The Benson signal., 1918-08-10
CANNES That Serve No Useful
Purpose Should Not Be ToIer-
ated by Farmer.
MUST HAVE MEAT REGULARLY
G le Cur in Single Night Has Been
Known to Destroy 81 900 Worth Of
Sheep-More Mutton and Wool
Wanted by Nation.

What are you doing about winning
this war, anyway?
OF course you take conscientious
interest in it, but are you working at
it just as diligently as though it were
your own personal war, and as though
your own personal salvation depended
upon it-Which it does?
Home folks have got to do a little
bit more than strangers. You bought
some of our Liberty bonds? Of
course you did. But a blessed old
pagan away over in the heart of Asia,
entirely out of touch with us and ow-
ing us no duty whatever, bought
100000 worth of these bonds by cable.
You buy War Savings stamp now
and then. Certainly. But a bunch of
poor, hopeless human beings in exile
who can never profit by the liberty
that is to be won-to-wit, the lepers
at Molokai-bought $1,000 worth Of
our savings stamps.
Must Do Your Part.
Now, you, to square yourself with
prince in Persia, or an outcast at Mo-
lokai. 1t doesn't mean a great deal
to give away little money, and to
lend money to the government on the
best security in the world means no
sacrifice at all. 1t just means thrift
and good sense. To do your part in
your own war you have got to give
up some of the trifling little things,
some of your personal fads and fan
cies that to you probably do mean
good deal.
Take, for instance, that dog, silver
collared, silver-leashed, pampered, pet
ted and persif1aged with pet name.
Or maybe he isn't collared or leashed
or named. Maybe he is just a plain
dog that runs where he pleases, even
though he may not please where he
runs. But one way or the other he
is your dog.
Now, think it over. A dog eats as
much as a man-mOre, If he gets a
chance. Every dog absorbs ration
that would feed a soldier. Either you
feed it to him, or he goes out some
where and finds it for himself. Also,
a dog demandS-and takes-mOre of
a meat diet than man. A man may
get along very comfortably and cheer
fully on cabbage and corn cake, pars-
nips and pruneS, tomatoes and tabasco,
but dog has got to have his meat. 1t
may be beef and bacon from your
table, or it may be live sheep from
your neighbor's pasture. If you feed
him his meat, he probably consumes
about what man would require. If
he goes and takes it himself he de-
stroys pretty nearly enough to feed q
regiment Of men. One dog in single
night has been known to destroy
81 900 worth of sheep.
More Sheep Needed.
More sheep is one of the greatest
needs toward increasing the nations
eneat supply, and there is only one
sound reason why the farmers of the
United States do not raise more sheep.
That one reason is the dog. 1t may
not always be the actual physical dog,
but it is the ghost of the dog, the fear
of the thing that bides always in the
heart of the farmer. He knows that
one dog, absolutely worthless, inca
pable Of producing a single dollar of
wealth for the country, can and very
likely will, in the dark hours of one
night destroy the accumulations of |
years and the profits of untiring indus
try. If that fear could be removed |
from the farmers heart, if he could |
know that sheep could browse safely |
in his grass that goes to waste. the
number of sheep in the United States !!