Full text of Mimeograph Letters and Statements of the Board : Letter From Secretary, Federal Reserve Board, July 11, 1917, Enclosing Suggestions Transmitted by Mr. Herbert Hoover, re Food Economy Campaign, Number X-269, Volume 6, Page 2618

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July II, 1917.

To Members ol the Staff of the Federal Reserve Board:

By direction of the Federal Reserve Board, I hand you the
following suggestions transmitted by Mr. Herbert Hoover:
’’Enlist in the food economy campaign.

’'tTidbtisgto aid my

country during the war I promise:




1.

To eat one wheatless meal a day,

2.

To eat beef, mutton or pork, not more than once a day

3*

To economise in the use of butter,

4.

To cut my daily allowance of sugar in tea or coffee
and in other ways,

5.

To eat mere vegetables, fruit and fish,

6.

To urge in my own home' or the restaurants I frequent
the necessity o.t economy,"

V ery t r u l y y ou rs,

Secretary.