The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-05

home paper? What would be your
county's answer. What would be the
answer OF your state? Farms need Ia
Dor to produce war.winning crops. Man
power is needed in war work every
where. Many sections of the country
have put into effect an uncompromis-
ing "G0-to.wOrk or gO.tO.jail' policy
The man who loafs today is not loyal,
whether he be hobo or a millionaire
The place where he is permitted to
loaf harbOrs dislOyist,: What about
your town? '@
To find the answer to this adver.
tisement take a stroll around the
court house square and down to the
depot and past the back street pool
halls and through the park and along
the avenue and see whether there arc
any chronic loafers and professional
idlers hanging around. If you find
them, you will be forced to confess,
with shame and humiliation, that your
town has ALREADY ANS WERED
that advertisement by inviting the
huns helpers, and non.workers, to
come right in and make themselves a,
home. But your town can rescind its
answer! You can become genuine,
all-American, war-working town! See
that your sheriff gets on the job and
sends all idlers, ricn or poor, transient
or resident, to Jail or to work.. f
All over the. country loafers are
having hard shedding. The people
realize we can't win the war without
food, and that food can't be produced
without farm labor There is, a spirit
from one end of this land to the 9th
or which says to every man: you are
going to work; voluntarily If you pre-
fer-but YOU are going to work."
In New Jersey the number of appll-
cants for farm jobs at employment or.
fees increased many thousands as
soon as rigid enforcement of the vag.
ransy law began. In Georgia the gov
ernor expressed it with much pith
The farm or the chain gang was the
message he sent to sheriffe. Con-
fronted with these alternatives a coz.
siderable number of leisurely inviG.
uals are discovering latent talents as
farm labOrers that heretofore they
concealed very successfully Tine
proclamation OF the Georgia governor
said that an unrelenting enforcement
OF the vagrancy law and the general
knowledge that the punishment for
loafing is certain will cause many
| idlers to 60 to work voluntarily, but
in communities where they do not 60
to work voluntarily see that they are
probated to farmers to work under
proper supervision after arrest and
conviction" ~
! That's fair warning! Loafers avoid
! Georgia! Well, where will the loafer
go? He can't 60 to Maryland. He
can't go to Virginia. He can't go to
New Jersey. He can't 60 to Oklaho'
ma. Maybe he can go to Montana
that's far away from Georgia. Per.
haps he can get by without working.
out there. Well see: How's this
from the Montana Farmer" N,
Every nook and corner of this
state must be made too hot for drones
this season. If we make hive too hot
to hold the drones, the farm.labor
problem in: Montana will be solved.
If it appears necessary, nonessential
industry must be sidetracked until
Montana harvests her crop safely
and that applies to every man engaged
in onessention work. There are some
highly paid MEN whose work, consid.
cred as contribution to the nations
needs, is considerably less import
ant than it would be If they had OF
overalls and were out in field shock
ing wheat or: pitching hay. Some feel
Iings may be hurt, and some individ-
ual dignities may ue lost in the shut.
file, but it is up to Montana to strike
out for her farms, and let the aches
and pains, mental and physical, fail
where they may" t,..,,,,,
Great goodness, no! The Loafer
can't go to Montana! Well, where can
he go? Observation-Disclosures, except to
WORK!--unless he can find in YOUk
town that little outpost Of Berlin
unless your town answers the German:
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