Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-16

erything with which the people of
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
selves but cannot now afford the men.
the materials or the machinery ia
make.
Efficiency Required.
ut is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, in farms, in ship
yards, in the mines in the factories.
must be made moro prolific and more
efficient than ever and that they must
be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re-
quirements of our task than they have
been; and what want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy to
these things will be serving the coun-
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom iustsa as truly and 1ust as
effectively as the men on the battle-
field or in the trenches. The indus
trlal forces of the country men and
women alike, will be a great national.
great international service army
a notable and honored host engaged
in the service Of the nation and the
world, the efficient friends and saviors
of free men everywhere. Thousands.
nay hundreds of THOUSANDS of men
otherwise liable to military service
will of right and necessity be excused
from that service and assigned to the
fundamental sustaining work of the
uelds and factories and the mines;
and they will be as much a part of the
great patriotic forces OF the nation az
the men under fire.
Appeal TO Farmers.
81 take the liberty, therefore, of adj.
! dressing this word to the farmers OF
the country, and to all who work on
the farms: The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
! which we are cooperating is an
abundance of supplies, and especially
Of foodstuffs. The Importance of an
adequate food supply, especially for
| the present year, is superlative. With
out abundant food, alike for the
armies and the peoples now at war,
the whole great enterprise upon which
I we have embarked will break down
and fail. The worlds food reserves
are low. Not only during the present
emergency but for some time after
| peace shall have come both our own
| people and a large proportion of the
! people of Europe must rely upon the
! harvests in America Upon the farm
ers of this country, therefore, in large
measure, rests the fate of the war and
| the fate of the nations May the ma
J tion not count upon them to omit no
step that will increase the production
of their land or that will bring about
the most effective cooperation in the
sale and distribution of their food
products?
Must Have Big Harvests.
THE time is short. II rs of the most
imperative importane that everything
possible be done and done immediateA
ly to make sure OF large harvests.
call upon young men and old alike
and upon the able-bodied boys of the
land to accept and act upon this duty
to turn in hosts to the farms and
make certain that no pains and no
labor is lacking in this great mhtter.
81 particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundant
foodstuffs as we'll as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation of the present
price of cotton and helping. helping
upon a great scale, to feed the nation
and the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for our
own. The variety of their crops will
be the visible measure of their COM