The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-09-18

part of it. but all, the gross product-what is that
industry to do?'
'Such being the state of things the question arises:
Is not the condition of the farm national calamity
Ii the answer be unqualified Yes, then it behooves
the nation itself to take steps meet this emergency
with drastic action.
without offering the following proposal as the
only solution OF this crisis put it forward in the
belief tat at least it offers practical and efficient
Ct combating state of affairs which threatens
shortly U become intolerable. When country finds
itself i'll danger of foreign INVASION that country takes
action, through it's legislature which finally
the movement of armies against the foe The United
States now in danger of real food shortage which
conceivably might develop into actual famine Then
let the United States commander her youth to pro-
duce food and thus to conserve the resources of her
people. AS recently she modified for the sharp
rigors of war, let her mobilize for the friendly
fruits OF peace. Let her take up the of the soil
in place of the arms so honoraby laid aside.
In other words, pass such legislation in Wash
ington shall authorize the Federal Government to
conscrpt the young men (say all those between the
ages of Is and 2O) and distribute them centrally
the arabic land of the entire country particularly in
those great tracts of the Middle West and Southeast
where the cultivation of essential food stuffs pro-
NOTED the widest and most intense scae have them
selected solely to their physical fitness without
regard to class sect color and fix their wages o
be paid by their empoyers) strictly according to the
principles OF army pay make the term OF service SIX
MONTHS possibly year, allowing the plan whole
to operate just long this extraordinary condition
of present market values continues to confront the
public. With a nationwide menace, there must be
nation wide measures.
'sThs scheme imposes I'm Just demands. It is
free from any form of class legislation and thus up
holds the best traditions of democratic history
Furthermore it would far toward the conservation
of the community health; than in the
of men in the army, there would to these farm
ing lads those natural benefits which the direct
results OF hard work done in the fresh open air. Such
hardShipS it entails not even comparable to
those endured in the struggle recently consummated
Iv1O + po11 hone r1yl1iGh
dound to the everlasting credit Of every good citizen
and constitute most laudable service to ones
try.
''In closing, I may quote from letter recently
published in New York paper, as follows: Nature
has been kind to America 1t is not nature now that
threatens failure. The is in themselves.
The unthinking inhabitants of the United States,
those who not thinking the farmers have to
think, all know what plenty means-enough and to
spare OF famine as famine they know nothing, or
it is regarded something remote. But the farm
ers, feastng or fasting absolutely depends!"
To the mind of ''IThe Oasis Mr. Hoffman remedy
proposed would be but another step in Socialism.
Ii government may c0nscrpt labor and move it about
in operations of agriculture why not may not do
in all operations? In fact history tells that there
have been governments which assumed and exercised
that very powre In his history of the Peruvian
civilization that was overthrow by Francisco PZar
TO- describes government which operated upon Just
such methods the only difference being that all ia
Dor was employed by the government for the govern
ment ALI labor was cOnScr1pted and sent to serve III
the fields or IN the mlneS or wherever needed. En-
tire communities uprooted and transplanted to
another as public need>Or eXigency, seen by gov
eminent
Mr.. Hoffman's proposition is but step toward
that Socialism practiced by the government of Alta
hualpa and his forbears And every remedy proposed
0IIc Of naIOlIoT fn1