The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-05-25
PREPARE MORE LAND
GROW MORE FOOD
"Seed and Feed" the Slogan of
the Year.

The papers are filled with the appeal
for soldiers, sailors and farmers, and
all are timely, all are necessary. The
sailor is needed to man the ships that
protect the shores, police the seas and
clear the ocean of tormenting and
meddlesome masked buccaneers, to
give help to the allies, to make more
efficient the present fighting units that
are keeping free the sea lanes and
ocean routes. The soldier is required
to keep alive and intact the unity of
world, to protect the lives of it's citi-
zens from incursions without and raids
within, to guard the honor and pre-
serve the dignity of the great United
States, to render not only sentimental
but practical assistance to those who
for two and half years ON the bat
tlefields of Flanders and the steppes
of the East have been fighting for the
freedom of the world against a domi-
nant autocratic and militarist Prus-
sianism, which, were it to become sue
cessful, would mean autocratism, mil
itarism and Prussianism, and a "get-
Professionalism" over the entire
world. The allies are proud to well
come these new accesSions to the fight
ing forces, which mean an earlier ter
mination of the war and the dawn of
an era that will be historic, one
that we will all be proud that we lived
in. Throughout all Canada, Great
Britain, France, and all the allied coun-
tries, when the news was received that |
the United States had entered the war,
a thrill went up and down the nations |
sides, and the pulses throbbed with
new life, keenly apprecative of the |
practical sentiment that had brought |
to their sides an ally of the strength
and virility of the United States.
But the soldier and the sailor need
to be fed, and therefore the cry for
agricultural enlistment. The strength
of the fighting man must be main
tanned. In his absence from the field
there comes the necessity for provision
to take his place. The appeal for farm
help is well timed, opportune and i'm
portant. There are vacant lands a.
plenty in the United States that, given
a fair opportunity under competent adj
visement and reasonable help, will pro-
duce abundantly. Western Canada
also provides an excellent field for the
prosecution of work in growing wheat
and other grains, and while it is not
the desire of the Canadian Government
to draw from the resources of the
United States, believing that it is the
1uty of every patriotic citizen to do {
all he possibly can to build up the ,
stores of depleted foods and making (
Use of every energy at home, the wish |
S to lay before the public the fact =
hat Canada has millions of acres of
EXCELLENT land capable of producing t
wonderful crops. If for any reason |
he reader, having patriotism and a +
owe of his country in his heart and 4 S
esire to forward the cause of the al
les, cannot avail himself of the oppor- I
unities afforded in the United States, {
Western Canada will be glad to rem T
er him any assistance it can in locat- Il
1g him on it's vacant areas, where large y
rops can be grown at minimum of C
ost. Let us grow the grain, raise the +
attic, produce the food to feed our fl
)ldiers, our sailors and provide food v
Or our allies, no matter whether it is G
one to the North or to the South Of "
lie boundary line that in the object in t
ew should not be known as a boun- d
ary. Let us keep up the spirit of pa n
iotism, whether it be growing grain a
the United States or in Canada, but o
anada, fully alive to the necessity,
ins in the appeal of it's allies-the II
nited States-for more food and more "
Acknowledgement. II