The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-04

/ The iBoldier and the fassaer. the
two cannot occupy the same lands.
The soldier stands for might and vio-
lence. ~
The farmer needs Justice and securi-
ty {
In the last month OF May / took 4
long trip through Macedonia. I found
good, honest farmers here and there,
but not MANY. Their life was very DIFF
ferent from farm life in Ohio.
I There were no houses standing
along the road. Everybody lived 10
the villages, even though the lands
were ten miles away. And the villages
| we're crowded just as closely as
houses could stand.
Think Of Farming at Night9
The streets paved with rough stone,
edges upward, were Just wide enough
toilet D camel or o cart drawn by d
buffalo pass. AGrcek army had pass,
| ed by few ilonths before. aIid hall
the houses, sometimes all OF them, In
every town had been bnrDrc. Ana the
tsipless farmers croncIied where they
could, and did their farming furtive-
~, In the night sometimes, because
nights. may be safer than the day. And
there were more women than men on
l farms farms. Ihe men were dead on the
battlefields They were drafted OF
\ to make snew armies, or they tsd fled
across the border for. safety in Bull
fgaria. In one small town, Singeloyo
not q man was left With the women
all breadwinning rested
\ And the farming was not very good
The ground was barely scratched by
the plow.. The fields of wheat and rye
and Indian corn would look stunted and
shabby In Ohio. Often in god2 land
one would see strips covered with
blackberries and wild flowers
bits OF virgin soil never vel
touched with the plow, though
the forests had been cleared
away before the days of Sainl
1 Paul. Other tracts are overgrowI
with Bcrubby oaks and Som etimes with
wild lilacs, although not q big. tree
was left standing to make a forest
The Turks once held Macedonia, and
It would seem tfiat they hated trees
The Chinese have progerb thai
where armies quarter thorns and
thistIessgrow," and armies hays quar-
tered M Macedonia for twenty cen.
turtes. And for this reason there can
t.be mo good farms. The cattle are
dWafnsRi and give but little milk. They
!-are lnsed, with she primitive European
buaalo, ne heasts cf i,srden. Herses
are few and nnhall end mostly yicious
| The sheep, the same breed they had
fn.SJuiels In Bible times, are handsome
and active, but carrying very little
wool, aacouple OF pounds year would
Ibe, o big average. T;
!. There would be no use In improving
| the stock when the soldiers may come
any minute And between bands oil
soldiers come the bands OF brigands
A brigan din Macedonia, as In Mexi-
leo, Korea, and China, is O farmer who
has; quit. If he can't make . living
| on the farm, or iR someone has SEX.
| ed his farm he becomes an armed
| tramp. And million OF people, Bull,
/ tgArians, Turks, and Greeks are re.
Engae., n aa:.;: aa:.;: at;sst cut yf hiacedonia. Arm.
ed or unarmed, mostly helpless. they
have taken 10 tho road. For all the
people OF one race Dir one church Id
these war-Wasted lands drive out ali
1.-THE others and divide their property.
| The farmer who is rich and pros
porous today may have TO leave the
country tomorrow. on two hours not
Ice, by the light OF his blazing house
with whatever he can carry on his
back. =,
Burdens hoo Great fe, Bears
Europe is today suffering from The
c0aditi1ns OF h7aced0Dia on the big
gest possible scale EyeGywhere The
| horrors or war. elaughter BY Eiiaciiin,