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S/te RURAIL NEW-YORKER 
October 12, 19 is 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Liberty Loan campaign started off 
with_ a scream at this end of the country. 
At eight o’clock in the evening of Septem¬ 
ber 27 every whistle and bell in New 
York f’ity started out to make a noise. 
And they succeeded I It was a fearful 
racket. Yelling above everything el.se 
Avei’e a number of tremendous steam horns 
to be used in sounding a warning in case 
the city is attacked from the air. They 
certainly have a horrible throat, and it 
never gets sore so long as high-pressure 
steam flows in. One would think the 
Kaiser might have heard that awful noise 
in far-away Iterlin. Well, he will hear 
something like it later on when the 
-\meric!in Army marches through that 
city. That is what they are going to do. 
That is why we are buying bonds. 
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Out in our country we opened the bond 
campaign with a big parade. It is a 
country neighborhood with no large 
towns. A horse and a man on foot has 
no chance in the modern tuniout. It is 
now a business for gasoline, and we all 
burned a little to start these bonds going. 
Hope Farm went along in the truck, well 
decorated with flags and colors. There 
were 11 of us. I'homas and the farmer¬ 
ette in front surely repi-esented labor. I 
could give but a poor representation of 
capital. Aunt Fleanor stood for knowl¬ 
edge, while IVIother and the children had 
to divide youth and beauty between them. 
Perched on a high chair in the center .sat 
little Rose, in red, white and blue, to 
repi’esent Miss Columbia. She played her 
part well—though when the band played 
“The Star Si)angled Banner,” 5Iiss Co¬ 
lumbia, instead of waving her flag, j)ro- 
ceeded to eat an apple. Perhaps, how¬ 
ever. it is more a part of practical pa¬ 
triotism to ejicourage the fruit industry. 
At any rate it was a great and inspiring 
thing to see the great line of flags and 
color flashing along our country roads. 
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A few years ago such a thing would 
have been impossible. At the first Liberty 
Loan drive we could not have gathered 
this great company. At that time there 
was little if any organization—now we 
have an organization reaching into every 
neighborliood and every home. A year 
ago there were many who did not seem 
to know there is any war or any need of 
personal sacrifice. There are a few of 
such i)eople left, but they take great care 
to keep their opinions out of sight. With 
the va.st majority of us this Avar has come 
into our homes as a personal thing—a 
hideous presence Avhich Ave must destroy 
at any sacrifice. It has not Avorked out 
as the pacifists said it Avould. “Wait.” 
they said, “until the lists of dead and 
Avounded come into pnnt. Then you will 
see fhe American people end the war!" 
IIoAV little they kneAv of the real spirit 
of America. As the Avar goes on I find 
men and Avomen Avho have golden stars 
on their service flag. Instead of calling 
for peace, these men and Avomen Avho have 
given their oAvn flesh and blood, glory in 
the sacrifice and Avill Avork their fingei's 
to the bone in order that this war may 
be carried through. 
AAill now be spent to put the Kaiser and 
his Avar lords Avhere they belong. 
"Come across or the Kaiser will!" 
**«*:;! 
Frost has been kind to us this year and 
has held off well. On October 1 Ave had 
some 2.5 crates of tomatoes and i)erhaps 
1.000 ears of sweet corn still to pick, 
with the string beans coming along aa'cII. 
These beans have paid us. They Avere 
planted after digging the earliest potatoes, 
and the late season has giA’en them a 
good chance to mature. Prices are high 
this Fall. The late seeded turnips made 
a good top, but the roots are not large. 
By October 1 Ave had picked and sold 
almost all the apples except the P.aldAvins 
and Ben Davis and perhaps 20 barrels 
of Delaware Bed Winter. 5'hese Avill 
come off through October and Avill be 
promptly sold. Prices are still high, and 
reports shoAV that north of us there are 
many apples. Thus far growers have not 
been able to pick and ship freely, so our 
local markets have paid well. Later this 
northern fruiti w’ill come on. We got rid 
of our apples Avhile the going is good. 
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As for good culture and clean crops, Ave 
cannot shoAV them this year. The Aveeds 
are bad, and we have not even been able 
to cut and pile around the trees as usual. 
Every hand has been more than busy 
picking and packing. The straAvberry 
plant trade had to be abandoned. We 
simply could not handle it, and the same 
thing is true of all our farmers. It has 
just been a struggle to try to pick out 
the most essential things and get them 
partly done. Of course the others Avere 
neglected. The best farmer this year has 
been the man with the finest judgment for 
selecting the e.ssential things and knoAV- 
ing what to leaA^e undone. It Avill be 
harder than ever before next year. Y’et 
there are a few city men Avho look at our 
weeds and waste and say w'e are slackers. 
One man saw some w-eeds in the corn 
and said it must be Peter TumbledoAvn’s 
place! Well, if Ave stopped to argue Avith 
such folks there Avould be less done, and 
so I say nothing. It is hard and galling, 
though, to have some of the.se eight-hour 
workers at Avhat I call non-essentials 
cbme and tell us Avhat we ought to do. 
