The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-09
40 CERTIFICATES
TO DEMONSTRATORS
IN MAURY COUNTY
FIRST TO BE PRESENTED IN TEN.
NESSEE BY DIVISION OF
EXTENSION.
A SPLENDID RECORD MADE
Miss Virginia p. Moore, State Direc-
tor, Praises Work of Women In this
County In Food Conservation and
Production Movement.
(Monday's Daily Herald.)

Tennessee to receive certificates
from the division of extension and
food administration as cooperative
demonstrators in the conservation Of
food. The certificates were presented
this morning at the War Work build
ing by Miss Virginia P. Moore, dir
ector of the work in Tennessee. The
demonstrators were trained under
Mrs. Ina II. Pollhill, director of urban
work, and Mrs. Artie w, Bryan, dir
ector of rural work in Maury county.
The presentation of the certificates
occurred after an appropriate program
of songs and reading. America"
was sung by the class ami audience,
followed by the Lords prayer in uni
SON Master Dining then gave an
entertaining reading, Hoover VIII
Get You If You Don't Watch Out
Mrs. Pollhill persided at the meet
ing and introduced Miss Moore.
Praise of Maury county women for
the work they have done and the de-
claration that in Mrs. Bryan this
county has one of the Invest wires
engaged in the work were features
of Miss Moore's address that caused
pride in the hearts of those who heard
he..
Miss Moore declared that the home
demonstration clubs, the first Of
which were organized in the South
about six years ago, but which now
have been formed in every state in the
union, constituted the standing army
| for food conservation work when war
was declared Had they been planned
especial for war work they could not
have answered the purpose letter, ac-
cording to Miss Moore, who rejoiced
that the first call for food conserva-
! ton came to the women and 10000, 600
homes in America responded by BE-
coming members of the food admins
| tration.
Dwelling upon the Importance of
| food conservation, Miss Moore insist
| ed that all should abstain from eating
wheat flour and using sweets even
after the harvest in order to provide
/ more of the essential foods for the
| allies. She said that it was the cope
of the department that home preserv-
ing of food, canning, drying and
brining, would soon be carried on 10
such an extent that the government
could use all Of the products of the
| factories for shipments to Europe
while the homes would supply the de-
mands of local grocers To do this
she suggested that more fall gardens
| be planted and more foodstuffs grown
on the farms. She told of the ter
rible suffering and hunger that has
been endured by the peoples of
Europe who have come in the path of
the Huns and how the bones of
starved Polish people whitened the
sides of the highways.
In presenting the certificates to
the 40 women entitled to them, Miss
Moore said that should hold them
selves ready to he called ufon at any
time for demonstration work and in
spreading valuable information about
the war. Any who would not do this
should return the certificate, she
said Certificates were presented to
the following:
Urban Clubs-Mrs. Henry Arch
Moore, Miss Cornelia Stephenson.
Mrs. j, II. Rogers, Miss Cordia May
Jones, Miss Ethel Hill, Mrs. e, P.
| Turner, Miss Amanda Harlan, Mrs. D.
l.. Fry, Miss Louise Jones, Mrs. P. A.
Wheeler, Miss Robert Fry, Mrs. Frank
Smith, Miss Rosa Barnett, Mrs. Kate
Sowell Jones, Miss Annie Digger,
Mrs. J. NJ. Martin. Miss Grace Moore
The names of the rural cub mem
| bers who received certificates were
not available for publication today.
Another feature of the morning pro-
gram was a short talk by H. 0. Fulton,
chairman fthe War Savings commit
tee in praise Of the work done by the
home demonstration clubs in this
movement, and beautiful certificates
showing the names and amount sub
scribed by the members of each were
presented to the clubs.
Exhibits of the food canned and pre-
served by the volunteer demonstra-
! tors attracted considerable attention.
Most of the fruit and vegetables were
sut up without the use of sugar, even
the fruit juices being bottled without
sugar to be made into iellies when
the sugar supply becomes more alum
dant
It was matter of pride to the CO.
lumbia women, that Miss Moore stat
ed that although six urban demonstra-
ton experts had been started in this
state only two of them we're retained,
the others being removed when the
towns and cities in which they were
/ working failed to give sufficient re-