Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-07
FIIDCK REPORTS
 i|l||) MEN PRAISE I ARKANSAS WORK
los Manager Enthusiastic f,ver Results of Meet
 ! inc in Washington.

,,o,sas is always in the front ,n in food conservation. and al m hos heen." was the remark made erbert m Hoover to w. II. Trulock, hoe inst returned from confer M nf hotel men from all over the trv held in Washington ana New for the purpose of planning fer conservation Of wheat.
 Tr1lock is enthusiastic over his I which he describes as "a won h, experience. There were GDo men present, he says, from all inc limited States, among them onrosentatives from California and From Cuba. These men paiC their oynenses to Washington to dis n1ans for aiding the overnment in nrasent emergency, and MT. Tru- is warm in his praise of their ;ot;otic attitude they took at the luncheon given the deleates Svashinton by J. McE. Bowman, of inc hotel and restaurant divi- 1 of the National food administra- and who controls the big Ealti- McAlpin and other hotels. At luncheon they heard an address hr Taylor. a food expert who was
 Nr. Hoover in Belgium. Mr. lock tells of how Dr. Taylor eS' had the reason for shipping wheat Rad showing that. while it is no' most nutritious of cereals, it is the Ii easily transported and handled Taylor also told the delegates that ,v of the substitutes now being
 for wheat in this country were lv more nutritious than wheat it
 oynlaining how wheat had conn | more general use because of it. Inability, the east with which it is dled and the Whiteness Of wheat bd.
 F Hoover was introduced by MT vman. who liakened him to the oral commanding a volunteer army hundred thousand men. The fooC biristrator made a foreeful talk tf hotel men, impressing them witt earnestness. Mr. Trulock relate: how at one period of his talk, MT byer's voice became husky Witf inc and his auditors feared for { ment he was going to break down outlined the terrible need of brea( food in the allied nations. point ont that wheat is the only grail
 we can export. He showed tha Eas absolutely necessary for us tt wheat abroad to the limit of ou' acity. and pointed out how the foot oinistration had been disappointed the wheat supply, finding stock ch lower than had been antlcipat dr. Hoover ended his talk by askin' the men present, on their word o bor. to remove wheat from thel les. Every man, MT. Trulock says ang to his feet with arms uDraise' response to the food administra Is appeal, and the luncheon ende' h this demonstration.
 liter the meeting Mr. Trulock ha opportunity to talk to MT, Hoover praiseed the work done in ArkaI The day following the luncheon tn egates were the guests of Mir. Bow m on trip to New York. the hos bing all exnenses of the entire 60 egates, and entertaining them a
 guests at the Baltimore and a1 Ter hotel in the city on their arr MT. Trulock was among thos pping at the Baltimore.
 At a meeting in New York. the de Is of the proposed plan we1 Feshed out. and it was decided hove all wheat from the tables (
 hotels represented on April l MT. Bowman put the rule into e et at once. clearing wheat from h bles on April 1. At this meetin s. Wiles. state chairman of tf tel and restaurant work in Arka1 B, reported on the wheat conserv n work in this state. presenting ii es to show that Arkansas had save pre wheat and had returned mol beat flour from the homes than ar her state, statement which remai unchallenged by any of the oth' hte representatives
 The delegates were again the gues
 Mir. Bowman at "wheatless" ba let before leaving for home.
 MT. Trulock says that he four erybody in Washington worki, (rd "to go over the top," and that u hole east seemed to be imbued wi desire to serve in the winning of u