Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-12
(BY SHARLOT M. HALL) Special Correspondent for Weekly Continued from last week.)

Continued from last week)
 And how many times l have envied you your short hours of work when after hard days work I have to sit up half the night with the live stock. You would not last as long in a Western blizzard as 1 would last in a coal mine.
 But l have good comeback. My corn is still in the crib. I can use it to better advantage for fuel than you can use your coal for food. I do not say what l will do for 1t is against the law of our land to burn food stuffs. But if it comes to the sur vival of the fittest" we can all take hand. Still hoping that you will see your error and go to work and get me some coal before am obliged to burn up your food, l am,
 Yours Truly,
 FARMER JOHN"
 As a child ill Farmer Johns region l saw the big, long ears of yellow corn go into the stove to keep a brood of children warm-while some where far across our prairies other children were hungry for that corn, and coal lay in plenty. Then it was only distance and an undevcloped land that robbed both families of comfort-now it is the blind idiocy that seems to have the world ill its grasp.
 l am going to give you a follow-up sermon and tell you what we can all do to better things. Just now want to tell you straight from the shoulder what the food growers of the country are doing and will keep right on doing until the whole trouble is set tied sanely. They are all planting this year just what crops they can cultivate and harvest without hired help, or with very little hired help. Just what will give their own families plenty to eat but what 1t will not work them to death to take care of.
 All over the United States good land IS being seeded to grass and pasture crops and perishable food crops are being cut down-all be cause the twin problems of labor and of transportation for maturcd crops are in such state of uncer- tainty that no poor man dares risk planting big crop which he may have to let rot after it Is grown.
 Someday we will all know that the first business of good government is to see that everybody has enough to eat and that good food does not rot in fields and orchards in one state while in another people are hungry.
 Sometime these May Day terrorists may be forced to see that food grows out of the ground and that it takes plain old Elbow Grease to make it grow-and that any man who inter fercs with the transportation and dis tribution of food materials is a traitor not only to the prosperity of his country but to the progress of humanity.
 Every man who clamors for a six hour labor day at a dollar an hour ought to have to put in four more hours day under an armed guard pulling weeds and hustling a hoe in some potato patch or working in fields that produce actual food.
 Nobody but fool would expect to grow enough to eat on an Arizona farm with only six hours, or even eight, of labor a day. Here at Orchard Ranch everybody hustles from sunup 10 sundowu-and supper is always by lamplight-and break fast would be if we didn't do a half days work before breakfast.
 How 1 laugh at the visitors who lap up the good cream and fresh but ter and mashed potatoes with plenty of cream inside and then tell me how awful hard they work and are going to strike next week-eight hours fool ing the boss just wears man clear out by night.
 The matter with the whole world Is that nobody wants to do all honest days work any more-and even an International meeting of the aDle5t Walking Delegates alive can't barl- bQozlc old Mother Nature into grow ing a crop of corn and potatoes in d land of late frosts and early d:orths and army worms and cut worms and grasshoppcrs and seventeen year locusts on the eight hour shifl plan
 All this May Day fuss just comes to this-you cant get something out of nothing-you can't lnale EioIc food grew out of the gro md by the kind of talk that loafs around start ing all these strikes and leaving good food to rot on the ground while it spouts undigcsted dictionaries about the high cost of living.
 BY SHARLOT M. HALL)