Summary Of The Annual Reports Of The Farm Advisors Of California For December 1 1917 To December 1 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from Summary of the Annual Reports of the Farm Advisors of California: For December 1, 1917, to December 1, 1918 The prime requisites for the successful prosecution o-f the war were men, munitions, ships, finance, and food. It was impossible to dis criminate between the importance of these primary war materials since all were absolutely essential; a serious shortage in any one would have caused the downfall of the entire enterprise. However, certain of these necessities were requisitioned by the government - Congress made it possible to draft as many men as might be needed; munitions were secured by contract, purchase or construction of munition factories, ships were built by taking over the shipbuilding industry without regard to cost or commercial consideration. But finance and food were left largely to the voluntary effort of the people. No attempt was made to tax the population directly to meet the entire expense of the war, nor was private property confiscated to bear its cost. The people voluntarily loaned their money to the government by buying Liberty Bonds. In like manner no_proposal was made to have food produced under government contract, nor to ration it out to the people. The farmers were expected to grow all the cr0ps they could if they knew what Was needed and the best methods by which to do so. Both the production of food and the lending of funds were to be the personal contribution of the people of America. Necessarily under these circumstances, the morale of the citizenry of the country was of the highest possible importance to insure the success of Liberty Bond issues and the production and conservation of food materials. Under thegovernment system in vogue the entire war machinery rested upon the belief that the people of America could be depended upon to lend their money to the government and to spend their efforts for food production to the utmost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.