The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-10
GO TO WORK.
That Is One Way to Win the War, Says
Mark Swan.


Food will win the war We're not go
ing to have the food. They're trimming
the edges off our rations now, and when
we get one good look at the next harvest,
and another good look at the hungry
mouths waiting for it, wen realize
there's nothing to do, but slip up the old
belt buckle couple Of notches and
whistle, Wait till the clouds roll BY !"
Last year, il any pessimistic prophet
had tried to make US believe We would
have meatless, and wheatless, and heat
less days in gay old Manhattan, why
we'd have just laughed him to death,
that's all. 1t not only seemed improb
able, it seemed impossible, Yet those
unforeseen, evil times are upon us
Hoover has cut our daily bread to the
last crumb. He means we'll by us, but
he had to do it. What will Mr. John w
Hunger do to us when he gets his in
nings?
He's going to get his innings, too
there's a reason. 1t can be stated In one
fool proof sentence The farmer can
aiatNNNA n4dt iif FAahASs ne EHH bilIA
plant in the early spring, and he ii not
able to plant as much as he planted last
year because he can't get men to help |
him.
No internal calamity, or external foe, |
has ever threatened us with such a ter. |
rible menace as this absolutely incontro- I
vertible condition. How are we meeting /
it, Calmly-with the camness born OF /
inattention We don't understand IT,
We don't realize it. We can't grasp it,
II we did, we'd be doing something
Why it means food cards and rations
and bread lines and soup kitchens. 1t /
means deprivation and want, and some
where-to some people-here or abroad
lit will mean stark, black despair
famine and death.
If there isn't enough to 20 around
and there won't be--we know it now
who will have to go without? Our poor,
here at home reduced by famine prices !
for what little food there is, to less than
enough to keep body and soul together I
Our allies in Englandin France Shall Z
Belgium starve-or Serbia? t
The legislature of North Dakota has e
shown US the way. A bill has passed q
that body, CONSUMPTION men for labor on
the farms. If this bill is made law
within six months, AZ states will fall
nto line behind South Dakota, and trail
Ter to the safe haven of food security.
This ieonoelastie legislature has rid a
lied the objection of the Philistines to a
abor draft-by which the United States
government which is summed un in the 4
sentence, you can't draft men TO enrich |
private individuals" They have been Z
road enough to see that ii isn't ques- I
ion of making money for the farmer,
tut of getting enough for us all to eat.
And the directors, it would seem, pre-
er us all to go hungry, rather than that I
We should meet the problem in an I'M
conventional way. Their attitude il
much like that of the decentralization
flee" of Dickens, only instead of "how
ot to do it" they shrek, at can't be
one" q
North Dakota has blazed the trail. s
'ther states will follow. President Will y
on has called ON the boys from l6 to 90 4
0 do farm work. New Jersey has an b
Hers law, so has Maryland =
And it is not too late vet. to help the z
tuation some, perhaps great deal. II e
epends on each one of us, each and b
very one. IL
If you're able to work. and IL is pos. q
bic for you to leave your usual svoca- n
on for few months, get in touch with n
he nearest agricultural bureau and con n
ect with farm. You're only one man g
but every little bit helps. Persuade &
-ery friend you have to do the same n
ling You won't have any trouble in 8
farmer will be glad to have d
Du H
If You can't go yourself, send men &
ind idle men and send them. Ii YOU 4
I'VE young sons, send them. Give your Is
suffeur six months leave on half paw. q
he'll try II, and drive your car your &
If. If you live in a small town, corral
e citizens thereof into a big public 8
Getting and declare one public holiday a
EEK, then everybody go out and help =
e farmers on that day. In the old
mes, when a man wanted 10 build q
use, he called on ell his neighbors-E
ey all came and helped him. ended the
v with q barbecue. and he had his y
use. Something like that might help
4 liz
But more-if you want to do your bit
give up yOur vscsticn a. the noun 81
ms or the sesshore, and take Il on 8
IN. Sentence yourself to two weeks -