Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 26
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MOBILIZATION FOR FOOD PRODUCTION A PLAN FOR CIVIL-MILITARY SERVICE TO INSURE AN ADEQUATE FOOD SUPPLY FOR T H E UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE Proposed by the University of Illinois Prepared by tbe Faculty of the College of Agriculture and the Department of Economics following facts: 1. The present production of food in the United States is not increasing in proportion to the increase in population. asset 2. product western indicates that every nation in going 3. active military service lustrial conditions, evei food 4. Indiscriminate enlistment from the farms with no plan production below labor need, for we already have two lean years behind us and conditions of a hungry world continued shortage mean disaster. 5. If an adequate food supply is to be assured, the mUxtary plan must include an enlistment for food production as definite as for serines at the front. From the first the Department of War should as rigorously protect the food production as it does any other means of national defense. 6. Anything like limiting the food of the people is wholly unnecessary if reasonable attention be given to the business of Production, America has land enough, if it is properly handled, to feed both M
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