The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-06-07
Town Men Called as Patriotic
Duty to Assist With
the Crops.
CAN'T WIN WITHOUT FOOD
Can't Produce Sufficient Food Unless
fiioh School Boys and Town Vol
unteers Are Used to Utmost
in Every Community.

(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultural
If one part of the western front fails
to hold, no matter at what cost, wnen
the command has been issued that no
ground must be given. the freedom OF
the world, your freedom, your famiiys
security, are imperiled-
If one state fails to hold its part of
the line back home-fails TO produce
its part of the food crops needed for
war purposes-the strength of the bat
tie front is weakened. And as II Is
weakened your home becomes less Sc
cure. That is the personal meaning OF
the situation.
The gravest period of human history
may be described in terms of popu-
lar American eXpressiOn-and prac-
tice. Civilization endures or declines.
freedom fiourishes or fails, just as that
line on the western front delivers the
goods" just as the production line
back home delivers the goods" just
as you deliver the goods"
Will You Deliver?
The western line is making delivery.
What about your state, your county.
your tOwn-yOu?
1t is necessary in 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 yOu-a town man
of past farm experience-are called,
as a patriotic duty, to work on nearby
farms this summer and fall at such
intervals and for such periods as local
conditions may require.
Which means that you--a farmer
must make the best of this emergency
help as q patriotic duty. We can't win
the war withWt food; we can't pro-
duce 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, idlers forced to go
to work, every communitys entire
energy turned to farm work during the
peaks" of cultivation and harvest.
Some town people have had this at
titude: "Oh, it is hard work on farms,
and the pay is smaller than / earn in
town. Why should 1 lay off from my
town job even for short time and do
farm work? Why can't some one else
do it? One person doesn't amount TO
much So what does it matter whether
I do any farm work in this county or
not?"
OF course. if you were the only per
son in all the United States to have
c,xII -, in,
!. would make no difference. But sup
pose the other fellow feels the saf1e
way. All it would amount to, if that
sort of thing continued, would merefy
be-our losing the war. That is the
| Importance of your part.
Some farmers have had this atti
tude: ooh, it is hard to make crops
with haphazard lSelp-bOys and town
volunteers. Why can't some Other
| farmers use that sort of help? One
| farm doesn't amount to much. What
| does it matter whether 1 keep up my
| production by using this emergency la
Dor or not?"
AS in the case of the town man i
would be trivial thing If you wc'
| the only one. But the other farmer
may conclude he is safe in 'layin:
| down on the job" since you are gOin;
| to do your part. A continuance of tina
| would merely mean-Our losing n
war; That is the importance of you
| part.
The only course that is safe and Ger
| tain is for every town person Of farm
experience to go to work on farms il
his community, when and where he Il
| needed during the heavy periods tAi
| summer and fall; fer every farmer t.