The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-27
Division of Home Economic Have Been Created for Alaska to Assist
 Work.
ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED
The Administrator Makes An Appeal to the Wom- en to Give Him Co.,
 operation.

Alaska has today made public the announcement of the inauguration oi the Home Economies work of the i Food Administration in Alaska. The 1 United States Food Administration regards this as one of the most i'm portant activities and the one by which is accomplished the greatest saving of the essential foods and the most. efficient elimination of waste.
 The Food Administration has writ ten the following letter:
 Juneau, March 27, 1918. To the Women of Juneau:
 The United States Food Admins tration has for months been asking the women of Alaska, as we'll as oi the rest of the United States to con serve wheat and other Sarticles ot food essential for shipment to our Associates in Europe and for our own men overseas. Most of you are now members of the United States Food Administration, but without exception almost, you and Alaska women gen erally have striven splendidly to com ply with the request of the Food Administration and have saved liter ally enormous quantities of the es sental foods. despite the increased cost of substitutes and unusual mar keting conditions and restrictions as well as the introduction upon the market of foods, the use of which has been and to a considerable extent still is unfamiliar to the housewife To overcome these obstacles there has been a real demand upon the United States Food Administration for assistance. In response thereto the Food Administration organized the Department of Home Economies women of the United States in wisely and efficiently coping with these new problems.
 Following suggestions from Wash ington, the Federal Food Administra tor for Alaska has created a Division of Home Economies for Alaska with Mrs Agnes Shattuck of Juneau as director She has just returned from a conference of Home Economic Di rectors at Washington and it is now ment of that division in Juneau and elsewhere.
 For the purpose of considering this matter. we earnestly urge all the wo men of Juneau to meet in the Audi torium of the Elks Building at 3 o'clock on Saturday (March 30th) af ternoon. Alaska women are patriotic aAd this is "a call to the colors.' It will not interfere with any other war work in which any may be en gagged, but it is of paramount i'm portance that the effort to save wheat and other essential foods in our homes be united and intelligently carried out This is call to duty in the home trench while our young men are facing the barbarians lover there" We need their courage and strength lover there" and they need all our efforts lover here" No real woman ever refused to answer any real call for help in time of distress any more than a real man refused to do his duty in response to his | Country's call.
 The Home Economies has a great function to perform in this war right here at home and in every kitchen. Saturdays meeting will see it's com mencement in Alaska Therefore l appeal to every woman in Juneau to lay her other work aside on Satur- day afternoon and to come to the women's meeting in the Elk's Audi l torium at o'clock. The possible accomplishments of the Home Econo- mics wilr be outlined at the time and 1 you will find that you can help to fight the war as well as relieve the suffering of the wounded and help less, The Home Economies Division of the Food Administration are help | ing ito win the war"
 Sincerely yours,
 ROYAL A CINNJSON