The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-06-06


~ this plan but doub
their ability to NEE
the military requirements. If yOi
really want to do your bit why don,
you try? Many men whose long ex
perience as mechanics and artisan
will make them particularly vaIu
able to the various staff corps. an(
departments may thus be secured
instead of younger men WlthOu
such experience and the efficiency
of the staff corps and the various
departments would be increased II
will take all this to win this war; il
would open up opportunities for ex'
ecutive ability which would other
wise lie dormant, not from necessity
nor choice but simply from lack Of
action, waiting for some one to start
the ball rolling. Be the man ia
front; why don't you try?
While all this activity, mObiliZa
ton of power and increasing the
man-power of the nation, it may be
summed up as an object to concen-
trate attention upon the supreme
aims Of the war as interpreted by
President Wilson in his message to
Congress and to quicken the spirit
of America in support Of the Presi
dents policies in prosecuting the war
for democracy, International justice
and a league of nations. All this
may be realized by concentrated
effort, cooperation Of the people,
desire to help and a willingness to
do what you can. Why don't you
try?
Do you know that all the war
measures now in practice are all old?
It was over 5000 years ago that the
cry of no indemnities was first
heard and practiced, and the Bible
mentions war bread receipts and
trenches and daylight saving and
deferred classification of married
men and pretty nearly everything
else that unthinking ones put down
as new or modern. For a fact there
is nothing new under the sun. If you
doubt it read your Bible. Mr.. hoover
was by no means the first food con-
servator because Joseph first had
this honor. He received his job from
Pharaoh nearly $500 years ago. If
you will read your Bible you will
find he was recalled from prison 10
interpret Pharaoh's dream. He fore
saw a threatened famine, to be pre-
coded by period of plenty, and was
accordingly appointed food admins
traitor with power TO conserve all
grain and to dictate just how much
of each crop should be eaten and
what part should be saved. Ism t
this just what we are doing now il
not, why don't you try?
Now listen to this, and it is Cos
pei truth: For seven years Joseph
ruled over the rich harvests and
bountifuI crops, conserving here,
substituting there, when the time
came when things were scarce and
Egypt alone of all that part of the
world was prepared with enough food
to stave off starvation, and there
was a surplus which was used to
supply the other nations which had
not the ability or foresightedness to
prepare for the future We do a lot
of talking about war bread. Why,
it is not a new bread, it is thousands
of years old, In the Bible there is
a passage dealing with the siege of
Jerusalem when the children of Is
rael were urged by the prophet Eze-
kiel to conserve their wheat and to
mix it with other grains if they
wished to avert a time when they
would have no wheat at all.
Can't you detect history repeating
itself? Is it not fact that the same
remedies are applicable today that
were 8 900 years ago? Is there any
new methods advocated or prac-
ticed? 1t don't look so. -
Let us 90 little farther along the
same line Don't this sound like
Hoover order (but it isn'O: Take
thou unto the wheat and barley and /
beans and lentils and millet and !
fitches and put them in one vessel
and make thee bread thereof, &C
cording to the number of the days
that thou shalt lay upon thy side
800 days shalt thou eat thereof"
Thus they were told, what to do,
and strange to relate, with the ex-
ception of the ftches which grow
only in Egypt and Syria and which