Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — The Man With the Hoe. [ARTICLE]

The Man With the Hoe.

In the poem that caught general attention a few years ago the man with the hoe was presented as a stunted object, a pathe/ic failure, without reward for ceaseless hard work, a creature who never had a chance to know the-joy of living. It was a fafse note at the time, but suggested a subject worthy of thought. The national Secretary of agriculture has reviewed the food situation and he declares: “The farmer who makes five bushels of grain grow where three grew before contributes as much to victory and the future peace and security of the world as any- man in the trenches.” So runs the argument everywhere in a world crisis in which energetic, practical action Is a grim necessity. A danger must be overcome lest it overcome civilization. The real man with the hoe is now in evidence. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.