Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-16
To The Editors of Texas:

are now upon the fifth flood of the Chron-
icle building, Houston, Texas. Among the
first steps toward organization was the
creation of an executive committee. This
executive committee il representative Of
all Texas, and is mad up of the following
men and women:
DIR. W. b. Bizzell, chairman, College
Station.
DIR. X. +. Ninson, Austin.
Frank Hell, Wichita Falls.
X. ii. McDill, Dallas.
VIM. ID. Cleveland, Jr., Houston.
I. o. Walton, College Station.
! II. III. Wofford, Dallas.
Caesar kleberg. kingsville.
ID. c. Giddings, Brennan.
Mesdames-
Fred Fleming, Dallas.
Walter B. Sharp, Houston.
w. c. Connery, Fort Worth.
Percy Y. Pennybacker, Austin.
W. w. Woodson. Waco.
Roy Campbell. San Antonio.
Miss Mary +. Gearing. Austin.
The next step in organization was the
creation of a publicity bureau and an adj
visory board of Texas editors. The adj
viSory board consists of %twenty-one ed
ltors of papers in Texas having the largest
circulation, and the personnel is IA fol-
lows:
Hal Sewer, chairman, The American,
Austin: c. b. Gillespie, The Chronicle.
Houston; James Hays Quarles, The Trib-
rnn Nt.... IL -. IT.
Beaumont; c. l.. Schlees, The Journal,
Beaumont; Paul Edwards, The Dispatch.
DaDllas; Edmunds Travis, The Statesman,
Austin; James Black, The Times. FL Paso;
c. II. Diehl, The Light, San Antonio /;
C. ii. MeMasters, The Tribune. Galveston
George Waverly Briggs, The News. Gal
weston; Harry T.. Warner, The Post, Hous-
ton; Joseph Emerson Smith, The Express,
San Antonio; Thomas Finty. Jr-. The Jour
nal, Dallas; Tom c.. Gooch, Times Herald,
Dallas; ID. p. Toomey, The News. Dallas
James NJ. North. Star Telegram, Fort
Worth: Robert II. Carroll, The Record,
Fort Worth: George Robinson. Times
Herald. Waco: Charles f.. Marsh. The
News, Waco; G. A. Martin, The Herald. I'll
Paso.
Mr.. Pet!en is assisted in his enormous
undertaking of conserving the food prod
ucts of Texas by Herbert Goodwin. a well
known cotton factor Of Houston. Mr.. God
win has temporarily surrendered his bus
mess for the sole purpose of assisting the
Food Administrator, and during the life of
the organization will be Mr.. Peden's assist
ant. Mr.. J. III. Regain has volunteered
his services and j. without remuneration
handling most ably the publicity depart
ment for Mr.. Peden. Mr.. III. Writ Steele,
from Mr.. ~lIoover's office. j. also in llous-
ton assisting the administrator in various
capacities. Upon the completion OF de-
tails of organization. the first active steps
of the fod administrator was the creating
of plans for the pledge card campaign,
The administrator summoned To Houston
representative men in public life from the
state at large, and at n conference held or
October q, the state vas divided into eight
districts. 1t j. the purpose of the admin
~istrator To secure out of "A population of
over 10000 not less than 100000 FAM
lies to high the pledge card.
INV I'LL bht ihth hN''
quarters are "a follows:
j. X. Babcock, Dallas, district No. !.
G. Ii. Collins. Lufkin. district No. ,.
G. X. Bone. Beaumont. district No. 3.
j. ". George, Houston, district No. 4.
J. b. Darlington, San Antonio, district
No. 8.
! +. +. kirkpatrick, Brentwood, district
mo. 6.
q. III. Clements, ri Paso. district No. Z
Porter b. Whaley, Amarillo, district
No. s.
District No. l has a population of .,
10S,37s. The goal of families desired j;
24l 500.
District No. % has a population o
l3s,209. The goal of families desired i
800.
District No. 3 has a population o
i1I6,931. The goal of families desired i
Is, 700.
I District No. 4 has a population o
713,5O0. The goal of families desired i
81, 700.
District No. 5 has a population 0
706,927. The goal of families desired i
50, 300.
:, District No. 6 has a population o
: 32O.i92. The goal of families desired j
> 81. 700.
District No. Z has a population 0
I 1s9, 622s. The goal of families desired
81 800.
; District No. s has a population q
!, PSF ,403. The goal of families desired
81. 900.
From this list it will be seen that the ad
ministrator has a colossal task before hin
6 and I'm order to meet II successfully iii