Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-24 | Page 9 | Women Enlist to Win War Housewives' League Leads

! Women Enlist to Win War; , 3 u a M H ti 13 I I Housewives' League Leads ' Il "IVT KS. LITH.K Y. RKID, ih;iii m:in of the Housewives' j Vigilance leauue, newly oi-R-ania-d in Salt Lake. j N V v s- " - . j . I :.. y . :. ' ' '.. -' . -' .v.. .A ! x h- . " l v,w. ' ...... - :' - ; . . DO YOU WANT TO WIN THE W.VE? Will you do more than you ars doing for your son or brother on the ; sea or at the front? I Help the food administration. Sign and send In this coupon. ! ; Federal Food Administrator for Utah , HOUSEWIVES' VIGILANCE LEAGUE , j 200 Newhonsa Building, Salt Lake Please enroll my name as a member of the Housewives' Vigilance ' I Lague. Signed ', Address.... Phone No ! Patriots in Homes Asked to Help Sons and Brothers at Front UTAH again, through the federal food administrartiorn, strides forward as the first state to put into active operation a splended new food conservation movement, move-ment, which all the other states must soon emulate. The Housewives' Vigilance league, set rolling onward this past week, has j been in active operation two months in : the city of New York, where it was j 6tarted by the New York Herald, and has been so huge a success that Herbert Hoover has been watching it keenly, and has expressed the hope that later on he might be able to put the vast maehinerv at work to introduce it into all the states of the union. It will be recalled with pride that Utah was the first and only state that went to work, through the council of defense, Mormon church, and the women's wo-men's organizations, for home pledge cards, and had 52',0'JO signed, sealed ami delivered at the office of the federal food administration, while the other nates needed a second urge for the drive before their efforts culminated in success. ! Letter Is Explanatory. I The following letter from W. W. ! Armstrong, federal food administrator ; for l"t3hr explains this new conserva-! conserva-! tion move: I The federal food administration I of I'tab ha organized, from tho i repreer.tative 'women of Salt I Lake, a committee which is tne foundation of a state-wide move-i move-i ment to be known as the Housewives' House-wives' Yicilance league. This ' league is established for the exten-' exten-' si on of food consrvation and the ! elimination of waste. You are asked to show your dep interest in this war measure by ! sicnintr the coupon printed herewith here-with and by i'omn?inicating di-j di-j rectlv to us any suggestions or - comp'aints von mav have to make, and bv notifving ns of anv disro- ard for the requests of the food 1 administration which may come to I vour notice. i " If von see wast" m our perish-i perish-i able foodstuffs: if vnu are unable ! to purchase the desired wheat sub-1 sub-1 stitutes; if vou find overcharging or not living up to their pledged I nm-eements: if "ti find any hotel i or Testaursnt disregarding meat-i meat-i ie whe.itless or ! o-.-.V-s days; I if in fact, vou find any state of ! affairs which does not square with t-nP BP,J of the nation or of the : rPI,eated requests cf the food a l-i l-i ministration aloncr the lines of rnn-' rnn-' servation and the elj-n.nnt.pn of i tc. vnu are aked tn notify " ! Wp are' prepared to investigate the matte- pro-nptlv and to bring relief i or correction as the eao n.av re-I re-I rlViT0 You are also asked to in-! in-! 'ret vour neighbor in tb- House- wdvc'" Vieilanee league, and cards ! for all desiring to become members will be furnished upon request I The federal food administration earnestly desires that everv honse-wife honse-wife in the state assist 'in this movement. The Housewives' Vigilance Vigi-lance league is to become an important im-portant branch of the service, and you are asked to lend your name, give your co-operation 'and vour bincere interest. Accomplishes Good. Will you be a member! The accomplishments of the I nited States food administration may be slightly different from the popular conception of what thev should have been, but on the whole the food administration has handled han-dled the available American food sources and supplies with the supreme su-preme ultimate object of helpiuc to win the war bv getting that tond abuudantiv produced, carefully care-fully conserved and eeonomicallv manufactured and distributed to strategic points. Its great task i has been and will continue to be to ad.T.iuister American food resources re-sources so that the American and allied morale will not be lowered through lack of food. To Eliminate Waste. To begin with, the great task is to eliminate waste, hoarding, profiteering, prof-iteering, and to urge, urge, 'urge conservation upon the people. The Housewives' Vigilance league is to establish direct communication with every woman in the state of I tab., and by personal appeal and suggestion bring the vital war problem of food home to everv citizen in the state. The perplexing problems of tho housewife in squaring her own food supply with the'great international inter-national need for winning the war will be solved so far a.s possible by the federal food administration through the Housewives' Vigilance 1-ague. and from the splendid start with a representative committee com-mittee here in Salt Lake, the work will branch out until everv town in Ltah has its own Housewives' Vigilance league and every woman in the state will be doing" still more than she has done to help win the war. Committee Named. Mrs. Luciie Young Keid, the well-known well-known demonstrator of the extension department of the Universitv of Utah and the state agricultural college, will he the ehairmau of the committee, and i she hss already started brisklv out 1 with COO membership cards. Among! the members of the committee, which is the foundation of the league itself, are: Mrs. W. V. Armstrong. Mrs. Gould B. Blakely, Mrs. Hcu.-y N. Evrne, Mrs. Arthur Bird, Mrs. Fred Cowans, Mrs. Clara M. Clawson, Miss Blanche Cooper, Mrs. .1. F!. Davis, Mi;s Edna Pwyer, Mrs. G. M. P. Dougall. Mrs. S. Ibmster, Mrs. VV. Mont Ferrv, Mrs. J. E. Galigher. Mrs. Robert H'r.rkness. Mrs. Frank Jennings. Mrs. L. R. Me-Corriek. Me-Corriek. Mrs. P. C. Kobcrts, Mrs. R. V. Salisbury, Mrs. John A. WMrsoo. Mrs. Fnion Vs'orthington. Mrs. V X Williams, Mrs. Heber M. Welis. Mrs. Florence K. WoO'lruff nnd Mrs. II. G. Whitnev. Mrs. 0. M. Hecker. Mrs. C. H. McMahon. Mrs. L. A. Houghton, Mrs. O. J. P. Widtsoc, Mrs. Fred Halo, Mrs. A. N. McKay. Mrs. Le Grand Young, Jr., Mrs. J. Oberndorfer, Mrs, E. VV. Senior. Mrs. James W. Ken-n-'dv, Mrs. Arut Kngh, Mrs. D. i F;ec, Mrs. Max Weil.'