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Show 004,000 SIGN PLEDGE TO I li FOIMIG Enrollment of 10,000,000 Families in Campaign of Conservation Sought by Government. PRO-GERMAN AGENTS HAMPERING PLANS Propaganda Misstates the Facts; Russian Ambassador Ambassa-dor Praises Efforts of Regulation in U. S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 Despite the hanclicsp of bad weather the t'oo3 ad-1 ministration had obtained tonight more j than 864,000 signatures to food pledge! cards in the first two days of its in-; tensive pledge campaign throughout the rountry. This total was contained in J reports front about half of the states, j The aim for the week is to enroll ; ten miJkm families. Yesterday and ; today added to those previously ob- tained, ,mako a grand total of 2,605,000. ilauie Jed the states tonight with a total of 90.000 cards pigned in two days. Pro-German propaganda, the food administration ad-ministration announced tonight, is ham-poring ham-poring the work of volunteers in some Btatoe. Housewives, it was declared, have, been told that if they sign the cards the government will seize their household stores for the array. Appeals to Italians. Ambassador di Gellera of Italy in a statement' today expresses the hope of his people that food pledge week wUl be a success. He appeals not onlv to American-born citiz-ens, but to Italian-born Italian-born men and women in " the United States to follow the example of those still in Italy in thrift and frugality. Through the efficient co-operation of nil who live in this country, a satisfactory sat-isfactory solution of the food problem of the world will surely be reached," said the ambassador, ""and I have no doubt that the qualities of thrift and frugality -which have been characteristic characteris-tic of the Italian colonies in America will prove an asset to this country in its great and noble fight for the common com-mon cause of justice and democracy. " Regulation Necessary. Ambassador Bakhmetieff of K-ussia said that the necessity of state regulation regu-lation of economic activities of a country while in war, is one of the most obvious experiences of the war. "It is most gratifying that the United States has deliberately imed the experiences expe-riences of the European countries," he said, 1 ' and has adopted a policy of general regulation since the very beginning be-ginning of military operations. " The proper food regulation is especially im- (Corrtinued on Page Three.) II SI PLEDGE TO dSEl FOOD (Continued from Page One.) portant ov;iiig to the fai-i. that the nm-trol nm-trol of food is not merely a national problem for this country, but baa be- : come a question of world-wide impor- j tance. ' |