The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-26
MORE LAND
GROW MORE FOOD
"Seed and Feed the Slogan Of
The Year.

The papers are filled with '''a 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
the nation and the freedom of the
world to protect the lives of its 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 domi-
nant autocratic and militarist Prus-
sianism, which. were it to become sue
cessful, would mean autocratism, mil,
itarism and Prussianism, and ''get-
ff-the-sidewalkism" 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,
| thrill went up and down the nations
sides, and the pulses throbbed with a
new life keenly appreciative 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 inn
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
duty 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
Els to lay before the public the fact
that Canada has millions of acres OF
excellent land capable Of producing
| wonderful crops. If for any reason
the reader, having patriotism and
love of his country in his heart and
desire to forward thc cause of the al
lies, cannot avail himself of the oppor-
tunities afforded in the United States,
Western Canada will be glad to rem
der him any assistance it can in lOcat-
Ing him on its vacant areas, where large
crops can be grown at minimum of
cost. Let lis grow the grain, raise the
cattle, produce the food to feed our
soldiers, our sailors and provide food
for our allies, no matter whether it Is
done to the North or to the South Of
the boundary line that in the object In
view should not be known as boun.
dairy. Let us keep up the spirit of pa.
triotism, whether 1t be growing grain
in the United States or in Canada, but
Canada, fully alive to the necessity,
joins in the appeal of its allies-the
United States-for more food and more
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