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HOUSEWniES' HELP
-ASKED Blf HOOVER
Affisrican Women Called Upon
to Do Real National
Sewipe in Saving Food.
GREAT WOBK MAY BE DONE
One Found Less of Bread Per Week
Will Increase Surplus of Wheat
One Hundred Million Bushels,
Hastening End of War.
WASHINGTON. June 17. Herbert C.
Hoover outlined tonight his plana for
enlisting the Nation's housewives as ac
tual members of the food administration
and appealed to them to Join him in the
fight for conservation, measures and the
elimination of waste. The women will
lie enrolled during a brief period of reg
istration from July 1 to July 15, through
the Council of National Defense and
the State Defense Councils.
Mr. Hoover is proceeding at the di
rection of President Wilson, who, with
out waiting for Congress to enact the
Administration food bills, directed him
to proceed with organization of the food
administration in so far as It contem
plates assembling of volunteer effort,
JAs requested by the President." says
his statement, "we ask every woman in
the United States engaged in the per
sonal control of food to register for
actual membership in the food adminis
tration, thus entering directly in the
National service. We shall later on ask
various classes of men" likewise en
gaged in food preparation and distribu
tion to also volunteer to the National
service in their various branches.
"We must enter a period of sacrifice
for our country and our democracy.
Many must go into battle but many can
only remain home. The world's food
supply is short and many must suffer.
"We have the major burden of feed
ing the whole world. Food must be
managed and transported in our coun
try and to our allies in such a way as
to get the most out of it. Those who
remain at home can also help and can
fight by helping the fighter fight' and
can serve by saving.
2 ,000,000,000 May Be Saved.
"Since food will decide the war each
American woman can do a real Na
tional service by protecting the food
supply of theNation. Ninety per cent
of American food consumption passes
through the hands of our women. In
no other field do small things, when
multiplied by our hundred million peo
ple, count for so much. A single pound
of bi-ead saved weekly for each per
son will increase our export surplus of
wheat 100.000.000 bushels and an aver
age of 2 cents on each meal every day
for each person, will save to the Na
tion for war . purposes' $2,000,000 per
annum.
"The proper assurance of the food to
our allies will not only encourage them,
but it will maintain them in war.
Without a larger margin from our
abundant food supply, only to be se
cured by individual effort and volun
teer sacrifice, the war will be prolonged
and thousands of lives, not only of
men but also of women and children,
needlessly lost. The guiding hand of
women in the home can alone control
in this matter.
"Furthermore, this is not alone a war
question. The high prices which are
being so hard on the poor and the
more moderate wage-earners in this
country are partially due to the short
age of supplies in the world's market,
and the saving in consumption and
waste which can be made will lessen
the prices to those of our own people,
which must be our first solicitude. In
all of the arrangements which we plan
to make during the forthcoming year
for the supply of our allies, we will
hear the first regard to our own people,
that they shall have plenty, provided
that they eat wisely and without waste.
Saving In to Serve the Ww,
"All effort at saving must be directed
toward the great national and interna
tional situation. These efforts must
also be made in unison and by all of us.
Therefore the groundwork of direction
must be national in character, calculated
not only to effect national economy,
but also to serve the war interests of
the country as a whole. This direction
will require supplement from time to
time of local character, and we propose
in the first instance to send out direc
tions to each member directly, and after
explanation is completed and the food
administration is erected, to co-operate
with the state government by decen
tralizing administration as far as possi
ble into their hands through the vari
ous food committees.
"Inasmuch as before legislation is
completed the food administration has
representatives throughout the country,
the National Council of Defense is
kindly requesting all the state coun
cils of defense, with the assistance of
the women's committee of the National
Council of Defense, to undertake the
registration. This registration will be
gin July 1 andVwill continue intensively
for 15 days, and will consist simply In
asking every woman in the country to
volunteer In this important service by
signing and mailing to the food admin
istrator, conservation division, Wash
ington, the following pledge:
"I am glad to Join you in the service
t " food conservation for our Nation
and I hereby accept membership in the
United States food administration,
pledging myself to carry out the direc
tions and advice of the food adminis
trator in the conduct of my household,
insofar as my circumstances permit.
Err Household to Be Listed.
"We do not only want the name and
' address, but the number of persons in
the household, we want to know, wheth
er the household employs a cook,
whether it has e garden, and we want
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This is particularly so regarding
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to know the occupation of the bread
winner. There are no fees or dues to
be paid. The food administration wishes
now to have as members all of those
actually handling- food in the home.
"On receipt of the pledg-e we will send
out preliminary instructions and a
household tag to be hung in the win
dow. The insignia of the food admin
istration will consist of the National
shield, surrounded by eagles' heads,
and we hope to have the shield dis
played on every home in the United
States.
