Government in the conservation of
food, to remember not to feel too
well satisfied with the part we are
playing in the war.
When we are tempted to pat our
selves on the shoulder, let us not for
get that in spite of the fact tnat
England has five times the draft on
her population that we have had, she
has actually increased her production
of food!
When we are inclined to fret at
the sugar restrictions let us remem-
Der Poland where no child under six
years of age is alive today Poland,
deliberately starved by Germany. that
there might be more room for her