Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-08
GOVERNOR CALLS
MEET TO DISCUSS
FOOD PROBLEMS
Nebraska Executive in Procla-
nation Asks State 0rgani-
cations to Act Speedily That
Policy May Be Framed,
ALL PERSONS ARE INVITED
Live Stock, Grain, Poultry and
Home Economics the
Chief Topics.
SPEED UP PRODUCTION

Governor Neville has issued a proc
lamaton calling upon the various Or
ganizations of the state to appoint
delegates to the conference in Omaha
May % to Is, on the subject of con-
servation of Nebraska's food produc-
ing resources.
The proclamation, which is signed
by the governor and by DR.. George E.
Condra, executive secretary of the Ne
braska Conservation and Public We'll
fare commission, follows:
Believing that immediate steps
should be taken to conserve Ne
braska's food supply and to increase
production for national purposes, and
in line with the duties of the Conser-
vation and Public Welfare commits
sion, as defined by the statutes of the
state, we, the officers of the commits
sion, do hereby urge and invite the
citizens of Nebraska to select from
their various organizations, agricul-
tural, education, social, religious and
industrial, representative delegates,
to meet in the city of Omaha May
% to rs, to discuss the conservation
and increase of foods, and formulate a
practical policy to put into effect
throughout the state.
We urge the cooperation in this
conference of all citizens of the state
as individuals or representing some
association or organization in the
fields of agriculture, labor, commerce,
education and social and religious ac-
tivity.
The meeting will be held in the Mu-
'fiicipaf Auditorium: "s1t9will be divided
into four main classes-the conserva-
tion of live stock resources, the con-
servation of grain, conservation of
poultry and eggs and gardening and
household conservation.
The home economics department of
the University of Nebraska will have
many demonstrators here to give ac-
tive demonstrations daily in the prin-
ciples of canning, as well as in COM
bining food and substituting.
Launched at Sunday Meet.
This statewide movement for the
conservation and mobilization of Ne
braska's resources was launched at a
meeting in the Hotel Rome Sunday
under the governors direction.
Members of a general committee
appointed by the governor at the re-
quest of The Bee, and f. V. Par
rish of the Commercial club bureau of
publicity, agreed upon plan that will
place. the state upon a wartime
footing.
The committee is composed Of eX-
perts and heads of Nebraska's most
important industrial commercial and
agricultural organizations. An execu
tive committee was named to draft
detailed plans and push the work in
every county in the state.
By this action Nebraska takes the
lead of all of the state in the Ameri-
can union in so organizing its forces
that it will be in a position, at any mo-
ment's notice, to respond effectively
to any call that may be made upon
it by the Council of National Defense.
Other states probably will follow the
Nebraska plan.
On Governors Committee.
Members of the governors commit
tee are: O. G. Smith of Kearney,
head of the Farmers congress; E. R.
Danielson, Lincoln, secretary of the
Board of Agriculture; Charles R.
Graft, Bancroft, president Of the Live
Stock Breeders association; R. L.
Heron of the Farmers Union;"
Emerson Purcell, Broken Bow, presi-
dent of the Nebraska Press associa-
ton; George E. Condra, Lincoln, of
the Soil Survey league; w. w. Burr,
Lincoln, head of the state university
Department of Agronomy; Miss Alice
Loomis, Miss Wilson and Mrs. David
son Of the state university home
economics department; w. F. Baxter,
chairman of the Omaha Bureau of
Publicity; E. V. Parrish, manager of
the Omaha Bureau OF Publicity; Ever
EFT Buckingham, F. L. Haller,
lrnntinua,l an para Tro CoIunon nne