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NOME. ALASKA, JULY 24, 1917.
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The statement of Eloyd-Georee that
the government soil cultivation pro
gram has practically relieved Eng
land of all danger of starvation as a
result of U boat activities, while per
haps tinged with a trifle more optim
ism than the actual situation Justi
fies, is doubtless an augury of the
not distant time when England will I
become more independent in an enon
mic sense than ever before in modern
da y8.
Like every one of the nations en
gaged in the great war, and also a
considerable number of others, our
selves included, England has learned
the very valuable lesson that thor
ough cultivation of her own resources
is the only practical method of guar
anteeing the national welfare both in
peace and war.
Practically ever since the British
empire has been in existence, Eng
land has been compelld to look to
outside sources for the major portion
of her food supplies. During the
greater part of the last century the
nation seldom made greater use
of its possibilities of soil production
than was sufficient to support three
fifths of the population and during
recent years the quantity of food sup
plies actually produced from the soil
of tlie United Kingdom has seldom
been sufficient to support more than
twenty of the forty odd million spills
residing on the Islands.
Practically every quarter of the
globe has been called upon during
the past fifty years to provide the
food required by the Untied King
dom Wheat front the United States
and Canada, beef front the Argentine,
mutton from Australia and a var
iety of other comestibles from Sweden,
Holland, Denmark, Egypt, India and
a number of other countries have
daily found their way to the English
table and formed the larger portion
of the food consumed by the inhabi
tants.
Being a distinctly commercial na
tion, England, until the submarine
blockade developed menacing propor
tions, found it an easy matter to
provide herself with ample food sup
plies by grading Iher manufactured
commodities for the soil products of
others. With her mighty argosies
sweeping the globe in search of trade,
what more natural than that they
nhould return to their home ports
laden with the supplies of existence
in return for the countless artisan
productions carried to foreign ports?
And the result has been that much
of the arable soil of the islands has
been left idle while the people devoted
themselves to the more lucrative oc
cupation of manufacturing.
Blit, the War has now disclosed the
actual frn11lty'"of a nation which la
dependant upon others for the neces
sities of life. A few short months
of the submarine blocl.v.de and Eng
land has found herse’f brought al
most to the verge of starvation de
spite every effort of her mighty war
flotillas to protect the vast merchan
tile fleet upon which she depended
for her food supplies.
Each ship destroyed has served to
teach the lesson of economic inde
pendence by further curtailing the
rapidly dwindling food' supplies un
til the truth was finally realized that
England must produce more food, or
face inevitable starvation.
And now that .she has come to a
thorough understanding of her great
est weakness she is turning to the
soli and, as the statement of the pre
mier indicates, Is preparing to secure
her future .against the near disaster
with which she has been so serious
ly threatened.
Owing to her geographical situa
tion it is practically Impossible for
the nation to become wholly Inde
dependent, in the sense that the Uni
Jed states is Independent, for the
reason that she is dependant upon
others not only for food supplies but
also for the raw materials upon
which depends her multitudinous
manufacturing industries. But it is
quite possible for her to make her
self practically independent in (he
matter of food by utilizing the soil
to the utiimate of its productive pos
sibilities instead of allowing thou
sands of acres to go to waste in the
numerous baronial estates which con
stitute a large percentage of the na
tional domain.
By putting every foot of her arable
aoil under cultivation, England can
uupporf, not a small percentage, bur
practically her entire population.
With proper utilization of the pro
ductive possibilities of the more thsn
fifty million acres included in the
area of England. Scotland and Wales
it appears quite possible that the
nation could be mode entirely self
supporting.
U. OF W. TRAINING
BUSINESS MEN
Special Correspondence A. P.
SEATTLE.—The State of Washing
ton has gone into the vocation of
training business men. A school
apart from any other state educa
toinal Institution has been establish
ed here for the sole purpose of equip
ing men and women in a business
way. Some of the courses are in-,
suranee, economics, the trade of the
Pacific slope, Indust dial organization
and business management and busi
ness law. The primary object of the
school is to turn out business execu
tives, and its work is especially de
signed for tho big economic tasks
that are expected to follow the close
of the war.
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