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Our Part in Feeding the Nation
(Special Information Service, United State« Department of Agriculture^
CITY MEN AS FARM HELPERS
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The Service That Some City Men Rendered Last Year In Saving the Potato
Crop Can Be Duplicated Now In Grain Fields, on Truck Farms, and Else
where.
PEOPLE IN TOWN
TO HELP FARMER
Farm Labor Shortage Such That
Heroic Measures Are Neces
sary to Save Crops.
CLUB CO-OPERATION IS NEED
Opportunity for City Men to Repay to
Nation a Part of Debt They Owe
_the Farm—What Clarence
Ousiey Has to Say.
Suppose you close your store - next
Tuesday—lock It up and go away all
day—how much will you lose? Some
thing, certainly. But suppose, tomor
row morning, you display placards
over every counter telling your cus
tomers that the store will not be open
Tuesday, that the entire sales force
t* going to put in the day fighting for
the freedom of America, and ask them
to buy on Monday what they need
Cor Tuesday. How much would you
lose then, even if your competitor on
the next corner should keep open all
day and hustle for business? A little,
possibly. But don't you think It
would be bread upon the water, that
would return to you, and after not so
many days, at that? Don't you be
lieve that, for every customer of yours
who went to trade with your compet
itor during the day you were closed,
three of his would come to trade with
pou within the week?
Must Fight in Furrows.
Urban people have got to do some
fighting for freedom In the furrows
this spring, summer and fall. They
Äave got to help the country win the
war by helping the farmer produce
food—which means that they will be
helping themselves most of alL
With the exception of a few min
ing and manufacturing centers, the
villages, towns and cities of 100,000
or less are mainly dependent for their
«access on the prosperity of the
farming communities around them.
They have good times or hard times
In proportion as the farming opera
tions in their trade territory succeed
or faiL In normal times, even, sensi
ble self-interest prompts the business
man to encourage and aid the farm
er. Now, in the stress of war, the
prompting to help the farmer comes
hardly less from good business Judg
ment than from patriotic impulse.
Here Is the situation : The farmers
will need additional labor to help cul
tivate and harvest the crops they have
planted. This situation cannot be met
by legislation. The task imposed
upon the Israelites by Pharaoh, to
make bricks without straw, was an
easy Job compared with the task of
making labor by law. In large meas
ure, the needed labor must come
from the people In towns whose busi
ness does not have to be kept hum
ming every minute.
Men Who Were Farm Boys.
You know, a very large proportion
of business men have been farm boys.
Just make a mental canvass of the
men In your block or your building.
You remember when they came In
green from the country, sunburned
and hard as hickory. The fact that
they are now among the best busi
ness men fn town does not prove that
they couldn't still do good farmwork.
Why, not so long ago, when Bill
Brown rqshed In to get a few balls
of binder twine, and to put a little
extra money in the bank and chaffed
you about the ease of your job and
how soft you were, you probably
boasted that you could still shock
wheat or walk between the plow
handles with the best of them. Of
course you could—and of course you
can. Maybe you can't hold it as long
as some of them, but you can do it
as well. All right The time has
come for you to do It You never,
made a boast that you couldn't back
up, did you?
If your town falls down on this
matter, the country' will suffer—n lit
tle. It \^11 not suffer a great deal,
because ftiost of the towns are not
going to fall down on It But If your
town falls down on this matter, your
town will suffer more than a little.
You know what happens to trade
when the farmers all around are
short on crops and have barely
enough money to scrimp by with.
Commercial Clubs Should Act
Take the matter up at the next
meeting of the commercial club or
board of trade. Or, better still, call a
special meeting. You have Influence
enough to do it or have it done. Here
Is what Clarence Ousiey, assistant
secretary of agriculture of the United
States, says about It:
"To render this assistance to the
farmer and to the nation, the local
commercial club or business men's
association should appoint a labor rep
resentative or a small and active com
mittee on farm labor. This labor
representative or committee should
make a canvass of the business men.
clerks and others In the town who
have had farm experience and who
are willing to close or leave their
places of business on certain days or
afternoons, or for long periods, and
go out on the neighboring farms to
help. This labor representative for
committee should either get In touch
with the farmers themselves or with
an agent representing the farmers,
snch as the master of the Grange, the
president of the union, the manager
of the co-operative creamery or store,
or the county agricultural agent, and
ascertain Just how many men each
farmer can use to advantage during
good weather and particularly during
certain rush periods In planting, cul
tivating, or harvesting. With this in
formation on the farm labor needs
and the number of workers available,
the committee can assign the men
who have volunteered to help In this
emergency to the various farms in
the neighborhood."
