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Show HOOVER TO ENLIST THE HOUSEWIVES Object to Put a Stop to the Waste of Food During the World War. WASHINGTON, May 27. Enlistment of the country's housewives into the service ser-vice of the food administration to accomplish ac-complish conservation in the home is one of the tasks to be undertaken by Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator. administra-tor. The women will be recruited, Mr. Hoover said, with the aid of state food councils, state officials, the Women's National Defense council and civic associations. asso-ciations. "It is the idea of the food administration," administra-tion," said Mr. Hoover today, "to ask every housewife to come in as an actual member of the food administration, to ty ? thus entitled to the badge of the sd-i sd-i ministration and to sign a written pledge N" to carry out the advice and instructions of the food administration as far as her circumstances permit. "It is proposed that the advice and Instruction In-struction should be direct and absolutely specific." The advice, Mr. Hoover said, "will be based on the fact that we eat plenty if we eat wisely and without waste." |