The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-12-09
CHURCHES SIGN
food CONSERVATION
PLEDGE SUNDAY
All Local Churches Order Their Of
GERS 10 Sign Pledge For Con-
seryatlOn Of Food.

WIS wv h'ab" ANNtN NN
seryatiOn Of Food.
The Food Conservation Pledge was
read and adopted in the churches Of
Maysville Sunday, December 8.
The purpose of Food Conservation
Work for World Relief was, first, to
reach every individual in every COM
munity in the United States with the
message of the worlds need for food
and of Americas opportunity by care
full economy in the use of her food
stores to supply this need, and second
that report of the results of the
campaign be filed at Washington.
That the United States Food Admin
istration might know that the message
had reached the people and what re-
Spouse the people made, a pledge was
sent out to be submitted at mass meet
ings in every community, with the re-
quest that a report of the action taken
on the pledge be Immediately sent to
the State Federal Food Director, who
will report for his state to Washing
ton thus furnishing the Head of the
United States Food Administration
data upon which to have further ac-
ton.
Because of health conditions in this
county, the Food Administrator and
| Food Conservation Chairman have not
| felt encouraged to hold mass meet
ings. But desiring that reports should
be made from Mason county and that
our people should have opportunity
to pledge the Food Administration
their local cooperation in the vast
humanitarian effort of sending to Eu-
rope for the next twelve months
steady supply of food, they asked
that the following statement and APP
peal be read wherever groups of peo-
pie are gathered.
Statement And Appeal
1.-THE food supplies of the world
have been steadily lessening. 1t is
the impact of this shortage which has
knocked at every door in the United
States"
I'VE hold it in our power and ours
alone, to keen the wolf from the
door of the world. This duty is wider
than war-it is as wide as our hui
mainly. Herbert Hoover.
The Hun is defeated but Hunger
reigns in Europe. In Poland and Ser
bia hardly a child is left alive. Fields
are weed-chocked, those who titled
them lie on a hundred battle fields
| Widows and childless women are left
alone to care for the aged and wound
ed. But at last each violated land lies
open to our succor and we must not
| fail. We must save or they will starve.
American soldiers and American re-
sources in food and materials of war
have helped to win the war. Our men
and our resources are still modified.
The women, who are the guardians of
our food resources must remain until
they are mustered out. We face new
program in conservation, one that
calls for much more rigid acceptance
and discipline, because it does not de-
mand brief, dramatic sacrifices, but
steady unvarying saving of all foods
and the giving up of everything be-
yond our definite needs.
We must accept simpler habits of
living and the daily yielding OF indul-
gences, which had become woven into
our lives.
After reading the statement and APP
peal the following pledge was Of
fered for adoption by a standing vote
and a report of the action, duly attest
ed by the presiding officers sent with
out delay to County Food Administra-
tor w. D. Cochran, Maysville.
Pledge
We pledge to our country our best
effort to prevent waste and the selfish
use of our food reserves. We pledge
our loyal cooperation in carrying out
the conservation measures suggested
by the government.
And if economy sometimes grows
irksome or if this service works I'M
welcome change in our accustomed
manner of living, we will think of
those who have offered their lives for
their country and those whose homes
have been devastated We will be glad
that we, too, can serve in satisfying