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Our Part in Feeding the Nation (Special Information Service, United State« Department of Agriculture^ CITY MEN AS FARM HELPERS fm id mm. 'am J&-L ; « 3T ir « ■mm U* &L.r? 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." al Is lid 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 •■Ti LI n Cohen Secured the Wealth. ors ily for 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. A • » I AIJII i rTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT 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 be of is is Ù 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