The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-04-20
FOOD CONSERVATION
MEETING IN GRENADA
LAST SATURDAY,
Fianters, Lawyers, Merchants and
Food ExPerts Address the People
OF Grenada County-Raise Food.
Is the Slogan.

A meeting for the purpose of dis
cusslng the necessity for, and the
means OF obtaining a greater produc-
tion OF foodstuffs in this, as well as
al. communities, was called at the
Opera House in Grenada Saturday
morning, April ID, 1917.
Mr. William B. Hoffa presided ov-
er the meeting and, in turn, intro
duced Mr.. j. w. Henderson, a farm
er OF Horn Lake, Miss, a man who
has made a success of his own bust
ness and sees the necessity of the
South's caring for itself during the
trying period before the nation: Mr..
James l.. McCree, of Memphis, a
lawyer, who has the good of his coun-
try at heart and is willing to use his
talent in disseminating the GOOD.
Feed and Fertilizer" propaganda |:
Mr.. X. L. Jones, a son of one Of Gre
nada.s most substantial and influen-
tlai families, man who has made a
great success in the Mississippi delta,
and who came to tell the people most
dear to his heart of the imminent me-
cessity for food conservation and in
creased food production; and Miss
Bessie Murphey, head of the Woman's
Department of the Business Mems
Club of Memphis. who suggested
practical means of food-conservation
such as the preservation in small
cans of fresh vegetable food left ov-
er after meal, who advised in the
strongest possible manner the neces-
sity of the utilization of all possible
ground for the raising of garden
products, and who told how women,
particularly, could help in this, the
Nations supreme hour of trial. The
speakers showed that the man who
with his hoe. his plow and his mule,
helped to fill the graneries of the
nation and thereby furnish the fight
ing men with abundant supplies of
necessary foodstuffs was no less i'm
portant than the man in the trenches.
The Napoleanic proverb, "An army
fights on its stomach" is none the
less appropriate and opportune now
that it was when uttered by the
mighty Corcican. Miss Murphey
called particular attention to the
harmfulness of the existence of pet
tv jealousies among neighbors in rur-
al communities: she plead with the
people that in this. the hour for con-
certed action by all American people,
the little differences be forgotten.
and that all work together for the
triumph of American ideals; she said
that these trivial and inconsequen-
tial differences often lead to COM
plete lack of unity of the life of a
community. and that these things
should be forgotten and forgiven.
Miss Murphey delivered a great talk.
one which seemed to make deep and
lasting impression on the minds of
her hearers.
The speakers on this occasion
came here for purely patriotic rea-
sons. They were paying their own
expenses. and trying in a way best
suited to their several abilities to i'm
press upon the people of the South
the necessity for the production of
the food necessary for the mainten-
ance of its own civilian population.
and also a surplus for the use of the
government. They were indeed wei
come to Grenada. Grenada county
people appreciate their coming and
their delivery of these important
messages. That they came without
the hope of fee or reward, Except
the reward incident to the mental
satisfaction of having done their
part), shows that they are inspired
with patriotism of the highest order,
patriotism that is well worthy of
emulation.
A large number of people, both
white and coored, filed the auditor
ium. Much enthusiasm was mani
tested. 1t was unanimously agreed
that Grenada county would do its
part in the production of food. Each
pledged himself that he would do his
part. Mr.. Bolton Smith was due to
speak on that occasion, but was un-
ayoidably detained. Those sent in
his stead drove home the lesson that
he intended to deliver and that mes
sage was this: Raise sufficient food
stuffs to furnish Grenada county