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Assistant secretary LrllSley oays L-lty r eopl0
Must Help in 1919
EFFECT OF PEACE ON
FARM PRODUCTION
Clarence Ousley, Assistant Sec-1
rotary of Agriculture, in an ad
dress before the New York Hu
manitarian Society said in dis
cussing agriculture in the recon
struct ion period:
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"Now peace appears to be at *,
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hand, but the immediate effect
perhaps will be to increase the de
main! for present supplies, tor the
moment we conclude peace with
the central powers they will be in
the market for our food and they
and half the world around them
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are hungrv alter lour years of i
privation. There are some sup-'^es
plies in South America and Aus- i'
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tralia which could not be moved
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heretotore because of limited ship
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ping, rhese. perhaps, may now be
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released, but 1 can not think they
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twill much mort than fill the void
in middle Europe. As to the year
1910, it is probable that immediate
demobilization will release men
enough in Europe to increase cer
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eal production there materially
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over 191S, but there is scarcely a
4oubt that this country will be,
galled upon for continuing large
nntilif.' f meat' fats
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ana.v be effected immediate y , —
000,000 men in France can mid y
,be demobilized m time to res ore
jiormal tarm labot conditions or
the next year s planting and culti
oration On account of lal>or
jv au on. uii #uuum uuc
situation on the farms we were en
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^bjed to harvest the crops of l. .
.only by calling upon men o arm
experience resting in the towns
and cities to go out into the coun- |
,try and help the farmers with their
.tasks. In many places in the wheat
belt twilight squads were organiz
ed; business men left their offices !
,at 4 o'clock and went out and j
worked in the fields until 9.
"While European demobilization
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iPtany of the fruit regions the
.whole population went out and
helped pick the berries or the ap
pies Hi some places stores were
jdosed for a day or two during the
week; in other places stores were
closed a halt day for a whole week
,or for two whole weeks; in other
.places two or three days during
.the week were given by the clerks
And the porters around the stores
and the shops. These activities are
,not so likely to be mattained un
der peace next year as they were
under war patriotism last year.
Very soon we shall come to the
Jime about stopping the flow of the
basis of agriculture production
solely for the profit it offeis.
"We have been talking a long
people from the country to the
PUBLIC LAND FOR EVERY SOLDIER
A. E. GRANTHAM SUBMITS RECONSTRUCTION
PLAN
Redemption of Delaware Swamps Possible and
Feasible
Arthur Elliot Grantham. Prof^s
sorof Agronomy in Delaware Col
lege, addressed the students and
Faculty on November 20th on
Agriculture Reconstruction. His.be
address was in part as lollows.
"It is the popular opinion that
the best way to aid the returning
soldier is to settle him upon the
land. The satisfactory results at
tending the settlement and de
velopment of the west by the ex
^ co *
boon forgotten. Many of .ho rt
turning soldiers have come from
the farm and wish to continue
agricultural pursuits while others.
realizing for the first time the ad
vantage of outdoor life through
their camp and field experiences,
will never go back to the shop or
office.
these men on land now is far dif
ferent from that of 1S65. There is
no more tillable land free for en
try. The government cannot give
to every returning soldier a home
stead on fertile soil. While it is
true that we have 230 million acres
of unappropriated land, less than
half of that amount can be culti
vated under any condition. The
area that can be turned into farms
includes arid lands capable of ir
rigation, swamp lands that can be
drained and cut over lands with
soil worth reclaiming. According to
Secretary Lane there are 15 mil
lion acres of land fit for irrigation
in the public domain; nearly 60
million acres of reclaimable
swamp lands, public and prh'ate;
and 200 million acres of cut over
timber lands mostly in private
ownership. There is an abundance
of public land for every' soldier
who might want to secure a farm,
The problem of placing
city. Possibly high prices for food
Lay cause a reversal of the tide |
of movement and city people will |
seek the country for its profits as
heretofore country people have
',sought the city for the exceptional
and spectacular profits and the
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.luxunolis life that the cities offer.
N„ Food Without Effort
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™is is a world of struggle; we
*"■'*? " ot J*? to
«'ithout effort, as we wish them to
f but we „ m accept things as I
they are. It more people go to the
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sup-'^es han are needed in the cities,
i' the " th . e surplus must find employ
ment elsewhere or must be content
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to suffer privation. It the country
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.has fewer workers than it needs,
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then those dwelling in the cities
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must pay the higher prices which
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are due a f r . ea ^ r demand than
lthe su ?P. ly at + food ' Law can do
W .things to correct evil con
ditions in cities Most of all, the
law should restrain the strong
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from oppressing the weak and 1
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sboald restra ' n on . e class trom ex
Ploitmg another class, but no sys
tem ot * aw > no device of society, 1
can provide abundance from scar
city, and no system of law and no;
dev j ce 0 f society should undertake
to comp el one set of people to do
more than a fair share or require
them to scrifice the articles or the 1
c orrunixiities which are enhanced 1
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in value by scarcity due to the un
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willingness of a large class of peo
pie to endure the hardships of pro
duc tion. The earth Is broad;
are millions of untilled acres, and :
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! a litle into the future. The point
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lire sent comment is that the
present comment is tnat me
farmers of the United States, the
best farmers in the world, have not
spared themselves or their families
in these trying times of war. They
have followed the Government's
program with less complaint. I be
lieve. than I have heard from any
other class. On the whole they
have not prospered as much as the i
average war industry; some of
them, indeed, have produced with
scant profit and a few at a loss.
