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HOPE FARM NOTES H 
Thrift Cards. —Our children have 
honght the F. Thrift cards and are sav¬ 
in}? their money to buy .stamp.s. I pre- 
.sume you all linow about these cards. You 
<-an obtain the card at any postofEce or 
l)ank. There are 10 little spaces, each 
large enough to hold a 25-ceDt stamp. As 
r.ast as the children get a quarter together 
they buy a stamj) and stick it on one of 
these squares. When they fill the 10 
spaces they can. by paying from 12 to 23 
r-ents, obtain a War Savings Certificate 
Stamp which will be worth $5 on January 
1, 1923. For •■x.aniijle. the boys expect 
to lill their card by March. Then they 
will |iay 11 cents, which makes $4.14 in 
all. 'I'he compound interest on this will 
bring it to .$.■) on .Tanuary 1, 1923, and 
that is what the Covernment will pay you. 
9'he scheme is simple and straight, and 
very useful, and I hojie every child and 
every young man and Avornan in the hand 
will fill up .several of these cards. 
Xefdkd. —Every dollar will be needed 
before this war is over, and these cards 
will give many peojih* who cannot buy a 
TJberty P.ond u chance to become a small 
creditor of this country. The money must 
be raised, and in order to obtain it the 
Government must go to the big banks and 
rich men, or to the great masses of the 
people. It needs no argument to convince 
anyone of I’easonable mind that the future 
of this nation will be safer if every citizen 
can becoiw! a creditor even to the extent 
of filling out one of these cards, ttur chil¬ 
dren will work this Summer to obtain at 
least 20 of them. There are at least 20,- 
000.000 young peo])le in this country who 
can, if they will, earn the money needed to 
buy fine card. 
Sa( RIFK K.- 1'here are too many of us 
Avho do not yet realize what this war 
really mciins. Too many of us expect to 
live just the same lives we have always 
done, !ind let others endure the struggle 
and make the sacrifices. I know well-to- 
do ijeople, or at least of infidernte means, 
who are not willing to deny themselves 
anything which selfish human nature may 
crave. 9’hey expect our army to win the 
war, !ind they will giaiwl if it is imt well 
fed and eiiuipiied. but they irinil. Noinroue 
eha 1o tlo Ihr unijlf’iimirit Hihifis and do the 
ftariiifi’ This war is “sifting out the 
luairts fif men.” not only in the ti'enches, 
hut in every lifime in the land. We cannot 
(‘xpect fiur boys to do it all. 9'hose of us 
who cannot go “over the top” must work 
at the foundatifins and see that they ai’e 
made seeiii'e. In this hous<i we have iui 
ambition to do our share. T would like 
to feel thitt we have offered more of our 
family and fidends as soldiers than any 
other family in New .Jersey. T would also 
like to fell that we are putting as large 
a shai-e of oitr savings into Government 
securities as anyone, and going without 
luxtrries or extravagant things in our 
daily living. 
Economy and Saving. —This war has 
taken the larger boys away and now Mer¬ 
rill is going. That has put the labor ques¬ 
tion uj) to us as nothing else could. 4’he 
smaller boys will come forward and help. 
They can prime a tree, use a hoe or ax, 
and the larger one can drive, the team on 
the h.arrow. T shall pay them for their 
work just as T would hired men. Their 
money, or a good share of it, will go into 
these war stamps. They will save by cut¬ 
ting out candy, soda water and a lot of 
other stuff the use of which becomes in 
these war days only a selfish and exirenslve 
habit. I wish I could make the young 
men see the folly of using tobacco and 
di-inking beer or “.soft drinks” when the 
nation needs every dime that it can mus¬ 
ter. !Men who have used tobacco for year's 
say they cannot give it up. One of them 
said to'me the other day: “'What have 
you done in the way of self-denial that 
could comiiare with the effort needed for 
me to quit tobacco?” If you think it is 
easy to answer him snjiposr* you t<dl us 
what you have done in the way of srdf- 
deni.al that would rank with his effort! 
You may take it from me, however, that 
the future of this country after the war- 
will depend, not uiion the easy gifts of 
money and service, rm the iirofit made out 
of it, but upon the self-denial and the 
courage of those who cheerfully give up 
something of their lives for their country. 
■V\’ar to the De-XTh. —That’s what we 
stand for in this family, if it takes every 
man and boy and every cent we have. 
Death of what? The thing is clearly 
stated in .lames W. Gerard’s book, “My 
Four Years in Germany.” I wish every 
American could read it: 
“We ai-e engaged in a war against the 
greatest militai-y power the world has ever 
seen ; against a iieojile whose countr.v was 
for so many een’trrries a theatre of devas¬ 
TShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tating wars that fear is hred in the very 
marrow of their souls, making them ready 
to submit their lives and fortunes to an 
autocracy which for centuries has ground 
their faces, hut which has promised them, 
.as .a result of the war. not only security 
but riches untold and the dominion of the 
world; a people which, as from a high 
mountain, has looked upon the cities of the 
world and the glories of them, and has 
been promised these cities and these 
glories by the devils of autocracy and 
of war.” 
