Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-20
The IS in Action;
What Winning the War
Means. to All Families

country-the main thing. But the
money to pay for his subscription to
the next Liberty Loan will have to
afraid the potato price viii 60 below
81 a bushel. It cost him $125 an
acre to plant them, and the crop av-
erages $50 bushels to the acre. Well,
that's all right II the price stays at
81 a bushel. Can't John suggest to
Mr.. Hoover that the price Of pota-
toes be stabilized at that amount?
Johns replies are evasive and his fa-
ther Is just a little d%isgruntled in con-
sequence.
George has had a serious row with
his father because, under tho spur OF
haste. he has; paid common laborers
from IS to IS a day in building the
cantonment not many miles away.
Mr.. - found it impossible to com
pete with this wage scale in getting
about 1t and they had some. words,
but after the cantonment is finished
and the harvest is in 1t will blow over.
From Joseph have come several
scathing letters. He wrote from his
sheep range to john. asking If the
government was going. to neglect
sheep. Joseph wanted to know. il
clothing to wear wasn't as important
as food to eat. An e~pistolary mention
Of the outdoor sleeping suit caused
Joseph to indite a regrettable letter to
his younger sister telling her that 1t
was girls like her who were wasting
the visible supply Of wool. James an
swer-she had always deprecated
Joseph as a sheep raiser-wasr brief.
She wrote:
Much cry and little wool"
What Of Mrs. -? h poor
woman is having a hard time as fam
lily mediator and arbitrator, a role
which she has had to 1ll,I like all
women, from the time she became q
mother. Added to the delicate ask Of
bringing about daily peace by under
standing with no annexations and no
Identities. but with restitution and
reparation and guarantees for the fu-
threaded to this are all her war
functions. She is a member of the
Red Cross and makes surgical dress
ings. She cans and preserves and
tons. She helps her husband In the
outdoor work OF the farm as q dem
onstration OF woman's utility in war
time. She knits. She has Joined q
l"Take a Soldier Home to Dinner
movement and once DR. twice a week
seats at her table some basbful youth
from the neighboring cantonment.
vide visiting soldiers with ,healthful
recreation. She watches the kitchen
for waste. She does other things in
spare moments. At present she is
taking a census or inventory of the
farms u in foodstuffs. Mo-
body will ever be able to take an in
ventory of her activities.
The IS have gone into action.
Those who know them DO not think
of them as especially engaged. Every
one else, pretty nearly. is doing the
same things. or some Of the same
things, and others equally eager. we'll
meant. occasionally misdirected but
mostly of value in winning the war.
Like the millions of their fellow
Americans who have been ordered in
| to action and have gone with relish
the IS think Of their enterprises
only IN terms of winning the war.
| They don't realize that what they are
getting in a combined mental. physi-
cal and, spiritual training. a kind OF
splendid series of setting up exercises
! Of inestimable worth to them the rest
, of their lives. Though they never
stop to think Of it; winning the war
IS the most effective way of preparing
for peace.