Newport daily independent., 1918-08-30
MOVEMENT TO AID
 WOUNDED AMERICAN
 SOLDIERS A GOOD ONE
Little Rock, Aug. 21, 1918.

man, Farmers Give-a-Bushel
 Fund, Newport, Ark.
 Dear Sir:
 Your commission from Governor Charles H. Trough as Chairman for the Farmers Give-a- Bushel War Fund, will be sent you in few days. It is within your province to draft as much assistance as may be needed for this work.
 This is farmers movement to help wounded American and allied soldiers, sailors and their families during and after the war, and to help returning soldiers and sailors to re- establish themselves satisfactorily in civil life; to induce our civilian population to back up the men in the trenches by putting the same quality of se!f-sacrifice and patriotism into their work at home that the soldiers are putting into their fighting abroad; to make America, when she welcomes home her returning sons, as worthy of love as are those battle scared heroes who are daring all in her defense; to help the soldier make the world safe for democracy" and to help the civilian make dem ocracy safe for the world.
 This movement is to continue dur ing the war and for as many as five years thereafter. Every farmer is to be solicited to Give-a- Bushel at har- vest time of the most abundant crop in his county, or the value thereof. For the most abundant crop there is always ready local market. The gift bushels are to be sold under the direction of the organization in the county, parish or community where donated. The funds collected will be deposited in local banks to be selected by the Managing Directors, to be for warded by them to the State Treas urer.
 The State Headquarters are at State Capitol, Little Rock. The offl- cers are as follows: Governor Chas. H. Brough, Chairman; Col. Il. l.. Remmel, Vice Chairman; Gen. Lloyd England, Treasurer; Hon. J. s. Speed, Secretary; c. K. Elliott, State Director. The Board of Trustees consists of 15 prominent citizens of the State and the Advisory Board consists of 35 men of prominence Tn the farming and business interests. I The National Organization now be- ing formed in Washington will be composed of such mes as Vice-Presl- dent Marshall, First Assistant Sec retary of Agriculture Carl Vroor- man. Speaker Champ Clark, William Kent, of the United States Tariff Commission; H. c. Stewart, chair man National Agricultural Advisory Committee, and other men of nation wide prominence. These National Trustees will organize this movement \ I in every State in the Union. This movement having been instituted py | Arkansas, this State is given the honor of putting it on first. All the other States will follow, and then af- ter the organization is completed m the United States it will be taken up by the allied nations of the world.
 Senator Robinson told President Wilson that Arkansas will give busf- els to the amount of a million dol lars. It is estimated that the entire United States will produce one nun dred million dollars. President Wii- son says: T have vision enough to see it's wonderful possibilities. This movement has the endorsement ana active support of every branch of our National and State Governments. Arkansas already has the honor o1 aaving returned four times as much flour to our government as all the other States combined, and now nav ing started this great work Tn ner borders the eyes of the Nation are upon us.
 If it were not for the drouth Ark ansas alone would produce million and a half dollars, but we are in the crip of the worst drouth the State has ever known. At the same time, we must not forget that we are Tn the worst war the world has ever known, and in all history men nave never been asked to face what our boys are facing lover There" and with what wonderful success they are doing their full duty. There IS no drouth or other condition that pre- vents them from giving their all, even life, if need be, and we must not let anything prevent us from dolng ~.x<<.- 1o,a If fborp 1S a