Show Editorials by the People Many editorials are received by this department so that It ft is obviously impossible to print all of them immediately In many cases there must be a certain amount of unavoidable l. l able delay In no case is this column opened to religious d dis dis- dis s. s All communications must bear the authors author's name and address If you do not desire your name published indicate indi cate cafe this and it will be held confidential WANTS FOOD EMBARGO Editor Telegram I for one would greatly appreciate if you yon would be kind enough I to tto print the clippings I Please note that they emphasize the government control of the necessities for the nations nation s welfare This is practiced in ill Ut time of or war Wh Why should it not he be practical and most profitable for the people at large in time of peace pence 7 1 I for one insist that the government can do something and should do something to remedy the injustice now being practiced by individual individual indi indi- vidual interests as well as the hardships imposed on the people at large I I am a constant reader of your Jour paper and wide awake to the thc I existing conditions us JOHN DOE DOB Here arc are the tho items referred to but we arc are unable to give credit because none is given here Ed WHAT EUROPE DID When war came the nations of Europe seized every railroad and practically every big private enterprise and began to operate operate- them for the national welfare The governments i ignored private interests and must musty r tradition and trampled over beliefs that have ever over governed the commercial worl world The government of Germany to save waste and prevent speculation assumed charge of the distribution distri of all foodstuffs not foodstuffs not only to the soldiers hut but to the general public They claim and undoubtedly undoubted the claim is true truc that in such sucha a a. national crisis private enterprise could not be depended on What nations can do and aud must do to insure successful war var nations can do 10 and must do to insure peace pence to prevent monopoly to destroy abnormal abnormal abnor abnor- mal profits in the distribution of the necessaries of life If a nation finds it necessary to direct the business of feeding and clothing men menso menso so 60 they may easier kill other men why can cnn it not direct the business of feeding and clothing men so they themselves may tuny live 7 If national operation co is good in times of war why is it not good in times of peace f If a nation can keep its soldiers soldier nourished so they I may be able to perform their duties in times of war why not see sec to it that its citizens are fire nourished so the they can perform their duties in times limes of peace 1 Is Is' it any worse to let lct an arm army of soldiers starve than to let an army of civilians starve The dirt dirty alleys of London and Paris have been swarming with human derelicts for years they pick garbage out of the gutters the little children grow up to be thieves thic ud t idiots and idiots and this is true in our own American cities and and I yet et society insists that the government can do nothing PLEA FOR FOE EMBARGO We Yc Wc cannot agree with the Wall VaU street bank when jt says There is nothing having to do with international commerce or f finance that could get this nation into war half so quickly as to toe e embargo the export of some of oJ our raw materials material on which some other nations nation's industry depends We Vc would have need of long guns if we should ever embargo the export of cotton In short speculators may buy bin and corner our cotton to the last bale and ship it to Europe Europ to be used in making explosives with which to kill people while our own people must go naked for the want of cheap cotton clothing Likewise they may export our last bushel of wheat The products of our labor ma may all be poured into the consuming consuming con con- I suming maw of a foreign war while our people go o hungry and aud naked So much of our necessities of life arc are now being exported forcing prices up that our working people arc looking hunger in the face And all that Wall Wail l street speculators may mar profit b by war prices It is a n I wicked shame that every r family in the United States should be mulched every day because of this unholy war An embargo should immediately be laid on lifes life's necessities until normal prices are restored |