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Show HOOVER'S APPEAL. j Herbert C. Hoover, the food admin- istrator, has issued a not Iter appeal to the American people to conserve certain articles of food, such as wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. In place of these he recommends fish, poul-tvv, poul-tvv, fruit, vegetables and all the grains except wheat. It should be a very simple sim-ple matter to conserve the list of foods needed for war pttrpn.sps, for with plenty plen-ty of corn or rye bread, fish and poul-irv, poul-irv, fruit and vegetables, we should be able to get along two or three days in i'H.i week without gorging ourselves on food j which are both dear and lint tlo? most effective way of doiiig j t.hi.j is to cnli.-t the American women' in the cau-c, ;iud the food administra-I administra-I Hon has s-t a.-ide the week of October to '2 for the enrollment of the coi-.ii-'li y 's hii i VPs. A great number of ; he American women tia ve been a.sist- ing in the t a.-k of food conservation for sonic time and an effort will now bo made to get ail of them interested in the work. There is so little real -acrifice in this matter that it should 1 be comparatively easy for Mr. Hoover to carry out his plan-. Let the housewives house-wives fall in and prepare meals that w i 1 1 help win thn war. |