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FARM AND CITY MAN
Spend five minutes thinking
over what you owe to the farm.
Very likely it gave you the
stamina and strength of charac
ter that has made you a success
In the business world. Certain
ly, it has given those things to
some of the men upon whom you
rely for maintaining that suc
cess.
In one way or another, direct
ly or Indirectly, it gives you a
large part, probably the bulk, of
your business.
Without its contribution of
food, neither your home nor
your business house could con
tinue In existence.
That is what the farm means
and has meant to most city
men. You will know best just
what It means to you.
Now, having thought It over,
remember that the farm is in
such dire need of labor as it
has never known before.
And get ready to do what yon
can toward repaying the debt
you owe the farm—not repaying
it so much to the farm, either,
as paying it to your country In
a genuinely patriotic sendee.
Farm Labor Problem.
The farm labor problem Is one that
affects not the farmer alone.
It Is a problem that affects the city
man and in the solution of which the
city man must help.
Study the problem as It applies to
the farming communities on which
you aud your business depend for til«
largest measure of success.
Write to the department of agricul
ture, Washington, D. C., for a copy
of "The Farm Labor Problem—Man
power Sufficient if Properly Mobilized
by Co-operation and Community Ac
tion."
STOLEN GOODS AS
PART OF H!S FEES
Tennessee Lawyer Claims Loot
as Payment for Defending
Negro Thieves.
Memphis, Term.—Three negroes
etTile .$2,200 in money and diamonds to
the value of $3,000 at Hot Springs,
during the races tiiere, and came to
Memphis. Local authorities were noti
fied to arrest the negroes. The trio
went to jail and their iil-potten wealth
was locked in a safe at police head
quarters. Ahe Cohen, a local attorney,
called on the neproes and they read
ily employed him to secure their re
lease. Incidentally, they pave him an
order on the desk serpeant for the
money and jewels. When the desk
serpeant refused to ptve up ttie wealth
Cohen went into chancery court and
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Cohen Secured the Wealth.
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secured a writ of replevin. Armed
with the writ Cohen secured the
wealth. He sued out another writ—
a writ of habeas corpus—and the court
freed the negroes. A little later offi
cers from Hot Springs came to get the
negroes and the money. The desk
sergeant showed them the writ of
habeas eorpus Instead of the prison
ers and the receipts for the money
and Jewels Instead of the money and
Jewels. The Hot Springs officers re
turned to Hot Springs, vowing it was
a little hotter In Memphis. Cohen
claims the money and Jewels ns "part
of his fee" for defending the negroes.
COURT CAT STEALS FISH
Pet of a St Paul Municipal Judge
Takes Week End Food
Supply.
St Paul, Minn.—Shyness, a cat ana
;he official rat catcher for the municip
al court, where rnts appear dally, Is In
disgrace.
A small box is fixed to the window in
the office of the municipal court which
Is open to the outside air and forms a
first-class refrigerator In winter. The
lid of the box Is hard to open and re
quires some exertion even for a man to
pull it open.
One night recently a whole fish was
out in the refrigerator to form Shy
ness's week end repast but Shyness
was hungry and when the court house
building was silent she managed to get
her claws under the fastening and pry
it open. Shyness looked overfed on
Saturday and fish bones were plentiful
In the office.
Even Judge Flnehout whose special
pet the cat is, thinks thnt a charge of
petit larceny ought to be made against
the animal and thnt It ought to have at
least a suspended sentence.
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STORK WINS LONG RACE
WITH AUTO—GIRL BORN
Wenatchee, Wash.—The fabled
stork won a twenty-mile race
against a big super-six automo
bile in the Wenatchee valley,
when W. O. Fraley, a wheat
rancher In Moses Coulee coun
ty, started from his ranch twen
ty miles from here with his
wife in an automobile. An eight
pound girl was horn. The moth
er and baby are now In a hos
pital here, both doing well.
GETS SIX MONTHS' SENTENCE
8ad Ending for Hiram Justice's Pa
triotic and Family Af
fairs.
