The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-30
CALL FARMERS TO
CONFERENCE FOR
CROP PROMOTION
Clay County Meeting Will
be Held in Moorhead on
May Is.
PROMOTE TOWNSHIP
PLAN OF ACTION
Expected That Labor Situa-
ton will be Given Promi-
nent Place.

A mass meeting OF the farmers Of
Clay county and others interested In
the crop production and conservation
movement will be held in Moorhead on
The call for the meeting will lay
particular stress upon the labor prob
lem and this will be one of the princi-
pal subjects discussed at the meeting.
A plan will be outlined for organizing
a labor bureau that will cover every
part of the county. If this plan Is
adopted. the headquarters of the bu-
reau will know how many men are
wanted and just where they are most
needed.
Already the organization of the coun-
ty, on the township plan, Is well under
way and this meeting is called to per
feet and make effective the organiza-
ton.
1t is not the intention to have any
entertainment, or to use the time of the
meeting in listening to addresses; all
of the talks will be short. This will
be a business meeting and the slogan
will be, Act now-talk later.
The object of the meeting is to car
~ out as far as possible the sugges-
lions made in Governor Burnquist's
proclamation issued on Saturday.
The date selected will bring the
nearly done, when the farmers will be
better able to attend. 1t is also the
opening day of the business of the May
term of court, when all of the jurors
That something definite will be &C
complished is assured by the men who
will sign the call They are Judge e.
A. Nye, of the district court; H. E. Rob
Crop and Public Welfare association;
DR.. ]. A Aasgaard, president of the
Red Cross society; n. N. Melvey, mayor
of Moorhead; and A. NJ. Hopeman,
Club.
The Proclamation.
Following is the text of the proclaim
alton issued by Governor Burnquist as
ITO the people of Minnesota:
Food supply is of first Importance in
providing for public safety.
Food supplies are now short. Sur
plus is everywhere exhausted, inroads
have been made on normal stocks, har-
vests of counties in the southern hem
isphere are below expectations, our
reduction, European production is
shortened, livestock is under alarming
shrinkage. Famine threatens the whole
world except our own country.
THE world looks to America to save
1t from famine unprecedented.
ITO Minnesota especially, one of the
few areas which is capable of yielding
a surplus, the presidents appeal comes
with compelling force.
THE Minnesota Commission of Pub
lie Safety, recently invested with ex-
traord1nary powers by the Legislature,
in concert with the Minnesota food
commission, established under authori-
ty of the state, is preparing such meas
ures as will enable the farmers to meet
the demands upon them.
Therefore, in consultation with the
Minnesota Public Safety commission,
of which am ex offlcio chairman, and
with the food committee, and with full
expectation of cooperation and sup
port from the National Council of De-
Tense, !, J. A. A. Burnquist, governor
of Minnesota, declare:
THAT no effort will be spared to en-
roll, organize and place where needed
the available labor of Minnesota and
other states in order that every farmer
may have at his disposal all labor need
full for producing and harvesting the
maximum crop his acres will bear;
That, while all authorities agree
that high prices for all farm produce
will necessarily obtain, in case of un-
expected developments measures will
be taken, however possible, to insure a
remunerative return from the crops
and other agricultural produce.
Upon these considerations and un-
der the authority of the presidents. ap-
peal to the people of the United States
and the entreaty of all the world to
avert the disaster of famine, / enjoin
upon the people of Minnesota their pa
triotic duty of highest import to do all
things that may maintain the greatest
possible yield of foodstuffs from Min
nesota for all the world.