Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — Page 2
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FARMERS AND VICTORY LOAN
(By G. I. Christie, assistant secretary of agriculture) Will farmers buy Victory loan bonds? What the farmers will do In buying the coming Victory loan bonds may be judged from what the farmers have done in connection with the several movements inaugurated during the war. The farmers of the United States, in response to a call for men for the army and navy, gave more than. 1,000,000 boys. In addition to this, the farmiers gave 1,500,000 trained farm workers to the essential war industries, such as ship building, munition manufacture, etc. After giving up this large body of workers, the farmers then produced (in 1918) 35,000,000 acres more crops than ever produced in any previous year. They gave a surplus supply of food, which has fed the hungry people of Europe and helped win the great victory for democracy and liberty. It is also interesting to note that the agricultural counties in Indiana were the first to go “over the top’’ in the sale of Liberty bonds in the past loan. Fanners are interested when approached and requested to buy bonds, in knowing something of the future demands for agricultural products that they may decide something as to their income and just how extensively they may buy Victory bonds. A study of the European situation indicated that
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there will be need for every pound of food that can be produced on American farms this year, and that farmers will be given a fair price for their products. When the armistice was signed it was thought that the armies would be demobilized and that the . people of Germany, , Austria Hungary and the other countries of the central empire would return and take up work in large numbers on the land. There was every reason to believe' that the peasants would cultivate the soil and produce a large share of the needed food for this coming year. In this respect there has been, much disappointment. Due to the unsettled conditions and unstable government, the people have been slow to take up any regular occupation. In some of these districts, where there have been many large land holdings, the people are demanding that these be broken up into smaller tracts and distributed. .Many thousands of peasants are leaving the mountain country, where they have been producing livestock, and are coming now down into the valley country, where they hope to get a share of the rich agricultural lands. The peasants on these lands are slow to plant and cultivate, thinking that they may lose their labor and their crops, if the land is given to others. The result of this disturbance is that food production will be materially decreased. .In other territory, due to a lack of transportation and seed, crop production will be very much reduced. Conditions everywhere are sudh that there is little hope to have a normal production. With the disturbance in the country, it is found that the people are now flocking in large numbers to the city. In 1914, the city of Budapest had a population of about 800,000 while the population today is more than 2,000,000. The city of Vienna in the past few months has increased in population more than 1,000,000. During nor'mal times the city of Vienna received 900,000 litres of milk daily. At this time this has been reduced to 90,000 litres of milk, which is given by cards only to babies and Invalids. The first American flour is reported to have reached Germany within the past few days. This flour has been sold in halfpound lots for 2.15 marks. This would be at the rate of about 51c a pound. Other foodstuffs are selling at unusually high prices, all of which indicates that the supply of food is far from meeting the demand. The alleged surplus in India and Australia does not exist. Instead of India having 200,000,000 bnshels of wkeat for export that country must have a like amount to fight off famine. Much of the Australian surplus rotted or was destroyed by rats on the wharves in huge piles into which it had been thrown after the elevators had been filled. Since spring and seed time is fast passing, it would seem that large amounts of American food must find their way to these European countries. Farmers should be directly interested also in the Victory loan sor v the reason that they are receiving large and direct benefit. The recent congress appropriated! SIOO,-
THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT
000.<*00 to buy food for th« hungry people of EuApe. This has taken a large eupply of the surplus foodstuffs, and has made a strong market for agricultural products. Recently England placed an order for 200,000,000 bushels of wheat with this country for the reason that credit could be obtained. This credit was made possible by the money furnished the government through the sale of Liberty bonds. It is readily seen that the sale of these large supplies of wheat and meat is making a place and assuring a larger market for the largo wheat crop now in prospect, and for the large production of wheat and dairy products which is bound to come <from the farms this year. Each year farmers borrow money for ■ buildings, machinery, seeds, fertilizer, equipment and other necessaries. in making these loans it is usually necessary to give security In the way of joint notes, chattel mortgage or other satisfactory collateral. When a fanner has Liberty bonds he can take these to the bank, secure a loan, carry out the operations for which the money is secured and in due time make bis payment to the hank. All this lime the bonds have been drawing interest, and the difference he has paid for the loan Is very small. Liberty bonds represent the best possible security, as their borrowing capacity surpasses any other kind of collateral on earth. Farmers are among the most patriotic of American people. They are supporting and serving the government in every big move. By investing in Victory bonds they are rendering a patriotic service and at the same time helping themselves to do their own work In a better way.
PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON
I wonder why, when spring is here, the picnic germ takes hold, and we streak off to woodlands drear, to eat our victuals cold. We know that picnics are a frost, a burden and a blight; they merely anger and exhaust, and put us in a plight. It always rains on picnic day, and soaks us to the skin; if there are rivers on our way, we’re sure to tumble in. We eat stale bread and sodden eggs, and many a clammy thing, and crawling bugs swarm up our legs, and bees and hornets sting. A weeping sky above us bends and sheds its drizzling goods, and. we swear vengeance on the friends who took us to the woods. “We’re done with picnics!” we exclaim, when homeward we repair; “the picnic is a ghastly game that fills man with despair. And though we live a thousand years, we ne’er again shall go, to drink sour milk and ginger beers, where elms and willows grow.” W>e are in earnest in our vow, our words are stern and blunt; you couldn’t /drag us with a cow to any woodland stunt. Bdt when the spring in gay attire has decked all we feel again the fool desire" to picnic in the woods. We sternly try to crush it down, and from temptation flee; we won’t be dragged away from town, where all our comforts be. At last we hesitate and yield, and think it no disgrace, and walk through swamp and fen and field, to reach the picnic place. And then we have no fun at all; it’s wearisome and flat; I wonder why wc always fall for such a game as that. 1 wonder why we always start a garden with such vim, and labor till we break a heart and dislocate a limh. We know that in a week or three we'll sicken of the task, and then we’ll loaf beneath a tree and 101 l around and bask. I wonder why a hen has wings, since it can’t wish to soar; 1 wonder, oh, so many things! The list would be a bore.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE
Edwin W. Miller et ux to Mary L. Wiseman, April 17, Its 1,2, 3, bl 3, Rensselaer, Columbia add, 3670. Eilert Rostrup et ux to Edward Pierson et al, Meh. 29, pt nw me, 17-31-7, 39 acres, Keener, $2,400. Alberda Candice Collins et baron to Reuben C. Yeoman, April 19, e% se, 28-29-7, 80 acres, Newton, $6,600. Emory Barry to Joel Jernberg, April 18, nw, nw swr, e% sw, nw se, nw sine, 9-31-7, 360 acres, Keener, $ 1 Buy your typewriting tablets at The Democrat office.
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WOMEN WILL RECEIVE MANY VICTORY LOAN MEDALS
A* In Former Liberty Loans, Woman of District Will Do Great Work in “Carrying On" to Success the Victory Liberty Loan. Ten thousand medals made from captured German cannon ore to be distributed t<T women Victory Loan workers throughout the states of Illinois, lowa. Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin ut the close of the coining campaign. 'Die United States treasury depart; nu iit has taken this means of showing Its appreciation of the work done by thousands of volunteer workers lq Liberty Loan drives. The medals are to be made from German cannon captured by American troops at Chateau Thierry. These cannon have been melted, anti the metal rolled Into sheets, from which the medals are made. This badge will be the first of its kind to be distributed In the United States since thi/ war. It will be about tlie size of a half dollar, and will contain on one side a reproduction of the'United States treasury building, with the words. “Victory Liberty Loan,” and on the other side the certification of the work done In the Victory Loan campaign with a blank space In which the name of the recipient will be engraved.
Women all over the country, have shouldered a large share of the work In preceding loan campaigns, and the roll of honor undoubtedly "k’lll be Just as large In the coming Victory Loan. In the last drive more than $3,000,000 w as subscribed in amounts of SI,OOO or less, much of which the women’s committees were responsible for. Victory Liberty Loan workers will Include many prominent women from this as well as from other districts. Mrs. G. Edgar Allen of Detroit has been appointed state chairman for Michigan. Other state chairmen working under the leadership of Miss Grace Dixon, woman’s director for the Seventh Federal Reserve district, are: Mrs. Howard T. Willson, chairman for Illinois; Mrs. James Mariner, Wisconsin; Mrs. F. H. McCulloch, Indiana, and Mrs. W. W. Marsh. lowa. These are only a few of the many women who wilj lay aside social and business responsibility for patriotic service during the Victory Liberty Loan campaign, and who will be among the thousands of recipients of the Victory Liberty Loan medals. HELP "FINISH THE JOB."
PIANO OR LIBERTY BONDS
Successful Business Woman Says She Cannot Buy Luxuries Until Victory Liberty Loan Is Triumphantly “Put Over." “No. I haven’t bought my piano yet. I was just about to buy one when the first Liberty loan was announced, and I couldn’t make it seem patriotic to spend for purely personal purposes the money that might also help the government. I felt Just, the same way about the second Liberty loan and the third and fourth, and of course I shan’t think of buying a piano now until the Victory loan has been triumphantly ‘put over.’ I couldn’t make It seem right.” The speaker last year “wrote” over SIOO,OOO worth of life Insurance business. This year she expects to attain a $200,000 total, having already $146,000 to her credit since last July, when the current “insurance club year” started. Oh, yes, she’s a real woman! Her name is Maud M. Freeman and she’s known to thousands of Chicago business men and women. She could have bought a piano several times over and still have done her duty by herself and her country in the way of buying Liberty bonds. But—her full duty, as this patriotic and successful citizen sees it, means helping on the work of the United States government in every possible way. She does her duty in the way of War Savings stamps also, to say nothing of Thrift stamps. The latter she uses as tips when traveling, etc. Last
Christmas she used them, almost exclusively, for presents for children, young people, intimates. Next Christmas she plans to do the same, while all through the year Thrift stamps will serve her, whenever possible, as “small change’’ or currency. “No Investment possibly could be so safe or so desirable as United States •government securities,” says the woman, whose generous Income tax was paid cheerfully and without a murmur, because “I’m so glad to have been able to earn so good an income.” HELP “FINISH THE JOB.” The money to be raised by the Victory Liberty loan already has been spent. It furnished the “punch" that won the war and saved the lives of 100,000 of America’s bravest boys. It is this unshed blood you are paying for when’you subscribe to the Victory Liberty loan.. The war is not over, and our duty to support our forces is not over until they are back home again. The Victory Liberty loan is to bring them back —to finish the job.
