The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-07-26
OBLIGATIONS UPON
ADMINISTRATORS Of
WAR FOOD MEASURES
SUCCESS OF WHOLE STRUCTURE
DEPENDS UPON THEIR FL
DEITY TO DUTY.
BURDEN UPON the PRODUCERS
Nation Must Feed Its Own and In Ad-
ditlon at Least Half Of the People
Of the Countries That Are Allied
With II In Struggle.


Duties and obligations of county
food administrator were stressed in
the address delivered at the opening
of the conference OF Middle Tennes
see food administrators at the County
High School this morning by j. /.
Finney, educational director for Ten
nessee.
In opening the conference Mr.. Fin
ney spoke as follows
Fellow Food Administrators
1T is gratifying in the extreme to
geet so many of you here today. The
County Food Administrator Is the
most important factor in the United
States Food Administration. It's sue.
cess, its proper solution of the many
problems constantly pressing upon it;
its response to the needs of the hour,
depend very largely upon the zeal,
the efficiency. the energy and the 10y
atty of the County Food Administra-
tors. Our organization in any County
is just what the local Food Admins
traitor makes it. In those counties
where we have active and jealous rep
resentatives we find our regulations
observed and our rules respected.
The State Food Administration sit
ting 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. 1t must de-
pend upon you gentlemen. In coun.
ties where our organization is weak,
lacking in energy, in loyalty and in
whole-hearted conservation to the Ma
ton we find little conservation OF
food, our regulations are treated will
contempt and the whole Food Admin
istration is looked upon as sort of
Intangible something to be respected
alone by those who tastes or appe-
titles conform to it's will
'For these reasons say, and say
1t deliberately, that the County Food
Administrator who is doing his whole
duty to the Food Administration, tC
his Nation and to humanity in this
crisis, who is devoting. his time and
! hfs energies to the work Of the Food
Administration, studying and master
ing its regulations, ready at all times
to enforce its rules, without regard
10 the effect that his conduct may
have on his business, social or politi-
cal standing in his community, in
short forsaking all other interests,
save his Nation and its Food Admin
istration-that man is doing service
Just as valuable and just as essen,
tial to the life of this Nation and the
perpetuity of it's institutions as is the
boy i'll uniform on the front line in
France or Flanders or on the high
seas. When you think, my friends,
of the enormous burden placed upon
the Food Administration, which must
not only stimulate in every way pos.
sible, the production of food stuffs,
but must see that they are so con-
served and distributed that in add
ton to feeding the hundred and ten
millions of our own people. there shall
be a surplus sufficient to feed sixty
millions Of our Allies and an album
dance for the millions of men whom
we have sent and will send to the
firing line in our defense, you will
appreciate that ] have not exagger.
! ated the important part that the Coun-
ty 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 neces.
sary that the County Administrators
know them. but also that they have
some understanding Of the reasons
which have prompted their promulga-
ton. In short the County Admins
traitors ought 20 be able not only 10
explain, but to defend the necessary
regulations of the Food Administra-
tiCn. To do this requires time and
study. You are busy men. Few Of
YOU are so situated that you can live
without giving some attention to your
private affairs, but this is the hour
for sacrifice. This war is going to be
won only through the sacrifice and de
yotion of the American people; those
behind the lines as we'll as those who
''go over the top" Unless you are
willing to make this sacrifice, to give
of your time and efforts you have no
place in this organization. You are a
cog in its wheels. Every regulation
issued by the Food Administration is
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