Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-15
Save Food, Men,
Else the Boys May
Never Come Back

A striking appeal to the people to
conserve food has been made by the
United States Food Administration
for West Virginia. 1t is so near to the
point that we reproduce ii herewith:
Our work increases in seriousness
and Importance. Without more saw
ing and greater food production, O ur
liberty and the freedom of the world
is lost. Scarcity Of flour and substi-
tute difficulties are no hardship ut all
compared with what all our allies are
suffering. Our fields and factories
need the boys who have gone to
France. We vii never see them
again unless we save enough to feed
them and our allies till the next har-
vest. We think our crop production
cannot be increased without more la
borers. France has no men and no
horses on her farms. All the work
lie done by her heroic, accomplishing
women. Think of their patriotic eff
forts when your work in field or gar
den seems hard.
France has only forty million total
population, but every man is fighting.
In killed and hclplcssly wounded she
has lots three million men, more than
twice as many as our total army,
though our population is over one
hundred million. If the French, Eng
fish ind Bclgians had not stood be-
tween us and the Huns, our country
might be suffering as Belgium, north
ern France, Poland, and Serbia are
suffering. When you think flour and
sugar saving IL hardship, remember
the ravishel women and murdered
children. Think of the cities pillaged
and burned; recall the slavery of the
men and the deliberate starvation Of
the women and children to get then,
out Of the lands coveted by the Ger
mans.
"Do you want your neighbours farm
or his wife or daughter? Kill him
and take them. Might makes right.
Be strong. Get what you want by
force, by treachery, by poison gas.
This is the German religion. The
blasphdmous kaiser tries to make his
people believe that God is his ally to
impose his German "kultur" on the
world. Your greatest efforts are
needed to arouse all Americans to
the danger of Hunnish world domin-
ion. German world power is no long
er shadowy, distant dream. Already
the kaiser's army holds most of Eu-
rope. Ignorance and lack of self
governing ability led the Russian
workmen and peasants to follow false
leaders who promised everything to
the workmen and delivered cvrything
to the kaiser, German lies, trcachcry
and false teachers and lack of food
brought the Italians to the brink of
similar disaster. Starvation is an all
conquering foe. Unless we save and
send enough food to England, France
and Italy and keep them in fighting
condition, the fate of Belgium, Po-
land, Scrvia and Armenia await us.
Organized and ruthless control of
every individual, so that he works
and oats as the kaiser directs directs.
has borught Germany in sight of n
world dominion. Unless Americans
show that freedom has developed an
intelligent self-control, an efficient
leadership and an organizing ability
that vii untilize fully the power Of
every man, woman and child, the kali
ser's dream of world power may come
true
Can any sacrifice for our freedom
be deemed Il hardship? If we awake
in time to realize that our freedom is
bn 10
Already we have slept too long.
No army, no ships and not enough
food for the brave French, Belgians,
English and Italians who for long
weary years fought freedoms battle
while we gorged our selves on war
profits wrung from their distress and
slep in the fools paradise of the pa
cifist, the socialist or the politician.
mo free democracy could believe
the horlid Hunnish dream of worlt.
dominion was danger, so no country
was prepared to resist the army that
for forty years had been skilfully
trained to impose the kaiser's will
upon the world. All the world is paw
ing the penalty for lack of foresight,
lack of preparation, lack of organi-
alton. With dominion over the people
and the rich lands of Poland, Russia,
her allies and the unconquered terri
tory, Germany's organizing ability
will make her invincible if she is not
decisively defeated in this struggle.
If might makes right, there is no
wrong. My mailed fist proves that
there is no wrong but resistance to
my WILL says the kaiser. He will be
able to make the German people be-
lieve this till his armies are defeated.
Starving Europe will be forced to
admit it if American does not send
food sufficient to maintain the fight
ing strength and morale of democra-
cy's armies.