Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-04-20
FRrpAY, April 20, 1917
"FIonT OR WORK"

There must be 10 shirkers while the
Nation Is il = state of war was EN-
,Assized by Robert Crsi', Chairman
Of the Extension Committee of the
State BOARD 5fAgriculture, and a
large land owner of Charles County
10 a statement to extension workers,
Mr.. Grain said, "To meet the
demand for food here and abroad, |
believe there should be an immediate
survey made in every State Of the
untitled land available for crop pro-
duction. In Maryland this survey
should be n ade by the authorities Of
State College Of. the Agriculture
cooperating with the Council for
National Defense. Each county
should be surveyed at once so that
we may know the amount Of untitled
and available and what crops it is
suited to produce. In time of war W..
cannot allow any good cron.prodnc.
ing land to lie idle. This information
.honld ba ranor,ad tn onr State Call.
eye Of Agriculture as promptly as
possible, through its field agents aud
workers, as a matter of first import
ance 10 the State. This will enable
the Council for National Defense to
take immediats steps for tiiiing this
land and produce the necessary crops.
Food production in Germany is
tied BY area available. In this G
try we have thousands Of acres
idle, more good farming land
than all the land in Germany
together, As soon as the surge
these lands Is completed, the (
and Federal Governments shot,
make them produce. The strong az
Of the Government shou Id be used
provide the necessary labor to till the
lands. There must he no bread ito
ID the cities this winter. Every abb
bodied man must tight or WORK,
would have the Government put
tag on every man. Marx hlm-"rlgh
er" or "W orker". We should kno
that every man Is doing service e
his country. II he IS already a work
er of any kind banker or bootplask'
mark him. Have him recorded as
worker. II man is loafer, any {
all OF the time in the city or IN tn
country, find out what he ca do.
he can hight, enlist him, Il be can
fight, tag him as worker and pn
him to work. If he consumes food h
must produce food or else fight W
must have no Idiers to feed, l woalt
make our slogan" FIGHT OF.
WORK!
This plan will give us the needed
labor to work the untitled lands ane
provide against shortage of laboril
in the harvest season. When tht
country boy volunteers, as he vii.
certainly do, there will someone I
take bis place on the farm. He vii
know, too, that no idlers in the city
or country will have to be fed with
out working while be Is in the army
service. The men Of the country have
been our backbone in time Of war In
the past. They will be the backbone
of our fighting machine now, but. We
do not want them fighting uules'
every other able-bodied men is fight
ing with them or working to feeo
their, and the dependents they have
left at home. No man should be LEFT
in the city who is not usefully EN-
ployed. He can learn to pillow gruI
and pitch hay, as we'd as the countr
man can learn 10 shoulder and fire
gun. Neither should an idle man b
left 10 the country while there is lan'
to work or crops to harvest. Put hir
to work. m
When the crops on these uutille
lands are harvested they should b
supplied direct. to the army and nav.
or offered to the consumer at hyini
price. There should be only one buy
ing and selling. In war time we mus
kavnuo uyaata of fo~I -. I,.l,x. \;