The Wahpeton times., 1918-07-18

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HELP IN HARVEST
Men from towns and cities soft
town men, if you please will
harvest the great grain crop OF
Richland County, and the west.
Of course. it couldn t be done!
The professional pessimists per-
sistently proved very conclusive
ly that it was utterly impossible
and altogether ridiculous even to
attempt it. clown riff-raff and
soft pen-pushers for the farms !,
they sneered. Why the farmers
won't stand it. And the town peo.
pie can't stand it! Dear! Dear /!
What an Inefficient government {.
Why doesn't Washington press a
plety' of permanent, experienced
farm labor to the farmers?"
But, strangely enough, the far
mers did stand for it, and strange
ly enough the worn weaklings did
stand the hard work. Perhaps
they hadn't read the lamentations
Of the Can 't-Do-it- Crawd and
didn't know they were foredoom-
ed to failure. Perhaps they were
more interested in whipping the
kaiser than in hearing reasons
why they were sure to fall down
on the job. Perhaps, being plain,
everyday Americans who ares 0
absurd as to have assurance they
can do ANYTHING, they Just
went ahead with confident calm.
ness and-did it! Really, it is too
bad (for the Huns) that these
Kansans would not listen to the
righteousness of the impossible
Squad-so willing to show that it
just couldn't be done. What d
pity to hurt Hindenburg's feel.
ings by doing it, even if it was
Impossible.
The latter part of May Kansas
began to put into effect on q
wholesale basis the program which
Tor many months the United
States Agricultural Department
has been urging in every com
munity-that town men 90 IL
workin agricultural territory adj
jacent to them during cmergen
ton or harvest. Kansas started
an intensive campaign for the ell
rollment of town and city volun
tecrs for harvest labor. Kansa,
made ready to shut up shop dur
ing the harvest period. Kansas pre-
pared to subordinate every activ
ity, for few weeks, to the one
supreme job of saving the bic
wheat crop. From every town AM
city in the state. men, women and
boys, in such numbers as were
necessary. went to the fields: the
men to work as harvest hands, the
women to cook for the volunteer
army Of harvesters, the boys to fl.
in wherever they could best serve
This Kansas harvest army of near
ly 100000 men did the job. All
the outside help that could be Sc
cured was used. Of course, but by
far the largest part Of the helr
came from right at home the
soft town men" who just sim
ply couldn't do it, and who would
not be tolerated by the farmers
And in just the same way, the
war-winning crops will be harvest.
ed in Richland county and in ev.
cry county in every state. when
necessary and where necessary
crops will be saved. OF course, il
can't be done! For that we have
the word of many eminent critics
Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture and the Govern.
in general. No doubt the Kaiser
himself, me myself I, has said so
and surely the Crown Prince will
sustain the statement if further
authority be necessary. It just
can't be done! But the simple
weaklings of Kansas seem to pay
the-shoulder, get-there-or:bust Am
erican common sense than they do
more attention to straight from
to Prussianish "can't do it, elan
trap and to sky-scraper editory Of
Literary journals dc luxe who
write prettily phrased editorials
giving pletbcras of peevish rca-
sons why failure is certain. Kan
!sas seems to like to do better than
to listen to why it is impossible to
do. Kansas just goes ahead and
harvests the wheat anyhow!
This county will do likewise.
True, it can't be done! The faint.
hearted and the Hun-hearted will
tell you so on every hand-so. do
it!
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