Evening star., 1946-08-06
Food Is Still Keynote
OF Hour All Club
Encampment Told

The more than 900 Maryland
farm boys and girls who converged
on the University of Maryland
campus yesterday to attend the oath
annual State 4 H Club encampment
this morning heard Donald Nc
Knight, 22-year-old Street, Md.
club member, remind them that
with the war over food continues
to be the keynote of the hour"
Appealing for food for the starv-
ing and homeless peoples of Eu-
rope and Asia the Mcknight youth.
who recently testified before a
congressional committee on behalf
of Al clubs in their request for
further appropriations, said the
farms of America had established
a great record in producing food
and fiber for our fighting forces"
during the last five years.
The All Club members, who will
be kept busy until Friday night with
a week of instruction, entertainment
and demonstrations, were told that
they, as part Of rural America, hold
much OF the future of the Nation" :"
Our thinking will determine the
course OF our country and perhaps
OF the world" the Hartford County
member declared.
Response to Greetings.
Donald's oratory came asSa re-
sponse for All members to greet
ings extended to the gathering by
DR.. H. c. Byrd, president of the
university: Miss Venia M. Kellar
assistant director Of the University
Of Maryland Extension Service, and
Field Agent Edward Alton OF the
Department of Agriculture at an
assembly in the university,s new
gym -armory. -
Dorothy Emerson, State girls
club agent, presided atNhe morning
session. Later, club members be-
tween the ages of IL and Is attended
agriculture and home economics
group demonstrations and those 16
and over attended a discussion pc
riod, Choosing a Vocation" by DR..
r. Floyd Cromwell, supervisor of
education and vocation guidance of
Baltimore.
The remainder of the days sched-
ule was to consist of tribe meetings
on the campus at AS pm, a meet
ing of local leaders in the agricul-
ture building conference room at
2 pm, free period for sports and
music on the campus and a tribe
leaders meeting at 2:45 pm, a All
All Star meeting in the arts and
science building auditorium and a
county extension agents meeting in
the gym-armory at 4 pm, campus
recreation at $50 pm, council circle
and vespers on the campus at 8 pm.
and taps at 1915 pm.
Program Tomorrow.
On the program tomorrow are
two assemblies at 8 am.-one for
boys and another for girls. William
w. BILL" Werber, former American
and National League baseball star,
and Geary Eppley, university direc-
tor of athletics and dean of men
will speak at the boys session.
Meanwhile, the All AL Stars, an
honorary organization of some 600
members who have been cited for
outstanding work in the club and
their communities, announced its
officers for 1916, who were elected
Sunday at a pre-encampment meet
ing.
Margaret Ringler of Cumberland
was elected chief, succeeding Mrs.
Beatrice Cissel, Ellicott City; Dom
aid Mcknight, lesser chief: Peggy
Ensor, Bel Air, scribe; John Chill
coat, Sparks, medicine man (treas-
urer), and Tom Lippincott, Colora,
scout membership, They will
officiate at an initiation ceremony
for new members at Braddock
Heights in October when some so
new members are scheduled for
induction.
Dick Mansfield, Star cartoonist
and retired Metropolitan Police
captain, spoke to the delegates on
traffic safety last night. His lecture
was followed by chalk talk.