They have been moved in the high-!
est degree by th spirit of patrie
tism and sacrifice that has govern
ed (be great mass of our people in
discharging the burdensome tasks
war. The farmer does not fall
there is no patent right upon the
processes of farming.
"That is all by way of looking
but his performance is none the
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under the eye of ordinary observa
tion; his work is not spectacular.
less heroic."
Feasible
However, before ,„y arid and
swamp lands can be made avail
able for homes a tremendous
amount of engineering work will
His.be necessary. This reclamation
wor^ can be done economicaltj
and etncientlj on a on a large
e. ne plan proposed is to
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talve taes ® I r ^ e '- LS ' pro d n ^
-he ^
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* T; redend' to ÎJÏu-.eS
- recoveriro nav
re»ponsioim> xor reco\erir.g pa>
ment.
land to the ex-soldier. The expense
of providing homes for all who
would apply put the country in
or
these lands free, as it gave free
is lands to the veterans of the Civil
War?" What the Government gave
:n the sixties was merely an op
portunity of building a home out
is of lands that were practically
without commercial value, al
though productive. Today the
government can offer a better op
portunity. By this plan the farms
re already prepared for produc
ir- tion. accessible to markets, pro
be vided with buildings, machinery*
and livestock. It can readily be
to seen that the government cannot
provide these farm homes free of;
charge as the cost would be pro-j
60 hibitive.
The Federal Government would,
cooperate with the state in extend
ing credit for the purchase and im
provement of the land, this making
possible a Iona* rate of interest and
a long period for repayment of the
principal. To make this method of
It is not proposed to give the
debt many billions. Some one asks,
"But is not the Government to give
land holding successful it seems i
advisable that the farmers operate I
as a community unit in the produc- !
tion and the marketing of crops;.
and livestock. The returning sol- J
diers seem well fitted for a co
, O p era j-j ve enterprise of this kind.
Their life in the army and the dis
^ line . incident f the + reto has **en
them a tra.mng for team-work and
in pullm* together for a common
c *"£ e * e ex -soldiers are young
"T moie ° r . css °* a comn ™ n
viewpoint which would favor the ;
forming of a community project,
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The question is, will this plan 1
work? In Australia the govern
nient has copera t e d with the farm
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er for several years in developing
<?r Tf the past year
the State of California has under
taken the establishment of such
an enterprise. The state bought
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the land, leveled the soil dug he
irrigation ditches, will build the
nouse and farm buildings upon re
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quest. The state can do the work
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much cheaper than the individual.
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In Australia it was found that a
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saving of 50 per cent was made in
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consutcrtmftl ffl ,. ffl ffl ,-7
constructing the farm building
over the individual undertaking
The settler is required to pay
down 5 per cent of the cost of the
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land and 40 per cent of the cost
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of the buildings The remaining
payments may be made over a
period of 20 years or more with
interest at 5 per cent. Each farm
er is asked to keep a definite breed
of stock, cooperate with his neigh
hors in buying and selling, and in
the ownership of expensive equip
ment. This plan might well be
1 adopted for returning the ex
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soldier to the land. It is clear that
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we cannot dump him down on the
public domain without capital or
there,credit. Each individual state might
: properlv undertake a small project
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ample has thousands of acres of
swamp and brush land now unpro- j
,duct,Y that might be redeemed. j
Cooper \ tlon the
Federal Government could buy,
these lands clear them and cut the
necessarv drainage canals and
sell the allotments to the soldiers
on easv terms. A project of this
kind would prove a valuable social
and economic experiment as ap
plied to agriculture and would un
dou btedlv solve some of the manv
i problems of marketing which is
now 0 ne of the weak points in
business of farming.
