The Little River news., 1917-04-18
FOOD CAMP AICN
 IN LITTLE RIVER
Opening Meeting Held at Ashdown Friday-LOcaI Organizations and Meeting Over
 County.

All Gilt iCF'it tlC uleGIln3 Was uelu at the courthouse Friday afternoon in the interest of the food and feed cam paign which is being agitated all over our country by the Department of Ag- riculture, and urged by President Will son.
 The high school pupils attended in body and many ladies showed their in terest in the movement by their pres ence
 The principal speakers were: Jim Holloway and w. E. Daniels of Tex arkana. Local people who took part in the program were: c. w. Johnston, County Demonstrator, Rev. s. K Burn cit, Miss Gladys Norwood local can ming agent and Parson Tally colored farmer, who spoke especially to the members of his own race. The meet ing was opened by MT. Johnston who read pr .Brough's strong appeal to the people of Arkansas to not only feed themselves but to raise a surplus of food and feed. He appealed to the ladies of the town and community to do all they could to encourage boys and girls to cultivate small plots of ground; to business men who owned tracts of land to let them to boys who would cultivate necessary crops and to help them in every way they could to get started. He urged farmers to not only cultivate intensiyely but at the same time strive to preserve the soil.
 MT. Holloway who followed Mir. Johnston opened his talk by saying that he felt it mete and proper that meeting of this character should have divine sanction. Bro. Burnett lead in an earnest appeal that our nation be guided and our leaders directed in this great crisis and that out of the tur- moil all nations should rise purified and with greater vision of the God of a flag after which America was sung by the audience.
 Miss Norwood sang Arkansas which was greatly appreciated by the entire audience.
 Among many good points made by Mr. Holloway in his address were these: We are a nation of hundred million people protected by an army of only one hundred thousand.
 "Sentimentalism doesn't win wars, but it will take military preparedness to win against the Kaizer.'
 A strong appeal was made not only to farmers but to business men as well to raise everything to eat they could. Hog raising was especially stressed
 Hogs said he, were selling at sixteen dollars and ten cents per 100 pounds in Chicago this week and still squaling."
 Potatoes" he declared don't grow in thc cushions of aa automobile In. stead of the majority of the people living in the country as it used to be, eighty-fye per cent live in towns and cities while only fifteen per cent re- main in the country. Things are bound to change, the American people are too patriotic not to work; in other words they are too selfish to go hun gry.
 E. w. Daniels who arrived on the three-thirty train was introduced by \. Goldsmith He spoke along the same line as these Wno preceded him. He said that he was plain business man, but had a farm and was doing practical work along that line.
 "I am willing to practice what I preach" said he, and have already rendered my services to my country"
 The appeal to the young men to en- list in the army and if that was inn possible to enlist in the great army of workers and help to produce food that those who did go might be fed.
 ''We didn't seek this war" said he, but we are going to end it and when it is over and the flag waves over the dome of the capitol, autocracy in Europe will have ended"
 '"The food supply per capita in this country is shorter than it has ever been before.
 Ut is very likely that within thirty days no meat will be shipped into Ar kansas
 Rev. S. K. Burnett was called upon for an impromptu talk and among other things said that he had already begun practicing the doctrine of food Continued on page 2.)