The sun., 1918-12-01
NATION TO UNITE IN
FOOD SAVING WEEK
Millions Of Tons Needed to
Avert Starvation in
Europe.
EVERY OUNCE wILLCOUNT
Abandonment Of Afternoon
Tea and Suppers Urged
and Waste Avoided.
Food Will win the World"

This is the slogan OF the great food
saving campaign which will be inaug-
urated to-day with a Conservation
Week for World Relief.
The keynote Of the campaign will
be that the United States must ex-
port 100000 tons OF foodstuffs dur
ing the coming months to save from
famine millions OF men. women and
children in war ravaged Europe.
Churches, colleges. schools, clubs
and other organizations have pledged
themselves to take an active part In
the food conservation work. House.
wives will be organized into food con-
servation committees to cooperate with
the Food Administration. Hotels and
restaurants have promised to do their
part.
A message from Mr.. Hoover will be
read in all the churches today. Tues
day will be Conservation Rally Day
when a series of mass meetings
will take place. On Wednesday,
Womens Organization Day-house-
wives will organize committees.
Club Members VIII Ala.
1.-THE Bureau Of Conservation Of the
Federal Food Board" the Federal
Food Board announced yesterday, has
arranged an extensive programme for
conservation week. Six thousand club
leaders in New York city have been
enlisted in this work. Each club will
be furnished with special food con-
servation programmes of which eX-
tracts from messages from President
Wilson and Mr.. Hoover will be fea-
lures. There will be special meetings
in hundreds Of the womens clubs in
the city and State. The Daily Food
Alliance will meet Thursday at the
Hotel Aston and the Women's City
Club will meet December 9 at the Hotel
McAlpin. DR.. Mary Swartz Rose, di
rector of the Bureau OF Conservation
for New York city. will speak at both
these meetings. and other members Of
the bureau will address meetings in
other places.
Exhibits have been arranged in
public libraries and at church fairs
which will be in progress during con-
servation week. \ unique exhibit will
be staged on the steps OF the Public
Library at Fifth avenue and Forty
second street. Each afternoon during
the week. weather permitting, groups
OF school children will present tableaus
on the library steps showing the part
America has pledged herself to play in
saving middle Europe from starvation.
Food conservation posters will form a
vivid background for the tableaus.
Appeals I'm Dining Halls.
IN restaurants and hotels, dining
cars and steamship dining saloons
cards Wiz be displayed or notices
printed on menus reading substan-
TALLY as follows:
This is conservation week for
world relief.
We are trying 10 save food here
"'Are you trying TO save food in
your home?'
an order that the pubic at large
may understand the task which Amer
lea has set for herself in the fight TO
drive the spectre of famine out of Eu-
rope and to show how this enormocs
saving can be effected, the Federal
Food Board has prepared a summary
of the European food situa-
ton.
Mr.. Hoover's plans contemplate
sending from the United States food
Tor more than 100000 Of Uncle
Sans armed forces now abroad help
ing to provision approximately 1875
900, 900 persons Of the big Allies
France. Great Britain and Italy; fur
nishinC the greater part Of the food
necessary for the little nations starved
under the German yoke--Belgians
Scrb!ans, RumRuians. Greeks. Czechs,
JuEo-S .avs and others-numbering
about 100000; forwarding food to
the 30 900 900 inhabitants in northern
Russia assisting the neutral states in
Europe, about 100000 900 people all on
short rations. and aiding about co.
100000 others to procure for them
selves the food necessary to sustain
life.