Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-07-05
Utilizing Community Resources.


There are many ways in which
the resources OF the various com
munities can be more profitable uti-
lized than they are at present We |
hear cooperation preached from day |
to day, and organizations of every |
sort are started, most OF which look |
forward to either the selling or buy
ng problem The success of these
organizations have IN many instances
resulted In much good to the com
munity at large. and in a social way
have been oil great benefit, for they
have everywhere worked for a bet
ter and happier country life, for good
roads, better schools and in fact all
things that go to make more pleas
ant the life on the farm.
The farmers can go a step fur
ther however. in utilizing the COM
munity resources. and this step is
suggested in an article from the
| Portland Live Stock Journal which
suggests a more hearty cooperation
right at home in the way of assisting
one another
There are few farm communities
I'm the state that utilize TO the full
est extent their own resources. Men
on one farm are idle while their nei-
ghbors are busy with the harvest
Others are working at jobs that could
be deferred until later while the man
on the adjoining quarter is hard
put for haying hands. One could go
through ar indefinite list to show
that while each farmer may be busy
work of the community as a whole
does not prosper as it should In
other words there is such a thing as
community efficiency. There are var
ious reasons for the lack of this.
1t may be a personal difference be
tween two farmers that keeps them
from working together or again one
, may feel that he is bearing the larger
side OF the burden, but this is a
time when all such things should be
forgotten. When the nation is facing
, a fight for its very existence is nc
o time for petty Quarrels or strife. II
we are to win the war. the farmer:
.. must do their part. they must furnish
!, the food for the fighting men and tC
do that every unit of our nationa
organization must work with effic
iency. In other words we cannot af
ford to waste energy.
"The crisis which our entrance in
q to the world war has brought abou
It in national affairs affords to thes'
T. farm organizations such an oppor
IS tunity as they never had before l
l. lies within their power to be of I'm
S mediate and inestiniable benefit t.
IL their members and to their state
4 Largely within their fands lies tn
IS future of the coming crop. ! goe
Il. without saying that farm labor vii
10 be scarce this coming summer an
ID fall. High wages at various indus
,e trial plants, selectiVe conscriptio
)r and other influences will largely d
Mt away with the surplus floating popr
to lation. on which in the past farmer
of have had To depend for the harves
We ing of Their crops While variou
al schemes are on foot to mobili2
Mt farm labor. none OF these has as "
n been worked out. nor will they
ne likely to come into operation durin
the present season. In other words
or is up to the farmers to look out f1
a themselves And here is where c.
Cd operation. where farm organization
lt- can come in.
or I'm communities where there
mt a strong farm organization, be II U
les ion. Equity. Grange or what not. Il
IN opportunity is waiting for closer
to ganization. There Is no reason in q
world why this cannot be carried