The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-18
THE FOODSTUFF CAMPAIGN
Hon. ThOs. G. Mcleod Delivers Fine
Address OH the War and Urges the
Planting of More Food Products.

| Under appointment of the State
committee to agitate the greater food
planting campaign, which is headed
| by Mr.. ID. r. Coker, Hon. Thos. G.
Mcleod of Bishopville addressed the
people of Clarendon in the Court
House on Tuesday. Mr.. Mcleod is
an ex-lieut. governor of the State, is
a lawyer and practical farmer, and a
man of rare ability, and his address
was splendid speech. 1t is a pity
it could not have been heard by every
man in the county, and the women
also. The sole purpose of the adj
dress was to stimulate an interest in
the people of Clarendon county to
plant more foodstuff, of various kinds,
and in this way let our county con-
tribute its small share in feeding the
world, when nearly the whole world
is now at war, and the food supplies
of the entire world are very low. 1t
was magnificent speech and contain.
cd profitable advice for the people
even if our country wee not at war.
| Mr.. Mcleod reviewed the causes of
the war, and how our country was
forced into it, how we tried so hard
to avoid war, and the patience and
long suffering of our great president
IN Keeping us out Of war until we
could not keep out any longer, and
then pictured some of our duties un
der the unfortunate circumstances.
lie said that it is war for liberty
and the rights of the people as against
autocracies and the intrigues Of kings
and monarchs, and that the same
spirit which moved our forcfathers in
fighting to make America the great
country of liberty which it now is,
should animate the interest and CO.
operation of every man, woman and
child to contribute his portion to-
wards winning victory. In no way,
said the speaker, could our country,
and our state, and our county con-
tribute its share better than by the
raising of food stuffs, corn, grain, po-
|
He said that not only the countries
which arc now doing the fighting
must be fed, but our own country
must be fed, and that the time has
come when we must plant less cot
ton, even at the tempting price Of
twenty cents, and raise our living at
home, because we could not buy corn
at $500 per bushel and -four at SIS
per barrel and meat at 20 and 25
cents pound for our cotton next
fall. We cannot count with any GER
talnty on high prices for cotton, and
then we will have to raise more food
stuffs and live at home because the
rest OF the country will want it's own
food stuffs to live on themselves.
Mr.. Mcleod said that we have been
forced into this war, and now that
the United States is in, she must con-
quer. We have never been conquered,
since we have been a country, and
that if England and France and Rus
sia are willing to do the actual fight
ing and get their sons killed in the
trenches provided that America fur
nish the food supplies to feed the
armies on, then America has a great
deal the best of the bargain, and we
should realize this.
He urged the people to plant every
available acre of corn, and peas, and
to plant potatoes in every spot that
could be utilized and all the vege-
tables that they could raise. He urg-
ed it as the duty of women to 90 to
saving, and to quit wasting so much,
and told them that the time was near
at hand when they must give up their
husbands and sons to go to the front,
when sweethearts have to part with
their lovers to go to the front, and
many Of them will never come back,
but that men should not be towards
when their country calls them, nor
should the women prove recreant in
doing their full duty all along the
line. He urged that people should
wake up, because the country is now
in war. We understand that a coun-
ty campaign will be put on to urge
the people, both white and black,
throughout the county to wake up to
the condition that the country is fac
ing, and plant more things to feed
themselves and tho nennla nf +bo