The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-08-23
AID BERIlC ON
COMMITTEE TO
MEET1SEP a
Gov. Brough Names Local
Man AS Delegate to Phil
adelphia World Food
Congress-. N. Heiskell
And ]. E. Rogers Also
Selected. Z


A. Bertig of this city has just
received notice from Gov. Chas. II,
Brough that he has been appointed
as delegate from Arkansas to
the Worlds Food Congress, to be
held in Philadelphia September IA
and Is of this year Each state
has been asked to send three dele
gates to the Congress, and in look
ing about for suitable men to rep
resent Arkansas, Gov Brough Sc
lcctcd MIR. Bertig, J n Heiskell and
ID. E. Rogers. Mr.. Rogers home
is at Magnolia. He is president
of the State Farmers Union, and is
regarded as Que Of the states fore
most men in agricultural matters.
Mr.. Heiskcll is editor and one Of
the owners of the Arkansas Gazette.
The Gazette has for number cf
years been contributing thousands
of dollars worth Of space to the
movement for improved methods in
agriculture Both J. n. Heiskell
and his brother, Fred Heiskell, (the
latter managing editor of the Ga
zctte) have been leading spirits in
the awakening Of interest in mat
tcrs of this nature. j. n. Heiskell,
following the death Of the late jeff
Davis, was appointed by Gov. Dona-
ghey as United States Senator from
Arkansas. Mr.. Heiskell served out
the unexpirod term of Senator
Davis. During this brief period he
impressed the stamp of his person
aIity upon members of the senate.
He is a deep thinker, an exception
ally careful writer and student in
every sense of the word.
Mr.. Bertig, aside from having
extensive commercial. -mercan-
Itie interests, has always devoted a
great deal of his time to agricultur-
al subjects He went as delegate
from Arkansas to Germany and
other European countries few
wears ago as a member Of an Am
erican commission appointed dur
ing President Tafts administration
to study rural credits in the old
countries He was ranking mem
Der of the committee which finally
submitted a report to the President.
The work this commission did is
largely reflected in legislation that
has been enacted during the past
few wears, including the farm loan
act and the federal reserve banking
lsvstcm. The Bertig interests own
a great deal of farm and timber
lands in Greene and adjoining coun-
ties. Two thousand acres OF the
richest soil i'm the eutire state on
Big Island is owned and cultivated
by the Bertigs, In order to con
form to modern ideas Of agricul-
tural progress, this rich property
has been placed under the active
management of J. M. Browning, an
!, expert farm man. who is applying
scientific methods, with telling re
suits,
Mr.. Bcrtig stated this morning
that he would be very glad indeed
to accept the appointment volun-
tarily rendered him by Gov
Brough, and would 80 to Philadel-
} phia and do what he can toward
aiding in the work.
'Few Of us appreciate fully the
enormous problems which today face
llhe Administration, said Mr. Ber-
: Itig this morning, in commenting on
the matter "Mr Hoover's message
to the American people, extracts
from which were published in yes
terday's issue of The Dgily Press,
. show that serious shortage OF
many essential foods exists. Hogs
are selling at better than nineteen
cents pound an unheard-Of zig
nro There is every indication that
the twenty cent mark will be pass
ed perhaps before today's paper Is
printed. Corn. wheat and Other
, grain crops upon which the United
states ana our dlliea luu9V "0PO''
for sustenance are commanding fab
ulous prices information is begin
ming to leak in from Mexico, tend
ing to establis hthe oft-repeated as
t sertiou that the people in that God
S forsaken country are on the verge
G of starvation They have beer
IS fighting SO long that the country Il
r stripped of all crops, and unless tho
c United States generously consents
= to do something in the way of re
y lief. fatal consequences will follow
l. guided largely in our suggestion
by the advice Of the worlds fore