The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-06-22
PEOPLE IN TOWN.
TO HELP Farmer
Farm Labor Shortage Such That
Heroic Measures Are Neces-
sary to Save Crops.
CLUB COOPERATION IS need
Opportunity for City Men to Repay to
Nation a Part Of Debt They Owe
the Farm-What Clarence
Ousley Has to Say.

Suppose you close your store next
Tuesday-lock 1t up and go away all
day-how much win you lose? Some
thing, certainly. But suppose, tomor-
row morning, you display placards
over every counter telling your Gus
toners that the store will not be open
Tuesday, that the entire sales force
Is going to put in the day fighting for
lhe freedom of America, and ask them
20 buy on Monday what they need
br Tuesday. How much would you
use then, even If your competitor on
vhe next corner should keep open all
lay and hustle for business? A little,
possibly. But don't you think 1t
would be bread upon the water, that
would return to you, and after not so
many days, at that? Don't you be-
lieve that, for every customer Of yours
who went to trade with your compet-
Itor during the day you were closed,
three of his would come to trade with
you within the week?
Must Fight in Burrows.
Urban people have got to do some
fighting for freedom in the burrows
this spring, summer and fall. They
have got to help the country win the
war by helping the farmer produce
food-which means that they will be
helping themselves most of all.
With the exception of a few min
ing and manufacturing centers, the
villages, towns and cities of 100000
or less are mainly dependent for their
success on the prosperity OF the
farming communities around them.
They have good times or hard times
In proportion as the farming opera
lions In their trade territory succeed
or fail. In normal times, even, sensi-
BILE self-interest prompts the business
man to encourage and aid the farm
er. Now, in the stress Of war, the
prompting to help the farmer Genes
hardly less. from good business judy
ment than from patriotic impulse.
Here is the situation: The farmers
will need additional labor to help cul-
fivate and harvest the crops they have
planted. This situation cannot be met
by legislation. The task imposed
upon the Israelites by Pharaoh, to
make briefs without straw. was an
easy Job compared with the task Of
making labor by law. In large meas
ure, the needed labor must come
from the people in towns whose busl-
ness does not have to be kept hum
ming every minute.
Men Who Were Farm Boys
y You know, very large proportion
Of business men have been farm boys.
Just make a mental canvass Of the
men In your block or your building.
You remember when they came In
green from the country, sunburned
and hard as hickory. The fact that
they are now among the best busi-
ness men In town does not prove that
they couldn't still do good teamwork.
Why, not SC long ago, wher Bill
Brown rushed In to get a few balls
Of binder Irvine, and to put a little
extra monwy In the bank and chaffed
you about the ease Of your job and
how soft you were, you probably
boosted that you could still shock
wheat or walk between the pillow
handles with the best Of them. or
course you could--and of course you
can. Maybe you can't hold 1t as long
10 some Of them. but you can do 1t
a. well. An right. The time has
come for you to do IL You never