Bridgeport. Conn.—When the draft
got Hiram Justice Wake he was living
with a woman not his wife in Spring
field. She refused to sign his ques
tionnaire. so Wake returned to his le
gal wife here and she signed up for
him to enable him to get a low rating.
Put nfter getting her signature Hiram
went back to his old love in Spring
field for a visit. His real wife became
suspicious and exposed him. and he Is
now serving six months in jail with a
nresnert of dointr militarv dutv.
CASE WHEREIROE
LOVE STOOD TEST
Rich Ranch Owner Becomes
"Substitute'' for His Boyhood
Chum.
IS NOW IN FRANCE
Draftee, Rejected, Faces Death at Sur
geon's Hands to Spare Man
Who Married Girl Ho Hinv
self Loved.
Fort Collins, Colo.—Joseph Emmett
O'Neill, wealthy ranch owner In Col
orado, rejected for military service un
der the draft, is with the United States
army in France, taking the place of
Walter Howard Stone, boyhood chum,
who married the girl that O'Neill
loved. The romance is one of re
nunciation akin to that of Sidney Car
ton in Dickens' famous "Tale of Two
Cities," and calls to mind the passage
of Scripture recorded in SL John 10:13.
"Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends."
Romance Began In Youth.
Joseph Emmett O'Neill und Walter
Howard Stone were born in Fort Col
lins, a college town in Colorado. The
former was of a wealthy family, which
owned great ranches that reached
across the plains into the Rocky moun
tains. The parents of Stone were pi
oneers in the community and in mod
est circumstances. The girl In the ro
mance was Marlon Palmer, whose fa
ther was one of the founders of the
college and prominent In Colorado's
financial and social life. The three
families lived in the same block in
Fort Collins, nnd when school days
were over nnd Marion became Miss
Palmer, both young men became suit
ors for her hand.
Walter Stone became a bank clerk
and was ambitious to rise In his pro
fession. O'Neill, whose father had
died, came into possession of the fam
ily fortune and the management of the
ranches. The race was neck-and-neck
for Miss Palmer's hand.
Of course, In the nature of things,
that state of affairs could not go on.
Finally Miss Palmer's heart began to
affect her neutrality. Then she sum
rnoned the two young men before her
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Submitted to an Operation.
.nd demanded that they be friends, m
matter which was selected to be her
husband. They agreed. Miss Marion,
as girls sometimes do, followed the In
clinations of her heart, and selected
Stone, whose salary was meager, in
preference to O'Neill and his wealth.
Then came the draft
Stone was summoned before the
draft board and passed. He was
placed In class 1 and filed no claim for
exemption. O'Neill was examined and
rejected. In February Stone was or
dered to report. By this time an Inter
esting event was presaged In the Stone
home, and he asked for more time.
The draft board was powerless, and
his wife became seriously 111 because
of worry. O'Neill was watching. He
visited a noted surgeon in Denver nnd
asked for an operation. He was told
that his chances for recovery would
be two In five, but he elected the op
eration.
O'Neill Became a Substitute.
Three weeks after the operation
O'Neill returned to Fort Collins, sound
and whole, and demanded a new ex
amination. He passed as "qualified for
mllltnry service." Then he asked that
he be substituted for Stone. The draft
board was unable to make such a sub
stitution, hut because of the urgent
appeal of O'Neill they finally sum
moned Stone for re-exnmlnntion nnd
gave him a deferred classification be
cause of nervous breakdown. O'Neill
won his fight. Then he went further.
He called Stone from his bank Job
and placed him In charge of the O'Neill
ranchps, which yield $50.000 a year.
O'Neill stipulated that Stone manage
the ranches on a "50-50" basis. And
O'Neill went to war.
Marion Stone is now well and happy,
following the arrival of a new mem'
her in the Stone family, a hoy, who
has been named Joseph Emmett
Stone. Now the father, who has re
gained his former health, is asking
that he. too. be allowed to go to the
army. and. if possible, be assigned to
duty with O'Neill.
Would Eliminate Non-Essentials in
Endeavor toWinWar From Germany
By W. R. STUBBS, Form« Governor of Karuu
How to win the war is the one overshadowing
question iu America today. It is a question of whether
the sword shall govern the earth or that there shall Le
governments of free opportunities. We nm.-t have
food, and the farmers must produce it. We must have
transportation. We must build more ships and more
railway engines and cars.
Take the men engaged in industries not essential to
the war and put them into necessary war industries.
