Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — Goodrich, Back to Duties, Issues Food Proclamation. [ARTICLE]

Goodrich, Back to Duties, Issues Food Proclamation.

Governor James P. Goodrich again assumed the burdens of the state Monday, after an illness of more than two months, and one of his first official acts upon reaching the state house was to issue a proclamation calling on citizens to observe this week as one set aside for the conservation of food. The governor’s proclamation follows: “Whereas, abundantly provided with food grown on our fruitful fields and now secure in our granaries, we find it hard to realize that little children are crying for bread across the Atlantic, that our allies are facing, half fed, the hardest, blackest winter they have yet endured, and that our own soldier boys who are going across into the battle must be fed from home stores. Accustomed as we are to think of victory as an achievement of men and arms, we fail to realize that battles are no longer won only in the crash of conflict and that those who produce food and conserve it are making and saving ammunition which is just as truly sinews of war as shrapnell and explosives. “Whereas, and so the slogan ‘Save Food and Win the War’ should become the creed of every home; not the saving or parsimony nor the denial, but the careful use of all food and the substitution of other foods for the wheat and the meat, and fats and the sugar that must go over seas in never-ending, unlimited quantities. “And, whereas, in order that the people of Indiana may give some thought to the part they must do in supporting the plans of the food administration, . “Therefore, I, James P. Goodrich, Governor of Indiana, hereby proclaim the week of Oct. 20 to Nov. 4, inclusive, Food Conservation week, and I recommend to every citizen of our prosperous and patriotic commonwealth the observance of these rules for food saving. Eat no wheat on V ednesday and none at dinner all’ the week. Eat less meat and no meat on Tuesday and Friday. Eat less sugar. Eat less animal fats and use none in cooking. Use more fruit and vegetables, save the staples that we need for export. Enlist every home in the food conservation army; have the enrollment card in every front window' and the ‘war crede* in every kitchen. And that we, the poeple of Indiana, may earnestly and intelligently do our part in saving the food that will win the war. I urge that our schools, our churches, our libraries, our press, impress the fact that only by our saving will the millions who suffer for the cause of democracy be fed.”