The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-22
COMMISSION SEES
FARM RESOURCES
ASPEACE AGENCY
March Says America, With Fore
es Unified, Can Drive Prus-
sianism From the Earth.
SUKrlUS IN l51lI1NtSUIA
Gopher State One of Few In Union
With Oversupply of Food-Governor
Early Urged Cooperation and
Aid for Farmers.

Ai0 TOT Farmers.
One of the greatest agencies for
world peace in the opinion Of Col.
c. H. March of the Minnesota State
Safety Commission is the great az
r1cultural resources of the state and
the Northwest, mobilized and uni
fed, to wage a determined and VIC
torious war on Prussian autocracy
and efficiently working with all other
forces for the one great patriotic pur-
pose.
With our forces thus unified, he
says, Prussianism can be driven from
the face Of the earth and Hun men,
aced world made safe for Democracy.
Similar convictions are held by Gov
ernor Burnquist.
Recently Col. March with members
of the State Railroad and Warehouse
commission and others interested in
| Northwest agricultural development
work returned from Washington
| where they conferred with President
Wilson and members of his cabinet
relative to aid and legislation of Min
nesota and Northwest farmers gen.
| orally and he spoke Interestingly of
| his visit. Col. March is chief in COM
| mand Of the agricultural division of
the State Safety Commission and his
visit to Washington, which was at the
instance of Gov. Burnquist, will de-
velop into something of tremendous
benefit in the future.
Washington and the President, Col.
March says, are keenly interested in
farm development and much in the
way of federal aid for the farmers
of Minnesota and the Northwest is
under consideration. Cooperation in
a farm aid way with Gov. Burnquist
and the State Safety commission was
practically pledged.
Unfortunately in the minds of
many" said Col. March, speaking
broadly on the subject of the Mime
sofa State Safety commission and its
relation to the farmers of the state,
there is a fixed impression that our
| Commission has solely to do with the
acts Of disloyalty and sedition. With
| others it is the dissemination Of 10y
| atty propaganda. The scope of our
work, however, is much greater than
the beliefs quoted. Every phase Of
war aid in which Minnesota may be
of help to the nation is included and
not the least of our activities is ag-
| ricultural development
Zone of the first to answer the
| Presidents call for increased produc-
ton In foodstuffs," continued Col.
March, was Gov. Burnquist, and real
izing that such increased production
was matter of farm development
| principally, he early impressed upon
| our commission the necessity Of CIV
| ing the farmers of Minnesota every
| aid possible. Help the farmer, he
| argued, as on his prosperity depends
| much; food is the one weapon now
that will bring victory.
"No one can know Gov Burnquist
and not be impressed by his SINGER
ity and honesty of purpose and real
izing the Importance of his warning
regarding food increase our commits
sion at once began work. At the Gov
errors direction every known agri-
cultural development unit in the state
was consulted and their cooperation
urged. Many departments in aid of
the various phases of agricultural
work were created and experienced
men placed in charge. Find out the
farmers needs and speed up was
the command. Even before the State
Safety commission was organized,
Gov. Burnquist, might say, was on
the job as one of our first official
acts was the PRONUNCIATION of the Gov
ernor's food proclamation which was
drafted by the Governor almost on
entry of the United States into the
war. That proclamation which was
directed at the food producers of the
state put Minnesota in the front rank
of commonwealth anxious to aid the
nation in its hour of Distress
| With the declaration of war against
Germany one Of the first defensive
steps was the taking of an inventory
of food stocks and as pointed out by
Col. March it found Minnesota one
of the few states with surplus. To
conserve and increase this surplus
was duty that impressed the Gov
ernor and without delay he appoint
ed a Committee on Food Production
and Conservation. The creation of
this committee by Gov. Burnquist was
in advance of the organization of the
State Safety commission and show
ing the wisdom of the step, Mime
sofas agricultural development and
the general conservation Of food in
the state was advanced in a way that
brought almost immediate compliment
tary attention from the federal war
heads. Washington was unstinting
in it's praise.
"To the farmer, labor and plenty
OF it is as essential as good seed"
explained Col. March, land one Of
our first acts was the drafting Of
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