Hundreds of thousands of persons are building autos
__ for pleasure riding. These men should be put to work
at the building of ships, engines and airplanes. We should make the skies
over the German trenches black with our planes. We should nut give the
men of the German army time to sleep—keep them dodging bombs. Tins
is no dream. Wo should have men, material and power.
Standard Dress Idea Received With
Disfavor By Women of England
By F. J. HOWARD, London. England
Now we have the staggering proposal that the harassed British gov
ernment should enforce a standard dress for women. The greatly daring
author of the idea proposes, in short, that the dear sex, whose sartorial
eccentricities make men's hearts heavy and their pockets light, should
be uniformed. ,
Imagination reels at the thought! Can you conjure up a world in
which all women are dressed alike? It would be a world robbed of much
of its glamor for men—a drab, colorless world, in which a man would
find it difficult on occasion to distinguish his aunt from his mother
in-law.
This very courageous patriot suggests that the government should
issue details of three standard patterns of costumes, or "uniforms," and
allow only a limited number of colored fabrics to he manufactured. II»
is apparently unaware that owing to difficulties in regard to dyes there
is only a limited number of colored fabrics already.
A stately and beautiful lady in a large dressmaking establishment
told me so, and at the same time volunteered the opinion that any serious
interference with women in the matter of dress would lead to trouble com
pared with which the suffragist shindies of a few years ago would seem
like harmless effervescences.
What the laay said was something like that, but of course she may
have been exaggerating. All the same, I am convinced that in a matter
of this ki*id we should look before we standardize.
All the women I interviewed on the subjectr-and I interviewed a
good many—declared that women would not stand any standardizing of
their dress. They were willing to help in any other way to administer
the final knockout blow to the Boche, but restricted feshions and dressing
to order—No! If the government dared, they said, to dictate to womea
what they should wear—well, something unpleasant would happen!
Excellent Reasons Why We Must Feed
Our Soldiers and Our Allies
By CHARLES F. JONES
Another great battle we at home have to fight is to avoid wasting
the food and the supplies that our men and our allies at the front mu*t
have to win the war.
Many men and women will gladly fight or give to win the war, but
wd not deny their own stomachs. Many a man thinks or claims that
he thinks, that I ranee ought to supply all her fighters and ours with food.
I eretofore, they say, armies lived off the country in which they fought,
"hat may be true of the past is not true of today's war
How much food could we raise or would we raise, if'a victorious
German army was twenty miles away, pressing hard upon us to coma
1Cr t T 6 Sre today? And if the French sent an army over to helo
us hold back the enemy, how could we feed them, if we could not feed
ourselves. What use would the French army be unless they brought
their supplies with them ? 1 uugne
Remember that the French are fighting with their hack to the ocean.
Thus the supplies that they get must come from over the ocean
Then there are others who will say, if we have to feed the fighten*
in France, why not feed them on com and the foods that are plentiful,
and let us at home have the flour and the sugar. pœnttful.
Pork is the heat giver, sugar the stimulant, and both are
to the life and health of the soldier. 6 neccssaT 7
Deaths From Rattlesnake Bites Are
Very R are in Unite d States
By ALFRED WESTFALL
Colorado Agricultural Collage, Fort CVJE»,
Of the poisonous snakes inhabiting the United State, th. .
snake .a perhaps the deadliest and undoubtedly the best knJÏ T
are a number of varieties of this reptile. Although rattl , T
found in all seetions of the country, the majority of them .l " T
and and sem.arid regions of the Southwest The most rL 0,8
m Colorado is the prairie rattlesnake. common kind
Practically all people enjoying the outdoors are more or
of getting bitten by a rattlesnake. And yet considering thl ?
these reptiles, the number of casualties is very small ' I , TOmb<!r ot
from snake bite is extremely rare. There is noZmparUon bet^ f'*"'
in this country and those in India, where official fim, b Ueen Ioss <*
deaths annually. This difference is no doubt lur-cly due toT^ 22 '°°°
here a large portion of the population docs not evince a
tion to go bare-legged through stretches of serpent inff * ! \ mcllna "
Adults bitten by the smaller varieties of snakes hale fro * temtor ?*
without medical assistance. In recent years tho • ^ entl y recovered
fatalities from rattlesnake bite have resulted from^S f ^° Td ^
captive specimens. Gess handling pf