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Show Call Is Made For Workers Who Is Going To Keep j The Canning Wheels Going? I If a dying soldier stretched out his hand for water, you .ould not deny him. If blood were needed to save hi; life, you would give him some jf yours. If he needed food Our soldiers do need food. Their need is not so spectaoular nor acute as the boy dying of thirst or for want of blood, but it is just as important, just as necessary. neces-sary. It goes without saying that without food our armies must lay down their arms. Since it is impossible to get fresh fruits and vegetables to fighting men overseas, they must depend on canned, dehydrated or frozen foods. The need for cann :d goods is greatest. Because of the far grea er number num-ber of men overseas, their demand de-mand for food in the past has greatly increased, in some cases increased fifty per cent. And there will be more and more increases. v Along with this greater need goes an ever-increasing manpower man-power shortage in the canning factories as more and mjre men are taken out of war plants to get into the fighting lines. Who is going to keep the wheels going? Who is is going to can the fruits and vegetables that our men must have? You are going to, and I am, and our mothers, and our sons and daughters in high school and college are going to help. We must. And we in America have already shown that once i.e realize the need, we are willing will-ing to pitch in and do our share. it is not yet here, but the need will be great around the Fifth of July to the middle of August. Plan your time now, you housewives house-wives and students, so that when the local Richfield War Manpower Man-power Commission's U. S. Employment Em-ployment Service calls for help, you will he ready to give it. |