The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15

I | their services to render assistance.
 MINISTER'S CALLED UPON
 The ministers, school teachers, frater- | nal and social organizations have been 1 called to arms, and every means of pre- senting the project to the public, espe-
 rially the farmer, will be commanded. | The Community club. through President Joe H. Mudd, yesterday asked the com mittee what they could do to further the plan which that club fostered and turned over to the general committee in | order that the scope of the work might | be enlarged. The executive committee requested the Community club to proceed | with a campaign of card and poster ad- vertising, stickers for drop mail and plac- ards that will be placed on trees, fences and buildings in the rural section-auto- mobiles and public conveyances. These cards and posters will carry slogans that will cause the idea of food preparedness to become indented upon the mind of the public by force, if the idea has not reached that mind in any other way.
 COUNTY BOARD ENTHUSIASTIC | Capt. Frank S. White reported for his committee, assigned to the task of pro- vding means of reaching the schools with | the propaganda that the committee was received on Friday by the county board 1 of education with every courtesy, and that the enthusiasm and cordiality shown their presentation of the plan was most | encouraging.
 1 The board of education indorsed the movement and pledged the aid of every agency at their command to cooperation With the committee to make the move ment a success. The idea that seemed to be most pertinent with the county board of education was, the furnishing of seed, animals and supplies for the farmer who could not finance himselr. l This plan will have to be financed by l the merchants and the merchant is Tn turn, to be financed by the bank accept | ins the farmers paper for the advance I to the merchant In this way the banker | is called upon to render aid, the mer- | chant securing him. through the farmer, who secures the merchant with his crop. | The intent is to use existing agencies showing heretofore unknown Hberality if | necessary.
 SEEK INTERNED GERMANS 1 A. R. Dearborn was added to the execu- l tive committee from the Civic associa- l tion, and made very valuable sugges- I tion to the committee at once. Mr. Dearborn called attention to the fact that the United. States government is | contemplating the proper solution to the l now confined at Ellis Island as interned German citizens, and that it Is likely that | they will be placed on farms to raise | foodstuffs, for their own food, and to help feed the rest of the nation. MT. 1 Dearborn suggested that no state had
 more land than could be adapted to such a cause than Alabama.
 | Following this suggestion B. M. Allen | stated that he had several thousand | oE I-x l.. l government for such use, free, and at once moved that the committee confer with Alabama senators and congress-
 men and request them to use their eff forts in getting this matter before the proper authorities with a view of getting these interned Germans in the Birming- ham district.
 | LIVE STOCK TOP PRICES
 MT. Allen also gave some valuable in-
 formation as to the prices of beef cattle
 and pork on foot, as per quotations ot
 Thursday when consignment of Ala
 bama cattle shipped by the Mcqueen
 Smith Farm company of Autauga county
 topped the market at $11.50 on foot. Hogs
 were quoted that day at $16.40.
 Hill Ferguson read a letter from John
 Rogers of Gainesville, who is an author
 ity on labor conditions in Alabama, in
 which he congratulated the committee
 upon it's work and offered his services
 and suggested that J. E. Graves, farm
 dehonstrator of Greene county, be con-
 ferred with, as he could render valuable
 aid to the committee through his eXpe-
 rience.
 The committee named a subcommittee,
 w. D. Wood, chairman J. P Mudd and
 A. R. Dearborn, to issue statement call ing upon the ministers to address their
 col grega tions today prior to the regular
 service and to keep insisting on the plant ing of foodstuffs. This committee will
 also call upon Governor Henderson to issue a proclamation to the people of Alabama, the probate judges, ministers and school teachers especially to do all in their power to promote the campaign, giving it ali of the publicity possible.