Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 36 | Food Cards Will Adorn Every Home

T FOOD CARDS I WILL ADORN EVERY HOME I I rI r. r I S 'S School hool Children to Hand L Them to Each Family Head ALLIES MUST l SHARE SIL IN U. U S. S PRODUCTS I Democracy's Friends Need I Sugar and Meat leat Americans Amen Ameri cans Can Save I c 1 e. e B By Friday Frida September 6 It Is expected expect expect- ed that every even homo In In Salt Lake will show In Its front window V a food administration administration ad nd- ministration membership card A card the food tood campaign will bo bl waged by administration with tho the help of 01 moro more than school children who will call at tho homes homos In their various districts districts districts dis dis- and arid hand a 1 card to each ench family head Tho of ot tho the city superintendent superintendent of schools has kindly consented to allow tho the machinery of the schools to be used In tho patriotic effort eUort to en enlist enlist enlist en- en list every local home homo In the tho food ad administration administration nd- nd ministration membership and to eec eco that every avory front window 1 displays a 1 card The Tho campaign Is to be wl e. e Each district will receive cards as soon Boon Boonas as Its schools open tho the office ol-E. ol G. G Gowans state superintendent of oC public p assisting In tho the distribution lion tion outside o of or this city Tho The membership cards carry no ob obligations obligations ob- ob except those which loyal citizens citizens cit cit cit- of ot the tho United States already cro croIn ro roIn In honor bound to fulfill Thy Thoy do convoy however the tho ne now significance of or food tood conservation work work that that of or learning to share sharo ones one's dally daily bread brend with ones one's neighbor U U. S S. S F Fe-cd Fe b Though the nation has accomplished wonders through conservation feeding persons b by the saving of or foodstuffs alone llone food tood officials declare a greater granter patriotic movement ment la is now required Tho The United States must must t consider con con- eider sider tho food grown within Its boundaries boun boun- daries ns as no longer belonging to Its own larder but to th the world worM at large And citizens of or Utah as ns well voll as 05 other states tes are asked to remember th that t tonly only a n. fair fall sharo share of or tho the local harvests are theirs the rest rost belonging to soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers and allies across the tho sea Tho The card carries with It an obligation obligation obliga obliga- tion to live up to the new American honor ration of ot two pounds of ot sugar a person a month to keep on conserving wheat and meat products no matter h how w v plentiful the tho harvests and mainly Q be e ready roady to follow tollow any chango change that mo may occur In tho the food program Members Mem Mem- bera bers are aro asked to continue to oat ont fruits vegetables dairy products and fish leaving beef beet and other transportable ble products for overseas consumption How flow Much Cnn You Tou Save Tho The federal administrator al also o re requests re- re q quests ests that each citizen whoso whose homo home shows hows the food tood card shall remember aj l he sits down to ix n. bounteous meal 61 I helped In 1917 18 to send t to the allies 1600 pounds moro more meat and fats tats and bushels moro more cereals than In 1916 17 From America t there ere were also sent pounds more sugar than n were ere ever shipped abroad previous to tho the war As a member of oC the tho food tood administration how hoi man many pounds pound will I save for tor them In 1918 When a a. citizen gets up In the mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing Ing- and that to every man all nU allover allover over the world Is duo due his dally daily bread brend and feels Inclined to consume more wheat and sugar than Is his fair talI share he Is asked to read tho the dally daily casualty list from over there Ho Is urged to remember that he la is an honor member mem mom ber of ot the food tood administration whereIn where where- In each shares squarely with the other H He Is expected to obey cheerfully ull food tood regulations and to adapt himself t to new ones as they arise rlee