Milford chronicle., 1917-05-04

the food they did not help to raise.
THE men in the prisons should be
looked over and some way found to
utilize them in food production AS
we see it the entire question is a
question of food. food, rood We want
an army. A food army. II it is not
volunteer. then let il be draft.
NO man or woman in the coming
six months will have the right to loaf.
You may have plenty Of money in the
bank and resources which you esteem
inexhaustible, but what will that avail
you, if the government finds it neces-
sary to search your house and issue
a bread card or a meat card and has
TO coniiscate the grease and the oils.
And admitting that your resources
would permit you, even in a famine.
to have enough to eat, how will you
feel when you see the people on the
street with starvation looking out of
their eyes and with the babies dying
for milk and the older people perish
ing for the nourishmeRt you might
have provided in amplitude when the
time was ripe and you were reminded
of it.
We want the people of Delaware
to realize not only their danger, but
we want them to understand that the
danger, real as it is and ominous as
It is, can be provided against and pro-
vided against now.
Three months from now, two
months from now would be too late.
The Governor should at once cali re-
preventative men together from all
parts of the state without a days de-
lay. We want a food army. Its slo-
gan should be twice as much food in
Delaware this year as last year. We
have limited only about what could be
found in the schools and prisons and
in the idle men and women.
1t would be idle for your committee
at this time to go into a multitude of
details. We have before us the be-
lief that Delaware, if it is organized.
and directed as food army can bring
about this increased production. Del
aware, in a recent government report,
was given the distinction of being a
State which raised enough of the sta
pies OF life to feed Itself, not to speak
OF the luxuries which were shipped
Suppose this year we double that. !
It means we have taken over the feed |
ing of two hundred thousand people |
and more. Such an accomplishment |
would in this emergency be doing the |
cause we hold dear and which we 1
must win, more good than putting an |
army OF fifty thousand in the field.
We recommend that vacant lots be |
plOwed up and planted in potatoes .
and vegetables. We recommend that .
the canning industry of the State be |
organized to the end that the product .
be increased to the largest possible |
extent.
I'VE recommend that an army of
workers be recruited to be made up of
those who are not at present working.
those who do not have TO work. and
these will see that there is no Stacker
land in the State.
We recommend tnat no more
calves be killed and that people will
be encouraged to raise pigs, and the
like, but we first recommend that the
Governor will Immediately call to the
eolors and organize the officers of the /
,Ood army we suggest.
There is yet time-but there is not
line to lose.
Your committee takes it that at
his moment our pressing RESPONSE
)ility is to urge and insist on organ
cation and action. A committee on
supplies must first know where to get
he supplies.
THE only source of supplies that
We can see at this moment is in Della
ware fertile fields and in the energy
md the foresight of Delaware people.
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU.
"YOu may be too old or too young
tut the bushel Of potatoes or the bu-
hel of corn or whatever else in the
ood line you produce or is produced
y your initiative is going to help
our war.
Your subcommittee recommends
hat all the energy and all the initi-
tive of this patriotic organization be
sed at once in any way that can be
bought out and devised to increase
he agricultural products of Della
rare.
By order of the Wilmington Nation
Defense Committee,
John r. Nicholson, Chairman.
George Carter, Secretary,
Chas S. Tazewell, Asst Sec. ] II
John S. Rossell, Treasurer,
Thomas w. Miller, Chairman II
Executive Committee, II
David Snellenburg, Chairman II
Subcommittee on Supplies II
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