Well, AA’e will do all Ave can and then eat 
an apple. There’s another point. I can 
sell our No. 1 apples at Avholesale for 
about $0 per barrel right noAv. that is by 
the truck load. It is worth nearly a 
dollar more to make retail deliveries as 
work noAv stands, yet AAmuld I not be <‘al]e(l 
a robber if I charged that much for a 
single barrel by the man Avho charges me 
$7 for a pair of shoes? ii. Av. c. 
A Letter From France 
And this is not a spirit of revenge 
alone. Into their sad lives has come a 
glory Avhich only those Avho rise above 
self and endure the sublime sacidfice can 
knoAv. As I drive through the country I 
see the service flags hanging at the win¬ 
dows of country homes. It seems to me 
as if the Angel of the Lord had touched 
those homes wn'th his shelteinng AAung. 
They ai-e marked as AA^ere those homes in 
the old miracle for a glory and pride 
Avhich can if need be rise aboA^e death 
Avithout common sorroAV. I can tell you 
noAv that in the years to come only those 
who do nothing for their country in this 
hour of trial Avill pass through their lives 
chained to regrets. Where I live Av^e re¬ 
gard a man Avho has ample savings and 
Avho Avill not lend a sliaie to his country 
as a friend of the Kai.ser. 
That spirit may be right or Avrong, but 
it is the Avay our peope are coming to 
regard this fight for the world’s peace. 
In New York City they often have Avhat 
we call “block parties.” All the people 
who live in the hou.ses on a block are in¬ 
vited to come together and raise money 
for the Avar. They all come. It often 
happens that people Avho never spoke 
or noticed each other before come to¬ 
gether at these parties. That is one small 
thing which this Avar is doing—it is bring¬ 
ing people together in a great common 
interest. At one of these parties they 
wanted to have some spectacular sIioaa', 
so they hired an Italian to dress up in 
imitation of the Kaiser. He surely looked 
the part and he marched along the street 
handcuffed to a man made up to represent 
“T’ncle Sam.” The croAvd Avent Avild Avith 
rage at the sight of this man, and they 
attacked him AAuth sticks and stones. One 
brick cut a great gash on his head. He 
barely escaijed Avith his life and it cost 
him $.‘> out of tlie .$5 he earned to have 
his Avounds dressed. Some'one asked the 
Italian Avhat he thought of the Kaiser! 
T am unable to print his ansAver in full, 
though I Avould pay the charges for send¬ 
ing it by Avireless to Hon. Wm. Hohen- 
zollern, Germany. That is only one in¬ 
stance to shoAV iiOAV this AAmr feeling has 
gained possession of the American mind. 
The last drop of blood and the last dollar 
Some kind friend had thought enough 
of 'PiiE B. N.-Y’^. to include it Avith a 
bunch of papers to our soldiers, and it 
found its way at last to the tables of the 
i-eading room of the Paris Y. M. C. A., 
and there I saAV it. It was the first copy 
I had seen for over a year, and Avhen I 
saAv the pages opened at the “Hope Farm 
Notes” it Avas then I recognizi'd an old 
friend. When I Avas but a child, noAV 
more than 25 years ago, my father Avas, 
I Avell remember, a careful reader of The 
B. N.-Y. and I have read the Hope Farm 
Notes Avith interest ever .since and won¬ 
dered if really there Avas such a place as 
Hope Farm. When the present Avai’ broke 
out I left the farm in AVestern Illinois 
Avhere I Avas born and rais(‘d and had 
lived all my life, and volunteered to help 
my country’s cause, and Avas lucky enougli 
to join a regiment that Avas soon bound 
for the battle-front in France, and I’a'O 
been here almost a year iioav. I have had 
a part in several scraps and some of the 
big ones, and the only offensive the 
Americans have launched, and I don’t 
regret that I answered the call. Some big 
changes have taken place the last year. 
Our army has groAvn from an infant band 
into a great army, Avell disciplined and 
equipped, and already has shoAvn the 
world that Americans knoAV hoAV to fight 
and die. 
And noAv it seems that the end is in 
sight, and in a little while we can turn 
our thoughts to the Avays of peace again, 
and help to AA'ork out some of the prob¬ 
lems this war Avill have raised. I feel 
quite certain that the problems of labor 
and of the industrial relationshij) of 
woman Avill force themselves to the front 
as never before. Will America be drained 
of her man-i)OAver as France and England 
haA’e been? The Avomen have taken the 
place of men in the factories and ui)on the 
farms here. In many, many cases the 
change is permanent, for the men Avill 
never return. There is many a “Nell 
Beverly” in France, and many an orphan 
Avho might easily be “the child” that one 
of The B. N.-Y’'. books told about. And 
Avhen a fcAV days ago I Avas on the trail 
of the retreating Boche and a fcAV days 
later Avas relieved and came “out of hell” 
and saw the many, many wooden v-rosses 
—neAV ones, too—it Avas then I realized 
that soon in our oAvn country there AA'ould 
be “Nell Beverlys,” too. and bravely they 
Avill fight their own problems. It Avill be 
another of the problems of the nation to 
protect the Aveak from the greed of the 
strong and in many cases from the greed 
of big corporations. 
Y'ou knoAV something of the sacrifice 
this Avar calls for. My OAvn father has 
given tAvo sons. He reads “Hoi)e Farm 
Notes” each Aveek with as keen i)leasure 
as you write them, and iioav as I think 
about it. it seems that some of the cheer 
that ahvays is in the Notes is in his let- 
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