The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-08-29
HOW FARM FOLKS.
HELP IN THE War
Little Stories From Real Life
Illustrating How They Back
Up Uncle Sam.
LIBERTY BONDS TEACH THRIFT
Encourage Saving Habit In Those
Who Never Saved Before
Great Crisis Demands the
Best From All Of Us.
BY HERBERT MYRIcK.

py MIRICk.
President Of tho National Farm Power
Group OF Agricultural Papers.
DID you read that item In the news
pnpcrs the other day. Of n onc.tImc
distinguished and prosperous citizen
or Chicago who died suddenly In the
hospital, unknown. alone, unlovcd?
lie was m old man, n victim Of nd
versity, forgotten by the acqunintnnces
OF his prosperity. The authorities were
about To c~onslgn the body to the pot.
fers' field when they found In his peck.
ct n Liberty bond for $50 and n Ger
tificnte OF a fraternnl lodge to which
he had once belonged. That society
was notified and gave him n Christian
burial, the undertaken and cemetery
accepting the bond in payment for
coffin and lot.
Jamie, We Salute You'll
A good man and true Is jamie Bliss.
age five years, who lives with mamma
and papa on n farm near Emu Claire,
wis. jamie had heard all the discus.
sion about Liberty bonds and Thrift
stamps, and, not yet being established
IN business for himself, was puzzled
a little to know how such n little boy
could have n part in this great un.
dcrtnklng. At the same time he learn.
ed how sorcly our fighting men need
wool and the great idea came to him.
without consulting anyone, jamie
started about the farm harvesting
from hedges and wire fences the little
wisps of wool left there ms his fathers
sheep pnstured. AS n result Of his
expedition Jamie came into the house
with his pockets and inside of his
waist bulging with wool. Mamma
Hiss was somewhat astonishcd when
he explained TINT he was gathering
wool 10 sell so he could buy Thrift
stamps, but being u wise mother. she
saw the point qrlck'y.
Since then Honorable jamie, wool
gatherer to Uncle Sam, makes daily OK.
cursions into the sheep pasture. Al.
ready his wool has purchased two
81 War Savings stamps and n good
start toward another me-. This. folks,
Is something which was not taught
out Of n book, but 1t Is a sample Of
the patriotic citizenship now growing
up, rendy to stand at the helm a few
decades hence.
Becoming . B~ondholder.
Among my friends for years is n
Woodworking farmer with wife and
GnNArAl nhiIIPnn IIA nNn Gnn,aaI
Ia quite get there" Though he work.
cd hard, he just lacked the knack OF
getting a bit ahead. During the past
year he seemed 10 have %prospercd
When ! saw him last week he said
ITS this way: I subscribed
$50 Tor II Liberty bond last year
and simply had 10 pay for 1t.
did so by paying In every dollar ]
could spare, instead of spending money
for things we could just as well do
without. II Is curious how one accumu
lates II they go ut II that way.
~ see now that one reason why
never saved any money was because
didn't have anything like this to take
my cash a little ut n time. | used II
think thUt ] would begin saving when
! had my bills paid and S25 TO the
good. bus I have discovered mt this late
date that the way to do II Is to save q
little ut n time and put 1t by as yor
get II. ] have been surprised TO find
that the same Is true of so many other
farmers. especially renters. What
they have put into the Liberty bond Il
money that would have slipped
through their fingers. They would have
nothing TO show for II, whereas now
they have got n bond earning goot
interest, while their money Is helping
10 lick the kaiser. My first bond Is
now paid In full and I nm beglnnInl
20 save up my subscription TO the
fourth Liberty bond"
This reminds me Of still another
casc where the boys and girls have
earned and saved along with theli
parents until their subscription for
ench of the three Liberty loans are
now paid up. They did not see how
they could raise the money for their
first subscription, hut their second was
double that, and the third was still
larger. The oldest boy was taken by
the draft, which made the family al
the more determined. The mother
Is saving her egg money, each OF the
children has a bit Of II garden from
which they are selling stun. n of
the girls Is n member of the pig club
md the oldest hoy still nj home has
quarter OF an acre of onion that
promises n splendid crop. The IN
thcr Is harvesting II heavy crop OF