Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-22
Organize for Safety

Citizen of Highland County, what
are you doing to help and protect
Yourselves and to give intelligent and
efficient aid to your government in
this her hour of great peril?
Many of you have responded gener-
ously to the call of the Red Cross and
the Army Y. M. G. a; a few of you
have sent your boysato train for our
defense on the battle fields of Europe;
some of us have sons in class A, l.,
liable to be called to service any time,
though we need them SO much at>home
on the farm; and some, with thousands
of dollars on interest, over and above
all obligations, have done nothing to
help their cOuntry-not even the pur-
chaser of Thrift Stamp.
Our government is asking nothing
of the people of Highland that is not
reasonable Sand not finally for our
own. as we'll as, our country's good.
We are requested to organize in
every locality of every county and
state, an Agricultural Council of Safe
ty, with central county council, to
act with other county and State Coun-
ellis to help carry out the plans OF our
government. The main object OF this
organization is to urge and encourage
increased production of food products
and the conservation of the same-the
very thing that is to our personal in
terest and good in peace as well as in
war, and helps our country, also.
We find that most of the counties
adjoining Highland have responded
patriotically to this request by having
several organizations, and a county
organization. Not only the Valley
counties but some mountain counties
as well.
Highland has but one local council
with membership of less than two
dozen. This doesn't speak well for
our good old county at this time.
Our citizensin the past have been as
patriotic as those of any other county
and we want to believe that tie patrl-
otism of our present citizens will equal
if not eclipse that of our ancestors, if
we know what is required of US.
The farmers, especially, should Or
ganize; but nearly every citizen, male
or female, is eligible and should be
member of some council.
No., fellow citizens, let us have
council in every locality, or at least
three in each district of the county,
and these can organize county coun-
Gil. Don't one wait for another. AS
soon as you read this, 60 to your
phone and call several of your neigh
bors. Plan to meet within three
days at your postofice, church, school
house or any other place, and if there
are only two of you, organize by MAX
ing one chairman and another secre-
tary. Send me a postal and will
notify our State Council who will give
you all needed instructions and infOr-
nation.
At your future meetings. in
two weeks or four weeks or as often as
you see it-you can discuss ways and
means of increasing amongst your
selves, the production of vegetables,
grains, poultry ETC., and how best to
conserve or market the same, and any
other matters that concern your
selves as patriotic citizens.
Space will not permit me to offer
other suggestions as to the many ways
in " hich this organization may be
helpful to your community, socially
and financially, and at the same time
evidence your willingness to aid your
government. Will not other citizens
offer some suggestions along this line?
In conclusion permit me to say, not
in malice or anger, but in Sadness
that at this time of national peril,
every citizen of the U. S. is either
patriot or a Stacker either helping
to maintain the proud history and ira
ditions of this great free Republic,
J your home and your peopl's home, or
! aiding and abetting the enemy, the
most absolute, cruel, and tyranous
autocIacy on earth today. Don't say
this is not true. Make fair reasona-
BILE analysis and prove it absolutely
true. There can be no neutral ground.
Each of us is either for or against
not faction or political party but
his own great government, his own
family and fireside, his own freedom.
To do nothing for our country now is
to do much for Imperialism.
On which side are we? What we
say and do will determine this ques-
ton. Don't wait, but do something
| now. Respectfully,