The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-06

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In the trenches than fight the hot sun
and flies as red-necked hick doing
farming out ilAthe brush. But believe
me- chaps that talk like that speak
from mighty poor acquaintance with
the country and the job that Uncle
Sam wants EN- for The man who is
drawn for western farm work to help
get the wheat and corn crops in this
year TO lick the Hun, has the surprise
Of his life coming. And it's going to
be a pleasant surprise. If any Yer
mont boy gets chance at it, let him
grab it and grab it quickly Out here
on the wheatfelds under the blue
sky following the interesting work OF
he reaper. the binder or the thresher
is bully. There's nothing like it for a
vacation that's different" For end
less miles the grain is ripening and
with improved machinery to handle Il
which there is out here In abund-
ance-the Whole experience is a lark
for any eastern man who wants to see
what there is to Gods country out
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ception 1t isn't all plain and prairie
out here. It's just as hilly as New
England-in spots-only the valley
floors are vaster and on these valley
floors is the wheat crop and the corn
crop spelling ii the men are not forth
coming to handle IT, | wish as
drive through II that didn't have to
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and | hate farm work like any city
chap. But | sure would enjoy stop.
| ping off here for spell and following
some OF these reapers. Off over
these wheatflelds now as | write can
see the mowers and binders at work
and heard the bob-white's calling. The
weather is fair and cool The climate
is superb The man who kicks at be.
ing drafted for western teamwork is
a darned fool and kicker through
ignorance Some guys would kick il
they were drafted to work in an ice
cream factory or a candy shop or a
hooze plant
The first of,the week we pulled in.
to Kansas City-again a rude shock
w IAN-hOIANlNtN Ahtuos AuOuElN II
was a Hat sandy smoky city peopled
by guys in somhreroes and siX-shoot.
ers. 1t is a city built on a hillside
clean, beautiful, gutter than many an
eastern town, far less smoky-and
the people are Just plain twolegged
men and women exactly like those
you find in bennington, Springfield,
Mass, or Hartford, Conn. Only they
are more sociable. They are more
hospitable aud given to taking an in
terest in one anOther's affairs without
being nosey. At most of these cities
where we have stopped our mud
splashed machine piled heavy with
freight aud camping equipment has
been surrounded by numbers of in
teresied folk wanting to know how We
found the roads and what our expert
ences had been and where we wer,
going and anxious to direct us to tn,
best routs and best hotels II is 4
pleasure to meet these folks and 1
rebuke to as fasteners who ar,
usually too busy minding our owl
business to mind other peoples.
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Hannibal. Mo- Hannibal as you re
member wasthe home Of Mark Twain
in his young manhood In the city 1
his old home built by his father
where he passed his boyhood an
edited his newspaper. The house 1
preserved and marked with table
and kept by an old lady who show
visitors around It Is at Hanniba
that we crossed the Mississippi. II
about as wide here and looks jus
about the same as the Connecticut a
Springfield. Mass We crossed Oh
Illinois In a ferry but the Mississippi
we went over on a toll bridge, to
iifty cents. That brought us int
Hannibal and as we drove down IN
main street heard a shout an
turned 10 see traffic officer takin
after us. Shades Of Pat BRAZIL
saw where we were plnched althoue
| could not exactly dope out why W
came within shade OF being pinohe
In Chicago for exceeding the fftee
mile speed limit inside the city-On
escaping because we were touris
and had an innocent Sunday.scho
look. SO / was nervous and wait,
with my heart in my teeth. "Whel
are YOU people golngg" demanded q
COP I told him. wei" said h