Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1919 — WHEATGUARANTEE HELPS ALL CROPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHEATGUARANTEE HELPS ALL CROPS

Acts as a Balance That Will Sustain Present Prices on All Farm Products.’ PUT THE SURPLUS INTO BONDS Federal Reserve Board Look* to Farmer for a Oeneroue Support of the Coming Victory Liberty Loan. The United States Congress has appropriated $1,000,000,000 to guarantee the American farmer $2.26 n bushel for hla 1919 jyheat crop, a price which is $1 a bushel more than he might reasonably expect if American wheat was thrown on the market to compete with Argentine, Australian and Indian wheat. The American farmer <U's responded to the government’s guarantee by pledging the* production of millions of bushels more wheat than he has ever grown before, according to officials of the United States Food Administration’s Grain Corporation. The American farmer has never been In better financial condition, the officials say. The report of the. Federal Reserve Board shows ttyit the 1918 farm crop added $17,000,000,000 to the wealth of the country. The corn crop alone put $3,528,313,000 In the farm-

er’s pocket. Hay added $1,500,000,000 to the farmer’s Income. Apples brought him $230,000,000. Oats sold on the farm for something aver $1,000,000,000. The guaranteed price of wheat will not only assure the farmer a profit on wheat, but will also sustain the prices on other farm products, Food Administration officials point out. With the return of an abundance of labor, the farmer Is assured a highly prosperous year. With the surplus the farmer has from his last abundant harvest and with his present season’s return in a Targe measure guaranteed, the Federal Reserve Board looks to the farmer for a generous support of /the coming Victory Liberty Loan. The securities to be offered will merit his attention ns first Class Investments, aside from their patriotic appeal. “Sixty thousand American lads, many of them farmer boys, gave their lives for the freedom of democracy,” said an official of the United States Food Administration. “Had the war continued throughout next summer, as our military chiefs believed it would, two hundred thousand Americans and many more hundreds of thousands of their compatriots would have been sleeping In Flanders’ fields and beneath the sod of France and Lorraine. “That these Ilves were spared was due in a large measure to the lavish expenditure of the United States government in assembling men and munitions to <?rush Germany. Most of the men and even less of the material of war was never used. Yet the mighty preparations of our government forced the Germans to cry ‘Kamerad.’

"The American -farmer’s sons are coining home for the most part unscathed. For this the American farmer is duly grateful. From his abundance from the past year and from his assured prosperity for the coming season, he should and will set a new record, a Thanksgiving record. In. his subscription to the Victory Loan.” HELP "FINISH THE JOB." LET US STAND BY DEAR OLD UNCLE SAM. Uncle Sam is asking for a Victory Liberty Loan to clinch the stupendous demonstration that moral force, not military force, is to rule the world. We must care for our army of occupation and bring It home ; we must reconstruct and rehabilitate those who have been wounded and blinded in defense of the right. This is to be a Loan of Thanksgiving, and the response should be more hearty and joyous than the response to any of the preceding Loans. Uncle Sam has helped to save the world for Liberty and Civilization. Let us give him the wherewithal to complete the job. HELP "FINISH THE JOB." V “Peace must be financed as well as war, and the initial stages of peace, may be found even more expensive than war. Therefore, get behind the Victory Liberty Loan when it comes.” —StM-retary Glass.'