Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-04-03
"UNCLE" Tvs LETTER.
Commends Article in Last Issue.
Refers to Union Meeting
Programs. Farm Labor
Very Scarce.

to- day, just thought I would chat
you just little while. Your issue
this week came to me yesterday. l
was glad to get it. Yes, and it did
me good to read Smile and be
Happy" and let me say to the writ
er, you are right. 1t is not the time
for long faces and the lower jaw
hanging down. If there ever was a
time when smiles are needed it is
now. l know it is right hard some
times to smile, but for the sake of
those. whose burdens and troubles
are hard to bear, smile for their
sake, even if your own heart is sad.
A smile is like the sun coming out
after days of cloudy weather. Why
the birds sing louder and everybody
feels better. So just smile.
As write there comes to my
mind circumstance that took place
during the civil war. We were all
tired and sleepy and had lain down
and all at once there was catawall-
ing and flee barking that you would
have thought the regiment had beeu
changed to cats and little dogs.
But it was John Lyon initiating the
cat and Jack Car the little dogs.
Did it rest US any? Well if it didn't
it made us all laugh. And those In
dian maidens how good it made me
feel because they had learned to
walk the Jenus road. And that song
by Corrie Cheatham. Throw out
the life line," and let me gay again
if there ever was time when that
line is needed to be thrown out to
its full length it is right now.
As read of the work of those
Edge6eld girls my mind takes a
backward flight to the days of their
parents, possibly some of their
grandparents, and compare the OPP
portunities, and / conclude that the
responsibilities of the young in this
day is greater than in the days of
their foreparents. Am right? [
believe that | am.
And l read also Of the union
meetings and their programs and
can imagine I see the appointed
speakers on the different subjects,
especially those to be at the meet
ing at Clark's Hill and my old heart
wells up in me and l feel just like
| would love to be with them and
listen to them, forI know them all
and some of them are near kinsman
Of mine and the others are men
that have known for years, some
cf them from babyhood. God bless
them all.
Farmers are busy some through
planting their corn and are now
bedding out their cotton land. But
! / am glad to know that food crops
in this section will be twice the
acreage as cotton. Spring oats are
looking fairly well since the rain
week ago and the wheat looks
well and with seasons to suit will
make a fairly good crop though
some of it was badly thinned by the
freeze. Farm labor has been badly
thinned out, from men being draft
ed into the army and others going
to public works. and I am afraid it
will tell in the crops Of this year.
Land with no one to work it all
about in this section TO say nothing of
the mules and horses with no one
to plow them. There is living in
little over a mile of me a man that
l heard had five idle mules and no
one to work them. | don't know
that it is true, in fact Mr.. Editor
you just hear anything and not half
you hear is true, but one thing we
do that is true, the farmer who fail
ed to make corn enough last year to
do him is in bad row for stumps,
and if he will neglect his food crop
this year his row in 1919 will be all
stumps and hard row to travel.
Well as / want to mali this to
you to-day will close by asking yoI
to do me favor. Some time last
year the Trenton correspondent
gave remedy for the destruction
of the ground mole and I thought
lessly did not think and it was mis-
placed and l am anxious to get
something to destroy the moles for
they are very numerous here and
are already playing havoc with our
gardens and turning in the corn
rows. SO tell Mr.. or Mrs. Trenton
old uncle Iv says please send him