The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-10
Self-Supporting.
Fairbanks News-Miner.) ]

We have been told day after day and almost after year that what eat here is practically fighting that civilization may endure, and from the needy wives and children of the soldiers who have died in the fight; and from the men and women be- hind the soldiers and nearer to them who helping to win civilizations This has been drilled into until we have all eaten less of what wanted and lot of stuff which didn't want to play the game. Now another Of production is with and Fairbanks is just about ready rise its hind
 legs tell the rest of the world to take everything there is and leave to fate-that Fairbanks raise everything it needs to keep what little life have til the coming of the when civilization shall be in threatened and safe church in Our any other town.
 We glad to state that this condition is being brought about in Fairbanks by organized farmers. Organization has been tried here in every
 line of industry, and it has remained for the farmers ganize and that they have organized and that result we depend upon them and their production and let the remainder of the farming world take of the remainder of the world if we have home spirit enough to let it 10 that length Last year within short time after their organization per fected, the farmers went after Government contracts and got them and filled them, too. This year they are starting right off to repeat last years achieve ments and beat them and they will do it. Every farmer in the organization is planting 100 pounds of wheat this year for seed for next year Every farm CT in the organization is planting sugar beets and. there arc more farmers in the organization this than there were last. First thing you know the whistle of the steam fouring mill will be heard in Fairbanks and the whistle of the beetsugar factory, ana they will be sweeer music to our ears than IS the laundry whistle Our farmers going to sup ply us With sugar nOur Wltnln snort time, ana the best there is obtainable in the world. You may have to import your tea and coffee, but you'll be better off if cut tea and coffee out of diet so who cares whether it is imported not?
 Although this has been backward and the farms late in getting a start, they afraid and going the limit They don't care how many Liberty Gardens there here and they hope there will be plenty of them, for there will be more than enough demand for everything that ou farmers raise. Fort Gbbon, which takes it's vege- tables from Fairbanks, is planning to build imme- diatey three buildings which will be long the dig gann Inc w ppI hri1 nd ner, and they will probably keep them full of heavy eaters who pause there their way to the river Rhine to take training in the war game This little 47 draft which goes out of here the last Of this month is only the first draft from here and 47 will never complete the quota Fairbanks will be called upon to contribute to the forces and they must eat and in Interior Alaska until they ready and competent to take up the work of more ad- vanced training in the States lover There. Fair banks farmers propose to feed those men, and the thousands who work on the Government railway and, the thousands and thousands who shove their
 feet under the tables of Fairbanks and vicinity. And they do it.
 Stock? Let alone well-protected wild game, which could feed us all the meat want, the camp raise all the meat it wants from chicken to pork little curlytailed piglet gambong theren-it is no gamble what will become of the embryo hogs when the frost is the pumpkin and the folders in the shock here this year. The brises and the entrails may not be here, which may be wOeful waste in the eyes of the pork packers but pckled pigs feet will go to waste here this fall, will spareribs, nor bacon nor lard nor hams.
 Let the world worry about the soldiers and thelr assistants and Fairbanks will do her share and take her share of the burden of all of it, but the world needn't worry about Farbanks-Fairbanks can take care of itself. in every way and carry its share of the worlds burden besides.