Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1918-09-12

during the first week OF Jah0AIY.
IT can never forget the feeling OF
depression which l. and thnk. eth
ers present experienced wAsn Mr..
Hoover announced TO Us that he had
received communications from the
food controllers o. the three great ma.
Ions allied With vs. that unless We
could guarantee at least minimum
OF $4,000 600 bushels more OF wheat
befere the mex harvest they could not
answer for Tie result. Il required
tnat much wheat wheat that We did
not h&vs-so save the line on the west
ern front. There Vas !. gwise a de-,
cit OF fats and Of meats and OF sugAl.
We bad no surplus of either, but Mr..
lfooYer promised those 100000
bushels OF wheat; he pledged the me-
nsssary fats and meats and sugar, and
from the voluntary efforts, the sacri-
flee and the devotion Of the American
people, we were able TO redeem every
pledge there made and Civilization
was saved. Instead 81 furnishing or
allies with 10000 GOO bushels OF wheat
our normal surplus from a crop fail
urs-Se sent them before the harvest
become available 100 00e,ooe Aashe S.
We shipped them eeoo coo pound
more OF faA and meats than We sh' p
ped them the year before and We have
voluntarily reduced our sugar ration
to the ration OF our great ally, Great
Britain we are going TO eat at com
mon table we expect 70 share with
them when we have plenty; we expect
item 10 have their full share of our
meager board They have borne the
trunt OF this conflict, their property
has been destroyed; their women haze
been ravlshed; their children have
been mutilated, and we gssgredly cen
do nothing less than share our last
crumb with Siem ana theirs.
But because, my friends, we have
an apparent surplus OF wheat It this
time. do not get the idea that You en-
indulge, without limit, your a'pei.e
for white bread We must bald Up
surplus against possible crop +. l.
IRE The margin the past year was
too small, This margin between star
walton and defeat; between life and
victory was sd close that one cannot
contemplate II without sh@d ls".
Think OF II, when the new harvest be-
came available there were just To-
600 900 bushels OF wheat In America,
or roughly speaking one per cent OF
this years yield enough 10 furnish
each man, woman and child in Amer
lea, In Great Britain AID France and
Italy with two pounds Of wheat, 1t
will never do to tempt fate by stalking
civilization upon a weeks supply Of
bread again.
This war cannot be won without
the wheat Of the American farmer 1t
Is last as essential to our victory in
this awful conflict 10 Is the powder
and the shot and she'll with which We
are arming the forces Of 6sstreosicn.
EnglaRd and France, who alone With.
out our aid, for nearly three long
and soal-trying years, kept burning
the feeble flame OF human liberty in
Europe, would starvs without the
wheat from American farms What
they have they must ultimately pay
for We hold their solemn obligations
for every bushel that has been export
ed TO feed their gallant sons, whose
deathless valor against overwhalmiug
odds makes one Of the brightest pages
In all history, We have their pom.
ise to pay for every grain that has
kept starvation from the orphaned
children and the widowed mothe $
whose protectors have died that you
and | might continue TO enjoy the
blessini ; OF life. liberty and properly
Every cent added to the cost Of was,t
adds to the burden OF these peop;e
who held aloft the flaming torch OF
civilization.
Il am not undertaking TO justify the
arbitrary price fixing Of wheat az SEQ
nomically sound | am not insisting
that the price fixed assures the farm.
ers even a reasonable pre1t FOR the
reasons stated no one 10 eompeteh: 10
pass on that matter. but ! do insist
that It was necessary, and lido know
that, although the average pr ce re-
ceived by the farmers OF America tor
their wheat last year was the highest
In thirty years, at the same tina tie
consumers paid an average OF So a.
barrel less for flour than they pa
during the previous twelve months.
The Food Administration has reduced
the difference in the price paid the
producer and the price paid By tbs
consumer,
While not primarily price fixing
body, the Food Administration has set
its face like flint inst the profitee-
No man with its knowledge or consent
is going to make dollar now that he
would not have made in times "
peace. 1t does not propose that the
war shall be the occasion for Aecumu
lation OF unesrned profits
The Food Administration insists
that the farmers shall have fair and
just treatment; that they shali share
with all others alike in the blessings
OF government and VITA all ! sthsrs /
share alike In bearing Ms burdens.
More than that the self.rsspsctins. pa
triotic farmers DO not ask
Without trying to excite yolr Gu
pldity, | am appealing to you In this
great crisis TO rsdoubls your efforts to
produce all the natisns essential foo4
stuffs Work, my friends-vork early
and late work AZ yea have never o.
borsd because the fses Of civilization 1
hangs in the balance. depending large !
ly uuon yo6r effoYts your Asx n Ion !