The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-10
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 X light frost Tuesday morning.
 Considerable twig blight reported
 on apples and pears.
 Cotton. sorghum and peanuts seem
 Go be the order of the day
 Potato bugs? A spoonful of Paris green in a pail of water, sprinkled Ion the vines, puts them out Of busl- ness.
 ] Owing to red tape and caution, some of the farmers hopes to get | their federal loans in time to buy seed have gone glimmering.
 Don't forget Co plant a patch of sorghum for early feed for cattle, horses or hogs. Chickens want the seed. lt is d sure crop, too.
 We found an able and finely writ ten article on education In a school journal, written by T. P. Fulton, our old-time Fisherman, of Cove.
 Save every tin can and bucket. Save every jug. Save every gunny sack. We are going Go need them. X wall is going up right now be- cause it is almost impossible to get them.
 X Mr. Rogers from Wisconsin was looking this locality over Thursday getting pointers on what IS best adapted to growing conditions here lie is bargaining for place m the Dallas Valley.
 Yes. llw cool weather is little against crOos, but it is a dandy time Co get ahead of the weeds Keep plugging away. Remember, MT. Farmer, you are the man behind the man behind the gun
 Our editor wants articles signed which are sent in for publication, so last weeks naper states Hattie al SO suggests if they are on current events, you date them With our rapid fire legislation just now, what would he considered this week as sound reasoning. next week might be high treason.
 Owing to the shortage of onion sets this spring. many farmers m this community will raise their own sets for next spring This can be done any time in the next few weeks by sowing the seed very thick in the row. Later if they get too toppy break them down with your foot, | They will stop growing and ripen up.
 Hattie and the Highway. Blue prints and petition blanks have arrived for the proposed new road district. We notice there IS no choice of routes in localities where several surveys were made. We had an illusion that the people who were building tor paying for 1 1t. rather had something to say about where the road should be. l Even tho we want the road. we do noi regard it as a propltious tune itn secure petitioners. With every Ithmg ill a turmoil and unrest in the l Limited States. the high cost of liv- l ing. increased taxation, revenues to ibp placed on necessities, and no one lean see the end. The government IS calling for popular subscription 1 loans. and everything makes a splendid market for money, and our bonds might not sell Go best adNant- l age, X good proportion Of the farm prs in the road district have gone into the farm loan association and Inns will take $50 to Si00 from each every year in addition t0 their taxes.
 1hey have not get got into their stride. and as we said before we do lnot think inc time Is ripe Go present
 these petitions Furthermore, what
 l00ks tO Hattie like a 1ugger m the \ ifence or joker, to be more up-
 t0-date. Is the phrase. 10 pay ac- lc0rdine lo tbe benefits derived, or
 some such words If this is SO. how
 arc we going Co prove the railroad
 derives any heneAt at any distance
 Judge J. |. Alley OF someone who . knows absolutely please tell us II the railroad pays according to as
 sesscd taxation or by benefits de- i rived. Don't eduivocate. but come 1 out in the open and tell us if the
 burden don't fall almost entirely on lhe people of the district Even tho we wantsthe road we don't want to deceive ourselves, or others Call in your petitions for the present There is a time for everything, and , most think thev have all they can ; contend with al this time
 Greed Hiding Behind Our Flag.
 We are an willing lo make war , sacrifices when need for it comes but when food specuiators. corpOr- ations and others controlling neces- , sites. shove prices and rates up be-
 fore the necessity arises and inti- s mate it is vour patriotic duty Co sub init. it calls to mind a few lines in |, ibe speech of the Hon. William Green. Democrat of Nebraska, in the House of Representatives, on December D. 1898 He said in part v have observed. in years past | every unholy and vicious measure ; appears on the stage for public in- , spection wrapped up in an American flag. and peers out from under veil Iof patriotism Thus clad. the veriesl i witch or hag looks comedy but when the people have been deceived and : embraced it. the mantle falls and corporate greed stalks forth to defy the deceived"
 There is more along this same line which is just as applicable now as then Look back just a short time | to our recent Mexican trouble. Find out who recommended it and why l Who protited hy it, etc. Perhaps il
 you look close you might in places i, see the hand of greed reaching cut
 from under the American flag to-
 day One of the worst crimes on the lcalender is Co use Our dear old ! emblem and patriotism to deceive or lmislead Help our President. Sena- fDpz CDppraSGueaD and affirnps fg