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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 21 , 1917 . 
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creaT 
NOROW BALCn 
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A MONEY SAVING SILO FILLER 
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Farm Women and the War 
I am addressing these questions to you 
not because I imagine these things to be 
essentially within the .scope of the farm 
paper, but because The R. N.-Y. repre¬ 
sents absolutely the only source of relia¬ 
ble infonniition in existence to-day in 
which we place implicit confidence as a 
real advocate of the rights of the com¬ 
mon people. I heard the present politi¬ 
cal situation summed up this morning 
about as follows: “The speculators, 
bankers, etc., of this country controlled 
the entrance into the great war as well 
as the causes leading thereto, for money¬ 
making purposes. Knowing that they, 
themselves, would not starve it was im¬ 
material to them how many did, and the 
selective draft wjis framed as tlie best 
means of eliminating the best bone and 
sinew among the farmers. IMany farms 
will soon he left without their mainstay, 
they will then he sold for a song, bouglit 
up by weiiltliy men, and presently this 
country will be dominated entirely by 
landed iirojirietors, the men who actually 
till the soil will he reduced to a condi¬ 
tion of serfdom, and a big standing army 
will maintain the ideal condition thus at¬ 
Drafting Wheel Used in the Civil War 
tained.” Is tliis the drimm of a pessi¬ 
mist or has it some foundation in fiictV 
My brother is under -‘10; he has never 
felt free to go into business for liimself 
because so many of us have depended 
upon him, hence he is unmarried iuid con- 
sectucntly more liable to driift, perliaps, 
than a married man. My husband being 
dead, we are nearly as deiiendent upon 
him as the old people, I have a farm and 
raise fruit, vegetables, poultry, etc., but 
if he were not here to do the rough 
work, my little plant as well as his own 
farm, must be sacrificed since we could 
do nothing with either without him. lie 
is not strong hut, I believe, has no dis- 
ejise that would necessarily disqualify 
him as a soldier, though I am positive 
that he wouldn’t survive three montlis of 
army service. I haven’t “doped” him to 
ward off pneumonia and helped nurse 
him through the disease when we faih'd 
to get it “nipped in the bud” for nothing. 
I know what hnpiiens to him wlion a 
slight cold or a little exi)osui’e does not 
receive proper attention at once. 
Now is he to be rewarded for all these 
years of self-sjicrificing labor for the re.st 
of us, by being drafti’d heciuise he is a 
•‘m.-in without a family,” and sent to a 
position where he can be of no use either 
to his family or his country and where he 
can only die among strangers with no 
one but the siieculators, into whose hands 
the vacant furms will fall, to benefit 
thereby? Is there positively no heli) for 
such a state of affairs. Can I, iiorson- 
ally, do a single thing to avert the dis¬ 
aster, and, if so, what? MUS. E. M. 
We have had a number of ietfiu’s like 
the above—some of them even more iia- 
thetic in their earnestness. This is. of 
course, out of our line and we can give 
only an opinion. Such a man should not 
be called, and we think he would be ex¬ 
empted if di’iifted on the ground that 
others are dependent on him. We think 
the draft will he fairly made. As we 
understand it the country is divided into 
districts each containing 2,500 registered 
men. Each man is to be numbered. The 
di’iiwing will he done at Washington— 
an army officer taking certain numbers 
at random out of a w'heel. If he draws 
numbers 7, 58, 50.8, 1..825 and so on 
these numbers will apply to all the dis¬ 
tricts. For instance, if No. 10 were 
drawn all who curry this number will be 
drafted. We think it will be fairly and 
honestly done. The picture shows au 
old wheel used in Yates Co., N. Y.. for 
making the draft during the Civil War. 
