Show I I DISLOYAL 8 I ITHE THE PRESIDENT of the United States has asked every loyal loyol citizen to comply with certain requests made regarding the purchase of flour and the use of cereals etc I Iline Inline la In laline line with this restriction has been put upon the merchants regarding the sale of these articles by the food administrator This was made necessary necessary necessary essary in order that food stuffs might be conserved for the brave brav boys who are fighting over there and ond also In order that a food famine may moy be averted In this country before before before be be- fore the harvest of 1918 One would naturally think such an appeal would b b be patriotically observed by every everyman everyman everyman man and woman calling themselves Americans But to the shame of many this tills is not the case There Then are those th se who censure and abuse abusi the merchant when refused more mon than the allotted amount of flour o or sugar or other other necessities prescribed ed by the government and resort t tall tall to all manner of ot tricks to get more mon than their share Then there an are what might be called pirate ped ped- who are In league with un un- American outside dealers who furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish them will wUl small wholesale lotof lot lots lotsof of foodstuffs and then these pirate surreptitiously sell to so so- called Americans who gloat over the fact that they have knocked the home merchant out of a sale and althe althe al at atthe the same time have bested the government government government gov gov- in its patriotic and life saving saving sav say ing effort of conservation of food Is not such acts a disgrace to a II community community community com com- In which they are perpetrated ed and to our shame there are many just such lIuch miserable cheap slackers In our community These same alleged alleged alleged al al- al- al Americans many of them wear weara a small flag on the lapel of their coat and with with vehemence declare decline we must win the war yet sneak sneak- play Into the hands bands of the Germans by their petty sel and un-American un To win the war absolute must loyalty be openly manifested every patriotic request of the president must be heartily complied with and ond everyman everyman every overy man and woman must stand fair and square behind the government In every demand slid and he or she who fails falls to do this by sly subterfuge or selfish h scheming is nothing more or orless orless It less ss than a petty traitor Be loyal |