The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-01

Farmer Can Be Helped.
 Mr. Samuel Weller of immorta, memory voiced the esteem in which the advice gratis Teller" is held-not, and our excellent preparedness com. mittees must approach their task with the full realization that there is even a bigger price for their labors in the city than in the country. CT their work will fall flat through lcpsideedness. The best results will come from team work, in both city and country.
 When you go to the farmer to tell him how he can aid the nation to safely tide over it's coming time of stress be sure that you have a tis- factcry answer ready for his ve-y natural question of "What the hell are you doing yourself?"
 True, you are sowing few papers of radish. mustard or lettuce seed in the rose rows and even a considerable number aee D antng enough spuds to run the family until they get cheaper, but it is the purpose of this article to show you how you may get right VII to brass tacks and dJ something like your approximate share of the work we have before us. The Sen tinel Record of Sunday morning put plainly before you the proposition that your very existence is dependent upon
 the soil In normal days Mir. City Dweller. you may have your apparent
 uses -unimn rtant, but seemingly necessary because of our luxurious mode of life-but war is reversion t0 the primitive, and m the Ianguage of the primitive you are a louse whose life bI od is proda ed by the muscles. teeth and digestive apparatus of the farmer, and | behooyes you to render him every aid in your power to per form his task
 In the first place. Mir City Dweller, inc farmers greatest need is labor. How many useless servants have you in semt.dlencs- about y.ur home or place of business who sh uld be forced out of the city and how many more are the carelessly supervised cooks in ycus kitchens keeping in utter idle. ness, al of whom should be eeu' either to the farm or the trenches? |? Again, how many clerks. deliycrynuen or porters do the merchants f the city employ by reason of your idly thoughtless method of buying house. hold necessities Madame, or the cook or whoever does y.ur buying uses the phone at irregular intervals all morning rdcrng ,hiu4s she has never seen at prices for which she in case its .he cook cares even less, causing the merchant Co keep an eN- tra clerk or two to answer telephones tmost gr-cere maintain tH- tele- drivers. who frequently make 10 or l2 trips in a morning up each res dcnce street when one trip V uld cary the who lead You pay par of this expense. its true, but it is equally true that the farmer, whc shops once week or once mlnth. and who backs h.s team up to the front door and haul his purchases home, pays just as much ot lt as you. But we are not talking dollars and cents now we are talking about iv. ing some of the sweat f our bodies 10 the service of our beloved nation Our boys will give their blood-cer- tainly We can spare the precipitation.
 Grandmother thought there was nothing fit ~6 go on her table unti she had personally selected it. She and tine cu-k went to market with d basket, and when the result came home it was the best, as well as the cheapest, her keen judgment could procure
 Another way you can help the na. ton, Mr. City Dweller, and th.s parcel is intended for the old man. so that madame won't have 10 do all the famllys share there is abundant rom in the back yard for an SXS movable pig pen and for the maintenance cf a fami COW even if you have to sta C her in the garage and sell the tliyyer Ycu don't really need the latter any how and Uncle Sam may commander it. True. the cook may refu 10 milk the COW. but what's the matter with you or with that halfsroWn boy, who now is putting in his spare time seated cn his back gallery and speed ing the fiyyer up and down the road ways on mterminable errands to no where? Our beard of health can de wise regulations which will make back wards as sanitary with a porciuc