Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1917-12-22
WINNING THE WAR
By John Bush

The United States is in this great
world war to win. Men are enllstlng,
men are being drafted Capital and
labor is being urged to do all IN
their power.
Our greatest problem, however, is
to furnish sufficient food for our and
the allied soldiers, and the people OF
the allied nations in Europe, and the
solution to the problem is to produce
more and cat less Of the products OF
wheat, meats, dairy products and
sugar, and consume more of the pro-
ducts that we have an abundance OF
that can be substituted for those
needed abroad witout injury to our
people. We normally have super
abundance of vegetables and corn
products, poultry products that we
really can consume not only to the
benefit of the interests mentioned,
but to our own physical benefit be-
cause we normally or generally con-
sumo more meats and fats than is
necessary or beneficial.
We normally export five hundred
million pounds of meat and one hun
dred to one hundred and twenty mil
lion bushels of wheat. Canada eX-
ports normally from eighty to a hun
dred million. The eXportable surplus,
therefore, of North America Of wheat
is approximately two hundred million
bushels, and in order that ours and
the allied soldiers and the people of
the allied nations are kept in fight
ing and proper physical condition, the
minimum requirement will be four
hundred million bushels OF wheat,
two billion pounds Of meat and
large amount of dairy products, so
that the minimum requirements will
be at least double the amount of
wheat and four times the amount of
meat products more than normal. 1t
is therefore essential that the propa-
ganda of substitution and conserva-
ton be consistently complied with or
there is a possibility that we will
pay the severe penalty of war in
demnity because of the loss of the
war.
Germany has been making drives
in agricultural and mineral territory
with the result that they are now in
possession of territory in Russia and
other sections they have acquired
that produce normally one billion
bushels of wheat and five hundred
million bushels of rye, which is one
third more than is normally produced
of those grains in this country. These
statistics reveal the fact that North
America must supply seventy-tive
per cent of all the products consumed
by ours and the allies soldiers and
one hundred and eighty million people
in the allied nations. Such being the
case that it seems the most important
matter and the first essential is to
direct our attention to the food pro-
duct situation and their relative po-
sitions to those of our opponents.
Failure to do so would indicate that
a democracy is not as consistent in
the conduct of the war as an auto
cracy, and since the war is waged
upon these issues of democracy VS..
autocracy, it is necessary for US to
find some solution of organization
that is as effective or more so than
autocracy or the principle upon which
we stand cannot defend itself against
autocratic organization and therefore
is faith not worth fighting for and
cannot long survive. We have the
grand test put up to the American
people whether or not this form Of
government and political philosophy
is right and whether or not it can
effect the end of it's own defense. In
order that human liberty and justice
prevail it becomes our duty of in
ducing every man, woman and child
to do his part in government service
in this hour of crisis. We have the
proposition of organization of one
hundred million people to practice
self-denial, to service in war and a
service which they have to perform
three times day every man and wo-
man of his own individual initiative.
The struggle of humanity down
through the ages has been for human
liberty, equal rights and privileges
to every man. Our democracy is