Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-24
battlefield or In the trenches.

| battlefield or In the trenches.
The industrial forces Of tic Coun.
try. men and women alike. will be a
Il, greet national, a great international
| service army-a notable and honored
host engaged in the service of the ma
tion and the world, the efficient
friends and saviOrs Of free men every
where. Thousancs,. nav, hundreds of
thousands, of men otherwise liable to
military service will. of right and ne
cessity be excused from that service
and assigned to the fundamental, sus-
tanning work OF the fields and factor
les and mines, and they will be as
much part OF the great patriotic forces
OF the nation as the men under fire.
Supreme Need is Abundant Supplies
u take the liberty, therefore, OF ad-
dressing this word 70 the farmers Of
the country, and to who work on
the farms: The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
which We are cooperating is an abund-
ance OF supplies, and especially of
foodstuffs. The Importance of an ade-
qnate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative., Without
abundant food, alike for the armies
and the peoples now at war, the whole
great enterprise upon which We have
embarked will break down and fail.
The worlds food reserves are low.
Not only during the present emergen-
cy but for some time after peace shall
have come, both our own people and
a large proportion of the, people OF
Europe must rely upon the harvests in
America.
Upon the farmers of this country,
therefore. in large measure, rests the
fate Of the war and the fate Of the ma
tons. May thesnaticn not count upon
them to omit no step that will increase
the production or theff land, that Will
bring about the ,Gast effectIal cooper.
alton in the sale and distribution Of
their food products? -. H..
OF Most imperative Importance That
Everything Be Gone for Large
Harvest
The time Is short 1t Is of the most
imperative importance that everything
possible be done and done immedi-
ately to make sure Of large harvests
I call upon young men and old alike
and upon the able-bodied boys of the
land to act upon this duty-to turn IN
hosts to- the farms and make certain
that no pains and no labor is lacking
in this great matter.
Il particularly appeal to the farmers
Of the South - plant abundant food
stuffs rs well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation Of the present
price of cotton and helping, helping
upon a great scale, to feed the nation
and the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for our
own. The variety of their crops will
be the visible measure of their CON-
prehension of the;r national duty.
The, go, ernment &C the United
States and the governments of the sew
eral states stand ready to cooperate.
They will 60 everything possible to
assist FARMERS IN securing an adequate
supply Of seed, an adequate force of
lab 1ress when they are most needed
at harvest time and the means OF expe-
diting shipments of fertilizers and
farm machinery. rs well as of the
crops themselves when harvested. Tho
course of trade shall be as unham-
pered as 1t is possible to make it and
there shall be no unwarranted mani
pulation of the nations food supply
by those vino handle it on its way tc
the consumer. This is our opportu-
nifty to Demonstrate the efficiency of
the great democracy and We snail not
fail short of it. -s---...