The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-31

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hyers the goods" just as the produc-
tion line back home deliver the
goods just as you deliver the goods,
The western line is making delivery.
What about your state, your county
your town-Y0U!
It's necessary N every county and
community for emergency farm labor
needs this summer and fall to be sup
piled by emergency workers from the
towns of that county and community
as far as possible.
Which means that Y0U--a town
man of past farm experience-art
called, as & patriotic duty, to work Oh
nearby farms this summer and fall at
such intervals and for such periods
as local conditions may require.
Which means that Y0U-a farmer
must make the best of this emergency
help as a patriotic duty. We can't
pick and schoose and split hairs over
niceties of preference now. If we do
the Germans may win while we are
clubbing. Every earthly question is
secondary to the one supreme consi9-
GRAFTON Of winning the war. We can't
win the war without food; we can't
produce food without farm labor; we
can't have sufficient farm labor this
year unless high school boys and town
volunteers are used to the utmost IN
every community, oilers forced to 60
to work. every communitys entire en-
ergy turned to farm work during the
fpeaks" of cultivation and harvest.
Some town people have had this at
titude: "0h, it is hard work on farms
and the pay is smaller than | earn in
town. Why should lay off from my
town job even for a short time and do
farm work? Why can't someone else
do it? One person doesn't amount to
much. So what does it matter wheth-
err do any farm work in this county
or not?"
Of course if you were the only per-
son in the United States to have a let
Observation-Disclosures viewpoint it
would make no difference But sup
pose the other fellow feels the same
way. All it would amount to, if that
sort of thing continued, would merely
be-our losing the war. That is the
Importance of your part.
Some farmers have this attitude.
"Oh, it is hard to make crops with hap
hazard help-boys and town volun-
teers. Why can't some other farmers
use that sort of help. One farm does
not amount to much. What does it
matter whether | keep up my produc-
ton by using this emergency labor or
not %
As in the case of the town man, it
would be a trivial thing if you were
the only one. But the other farmer
may conclude he is safe in "laying
down on the job" since you are going
to do your part. A continuance of
that merely means-our losing the
W That is the Importance Of your
~ COURSE aatas safe aRd cer-,
rs for every town person Of farm
experience to 20 to work on farms in
his community, when and where he is
needed during the heavy periods this
summer and fall; for every farmer to
use all the help Of this kind that he
needs and can secure
1t will be more or less inconvenient
in each instance. 1t will be more or
less Of hardship to each party. The
war is check full of inconvenience anil
hardships. The trenches are not pla-
ces Of ease and comfort and financial
reward, and the fighters have not far
ed forth upon joy rides and pleasure
parties. They charge into hell, not be-
cause it is a pleasant thing to do, but
because it is their duty so to do under
the grim circumstances Of war. The
town man must go to the farm for pre-
cisely the same reason. The farmer
must accept him for precisely the Same
reason. 1t is a little enough thing for
either Of them to do by comparison
with the things the men at the front
are doing,
Itisn't work to be left to the other
states; it must be done by your state.
1t isn't a work to be left to the othel
county and the other town; it must ..
done IN your county and your town.
It isn't a work to be done by the other
must be done by Y0{l