Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1918 — CUT DOWN ON STAR BOARDER [ARTICLE]

CUT DOWN ON STAR BOARDER

Boston Committee Plans for Special Boarder's Pledge Card in That City. Boston. —A special boarder’s pledge card may soon be in circulation in this city as a means of food conservation in boarding houses. This is not a new boarding house joke, but a plan of the woman’s committee of the Council of National Defense. Of course the boarding house patron will protest against conservation of food—he always has —but without results. Here is the card the woman’s committee would have boarders sign: “ t, at present a boarder in this city, hereby accept membership in th« United States food pledging myself, as a patriotic duty, to co-operate evith the proprietor is the conservation of meat, wheat, sugar and fats, according to the directions and advice of the food administrator.”