WW1 Centennial News: Episode #39 - Food | Those Draftin’ Blues | Terry Hamby new Chair | First 50 “WWI Centennial Memorial” | Mayor Ann Roth | Author Christy Leskovar and more…
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Food Will Win The War |@01:15<br> Anti-war sentiment and the IWW Union - Mike Shuster |@05:35<br> “Those Draftin’ Blues” Maceo Pinkard timely tune |@10:00<br> Terry Hamby elected Chair of the US WW1 Centennial Commission |@12:50<br> US Mint to introduce their memorial coin design |@14:00<br> Re-dedication of the Bernado Cardeens Baseball Field in RI |@14:40<br> Speaking WWI - OMG! Really!? |@16:15<br> 100C/100M First 50 “WWI Centennial Memorials” announced |@17:40<br> 100C/100M Project Profile - Swanton, OH with Mayor Ann Roth |@18:45<br> Researching Stories of Service with author Christy Leskovar |@24:00<br> Underwater Archeology - The WW1 Cruiser the USN San Diego |@29:30<br> WWrite Blog - Poet James Seamon Cotter Jr. by Connie Ruzich |@31:00<br> A BIG BUZZ this month |@32:00 <br> <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> Today is September 27th, 2017 and our guests this week are:<br> <br> Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, <br> Mayor Ann Roth from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Swanton, Ohio<br> And Christy Leskovar, author of One Night in a Bad Inn and Finding the Bad Inn<br> <br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.<br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> [MUSIC TRANSITION]<br> We’ve gone back in time 100 years to explore the war that changed the world! It’s the last week of September 1917, let’s take a look at what happened this month:<br> The pages of the Official Bulletin are overflowing with articles about food, the food administration, and their impact on the war effort, with articles about food appearing every day this month. Here are a few of note:<br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Dateline: September 12th, 1917<br> Headline: Government not to seize food supplies held in homes <br> There is no truth in a widely circulated statement that the Government expects to take food supplies from any family. Both the Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture join in a statement to counteract, what seems to be deliberate propaganda to the effect that the Government intends to take from every family all canned goods put up, in excess of 100 quarts. <br> TM - Apparently this was only one of many variations of rumors about the government seizing food<br> <br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Dateline: September 15th, 1917<br> Headline: Government licenses for manufacturers, refiners and importers of sugar, sirups, and molasses required <br> From time to time, whenever the President shall find it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining or distribution of any necessaries… The president is authorized to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations of the issuance of licenses.<br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Dateline: September 17th, 1917<br> Headline: Slogan “food will win war--don’t waste it” emblazoned on huge signs throughout country<br> Through the cooperation of advertising companies, the Treasury Department, municipal authorities and electric-light companies, the US Food Administration is, without cost, putting on a national outdoor advertising campaign that is probably the biggest thing of the sort ever undertaken. The slogan “Food will win the war -- don't waste it” is being emblazoned in every large city in the country on immense signs on public buildings. These signs are uniform in general design, in paint for daytime display and illuminated by electric light for night. <br> <br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Dateline: September 20th, 1917<br> Headline: American people can have full diet and still supply pressing needs
