McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-02-08

the latest reports are tnat oo,UUO
American men are training for duty
in the air. and that soon there will be
of tons Of explosives
dropped upon the German armies,
munition factories and towns, and one
and a half million American soldiers
are now in the service. That spells
the doom Of the German government,
and they know it we'll and are getting
DO you know what kind Of people
we are getting ready to fight over
there? Read this extract from a let
ter shown me by high official of the
Government last week, sent him BY
an American officer; il was dated
Paris, France, November Is last:
To-day over 600 refugee children
arrived on train from over the bor-
der, turned loose by the unspeakable
Germans; between the ages Of three
and seven, nobody with them on the
train, where they had been for three
days. Young girls of thirteen come
in bringing German babies in their
arms, and many have their hands tied
up in bandages as if they had been
burned or hurt in some other way"
Now, there is no use in creating
feeling against the German people
themselves; some of them | have met
were as fine as any in the world. But
the whole world is down on the Ger
man soldier and his boss the Kaiser,
and we will certainly put the lid on
him and his slim-jim son the Grown
Prince for all time to come, so that
in very truth the world will be safe
for human freedom and self-goyern-
ment. The German people in Amer
lea are lining right up with our army
as rule. If they all knew what
their soldiers are doing over the
ocean they would nearly all be anx-
ious to get at those fellows who are
worse than wild beasts and who have
cast shame on the German name that
centuries will not wipe out.
Before closing. | want to say few |
words about the duty of McNairy |
county to itself and to the rest of the |
world. 1t has often been said that |
food will win this war, and it is
mighty close to the truth. Expert
snce has shown that hogs and corn
;an be raised in McNairy with good
management, as cheaply as anywhere |
N the world. Some men, like Glen,
Lea, keep up with the latest discov-
cries in agricultural science and add
some ideas Of their own, aud have
oeen raising hogs so ridiculously |
cheap that some people may not be-
ieve it.
There is plenty Of money, plenty Of
brains, and plenty of good, cheap
and in McNairy county to raise hogs
by the ten thousand, and the feed to
'atten them with. | have tried to
make this plain for some years, but
lew have seemed to pay any attention
20 my words. In actual practice,
where hogs we're raised largely on
pasturage Of Dwarf Essex rape,
1etch. clover, etc, twenty hogs were
raised to the acre, and all the feed
vas grown on the farm much cheaper
,han it could be bought. Mr.. Lea
told me he had raised hogs at a cost
IF three cents pound. Say it costs
Ten cents a pound now; figure at
twenty hogs Of $50 pounds each to
The acre. and 18 cents a pound (and
hey will 60 higher than that before
this war ends. At that rate, a man
with 80 acres in hogs would have a |
larger income than United States |
Congressman, and could hope to die |
with good conscience, Less than
81 900 would start a man in the busi-
ness. wish | were free here, had a |
little more money and little more
experience. Nothing could keep me
from hurrying back to old McNairy,
taking lessons in hogology from Glenn
Lea and Miles lnnan, and getting
rich and happy, while helping feed my
brother man. | would learn ali
could from the Government experts
at Washington as we'll as the McNairy
experts, start with few sows and a |
male or two and build up the business
from the bottom. In a few years,
with the help of those who know,
might have a 1000 acre ranch bring
ing in a a. .rter f a million dollars