Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-05
COMMITTEE NAMED
BY HOOVER FORMS
PLAN FOR GEORGIA
Select Service Principle to Be
Applied to Every Family in
America for Purpose of Saw
ing Supplies .-.

as the sons of Georgia have registered
themselves for military service.
The names and addresses of every
family in America are to be placed on
file in Washington. The registered will
be given a badge showing that they have
Joined the food conservation campaign.
The housewife will receive a kitchen
card. telling her how to prepare eco
nomical meals. weekly bulletins and
pamphlets will be sent to her as long as
the war lasts.
In other words, all food consumption
in America is to be systematized, that
America may win the war; the house
wives of America are to be modified
into volunteer home army to fight for
America on this side of the water while
the men fight on the other side.
This was the plan explained Wednes-
day morning at a meeting at the Atlanta
chamber of commerce at which the food
conservation campaign in Georgia was
formally launched.
The meeting was the first to be called
of the Georgia campaign executive COM
mittee on food conservation, the chair
man and members Of which have been
personally appointed by Herbert Hoov-
err national food administrator.
SA-NDLEn Sf1AlRMAN.
Probably no other organization in the
state equals this one in the point of
efficiency and distinction characteris-
| tic of its membership. The chairman
is G. Murphey Gambler, who is chair
man of the state railroad commission.
Members from the state at large are
Governor Hugh NJ. Dorsey; State Sup
erintendent of Schools NJ. L. Britain;
State Commissioner of Agriculture j. ].
l Ir1 ATrC Co al -
lanta, the only woman on the execu-
| tive committee.
The secretary of the committee is Ma
| Jor DevereauX +. McClatchey, secretary
of the state senate, and the publicity
secretary is Rogers Winter assistant
secretary of the Atlanta chamber Of
commerce. -
One man from each congressional
district in the state is on the commit
tee. Those appointed by Mr.. Hoover
are citizens known to all. They are:
First district-General Peter w. Mel
drim, distinguished jurist of Savannah.
Second district-John w. Callahan,
cambridge, former state senator and
capitalist.
Third district-Crawford WheatIey,
Of Americas, banker and former member
of the house of representatives
Fourth district-Frank U. Garrari,
attorney, or columbus.
/ Fifth district-H. c. Hastings, of At
lanta. president of the Georgia chamber
of commerce and president of the South
eastern Fair association.
Sixth district--G. ogden Persons of
Forsyth, former president of the state
senate.
Seventh district. D. Mccartney.
managing editor of the Rome Tribune
Herald.
Eighth district-E A. Copelan, Green's
boro, banker and member of the West
ern and Atlantic railroad commission.
John n. Holder, of jefferson, speak
er of the house of representatives.
Tenth district. c. McAuliffe, Of
Augusta, business manager of the Au-
gusta Chronicle and former president of
the Georgia Weekly Press association.
Eleventh district-John T. Brantley,
OF Blackshear, capitalist and cotton
planter.
Twelfth district--George B. Davis Of
| Dublin, attorney and member of the leg
lslature.
COUNTY CHAIRMAN.
Upon this committee devolves the
| task of organizing all Georgia for food
conservation. Already they have begun
| the task by the division of the entire
state by counties and militia districts
and the appointment of sub-commit-
| tees.
! county chairman will be IN charge
| of each county, and in the case of the
| larger cities, a city chairman or pos
/ sibly two city chairmen. These chair
men will in turn appoint captains for
| each militia district or city ward in
their Jurisdiction, and these captains
will enlist corps of workers, so that
every inch of ground will be thorough
| ly covered.
! The first step In the committee will
| be the registration of all housewives,
which will take place, as explained
| above, during the week of October 81,
| when these squads of workers will make
| a canvass of the distritcs assigned to
! them and enroll for patriotic duty in the
home the names of all women with fam
! lilies in the state
The urgent necessity for the food con-
| servation campaign was borne in forci-
bly, upon the members of the committee
who attended the meeting Wednesday.
IAN were present except Mr.. Gar
rard. Mr.. Brown and Mr.. Mozart
ney. who were detained by bust
ness at She last minute, but who
sent word that they were ready to de-
vote themselves heart and soul to the
work before the committee.
The meeting was called to order by
I
! purpose of the gathering and declared
| that, while everybody was serving in
! this war. none had better opportunity
| to serve than the members of this COM
| mittee. for in serving their country for
food conservation they were serving
themselves as we'll. and so. too. were all
| who helped in the campaign.
| Mr.. Gambler called upon DR.. A. NJ.
/ Sofle, president of the State College of
| Agriculture, and Mr.. Hoovers appointee
| 10 the position of federal food admins
| traitor for Georgia.
| DR.. Soule expressed his appreciation to
| the members of the committee for ac-
| cepting the patriotic appointments ten
dered them. He said he felt that with
| this committee Georgia was in safe
hands, and the state will make a record
second to none other. He paid a tribute
| to Major Mc6'latchey, declaring that no
| other man in Georgia could make bet
| ter secretary for the committee; and he
| complimented Mr. Winter as one whose
| publicity services have proven their
| worth time and again.
FOOD ISUE MOST IMPORTANT.
Getting right down to business, DR..
Soule declared that the food issue is
the most important of the war, for by