Very likely one used at Washington will 
be something like this. Cards or slips 
bearing the numbers are put into the 
wheel, and it is turned over several times 
to mix the numbers thoroughly. .In case 
this man is drafted you should apply at 
once to the local or county hoard of ex¬ 
aminers and state the exact reasons why 
he should he exempted. Yo can appeal 
from their decision, but we think the 
statement you make, if supported by 
proof, will answer. As for the state¬ 
ment made regarding this war, we take 
a far more hopeful view. It is true that 
all wars have boon caused more or less di¬ 
rectly by selfish interests, money schemes 
or desire for unjust power. That was 
true to a large extent of the Revolution 
and of the Civil War. We think the 
present war, .so far as this country is con¬ 
cerned, has less of this .selfish motive 
than any other of reeent years. We be¬ 
lieve that every nation now engaged in 
tills war will in the end be more tnily 
free and offer better opportunity to the 
common people. It is to mean a greater 
sacrifice than most of us realize, hut in 
the end we expect the world to be the 
better for it. 
Learning to Drive Your Car 
The simplicity of it exceeds even all 
that the agent had led you to expect. 
You find that there are only three dials, 
four push buttons, throe foot pedals, four 
hand lovers and a steering wheel to keei) 
your eyes, hands and feet upon while 
trying to keep off your neighbor's front 
lawn and out of the potato patch that 
he planted to feed the Allies. To further 
simplify these controls, the manufactur¬ 
ers have cunningly devised that one of 
the most used levers, when it will move 
at all, will move in any one of four dif¬ 
ferent directions. What this lever may 
operjite is concealed lieneatli tlie floor 
boards, but, when moved in the right di¬ 
rection at the wrong time, or in the 
Avrong direction at the right time, it 
brings forth a roar that starts the sweat 
upon your forehead and makes your 
wife demand to be let out immediately. 
There is no danger, howi'ver, to anything 
but your poeketbook, and. as that had to 
be chloroformed liefore you bought your 
cjir, it doesn’t suffer. 
It is really best when taking your first 
lesson or two to go out alone. You 
learned what all the different levers were 
for when riding with your friends, so 
don’t need advice or verbal instruction. 
What you need is confidence; confidence 
in yourself and in the insurance com- 
I)any that wrote the policy tucked away 
in the bureau drawer at home. You 
must not be unnerved by the tears in 
your wife’s eyes or the unconcealed anx¬ 
iety in her voice as she bids you “Do 
he careful.” Family ties must for the 
moment be forgotten and your Avhole 
mind bent upon mastering the intrica¬ 
cies of the machine before you. Motor¬ 
ing may be as simple as walking, as the 
agent said, but you remember that it 
took you quite a spell to learn to do the 
latter. 
There is no use in trying to find a se¬ 
cluded road on which to make your first 
attempt. You’ll find everybody going to 
town on tliat diiy iind all schools let out 
for nooiiin’. The onl.v tiling to do is to 
seat yourself firmly behind Ihe wheel and 
keep swallowing your heai’t until it 
learns to stay down of itself. You will 
observe for the first time what a tre¬ 
mendously big thing a motor car is. You 
had always thought of them as being a 
little larger than a lumber wagon; now 
you feel as though sitting astride the 
ridge pole of the hay barn grasping the 
weather vane. 
If equipped with a self-starter, as of 
course your car is, you remember tliat 
the way to start the engine is to press 
.vour toe upon the button in the foot¬ 
board ; but, somehow, you aren’t quite 
ready to start yet, so you get out and 
walk around to where the horse ought 
to he and try to figure out why the thing 
looks so different, some v/ay. When the 
agent was showing it to you. it appeared 
as docile as a lamb. Now it' looks aw¬ 
fully black, awfully big. and scowls at 
you, as if daring you to touch it. It 
seems to have its legs gathered under it 
ready for a spring the moment you touch 
a button and you know that it is a blind, 
conscienceless brute when once it gets 
under way. 
But you realize that there is a good 
deal of nervousness in this feeling and 
you again take your seat, put your foot 
resolutely upon the starter button, shut 
your eyes, say your prayers and press 
down hard. An awful roar smites yotir 
ears and .you feel as if projected for- 
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