The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-01
''BUY A BALE"

When you've finished begging every.
one for cash
Won't you buy a bale of cotton Yes,
or two or six or seven
If you'd buy a hundred we'd not IL
it rash.
He's an absent-minded patriot and his
Weaknesses are great.
But you and l must take him as We
find him,
For he really means to help us, works
ing early, hard and late
But forgets some obligations-let's re-
mind him.
Names son. G~eorgia's son, sons Of
the L. S. A.
Jersey, Kansas, FIorida-doing their
best for the crops;
Each OF EN- forming ~buy-a-bale clubs
(and who's to Dol after their
shops?)
Let's get out our gold for Americas
sake and pay, pay, pay.
There is cotton duck for garments
and for tents and shoes and hats:
Oil for both your motor car and table,
good;
There are cotton lint and bandages
and curtains, rugs and mats,
And there's Cottolene and Crisco for
our food;
There are cotton lace and shoestrings,
yes and artificial flowers,
And Of cotton meal they're making
peanut andy!
Faith, to tell the many uses of this
plant would take me hours
o isn't it a wonder and a dandy?
So you buy and I'll buy of cotton in
the bales;
And your wife and my wife, we'll all
get out today
Each Of Us buying as much as we
Can-Wou go 10 the cotton goods
sales
Then back to the farmer the money
will go-we'l pay, pay, pay.
There's the farmer who is waiting for
the winters shoes and food
There the money borrowed, shortly
coming due;
There's the mill in old New England
China wants our cotton too
But it's cash that makes the ware
house paper good!
There's the harvest moon a-shining
there's the white crop in the
field
There's King Cotton, rather sad, but
on his throne!
But it's not the time for talking-Only
money makes him glad
Buy some cotton now and send The
money home!
England needs and Russia needs for
blankets, C1Otn ana nose
This fifteen million cotton crOp-itS
up to you and I
(Slnce the war keeps them from bly,
ing IT'D to ease the farmers woes;
So write a check for your country'S
sake and buy, buy, buy.
There are patriots by the hundreds
and they lecture and they talk,
And enjoy all the ease that money
brings,
But forget their many brothers who
at labor never balk
And who never have life'S soft and
easy things,
r We are absent-minded patriots, but
: they'll hear the Southland's call.
And We'll not go very far before we
!. find EN-;
? Let's make our job to hunt EN-. hunt
2 the men who've got it all
r Or WhO've only got a little-letss re.
mind 'em.
f senate's job, Congressmen's every
man should work;
College boys and women's clubs
s there's none too low or high
e Henry, Lever, Fletcher, Smith-not
one will stop or Shirk.
h Let us quite this Southern slogan
k help Us CassiuS or we sink
For the Lord helps him who helms
himself, alone;
What we need to do is "buy-a-bale"-
to simply stop and think
And to give the style for cotton
clothes real tone.
We are absend-minded patriots, but
we don't forge the girls:
4 ana their love for good King Cotton
We'll remind him:
:, They're cut out their silks and satins.
ana their waists and bonny curls
= With a Southern cotton ribh-n nov,
they bind EN-.
- Mans work, woman's work. work If
the millionaire:
10 buy a bale-Or more if we can
- that's you and you and I.
Then hold it all and send the nrica
- right straight I'D in the air