Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-08-08
FOOD CONFERENCE
HELD At COLUMBIA
FOOD ADMINISTRATORS OF MILO.
DIE TENNESSEE GATHER
FOR ALL-DAY SESSION.
IL. FINNEY MAKES ADDRESS
A Feature of the Meeting Was An In
spring Address BY DR.. Everett Col
by, a Member Of U. S. Food Com
mission Visiting England and France

mission Visiting England and France
Nashville, Tenn.--PEobably 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 ]. l. Finney, as.
sistant to the federal food .administra-
tor CT 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
| fngton, 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
of the United States Food Administra-
ton, Washington. he was a member
OF the food commission that visited
England and France last winter, and
he drew graphic picture of conditions
there, appealing for still greater con-
servation.
DR.. Morgan spoke briefly. appealing
especially for increased crop produc
ton. The roll was called and the fol-
lowing county administrators re-
sponded:
T. g. Cunningham, Bedford; p. H.
Duke, Cheatham; Doak Aydelotte, Ccf-
fee; G.. p Burnett, Cumberland; e. l..
Doak, Davidson; James Drake, De.
Kalb; Will e. Walker Franklin; w. L.
Alternately. Giles; A. H. Grigsby, Hick-
man; J. r. Richardson, Houston; c..
w. Cowan, Humphreys; B. L. Quarles,
Jackson T. J. Petway, Lewis; D. u.
Clayton, Marshall; John P. Graham,
Maury; I. R. Peterson, Montgomery:
J. A. Hargrove, Overton; Jas. N. Cox,
Putnam; J. Moore King, Rutherford;
T. w. Hunter, Sumner; P. V. Burnley,
Trousdale; H. F. Bailey, VanBuren;
Edgard Pearson, White; Homer Han.
cock, Wilson.
The following program was observ
ed In the afternoon
Enforcement of Regulations--Chas
C. Trabue,
Sugar-Albert G. Love
Wheat, Flour and Mill Feeds. l.
Finney.
It was decided to divide Middle Ter-
nessea into five zones and to hold zone
meetings of the food administrators
monthly. The zones announced are as
follows:
Columbia Zoae-Counties of Maury,
Hickman, Lewis, Giles Marshall, Lin
coin, Wayne, Lawrence
Nashville Zone-Ccsaties of David
eon Rutherford, Sumner Wilson, De-
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, Wh@, Warren, Van Blu
rem, Coffee, Moore, Bedford.
In opening the conference ]. I. Fin
ney, who presided, spoke as follows:
"Fellow Food Administrators:
ut is gratifying in the extreme to
greet so many of you here today. The
county food administrator is the most
important factor in the United States
food administration. It's success, its
proper solution of the many problems
constantly pressing upon it, its re-
sponss to the needs OF the hour. de-
pend very largely upon the zeal, the
efficiency, the energy and the loyalty
Of the county food administrators. Our
organization In any county is just what
the local food administrator makes It.
In those counties where we have active
and Jealous representatives we find
our regulations observed and our rules
respected. The state food administra-
ton sitting IN its offices at Nashville,
with its force limited, cannot, in the
very nature OF things, know what Is
going on down In the counties. II must
depend upon you gentlemen. In coun-
ties where our organization Is weak,
lacking in energy, in loyalty and in
whole-hearted conservation to the ma
ten, we find little conservation OF
food; our regulations are treated with
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 appetites
conform to its will.
For these reasons say-and say IL
deliberstely-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 deyoting his time and his en-
ergies TO tho work Of the food admins
trstion. studying and mastering its
regulations. ready at all times to en-
force Its rules, without regard 70 the