French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-10
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News continues to troop into the city
gnat-In sone sections Of the. country
Tue 1armers are paying no heed at all
sY.ehe 4nJunctionsk and appeals that are
1elnS sent out to them through num-
yFous sources, even from the lips OF
the resident OF the United States.
Lnat they diversity their farming ac-
uYiuea and Intensity In their EFFORTS to
make the ground produce maximum
Yields 1nhfood and feed crops. 1t Is
Always easy enough to criticize the
farmer. We get pretty sick some
times nearing h~igh-collared city ora
Tors, with their. fancy phrases and
theoretical spoutings, telling he far
mers what to do, wherein they are
Lalnng to do what is expected of them
now they car greatly improve
their condition. Just now q preat
many content themselves with unload
ing burdens that naturally belong
upon their wi heads over upon the
broad and hefty shoulders OF pro-
ducers in the fields.
Whatever may be the condition
ELSEWHERE in this Southern ountry
tine TACT or the matter is that in Meek
1enDurg the farmers need no high
saIar1ed instructors to tell them how
20 farm. They know enough about
the art of agriculture. In their sphere
OF activity, and with the limited op-
portun1t1es for learning that has been
their good fortune to accept, they
know as much about their OCCUPATION
as the leaders in any other trade or
profession in this community. Neither
do they need anybody to inform them
OF their patriotic duty in this critical
moment IN their country's history.
they are aware of the fact that the
nation is facing a food crisis. They
know that in order for America to
prosecute a successful war with arms
and battleships it is essential that we
lay a good foundation back home. get
a solid footing upon the bedrock of
agricultural and Industrial indepen-
dence. Nobody needs to preach that
doctrine to them. They know it as
we'll as anybody else. What they
would appreciate from their friends in
the city, from their State government
or from their national government in
these distressing times would be as
sistance in the way of labor. If the
farmers of this community were fur
nished some muscle and Drawn, they
would show the world some new
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Herein lies the serious affection of the
farms. There is nobody to work the
fields. The individual farmer of this
community-and we suspect the same
applies elsewhere in the South-is
straining every effort to make just as
much as he can himself. He will con-
tfnue to exert himself to the end, but
SO long as his fields are untenated, so
long as the coloredl hands" keep
trooping into the city so long as he
has to pay from one dollar to a dollar
and a half per day fir laborers. 0is
fields are going o remain non-produc-
tive.
The first CONSUMPTION that should be
entered into by the government OF the
United States should be directed
against those in the city, white and
black. who are lounging around pool
rooms ard soda fountains, standing on
street corners or sitting in the grocery
wh'ttling sticks. They should
be modified into an army and sent
out into the fields, made producers,
not mere parasites; construtionists,
mere consumers. If this was
done. the feds would bring forth plen-
eously in their due season and there
be an abundance Of food for man
and beast. Let the agitators strike at
the root of the evil and not at the sur
face point of the sore.-Charlotte