Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1917 — WOMEN’S BIG AID IS TO ECONOMIZE [ARTICLE]

WOMEN’S BIG AID IS TO ECONOMIZE

Secretary of Agriculture Points Out How Each May Help in Crisis. ONE OZ. IS 1,300,000 LBS. The Apron May Be Made the Read Uniform of Merit in Work for the Nation—Make Economy Fashionable. Washington. —In an appeal to the women of the United States Secretary Houston asserts they can do their bit most effectually in the national emergency by practicing effective thrift. The appeal was prompted by many requests for a statement as to the service women can give the nation in producing and conserving agricultural products. ————— “Every woman can render important service to the nation in its present emergency,” says the appeal. “She

need not leave her home or abandon her home duties to help the armed forces. She can help to feed and clothe our armies and help to supply food to those beyond the seas by practicing effective thrift in her own household. “While ail honor is due to the women who leave their homes to nurse and care for those wounded in battle, no woman should feel that, because she does not wear a nurse’s uniform, she is absolved from patriotic service. “The home women of the country, if they will give their minds fully to this vital subject of food conservation and train themselves Tn household thrift, can make of the housewife’s apron a uniform of nafloirarsignificance. Here are the essentials: “Demonstrate thrift in your homes

and encourage thrift among your neighbors. “Make saving rather than spending your social, standard. “Make economy fashionable lest It become obligatory. “Every ounce of food the housewife saves from being wasted —all food which she or her children produce in the garden'and can or preserve—every garment which care and skillful repair make It unnecessary to replace —all lessen thaL.hous.eheld.’s draft on the already insufficient world supplies. “To save food the learn to plan economical and properly balanced meals which, while nourishing, do not encourage overeating or offer excessive and wasteful variety.--It is her duty to use all effective methods to protect food from spoilage by heat, dirt, mice or insects. She myst acquire, the culinary ability toifltHTze every bit of edible food.

Ounce Means 1,300,000 Pound*. “Waste in any individual household may seem to_be insignificant, butlf only a single ounce of edible food, on the average, is allowed to spoil or lie tiirown away in each of our 20,000,000 IIOm^SAl lOm^SA "rial would be wasted each day. It takes the fruit of many acres and the work of many people to raise, prepare and distribute 464,000,000 pounds of food a year. Every ounce of food tiirown away, therefore, tends also to waste the labor of an army of busy citizens. “Clothing is largely an agricultural product and represents the results of labor on the sheep ranges, in cotton fields and in mills and factories. Whenever a useful garment is need--1 essly discarded — material —needed -to "keep some one warm or dry may be consumed merely to gratify a passing fancy. Women would do well to look upon clothing more particularly from the utilitarian point of view. “Leather, too, is scarce, and the proper shoeing of armies calls for great supplies. There are only so many pairs of_shoes in each hide, and ther elsa shortage of animals for leather as well as for meat. Anything that can be done to encourage adults or children to take care of their shoes and make them last longer means that so much more leather Is made available for other purposes. “Employed women, especially those engaged in the manufacture of food or clothing, also directly serve their country and should put into their tasks the enthusiasm and energy the Importance of their product warrants.”