The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-22
HOW FARM FOLKS
HELP IN TVE WAR
Little Stories From Real Life
Illustrating How They Back
Up Uncle Sam.
LIBERTY BONDS TEACH THRIFT
Encourage Saving Habit in Those
Who Never Saved Before
Great Crisis Demands the
Best From All of Us.
BY HERBERT MYRIcK.

BY HERBERT MYRIcK.
President of the National Farm Power
Group of Agricultural Papers.
Did you read that item in the news
papers the other day, Of a one-time
distinguished and prosperous citizen
OF Chicago who died suddenly in the
hospital, unknown, alone, unloved?
He was an old man, a victim of ad-
versity, forgotten by the acquaintances
of his prosperity. The Authorities were
about to consign the body to the pot
ters' field when they found in his peck
ct Liberty bond for $50 and a GER
tif1cate of a fraternal lodge to which
he had once belonged. That society
was notified and gave him a Christian
burial, the undertaken and cemetery
accepting the bond in payment for
coffin and lot
Jamie, We Salute You!
A good man and true is Jamie Bliss,
age five years, who lives with mamma
and papa on a farm near Eau Claire,
Wis. Jamie had heard all the discus
sion about Liberty bonds and Thrift
stamps, and, not yet being established
In business for himself, was puzzled
little to know how such little boy
could have part in this great I'M
dertaking. At the same time he learn
ed how sOrely our fighting men need
wool and the great idea came to him.
Without consulting anyone, jamie
started about the farm harvesting
from hedges and wire fences the little
wisps of wool left there as his fathers
sheep pastured. AS a result of his
expedition Jamie came into the house
with his pockets and inside of his
waist bullying with wool. Mamma
Bliss was somewhat astonished when
he explained that he was gathering
wool to sell so he could buy Thrift
stamps, but being a wise mother, she
saw the point quickly.
Since then Honorable Jamie, wool
gatherer to Uncle Sam, makes daily ex-
cursiOns into the sheep pasture. AL
ready his wool has purchased two
So War Savings stamps and a good
start toward another one. This, folks,
is something which was not taught
out of a book, but it is a sample of
the patriotic citizenship now growing
up, ready to stand at the helm a few
decades hence.
Becoming q BondhoIder.
Among my friends for years is a
Woodworking farmer with wife and
several children. He never seemed
to quite ''get there" Though he work
ed hard, he just lacked the knack Of
getting bit ahead. During the past
year he seemed to have prospered
When I saw him last week he said
Its this way: subscribed
$50 for a Liberty bond last year
and simply had to pay for it.
did so by paying in every dollar
could spare, instead of spending money
for things we could just as well do
without. 1t is curious how one accumu
lates If they go at it that way.
az see now that one reason why ]
never saved any money was because
didn't have anything like this to take
my cash q little at a time. I used tC
think that would begin saving wher
1 had my bills paid and S25 TO the
good, but have discovered at this late
date that the way TO do 1t is to save s
little at time and put it by as yor
get it. 1 have been surprised to fine
that the same is true of so many othel
farmers, especially renters. Wha
they have put into the Liberty bond i:
money that would have slipped
through their fingers. They would have
nothing to show for 1t, whereas nov
they have got a bond earning gooC
interest, while their money is helping
to lick the kaiser. My first bond i:
now paid in full and I am beginnin,
to save up my subscription to the
fourth Liberty bond
This reminds me of still anothe
case where the boys and girls have
earned and saved along with theil
parents until their subscription fo
each of the three Liberty loans art
now paid up. They did not see how
they could raise the money for thei
first subscription. but their second wa!
double that, and the third was still
larger. The oldest boy was taken b!
the draft. which made the family al
the more determined. The mothe
is saving her egg money, each of thu
children has a bit of a garden from
which they are selling stuff, one o
the girls is a member of the pig club
and the oldest boy still at home ha
quarter of an acre of onions tina
promises a splendid crop. The ia
Their is harvesting a heavy crop O