Show II A LESSON with the clouth clouds of war looming do darkly kly oer the country with plots and counter plots against the peace of our people with food di cea in the large cities and with the price booster stalking abroad in the land trub it is a time when the so a her ber sense of the american people should b be called into us use but ne are unlike any other people ale on the glo globe b a there seems to be something in the very air we breath that in makes kee for a different out outlook look on life from that of any other country no other land can vie with ith us in the vastness of its re s sources on rc sit the increase in our notional national wealth during the last two too decades would make crosses croesus appear a piker and beside our own maam licence the te glories of solomon are as the moonlight g bt to the radiant orb of day our strength and our resources resource are boundless and limitless but because of these theme ery ry facts we find ourselves as a people standing on the very brink of national disaster we are the most confidently careless ic as pen people P Is on earth hence find ourselves now engaged in a gigantic conflict and d lamentably unprepared for the task before us what boots boats us ua that our resources in men and material are so vuth these ces are as the latent heat beat of the coal undeveloped and A strenuous campaign of tion is a on but the theone one absolutely essential element time dimeis is in great measure denied us then we are the most moat magoon cenal ally wasteful people in the world beside our national extravagance the prodigality of kings is 11 as aa pinch ng ing economy and this trait too is s threatening to be our undoing hav having ng by our own royal gance consumed much and by stop ship ment from the country consumed much more we find ourselves fee fac ing a demand for unlimited supplies and with practically empty storehouses what matters it that other crops may mav be ral raised self that same element ement time may be denied us ear er the insistent demand la is upon us ua the remedy several in the first place export nothing that I 1 is urgently needed in this thia country but be t perhaps you yaa may bay that the european europea a nations mut must be fed granted but are we under oblige obliga tiona to feed them and let our own people suffer for foidl and was it by bv any act of out ours thit that the bulk of their men are now fighting when they should be at peace and prod prodoc uc ul it is well to care for our at al lies lea to the limit of possibilities but our own otto interests must take prece peace dence then let america go to work in ce earnes to eat work with the soil it let us not be satisfied with increased cro chopa p this season but let us plan for 1 e van even greater increases for years to wine come in order that the nations of th the a earth may be fed and wp we still he have enough loft left for our tinn lion and when we produce it let us it and not waste it it if the experiences experienc ea through which we e are passing shall ahall have the effect of teaching us a rational economy they will be welt wall worth the price cc I 1 kisa is a lesson lesbon we aped and all should ou lot hoed L |