Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-14

The county auditor has called a
meeting of bus ness men, bankers
and farmers % meet at the court
house Wednesday afternoon, April IS,
to consider getting the greatest pos
sible amount of land in cultivation
in Elmore county this season. Dele
cations will be present from Glenns
Ferry, Hammett, King Hill and other
parts of the county and all business
men in Mountain Home are urged to
be present. The raising Of increased
crops rs war measure and is the
first patriotic demonstration to be
made In Elmore county. On account
of the late spring and the hard WIN
ter the time is short to get crops in
the ground. Many farmers are not in
a position to till all of their land
without financial help to get seed
and extra work stock. The governor
issued a proclamation a few days ago
asking hat county auditors call meet
ings to meet this condition and the
meeting next Wedne esday is in re-
sponse to the governors appeal. The
proclamation is in part as follows:
The crsis now confronting our ma
tion demands Of every citizen the pa
triotic duty of helping to sustain our
national government In any action by
it deemed advisable resulting from in
fringing upon our established rights
and liberties.
y OF equal Importance with that of
providing men, arms and equipment In
that of insurng an adequate supply
of food for our nation. Real prepared
ness means the most careful attention
must be paid at once given to the pro-
ducing from the soil that which will
sustain Life and no better opportunity
was ever given loyal citizens OF our
great country to show evidence of their
true patriotism than that the present
now offers for every man, woman and
child to give the best there is in
them by aiding in the production of
food.
Our citizens are just emerging from
an exceptionally hard winter i'm which
there has been shortage of forage
causing a condition that the planting
OF our crops has really become prob
lem that we must solve as patriotic
citizens in the interest of all and not
the few. This affords excellent Gp-
portunity for those who have feed that
they can spare their nedghboTs to do
so for q fair consideration that will
not be prohibitive and thus become
,benefactors of the people and the
state. With a sure conviction that all
citizens will be prompt to act for the
good of our country and knowing
that organized effort is effective in
the service to the greater numbers
concerned.
Now, therefore, l, Moses Alexander,
governor of the state of Idaho, do
hereby proclaim and request that on
Saturday, April the fourteenth, 1917,
at 2 o'clock p. M, the county auditor
In each county of the state call a
meeting of the county commissioners,
county agricultural agents, county su-
perintendent of schools an officer
from each bank and all agricultural
organizations and representative
from all the business houses in the
county, at the county seat to orga-
nize by the election of charm an
and a secretary and the appointment
of proper committees tor the purpose
of obtaining the fullest possible food
production in each part of the county.
To appoint central committee of
ways and means with local commit
tees in each precinct whose duties
shall be to devise ways and means
by which the lands may be prepared,
the crops planted and cared for and
who will see that the fullest advant-
age is taken of every opportunity to-
increase the supply of food products.
That the local committees i'm each
precinct make amang for a pa
triotic rally to be held ON some futur
day for the purpose of planning &C
ton that will be of most benefit to
the district and nation by way of en-
couragement in agricultural prepared
mss.
That the state department of agri-
equity, farmers UNIONS, commercial
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