The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-02
FOOD SHARPS
UPBRAIDED BY
DR.. PETERSON
Declares They Have Taken
Advantage of World Hor-
ror to Fill Golfers
WE'LL DO OUR
SHARE"-GRAHAM
Rev. Mr.. Frost tells Sunday
Congregation Response
to Call is Glorious

THE United States has been ours
ed with food spectators for years
but never like it has been during the
last year or two when small groups
here and there have taken advantage
of the world horror to increase their
own already fatted Golfers" declared
the Rev. A. r. Peterson, pastor of
the Baptist church in his sermon
yesterday morning.
Patriotic conservation was the
topic on which the pastors of the
Fargo churches based their sermons,
acting in accordance with the sug-
gestion made to the ministers of the
country by President Herbert
Hoover, of the national food COM
mission.
Robbed Of $25o.ooo. 900.
DIR. Peterson made the assertion
that these eagle screaming and
flag waving patriots, who have been
able to buy Liberty bonds in no small
proportions, have robbed the con-
sumner in the last five months of the
exorbitant sum of $250,000,00 in ex-
cess of their normal profits, and God
knows that they have been enough
even in ordinary times. Inflated
prices have increased the cost of
production which in turn leads to
decrease in the production"
Touching on the waste in the
household. DR.. Peterson stated Mr..
Hoover has made the statement that
there is wasted one ounce of food
each day in each household. which
means a yearly waste of 100000, 900
pounds. and If in every home there
is one slice of bread wasted each day,
1t will mean a daily waste of mill
lion lOaVes of bread. ~@
Rev. Mr. Peterson would have the
United States make a demand on
England to eliminate the liquor traf
fic.
II am disappointed If we are to
continue sending stuff over there to
be turned into beer, disappointed
that our President did not use his
great power in forcing the senate to
take action in the direction which
would not only rid our own land
from the curse of drink. but force
the hand of Great Britain as well.
but instead he came to the defense
of the pernicious trade"
I'VE Will Do Our Share"
Rev. Thomas Graham. d. D.. said
in his Sunday morning sermon:
appeal in the spirit of an awakened
church"
I'VE will do our share" said Rev.
Mr.. Graham. believing that every
church is an active force in the COM
munity with a service as wide as
human life, as deep as human need
and as potent as the love of Christ.
I'VE are now part of this gigan-
tic conflict, even to- the extent or
having many of our soldiers near the
scenes of carnage. President Will
son says few Americans yet realize
that we are at war. We must sense
the true situation at once. With
such q cooperation of all the vital
forces of America as we have never
known before, we need dedicate our
selves afresh to feed the hungry, TO
save the world, and to follow Him
who addressed himself to the 'ageless
and basal needs of humanity"
Response to Call Glorious.
Rev. Henry .Hoag Frost, pastor of
the First Methodist church, told his
Sunday morning that
the response to the call is glorious.
And so on this coming anniver-
sary of independence" said the pas
tor. I'VE are not taking the brave
stand of our revolutionary fore
fathers SO much as we are going
them one better in entering the
bloody struggle that is necessary to
give the liberties that we have so
long enjoyed to the whole world.
"The response to the call is glor-
ious. Thousands are already at the
far-off. battlefront ready to lend aid
to weary comrades in the trenches.
Ten million of Americas finest
Young men are ready to pour out
their lives for world freedom"