The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-07-03
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Late For Action. 81.

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.sZ ! EXT in impor tance to the brave
4 stand being made by. the Allied armies
agains st the onrush Of the Hindenburg
i horde is the union of the patriotic
people Of the United States to stop
Wastage Of food Both are essential
to victory Therefore T urge that; as
many patriotic Mimi apolitans as pos
sible attend the Food for Victory mass
meeting at the Audit orium Tuesday
= nigh t,,# and les specially urge that the
men come and find out what splendid
Work the women have been dom =
5A; ": Wilson, State Food Admins
traitor. Y x@% 81 ~ 90, !:
a: ::Ss: Patriotism Demands 1t. IT,, T..
How any man with an ounce Of
patrio tism in his body can see this
preventable waste and fail to do 7all
that is in his power to stop it is be-
Ayond comprehension! #*<Zs .S.s ..
!. An insane Risk, A Criminal Folly. !
1T is sheer insanity on the part CT
Congress to face. the risk of failure
through tho waste and destruction
chargable to the. liquor traffic. 7.
d. Think Of it. Enough bread to ra-
t1on our army and navy and millions
OF our fighting. allies; sufficient coal
to have averted the heatless days
which caused the nation loss of two
billions of~dollars; and two billions Of
dollars in cold coin represent only the
larger items of waste that are charg-
able; to the traffic. 1t could all be
saved by wartime prohibition. Add
to this the uncounted and uncount-
able value Of the man power wasted,
the hundreds of thousands of cars and
the locomotives required for the traf-
tic, the moral and the money cost of
the vice, and crime it breeds. In con
slderation Of these things. the inaction
Of Congress assumes the aspect OF
criminal folly. At best it delays vic
tory and at worst it may spell defeat
Is. Congress Criminal? Are the
people cu1pable?
With tragic hlonotony the Huns
have been pushing us, with o1r allies
back and literally pinching the Bri.
fish between the Hun devil and the
deep blue sea. We have not. been
vim ng the fight. Would it have
helped if Congress. had passed war
time prohibition, and saved the daily
loss Of five and a half millions OF
loaves of bread? Would the tables
have been turned If our ships had not
rocked idly at their anchors delaying
shipments of food and war equipment
for lack Of the coal and transportation
that the breweries had consumed IN
til the government had to shut down
industry at a loss Of two billion dol.
lars? Are the people culpable for not
demanding that congress act, and act
now? =
To Prove Our Patriotic Loyalty.
Every loyal patriot should slice his
bread the thinner, should reduce his
food portions and save, save, save
to help win the war, and the Safety
/ Commission and the President and
the Congress should stop the waste
waste, waste of the 'breweries. There
is ar old-fashioned story in, an old
fashioned book that runs sometime
on this wise: "Why beholdest thou
the thick slice in thy brothers eye
when behold millions of loaves are
in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite!
First cast the millions of loaves out
Of thine own eve, and then thou shalt
see clearly to ! cast the thick slice
out Of thy brothers eye .:,.
If you believe in immediate war
time prohibition--the only way to let
the Congress, know it is to say SO
| Why, not wire the us. Senate in care
Of Hen. ,Knute Nelson and Hon Frank
B.. Kellogg and wire the House in care
of the representative from your dis
trict5to stop this waste and win the
war 81. ~ ,z.5s 4. s.