Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1918 Page: 7 of 8
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In spite of the best efforts of the
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Production Campaign by D B Osborne
• One of your most pressing prob-
l lems and one to be acted upon without
delay, is the matter of obtaining your
fertilizer
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TOR EACH COMPANY OF
FIGHTERS THERE SHOULD
RR A THRIFT ORGANI-
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which to feed and clothe our army
and navy: the armies an i navies of
our Allies -our own people at home
and the peoples of our Allies in Eu-
rope.
Failure would bring disaster to our
army and an untimely and unneces-
sary death to many of our boys who
have gone forth to battle in defense
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from every
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of our liberty.
But, Mr. Farmer, we know that un-
der the great responsibility f
on you by our Government, that there
is no such word as "fail” in your vo-
cabulary and that nothing short of in-
surmountable providential causes could
prevent your answering fully to this
responsibility.
However, maximum crops can only
be had bv the judicious and intensive
use of fertilizers. good seed, thorough
cultivation, and labor-saving machin-
ary. _____
“FORGET SELF;
BE AMERIGANS,
DO YOUR PAR"
—William G. McAdoo.
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‘La
s lied
erasnisioratime when the farmer
should be sure to use these three erop
makers, to 'he fullest extent, to on
set the labor shortage’ -
The public should read the newspapers for their
own protection and in order to keep posted upon all
changes and modifications of the food conservation
law.
ie provide a meth,
the small investor
savings at the im-
ice of his country.
T
“Ginger cars,” decorated with
war savings signs, carrying lit-
erature and a flying squadron
speaker, are now being sent to
every town, community and
schoolhouse in their counties
by the chairmen of several
South Texas subdivisions. At
■ each place visited literature is
distributed, agencies are des-
j ignated, posters are hung up
in the stores and public places
and the speaker addresses the
people and the school children.
three horrible years.
“Every man, woman and
child in this country who wants
to serve can serve and each can
serve in a very simple and ef-
fective way. Every twenty-
five cent piece invested in war
savings stamps is a loan to
your Government and every
twenty-five cent piece will do
something to help.’ — From
speech delivered at W ashing-
ington by William G. McAdoo,
secretary of the United States
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clothing!" . ..
Tin best wav to economize labor
on the farm today is to produce mere
per acre. The southern farmer will
act most unwisely if he tries to cui:
vile too much land with the present
sappiy of labor. A better plan would of help
be not to increase the acreage devoted ;
to cultivated crops, but to produes
more per acre, by the use of fembz
• manure, good seed and improved
nachiaers, all of which will save la
The Government wants thrift
and war savings stamps sold in
every store, in every bank and
in all places frequented by the
public. To become an agent it
is only necessary to obtain an I
application blank from the
' Countv Chairman or State Di-
rector of the National War
Savings Committee, sign it and .
mail to the State Director at
Dallas, Tex. Stamps may be
obtained from the Federal Re-
serve Bank or through the lo-
cal bank or postofice. In lie-
coming an agent there is no
loss liability as the thrift
stamps are always convertible
into War Savings Stamps
which are worth more every
month and can be cashed at
the postoffice at any time at
what they cost plus interrst.
than through the columns of the newspapers
Read these articles upon food conservation and food
production. Don’t skip in reading.
If you don’t remember or haven t a good memory
__cut out the items and save them for continuous ref-
erence.
Use the newspapers to keep posted. Mails are slow.
The story is always in the paper before it reaches our
district and county administrators. You owe it to
yourself to keep posted. You will then know the law
and be able to live up to the law. Remember, if you
violate the regulations you are subject to i fine of
<5000 or two years' imprisonment, or both, and ig-
norance of the law is no excuse.
Read the newspapers. They are the voluntary dis-
tribution agents of the government.
, E A. PEDEN,
Federal Food Administrator for Texas.
D. B. OSBORNE ant crops
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to capacity.
Today fertilizers arc cheaper than
farm crops or farm labor. A bale of
placid ’cotton, a bushel of corn oats or
wheat, will buy more pounds of fertil-
izers now than ever before, hence to
assure the performance of a patriotio.
duty with great, profit to yourself, or-/
der your fertilizers promptly so that
you may be sure to get them. And
when you get them, use them with
the greatest degree of intelligence-
Satisfactory results are bound to fol
low—both to you and to the Govern
meet
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meals," so to speak..are he. woeek Is to be wheatiess. Breakfast through-
day- supper thoughout border Ehat th. housewife may have
outtteiweeknd. simpie calendar of days is -u- by E A
Pedem Federal Food Administrator for Texns:___
Dinner
35*2322228 tril, -s tilere is «1 Lo suS-
322528882322223 tain the nien wio shoot the
guns. throw the Erenace;,
make the dasi ove i the top ana acrcs no man 5
land. . . .