"We have the promise of support
from many hundreds of women's or
ganizations in the recruiting of our
membership, and the women's commit
tees plan to take upon themselves much
of the responsibility for this work. We
feel confident that all the women's or
ganizations in the country will fall in
with the President's request and ac
tively organize and support our cam
paign. As time presses, we' will need
all such agencies to have their plans
of campaign for pledging at the state
councils of defense before July 1.
"With the assistance of various
trained women of the country we are
formulating committees on democratic
economy, and from leaders on the sub
ject of nutrition we are arranging com
mittees on food conservation and utili
zation, and we propose with their ad
vice to furnish information from .time
to time to the members of administra
tion as to the manner in which they
can best serve the National interests
in food conservation.
FOOD BILL HAS RIGHT OF WAX
Congress Will Comply With Presi
dents Urgent Demands.
WASHINGTON". June 17. Food con
trol campaign has the right of way in
Congress.
In compliance with President Wil
son's urgent demands, both houses to
morrow begin consideration of the Ad
ministration bill for control of food and
other necessaries during the war.
Passage of the measures, conferring
comprehensive powers upon the Presi
dent to conserve the syjply and con
trol the distribution of food and other
necessaries by July 1, probably will be
realized in the House, but opposition
in the Senate may cause delay. From
two to four weeks of debate are gen
erally predicted.
The finance committee this week
plans to complete the -sections of the
bill taxing incomes, excess profits and
publishers, with prospects good for a
reconsideration and change of the 5 per
cent profit tax upon publishers agreed
to Friday.
Senate opposition to the food control
bill will be bipartisan. Besides Sena
tor Chamberlain, Senators Hollis, Ran
dell and Shepherd, Democrats, and
Kenyon and Norris, Republicans, are
expected to be prominent in its sup
port. Chairman Lever today expressed con
fidence that the measure will pass the
house substantially as drawn by a good
majority. Representative Haugen. of
Iowa, probably will lead the fight
against the bill, contending that it
calls upon farmers to make greater
sacrifices than other classes.
BELGIAN MISSION HERE
WASHINGTON IS EMOTIONAL. IX
RECEPTION OF PARTY.
Reparation by Germany for Dutase to
Country to Be Considered by
Conference In America.
WASHINGTON, June 17. Belgium's
mission reached Washington today to
express its gratitude for America's re
lief work, to discuss with American of
ficials the reparation that is to be de
manded of Germany for her violated
faith at the beginning of the war and
international crimes which have fol
lowed it.
The mission was received with all the
courtesies and probably with deeper
emotions than the official missions of
the greater nations who preceded them.
Secretary Lansing, Counsellor Polk and
Assistant Secretary Phillips, of the
State Department, greeted them at the
station, after which they motored to
the home of Larz Anderson, former
Minister to Belgium, which is to be
their quarters.
Baron Ludovic Moncheur, Chief of the
Political Bureau of the Belgium For
eign Office, and for eight years Minis
ter to this country, is the head of the
mission.
It is understood he expects to confine
his efforts in the United States largely
to the ultimate peace questions rather
than to immediate war needs.
In the latter he will find his wishes
already met, for the United States,
shortly after its entrance into the war,
took over the entire cost of the relief
in Belgium. Each month the trade ad
vances il. 500,000 for this purpose.
The Belgian commissioners indeed are
assured of the simplest work of all the
missions which have visited this coun
try. They will find no need for ex
planation, for argument or for negotia
tion. American officials have under
stood their case fully from the first and
will spare no effort to render fullest
honors to the representatives of that
nation which did not hesitate to lose
everything to save Its honor from the
mailed fisst. .
The mission will be .formally present
ed to President Wilson tomorrow and
later will be received by the Senate and
then will be entertained at a series of
formal receptions and dinners.
AIR SUPREMACY PLAN
AMERICA TO TRAIN AVIATORS FOR
EVROPE.
Thousands of Troops Would Add Little
In Balance, but Few Airmen May
Bring Victory.
WASHINGTON. June 17. Full ap
proval has been given by the War De
partment to the air supremacy pro
gramme of the Defense Council's air
craft board, and President Wilson has
been asked to put the Administration's
support behind the great project for
which an appropriation of 600,000,000
is sought.
Under the 'plan, the United States
would . become a great elementary
training base immediately for all the
allies, and enormous numbers of train
ing machines would be turned out while
American plants are developing a serv
iceable battle craft type. By next
Spring the board proposes to have the
allies ready literally to drive the Ger
mans from the air.
"The programme seems by all means
the most effective way In which to
exert America's force at once In tilling
fashion," said Secretary Baker today.
"We can train thousands of aviators
and build thousands of machines with
out interfering in the slightest with
the plans for building up our armies
and for 'supplying the allies with food
and munitions.
"The aircraft plan meets the demands
of the situation. According to the best
obtainable information there are about
7.000,000 men on the western front to
day. The addition of a few Infantry
units, while of great moral value,
would, count for little in forcing a de
cision. A few thousand trained avia
tors, however, may spell the whole
difference between victory and defeat."
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ELECTRICIANS ALSO
TO STRIKE IN BUTTE
Extra Pickets Are Placed at
Mines, but No Trouble Re
sults and Day Is Quiet.
NEW UNION IS RECRUITING
Demand for $6, Improved Working
Conditions and Recognition Is
Refused by Employers, Who
Say They Are Prepared.
BUTTE, Mont.. June 17. There were
no signs In Butte today that a strike
had been called on the Butte Mining
Company by the Metal Mine Workers'
Union, which was organized last week.
The new union held its daily meeting,
perfecting its tfrganization and enroll
ing members. A number less than 2000
miners was claimed by the officers as
members of the union.
No miners were killed today and the
mines will not reopen until early to
morrow because of what Is known as
the monthly change day, the Sunday
when the night shift begins day work.
The union named additional men to
picket the mines and endeavor to in
duce miners to refrain from work.
A new development in the labor.sit
uation In Butte was expected to take
place tomorrow morning when the
Electrical Workers are scheduled to
quit work In response to. a strike order
against the Montana Power Company
the concern which supplies Butte in
dustries with light and power.
Electricians to Go Out.
The electricians who are expected to
strike are construction and repair men.
The employers' association has issued
a statement saying it was ready to
combat the strikers, as they had re
fused to arbitrate.
The trouble in the Butte mining field
began three years ago when the Butte
local of the Western Federation of
Miners revolted from the parent or
ganization because of alleged arbitrary
actions of the Western Federation. The
union was destroyed at that time and
the Montana National Guard was called
to Butte for duty. A 'union not con
nected with an international organic
zauon was iormea. Dut it aid not
prosper and the mines have been run
ning open shop.
The mine disturbance of 10 days ago.
according to labor leaders, presented
an opportunity for the organization of
a union, and as a consequence men
called by the mine owners Industrial
Workers of the World organized a
union known as the Metal Mine Work
ers Union. Members of the union deny
that their leaders are members of the
Industrial Workers of the World.
TL'nion's Demands Refused.
The demands of the new union, when
presented to the employing companies,
were refused, and since then the new
union has been attempting to cause
the mines to shut down. The leaders
of the union say more than 3000 miners
have struck out of about 15,000 em
ployed in the district.
The demands include a wage scale
of $6 daily the present wage is $4.75
Improved working conditions and rec
ognition of the union.
The Sllverbow Trades and Labor
Council, the central labor body of
Butte, has begun a movement to or
ganize the miners Into a union that
will affiliate with the American Fed
eration of Labor, and has sent for
executive committee members of the
federation to come to Butte.
Officials Oppose. They Say.
The Metal Mineworkers Union to
night issued a communication to the
public and members of organized labor
which says that for three years there
has been no -union of miners in Butte
and "we were finally driven to the
conclusion that if we were to have an
organization we must develoi it our
selves." After asserting that the union is op
posed by the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, the statement continues:
"Experience has taught the miners
of Butte that the police force, the
county authorities, and, in short, al
most every offical agency would be
used in an attempt .to extinguish the
spark of resistance 'but that conditions
finally became sc ute that In desper
ation we organiz-
"Everything w uy is exorbitantly
high, therefore our wages are not suf
ficient to provide us with the neces
saries of life.
Exits Declared "Lacking.
"In the mines conditions are fearful.
Bulkheads of solid concrete block a
great number of emergency exits and
in most mines there are no exits on the
lower levels.
"The companies have Instituted a
most infamous rustllr.-card system
and have gradually perfected It until
at the present time a man dare not ex
press his "pinion upon any subject for
fear he will be refused a rustling card.
It is the most humiliating, degrading
method ever devised to break a man's
spirit."
The communication closes by stating
the union's demands.
FIRES LAY TOWNS WASTE
(Continued From First Pa ire.
Ladd, Portland, and F. H. Osgood, Seat
tle. The country home of W. M. Ladd, of
Portland, at OJai, Cal., In the district
swept by. forest fires Saturday, was
not destroyed.
Mr. Ladd yesterday morning received
a telegram saying that his home had
been spared, although the Foothills
Hotel and several other houses, mainly
cottages, had been burned.
The Ladd country home is In the
town of Ojai, formerly Nordhoff. in the
OJai Valley, which is about five by
eight miles. It is about 45 miles south
east of Santa Barbara. Communica
tion with Ojai was temporarily cut off
Saturday night owing to the forest
flames, but was re-established yester
day morning.
TP I re Reported Checked.
