Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 4 | Declare Young Men Needed for Farming

DECLARE YOUNG MEN NEEDED FOR FARMING I Telegram to President From Northwest Says 1918 Wheat Crop Threatened. 1 SPOKANE, Wash., Doc. 20. What is declared to be' "the grave necessity of immediate action in taking steps to hold the young men of the Pacific northwest on the farms, instead of permitting such large numbers of them to join the military mili-tary service, if this section is to raise even a normal wheat crop next season," sea-son," is called to the attention of President Pres-ident Wilson in a telegram sent him bv representatives of agricultural and manufacturing man-ufacturing interests in this region. Among the signers of the telegram, made public today, were the state commissioner com-missioner of agriculture and the federal fed-eral fpod administrator for Washington. "Because of adverse weather conditions, condi-tions, not more than 2o per cent of the average fall acreage has been planted," said the telegram. The telegram suggests that a national war-time food production administrator be named, to "fire the imagination of the people to the supreme necessity of increased food production and who will establish far-reaching eo-operation with the agricultural department.