The rise and fall of ministries, the sinking
or transports, th. devastation of communitiez
through explosions and fires .ill are redole
with tragedy that staggers the imagination.
But let there he an absence of bread, a re-
str ilion of ur«r beyona what thsbody.nrads
..nd craves; let the meat ration a 'd room"
diet; let hunger beI -me ramranand.ramn
pregnant, and there is no caluamty K
so awesome, so appalling
if there is to be a sporadic saving of Fond
and not a constant one t so much has he
nemy been aidea. To deny oneseir of tars
needed by the anlies and our own men in armS
is not a sacririce. but an opportunity to be "
real service.
If there are the thoughtless ami theheedes:
let them now be appraised 01 an attitude:' ™
dissimilar lo an alien who openly espouse
•I duse M the valerand, the business '
adapting oneself to substitute foods is not re.-
ommended, it is imperative.
Let there be no minimizing of the pan that
the Housewife plays in her kiu h.-r, He, wore
is now as sacred as that of the piles. .
altar.
yet there be no minimizing of the war menus
in hotel, restaurant. vullman dining car and
boarding house; it is the performance of a fine
duty in a fine and splendid Wa-
yet there be no hesitancy in learning to SAY:
I wll do with less sweet; I will do with les.
„ at I will do »ith less wheat bread and
Sadly eat of the in a a or the ■ orn 1 wi '• eat
egs of the fats width is the body fuel .01
armics; I will henceforth < hink.in terms ! the
nation, and no longer in terms of mye
in the name of this frreland .ours, 1 earn,
agiiv petition the people of lex is to - '
5X of whal is Meeded of them to pen their
, v..g to the world situ/ -n as it now rxistn
t i throuh no act of selfishness cater. -0 ET‘
ime omrns wii II ■ "I do no other than hrin
disaster to the individual and ruin to the com
monwealth
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SM A tire country
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ington has set March 15 as th®
day for the count and it is.de*
sired that every Loone Star
dweller be enrolled as an active
war savings club member by
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“We have a great deal of
money to raise and it cannot be
raised by tankers alone.
“The banks of this country
have not the resources to sU8-
tain America’s needs in this
war and to enable America to
extend to our Allies who are
fighting with us the essential
aid which they must have to
enable them to go on with th®
war.
“The rich people of this
country alone cannot do it. The
men of this country alone can-
not do it. The women of this
country alone cannot do it.
“But all of us, the people of
the United States, by disre-
yarding partisanship, forget-
ting selfish interest, thinking
only of the supremacy of the
right and determined to vindi-
cate the majesty of our ideals
and to secure the safety of
America and civilization. can
do this great and splendid
piece of work.
“Our business these days is
to think only in terms of
America: to forget self; to for-
get ambition; to forget parti-
sanship; to forget everything
except right and justice and
triumph for America’s cause
and the suppression forever of
those infamous things which
have cast civilization itself into
the darkness during these last
the World War— ---------------
The fight of free- materials for making fertilizers ear
dom and democra- scarce and high in price. rherefor:
cv against German it is all the more necessary that whal
autocracy iertilizers are to be distributed. shoul
Upon you is/be used upon soil that has received the
placed the grave very best preparations the firmer is
responsibility ot capable of giving
producing abund l rhe tobilization of our army, re:
with quiring a maximum movement of
troop trains and supply trains, has ov-
ertaxed the capacity of our railroads
a never before and in order for fer
liliz rs to be distributed this season,
the movement must of necessity, be
gin early and the unloading of car:
at destination be done with utmost
despatch. Every car must be loaded
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Meatless
Wheatieas
Wheakless
Wheat) ess
HELr UU1 D * ddproduction campaign by J. N. Harper
Written for the Texas Food and Feed ainounl of money ex
nd anllabortngorunamncnt
sough' after com 0 q »4« 00 The plant food in this
moditiinAmerFe quanuty when applied to threracret
ers of the South poune of -eed Thelintoa and Ph
af X per "0 — • -
atlon.
