The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-05
ENDORSEMENT IS
 GIVEN WILLIAMS
RETAIL GRoCERs AND JoRsES : OFFER COOPERATION TO THE
 FOOD ADMlNIsTRA- ON.
Committee Will Meet Later With County Food Administrator srouoh-
 ton to Fix Retail Food Prices.

Hot Springs wa3lesale and retail grocers met last night i'll the Business Mems Leage and unanimously en- dorsed the food administration and it's policies in ArEansas as represented and carried out by Hamp Williams, federal food administrator t1r h state.
 It was the first meeting Mir. WI Hams had with the local interests since his appointment, and the session was called lor the purpose of dis cussing with the retail men the nam
 ing of a price committee for Hot Springs, and this feature was wei comed by the local merchan,s' in me following resolution:
 Whereas. our nation is al present engaged in a great war and has en- tered that conflict with the highest purposes and aims, and
 Whereas, IL is necessary, in order that the United States win this grea, struggle and make the world safe for democracy by oyerthrowing the most oppressive and dangerous autocracy the world has ever known, for every man to give to our government his full measure oi support, and Whereas, this is not a war in wAicn business men should look to in antici-
 patton of great gain but rather the spirit should he one of sacrifice and heartiest cooperation with the gov ernment and its agents, therefore be | it
 | Resolved, that we most heartily en-
 dorse the administration Of Hamy Williams, federal food administrator
 for Arkansas; that i've equally heart fly approve of his appointment ot Prof. Garnett Broughton as food ad-
 ministrator for Garland county, and
 that we go on record as welcoming
 in the fullest spirit of co operation
 the appointing Ot a 'fSugges tive Price 1 Committee' and will agree to abide 1 by all rules and regulations and re-
 quests that may come from the fed eral government of its authorized lagents in the food administration, as
 well as all other departments of the l government.
 l Professor Broughton, owing to the illness of his child, was not at the meeting last night, but Charles Birn-
 baum, Charles c. Russ, secretary ol the Merchants Association, and John ] Peters were named as a committee tc confer with Professor BrOught0n and lacquaint him with the action oi he Imeeting Professor BrOugion vii
 later name te Suggestive Price Com
 mittee.' which will have representa- tiyes of the wholesale and re ail in- lerests, while Professor Brodghtor
 and Senator Houston Emory, who ls
 chairman o- the county council o.
 defense. will represent the retailers
 on the commit ee.
 MT Williams addressed the meet ling. telling of what had been accom- lplished by him in bringing abo,t co- | lOperation of all interests affected by
 the rulings of the food administra ion
 He asked for the support of his fo!- low townsmen and they assure1 him | they would give that to a man
 Berry 1T. Randolph, attorney for the food admins ration, also delivered q message 0 the local business men. He
 pointed out the fact that the govern ment had first asked the men and l boys of the nation to sacrifice their l lives in order that this war might be won, and was now coming Go the busi- ness men and requesting O' them cer- rain sacrifices which, by Co-opera- ton. would in the end prove no sac rifice but heneftt to them. He at- ed that this proposition came from them, a fact that he appreciated, and that the spirit of cooperation would prove most helpful to the government and it's interests in this state.
 J. T farrell one of the large whole sale dealers of Little Rock. who is a member of the Suggestive Price Committed of that city, was present and delivered a stirring address to the Hot Spriegs men. He old of his trip to Washington, gave most in- teresting word picture of Mir Hoover and declared that no man could talk with the food administrator of the United States without having a deep conviction that the things MT, Hoover advocated were right.
 Following the meeting many of the men went personally to Mir. Williams and thanked him for getting them to- gether and reiterated the promise Of sur port and cooperation contained in the resolutions adopted