New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1917, Page 11

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You’ll not be dis- appointed, g Shop o York Sampl 357 Main Street, New Britain BRITAIN HERALD, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1917. MOBILIZATION OF FOOD PRODUGERS Chicago Educator Sees America , Facing Serious Problem Chicago, April 18.—America should mobilize for the production of food as well as for fighting, declared Eugene Davenport, dean of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture in a statement which he has issued defin- ing a plan of the university to organ- ize a civil-military service to be com- posed of men disqualified for military service at the front and of boys, to ‘work on farms rented by the govern- ment. . To show the necessity for enlist- ment in this service, Dean Davenport asserted that there is not now enough labor left upon the land to produce what America should consume and that unless this farm labor is in- creased, the food supply “will drop to a level that may easily prove disas- trous.” In his statement, Dean Davenport said: “For generations food has been so abundant 'that it has often been actually cheaper to waste than to save. But. conditions have suddenly changed—over night as-it were—and we are having food riots not only in hurgry Europe, not only in congested New York, but in Chicago, the very heart of the greatest food-producing region in the world. These riots are attributed to high prices, but high prices mean something. They do not come of themselves, nor when there is an abundance of food. Therefore, when the police are called out to put down the riots, it is well that states- men and those in authority inquire into the causes, particularly now as we enter the greatest struggle in all history. “People do not generally know that & real shortage of food exists. They do not know that the last two years have been lean years upon the land, and that as matters stand today, un- less the coming season should be e tremely exceptional a serious situa- tion would confront us. When the food supply of Europe was cut down by war, they—the allies at least— could look to importation, but no such prospect is held out to America. We are at the end of the line, and if we fuil that ends it. Desertion of the Farms. “People generally do not realize the extent to which labor has becn desert- ing the land for the last half dozen years and erecting conditions of em- ployment that tend strongly to cut off the food supply, for the farmer can- not operate his farm on the eight- hour plan nor according to union rules. By the use of large and still larger machinery, the farmer has done the best he could to make good the loss. He has worked his boys carly and late and still he cannot work his acres for high yields. Some lands cheap pasturage. The writer has seen crops plowed under, while he knows of harvests ungathered because labor 1d not be had for the gather- ing. wonder the farmer works twelve to sixteen hours a day, and no wonder a considerabl: number are forced back into the self-sufficing sys- tem with no hope of working the land to the best advantage. “As we go into the greatest war of all time, and as cur mind is on enlist- ment for service at the front, let every Ameérican citizen understand— and realize what it means if he can— that there is not enough labor left upon the land to produce what we ourselves should consume. What then of Western Europe whose fields are devastated? Shall we then be driven to »mportation? Very well, from whom shall we import, and what? Argentina has already placed an em- bargo upon wheat. The Canadian yield must decline, for many a man that ran a tractor on the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan two vears ago is now but a bundle of bones on the battleflelds of France. “Shall we then’limit the food sup- ply of the people? How then can we expect to win, for cnergy and power come only from food. A hurgry peo- wle never has been and never can be a. victorious people, besides it would require more men to enforce a re- | stricted diet than it wouid to produce enough to turn a scarcity into an | abundance. 1 America has acres enough if nably well worked to feed both herself and western Europe. Here lies her strength in the present struggle if only she is wise enough to know it before she throws away her one great and peculiar opportunity. “But it will not take care of itself. If enlistment for service at the fron is to be made indiscriminately and without plans to definitely increase labor on the land, then it is inevit- able that food will drop to a level that may easily prove disastrous. Get Down to Business. “But will not this cut off the sup- ply of labor for general manufac- ture? Assuredly it will, but now is a time to cut out luxuries of dress snd display if necessary, and get dewn to the serious business of meeting the exigencies involved in war. In the times just ahead, man or the woman that indulges in excessive luxury is helping by just | that much to defeat the country. That he has the ‘money to pay for has nothing to Jo with the question. When men are needed not only at the front_but in the cornfields in order ltiwat those fighting for liberty and i their little ones shall not starve, no man or woman has a right to absorb the time, and strength of a dozen able-bodied men in unnecessary ser- vice. “This and all other service not needed in the serious business of war and the necessary business of living is needed on the land, and the Uni- versity of Illinois proposes definite en- listment, in what may be called the civil military’ service, of men , who are permanently or temporarily dis- qualified for military service .at the front, and of boys fourteen to -eight- een years of age, especially ' those looking to active service later. on. “These men and boys should all receive the regular military pay, be uniformed, organized, and in every way recognized as in the public ser- vice. They should be quartered at agricultural camps located at conven- iént points upon land rented by the government and suitable for the growth of small fruits, vegetables, cot- ton and tobacco—crops that require much hand labor under conditions that make supervision feasible. “Every attempt should be made to place as many of them as possible upon actual farms, under furlough and off government pay, the work- man-soldier to be paid by the farm- er the ‘going wage’ of the locality, it being understood that if dissatisfac- tion arises, the man shall return to camp and the lower wage. “The camp should be under military discipline and frequent but not exact- ing drill, for the first business is food production, and for this purpose the little ‘army’ should be under agricul- tural leaders skilled in the production of the ‘special crops to be grown at the particular camp. There should also bhe.located in .connection . with these camps facilities for drying and otherwise preparing food for preser- vation and transportation. “In this way shortage of food may be avoided. Not only that, the ma- chinery is at hand for pushing the supply to any desired level, and that too while men and boys are 'getting a degree of military training, which will be of value to those who later mey enter the regular service. The only real question is: Will the United States mobilize as definitely for fodd as it will for fighting? In consider- ing this question, it is hardly neces- sary to point out the importance of having no more food .riots in this country while the war lasts. “A prominent Englishman was right when he said that fgod is Amer- ica’s greatest possible contribution to the war?” ENGLISH SPORTSMAN DEAD. 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