Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — HOUSEWIVES ALSO TO REGISTER [ARTICLE]

HOUSEWIVES ALSO TO REGISTER

Conservation Measure* and War On Waste Are Vital Needs of the Herbert C. Hoover has outlined his plans for enlisting the nation’s housewives as actual members of the food administration and appealed to them to join in the fight for conservation measures and the elimination of waste. The women will be enrolled during a period of registration from July 1 to 15 through the council of national defense and—thastate defense councils. Mr. Hoover is proceeding at the direction of President Wilson, who, without waiting for congress to enact the administration food bills, directed him to proceed with organization for the food administration insofar as it contemplates assembling volunteer effort. “Since food will decide the war, each American woman can do a real national service by protecting the food supply of the nation,” says Mr. Hoover’s statement in part. Ninety per cent of the American food consumption passes through the hands of our women. In no other field does small things, when multiplied by bur hundred million people, count for so much. .

“A single pound of bread saved weekly for each person will increase our export supplies of wheat 100,000,000 bushels and an average saving of 2 cents on each meal every day for each person, will save to the nation for war purposes $2,000,000,000 per year. “The proper assurance of the food to our allies will not only encourage them but it will maintain them in war. “Furthermore this is not alone a war question. The high prices which are bearing so hard on the poor and the more moderate wage earners in the country are partially due to the shortage of food supplies in the worid’s market and the saving of consumption and waste which can be made will lessen the prices to those of our people that they shall have plenty, provided they eat wisely and without waste. “All effort at saving must be directed toward the great national and international situation. These efforts must all be made in unison and by all of us. Therefore the groundwork of direction must be national in character, calculated not only to affect national economy but also to serve the war in this country as a whole.