The weekly soliphone., 1915-02-19


tudes of the hour, perhaps one can
be excused for the imputation that
this land of plenty is struggling
in the depths of despair
Men with ambition, however, are
made of a different kind of metal
From every section of the union
come stories of initiative, industry
and the renewed throb of the pulse
supply establishments and CONNER
cial enterprises that were Temporal
today exchanging words of conscien-
tious good cheer. From the capital
lists have come suggestions that work
be provide for the laborer, even
though of necessity a lower figure
prevail than in former times-and
the guarantee of the "wherewithaP
is given. From the laborer comes
the response that the opportunity for
employment is cheerfully accepted,
and the vaults of Americas great
treasure house are about to be open
ed. From experts upon industrial
conditions come suggestions that
when a million more are disabled or
made cripples for life, wage condi-
lions in the old countries will be
changed and an era of better things
will follow. There will be work for
all able bodied men who emerge
from the present titanic slaughter,
and, as a result of employment being
given to these peoples, immigration
to this country will cease for sew
eral years. In fact, it is freely pre-
dicted that thousands who are now
enjoying immunity from conflict I'M
der the stars and stripes will return
to the land of their nativity when
peace has been declared. 1t will re-
place the homes and the cities that
have fallen before the invaders
There will be work for hundreds of
thousands of men, women and even
children, and, fortunately for us, the
material with which much of this
work must be done will come from
the United States. Some of it will
come from Arkansas, some from
Greene county, and some from Para
gould. In the great process of re-
building that must inevitably follow
any period of destruction, a condi-
ton of prosperity such as few of
the present generation have enjoyed
will spring up. Already we are as
sured of the fact that every pound of
foodstuff that can be raised in Amer
lea next year will find a ready mar
ket at high prices in Europe. Even
should peace be declared tomorrow,
so disorganized are the conditions in
Europe that adequate crops cannot be
raised during the coming season.
Then, again, it should be remem ber-
ed that when hostilities abroad de-
veloped, Germany and some of the
other powers had great quantities of
provisions stored up for just such an
emergency. Today these stores are
being drawn upon heavily, and re-
CARELESS of the day of peace, the
farms of your Uncle Sam will repre-
sent a wealth they have never known
before. And, if the war continues,
the soldiers and civilian populations
must be fed. They are human be-
ings, flesh and blood, the same as
we, and they have the same inclina-
tons for three meals day that other
human beings have. Their govern
ments will be forced to pay the price
no matter what it is-for the sur
plus production of every American
farm between the Canadian border
and the Gulf of Mexico, between the
Atlantic and the Pacific. The wheat
fields of Kansas, the Dakotas, and
those dotted promiscuously over the
entire'area of the United States, will
be the equal of any gold mines that
were ever tapped in the Rockies or
the Klondike. The corn fields of
Iowa and Illinois and Indiana will
bring returns to their owners never
before possible. And Arkansas is a
producing state. Greene county is
county, with possibilities
unsurpassed. If the farmers of
Greene county will but turn their at
tention to the task of producing
something that the world must have,
there will be no cries of distress next
fall when the time for cashing in the
chips arrives. Surely we are able to
tide ourselves over few short