NEWS OF THE DAY FROM CAMP SEVIER Y. M. C. A. Secretaries Hear Address on Military Etiquette and Various Other Subjects Special to The State Maj. O. P. M. Hazzard, division in spector and acting division chief of staff, yesterday addressed the school for Y. M. C. A. secretaries on jmilitary etiquette. Among the scheduled lectures in the course are a series of four on the political movements of Western Europe leading up to the present war given by Prof. J. L. Vass of Furman University, Greenville, and another series of four on racial aspects of the war by Dr. O. O. Fletcher, also of Furman. Several prominent out of town speakers have been invited to take part in the discussions, including . . . MAJOR HAZZARD ON FOOD CONSERVATION Chief of Staff at Camp Sevier Gives Statement on a Timely Topic PATRIOTIC DUTY Major O. P. M. Hazzard, chief of staff at Camp Sevier, yesterday was asked to state his views in regard to the conservation of food, and as to the campaign which is now being waged all over the United States to arouse the population to the necessity of putting aside the old wasteful habits that for years have characterized the American people. Major Hazzard in a statement to County Chairman W. P. Conyers, comes out strongly in favor of the food saving movement, and what he has to say in regard to this vital matter is so pregnant with sound logic that his statement in full is published below, in the hope that every reader of The [ ] will benefit by it. Major General Townsley, in command at Camp Sevier, after reading Major Hazzard's statement, said that he heartily endorsed every word of it. Chairman Conyers stated last night that if the civilian population of Greenville County will show the interest in the food conservation movement that is shown by the military men, both officers and enlisted men, the campaign will be a magnificent success.Major Hazzard's Statement "An expression of my views on the subject of food conservation would hardly seem to be necessary. It is a question in which as a citizen and as a commander of military forces I am doubly interested. We are engaged in a war which is being fought not alone with guns and cannon and ammunitions, but also with the plow and the common tools and implements of peace, with the proper handling of economic forces, with the exercise of providence in the home, with intelligent regulation of the consumption of farm products everywhere. There are millions of mouths crying for bread in the stricken provinces of France. Our own wants are large and must be satisfied. Our armies cannot fight hunger and Germany at the same time. The wants of France and England are also extremely large and pressing, and great as our resources unquestionably are they are not inexhaustible. The economic situation is a factor in this war which cannot be lost sight of for an instant. We will not and cannot win out u! nless sufficient food is accumulated in this country to feed not only ourselves but our allies as well. If the Germans are to be beaten, if light is ever to break out from under the bloody pall which hangs over Europe, the appeal of the present moment that everyboty save must be heard and heeded. Every bushel of wheat, every pound of beef and sugar makes peace more certain and brings victory nearer. Much has been done but more has been left undone, and the food question, as a war problem, is not by any means solved as yet. That is one of the most diffficult lines of endeavor which the nation has to deal with. Here in the Army we have had a general propaganda for food saving going on for some time with admirable results, and while definite accomplishment along this line is difficult to measure from day to day, it is not the less real and substantial. Certainly in this Division there is very little if any waste at all. The fight against waste, however, is not our fight alone. It is a fight which can be fought without leaving one's family, without occupying exposed positions in fire trenches, and it should concern primarily the civilian behind the lines. What our duties are in this war is written in large letters every day on the battlefields of France. To stimulate production, to economize, to fight waste and extravagance, that is the essential duty, the patriotic duty, I am prompted to say the religious duty, of every man who remains at home. That is one way in which he can help us win this war, and it must be said to his credit that in the majority of cases he is fulfilling that duty, that generally speaking, the civilian population of the United States has risen in the noblest manner to the great opportunity presented to it in this matter. I have spoken more than is my custom about the patriotic duties of the civilian ! in the present circumstances. I hope it will not be thought that I wish to make invidious comparisons between his patriotism and ours, his task and ours. Of all the people eager to serve the flag in the present need of the nation I think that none are showing greater patriotism than those who, in their own households, in a prosaic and unostentatious manner, just by doing with a little less than their accustomed daily diet, are contributing toward the conservation of the great primary staples."