The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-07-05
COLBY
NOTED LAWYER
TO SPEAK HERE
WILL ADDRESS CONFERENCE OF
FOOD ADMINISTRATORS
AND FARMERS.
TELLS AIR RAID EXPERIENCE
Brings Message to America for Great
er Food Conservation TO Helo Whip
Enemies Of Women and Children Of
the World. 8

Everett Colby, authorized speaker
for the u. 8. Food Administration.
who will address the Institute at CO.
lumbia July "a, went through an air
raid while visiting London in Deem
Der, on behalf OF the Food Admins
tration.
1.-THE raid came the second night we
were in Town." Mr. Colby said the
other day. AT an early morning hour
the telephone bell rang in our top
floor rooms and we were warned to
go down to lower floor.
I'VE went to the window and look
ed out. Searchlights were flashing
across the sky. We heard the hum
of motors and the terrific rattle Of
artillery. / said This is big city:
there is no chance OF their coming
4 near the hotel and went back to bed
wasn't braveI didn't appreciate
the danger. Next morning we found
a shell had burst not one hundred feet
from the hotel" n
| That next morning Mr.. Colby with
other members OF the Commission
visited the poorer districts Of London,
where most of the shells fell.
In one house he found five-year
old boy wounded, and waiting to be
taken to hospital
"You can read until your eyes are
blind, you can look at pictures OF hor-
rors until you sicken OF them, but you
won't know what war is until you see
a child wounded, Mr.. Colby declared,
and his voice shook as he said 1t.
The raid was an incident only in
Mr.. Colby's trip. His business in Eng
land and France was to investigate
the food situation. He visited Lon
Edon'sa Matl Kitchens, tfsi faEHl Lands
or EHstAnu ana france, zdnd RIVER Wha
arm. q 0a's'1l' 1isgRssiSsaat 1aD1sp1 nea
food is shipped and how the armies
\ and civilians are fed.
1--WE Jaw 100000 ioaHesv Of bread
baking iHonHJgr0up pf ovensawhenlwe
fafrived ats s%frensh ipoGB Mr. Colby
esaid. I'VE followed that shipment of
food right up to the trenches, and
hdont YOU make any mistake about the
trench soldiers not being fed to per
lection. + hadn't seen any white bread
until we got to the trenches. We
could not get sugar; there was plen-
ty Of II IN the trenches" ''9'i Z
4 His message to America is a plea
for greater food conservation in order
that the food shipments to France
may be maintained.
/ He lived with the soldiers
red with French and English food
ministries and inspected agricultural
regions of both nations, and knows
that winning the war depends on
Americas willingness to save fool
and use substitutes that our exporta-
lions OF foods may be steady and sut-
ficient. fs'92
Everett Colby. OF ORANGE, New Jer-1
sey, has had notable career as law
yer, business man, and political lead
er. He has served as member OF
the New Jersey State Board OF Edu
cation, of the New Jersey House OF
Representatives and of the New Jer-
sey State Senate He has served al
so as udjutant OF the New Jersey Ma
tional Guard In New York business
circles Mr.. Colby is well known as di
rector in several important corpora
tions.
No one in public life in New Jersey
has stood more consistently for clean
politics and the interests of the peo-
pie than Everett Colby. and his
straightforward sincerity and earnes.
address have made him speaker who
always attracts large audiences wher- |
ever he IS announced.
Mr.. CODY will be one of the chief
speakers at the conference of Federal |
Food Administrators to be held at
Columbia, Tuesday, July 20. He will
also speak at the Farmers convention
on the following day.