Show AS THE EDITOR SEES IT millo millionaire douthe are coming light to the front we read goody good the poor boy is 13 already there with a foreign wr war on our or hands and possible famine staring blaring us in the face every man in the united states slates who is physically and mentally able should be required to either fight or work if a chronic loafer is found who will neither fight nor work then it is cincu incumbent abent upon the authorities to take lake him into custody put him in a field and compel him to aid in the reproduction of the vast quantities of foodstuffs that aos aie required to keep the walf from the th american door no sentiment senti nent ore or friendship I 1 should be allowed to way sway those who whom we have placed in authority over us for the public welfare must predominate over ey ev ery other consideration to put tre tie case bluntly blunt lv america must work or starve the cost of living is 13 becoming in 10 tolerable upon even the flimsiest flims iest excuse prices of foodstuffs are rals rais ed and if no excuse exists they are boosted on general principles mil liona of people who aise aie dependent upon their daily labor fid fi d it almost impo impossible ble to keep the body and the soul together in hundreds of thousands of cases their vitality is slipping slip ning away from pure lack of sufficient nourishment yet in the ery face of this fie cie insatiable food speculators and profit grabbers are taming the screws tighter every day dav there appears to be but one bavin way in which this thes sucking of the food blood of humanity can be stopped and that is for the government to take prompt action and fix a maxi max mum price at which every article of food is to be sold and in fixing the maximum the price should be first scheduled down to normal the fact that a scarcity in foodstuffs exists should not be accepted as a an e ex cuse for allowing prices to remain at their present outrageous figures and the same action should be taken with reference to every article of necessity that we use what can the women of our or town do to help win the war she can do much many things the prin cipal thing she can do however is to reduce the cost of her own on table by increasing the production of gar den foods at home every pennys dennys worth of food she raises releases just that much that can be devoted ward feeding some other person who has no place f for 0 a garden in addition to 0 reeding the people of our own country we must food for the peo people p Is of england france russia and I 1 italy to I 1 Y in which countries so man many y people are fighting that they 0 can an not produce a food to lice keep P their people from while abild the head of the family in this town 0 is conducting on d his hoe business as s on affairs air th the wife and young arms and daht du daughters ht can do much in the garden and in this thia erlau it will ill be a signal honor for them to do so when you see me a planting and weeding and caring for her garden you will know lust there is a woman who has principle ale as well as aa pluck and one as who places the welfare of her country shove the soiling of her hands hand |