Most of us know' people of German de¬ 
scent who .are among the best friends we 
have. T have no doubt you have wondered 
as T have Avhy people naturall.v of an in¬ 
quiring and investigating mind should 
submit to an autocratic government. 
Gerard answers the question : 
“It is because in the dark, cold North¬ 
ern plains of Germany there exists an 
autocracy, deceiving a great people, poi¬ 
soning their minds from one generation to 
another and preaching the virtue and 
iieecssit.v of w'ar ; and until that autocracy 
is either wiped out or made pow'crless, 
there can be no peace on earth.” 
The Eroader View. —I think that la.st 
sentence is absolutely right. That is why 
we are offering our boys and giving uj) 
our money, and w’hy we must face the 
future with grim determination to put it 
over. Gur boys are fighting not alone for 
liiday, but for a long line of. tomorrows 
which stretch far into the future. I think 
the world has come to the point where it 
must decide between two distinct forms of 
government — the autocratic-military or 
the democratic-co-operative. It is one or 
tlie other. A victory for Germany would, 
I helieve, extend the autocratic govern¬ 
ment all OA'er Europe, and force this na¬ 
tion into it by making a military govern¬ 
ment nece.ssary. The thorough defeat of 
Germany will, I believe, have the exactly 
opposite effect, and, as it affects this coun¬ 
try, give our plain, middle-class people a 
chance to get back into the control they 
had 30 years ago. I believe that just as 
surely as I know' how' history lias repeated 
itself again and again, as nation after 
nation has jilayed footh.all w'ith human 
liberty—the game ahvays between the 
nobles or autocrats on one side and the 
common people on the other. I think I 
can see something of what is coming and 
that is why I w'ould urge every man and 
every family of the plain jieople to give 
every man and every dollar and every 
hopeful thought it can spare to jiush this 
war through. 
Rattles at Home. — Rut while our boys 
are fighting for us at the front we must 
fight for them here, and see that their 
heritage is made secure. We now have .a 
land problem in this country that must 
be faced and settled, or else Avhat we call 
the small freeholder will be driven out of 
business. There are tw'o sorts of patriot¬ 
ism. One is of the mouth only. I have 
no use for that. Whenever I see a man 
going about roaring about the great affec¬ 
tion he has for his w'ife and family I want 
to go to his house and see how clean the 
inside of the cup may be. "We have de- 
veliqied in this country a class of jiatriots 
who think any criticism of conditions or 
events is unpatriotic. If a man stand up 
honestly and tell the truth about thin};s 
lie may be branded as an “enemy of his 
country” or “a friend of the Kaiser.” The 
facts ai-e that this nation has already 
mad? some awful blunders in conducting 
this W'ar. Some very small men are try¬ 
ing to handle large jobs, and some fools 
are jdaylng baseball with wisdom. This 
is particularly true of the food que.stion 
and of farming. I know it and yon know 
it—everyone seems to know it exee])! a 
few of the job-hunters and “experts” who 
are now' doing nici-e than anyone else to 
discourage our farmers and thus prevent 
an increas<‘d iiroduction of food. For one 
I deny that it is the part of true patriot¬ 
ism to keep silent and let the.se commis¬ 
sions and committees “get away w-ith it.” 
Sooner or later the. failure of their 
.schemes will be so evident that the entire 
jdan must be made over, and the farmers 
must take up the matter themselves. They 
w'ill do it with far bi-tter spirit and 
strength if they fight for their own rights 
and assert them.selve.s. As for me, all I 
have is at the service of our country, but 
I know' that I can make three times the 
soldii-r if I can stand up for farm rights 
and imt a stronger Aveapon into the hands 
of agriculture. Nine out of 10 people Avho 
read this Avill say the same. ir. AV. c. 
New Use for Mowing Machine 
East si-a.son Ave found a neAV use for the 
nioAving machine (hay-moAA-er) . My rye 
Avas ready to cut, and the man''who Avas 
to cut it Avith a reaper disappointed me. 
As the days of hand-cradling seem to be 
over in this neighborhood I could not 
get a man to do it, so I thought perhaiis 
the mowing machine might be jiut to use. 
f talked the matter over Avith the man 
Avho does my AVfirk, and av(‘ decidt'd to ti-y 
it. There Avas a very slight bn-eze, so as 
the rye Avas being moAved only from one 
side, the breiv.e made the rye fall as 
though it had been cradled by hand. 
Three of us i-aked the grain aAvay after 
the machine and laid it in little heajjs 
some spaces distant, to give the hoi’ses a 
chance to turn without .stepping on the 
grain. None of ns w'orked very hard, 
and yet Ave had time to bind .some 
sheave.s. I tell you this in case some 
one else may be in the same plight as I 
wa.s. In my case it was a .success. 
Gonnecticut. MR.S, T. 3, 
Manure Means Money 
The high prices for grain and the scarcity of labor have 
tempted many farmers to sell off their live stock and devote 
more attention to grain farming. 
With the present price of all kinds of grain, this plan offers quick 
profits, but on the other hand, live stock offers permanent profits. Corn 
stalks, coarse hay and other roughage which might be wasted can be 
fed to advantage with the more concentrated foods. The animal products 
such as meat and milk bring higher prices today than ever before. 
The value of manure in successful farming should not be overlooked. 
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