McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-08-02
FOOD CONFERENCE
! HELD At COLUMBIA
FOOD ADMINISTRATORS OF MID
DIE TENNESSEE GATHER
FOR ALL-DAY SESSION..
J.I. FlNNEY MAKES ADDRESS
spring Address BY Dr.. Everett COL
by, Member Of U. S. Food Com
mission Visiting England and France


mission Visiting England and France
Nashville, Tenn.-Probably the best
food administration conference ever
held was that at Columbia, when near.
ly thirty OF. the forty-one food admin
istrators of Middle Tennessee met for
an all-day session The conference
was presided over by J. l. Finney, as
sistant to the federal food administers
tor of Tennessee, who delivered the
opening address. DR.. Morgan and the
following members of his staff were in
attendance: Charles Clay Trabue, state
legal representative; O'Bryan Wash
ington, chief of enforcement; Albert
l.. Love, executive secretary, and Miss
es Lucille Meek and Sara Paris, report
ers.
The feature of the meeting was an
inspiring address by DR.. Everett Colby
If the United States Food Administra
zion, Washington. He was member
OF the food commission that visited
England and France last winter, ana
he drew graphic picture of conditions
there, appealing for still greater con
servation
Dr. Morgan spoke briefly, appealing
especially for increased crop prodAlc
ton The roll was called and the fol
lowing county administrators re
sponded:
T. G. Cunningham Bedford; p. H
Duke. Cheatham; Doak Aydelotte, Col
fee; G. P. Burnet, Cumberland; E. L
Doak, Davidson; James Drake, De
Kalb; VIII e. Walker, Franklin; W. L
Abernathy, Giles; A. H. Grigsby, Hick
man; J. T. Richardson, Houston; g
W. Cowan, Humphreys; B. L. Quarles
Jackson; T. j. Petway, Lewis; d. u
Clayton, Marshall; John p Graham
Maury; l. R. Peterson, Montgomery
]. A. Hargrove, Overton; Jas N. Cox
Putnam; ]. Moore King, Rutherford
T. w. Hunter Sumner; P. V. Burnley
Trousdale; n. F. Bailey, VanBufeHi
Edgard Pearson, White; Homer Han
cock, Wilson.
The following program was observ
ed in the afternoon:
Enforcement of Regulations-Chas
c. Trabue.
Sugar-Albe-t c. Love.
Wheat, Flour and Mill Feeds.
Finney.
1t was decided to divide Middle Tel
nessee into five zones and to hold zone
meetings of the food administrator
monthly. The zones announced are as
| follows:
Columbia Zone-Counties of Maury
Hickman, Lewis, Giles, Marshall, LIN
| coin, Wayne, Lawrence.
Nashville Zone e-Counties of David
son Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, D..
Kalb, Trousdale, Humphreys, Dickson
| Cannon, Williamson.
Cookeville Zone-Counties of Pick
EFT, Fentress, Clay, Overton, Putnam.
| Smith, Cumberland Jackson
Clarksville Zone-Counties of Mont
gomery, Robertson, Cheatham, Hous
ton and Stewart.
Tullahoma Zone-Counties of Frank
lin, Grundy, White, Warren, Van Blu
| rem, Coffee, Moore, Bedford.
In opening the conference J. l. Fin
ney, who presided, spoke as follows:
"Felow Food Administrators:
at is gratifying in the extreme t
greet so many of you here today. TIL,
county food administrator is the mos
important factor in the United States
food administration. Its success, itl
proper solution of the many problem.
constantly pressing upon it, its re
sponse to the needs of the hour, de
pend very largely upon the zeal, tht
efficiency, the energy and the loyalty
| of the county food administrators. Oul
organization in any county is just wha
| the local food administrator makes It
| In those counties where we have active
and jealous representatives we fint
our regulations observed and our rule.
| respected. The state food administra
| ton sitting in its offices at Nashville
with its force limited, cannot, in tine
very nature of things, know what |;
| going on down in the counties. 1t mus
depend upon you gentlemen. In coun
| ties where our organization is weak
lacking in energy, in loyalty and il
whole-hearted conservation to the ma
tion, we find little conservation o
food; our regulations are treated witt
contempt and the whole food admins
tration is looked upon as a sort OF in
tangible something to be respected
only by those whose tastes or appetite'
conform to its will.
''For these reasons say-and say
deliberately-that the county food ad
ministrator who is doing his who'll
duty to the food administration, to hi
nation and to humanity in this crisis
who is devoting his time and his en-
ergies to the work of the food admins
tration, studying and mastering il
regulations, ready at all times to en-
force its its,as without regard to tn
effect that his conauct may have q
his business. social or political stand
ing In his community. in short, forsas
ing all other interests save his natioT
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