Rural Church Cooperation Promotes Community Progress
Cy Peter Radford of the National Farmers Union champions cooperation among the rural church, school, and press as essential to building character, advancing agriculture, and uniting community life. He argues farmers have built numerous churches, calling for unified efforts to avoid sectarian division and strengthen moral and social progress.
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Church
Prese
School
United States
All Progress
Marketing World's Greatest Problem
Peter Radford argues the key issue in agriculture is distribution, not production, urging improved marketing facilities and cooperative efforts. He notes vast idle land, growing world crops, and argues the remedy is organization and cooperation to connect producers with markets.
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Garden of Eden
The Woman in the Field and the Wage War
A plea that 1,514,000 women in agricultural work, many barefoot and paid under 59 cents daily, face industrial force. The piece compares their bondage to slavery, urges wage readjustment, and questions Congress, press, and clergy about protecting women and mothers from the harvest field. It cites the Farmers' Union backing and calls for immediate action.
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Congress
Mason and Dixon Line
United States
Washington
Israel
America
Farmers’ Union
Railroads Appeal to President for Financial Help
The railway executives led by Frank Trumbull ask President Wilson to sustain railroad credits amid Europe war–driven business slowdown. They cite higher expenses from regulation and rising interest rates, urging private cooperation or government action to avert a fiscal crisis. Wilson calls the appeal lucid and urgent, inviting public participation in solving railroad problems.
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Wilson
Frank Trumbull
War Revenue Tax Lifted as Nation Backs the Flag
The nation imposes a wartime tax of 105 million dollars with heavy burdens on brewers bankers and investors and a stamp tax on negotiable instruments. The piece lauds the dollar as the burden bearer of war and extols industries and citizens who rally to support soldiers, economy and national credit. It lists luxury consumables contributing to treasury and notes immediate effect of the war tax. It ends urging work and pride in agriculture and healing.
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Congress
Milady
Treasury
Uncle Sam
The Cotton King Struck by European War and Prices
The article laments cotton as the king of Southern agriculture crushed by European warfare. It calls for cooperative methods, storage facilities, and government backing to stabilize marketing, credit, and relief for farmers amid widespread economic distress.
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King
Milady
Congress
Sword
Europe
Pen
America
South
Farmers’ Union
Southland
Lowwph
Josepha
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