The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-17
HOME HEALTH CLUB
tEdited by pr. David H. Reeder.
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 OUR DAILY BREAD: Ten years 'Ago the following article was written by me and was published in the Inter Ocean of Chicago. the Toronto Glove and tha -6xenekk. .Amerikanska Posten of MinnS2poIfs I was termed a crank then. How about 1t Now?
 '-rhe Bible tells Us about a certain lot of people who were adopting rad cal and progressive measures for bet taring their condition but the food ran short and they got hungry and as most people do under such circun- stances they kicked up a row and blamed 1t all on the leaders of the party fznY pDHerIS Moses and Aaron were the men and the committee told them that . vote of no confidence had been taken and the people all claimed that they would rather go back to the old regime of bondage where the xleshpots were full and they could daily eat all they wanted. The lead CTS of the party, however. wouldn't admit that they were to blame, but in turn accused the man higher up.
 Tn order to prove that the plan mapped out for them was for the best good of them and their posterity meat was supplied each evening and 1A C<%a ohSti kiAOAIiAA6, Oub tkAOJ Cohi0 have only in sufficient quantity for Q days supply, except that on the sixth < day a double portion was allowed so that there would be enough to last over Sunday. We'll. you all know the story-ought to know 1t anyway.
 , The application of the daily annual supply has continued down to the present. but we of this western con- ttnent had never noticed it until the fsteamship. railroads, telegraph and Telephone woke us up to the fact that humanity is one family and all should have their due proportion of the eat- abies- Did you ever stop to figure it out as to how many months there are to feed on the surface of this earth, and then divide that number by the number of bushels of cereals of all kinds grown each year? If you do | you will find that in case the supply did not grow for a single year. a ma- jority of the people would perish.
 Yes. of course I know that wheat harvest is going on in some part of the world all of the time. Each month in the year brings It's supply ] but total yield of all the cereals grown upon the face of the earth between Jan. 1st and Dec. 1st of any year would not feed the people for IS I months and leave seed for replant- ling. Knowledge of this fact Is what enables speculators to get a corner
 on the market. The people must have food or die. Pay my price and live says the specuiator.
 Isn't 1t time for the people of the world to wake up to the fact that a universal police system, under one federation or general government would work for the betterment of all
 mankind and would increase the numbers of producers of daily bread The beet specimens of physical man. hood of all nations are now required for standing or lying around, loafine armies. Instead of producing, these strong healthy men, eat the fsod pro- duoed by the rest and they are also clothed and sheltered. These same
 men could produce sufficient for not only their own needs but for the sus- tenance of many thousands of others sas well and lose none of their eff ciency as defenders of their homes. By disbanding all armies and es- jtablishing . universal police system lrequiring every male person to devote |a certain time bteween the age of 16 f6rflI in the national guards or feder- kAtton police service. all of the tremen- kdous force, now worse than wasted in I1ea<ing. destructive armies of the twori6 could be turned into the pro. I6uettoa sofs dskly thread.
 When IsAy that ths amount of cer- Da1g grown would not last over IS
 nOnfhs am speaking of the entire