The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-11
AwAKEi coUNTRY's AT WAR.
You Who Are Able TO Work, Do You
Duty Now.


ance. "Ah We haven't realized we ar
at war yet-what IL means-what W
must do. And we won't until the cas-
ualty lists begin to come in. But then
oh! we will realize il thenl
(ltem-private John Smith killed
| in action on the field of honor.
A husky man, who would make a
good hay pitcher, washing dishes.
Three miles away farmer
crying for labor-without which he
cannot produce food, and without
which food we cannot win the war;
Well. the casualty lists are coming IN
constantly now One stared you in the
face when you picked up the paper this
morning. Another will be boxed ON the
front page this afternoon. They are
grim, everyday affairs now-the lists OF
American boys who haze given their
lives for this cause. Every day they are
dying--but do we realize yet what it
means-do wei
tltem--Privste Bill Jones, dead in
the front line trenches; dead--but
his squad repealed the Huns attack.
A double listed athlete serving
cafe breakfasters with soft boiled
eggs and buttered toast.
Plenty of women who can do that
work. A farmer. within an
hours ride, saying that unless he
gets labor he will fail to produce
food.
Oh yes. the death lists resolve us with
a mighty purpose that this war will
never end until the thing for which these
boys died-the utter and absolute crush
ing of Prussian military despotism--is
accomplished But how thor
oughly are we putting that resolution
into effect with regard to SO fundamental
and so immediate and so close at home
problem as the farm labor. supply?
1tem Private Tom Black dead of
wounds received while on patrol in
No Mans land, A brawny man,
who grew up on farm, carrying
grips from the door to the desk of
hotel A farmer nearby wiring
his congressman that unless he gets
farm labor the governments food
production program will fall
Probably no vital facts of the war
nave been more persistently presented
han these: That without food we can't
win the war, and consequently that the |
arms must increase fheir production
his year; that there is a nationwide |
hortage Of farm labor which must be |
elieved or the food cannot be produced, |
nd that the only possible source of suf
icient supply is emergency labor from
he towns and cities. But, can we sin
erely say the casualty lists have stirred
is tosmore than mere bombastic talk if.
these foSa facts, we fail
o turn to agriculture, every hand not
ow usefully engaged in absolutely nee
ssary work.
tltem-Private Henry Brown died
OF wounds received y bayonet
charge. A group OF able bodied
men idling around the depot
Half IA dozen farms within a mile of
that station where food production
will fail unless farm labor is Sc
curedl
For instance. Willie White, strong and
tgood football materials soda jerk |
at the Main street drug store, Now !
lille Is a nice enough boy, and his job ,
perfectly honorable one. But his =.
farming skill in perfeeting pineapple
.rfaits and his delightfully."- artistic as
milling OF chocolate sundas and ba :
ina splits do not--just simply do not 4
lip one little bit in whipping the kaiser.
here are plenty OF nimble fingered I
,ung ladies who can slick their hair !
raight back too, and be bored and !.
ase, and poke cherries in the top of a !.
Junk of ice cream Just as gracefully =
ft4l ixs hap hui
aking it possible for that Young gem .
sman to preside over plough or dig a
tatoes or work on a threshing machine.
Htem Private George Green. A
killed after he refused to surrender [,
to an enemy force of superior mum &
hers. A perfect specimen of A
physical manhood operating an ele !,
yator. A dozen girls ready for
the job. Two dozen farmers in
the neigbborhood looking for such II
man TO help cultivate and harvest v
feed crops, needed to win the war; c;
And then there is Mike, at the Com O
,rcial hotel, who carries your grips. W
Shorty, who waits on the table At 81
{ front, men are marching under a la
over of steel, and in the hell of she'll
Dlosions, with 60-pound packs on their a,
cks-so will you grumble If you have
carry your own grip from the train to
: taxi and from the taxi to the hotel al
'k-knowing that means a farmland
led to the food production army! And m
1T you think a girl can drive the taxi eli
!? And. furthermore, do you think 50
services of physical giant are re- w,
red to bring from the kitchen to your :.
lie grapefruit and cup of coffee VI
Item Private Jim Long, killed ali
DING over the top in charge that !,
aptured a valuable bit of German
rench. Strong men who toll Gu
ot, neither do they spin, but who 10
re star patrons of the Pastime pool an
all Farmers not far away, Ill
DESTROYS of producing tin
God for war winning, but unable to
nd farm labor
n every city there are men of fine
sique who parade up and down in
nj of costly hotels and elaborate Office +