It is clear to every student of
agriculture that existing condi
along this line. Delaware for ex
tions on the farm prevent the de-
velopment of a healthy, normal
community life. In placing the re
turned soldier on the land under
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abo\ e m.ght pro\e .o ie the begin
ning of a marked advance in agri
cultural development of the coun
try in every phase of its existence
some such sustem as described
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A Girl's Pledge of Allegiance
I am only a girl and I cannot be
I
; spirit punctual, obedient, persist
ent, unselfish and brave. I will |
a soldier, but I can have a soldier's
bave the kmd of courage that
; face the other «.rto' laughter
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j cannot fight in the trenches,
but j pledge mv allegiance to a
fi?h t for character and for the
pr j nc i p i es for* which men are
fighting — fairness, unselfishness
and democracy.
j cannot die for the cause of
democracy, but I can live to make
democracv sure. I cr.n so live that
; the sacrifice of men who die for
the cause may not be in vain. For
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i Discipline Nine-tenths of
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The whistle blew and I had to;
J um P * n t° place in line in Iront ]
°T barracks. We were called
ou ^ ^ or Police duty. That doesn 11
mean going out and putting some- i
Peking "up of
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' th ever now \ ;
n «crans of naner and bits
; " atch ^* sc . ra P s ^i^whohave
f stra "- lou fellows who have
been in scout camps know what
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u h 1 m ^ an ' ,? k , !f.°' th ?f *\° U
ha u V ®, °Sf n Aw
what s the usie of being so blamed
particularr Well , I don't suppose
one little piece of straw on a com
street in Arkansas would lose
the but leaving even one
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straw would mean a letting up in
he discipline and discipline is the
thing we're working for. One little
re- ,, „ , ,
slip m discipline would soon lead
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to another, and that to still others
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and in almost no time there
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wouldn't be any discipline at all,
in
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knows that there is some good rea
for every ordOT that is given ,
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ocout walxed besside a man who
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l i ary raining,
says the Cave Scout in Bovs' Life
for November.
But I'll tell you, fellows, this un
; relenting discipline doesn't make
a real soldier sullen or sore. He
Of course, in a great many cases
he can't tell what that reason is
to save his neck, but be takes it
for granted that it's right and
pitches in for all he's worth to ac
complish what he is told must be
done. Take our own company, for
; instance. When we were called out
left a million dollar business four
weeks ago to do his bit for Uncle
Sam. This man was picking up
dirty cigarette butts as though it
, I was the greatest fun in the world,
of He walked along> humming -Over
j There „ and ^ Qrders from a
j stock ]ittle t sergeant who
the : drove a truck before he enlisted
buy,- _ T , .. .. . .
the in * be arm ' < That s the kind of
and m6n ' vb ° are tbeir whole
^arts into this work of fitting
this themselves to command American
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ap- ,,^ h , d ^ bat that kmd of men
un- * lU make 8 ° od '
is
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When Returned Soldiers
May Wear Uniforms
Under Section 125 of an act of
Congress approved June 3, 1916, it
is unlawful for any person not an
officer or enlisted man of the Un
de-- ited States armv>
re
navy or marine
corps to wear the duly prescribed
, uniform, provided, that the fore
I going shall not be constructed to
prevent persons who in time of
: war bave sen-ed honorably as of
: ß cers 0 f the United States
army,
navy or marine corps and have
• j been honorably discharged, from
j wearing the uniform on occasions
, of ceremony, nor to prevent an en
listed man who has been honor
be
ably discharged from wearing his
I uniform from the place of dis
charge to his home, within three
will | months afttr the date of discharge.
Of course, the law prescribes
. f or naw um
attache "a :
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here ^g^d news®for 4Tofficeïs
a and enlilt^ men
the '
are Officers
After his honorable discharge
from the army, navy or marine
of corps, a commissioned officer may
wear the uniform of the highest
that ?rade he has held on occasions of
for ceremony.
For This means that at public recep
nty tion... dinuor,. ball*. m., SS meet
inps and other similar funetions.
will
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officer above the grade of en
There is no time limit in the
] aw , so that if he likes he may
wear uniform to a meeting of
11 wor jd war veterans 50 years from
i now _ jje can ,not, however, wear his
uniform to busin « ss or for pleaS '
; ,
The law aS a T plied enlisted
men of any branch of tke servl f
[s n<>t so considerate. It permits
, Trlon +n wpnr the uniform
enlisted men to wear tne unnorm
for three months after the date of
discharge; after that they cannot
,
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any
! s ign or second lieutenant may
wear un if orrri 0 f his rank.
it without risk of arrest and
The law specifies that the enlist
uniform
ure.
Enlisted Men
wear
imprisonment.
ed man may wear his
"from the place of his discharge to
three months
indicate that'if the
his home, within
after the date of his discharge."
This would
soldier stays in the town of his
discharge for three months, he
may wear the uniform all that
time, but that whenever he goes
home he must adopt civilian garb.
The purpose was to give him time
to obtain an outfit of civilian cloth
mg.
But the War Department, it is
believed, will be inclined to wink
the eye at literal violations of the
rule so long as the soldier is not
caught wearing the uniform after
his three months' expire.
So that w r hen your boy comes
home he may feel perfectly safe in
it
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T here is a
place at the
switchboard for
you as a Bell
Telephone oper
ator. Good pay
and frequent ad
vances are there,
pleasant work
and an opportunity to
help in the carrying on of
the war program.
Rest and lunch rooms are
provided for "off duty
hours.
Apply to the Chief Oper
ator in any Central Office.
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