^economical of so 1st ne ner cent on his invest-
J N HARPER valuable a com in labor, and supposing 'hat he
modity as labor. It must not b< .Wan. per day for labor. the
ed. Now is not the tune to et. p lo 54500 invested in fertilizer, when in
labor to clean out fence cornersand vested in labor, would net hiu 146.00:
to do other kinds of the less produc invested iu fertilizer it
tire work. Then must beno lost m0, gives lil a net increase of $229.00
lion Every lick must be can be seen the tremendous
count in answering the call of our n» Tavantae. or supplementing labor
tion and her allies, who ur cal in® oio with liL , al applicat ions of plan' fool
to the farmer "Give us .re “ ' Likewise an improved piece of mi
chinery that makes it possible to cul
rivate’an acre of cotton or corn with
; perhaps half the labor ordinarily eni
,love 1. and cultivate it better. should
be looked lo at this time as a soum ”
facing the labor shortage
"Good seed of a strain known to do
well in a community will do much to-
ward increasing yields, without an tn-
(149. g?
abrol 1
—e8Acf " ’
That Texns
shall not be
classed among
• the lagging
* states, all for-
* ces are now be-
* ing concentrate
8 ed upon the or-
5 ganization 0 f
war savings e0-
cieties. Wash-
There can be no higher
consec ition of the Amer,
can citizen who is not an1i
ually engugecl in serving the
« olors than a genuine r* ■
sponse to the cause of food
saving.
Enough mov ments have
been la d. The thin* now
needec is team work to fin-
ish what has been begun
K< od saving takes second
to no issue, unless it is the
igguc of the men in arms.
XII th* weaith in the world
is no we It h if there is n0
food; ane no front can be
। , hi and n battles be fought
that date. N
"For every company of S0-
diens on the battle field or in __
training there should be a war —
savings society here at home.
says Louis Lipsitz, State Direc-
tor of the National War Sav-
ings Committee. “Let’s make
every fighting man know and
feel’that he has this country
behind him, backing him up to
the last ditch. Only by becom-
ing a war savings club mem-
her and investing regularly and
(^Uelligently in the little Gov-
ernment bonds will we be per-
forming in part our duty as
true, patriotic Americans.
“By enrolling ourselves as
aetive members of war savings
societies we wil be helping the
men in the fighting ditches of
Flanders, making it possible for
them to do their job thorough-
ly, quickly and with greater
safety to themselves. Ever)
household should be a thrift
center, every citizen a saver
and a society member. It’:
Mme to quit talking and get
down to usiness. The job of
the stay-at-home is to increase
the efficiency of the fighting
machine and aid the Govern-
ment in winning the war it’s
the least they can do.
“That Texans shall not be
dassed as slackers it is our
personal duty to see that we
have joined a war savings dub
and have gotten someone etc
to enroll. The Ides of March
must not find Blue Bonnet
State resident* classed ns non-
Ameri- ins."
War savings societies may
have as few as ten members
and as many as desired. There
are two officers for each socie-
ty, a president and a secretary.
When it is desired to organize -
a society the County Chairman
of War Savings, or the State,
Director, Dallas, Texas, should L
be asked to supply a sufficient
number of postcard pledges to
enroll the members and a war
savings society application. In
Ml joining a society the sole rer
5• quirement is that the applicant
shall sign a pledge to be thrifty
and save as he can.
The purpose of war savings
societies are:
1. To awaken a realization
among men, women, and chil-
dren of America that in their
hands lies the key to the suc-
casful prdsecution of the war;
that they can render the most
far-reaching patriotic service
through refraining from the
purchase of unnecessary artic-
les, confining themselves to
the use of such things as are
necessary for health and effi-
ciency, thus releasing labor and
materials for the support of
our armies in the field: that
there is not enough labor in
the United State® to produce
the great variety of articles
needed to support our soldiers
and at the same time provide
all the comforts and luxuries
we enjoyed before the war.
2. To lay the foundation for
thrift and economy throughout
the United States and to bring
home ‛v the people the fact
that intelligent and consistent
L: saving if not a dry problem in
Bk economiss, budnis the most vital
toward personal success.
Ee. To obtain for the (overn-
u, ’ a large amount of money
• the sale of Thrift
E and War-Savings
m - little Government
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■Ml i the world, and at
Written for the Texas Food and Feed
__ Mr. Farmer:
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1918, newspaper, March 1, 1918; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1582042/m1/7/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .