Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-02-26
A Womau's Size Job.

A WOman's Size job.
II only our soldiers and the Allies
could eat munitions and shipsi How
simple the food problem would be for
the housewife. Her responsibilities
would cease with settling back and ex-
claiming, "Well, why don't the munition
manufacturers make more munitions?''
or "Grscious me, don't they know we
need more ships?"
But this food saving problem is main.
ly woman's job because 80 per cent OF
the food purchased in this country Ia
purchased by women. This means that
the women of the nation must shoulder
80 per cent of the responsibility of saw
ing food.
Over 1876, 900 women in Maine signed
the Food Conservation Pledge Gard last
| October and agreed to observe the regu.
lations of the Food Administration.
During the week of March 4th to 9th
the patriotic housewives will receive the
New Home Cards which calls for their
cooperation and shows them the respon-
sibility they must assume If the war Is
to be won by the United States and
Allies.
Thousands of tons of produce were
saved last summer and are being saved
today because of the patriotic coopera-
ton Of the housekeepers all over the
land. But We must still save more.
The outside demands on our national
larder are increasing every day as the
shadow of starvation grows darker and
darker on the skyline of our European
associates in this war.
You can travel in Poland for hundreds
of miles today and you will not See q
child under seven years Of age. Where
have they all gone? They have starved
10 death! You can see their skeletons
lying along the roadside some of them
still in the little wicker basket cradles In
which their frantic mothers carried
them when they were driven from their
homes by the Germans. Belgium to-
day is existing on half rations and has to
depend almost entirely on the Commits.
sion for Relief In Belgium there to give
them food.
A traveller lately returned from France
said that women and children were es-
pecislly suffering from hunger now be-
cause they were giving up q part of
their daily ration to the men who must
have strength for their work In the
factories and mines at home and in the
trenches at the front
A British soldier returning from
Armenia reports that he found little
children who for days had nothing to
eat but melon rinds that the Turkish
soldiers threw them in derision when
they begged for food.
Hundreds Of men, women and chill.
dren are dying In Roumania with but
one cry on their lips, "Food Foodr'
1t Is the same cry echoed all over the
world.
food! Food! Give us foodr'
And all the starving must look to us
for help, for America is the largest food.
growing country in the world. The
American farmer, urged by patriotic
motives has produced enough food for
the American housewife herself and
plenty for her to share with her
European sisters II she uses economy,
buys wisely, and avoids waste.
1t is her task, then, to feed starving
people. If they could eat ships or
munitions or anything else but food, II
would be some other persons job to do
1t.
But because they can eat and live by
no other means than by food, 1t is q
woman-size job to feed them.
Recruiting for Merchant Marine.
The Chas. q. Howard Company are
among 500 New England druggists who
have volunteered for war duty as re-
cruiting agents for the new merchant
marine, according to statement just
issued by Henry Howard, director OF
recruiting for the United States Ship.
ping Board, at national headquarters OF
that service, in the Boston custom house.
The 500 druggists are scattered all
over New England, from Fort Kent,
Me-, to Greenwich, Conn.,, and from
Swanton, VT, into Nantucket. They
ton at Boston of which they are mem.
bers. At recent convention at Boston
about 200 stood up in one group and
took the oath of Office as special repre-.
sentstives of the Shipping Board. Others
have since been sworn in.
Each one of the 526 druggists will con.
duct an enrolling station at his store, al
which Americans II to 81, inexperienced
in sea going, may put their names to
applications for training as sailors, fire.
men, oilers, water-tenders, cooks or
stewards, on ships of training squad
ron maintained by the Shipping Board,
with headquarters at Boston, for pre-.
pairing crews to serve on the new cargo
fleets of the merchant marine.
The cooperation of the druggists
with the Shipping Board was brought
about through the initiative Of Louis Z.
Liggett of Boston.
Use Potatoes.
During the next five months potatoes
must be used more freely in American
homes than ever before unless the ma
ton, with its heavy burden of respon-
i aihilitv for find aavin0 haNOmaa omit %