Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-03-31
LET US EAT AND
THINK TOGETHER

\ OIL barbour county is tnab tney WOrk
too hard and too long hours and think
too little. We would be healthier,
weather. and wiser if we would di-
vide the day of "a yours into three
periods. hours for sleep, s hours for
resting, reading and thinking, and 8
hours for work. There will never come
time when we will not make mis-
takes but we would make fewer of
them if we did more hard thinking.
I-did-not- think, loses farmers thous-
ands of dollars. began to think a.
bout farming and before l got thru
thinking / evolved scheme if carried
out will increase linn & Morrison's in
come from 5000 TO $500 next year. /
thought hard and long but will it not
pay? Let me say here for fear my
readers do not get me. The scheme
did not involve the making of
"Moonshine" or the playing of poker.
Again, we do not TRACE enough with
each other. do not mean the trading
Of pocket knives but the trading of
ideas. In order to do this success
fully we must get together. Now
there is to be get-to-gether meeting
held at Philippi, on Saturday, April 2.
Every farmer who is ambitious to get
more out OF life and to improve his
firm, be there. If this were meet
ing of lawyers, doctors, merchants, or
preachers, every one of them would
be present. Our business is more
fundamental than all these others
combined, possibly the preachers, ex-
cepted. Let every farmer write out
the question in which he is most in
terested and bring it to the meeting.
Stewart Schoonover can tell you
how to grow potatoes. 0key Gamer
can tell you how to grow alfalfa, c. o.
Proudfoot can tell about sweet clover
and how to grow it, Ernest Young can
tell you how he makes money by keep
ing nothing but good cattle, Dowden
Zinn can tell you what he intends to
do with a piece of land that has a
lime stone requirement of seven tons
per acre which is the sourest land
that / ever heard of. David Lance
can tell you how to make money from
bees. Guy Williamson can tell you
how he paid for his farm by keeping
jersey cows and applying lime and
growing clover. Aldine linn can tell
you how much money he has made
this winter that he would not have
made had he not had silo. James S.
Polling can tell you how he keeps 120
cattle on farm where the former
owner could not keep 40. All the
fawhers around Nestorville and on
d9wn into the Cove can tell you how
Badly they need the good road COM
pleted from the Cove line to the
Bonica good road. If ! were to tell
you all about the farmers of Barbour
county the world would not hold the
books that it would take to contain
it. Yes, almost forgot Key Dicken-
son will be there and will tell you how
he felt last Sunday when he stood on
the floor and listened to the preacher
while he was pronouncing the mar
riage ceremony.
A way back in 1900 R. B. Smith
made suggestion at farmers meet
ing that has meant thousands of dol |
lars to this county. We would never
have had Street Fair that has meant
so much in social way as well as so
much prosperity if the farmers had
never congregated. All the farmers
enjoy the Farmers room in the court
house but please remember the idea
originated in a farmers meeting lin
the old court house. 1t was at a
Grange meeting in Morgantown that
farmer suggested the organization of
the Grange Mutual Fire Insurance
Company Of West Virginia and that
organization has saved the farmers
of Barbour thousands of dollars. The +
public veal of the county depends /
upon the citizens of the country get
ling together and discussing public
questions.
No one organization Of the county /
has accomplished SO much recently
for the people of the county as the
Kiwanis Club but in order to accom-
plish this good required that some
body make sacrifice. My dear read
ers, if you have never made any sacri-
flee for the good of Others you have no
right to claim to be real good citi-
zen. Christ made sacrifices from the
time He came into the world until He
assembled into heaven. Bear ye one
another's burdens and thus fulfil the
law of Christ.
If you will bring 3 question that
you are interested in and come to this
meeting with an open mind and you
tell me that you got nothing out Of
the meeting will agree to pay for
your dinner.
Farmers, put on your Sunday cloth
es and meet me at the Philippi high
school gymnasium on Saturday, at IL
o'clock sharp.
w. II. ZINN.