Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-17 | Page 2 | 4,000,000 Women Organize to Fight High Cost of Food

4,000,000 WOMEN ORGANIZE TO FIGHT HIGH COST OF FOOD WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. An army of 4,000,000 women, representing ten national na-tional organizations, has been organized by the savings division the treasury department to enter tho tf.ht against the high cost of living. Beginning January 1, and extending to April 1, a great thrifc campaign will be conducted, in an effort to Induce women to keep strict accounts of their dally expenditures, ex-penditures, in order by study of them to eliminate unnecessary items. According Accord-ing to the plan, amounts saved by this means would be invested in government securities. Women's organizations which have been enlisted In tho campaign include: The Association of College Alumnae; Daughters Daugh-ters of tho American Revolution, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Catholic War Council, National Congress of Mother and Parent-Teachers' associations. associa-tions. National Council of Jewish Women, National Federation of Business and Professional Pro-fessional Women's Clubs, National ! League for Women's Service, Woman's ; Department of the National Civic Feder-; Feder-; ation and the Y. W. C. A. Storage Plants Warned. ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 16. Managers of twenty cold-storage plants in Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, St. Paul and Duluth late today were ordered by N. J. Holmberg, state commissioner com-missioner of agriculture, to remove be-, be-, fore January 1 11 foods placed in stor-j stor-j age before August 19, 1918. i According to Mr. Holmberg large quantities of food, especially meats, fish and poultry, will be forced into the market. mar-ket. ,