Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 34 [PAGE 2]

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TO d . l ' H MKMBKUS IN ALL PRO.IKCTS Many of you, perhaps, have read the story of the Leak in the Dike, and how IVter, the lad in far away Holland, saved his country by patting his arm into a little hole in a dike and stopping the leak. The dike in Holland is, as you know, all that stands between that country and destruction. If the dike should give way, the ocean would sweep in and deatli and devastation would follow. Our own country, the United States, at the present time stands in much the same position as does Holland. Instead of a threatening ocean of water, we are menaced by a sea of German autocracy. Did you ever think what would be the result if it should engulf us? Do you know that it would sweep away the things that are nearest and dearest to the hearts of every American boy and girl? Like Holland, we are protected by mighty dikes—our army and our navy. But the mightiest dike of them all is FOOD. During the past year you have done your bit in producing FOOD. - It may not seem to you that you have done very much, but every ounce of food produced in garden, field, or feed yard has helped to build the dike. Now a leak has been discovered. Will you, like Peter, help to stop it; Our corn crop, the pride of Illinois, is threatened unless good seed can be obtained. It can be obtained only by picking over and testing ear by ear the corn which has been gathered. Every untested ear that is planted is a leak in the dike, and every club member who tests an ear of corn, whether he plants it or whether someone else plants it, is stopping a leak in the dike. This little circular will tell you how to go about this. It is placed m your hands with the hope that whatever your club interest may be, wherever you may live, whether in the city or in the open country, you may see this opportunity for patriotic service. g c Here is great a e a i l o r c l ub boys and girls. nw a chanop tn £>" TS*. „ thmg W Take mgs and ? a l W ° ^ Tyour club leader fi this up™ it »M club meet^ in your «nme way ings, and talk with u £

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