Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1918-02-15

Our people must not lose sight
Of the fact that this war is as ac-
tual as it is awful. The fight would
not be real if the fighters we're not
hurt.
The people have wanted food ad-
ministrators and fuel administrators.
but their chief interest seemed invar-
ably to be in questions Of price. You
cannot eat five dollar bills and this
war cannot be won by money alone.
II takes men and munitions and so
far as the American people are con-
cerned above everything else the de-
mand for food.
The people Of the east we're ad-
monished to conserve their coal. They
were urged to unload their cars and
to facilitate transportation and they
went along gayly making money,
standing up when the national an
them was played and talking about
the bigness Of America until finally
for five days every fire in the fac
tories was extingnished and fourteen
working days in February have been
lost to the world because people
would not listen to insistent counsel.
Now ! want to talk to the people
Of New Mexico about WHEAT. |
have told YOU more than once that in
stead Of having 80,OO0,OOO bushels to
ship abroad from the 1917, we had
only 35,OOO,O00 bushels available and
that every bushel had been shipped
about the first Of December. If our
allies do not get wheat and meat,
they cannot fight, and tits physically
impossible to put our troops in
France in time to do any good. We
must fill the stomachs Of the fighting
men in Europe and We must sustain
their families or our cause is lost
Now let me tell you something. In
spite of all the pleadings Of Mr. Hoo
yer. up to the middle Of January our
consumption Of wheat was almost
normal. We had hung little cards in
our windows; we had knitted and
talked about food conservation and
then sneaked white bread into our
homes. The inevitable result will
follow namely: America will be abb
solutely without wheat for three
months before next years harvest
unless during the next six months we
cut our wheat consumption absolute
" in two. In every community and
in every state there are those TO be
found who eat with their fore feet ii
the trough. They are the prohteers
on one hand the hoarders on the
other hand. No profiteer and nc
hoarder in times like these is a pat
riot. II is duty Of every patriot citi-
zen in our country first Of all 10 gC
Immediately on the fifty-fifty rule
promulgated by our president through
Mr.. Hoover, and every single day use
some substitute for one-half his nor
NAL wheat consumptiOn.
When the east consumed its coal I
invited calamity and an embargo shui
off business in the east for one-hali
the month Of February. ! am nei.
iher a prophet nor a buffer. but
want to say that no community vii
be permitted to imperil Americas in
stitntions BY consuming more thai
It's fair share Of the wheat Of thil
country. The fifty-fifty rule mus
be enforced. Consumers win havl
no quarrel with their grocers but "a
ther should have a pride in those o.
them who perform their duties abso
lutely. shall not hesitate II ne
cessity requires 1t, 10 cut off the ca
tire flour supply Of any grocer VIII
fails to conform to this rule. o.
The other hand our office viii max
every effort within its power to bell