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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1919
Page
2
The YWCA Earn and Give club mobilizes young girls to convert thrift lessons into donations for the United War Fund. While younger girls earn five dollars each, older members oversee campaigns, with high school students balancing leisure and savings to support military needs.
The article notes Anna a thirteen year old New York girl among early members of a Harn and Give club campaign. It describes saving from dining tables collecting tin foil and fruit pits to fund relief for French Belgian orphans and soldiers. It cites global examples of girl sacrifices and states four hundred thousand Patriotic Leaguers have joined since the war began.
In a sheltered French town near a large munitions plant, a wall encloses a women’s quarter. Refugees, some yellowed by powder, fill the dormitory and two rooms used by the YWCA foyer where they seek distraction and relief from war. The Blue Triangle centers offer tea, singing, dancing, and English lessons as part of a broader effort shared with France and now England.
Mrs Francis E Whitley of Webster City heads an Iowa Food Administration effort with district and county chairs and 2000 women volunteers. By August 1 the program counted 517000 Iowa women pledging to conserve sugar wheat flour meats and fats, aiding Hoover’s war relief drive and soldiers overseas.
District leaders and committees led by Mrs. Whitley mobilized Iowa counties for voluntary cooperation with the food administration. Through public meetings publicity and home demonstration agents the effort reached every trestle and county official to gain broad support statewide.
Iowa counties organize price interpreting committees under U S Food Administrator J F Deems to fix fair profits on foods. The panels include consumers retailers jobbers brokers and other food industry members. They publish prices in newspapers to curb profiteering and steer wholesale and retail pricing based on cost rather than market spikes.
About 400 cases of alleged Food Administration and Food Control Act violations are under investigation by federal agents led by J. F. Deems in Iowa. A new force of investigators is assigned to handle complaints with many trials at county offices and Burlington HQ. Fines have been paid as Red Cross contributions, including a top $1,000 from a DeWitt flour dealer for selling flour without substitutes. Many suspects are bound over to the federal grand jury for hoarding while numerous reprimands have been issued to others.
Affidavits secure evidence and offenders summoned to Burlington headquarters or county food administrator for offenses. After trial, offenders often donate to the Red Cross instead of being bound over to the federal grand jury. Red Cross funds gain several thousand dollars. one town case yielded nearly $5,000 from an egg profiteer, plus a $1,000 fine.
The United States food administration relies on hotels and restaurants to conserve food. J F Deems of Iowa appoints W F Miller of Davenport and R K Pettigrew of Burlington to oversee this control in Iowa. Pettigrew leads the work from Burlington, following Hoover backed cut to wheat bread service, with meat and sugar regulations later adopted for about 3,000 hotels and eating houses feeding thousands annually.
The U S Food Administration in Iowa operates a dozen headquarters under Administrator Deems at Burlington. J F Deems and Executive Secretary Logadon anchor Burlington with multiple divisions in Ottumwa Davenport Webster City Waterloo Ames and Des Moines including sugar milk hotel and restaurant home economics library moving pictures and a segregation organizer for Iowa’s black community.
Local notice inviting readers to send news items from weddings reunions deaths and other items of interest. Readers are urged to phone or hand in stories to the Reporter for publication and community discussion.
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