Congregs will meet on Monday with that determination still firmly fixed in its mind. President Wilson and all his advisers have held to that determination and have so expressed themselves in every word and act. But the fear is general now that Germany has gone too far, that there is nothing left for congress to do but to declare open war and to put the issue between the two great nations to the point of the sword.
It is a time for deep thinking, for patriotic resolutions and for earnest prayer.
LET NO ACRE LIE IDLE
From the east come the reports of a failure of the winter wheat crop in Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers are plowing up their fields because the seed was Spring crops will be sown on this land of course, but the failure of the winter seeding means a reduced production.
Winter killed.
This is having a marked effect already on the market. Wheat prices are climbing higher on the prospect of a smaller wheat yield in the nation.
Here is another incentive to the wheat growers of the Palouse to make every acre do its level best this year.
This is another incentive to the wheat growers of the Palouse to make every acre do its full share, by the higher prices bound to result from the shortage.
Farmers of this section should reap their full share of this increase.
But there is a higher consideration than this purely selfish one.
The human family must be fed.
The farmers of the Palouse,
This selfish one, is a humanitarian duty, far removed from direct contact with any phase of the world wars, are in the best possible position to enlist for this important service. 