Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-16

dDIS- pDUlSN uicu are cllttSA III lIlc army or working like slaves to supply the shortage" dossE't exist there. for there | is no labor supply at all. There is total absence of effective labor. What l little is done must be done by old men l women and toddling infants. The | available food is insufficient to keep 1 everybody alive, even. Letting civ i -lians starve to keep the army fed" | forcib1y describes the Hohenzollern policy.
 Austria is in even worse shape, so far as food conditions are concerned. Russia is a huge cess pool of riot and rapiIe and starvation and plague.
 Even in England and France and Italy the entire population is called to bear privations such as we have not vet tasted. Not, as suggestive il- lustrations, the fact that not a yard of cloth is now being made in Eng land for civilian use. All the textile mills are working to keep the army properly clothed. Nor is there a wheel moving in ail the kingdom which isn't either actually moving for the gov ernTnent or liable to summary seizure at any moment. Not only may no motor cars be run for pleasure but every horse in the islands is under government reguisition or liable to it, l except those actually and steadily engaged in crop production on farms. l We of the United States, have thus I far -elt some annoyance over re- ] str!ctions in the use Of meats and l cereals and fats and fuel coal. But l the limits which have been put on our use of even these few items have been irritating rather than really dis l dressing.
 1 MT. Baruch warns us that we are l likely to be called on to bear much 1 heavier burdens and feel much sharper i deprivations in the future. The one thing that counts, he says, is to win the war, and win it so smashingly
 that future wars will be made inn possible. To that end the Govern
 ment which does not hesitate to call on it's soldiers to sacrifice their lives, 1 will not hesitate to call on civilians to sacrifice their property if urgent necessity demands. The life of every American is today. at the call of his
 country The property of every
 American is equally subject to the
 same call It would, indeed, be
 strange injustice to consider human
 life as less sacred than human pos
 sessions. All that man hath will
 he give for his life" Service in the
 highest degree implies also service
 in any lesser degree.
 If the war continues,-as there is , reason to fear it wiii,-for at leas1
 anotEer year, we of America will no
 unlikely be called on to undergo priv,
 ations and real needs greater than any l we have yet experienced, deprivation and losses perhaps as great as thost t which England and France have borne ! and are still bearing with stern pa, . uenee and accomplishing lips. Assuming that reasonable prospect what are Americans going to do abou } it?
 5 To bring things still nearer home what are we farmers going to do abou
 It?
 In one very true sense, we farmer. f are as much at the service and in thu f service of our country as the marinei
 at Cantigny were, or the Connection
 boys at Chateau -Thierry. Our dirt. , boots and begrimed overalls an, |, sweat stained "galluses" are a req
 uniform,-and quite as impressive g.
 any seen on any battle front of nut
 and blood and indescribable filth
 The guns of the soldier must b.
 fed with an intending supply of am 3 intuition makers. Their mouth : must be fed with enough to keep u l their fighting stamina. That is ou
 job. It is, next to theirs, the mos important job of all. For what woul
 guns or munitions avail without me- , to use them? There are some scat - ,erinS evidences, outside. of mer i words, that the present governmen a appreciates this fact. Some step
 nave been taken in the interests of tn
 food -producers,-not for their ow
 comfort or welfare, bat for the sak
 of the service which is demandsd 0 :. them
 = Nevertheless, it is not unlikely tha d we farmers will have to feel tn f pinching of the screws of war in the flu q ture even more keenly than in the pas . We are short of labor: we are goin d to be shorter. We have difficulty get f ting proper fertilizers: we are goin l. to have yet more difficulty. We ar e compelled to pay eKorbitant prices fo = tools and supplies: We are likely { = find ourselves compelled to do with
 out either, except as we can i'm g provise or reclaim then
 $ It isn't eoed time for any of u Il to think about enlarging our border 5 or building bigger barns It is. rathe
 time for us to take careful stock |, the old things and see how, by an hook or crook. we can make thel [. carry us through
 $ On the farms as well as in th . kitchens and everywhere else the or
 aim of us all should be economy e the use of everything. Economy nt
 only to the point of thrift but to tt
 very border of stinginess. Econom
 Tn personal consumption of ware: K senbsls: economy carried to the tent 1 degree in every possible direction.
 Patched raiment is no longer a sig e' of poverty, but a badge of distinctfo h He or she who can make an old gal
 ment serve another season by jud
 cious patching or darning has a rigl
 to exhibit those patches as proud - as a red cross in the window, or i" service button on the coat.
 We farmers must hunt up our O lS tools and make them serve us. rath, ; than buy new ones. We must ado ;, every possible device to save farn oi made manures to take the place 'e bought fertilizers. We must go bat n to the discarded devices of olden tim 'h to provide supplies for ourselve
 ln oroer not to have to buy them aw: '- from the soldiers whose need is mo
 urgent.
 We have got to "trade days worl
 with each other, when we can't g I help any other way. We have got c. work over time, even if it carries } into the moonlight We have got .r make up our minds to do witho le some things we have come to col Is sider as neeessaries. We have 2 it to utilize to the limit of safety eve > bit of man-power and woman-pow .r and boy or girl-power on the pren z ises.
 le And that isn't the worst of it..
 We are going to be subjected