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Show HELP PRODUCE FOOD TO FEED SOLDIERS Town Man Qualified for Farm Work Should Offer Services. Many Communities Throughout United States Must Depend on Volun-. teers for Heavy Seasonal Needs It Is War Job. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) If you are a town man qualified for farm work in your county during the rush periods of planting, cultivation and harvest, and if you hesitate to offer for such service because It will be inconvenient and difficult and because be-cause you will earn less money for that short period of farm work than yoti would have earned in town during dur-ing the same time If this is the case you have failed to grasp either the seriousness of the present peril to civilization or the importance of the personal responsibility resting upon you, and every Individual. If you are a farmer in need of extra ex-tra help, without which, your food production pro-duction will be diminished, and if you are reluctant to use emergency town volunteers you also have not seen the peri 1 have not heard the call that has inspired other men to give their lives. The higher wage inducements of city industries and plants producing war materials have drawn many workers from the farms during the last year or two. As a consequence most communities com-munities all over the United States must depend upon local emergency supplies of farm labor for their heavy seasonal needs. Plans have already been put into effect In a great many sections whereby sufficient town volunteers vol-unteers have been secured to supply the need of the adjacent farm territory terri-tory during the busy periods. Of course this Is hard work. Of course, in most cases, it means some financial sacrifice upon the part of the town man, and some annoyance to the farmer who would prefer permanent, skilled help. But you are called to that service! It Is just a situation that must be met. Suppose soldiers hesitated to do things that are hard and difficult and annoying! Suppose men wouldn't go into the army unless they profited financially! If American Ameri-can men had taken that attitude Germany Ger-many would already have crushed the defenders of civilization, and you would now be concerned about the safety of your wife and children not your convenience and your money! The last two would certainly be taken from you with a Hun victory and the Hun will win If soldiers ever hesitate, as some civilians have hesitated to do the difficult, the unpleasant, the financially finan-cially unprofitable thing! It Is your war Job to work on farms In your county, when and where your services are needed to produce and harvest food crops, war-winning crops. It is the farmer's war job to use such help to the utmost advantage. Our soldiers are gloriously doing their war job over there. The most you can do is infinitely small, by comparison with what they do. Do farms in your county need help? Then think of the boys from your town, going over the top under shell fire today and go to work to help feed them ! |