The Robesonian., 1918-01-28
LUABERToN CAROLINA MONDAY JANUARY 2s 1918
SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL.
Not Merely Farmers Now, Says
County Food Administrator-Must
Grow More Foodstuffs-Will Or
ganize Community Club.

Quite a number of men, women and
children heard County Food Admin
istrator H. f. Stacy, deliver a most
eloquent address on the war and food
conservation at Ten Mile Saturday
afternoon. MIR. Stacy was invited to
Ten Mile by the local Of the Farmers /
Union at that place. |
For more than an hour he held his
hearers spell-bound as he told OF the
great Importance Of growing food
stuffs and food conservation. He
told the farmers that they should no
! longer consider themselves farmers. !
but soldiers Of the soil.
Must Fight at Bcme cr IN fic'a.
The speaker said in part: "Every
man and woman must be q soldier
either on the battlefield, in the home
or in the field. This wax will not
be won or lost at the front, but IN
the fields Of America. Food will
win or lose the war. The lack e
food is the big problem of America
and her allies and not a lack of man
power If the war is to be Won
| and it must be-We have got to suffer
sacrifices and deny ourselves as die
: our forefathers during the Civil War
;. It has always been sin to, waste
anu ItO" IL ID SllIllC. ooI e+AiA~'
e1 are calling FOR food and this foo,
e must come from strict economy an,
@ savings in the homes of the American
t people We Americans have beer
the most extravagant people on III
l. globe, but the time has come whe
n we must save. Our people will wax
IS UP to the seriousness of the situaa
o ton when the casualty lists begi
ID to show that home boys have pei
ii ished at the front. Some farmers Wi
r. say that they will plant their Ian
I'd in cotton and tobacco and sell It ft
L. high price and buy the things the
should grow at home. The questic
J. is. where are they going to buy 1t
il My advice is to grow something tn;
Of YOU and your neighbor can eat. II
nd man who is not willing to work
IS. help feed the men who are fightir
d. his battles is traitor"
il The speaker took occasion to c
e. plain war savings stamps and urg
the people to buy them.
ok To Organize Community Club.
as Miss Lulu NJ. Cassidy, county ho1
lis demonstration agent, was prese
,es and made most pleasing talk
the ladies', after which they decid
to meet Friday afternoon Of Il
week at 3 o'clock for the purpose
organizing a community club. M
81 Cassidy will meet with the ladies g
pl- assist them IN organizing the cllb
as Mr.. W. P. Barker, vice-presidf
en- of the Eobeson division Of the Far
W ers' Union, made snort 6ue iIio
Ill esting talk and urged the importal
rn-- of growing foodstuffs.
Ind Next Meeting March 20.
The next regular meeting OF
Robson division of the Farme
Union will be held at Ten Mile
Wednesday, March 20, and on {
date a farmers institute will be ';
,.~ in connection with the meeting. No
"A lecturers, both men and women, \
ced be present, and the public will be
vited. Messrs. H. H. Stanley, }
ate Townsend, G. F. Humphrey and
Grover Britt were appointed as
committee Oh arrangements for
wal, occasion.
49, Community Spirit.
dav 1t would be difficult to find II
tbe community anywhere that sh'
more signs of the right sort Of G.
mis- munity spirit and cooperation t
l'- the Ten Mile community. The ia
for ers stick to their organization
ey- to each other and profit by so do
,o.,, They pull together and get raSul