"The message to me at 8 o'clock Sun
day morning indicated that the fire
had spent itself, or was checked, al
though the brush in the foothills was
pretty badly burned," said Mr. Ladi.
"Our home at Ojai escaped."
CARPENTERIA. Cal., June 17. A
brush fire which started near here yes
terday is sweeping toward Sheppard's
Inn and Stanley Park, Summer resorts
near here. .
The Cate School for Boys, two miles
east of here, is in the path of the
flames. A general call for help has
been sent out ' from the threatened
points. Residents of the Summer re-
I sorts are being taken away in auto-
I mobiles.
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JULY 1 "FOOD SUNDAY
mb. hoover caeas os pastors to
PREACH COXSERVATlOn,
Annual Waste In America la Placed at
Billion Dollars. Which. Must Be
Saved, Says Measasje.
NEW YORK, June 17. Co-operation
with the Department of Agriculture in
impressing upon the people of the
country the necessity for the "largest
possible production of food and the
smallest possible Quantity of waste"
was urged by Herbert C. Hoover today
in a letter to 200,000 clergymen of
various denominations, distributed
through the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America.
All pastors are requested to preach
on food conservation Sunday, July 1,
and to endeavor to interest religious
and civic bodies in a food-saving cam
paign. "In such a time as this." wrote Mr.
Hoover, "the people naturally turn to
the church. It will be a calamity to
the Nation and to the churches If their
chosen ministers neglect to exercise
their proper leadership in the great
cause of feeding a world In need, for
the world is in want of food." :
Mr. Hoover estimated 4he annual
waste of food at Jl.OOO.OOO.OOff.
Y0UNGT CATHOLICS r- UNITE
Organization Will Iook After Spir
itual Welfare of Men In Camps.
PHILADELPHIA. June 17. The for
mation of a unified body of Catholic
young men, to be known as the Catholic
Young Men's Association of the United
States, representing aggregate member
ship of 500.000. was accomplished at a
meeting held in St. Louis Wednesday
night, according to an snnouncement
here by Michael J. Slattery, of this city,
president of the Catholic Young Men's
Union of America.
The organization decided to devote
its entire energy during the war to
looking after the spiritual welfare of
its members In training camps in the
United States and Europe, and to invite
all other Catholic religious and fra-
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temal bodies to meet in Joint confer
ence, so that the work; may be suc
cessfully carried out by centralized ef
forts. iNP.nME TAX OFFICER HERE
Allen Calnes Estimates All Will Be
Paid by July 1.
Allen Caines. special representative
for the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue for the district comprising Ore
gon, Washington and Alaska, estimated
last night that the income taxes for
this territory all will be paid before
July 1.
Mr. Caines has established head
quarters in Portland and has a staff of
21 men working under him. The func
tion of Mr. Caines' office is to investi
gate possible delinquencies or cases of
taxpayers who fail to make full return
on their incomes.
Mr. Caines was appointed to his pres
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AERO CLUB TO PAY FOR TWO
Young Americans Will Join LaFaj--ette
Escadrille In France.
NEW YORK, June 17. All expenses
of two young Americans of the party
which will be sent to France and
trained to Join the Lafayette escadrille
will be paid by the Aero Club of
America, tbe board of governors an
nounced. '
Most of the men who will be selected
have had preliminary training in the
militia of different states.
Elk Suffer From Hanger.
PORT ANGELES, WaslL, June 13.
The snow is lying unusually late in
the Olympic Mountains, and the herds
of elk are suffering from hunger.
Near Taft, at the Jackson Creek ranger
station, forest rangers recently found
three elk dead from starvation.. One
of them was a cow. too weak to give
"birth to her fawn. Hundreds of elk
were wandering about in that region in
feeble condition from lack of food.
The close protection of the elk has re
sulted in overstocking the mountains.
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Carrier, Plying; Between New Orleans
aad France, la Caaght and Crew
Left la Open Boats.
v NEW YORK. June 17. News of the
destruction or tne French freight
steamship Mississippi by a German sub
marine, with a loss of one of the mer
chantman's crew, was brought here to
day by officers of. a British freight
vessel that arrived from a French
port.
The Mississippi, of 6S77 tons gross,
was torpedoed and sunk about 145
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miles out from the port of Brest.
rance. on June 2. according to offi
cers of the British ship which rescued,
47 officers and seamen from open boats.
They had been afloat only a short time.
The British officers refused to dis
close details of the sinking as related
to them by the French crew. The only
sailor lost was drowned while the
crew was taking to the boats. The
British ship landed the survivors at
Kayat, Azores.
The Mississippi, owned by the Trans
Atlantic Steamship Company, of Havre,
was last reported In marine records as
having arrived at New Orleans on
March 31 from Havre. She was in
regular trade between these two ports.
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