Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-04-19


foodstuffs or our raw materials OF manu-
facture or the products OF our mills and
factories: The eyes OF the country will
be especially upon you. This is your
opportunity for signal service, efficient
and dlsinterested. The country expects
you, as il expects all others, to forego
unusual profits, to organize and expedite
shipments OF supplies OF every kind, but
especially food, with an eye TO the ser
vice you are rendering and in the spirit
of those who enlist in the ranks, for their
people, not for themselves. shall conf
IDENTIFY expect you TO deserve and win the
confidence OF people of every sort and
station.
Let me suggest also that everyone who
creates or cultivates garden helps and
helps greatly to solve the problem OF the
feeding of the nations; and that every
housewife who practices strict economy
puts herself in the ranks Of those who
serve the nation. This is the time for
America TO correct her objectionable fault
OF wastefulness and extravaganza. Let
every m and every woman assume the
duty OF careful. provident use and ex-
penditure as public duty, as dictate OF
patriotism which no one can now expect
ever to be excused or forgiven for Ignoring.
| take the liberty OF addressing this
word to the farmers OF the country and
to all who work on the farms The SUI
preme need OF our own nation and OF the
nations with which we are cooperating
is an abundance ofsupplies, and especial
~ of foodstuffs. The importance OF an
adequate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike for the armies and
the people now at war, the whole great
enterprise upon which we have embark
ed will break down and fail. The worlds
food reserves are low. Not only during
the present emergency but for some time
after peace shall have come both our own
people and large proportion OF the peo-
pie of Europe must rely upon the harveSts
OF America. Upon the farmers OF this
country, therefore, in large measure, rests
the fate OF the war and the fate OF the
nations. May the nation not count upon
them TO omit no step that will increase
the production of their land or that will
bring about the most effectual Cooper
alton in the sale and distribution OF their
products ? The time is short 1t is OF
the most imperative importance that
everything possible be done and done
Immediately to make sure oflarge harveStS.
call upon young men and old alike
and upon the able bodied boys of the
land TO accept and act upon this duty-to
turn in hosts TO the farms and make GER
tain that no pains and no labor is lacking
in this great matter.
particularly appeal to the farmers of
the South 10 plant abundant foodstuffs as
well as cotton. They can show their pa
triotism in no better or more convincing
way than by resisting the great temptation
OF the present price OF cotton and helping,
helping upon great scale, to feed the
nation and the people everywhere who
are fighting for their liberties and for our
own. The variety OF their crops will be
the visible measure of their comprehen-
sion OF their national duty.
We must supply ships by the hundreds
out OF our shipyards TO carry to the other
side OF the sea, submarines or no sub
marines, what will every day be needed
there and abundant materials out of our
fields and our mines and our fac
tories with which not only to clothe and
equip Our own forces on land and sea but
also 10 clothe and support the people for
whom the gallant fellows under arms can
no longer work. to help clothe and equip
the armies with which we are cooperating
in Europe and TO keep the looms and
manufactures there in raw materials;
coal to keep the fires going in ships at
sea and in the furnaces OF hundreds OF
factories across the sea; steel out OF
which to make arms and ammunition both
here and there; rails for WORKOUT FAIL
ways back of the firing fronts; loco
motives and rolling stock to take the
place OF those every day going TO pieces;
mules, horses, cattle for labor and mill
tary service; everything with which the
people OF England and France and Italy
and Russia have usually supplied them
selves but cannot now afford the, men,
the materials or the machinery to make
In the hope that this statement of the
needs OF the nation and of the world in
this hour of supreme crisis may stimulate
those to whom it comes and remind all
who need reminder OF the solemn duties
OF time such as the world has never
seen before, beg that all editors and
publishers everywhere will give as prom
inent publication and as wide circulation
as possible to this appeal. venture to
suggest also TO all advertising agencies
that they would perhaps render very
substantial and timely service to the
country if they would give II widespread
repetition. And hope that clergymen
will not think the theme of il an unworthy
or inappropriate subject of com -eat and
homily from their pulpits.