Arizona republican., 1917-10-02
DEFENSE COUNCIL
 MAKES PLANS FUR
 IMPORTANT WORK

Deciding upon the reorganization of the labor committee of the State Council of Defense pledging the ut most aid to the government food con- servation and Liberty Loan programs and receiving important reports from various sub committees, yesterday was an unusually strenuous day at the state headquarters of the Council of Defense
 In the morning the chairmen of the sub committees gathered from various parts of the state and presented terse, business-like reports showing how their portion of the work of the coun- cil was organized for effective service The keynote of the meeting was ser vice, efficiency and sacrifice.
 The feature Of the report of Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid chairman of the committee on food conservation, was the wonderful record of the women Of the state and the star showing made by the young women of Graham county, who have a record for canning 126 varieties of fruits and vegetables this season. This team of young
 women will probably give an exhibi- tion at the state fair in November
 Timothy Riordan, the food com missioner for Arizona, thanked the council for the thoroughgoing cooper
 ation offered and Mir. Andrews, the personal representative of MT. Hoover, showed the committeeman the vital need of increased production in Amer ica and decreased waste if France and our other allies were to be saved from | starvation.
 Judge Edward Wells and Roy Good rich outlined the plans for the relief l committee. now called the welfare committee, to get behind our boys and l their families to the very limit Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neil in charge 1 of the state wide womans work, l showed the remarkable response the | women of Arizona have made to the 1 nations call for conservation in the | home and pledged to MT Riordan in | his work the women's loyal support. 1 J. L. Donnelly, chairman of the com
 mittee on labor, in his report suggest ed the appointment by the executive committee of a committee chosen from | the labor committee to confer with the 1 labor commission which President l Wilson is sending shortly to Arizona. 1 In his general report the chairman of i the council, Dwight B. Heard, said: 1 Tn order to have exact facts of our 1 present food production in the state | for the use of the food administrator | in his work a complete crop survey of the state is being prepared, with the | cooperation of Prof. E. P. Taylor, in l charge of the extension service of the | University of Arizona, and the county 1 agricultural agents, which should be
 ready for delivery to MT. Timothy A. 1 Riordan, food administrator, by the
 middle of October which will be a
 great help to him in outlining his plans i for increased food production the com l ing season. In this statewide crOr
 survey nearly a hundred volunteer l workers have given from one day to
 a weeks service, while many automo- piles have been donated for the field work
 "The excellent organization work done by the women of the state tC
 conserve food in the home and stor
 waste has laid a firm foundation for
 Mir. Riordan's work. In fact, in all this
 work I believe that of the women has
 shown the highest standard of eff ciency"
 Referring to the organized work oi
 the council to speed up production
 throughout the state, he said:
 "A few definite examples of the re-
 suits of this general work may be in teresting. In 1916, according to the ta1
 commission report, the cultivated area
 through irrigation in Maricopa county 1 was 212,344 acres or nearly 50 per cen
 of the total irrigated area of the state according to our completed crop sur vey. This year there are 266,362 acre:
 in cultivation. While some of this in
 creased area is due to natural devel
 opment, a large share of this increased
 productive area is undoubtedly due tt
 the systematic drive made for in
 creased production. Hundreds of new 
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