Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-08-01
only by those whose tastes or appetites
conform 10 its will.

For these reasons say-and say IL
deliberately-that the county food ad.
ministrator who is doing his whole
duty to the food administration, to his
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 its
regulations, ready at all times to en-
force it's rules. without regard to the
effect that his conduct may have on
his business social or political stand
ing in his community, in short, forsaS.
ing all other interests save his nation
and its food administration-that man
Is doing a service just as valuable ara
Just as essential to the life OF this ma.
ton and the perpetuity Of its institu.
tons as is the boy in the uniform OF
the front line in France or Flanders OK
ON the high seas.
when you think, my friends, of the
enormous burden placed upon the fooG
administrator. which must not only
stimulate in every way possible the
production of foodstuffs, but must Sc,
that they are so conserved and dis.
tributed, that in addition to feeding
the hundred and ten millions of our
own people, there shall be surplus
sufficient to feed sixty millions Of Vr
allies and an abundance for the mil.
lions of men whom we have sent aud
will send to the firing line in our dc.
Tense, you will appreciate that have
not exaggerated the important part
that the county food administrator
must play in this struggle.
IF we are to effectively administer
the rules and regulations OF the food
administration it is not only necessary
I that the county administrators know
! them, but also that they have some
/ understanding of the reasons which
have prompted their PRONUNCIATION. IN
short the county administrators ought
to be able not only to explain but 10
I defend the Necessary regulations O..
the food administration. To do this
requires time and study. You are busy
men. Few Of you are so situated that
you can live without giving some at.
tention to your private affairs but this
is the hour for sacrifice. This war "a
going to be won only through the sac.
rifice and devotion of the American
people; those behind the lines as we'll
as those who 20 over the top Unless
you are willing to make this sacrifice,
| n fviu Of nd of
have no place IN this orgnazition. Yen
are cog in its wheels. Every regula.
ton issued by the food administration
IS founded in } grim necessities of 3
nation despera ely battling for its very
existence. Ite rules should be fear
lessly promulgated, not apologeticaiiy
or halfhearteG'y announced. These
rules are rot issued until the whole
field, not only in this country, but in
the nations allied with US, and the ma.
tons fro.n which we can draw sup
plies, has been fully surveyed by that
genius for organization, Herbert Hooy.
er. No man in America has finer Or
a larger vision of the task that con
fronts the nation, than Mr. Hoover.
His grasp of the problems before him
his wonderful magnetism, his deep
conservation to duty, mark him as
probably the second man in the ma
food administration comes as the re
suit of a within or caprice. They are
all the result of profound study and
keen conception of the problems to be
solved.
"Yours is a thankless task. If there
Is any man in the organisation who
expects any reward other than that
which comes from a consciousness oil
duty we'll done, he is doomed to disap
pointment l have no illusions about
our work. l know that no matter how
great our sacrifice, how intense oul
devotion, this job is wholly lacking In
thrills and therefore it Is idle to ex
pect popular applause or public appre
citation. To constantly interfere will
established customs of business; tt
eternally tell men thus far you shall
go and no further in your selfish de
sire to make money to be forever o,
the housetops shouting warnings Il
men that they cannot indulge appetitei
as old as life itself-these things, as
suredly, are not calculated to make u
| popular heroes or to prove a steprir:
stone to future preiarment. If one q
: | you thinks for a moment that this sery
: ice paves the way to either riches o
fame, Danish the idea, otherwise yo
are destined to die OF a broken hear
"To this task we must dedicate GU
all Food will not win the war alone
but assuredly the war cannot be wo
without food. Civilization, everythin
that makes life worth while, is involI
ed in this struggle. Surely we can Civ
the best that Is in ~ - the service O
our nation and of humanity. Born o
the necessities of world on the eros:
of nation at Gethsemane, the food at
ministration, without chart or cCH
pass, with no precedents to guide 4
with nothing but the devotion and ps
l triotism of the men and women c
: America to finance its organization sc
itself resolutely to solution Of prof.
lens that were staggering to conte!J
plate. After nearly a year OF activ
: ties, In spite of mistakes that wer
unavoidable and expected 1t GO -