Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
cannot be accomplished.

cannot be accomplished.
unless a means is found of seeing to
1T that mills do not get surplus supplies
you VIII I'M 1T difficult. if the shortage
aLlects you %sriously. to see to it that no
shortage exists in the cities. Chi
cago Tor instance, might be starved
through the very presence of unregu-
rated surplusage in mills supplying
other districts.
The Vast American Problem.
OF course the American problem will
Dc bigger than the British problem, for
your country is SO vast in area. You
WI not n 1t difficult, however, I
TANK ~ get over it through decentral-
lzation. Your interstate commerce law,
controlling traffic between states.
should help you.
Certainly, however. each state, like
eacn city in each state, will have its To-
cal problem. The Important thing is
Ihat you should work all this out care
Iuliy before problem becomes acute.
Here we did not expect war. We did
not expect the submarine. We did not
expect food shortage. Learn through
u mistakes. Expect the worst and
nope for the best instead of expecting
remote possibility.
W. oe Tic IAAuS AZ you WOulQ 30 de
the starting Of a business. One never
seriously would attempt to start a BUSH
ness unless n had six months capital
behind him. Don't expect successfully
to ration your nation in war time unless
you can see six months supply Of food
ahead.
Some Americans will say to this:
But we always have had and always
shall have enough food Right enough,
no doubt: but never in the past have
you had to feed a practically non food
producing Europe.
That no country ever should be with
out six months food supply in sight is
n or the great lessons taught by the
great war We know now that trans
Portation n all the wonderful machin-
cry Of modern life can be deranged. Be-
fore the war. although we are an island
nation. we thought ourselves safe be-
aus we held control of the e But
the submarine developed. England's
situation would be farcical were it not
very. very serious.
But l have said England won't be
starved. b is the reason why:
Even on the basis Of things as they are
we can scrape through with less hard
ship than Germany already has known
till q new harvest comes. That is alb
solutely certain.
1.-The second reason is that the Eng
lish are the most adaptable people in the
world and today, are SO active in break
ing up new lands, c%ultivating thous-
ands of acres hitherto unused, that we
snail produce an immense supply hith-
erto undeveloped.
The way in which the Englishman
has sprung at the small allotment idea
and taken 1t by the throat is the most
Impressive thing which has occurred
here since Kitchener's army appeared,
as II by magic, out OF nothing-3.OOO,-
600 volunteers. n Of the greatest
FORCES In all history. ready to settle
down to grim trench warfare. Now
hundreds Of thousands Of middle aged
men. children. women. have settled
down to grim and intelligent cultivation
OF small allotmentS, OF. say, 10 poles.
n are working methodically and eff
fectively.
Whole Right Thinking World in Unison.
The third reason why we shall not
pc starved Is that the whole right think
Ing world Il on our side.
America. Australia, Canada are the
s sss wneat srowtng countries Of the
mensely stimulated. Their production
will be unprecedented and before thines
get too desperate the carrying problem
will be solved by the worlds triumph
over submarines.
Perhaps we shall have Il tighten our
belts: you even may have to tighten
pulling through. No one doubts Il.
What y q hole Of two more or less In q
belt TO an American or an Enelishman
who knows he 70 right?
Cur food economy campaign 10 prov
g TO be 9 really GOOD thing FOR 10 all
Around BY assuring economy Ia the
use OF allsfood stuffs made Of flour and
/ by preventing aerinNla ~osfn 40 49,