Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
WE MUST SAVE TO
WIN THE WAR
Prof. Sargent Details Why and How
We May Assist in Nation Wide
Campaign Now in Progress.
(By E. l.. Sargent)
Food Administrator for Gunnison
County

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tna: any deficiency in supplies frem
this side is a deficiency with which
they have to bear. We must assume
that the soldiers and the war work.
ers will be fed to the last minute; that
any shortage from US falls at the place
that can least stand the shortage.
Beyond that question. which Is the
humanitarian one, there is the whole
war problem. that Iniess those reople
can be fed they will no. remain con-
slant in the war. No soldier will fight
at the front if his people at home are
not nourished.
"The form of our saving with the
American people does not bear SO
hardly, or is not at all in the nature
of those savings which they are en-
forcing in Europe. The shortage of
shipping, and therefore the necessity
of limiting the exports of food-stuff
to the most concentrated forms re-
duced the number of commodities that
We want to send to Europe to very
small number, and they comprise
wheat and corn, meat and pork, and
dairy products, SO that we have a
specific problem Of increasing the ex-
ports of those commodities.
"This becomes a problem Of induc-
ing every man. woman and child to do
his part in service. We have the be-
lief that it is possible to effect these
ends by voluntary organization from
the bottom up. that he who works will
be the initiative of our own people,
their willingness to organize and their
willingness to submit to self-denial,
and unless we can effect that organiza-
tion amongst our own people we can
not effect these ends, and we simply
cannot defend ourself.
"Unless a democracy can find in it's
elf some solution OF organization that
is entirely different from the organi-
cation of an autocracy, ard which yet
is equally effective, it simply cannot
defend itself against autocratic or
ganization and therefore is faith not
worth fighting for, and cannot long
survive.
"We have the grand test to put up
to the American people, whether or
not this form Of government and this
form of political philosophy is right,
and whether or not it can effect the
end of its own defense. So that we
come to the problem of voluntary or
ganization Of 100,O00,000 people
among themselves to practice self
denial themselves, to service in war,
and service which they have to per-
form three times q day, every man
of his own individual initiative.
"If we can effect saving, for in
stance, of q pound of wheat flour per
week from the average five-pound con-
choI hnHyn CO
cured the amount of wheat from this
ask of the American people is that
they shall use corn in substitution.
+ 1--WE need some sort of a moral, de-
in the country to national service that
will form binding link, that will
maintain the constancy of reaction in
the household over the entire period
of the war. We propose to ask ev-
cry householder in the country, and
ultimately every hotel and restaurant
and every other distributing industry,
to sign a pledge to the .Administra-
ton to carry out our directions. We
propose to deliver these directions at
the same time, and we propose that
every household, and in fact, every
distributing establishment ultimately
in the country that is willing to come
in and pledge this national service
with US shall exhibit ticket in the
window, and thereby make an open
declaration of their allegiance to the
Government in this practical service.
"The wars are paid for out of service.
They are not paid for out of railways
or houses or town lots. They are paid
for by the savings of the people and
whether we pay for them out Of our
savings today, or whether after the
war by mortgaging the future of our
people, is all the same thing.
"There is another factor that is of
extreme Importance to US, namely,
that when this war is over Europe will
find herself with a reduced standard
of living with a people greatly dis
ciplined in all directions, and in po-
sition to compete in the worlds mar
kets in a way they never have been
able before. We shall also face a
world with a reduced consuming pow
er, and unless we can secure some dis
cipline in our own people we will be in
no position to meet that condition
when peace comes.
"The other values are equally great;
the moral values look upon as of ex-
treme importance. The force of these
moral values is a demonstration that
democracy can defend itself and can
organize itself for it's own defense.
practically the only moral equaliz-
alton there is in war is the inspira-
ton to self-sacrifice and to service
that comes out Of war. That is it's
only moral balance, and unless we can
inspire our people to a greater en-
tent than they are today with the
necessity for service, for self-denial,
then we will have lost the only moral
benefit that can possibly be derived
out of the war"
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