Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-02-15
MORE FOOD is
NOW NECESSITY
Tazewell County Agricultural
Council of Safety Urges The
Farmers 70 Do Their Ut
most to Produce More.

The mass-meeting held ut the Court
House last Tuesday attended by n
large number of people from differ
ent sections of the county.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the County Agricultural
Council of Safety.
DR.. Pcirce, President of the Coun-
ell, called the meeting to order and
in brief pointed speech, stated the
object of the meeting.
He stated that the Council was ap-
pointed by the Governor last year.
Similar Councils were appointed in
the different counties of the State,
auxiliary to the National Council of
Defense. The work of these Coun-
ellis, he said, is two fold--to stimu-
late an increased production of food
stuffs and to conserve it after it is
produced. An increase in amount of
food produced is necessary if the az
mics are to be supplied and our own
home people have enough to eat.
DR.. Peirce said that the Council
had already done much, in quiet
"oyt liCStlISS lClu tIGu
the newspapers. Last year Taze-
well grew the largest crops of vege-
tables and grains ever produced be-
fore, but even then did not make
enough to supply her own needs.
Large quantities Of corn, meal and of
flour is shipped into the county every
year We should make. not only our
ovn Tread and meat, but Il surplus
for shipment. Our large army and
our allies as well, must have food if
the big war is to be won. "Produce
more, save MORE" is the slogan. Ev-
cry idle acre, every idle man, must
be put to work this year.
Rev. j e. Wolfe. presiding elder,
was introduced and made telling
speech on the Importance of incrcas-
ing the food production of the coun-
try.
He reminded the people that this
Council of Safety is no yoke. The
food situation is serious one. This
war is Il serious question and the
food question is just as much so. The
war will be won, not by aeroplanes,
guns or men alone, but by food
bread and meat. Stop the shipment
of food and every soldier in France
will be forced to lay down his gun
and surrender to autocratic rule OF
Germany who seeks to rule tie world,
This war;" he repeated, sis Il Sc
rious business, and becoming more
so. 1t is not at all improbable that
the age limit will be moved up and
down the scale, calling all men from
Is to 45 to serve the colors. Impend-
ing calamities may be avoided by
immediate and quick action" Mr..
Wolfe urged that every farmer and
gardener should consider himself
specially enlisted this year to serve
food to the men who are fighting for
us.
Mr.. l.. A. Tynes. committe on
farm labor, said: "The time has
come when the plow is mighticr than
artillery, and the hoe stronger than
the sword" He emphasized the Sc
riousness of the labor question on the
farm, and urged that there should be
some kind of an organization in the
county through which farmers and
the labor could be brought into con-
tact.
j. A. Leslie spoke briefly on food
conservation. Mr.. Hoover has the
biggest job Of them all, the feeding
of the armies. Men fight with bull
lets but fight on bread. Our surplus
of wheat had already been shipped
some time ago. About rs million
bushels more is needed to supply the
armies until the harvests come in.
This extra need Mr.. Hoover propos-
ed to secure by wheatless days and
meals i'll the families of the people.
One wheatless day each week and one
wheatless meal each day, would give
the necessary amount of wheat. But,
Mr.. Hoover's plan failed because the
people did not respond. But small
percentage of the people are COM
plying with the request and obscrv-
ing the rule. A show of hands of
those present proved that less than
one-third of them are observing the
wheatless day. This "volunteer
method" has fallen down, and the
next step will be conscription of
food. The men in the army must have
and will have food, and we must fur
nlsh 1T, willingly or unwillingly.
Surely our patriotism should lead
us to make the small sacrifice asked
One wheatless day a week, partic.
ularly when the substitute afforded
is better and more nutritious bread
The campaign to produce more will
fail unless we save more.
Mr. r. r. Wall, County Dcmonstra.
tor, spoke on the seed corn question
Col. w. G. O'Brien made short but
pointed speech on tie work of the
Council, and what the newspapers
are doing to forward the different OBJ
jects of the Council, Red Cross. Y