The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Kansas Farmers
 Fix Honest Wage
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b7T1 HE great wheat growing state 0 of Kansas has a bumper crop this year and the farmers are organ ized for the purpose of solving the harvest labor problem. At at largely attended convention of wheat growers it was voted unanimously that there be maximum harvest wage of 45 cents an hour for the whole state for capable field hands, and that teams be paid for at the rate of 30 cents an hour.
 The convention voted to ask the food administration to allow the farmers a double portion of flour and flour substitutes during the harvest season in order that husbandmen would not have to spend "so much time going to town for their supplies"
 The railroad administration was urged to grant free transportation to farm labor, coming and going, but if this demand is not favorably consid- cred a passenger rate of one cent mile for harvesters is to be asked for. Other states in the grain belt are about to take action regarding wages similar to that inaugurated by Kansas. The wage scale should be high enough to attract laborers of farm experi- ence, even in extraordinary time, but w;th big crops in sight farm labor will scarcely be equal to the need unless every man and woman engaging in harvest service works overtime There is an imperative demand for foeG crops for the winning of the war and now that food production is com- ling up to expectations it is equally important that none be wasted. Every bushel of grain must be saved even if farmer boys" in the training camps have to be furloughed and sent home, or wherever else they may be needed for the harvest period. * # # The Germans are reported to be well pleased with the situation in the Ukraine. Doubtless an indication that the first dose of "kultur'' has been successfully administered despite the protests of the patient.
 | After announcing that he will stay in Washington and help to win the war. a congressman strikes an attitude and waits fer his admiring constituents tc applaud.
 "Ter your wife tonight that you have paid your income tax,' says the Pitts burg Dispatch. But will she be satisfied and not ask you what else you have done?
 While MT Sousa is busily composing a Made in. America" wedding march let us send up prayer that Mir. Der lin won't be prompted to syncopate 1t. ! # xs # I It doesn't seem possible. but June wedding in which the bridegroom wears an officers uniform creates more excite ment than the old-fashoned kind.
 ,. * # If Germany thinks she can terrorizs the American people by U-boat ''dem. onstration" along the Atlantic seaboard she had better guess again, * * # Camp Upton boasts of colored sol dier who is feet and Il inches high A specially constructed trench will hay, to be dug for that fellow.
 * s # In the meantime, has the ground-glas. scare been sufficiently pooh-poohed tt allay the fears of persons who had a. idea they were eating crushed laml chimneys at every meal?
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 Special uniforms don't seem to mak the Kaiser's shock troops any more in mune from machine gun bullets than tn, ordinary field gray.
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 That Washington preacher who dis cussed the subject, Are Old Maids Nui , sances or Blessings?' is evidently mai of no little courage.
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 According to a contemporary, troub,c in auto engines are yielding to womel |; mechanics. And they don't work witt hairpinsl either.
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 Although bit out of the way flask, showed tnat it thinks of the Red Cros lily sub, ,eribing four times its 2uctmsn