Show I I I Ii i I I W War r Notes J 1 HAS 8 Tim Till 0 vIm roll FOit No class of citizens get getBO getso getso so BO quick a a. hearing or so prompt a a. response when in actual need of ot attention attention at at- from the government as the farming class elMs Ask any honest anil an minded fair tiller ot of the soil today If it ithe he has any cause for tor real grievance for his class the country over brer er and ho he will tell you he has s not lie He has the best market he ever evet had under the highest scale or ot prices and under under un under un- un der the best financial and banking system the the nation ever possessed and the most favorable laws The department department department de de- of Agriculture the postal service the rural credit systems and anda nd a score core of ot s state ate and national helps have been created and extended for his special benefit The financial page page of the Chicago Tribune this week had bad a showing that mortgage funds fund were were not In demand that rural credit credit credit cre cre- dit loans were going begging farmers farm farm- ers era are growing rich Farm mortgage dealers are finding business constantly constant constant- ly growing into greater dullness with little demand from farmers for mon mon- ey Farmers Farmen are paying off an un unusually unusually I usually large percentage percentage of 01 ages Seventy per cent of the farm mortgages mortgage maturing are being paid off Only 30 percent are being renewed renewed renewed re re- or or extended And this in the season of the year when farm farmers en have nothing much to sell son What will be I their condition of at affluence when the present bum bumper er crops are harvested harvest harvest- ed and c cashed shed SERVICE 1 FLAG 0 INVENTED IN OHIO In order to clarify clarity disputes which have arisen over the service flag its origin and and established usage an of official official of of-I investigation has bas been made by bythe bythe bythe I the United States Committee on Public Public Public Pub Pub- lic Information The Service Flag says the r report re- re re- re port is not an official nag of the the i United States The idea was an entirely en- en novel one the credit for the conception of which appears to be due to R. R L. L of Cleveland I Ohio It has however taken such a a. a firm root in popular sentiment and has been of such beneficial Influence that it ft is officially recognized and everyone who is entitled to fly it is encouraged and urged to do so Mr was formerly captain of the machine gun company of the Ohio Ohl Infantry no now the U.S. U.S. U. U S. S Infantry Infantry from which he be was retired retired retired re re- re- re tired because of an accident He thus states the origin of the flag Shortly after April 1917 when war with Germany was declared ed the thought came to me that both bothof bothof of my sons who were still officers of the guard would again be called out I wondered If could I evolve some sign or symbol by which it might be known that they were away in their country's service and andone andone andone one which would be to their mother a visible sign of the sacrifice her sons eons were making That Is how the Inspiration came to me The first Porto laborers to reach the United States under Government GovI Government Gov Gov- I auspices will be at work ork upon upIon upon up up- Ion on Government contracts within a month The Employment Service of the Department of Labor has already already already al al- al- al ready found employment for at least of those these men as common laborera laborers laborers la la- borers on construction work at Norfolk Norfolk Nor Nor- folk talk Newport News Ney's Baltimore and i vicinity Arrangements are now beIng being being be be- ing made by the Department of Labor Labor Labor La La- bor to provide proper housing for these men |