Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-23
CLARION CALL
TO WOMEN Of
UNITED STATES
They Must Take the Places
Of Men Who Are Called to
Fight the Battles of the
Nation.
Women Who Can Play Ten
mis- and Golf Can Raise
Crops and Help Feed the
World-Can Do as Great
a Work as Soldiers.
BY MRS. FRED T. DUBOIS.

by MRS. FRED Il. DUBOIS.
(National Chairman of Conservation
and Production Congress of Mothers.)
The time is not far distant when
those in charge of the agricultural in
terests in this nation must mobilize
the women to do actual farming: al
ready. the council of national defense
she National League for Womens Ser
vice, and the department for unem-
plored women, connected with the
United States bureau of labor are pre-
barring to meet the exegencies of war
Herbert Hoover said in his address
at Brown university: Our whole food
problem resolves around one single
factor-the diminishing. productivity of
Europe and the disruption of commerce.
Ey armed barriers.
Since the wonderful world harvest
of 1915. the food supplies of the world
have been steadily lessening. This
year we are faced with Il world short
age. and next year the shortage will
be greater Seventy million men have
been called out OF productive labor
and devoted to fighting and the pro-
Guction of implements of war. The
women have been unable to in full re-
rcw the harvest, and there has been
great diversion of animals and
transports to war The land is no
longer receiving fertilizer as of old.
In order to decrease the production of
fodder, grains and increase the pro-
auction of bread graihs and to secure
protein and fat supplies. Europe is
eating into her capital of animals.
This again reacts upon the produc-
lively of the land, and food stuffs are
beyond this daily being destroyed at
sea in shiploads. Our own allies are
separated from their normal market
Of Russia. Bulgaria, Rumania, while
the Argentine has had crop failure
and the shortage of our allies there
fore is more acute than their own de-
cline represents. 1t is the impact Of
his shortage that has knocked at
every door in the United States. We
are "A country of abundant surplus, yet
he reverberation of Europe's short
&c would have Numbered imperiously
even had we never entered the war
ACTUAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE.
This quotation from the food admin
istrator of this nation states clearly
why those of the Civic Federation of
america are endeavoring to place be
fore the people the facts as to the ac-
luality of the needs of the people as
whole. and how necessary it is that we
use all power to conserve and develop
food production.
Since the call to arms is being ans
Wcred by the men of the nation a mil
lion ut time; since the factories ar
.alling to their munitions works mil
tons more and without munitions tho
fight for existence cannot be waged,
since the great cotton and wooden in
dustries are demanding extra shifts
in order that the government con-
tracts for clothing, blankets and so
forth may be rushed to the front, man
power is being requisitioned in these
yrts to the detriment of producing
labor for the farms. However, the
staticticians who have been making
surveys for the agricultural depart
ment at Washington this year state
that with the help of school boys, boy
scouts and the usual floating tramp
labor that the crop will be garnered
but the situation forward looking civic
bodies ought to be preparing for is
the crop of 1918 when these men have
been called to the front.
WHAT WOMEN CAN DO.
During an interview with one of the
leaders of the National League for
Women's Service, she asked me to tell
| her the actual work on the farm that
women can perform without undue
fatigue. We discussed the question
My CHEZ SOLTES
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