Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-28

the guarding against waste ip the kitchen and on the table. There is no danger of starvation here for we have
 an abundance for substitution, but
 there is imminent danger of il in Flu
 rope. They have practically only what
 we send them.
 l Tt has come to the attention of the
 Food Administrator that some are ex-
 pressing the desire that the United States Food Administration should tell just what is wanted of them in this regard. The Food Administration
 has already done that very thing on i the Home Card that was given out 1 to every household where food pledge was signed One of these Home Cards should be in the kitchen of ev- cry house in the Territory. This card sets forth the suggestions and wishes of the Food Administration up to the present time.
 ! So far. in the Territory of Alaska at least, there has been no attempt to ration or curtail by force of law or regulation the amount of food that any person should eat, but the neces- sity of the hour has been plainly stat ed over and over again from press and platform and a reference to the Home Card will give it. Anyone who has lost the Home Card which was dis bursed to her or who has not yet had it, can obtain one by application to the chairman of the Food Saving Committee in his or her community or ! by applying to the office of the Fed eral Food Administrator in Juneau.
 The real hope of the Food Admin istration lies in the intelligent, cheer full and willing cooperation of the people In the country along the lines indicated on the Home Card. and tho housewives can be of greater assis- tance in this matter than any other individual, for in their care is the marketing and preparation of the food.
 Heretofore, Alaskans. as well as citizens of other states and territor- ies, have striven at economy in the matter of food in order to protect the pocket-book. The food conditions in the world today, due to the withdraw al of millions of men from pursuits productive of foodstuffs in order that they might become defenders of dem ocracy, the cutting off from ourselves and our associates in the war of prac- tically every food market in the world other than those of the United States and Canada, and the destruc- tiop of enormous quantities rf fooc and food d-carrying vessels by the sub marine warfare, has brought us in the United States face to face with new problem. namely, that of real self sacrifice and denial which sholGd, and in reality does, either directly or in. directly affect each individual man, woman and child in the entire world. We are now called upon to save, not the elusive rolling dollar that all humanity has chased for so inany years, but certain foods which if the individual is not now willing to save by the curbing of his or her own ap- petite, will soon be beyond the pow CT of money to purchase for these foods will then have been consumed and unobtainable.
 Ut is unnecessary to reiterate why these foodstuffs are necessary to be conserved for over seas use. The Home Card in your kitchen will tell you that.
 The people of Alaska have uniform ly responded to every call for patriot i ic service. An example of this is shown in the partial results of the eight weeks reporting campaign in Juneau. Thane. Perseverance, Last Chance Basin and Mendenhall. in which there have been returned reports of 41.233 wheatless meals, 63,677 meattess meals, and 92,636 wasteless meals. The actual results of this campaign end the tremendous saving that can be accomplished in the Territory by conscientious compliance with the request of the Food Administration to continue the course already begun will be comprehended when it is un- derstood that even these reports of eight weeks in the Juneau section are still incomplete. The reasons for the incompleteness of the returns seems to be that some of the housewives who signed pledge cards grew lukewarm for one cause or another as the weeks went by and have given up any sem blance of reporting. though 1t is as- sumed that none of them gave up the