The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-03-13
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TEAM WORK

zate TEAM WORK
No doubt many who are reading
this article were ball players in the
days of yesterday. Do you remember
i how some, of the players ON your
team played individual" ball? After
the game was over they would strut
around and say: Il made hit and
did not make an error" One of the
reasons they did not make an error
was they would accept no chance
that was difficult to handle. They
would rather lose the game than to
make an error. The ball team made
up of individual players does not win
as many games as the one where all
pull together. Success lies not in the
work of some one superplayer, but in
the work of all members of the team.
Team work is absolutely necessary
this year, if you hope to have an in.
creased food production. Farmers
must cooperate with each other.
The other day saw a heavy draft
team which could not start q load
which 4 a smaller team soon after
pulled. First one AID then the other
of the large horses. would start. Each
seemed good .puller, and IL they had
hit the collar at the same time would
have moved the load. Say boy, you
should have seen that smaller team
pull! They started off slow, but. to-
gether, and when they Strengthened
out those heavy tugs, something Just
had to come. 1t was an exemplffica-
tion of team work, believe me. 1,
The great problem of 1913 Is to raise
fc ~ fnnA c01AinHC
European civilians and the people at
home. We must raise sufficient to
send abroad as well as to have enough
at home to feed those who are keep
ing the home fires burning.
The next time you hear 4 good band
playing, listen to the music. You will
notice they play together. That is
what makes q good band. 1t is team
work. Get the habit. -
HER TARGET. 4
There is no other life where one
can use independence of thought and
action in establishing happy, pros
porous home like on the farm" says a
farmers wife. Il ~, -.
The farmers wife is privileged to
aim at a target. 1t is her ambition to
make farm life so attractive that the
boy and girl will think it the best OF
ali and care not f3g for the king
on his throne" The mother. to q
great extent, shapes the children's love
Or dislike for the farm. She not only
teaches them to work; but also looks
edetr pleasures She will study
aaeAr dispesiti0ns and diacOveE, which
asks are burden and will help to
make such tasks lighter. III .s
The farmers wife knows the farm
now can have every convenience OF
the city. She knows the professions
are, over crowded; they require years
Of. specializing. She knows that at
least twice as many merchants, fail
as do farmers and there is no; bust.
ness that has half the chances of sue
cess that the farmer has, The farm
ers' wives target is: I'VE will make
our children see these things" f%s
Has Made Fortune and Could DO It
Again. ~
(From the Literary Digest:)
When the fighters return from the
battlefields of Europe to face the per
ipd Of reconstruction that must follow
In the wake of war, many OF them
will have been inoculated with the
germ OF "the open" 1t ! s suggested
that, for future reference, they paste
in their service hats this story OF
Peter Hopley, who has made fortune
by farming. 1t becomes worth while
to consider Mr.. Hopley's experience
for although he is seventy now. he
says that if he was twenty-five, he
could start right in and duplicate that
million in the same way. He declares
the opportunities forEthe farmer are
Sreater today than ever before.
%.H He was only nineteen, when" he left
his fathers farm in Iowa to push west
md Of this period of hisysl{e, he
writes as follows .sthes.E&tm and
F1reside:
aE5.For fear anyone may think that l
started out in life with an inheritance
Or did not make every cent possess
BY my own unaided efforts. will say
that the first winter ! was in the west
Iaworked for my board. worked out
west for five years. They were five
wears Of the very formative period of
my life. The gold excitement was at
IT'S height. Men were driving daily
over the richest soil the sun ever
alone on, to seek rocky soil where
they hoped, often against hope. to
strike it rich in gold.
.,rhey passed up gold-mines in the
fertile fields of Iowa, Missouri, Kan
sas and Nebraska, to starve and die
ia the rocky Businesses of Colorado.
and Nevada. But the rush was on and
joined in with the rest. I became
freighter from the western end and !
have driven everything from Con.
cord coach to pack mule.
s'.After that first winter at working |
Tor my board earned $35 month, at !
the hardest kind of. hard work. /
ffeighted from; the western end of the |
Union Pacafic, as it was being ex-
tended then, on to Denver, then to Kit |
Carson, and through all of southeast
eTn Colorado, and down into :. New
Mexico. 1 hauled railroad ties for the
Union Pacific, extension from Denver
10 Kit Carson, $50 miles, and fights
With the Indians were a mater Of al.
most daily occurrence.
& The wages were small but I saved
lllt u earned. That has been my prac-
ice all my life. We paid twice as
much for things in those days as we
70 nowadays, butt needed and bought
little. The result was that when
.a,ff tho fPeiRhtinH business after five