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may be protected by law, but they have no element 

 of justice or patriotism in them, and are therefore 

 doomed. The sooner we heed this issue the sooner 

 will many grave perils from within, now gnawing at 

 the peace and welfare of our country, cease to dis- 

 turb its social equilibrium and threaten with a dis- 

 aster as terrible as war. 



§ 58 MOBIIvIZATlON 



These, then, are suggestions for the mobilizing of 

 all our forces in order to produce and properly mar- 

 ket sufficient foods to keep ourselves and our allies 

 in a state of health during the present war: 



I — Mobilize all our school and college boys from 

 the ages of 16 to 19. Organize them into camps or 

 squads. Assign them during the planting and har- 

 vesting periods to the zones in which they are needed. 

 Put them to work in the fields, orchards and food 

 factories. They will look upon their experience as a 

 lark and it will make men of them. 



2 — Place under federal control the railroads, pack- 

 ing establishments, grain elevators, milling establish- 

 ments and cold storage warehouses. 



3 — Construct portable dehydrating plants on 

 freight car wheels so that they may be placed on 

 sidings within trucking distance of all the farms of 

 the country known by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture to have allowed in other seasons their vegetables 

 and fruits to rot for the reason that it did not pay to 

 gather them, crate them and send them to market. 

 Unskilled labor (boys) through the use of these 

 portable dehydrating plants and those which justify 

 a permanent structure can conserve for human use 



