The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-25
'FARGOANSPLEDGE
UNITED SUPPORT
TO UNITED STATES
FOOD CAMPAIGN
III. G.. Culbertson and Mrs.
p. Basil Clark Open Con-
serVatiOn Campaign
CULBERTSON CITES
CONDITIONS ABROAD
Says Germany May Be
Hungry But That She
Will Not StarVe

The united efforts Of Fargo people
to conserve food products Of every
kind in harmony with the suggestion
made by the United States food
administration. was pledged at a
mass meeting held in the auditorium
Sunday evening by 5000 people who
unanimously voiced yes" to resolu-
lions presented by Judge Charles A.
Pollock.
The imme==ate release of all grain
now being wasted In the manufacture
of beer was asked in the resolutions
adopted and that the provision
whereby no light nor heat may be
used in any place where liquors are
sold for the ten Mondays from Jan.
p to March rs. not only apply to
every day during this period, but all
so to every day throughout the war,
thus releasing mare than 100000
tons OF coal besides men and trans
portation facilities for actual necessi-
ties. The resolutions also expressed
the appreciation Of the Fargo people
for Herbert Hoover's work in the
conservation Of needed foOdstuffs.
Two Representatives Speak.
Speakers at the meeting were
representatives Of the federal food
administration, Mrs. P. Basil Clarke
and DR.. II. g. Culbertson, both Of
Washington, u. G. Dan Reed, the
other speaker assigned to the state of
North Dakota, was not able to make
connections so as to speak in Fargo
at the opening of the series Of meet
ing to be held in the state, which
will last until March with closing
meetings at Williston and Minot.
~ Ia -
permit the members of their congre-
cations to attend the food administraL
ton meeting. 1t was one or the most
enthusiastic meetings held in the city
in several months.
To-day we are called upon to make
sacrifices for the winning of the war
in which the whole world is en-
gagged" said DR.. Culbertson. 1--WE
are fighting not only because Ameri-
can ships have been sunk and Am
erican citizens drowned by the ruth
less warfare Of the submarine, but
we are fighting because the Consci-
| ence of our people had been stirred
by the brutal attack Of Austria upon
Serbia, the INSCRIPTIONS assault of
Germany upon Belgium, and the horTi-
BILE massacre Of 100000 liberty loving
Armenians by the Turks and their
German officers. Almost the whole
Armenian nation has been blotted
because it stood in the way Of the
kaiser's dreams of an empire stretch
| ing from Berlin to Bagdad."
DR.. Culbertson declared that one of
| the biggest factors and perhaps the
deciding factor in the war, Is the
question of food. He said that in
times of peace Germany produced
| four-fffths Of her own food supplies,
| while England produced only one
| fifth France, one-naIf; Belgium,
one tenth, and Italy, two-thirds of
the amount necessary for their peo-
| pie.
Germany Will Not Starvs.
THE seas are sown with German
submarines, and it is easier for Ger
many to starve our allies and our
own soldiers at the front, than it is
! for us to starve Germany. Germany
may be hungry but she will not
starve. Under normal conditions, be-
| fore the war, the allied nations were
| compelled to import an average of
! 40 per cent OF their food supply.
| Since the war has commenced their
production of food has very greatly
| decreased. The farms Of France are
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