The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-06-27
WHAT KANSAS DID.
soft" Town Men Made Good BY
Harvesting Wheat.

Men from towns and cities-"soft
town men," II you please are har-
vesting the great wheat crop OF the
Middle West and the West.
OF course, 1t couldn't be dOrePP|
The professional ress,mists persistent
ly proved very conclusively that it was
utterly impossible and altogether RI
diculous even to attemut it. "Town
riff-raff and soft, Office per-pushers for
the farms" they sneered. "Why the
farmers won't stard 1t. and the town
people can't stand It'll Dearl Dear
What an inefficient Government! Why
doesn't Washington press q button, or
something, and send plenty Of perma-
nent, experienced farm labor to the
farmersT
But, strangely enough, the farmers
did stand for 1t, and strangely enough
the worn weaklings did stand the hard
work. Perhaps they hadn't read the
lamentations Of the Can't-Do-It-C Crowd
and didn't know they were foredoom-
ed to failure. Perhaps they were more
interested In whipping the Kaiser than
In hearing reasons why they were sure
to fall down on the job. Perhaps,
being plain everyday Americans who
are so absurd as to have assurance
tucy chu uO uny LuAuSS tucy JUST WCAs
ahead with confident calmness and
did it Really, 1t is too bad (f0r the
Huns) that these Kansans wouldn't
listen to the righteousness OF the I'm
possible sQuad-so willing to show that
1t Just couldn't be done. What a pity
to hurt Hindenberg's feelings by do
ing 1t, even IL it was impossible.
The latter part of May Kansas began
to put into effect on a wholesale basis
the program which for many months
the United States Department Of Agri-
culture had been urging In every com
munity-that town men go to WORK
In agricultural territory adjacent tt
them during emergency. farm-lab0l
needs Of cultivation or harvest. Kan
sas started an intensive campaign FOL
the enrolment of town and city vol
unteers for harvest labor. Kansas
made ready to shut up shop during the
harvest period. Kansas prepared K
subordinate every activity for a few
weeks, to the one supreme job of saw
| ing the big wheat crop. From every
town and city In the State men, womer
and boys, In such numbers as wert
necessary, went to the fields; the mel
to work as harvest hands, the womer
to cook for the volunteer army Of har
vesters, the boys to At in wherevel
they could best serve. This Kansal
army of nearly 100000 men did tn,
job. All the outside help that coult
be secured was used, Of course, bu
by far the largest part of the hell
came from right at home-the "sof
town men, who just simply couldn'
do 1t, and who wouldn't be tolerate,
by the farmers.
And, In just the same way, the war
winning wheat crops will be harveste'
in Nebraska and Minnesota and Mort
\ Dakota and South Dakota In jus
the same way, when necessary an
where necessary, crops will be save
in every state. OF course, it can
be done. For that we have the wor
of many eminent critics of the Unite
Z States Department Of Agriculture an
= the Government In general. No douh
\ the Kaiser himself has said so, an
4 surely the Clown Prince will sustai
= the statement Ii further authority b
\ necessary. 1t just can't be done. Blu
4 the simple weaklings Of Kansas seer
= to pay more attention to straigh
Z frOm-the-sh0ulder, get-there-or-bui
4 American c0mmon-sense than they d
3 to Prussianism cant do 1t" clap-tra
z and to skyscraper editors of literar
y journals de luxe who write prettil
phrased editorials giving plethoras {
\ peevish reasons why failure Is &c
49, Kansas seems to like to do be
ter than to listen to why it is impo
z sible to do. Kansas Just goes ahes
4 and harvests the wheat anyhow.
= Your state win do likewise. Tru
4 it can't be done. The faint-hearts
I and the Hun-hearted will tell you
= on every hand--so, do It'll