The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-24
-oommENDs DISeANDING BASE
al, CLUBS AND INCREASED
FOOD PRODUCTION.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
ADAMS and Happenings That Mark
the Progress Of North Carolina Peo-
IL Gathered Around the State
Capital.

a,oros that with the world war on I'VE
face to face with famine" and de-
"loros that unless revolutionary eff
torts are put forth to increase the
e0.d cunnlv. the per capita amount on
hand by next Christmas will be less
4ro, # has been for a thousand years
The address follows:
NJ All the People OF North Carolina !:
The world war is on and we are face
70 face with famine. Millions OF men
u,hose business in time of peace it
,oc m produce are now called upon
- DESTROY. Unless drastic and revOlu-
tionarv efforts be made to increase our
food supply the per capita amount on
land next Christmas will be less than
- has been for thousand years.
The great Northwest advises us Of
sciaIlv that it cannot next year furn-
ish us the food we have heretofore
bought from it, but that it's surplus
must be sent to feed the men who
6gbt In this emergency we are not
called upon to feed other nations, but
simn1v TO take care of ourselves. We
.re not REQUIRED to go into all the
Garth, but our work is both to begin
and to end at Jerusalem.
Much time has been lost, but there
is still time left to provide against the
coming day of want. We still have
ex months of sunshine. We have
abundant vacant lands. And we have
the people to cultivate these lands if
thew have a mind to work.
think the farmers are doing what
thew can. The duty rests upon the
neople in the towns and cities to utll-
ize their idle hours and idle men in
making food for themselves. Let the
cities and towns take steps to have
vacant lots plowed and turned over
free of rent to people who will Guilt
yate them. The teams 8 labor in
control of the cities might we'll be
taken from the present work during
the month of Nnv and used in prepar-
ing vacant lands for Immediate CT
vation. The towns should also arrange
for the purchase by wholesale of con-
tainers for the use of canning clubs
and of fertilizers and distribute these
to the people at prime cost. Public
funds could we'll be employed in this
way and it would be better for the
streets of a town to be unswept for
two weeks in May than for our pan
tries to be bare next winter.
urge every man IN town TO go into
the surrounding country and procure
from one to five acres or land and
plant it in corn, potatoes, peas and
beans and thus make sure provision
against want in his own family. Do
not expect your neighbor to do this,
but do it yourself. I earnestly urge
every man in this state who has an
idle acre to list it with the mayor OF
the nearest town as rent-free land for
any person who will plant it in foo
and feed crops.
All forms of idleness and waste of
time should be discouraged. I love
game of baseball, but it seems to me
that the summer of 1917 is no time
for professional baseball, and think
all professional leagues should be dis
banded The man who is able to play
professional base ball ought to be
either in a trench or in furrow. And
the fans" and "fannies" who hold
Gown the bleachers can find recon-
pense and recreation in corn field.
Let the automobile Joy ride be given
up entirely. Surely this much of self
denial hA hHY
IN the state. If every man who owns
an automobile would cut his gasoline
Dill half in two much would be saved
10 meet the necessities Of the people
ana vast quantity Of gasoline would
oe made available for the uses Of war.
am advised that Mr.. Rockefeller
vould In the face of this economy on
me part of the people still manage to
get along.
we should make frolic of our ne
'VSsltles and should force our fads
a, fancies to furnish us food. AS
ae children would say, let's all play
"' farming this year.
Seriously, men and brethren, let us
S!ldKe off our fatuous complacence and
o. eve ourselves no rest until we know
.r"t we and our loved ones are Sc
tue from the wolf whose gaunt spec
~ W even now looms large against |
nc skyline. Let us work while it is
GUNNER Winter cometh.
T. w. BECKETT, Governor.
'C ~, Wilmington Cavalry Troop.
co lne state headquarters for North |
Plohna National Guard, received
10y, ~ the war department official &C.
t ,spOdnce of cavalry troops B. Of An
1"' and c, of Wilmington, recently
b oo' The sessions of the efficiency
ros4' 1917 OF the North Carolina Guard
sta+ ,,iiue here, going into the inner life
pro'' uS OF the guard with q view to
WOW nulng out the most cohesive and
pra. oroered conditions possible in
in paretion for putting the guard units
sicn. 0ueral service again. The ses-