The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-05-03
G. F. W. C. CONVENTION
SINGS POPULAR JINGLES

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And one more thought in answer to
the food rationine question that was
asked. Let me give you this thought
Germany drives their men America
leads her men
Mrs. Hoover spoke under the aus
pieces of the Home Economics Con-
ference of the biennial. of which Mrs
Joseph c. Gawler Of Yakami, Wash
ington, is chairman IL was rather
the human side OF the war that she
presented She said there were three
things to be certain about in CON
nection with the food conservation
The first of these was that in the
generous output OF our storage, we do
not permit our own graneries to be
left empty on the tag end of a year.
The second was that we must always
be certain that some one is always
watching over there for the supplies
for our boys, and the third is that the
armies OF our allies must be treated
armies of our allies must be treated as
our own solder boys These men
must be maintained, for work, for
health and for spirits. That is a mil
itary necessity. They fight by our
boys and will sleep in the eternal
graves OF those of our boys who don't
come home
Starvation is one of the effective
weapons of Germany, was empha
sized the by e. f. Walcott of the Ma
uonal Food Administration, in an ad-
dress before the convention, talking to
the subject, What Has to be Done"
Beginning, Mr. Walcott expressed the
sincere appreciation of Nr Hoover
and the Food Administration to Mr.
lamp Williams. the Federal Food
Administrator for Arkansas. and for
what he had accomplished, and also
for having turned over his recep-
I ton room at the state cauitol as
headquarters for the food cOnserva-
ton workers THAT is the kind OF
an act that is typical OF the many sim
liar acts. the elimination of lost mo-
ton, that is going to make us victo-
rious There are no reception rooms
being used now except for winning
this war"
Mr. Walcott spoke Of the experience
he encountered in Poland and Russia
on a visit two years ago. The Poles
and Russians were starving in count
less thousands He conferred With
others there. to alleviate the distress,
The German authorities at that time
seemed to acquiesce in the plans be
ins made. bat a week later there
came the word that the provisions for
this relief must s.op We were told
that Germany had changed its mimi
ABOUT relief FOR those people, and
were going to let starvation work its
own way And that they were go
ling TO adopt starvation as weap-
on with which to help win the war
THAT system must be stopped" said
the speaker iii it costs everything
else i'm the world" Speaking of the
food situation at present, he said the
food administration Is up with its
work today. that it is up with the de
mands that come from our allies He
said that OF the future there were but
two problems to be solved in this CON
nection: Getting all that was posi-
BILE from that section OF the country
from Texas to North Dakota. which he
described as the present bread bas-
ket of The world, and second, taking
care of the stomachs of the laborers
who cant buy the substitutes, and
who perhaps can't understand fully
why they should be expected to
work hard and make such sacrifices.
"I suggest to this Federation that
there be "a commission formed with
the authority to go to the front and
make an Investigation The commits
sion should he composed of five to
seven members, and two or three