Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-27
EVERY HOUsEKEEPER TO
SIGN NEW FOOD CARD
Will Be Renewal Of Obligation In
tered Into Last Year to Aid
Government.
FoUR-DAY CAMPAIGN PLANNED
After That Record Will Be Made of
Every House Failing to Show Food
Card, and Investigation Made for
Possible Pro-German Influences.

With only four more days left to
make good the slogan. Food cards
signed by every housekeepcr in Rich
mond and window card displayed In
every home in the city," Mrs. E. c..
Minor. director OF cooperating wo-
mems organizations Of the local food
administration. begins this morning an
intensive days drive TO complete
the splendid congregational work Of
the women Of the churches throughout
the city. indorsed and supported from
the pulpit by every minister in Rich
nond
Mrs. Minor was appointed director
OF cooperating women's organizations
on the staff Of +. a. Cary local food
minis;rator, the last of March. She
Immediately began the work Of or
ganizins the women OF the city through
their church sffiiliation. and in this
activity Mrs. Minor has had the en-
thusiastic support and cooperation of
the congregational leaders in every
church in Richmond. and OF all the
ministers OF the various denominations
CONGREGATIONAL LEADERS
WORK THROUGH CHURCHES
Through the congregational leaders.
other committees were appointed in
each Of the churches 10 canvass the
entire membership with one aim only
in view-to have every woman sign
her food card by June I. and to have
prominently displayed her window card
In front window, as public ac-
acknowledgement of her desire to CO.
operate with the government
The congregational leaders who form
Mrs. Minors central executive com
mittee are as follows: Baptist, Mrs r.
l.. Powers: Methodist Mrs. r. H. Potts;
Presbyterian. Miss Pauline Grant; Ep:s-
copa!ian. Mrs. r. l.. Dashiell: Christian
Mrs. Christopher Garnett: Catholic. Ms
John Murphy: English Lutheran, Mrs
iienna German Lutheran, Mrs. Dictz:
Reformed Jews. Mrs. Julien Myers: Or
thodoN Jews. Mrs. Isaiah Marcus; Apos-
tolic. Miss Sutherland: Unitarian. Mrs
Frank Pratt. Swedenborgian. Mrs. j.
II. Spiers; Salvation Army. Command
ant Mamie Johnson.
The singning OF the food card again
this year is a renewal of the pledge
10 the government to conserve food.
since the food situation Is so much
more acute than II was at this time
last year. In the second place, IL is
deemed advisable by the State and To-
cal 1000 administrations to have a
record in the Offices in Richmond of
the names OF the women who for any
reason have refused to sign these card.
IN view OF the pro-German influence
which is insidiously active all over
this country.
So on the last day OF May, the
work OF the congregations of Rich
mond Tor the past two months will be
rounded up. precinct by precinct. in
all the thirty-one political precincts
OF the city, when members of the com
mlttee VIII go up and down the streets
in every section OF the city, and where
no window-card is displayed a nota
will be made OF the house. its loca
ton and number. and the household
ers reason for not complying with the
request of the food administration.
II has been a strenuous two months
for Mrs. Minor and her central execu-
tive committee. but n work of splendid
service TO the government