South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-26
MARCH %, 1913.
EVERY AVAILABLE HAND MUST
BE PUT TO THE PLOW TO
HELP WIN THE WAR.
HR. FARMER:

MI Inc SCUM Bcnd Chamber OF Commerce
viii see TO Incorporating with the Boys
Working Reserve, County Agent BOrdner and
is own Agricultural COmmittee,-that you have
the necessary help Co plant, SOW reap NOV,
the full capacity of your farm this season
Ii may not be the most desirable help,
the most experienced help, but IL will be help,
and help that will do the work
Some OF IL may be boys, and some of il may
DC men'-but they will help do their best, and
with highly patriotic motives. Angels could do
no more
The nation is at war. Danger of defea1 turks
i'm the distance. The farm is your trench bacl,
here I'm the rear. YOI must hold lt-and South
Bend-the city is going TO help YOU do it.
CD Y GOD MEN. WE MUST FTGHTr"
II we quote il from one of the speakers
the Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday
It was most vivid picture that he had painted
Of what would happen should Paris fail; three,
live. seven. possibly 10 years OF war.
We, back here home the producing
division of the great national army We must
build that bridge of ships, yes: and manufacture
guns and ammunition, yes; and uniforms, and
boots and shoes, for soldiers and sailors, YES:
hut equal i'm importance TO all this-those SOL
dicrs and sailors be fed, and their allied
comrades must tie fed, and to preserve the
morale OF both. keeping them fit for fight. they
must know that their folks back home are also
being fed.
Il is no time for distinctions between the man
from the city and the man from the country
The situation for both is desperate Here is a
responsibility that rests upon all of us. Assume
il and fight
The farmer and the city man must fight
shoulder TO shoulder-tO prOduce,-same they
would, were they in the trenches; fight to Kill.
IoIN THE WORKING RESERVE.
This i appeal to bOys--16 to 81 years
Young. Fight with hoe, a pitchfOrx, n rake.
implements OF peace, YES but Just now none the
less. implements Of war.
You're mentally bright though your
hands may not be accustomed To the soil; train
ed 60 do such manual work
You're patriotic too. and with your mentality,
YOU can catch on and make yourself more than
useful. You can actually be valuable.
show the men, You boys. BE the father of the
man"
And men, You are only boys over-grown.
Maintain your fathcrhoOd the boy. Encourage
him. The hoe the pitchfOrk. and the rake will
not hurt You. and IL is YOU that the Chamber Of
Commerce means, well the boy, must help
do this farm work If you are needed.
IL means that you arc asked to enlist your
vacation this year. he spent the farm, and
20 take that vacation when t;ic farm needs yon.
tEC OCIAL MIND" GROWING
y That condition Of public sentiment, pop
Mar Opinion-and the Cato within yOu,-that is
TO brand every man and bOy-and woman too
as .'slackcrs." who do not do their "bit," is de-
veIOping fast.
themselves IL means "A ''neys nationalism" with
the convenience pleasure, pride and greed of the
individual. consciously subservicnt To the MANI
tenanCc and advancement OF the social compact.
which applies TO the farmer well TO the
city
Il isn't just now near much question Of
rro6ts or OF wages nor OF hardship. convenience.
or n good time IL Is question of production,
and the winning OF the war.
You Mr.. Farmer. have the soil. south Bend.
through its Chamber Of Commerce. and the Boys
Working Reserve, is going TO help you ont with
the man power. You not asked tO do it ut a
loss nor l. the power to serve YOU without
pay. hut ihese are not the first considerations.
The thing 20 do is TO produce PRODUCE!