The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-31


continue to burn up the food!
Therefore, if you want to~eat-anG
70 Continue to eat prevent the fires
that are destroying vast stores of the
country's food products every day.
These are the salient thoughts of 8
letter recently issued by one of the
largest insurance companies to its
agents and4>to the insurance frater
nifty The letter emphasizes the fact
that the dutytD serve cannot be dele
gated. "U. S.. stands for the United
States it says; "but it spells US, and
with very distinctive spelling when
q state Of war arrives"
The letter is a clarion call to indi
vtdual service-personal assumption
of responsibility for waste, however
caused and whatever it affects but
with particular reference to the pre-
ventiOn of food Wastage by fire.
The insurance company's call is to
the agents of the company first, to the
insurance fraternity second; but it
applies with equal force to every man
and woman-even every child-that
handles or in the remotest degree is
responsible for created values, wheth-
er created by mans handiwork or pro-
duced as the result of his labor.
The letter follows:
"In the stress which confrOnts our
country we have also the recognized
Importance of the individual, the guam
tity and quality of the personal obi
cation of every citizen, which in less
strenuous times is overlooked or
ignored. 1t is not a time when per-
sonal responsibility may be left to
parties, societies, officials, aggrega-
tiOns, ETC., which in piping times" of
peace and prosperity is too much our
habit Ea1h must now follow the flag
gate our duty. U. S. stands for the
United States, but 1t spells US, and
with a very distinctive spelling when
"a State of War" arrives.
cit is a favorable feature of the
war-test, this renaissance of the ind1-
vidual Boys at once become man.
size; the careless and Indifferent be-
come sober-minded; the sober-mind
ed become serious, and the serious be-
come intense. The man-untt reaches
its best and thus the whole people be-
come like a tuned piano with every
wire at tone tension. Insurance men
are sure to respond to the prepared
ness requirements of the situation,
and they know as we'll as any what is
needed to- insure the safety and honor
of the country. All will not be called
to the colors, but all will be called to
share in the duties and burdens of the
times =
Never before in the war experience
Of this country has there been such
anxiety for our food supply, and never
before has there been so much reason
for this solicitude. There is album
dant evidence that we are going to be
hungry! In fact, this question of food
supply is the great feature of the
awful European war and it will have.
IN important if not decisive influence
upon the outcome. Throughout our
country the danger is being understood
and the demand has gone forth for the
fullest product which the land can he
made to yield There must be no idle
lots or acres or tillers of the soil
for food supply takes prominence
over munitions.
Equally important with food pro-
duction is it's conservation, the saving
for actual use. Scores Of food-laden
vessels have been sunk at sea by the
of war and enormous
quantities have been lost by fires on
land from vicissitudes that you know
all about. We may not diminish con-
tinued loss by war, but there can and |
must be salvage from the loss by fire. |
What avails it if thousands of acres |
are sown and harvested if the product |
be destroyed in such elevator fires as
have recently occurred, one of them
involving a million bushels of grain |
Not only grain in elevators, but grain /
and -four in mills and warehouses;
meats in cold storage and packing
houses; food in wholesale and retail /
canning and provision estab-
fact, few fires occur
without the loss of foodstuffs now so I