Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1918-05-24
FARM AGENTS COLUMN
(By County Agent c. w. Brown
Help Farmc' Hold the Linc-The
Town Mans duty This Season,

| - o"e part ol the western front
ralls 10 hoid, no matter at what cost.
when the commend has been issued
that no grounG must be given, the
freedom OF your world, your free
| dom. your family's security. are I'M
periled
III one State tails to hold its part
or the line back home--fails to pro-
duce It's part OF the food crops need
Ell Tor war purposes the strength
or the battlefront is weakened And
as 1t is weakened your home be-
| comes less secure. That is the per
sOnal meaning Of the situation.
The greatest period OF human his
tory may he described in terms OF n
popular American expression and
practice. Civilization endures or de-
clintr. freedom flourishes or fails.
just as that line on the western front
delivers the goods" just az the
production line back home "delivers
the goods" jus as you deliver the
goods
Will You DELIVER
The western line is making deliv-
cry. What abOat your State, your
county, your tOwn--yOu?
II Is necessary in every county and
community for emergency farm la
bor needs this summer and fall to be
supplied by emergency workers from
the towns OF that county and COM
munty as far as possible.
Which meals that you-a town
man OF past farm experience--are
called. as patriotic duty. to work
on nearby farms this summer and
fall at such intervals and for such
periods as local conditions may re-
quire
Which means that you---a farmer
must make the best of this emer-
gency help as patriotic help as a
patriotic duty. We cant pick and
choose and split hairs over niceties
OF preference now II we do the
Germans may win while we are quib-
bling. Every earthly question is
secondary to the one supreme con-
sideration of winning the war. We
can't win tho war without food: we
can't produce food without farm la
bor: we cant have sufficient farm
labor this yea unless high school
boys and town volunteers are used
10 the utmost in every community,
idlers forced 10 go to work. every
communities entire energy turned to
farm work during the peaks" of
cultivation AM harvest.
It's Your Responsibility.
Some town people have had this
attitude: "Oh. II is hard work on
farms. and the nay is smaller than
earn in town. Why should lay off
from my town job even for a short
time and do farm work? Why cant
someone else do It? One person does
not amount to much. So what does
it matter whether I do anv farm
worF in this cDdn'y or nOt?"
or course. II yOu were the only
persOn in all the United States to
have "let-rhe- OF ther-fellow- -do-it"
viewpoint il would make no differ
ence But suppose the other fellow
feels the sam" way. All II would
amount to. if that sort OF thing con-
tinued. wound merely be--Our los
ing the war. That is the importance
of your part.
Some farmers have had this atti-
tude: "Oh. it is hard to make crops
WIN HflD UbNS anu tOWH
volunteers. why cant some other
farmers use that sort of help? One
farm doesn't amount to much. What
does 1t matter whether ! keep nv
production bv using this emergency
labor or not?"
As in the case OF the town man. il
would be trivia thing IL YOU wern
the only one. Bnt the other farmer
may conclude hr is safe in laying
down on the iCh" since you are go
ing to do your part. A continuance
Of that would merely mean our
losing the war That is the import
ance Of your part.
The only course that is safe and
certain IL for ,Tery town person of
farm experience to go to work on
farms of his community. when and
where he is nn~u"d during the heavy
periods this summer and fall: for