The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-01-10

the paid employees have been released
to carry on the necessary clerical
work.
Conference Of Administrators.
The County Administrators of Penn
Sylvania held conference in Philadel-
phia on Friday of December 9th, at
which plans for the future were dis
cussed. AT the close of the afternoon
session, ii was resolved to form a
permanent organization of all the vol
unteer Food Administration officials in
the state and Howard Heinz was
elected permanent President
In the evening Mr. Heinz gave
dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
to his official family" which consist
ed of the Chiefs of Divisions at Head
quarters, the County Administrators,
and the Headquarters Secretaries.
The only persons present outside of
this official family were George Whar-
ton Pepper, Chairman of the Pennsyl-
vania Council of National Defense ::
Arthur Sewall, of the Advisory Com
mittee, and Lieutenant Governor
Frank B. Mccain, all of whom had
been associated with Mr.. Heinz in
phases of the food supply work.
In his address to his associates Mr..
Heinz dwelt upon the answering de-
votion of the County Administrators
and the faithful manner in which they
had performed their duties. While
some of the food regulations promul-
gated by Washington were of necessi-
ty of compulsory character, vet the
Administrators had combined good
judgment with justice in their enforce
ment. But above all, Mr. Heinz stat,
ed, the success of the AdminiStrat ion's
work was primarily due to the support
of the people of the state. who by
conserving food and voluntarily oh
serving the regulations of the Admin
instratiOn had helped to win the war
George Wharton Pepper congratu-
lated Mr.. Heinz and his associates on
the success of the Food Administra.
tons work Addresses were also
made by Mr.. SewalI and Lieutenant
Governor Mccain. The latter dwell
specially upon the part played by the
Pennsylvania farmers not only in in
creasing the food supply, but by con
servation in its use as we'll
What the Newspapers Did
George Nox Mccain, Director of
the Division of Press News of the
Food Administration in PENNSYLVANIA.
spoke of the remarkable and sustain
ed effort of the newspapers to aid the
Administration in its task In a
period of personal activity in news
paper work covering a period of over
thirty-five years. he said he had never
known of any cause, charitable. re-
ligious or patriotic, that had received
such spontaneous and loyal support as
that given the Food Administration
by the newspapers of PHILADELPHIA
and the state at large Five hundred
and fOrty-seven of the leading daily
and weekly papers of PENNSYLVANIA
had voluntarily pledged themselves TO
support the Administration, prompted
solely by the highest motives of pa
triotism, and they had kept their
pledge. The amount of space devoted
exclusively to Food news, rulings and
propaganda, if estimated on the value
of advertising space alone, would
reach into hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and this was unselfshly given
by the publishers without cost to the
government.
At the close Of the dinner, Charles
j. Hepburn, Esq. Chief Council of the
State Food Administration. on behalf
Of his associates, the Headquarters
Staff in Philadelphia, presented Mr.
Heinz with beautiful silver service
of sixteen pieces, as an evidence Of
their high regard for him as a man
and an official. At the previous meet.
Ing in November Mr.. Heinz was pre-
sented with a silver loving cup by the
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