The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-02
SPECIAL MESSAGE
 ON CONSERVATION
CHURCHES AND LODGES LINING UP IN RESPONSE TO PLEA OF
 FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
Women's Clubs and All Other organ izations Are Asked to Give Their
 Support Immediately.

Every church in Arkansas. regard less Of creed or color, as well as every fiaJernal organization, combined wtn the various womens clubs and other bodies, such as home guards Spanish American war veterans, C. A. k. and Confederate veterans, have been ap- pealed 10 in Arkansas to get behind the United States food administration end respond to the special message sent from Washington by Herbert Hoover, food administratfr for the country.
 No announcement from Washington in months has contained the serious tone as has this particular message which requests members of the organ izarions addressed abstain from eating any food product that contains wheat flour until the next harvest, that all limit their consumption of meat to two pounds per person per week, and that special attention be given in the hOue for further conservation of sugar.
 Organizations are urged to eliminate banquets and social features that call for food, and when such eveRts are held, to make the repast "wheatless" in every sense of the word. They are also urged to name a committee to represent the lnted States food ad- ministratiOn The duty of the com mittee will be 10 see that members of the organization agreeing to the re quest of Mir Hoover line up with the food administration and that at stated periods members be selected to bring the message of food conservation to their respective orsanizatiOns.
 All in all, it Is considered the most comprehensive plan for further con servation this country has had called to its attention in months The re quest that was made of Arkansas was also sent 10 every state in the union.
 Hamp Williams federal food admn- istrator for Arkansas, who returned from Washington yesterday, where he was in conference with Mir. Hoover and other officials of the food admin istration has ampHfied Mir Hoover's request with d special message from state headquarters. Attached 10 tne| message is resolution, which organ izations receiving the same are asked to consider l. passed, the resolution IS sent to MT. w lliams and by him forwarded to Washington as post,ye evidence of tine loyalty of the people of the state in whatever conservation measures are necessary to win the war
 The meeting in Washington de clared Mr Williams. "was one of the most notable We have held since the organization of Che food admin stra- ton. Officials there have a high ap- preciation of the work the people of this state have done, and were loud iu their praise of Arkansas loyalty and patriotic sacrifice. We were mlormo that dur ng May two very drama it events took place One was the meet ing in New York, when over 60U of Che country's leading hotels agreed to 50 Wheatless until the next harvest ana the other was the return to the got- ernment of over seven million pounds of flour
 "I have been asked many times fl that indicated the people Of Arhau sas were hoarding It dId not TIT. people were asked 10 make a genuine sacrifice, to go into their homes and bring out the flour they had and giy
 it back to the government. and that i. what they did lt means the people O this state have the real vision Of th. war and are willing to make any sac
 rifice II means that they went fur
 ther in this respect than all otner
 states in the union combined, ant
 Washington officials do not hesttaat, to make that fact known. either"