Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-09
CAMPAIGN FOR MORE FOOD

Steps have been taken to stop the
flood of population pouring into the
cities from the farms at the time
when the wars greatest need is to
increase the acreage producing farm
crops, an association having been
formed, with governors of many
states on the advisory board, to pre-
sent farm opportunities in a novel
and sweeping way.
The announcement that the Allied
America Association, with headquar-
ters in Chicago, has completed the
enlisting of over thousand daily
newspapers and over thousand mo-
ton picture theaters in the task of
arousing communities to take up To-
cally and vigorously as Liberty Bond
campaigns, efforts to increase food
production, is another victory won at
the same time that Pershing's armies
and the French drove the Germans
drive backward in a smashing defeat.
"The rush to the cities mas become
an ominous flood when already the W
ban population of the United States
has increased to 55 per cent of the
total instead of the 80 per cent in
1880, the "A per cent in 1890, and, to
go back to early days, to the 13 per
cent of Colonial days" said President
Ward D. Williams 6f the Allied Am
erica Association. The trouble is that
people do not realize that farm life
today can be altogether different to
farm life ten or twenty years ago
to say nothing of primitive times
When we have produced motion pic.
ture epic which the committee on pub
lie information will release it will be
possible for city people to vizualize
what they can have and how they car
live on farm. By our distribution
of that and other pictures and the
publicity which has been agreed to by
our newspaper membership, a CHECK
will be given the inrush to the cit
les in mistaken search for better liv
ing and greater opportunities. There
will be dozens of other films which
the enlisted newspapers will announc,
to their communities and which will
be used to make the feature of pub
lie and patriotic occasions.
"The great war problem of labo
is to create an incentive to create
efforts and this can be done, we know
from experience, by means of motiol
pictures provided there is co-opera
ton by the daily newspapers in get
ting great audiences to see the pic
lures and at the same time hear tn
story told of the need for more acre
age in crop and more crop per acre
"What we need now is public CO
operation with the work which a.
3 ready has been done quietly in get
ting our great regiment of newspa
pers and our regiment of movie thea
ters enlisted for the more food drivt
"Let US not forget that the sign
with which Uncle Sam has plastere
public buildings from the Atlantic t
n the Pacific, Food VIII Win the War
:, will have significance after the viz
r torious conclusion of the war, wheI
n ever that may come. The world
: short of foodstuffs, and it is to th
|. United States and Canada that til
hungry and starving nations mus
n continue to look for years and year
High prices of all that the farm wi
e produce will continue and are rigi
r now filling the banks with farmer
l. money. Farmers are prospering ;
o never before and their prosperity
the foundation stone of our nation
% future in commerce and industry.
4 ''The great campaign to show tt
opportunities of states in the eas
west, north, and south, to the m
lions of people who will be reached
the Allied America Associations re
iments of enlisted institutions W
serve as a means by which to arou
- as they need to be aroused, the col
! munities in the United States to gre
I uine, wartime zeal in campaignil
= for more food as they have cal
! paigned for Liberty bonds. Commu
/ titles have been leaving the crop pre-
= lem too much to Uncle Sam.
+ "Let it not be forgotten that t
! newspapers of America are trying
/ make their public realize that the /
+ ture of those communities, for grow
! or decline, depends upon their
{ sponse to the call to win the w
+ They will be able, through our pla
= to swing the motion pictures into t
! work of compelling 100 per cent de-
I ton to all the calls of war and pi
T ticularly increasing crops and ac
/ age throughout the land.
| "Owners of big tracts of land, rs
T roads and other big interests can
, definite results now by joining in t
program of action of the most
I mamie kind"
= The states represented on the
- visory board of the association VIII