The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-04
VOX POPUI
SOME SUGGESTIONS ON
HOW TO WIN THE WAR

Editor The Pensacola Journal:
II you will allow me space l Will
drop in "a few words on how we
Americans W.. INC war.
We want to win and must win. but
it can't be done by economy Of the
farmers and the farmers wives alone.
There has been q lot of talking, speak
ing and writing on the subject Of econ
omy, practically all of which has been
addressed to the wives OF farmers
There are not many farmers wives
who have not done their part, and
have been, az the while.
There Is at this time the greatest
demand for farm hands that this coun-
try has ever known, but still some peo-
pie seem to think that farming isn't
| necessary at all, and that only the de-
graded class of people farm.
Nobody but fools think that, Mr.
Editor. A young salesman was heard
to remark recently that he had rather
go to France and die than to go on
the farm. Guess this young man had
forgotten that all that keeps him alive
now is what he gets from the farm.
We, the farmers wives can take our
babies to the field and set them down
| under bush in a cracker box and hoe
/ back and forth while two or three lit
tie ones play around the box This
is often seen on the farm.
And there IS another scene often
witnessed in the cities, and that is a
nurse in the back yard with the\chIl-
dren, while the mothers are at card
parties and receptions, or some other
social function. | do not know any
| thing about those societies. but | reao
about them. They do lot to win the
| war. they say but they could SEND
int thn
| try and help us farmers wives on the
farms and attend to their own chill
| dren. like / have to do. They could do
| their own cooking and send their cooks
| to the farms, where they are nun
needed to raise foodstuffs. They could
clean their own clothes and the wash
woman and scrubwoman could be USED
on the farms. Try this for three
months
There are thousands of men and
| women who are doing nothing but
| having good time. just like there was
no war.
| 1t makes me tired to read a piece
of advice to farmers wives. After we
| have finished our breakfast. cleaned VI
| our house, MIXED and churned. fed
! our chickens and pigs, put the cow Oh
| the grass, taken our box and babies
| to the field, hoed until we think II IS
/ fl o'clock, we take up our Toad and go
back to the Iouse to hurry dinner by
| the time the plow hands get in. Wash
days come, when it is too wet 10
work, and ironing Saturday afternoon
And / think after we have gone
through this day after day. we might
have meat and biscuit. if we raise it,
and il any one has to do without LET
it be the ones that do not work. l am
not trying TO run the governments
business, but | say if all the nurses
maids, buffers. cooks, Thauffeurs and
corner Ioafers were sent to the farms
and the soldiers to the front. we could
win the war and have plenty to cal
at home and to feed our soldiers. But
the farmers cannot feed themselves
and soldiers and all these idlers. Lei
everybody work-lets all do something
to win the war and save our country
4 FARMERS WIFE.
(The name OF this writer Is in pos
session of the editor, Id she is regard
ed as an authority on matters referred
i-Ed.)