New Britain herald., 1917-05-11
MAYOR TO ASK CITY
 ID SPEND $48,O0O
 fOR PUBLIC CROPS
Would Place Agricultural Army at Workfto Raise Food on
 Municipal Farm
PRODUCT WOULD BE SOLD
 TO CONSUMERS AT COST

:. special City Meeting to Bo Called Nexl
 Week to Act on Levying Extra Taz
 CAlled to Colors, Urged to Enlist in
 Brigade to Sow and Reap
 Realizing that the country As well n the entire world. is facin6 . food shortage and that this city must look ont for itself and bs self supporting < IT its cifixens arc not to suffer for want of food next fal and winter. Mayor { sGeorGssA Quigley. after consulting with many prominent men, today made known his plans for mobilizing New Britain and to work out his plan successfully 1t will be necessary to secure the cooperation of every man ana boy who Is not called to the ecolors. The initial step will be the cAiling of . special city meeting early next week for the purpose of lay1ne before the c1tiDens tho exact conditions with which they arc conrontsd, and then to ask them for . special 'Ioan 'tAx Of about one mill which will pay for ca1tivating undeveloped aEreaga. fiie produce from which will bo oold 10 the citisons, pogEibly through . public municipal market, It oost, whom tho city would be xelmhu1sed Tor. t1s loAn forwarded.
 4ayn culg1eys R1ocknzln4aoa.
 To thin end, Mayor ouisley issusd = SprocIn1aa4i ton today which states what tho food sltuaxion is In the world, and partlcularly In the Un1tsd Statea and conseQusntly in New Bxitain. The proclamation follows:
 .rke PrssidsnA of the uhftsd SeaAss leying declared that the saDssne tsst of or nAzlon has oouaA 4z1d hAv1ng. as1e1 for tho earnest suppOrt 01 our people n ths psDas lon of ths VT w4tcl 4e@ cur AesuR s1e sasp D1itatn aoGk, the sEa1to o6s3ood, and to ady1ae Sl - 1llS sri al1anoE.ay be' CIT ' 6 IT 41Ao 0saas tinn su6 pro- dG Aea& and of Ill other food aEufls.
 s~rns srAxity of tho situation. which makes imperat1ve . rigid husbanding I0k the worlds food supply. is set forth ih the 1oaluwing D1ea of Herbert C.. Hooyor. Chairman Of the American Comnission for Relief in Bel9aum. and recently appointed head of the American Food Board:
 \ \ Our Allies cannot fight without ~ food. Our enemies are calcula
 tinE that America will fail to 5 ea1nn1x. them, and that they will
 need to give in. asssss
 The total stock of food avail ss able in the Allied world is now
 sufficient to last until September, s,lf bAmerica continnes its present
 rata of consumption. We are now
 face to face with the result of E last years poor harvest, the di-
 version of mau-power from agri-
 culture all over the world. the
 unavailing efforts of the Muro- pean women to plant available fields fully, the isolation of Rus i many other causes.
 ! England, France, and Italy are
 reducing consumption by drastic cs steps, but even with all this re-
 auction they must have from us
 during the next three months ss more than twice as much food as ' we should have exported normally ,s@. or than we can send if we con-
 sume as usual. The only hope of
 providing the deficiency is by the
 elimination of waste and actual.
 and rigorous self-sacrifice on the
 part of the American people.
 s"Thus by the exercise of patriotic oelf-reStIAint and Q judicious selec- tfon of only the most plentiful Goods for use, every American man, woman end child can do his or her bit to aid America and its allies in tfis hour of need. Save . Pound Week z
 We are . nation of 101, 1,sS0, 900 persons, of upwards of twenty mill lion families. If each family will reduce it's consumption of hood by but a pound week there can be added to the food supply of Europe ten thousand tons Of foodstuffs a wselk, or over one halt million tons . year.
 Such a saving represents but a ' small part of that which may daily ! h nkads shy the Ameedcan people, and which 1t will be necessary for them to make In order to bring the war to on early successfal conclusion.
 Mot only must the most rigid econ omy in the consumption of foodstuffs be precticed, but an enormous in- crease in their production must be .x1kde as. we'll. e$
 Therefore, I deem it my further duty to advise the citizens of this community to make extraordinary ef- forts to increase the cultivation of foodstuffs. and for this purpose to utilize all labor that can be spared