The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-12-04

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: THE farmer needs Justice and secnri-
~ In the last month OF Mays,I took O
long trip through Macedonia. found
good, honest farmers here and there,
but not many. Their lifc wns very diff
ferent from farm life In ohio. s.5ai
~ There wero no houses standing
along the road. Everybody lived In
the villages, even though the lands
were ten miles away. And the villages
were crowded Just as closely as
houses could stand. ,..i ~. III.
~ Think Of FfrTiilg at Night!
The streets paved with rough stone,
edges upward, were Just wide enough
to let q camel or q cart drawn by q
buffalo pass! a Greek army had pass
ed by few ilonths before. and half
the houses. sometimes all OF them, In
every town Ind beon burDec. Anisthe
helpless farmers crouched where they
could, and did their farming furtive-
ay, in tho night sometimes, hecSise
nights may be safer than the. day And
there were more women than men on
farms. The men wers deads,on the
battlefleld6 They. were drafted Off
to make new armies! or they. had fled
across the border for safety IN: Bull
garia. In one small town, Singelovo,
not man was left with the women
all breadwinning rested. is6sai=:
And the farming was not very good.
The ground was barely scratched by
the piow. The fields of wheat md rye
and Indian corn would look stunted and
shabby IN Ohio. Often In gocH land
one would SEQ strips coverei with
blackberries and Wild flowers,
bits y OF i virgin soil never yet
touched with the plow, though
the forests had been cleared
away before the days of Saint
Paul. Other tracts are overgrown
With scrubby oaks and sometimes with
Wild ltIacs. although: not a. big tree
was left standing to make a forest.
The Turks once held Macedonia, and
It. would seem that they hated trees.
The Chinese have proverb that
where arnnies quarter thorns and
thistles grow" and armies have ( iar-
tered in Macedonia for twenty CEN
turtles: Ana for this reason there can
be no good farms. The cattle are
dwarfish and give but little milk. They
gIe ussd, With the, primitive .Nuropean
buffal0, aa beasta OF burden. Horses
sra xs!s= 5sAS sts.ssl sts.s ays2 r;asti:. e.e.pl
ThSf sheer, the same breed they had
In Jndea ih Bible times, are, handsome
and actiye.! but carrying very little
WOOL ascofirlsof pounds q year would
he q big average. I'd
There would be no use ins improving
the stUck when the soldiers: may come
any minute And between, hapds of
soldiers come the; bands of: brigands.
Aibrigan din Maced donia, as In Mexi-
co, Korea, and China, is q farmer who
HIS qpitt 1f he can't make o laytng
on the farm cor II someone has seiz-
ed his farm he becomes s an armed
tratnp. And e million Of people, Hui.
safiHii5s = Turks, and Greeks are res
kpgees In and out :of AfaeedD dDnia. Arm.
ed or. sIinarniad: Innstly hsIpIess. they
aayet taken to the road. For all the
people aof ONE race or one church in
these War4wastad lands drive Soiit ,ail
the others and divide their property.
ri The faTme5i who si6 rich Rtlil pros
perousS today may II have to leave The
fGuHta II f0iIiuf T1 ufs Two :iv7ssT S
Ice. BY the light OF his blazing house,
with aatsyer he can carry on his
I s Bnfdaas Too Great to Bear.
I Europas is stoday suffering from the
niditleIig of SMassd donta, on 5tte big
gsst n9Ssfble &; sea LEI. ESesyish'efss Tho
h0rf6 of we aiauE htsf ay naaonin-
srys siege gums; zepps LID B1tnbs. blood
drunk saiid vine trunk Holdi iery,, and
the fatMers has no pttsssse q: z srllI the
and os July fhes farmer sApt Be1g gium
felt sAS secure ab tho fafnief fa of Ohio.
Helgf1mI IwRs the most Industrious, the
most prosperous, the npEt peaca3lov-
Ing patt Of Europe. NoF dts 9arns and
vilagesS are t blackened dHgulatiCas
The farmers are crowding by the hun
arad Thousand, peftni less. Al hoDefeHSs
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tand ltAzd and asnst t4na dostleir1
hsse Sils they Iitisf
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and M6 Sr eyesfs fofiiEhI iSss
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