We are still the world’s Big Brother Stand back of the Victory Libert? loan.
£2 'ft | “ Make this H j Secure”l j That was Marshal Foch's message not many W days ago and Foch knows the danger of Teutonic treachery as it is given to but few men to know. fW Is Peace certain ? " Don’t be too sure,” says Foch. But, to make it secure, let’s finish the job— |ra buy to your limit I tea U| Victory Liberty Loan Committee Thit tpace contributed by W. J. WRIGHT Furniture and Undertaking RENSSELAER, INDIANA
ALL SET FOR BIG LOAN DRIVE
Five States in Seventh District Ready to Put Victory Liberty Loan Over. WORKERS ON THEIR TOES Confident Americans Will Carry Through the Campaign for Funds in a Way of Which the Nation Will Be Proud. The preliminary publicity campaign for the Victory Liberty loan has resulted In great activity throughout the five states in the seventh federal reserve district, and in every county of these states the, war loan organization workers have been busy day and night with the preparation to make a success of the coming loan. With the formal opening of the loan drive only a short time ahead, efforts are being redoubled, and the apathy of a few weeks ago has been dispelled by the aggressive campaigning methods
adoptedIn each division of the district the state speakers’ bureaus have arranged state-wide tours for speakers of state and national reputation. Large and enthusiastic meetings have been held daily and nightly for some time past and every day before the launching of the drive on April 21 will be filled with activity and aggressive work. The heads of the state departments have made out schedules for leading speakers, and from the meetings already held there appears to be no lack of enthusiasm, contrary to the expectations of some of the state leaders. In addition to the whirlwind oratorical campaign schedule in all of the states, tours of the war exhibition trains, tanks and band and drill squads are now being made. The war exhibition trains will travel through every county in each state in the interest of the war loan organization, and the people will have an opportunity of viewing several carloads of war material, including tanks, cannon, airplanes, all kinds of ammunition, and many trophies captured from the Germans by the American expeditionary forces. These .trains will be accompanied by a detail of returned soldiers. At most of the places at which these trains will stop special Victory Liberty loan meetings have been arranged by the local committees, and in most instances speakers of wide repute will make t},ddr esses.
A feature of the work through the district has been special county meetings of the war loan organization workers. In some instances the workers of several counties have held joint meetings. At all of them the ways and making the campaign a
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rousing success ‘w?* dfscoaved, and wherever possible, the state director of sales, or some other representative of the state or district organization, has been present to give the local workers the benefit of his wider experience. Illinois reports indicate - the - workers are on their toes in readiness for the real campaign to start, as they are confident they will repeat their achievements of the previous popular loan campaigns. The state will be covered by the war exhibition trains, by leading speakers and a military or naval band. A lively and enthusiastic campaign has been under way in Michigan for some time. State officials have been on the Job under the leadership of State Director of Sales Frederick R. Fenton. Every county has been thoroughly organized, and reports are optimistic. County meetings have been largely attended, and at the public meetings held so far there has been no lack of enthusiasm. Every county In the state will be visited by the new United States army tanks. Great Interest is being displayed in these Instruments of modern warfare. In conjunction with the speaking campaign, lowa towns and cities will be visited by a war exhibition train similar to those touring other states, and there will be a separate tour of a band and drill squad from the Great Lakes Naval Training station. As in other states, the county meetings have been well attended by the local workers, and public meetings have shown no lessening of enthusiasm as compared to previous loans. Notable speakers are touring the state. In Indiana the new United States battle tanks are touring the state, going overland from town to town. They have created a veritable sensation along the country highways. The state will also have a war exhibit train, as well as nationally known speakers. A number of enthusiastic meetings have been held to date. Wisconsin leaders report everything in shape for a rousing subscription drive. War exhibit trains, with tanks and bands, are enlivening the campaign and are stirring up much enthusiasm. The state and county organizations are complete, and everything is in readiness for the drive.
HELP "FINISH THE JOB."
The American fighters now in Europe saved the life of our nation, and the nation —the people of the United States —would be basely ungrateful if it abated one iota in support of them now that the danger is over. Our sacred duty to them will not have been performed until every one of the boys t new “over there” has been brought ? home. -
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