El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-30
WHAT 1T MEANS TO BE SELF
SUPPORTING AS A FARMER
s.

W THAT is your conception of self support? Does it
M mean earning enough money that one is not
dependent others for living? Does 1t mean
performing certain services which receives enough
money to buy from others the food they have produced
and the clothing they have made? Of course these two last
questions self answering for the town dweler he
produce something Of value which he barter for
the things which support him, using money medium
OF he can sell some service for money with which to buy
things needs That is all that be expected of
him. that and constant increase in the value of his product
the service he renders.
But self support is regarded literally by the farmers
of Navajo and Apache counties Of northern Arizona,
families living In settlements Of whiCS many
miles from the Santa Fe railroad They have been
fairly self supporting for years. owing to distances and
difficulties of transport. This year, from motives Of
patriotism they more self supporting than ever
dinner at of those isolated ranches is apt to
include home pork, made cheese, bread from
wheat grown their farms and miled in their
settlements home butter eggs milk from the
farm beef from their range herds vegetables from
their gardens, fruit from their orchards Their
dishes seasoned with pepper likewise grown in the
home garden sweetened with sugar made by them
selves from sugar beets they themselves have grown
Their breakfasts apt to include cakes made from
corn meal they have ground from corn they have raised
butterd with the product Of their dares and
cred with syrup from their sorghum
They often repair their shoes boots with pieces
Of eowide from their slaughtered cattle and dried
and tanned in their way. they cared to do so,
many Of them could make their clothes by spinning
their cloth from wool taken from their fOcks.
In referring to self support, naturally thinks of
the fundamentals That being understood, what COM
munty elsewhere rival these farmers Of northern
world? What to them is the law Of supply and demand?
What they for food spectators and food control
bills? What, indeed, do they about fuel famines
when they cut their frewood and store it against
the winters need? Let these farmers buy such clothes
they do not to make, little salt and matches
and they enabled to live comfortably, from
privations.
Perhaps they pay for their economic security by the
disadvantages of their isolation Perhaps their happiness
would mean, of the rest of u.s. suffering from
loneliness But at any rate they know the meaning of
self support in way that it is given to few of u.s. even
those engaged IN farming, to comprehend.
Etymoogists say Boche the French nickname for the
Germans "hickhead" which suggests the applica
ton Of slang Characterization "bonehead" Desion of
the Germans should be encouraged One of
the first principles Of is to undeTrate op
ponent
Those members of congress who oppose the food control
bills viii make wonderful explanations when they
reach home unless their districts overwhelmingly sg
cultural
One of the hardships of is being experienced by
the troops the United States who Pershing
living French raons with pint Of wine included
The who volunteers is hero but for silent, long
suffering heros let's hand it to the dill sergeant who
has to work over that volunteer.
If the government viii Just do to food prices what
It has to steel prices, well take lot more comfort in
living