Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — FOOD HABITS MUST CHANGE [ARTICLE]

FOOD HABITS MUST CHANGE

Move Is of Great Importance in Connectio* With the War. The President has set next week, October 28 to November 4, inclusive, as “Conservation week,” when a nation-wide effort will be to enroll every housewife in the ted States in this campaign of food saving. This enrollment will be the yard-stick by which the patriotism of each state and county can be accurately measured. We must win this war. We have sent oar men, we have given generously of our money, but now we have a task more difficult than organizing an army or raising money —we must change our food habits. Of course we know that every boy in the army will have the loving support of a self-sacrificing mother at home, but side by side with these boys and their unselfish mothers we mast have an army of 23,000,400 / families who realize that “food will win the war.” This means a tremendous co-operation of all the American people—no one group, producers, dealers . nor housewives, can bring it about alone. It mast begin at home where housewives, fathers and children are equally concerned. The outcome of this war depends upon the whole-souled, cheerful and generous co-operation of every American family and individual in saving certain foods and in preventing waste. Our problem is to feed our soldiers abroad and our allies by sending them as much food as we can of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat, beef, mutton, pork, dairy products, and sugar. We must eat less of these and more of other foods and waste nothing. Every home in Jasper county will be reached by personal solicitation next week and every housewife will be asked to sign a pledge card in promises to carry out, the , advire and directions of the food administrator insofar an her circumstances permit. There are no dues nor. fees to be paid. Surely every woman can make such a promise to .the country that sends its men to prevent her suffering what the women of Belgium and France have undergone. If yon have already signed the food card, call at the Red Cross headquarters or the library for your window Card and put it up conspicuously so the committee can see it and pass by your home. Put up your window card with pride, for it belongs beside your flag as an expression of your patriotism. And on November 4 may Jasper county be able to say that every home within its boundaries stands pledged to the vital cause of food conversation.