Show WINIFRED BLACK 2 b bO O Our r Boys and the Farms I I Copyright 1917 by Newspaper Not Feature re Service the Inc J Out In California they're asking for tor Chinese coolies again All the young hired men have gone into the army some Borne of the ers erB say Sly and all the middle aged hired men are arc going Into the factories and canneries and shipyards and that sort of ot thing turn own Its no use trying to our boys bos out into th tle fields and vineyards they they wont won't go go The American boy Is all for or the elt olty You cant can't hire him to stay in th the country country coun coun- try tn and make mako a living not with all the automobiles and ond picture shows and picnics and grange meetings s and church and county fairs and land of his hia own and a sure living living ln in inthe the t world A And there you ou are arel arci I How Hon long IonS ago was it that those same Californians ft fairly tore the thc sky Into shreds shouting The Chinese must go And now V thc they want them back again the silent secretive efficient hardworking hardworking hardworking hard hard- working brown Chinese coolies coolies' with their paper hats and their cloth shoes and their long queues and their enigmatic enigmatic enig enig- matic smile Do they really Poor Ah Sing I Youre You're getting your our revenge rc at last arent aren't you you ou I dont don't blame an any one for Cor wanting a Chinaman around when theres there's an any work to be done A Chinaman will vill do a most amazing amount of work and do it better beUer and quicker and bo be more honest about ItIn Itin it itin in every wa way than many another man Besides hell he'll never sass back and hell he'll never get et tipsy and hell he'll never er erI I forget not forget not one single le t thin thing Sometimes you rou wish ho he would For n R Home Hell He'll do all the housework for tor a family fam tam Ii ily of or six or eight hell he'll cook like a chef clean house like a vacuum cleaner clean clean- er er hose ort off the front walks walk shine up the windows polish the fender at the tho fireplace weed the garden barden answer tho the I Ibell bell and even do the tho washing and Ironing and never act as if hed he'd been I lifting a finger I But what Interests me wild cr cry for tor the coolie Is what the C Californians Califor- Califor have to sa say about the American boy I 1 wonder if It its it's true I do hope not Every Ever other boy in every ery other na nation nation nation na- na tion In tho world has Just one ambition ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion and that is to get hold of ot a little lit littie little lit lit- tle tie piece of ot land of ot his own and make somewhere som somehow how a home for tor himself him hini- self and those he loves o es Doesn't the American bo boy want a ahome ahome ahome home Does he prefer a boarding house or 01 a cafeteria or a hotel im i'm Im I'm afraid he does I think Ive I've seen him preferring preferring pre pre- ferring them Thin and weedy weed and awkward rd and scared to death country countr clothes country countr shoes country countr hope country countr ambition whY ambition why they flock into our cities by the thousands ever every da day and whisper were we're always mighty glad to see seo them If It we had to wait walt for tor city born and city bred bred boys bos to build up our Industries Indus indus- tries it wouldn't be Ion long before beCore W wo ve shouldn't have any n cities clUes at all But somehow somehow have have you OU ever er noticed it after Lt-after after tho they get to tho the elt city and get their Jobs they're always working and saving and plotting and scheming to tuck money monor enough away to go o back to the country and bu buy a real home and really live li Th The Fhe Splendid R And If It the they stayed there In the last place they'd thed have ho tho the home borne and be living living liv liv- ing right straight along all the time 1 r wish more American boys were ju Just t a little bit fonder onder of or the country and of or country life Dont Don't you ou But lets let's not forget that were we're each thinking about special cases and that after ater all American manhood is makIng making mak mak- ing the tho farms yield Iehl most mOlit fruitfully Otherwise wed we'd not be able to send lend the food tood broad abroad that helps to feed teed fighting Europe and that will ultimately win the war var I |