Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-13
Clearing House Committee
Issues Appeal for Assistance
From All Sources.
TO PLANT VACANT GROUNDS
Mayor Plans Ordinance Turn.
ing Over All Available
Property for Gardens.
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with fun knowledge Of the ur-
gent need of immediate action
IT Tulsa is To do It's part i'm the
ration wide campaign FOR an ln
crease iU food production, We.
the committee of the Tulsa ClCcr-
ing House association, hereby
publicly call on each Individual
and all the pubic ami CiNlc IN
tcrests OF Tulsa aud TIisl couu.y
To organize ana help meet the
natioE's needs.
We wish to ask the women and
women's clubs of this city TO take
up the task n campaigning for
more and better gardens. and to
see that every possible pound of
fruit and vegetable is canned.
We would like to have official
action on this matter from the re
spective club.
We ask that the city commits
sion pass ordinances or rcsolu-
tions permitting the planting of
gardens on vacant lots, thus hold
Ing down the weed crop for the
protection of health and at the
same time building up food Iro-
duction.
We ask that the Chamber OF
Commerce and the Retailers AS
SOCiation, Rotary club, Lyons
club, union organizations. the
CITY club and fraternal bodies
start food production move
ment in an active way. under va
rious ideas which they may
evolve.
We ask each individual in
Tulsa ana Tulsa county To CON
slider the problem personal one.
We ask active support from the
churches, the schools and the Y.
VI G. A. and the Y. w c. a.
We ask that every owner of a
vacant lot OF of suitable acre
tracts who is not going to use II
to list this property for the use or
others. who will be willing TO
plant crops.
We ask that the realty dealers
also cooperate in this by grant
ing this committee the names or
out of -the-citv owners of Vaca ~
property so hat prompt perm's-
sion Eily be obtaired to cultivate
the same.
ON advise from Governme
sources this committee recon-
mends that especial stress lie
placed on the production of the
following food products FOR men
and beasts, Irish and sweet po-
tatoes, onions. turnips, peanuts,
sudan grass, milo maze. hafir,
corn and Gotten. There are many
other coed products but these are
particularly important.
Thru this committee the >'leai =
ing House association 0f Tulca de-
sires TO aid In this movement. fl
nancially or otherwise. We nave
done all that We possibly can roW
without the cooperation we
herewith ask for in thi4 public
way. time not permitting per
sonal correspondence with the
many we seek to enlist.
Yours 10 CO. operate,
". .. BUCK,
q. II. LEONARD.
n. II. GPAHAM,
Committee Tulsa Clearing House.
Tulsa ia mobilizing for an incrca
In food production and to do It's pa
i'm meeting the governments appe
for the planting of every avallab
foot of ground.
Providence yesterday helped
sending down "a real crop grown
rain.
Yesterday afternoon the poard pr
duction committee OF the Tulsa clea
ing house met at the Exchange n
tional bank and organized Tor. wof
They have isued pubic appe
asking that every individual and o
ganiZation in the city ana county x
behind the movement in an actl
way Prompt action Is anticipate
from many sources.
CITY Is Active.
r.,i,.;a,,1s and ory,nizatinnq ba.
aIreadv started to aid the commite
Yesterday afternoon Iayor Simmo
instructed the legal department Of q
city to prepare an ordinance placii
vacant property under charge of Il
health and police department and pc
mitting this ground to be used f
gardens, thereby holding down &
weed crop and increasing tho 70,
output.
The city park department yesterdi
voted to turn the greenhouses
owen park into food producers just
soon as flowers which now occupy 4
space there can be transferred to op,
beds. The park board also instruct
that the ten-acre plot OF land sou
Of Woodard be planted and cultivate
Martin Schuttler, who Is Of Germt