Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1917 — Will Be Hard On the Owners of Meat Markets. [ARTICLE]

Will Be Hard On the Owners of Meat Markets.

October 21-28 is Food Conservation Week in Indiana. Conservation week will be the most extensive and intensive effort yet undertaken by the people of Indiana to make the present supply of food last until another crop can be produced—that we may feed opfselves as well as the countries that are fighting with us the world war for freedom and democracy. “This is the campaign that is going to win the war,” Hoover says. “We, have an army of saldiers, an army of mercy, but it is the conservation army—the army of homes of the United States for conservation—that is going to win the war.” The program for Conservation Week as outlined by Mr. Barnard, begins with “Conservation Sunday,” October 21, when every preached in Indiana will be asked to preach conservation from his pulpit. Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Friday, Oct. 26, are meatless days, which it is hoped will be the beginning of occasional meatless days as a permanent institution in the state as long as the war lasts. The program calls for wheatless dinners during the entire week. Corn bread, it is hoped, will become fashionable on Indiana dinner tables. Oct. 24 is Conservation Rally day. Defense and similar conservation meetings will be held under the auspices of county councils of defense. Thursday, Oct. 25, is to be Merchants Conservation day. Stores will arrange special conservation sales. Conservation day in all the schools will be observed Friday, Oct. 26. On Saturday, Oct. 27, there will be a whirlwind campaign for signatures of 1,000,000 Indiana women who will be given cards by the U. S. Food Administration, indicating the patriotism, for display in front windows of homes. Sunday, Oct. 28, will be a day of prayer and praise for those who have gone out to fight democracy’s battle, who are to be sustained and maintained by a solid army of stay at home volunteers.