The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-04-27

foodstuffs. The Importance of an ade
quate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative.
without abundant food aliz-1. FOL
the armies and the peoples now at war
we have embarked will break down
and fail. The worlds food reserves
are low Not only during the pres
ent emergency, but for some time af
ter peace shall have come both our
own people and large proportion of
the people of Europe must rely on the
harvests in America. On the farmers
sure rests the fate of the war and the
| fate of the nations. May the nation
not count on them to omit no step that
| will increase the production of their
land or that will bring about the most
| effectual cooperation in the sale and
distribution of their products? The
time is short. 1t is of the most imper-
sible be done and done Immediately
to make sure of large harvests.
81 call on young men and old alike
and on the able-bodied boys of the
land to accept and act on this duty
to turn in hosts to the farms and
make certain that no pains and no
labor is lacking in this great matter.
Appeals to the South.
81 particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the South to plant abundant
foodstuffs as we'll as cotton. They
can show their patriotism in no better
or more convincing way than by re-
sisting the great temptation of the
present price of cotton and helping,
helping on great scale, to feed the
nation and the peoples everywhere
who are fighting for their liberties and
for our own.
THE government of the United
States and the governments of the sew
eral states stand ready to cooperate.
They will do everything possible to
assist farmers in securing an adequate
supply of seed, an adequate force of
laborers when they are most needed |
at harvest time and the means of |
expediting shipments of fertilizers
and farm machinery as we'll as of the |
crops themselves when harvested. The |
course of trade shall be as unhamper-
ed as it is possible to make it and
here shall be no unwarranted manip-
lIation of the nations food supply
by those who handle it on it's way to
he consumer. This is our opportunity
o demonstrate the efficiency of
great democracy and we shall not fall
short of it.
MiddIemen Admonished.
This let me say to the middlemen
# every sort, whether they are han
ling our foodstuffs or our raw mate
ials of manufacture or the products
# our mills and factories: The eyes
# the country will be especially on
-ou This is your opportunity for
ignal service, efficient and disinter-
sted. The country expect you as it
xpects all others, to forego unusual
rofits, to organize and expedite ship
1ents of supplies of every kind. but
ervice you are rendering and in the !.
pirit of those who enlist in the ranks,
or their people, not for themselves.
81 shall confidently expect you to |
eserve and win the confidence of peo- l
lie of every sort and station
ITO the men who run the railways of c
lie country, whether they be manag- q
lat the railways are the arteries of
lie nations life and that on them rests
lie immense responsibility of seeing to
that these arteries suffer no obstruc-
on of any kind, no inefficiency or
power.
ITO the merchant let me suggest
e motto small profits and quick SER
ce'; and to the shipbuilder the
fought that the life of the war de.
ends ON him. The food and the war
lpplies must be carried across the [
,as no matter how many ships are
mt to the bottom. The places of
ose that go down must be supplied II
i'd supplied at once.
Miner Stands With Farmer. L
ITO the miner let me say that he b
ands where the farmer does. The II
ork of the world waits on him. If W
slackens or fails, armies and states p
en- are helpless. He also is enlisted pl
the great service army. The manu- ii
cturer does not need to be told, 1 W
pc, that the nation looks to him to a:
eed and to perfect every process; 10
d | want only to remind his en- D;
Dyes that their service is absolutely u
and is counted on by N
cry man who loves the country and
liberties. q
Let me suggest also that everyone y
10 creates or cultivates a garden
lps and helps greatly to solve the Z
oblem of the feeding of the nations
d that every housewife who prac-
es strict economy puts herself in
) ranks of those who serve the ma
n. This is the time for America to 70
rect her objectionable fault of of
stefulness and extravaganza. Let D
cry man and every woman assume eff
, duty of careful, prov1dent use and sa
oenditure as a public duty and as pr
dictate of patriotism which no one co
/ now expect ever to be excused or Sc
given for ignoring. 70