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Y1918.©mmmgn©wb0 TUnnn('BoIalievikiP Want Smoelt, Breeches mi«l Pnltees, While the “Meushevikl” II,■old Out for Flannel Shirts and Overalls—The 10IS Crops Will Be Gathered In One or the Other, or Both.From the Nevv York Fvenliig Sun.THE newly organized Women’sLand Army is starting out torecruit itself for the job ofharvesting next summer’s crops,but right in the beginning the differentgroups and units and committees insidethe army are differing. They do not differ on the brands of fertilizers or on the technicalities of transplanting, or on how to get on with animals.No, being women, they are differing about the clothes the farmerette shallwear.One large faction in this army—the Bolshevik!, perhaps—are all for a beautiful robe tic pastoral composed of smock and breeches and puttees, something32 Fifth Avenue, New York City, where recruits or farmers can obtain all the information they desire. Mrs. Thomas Burgess is chairman.WOK KINO GIRLS ALSO WANTKD.This land army is to be an extra metropolitan thing, hilt the great bulk of the farm hands will be recruited from New York City. College women and professional women are wanted, but experience has proved that a generous admixture of working girls is an advantageous thing. The college girl supplies a necessary amount of initiative and training, hut the girls who have spent a winter in a trade school or whom a seasonal occupation has thrown out of work provide a certain ballast. They work out their grim eight hours a day,only the colored porter was present; he informed us that the “bunch” had gonedown to the mill.Up to date Columbia has been experimenting with horse steaks. Dr. P. F. Trowbridge of the college of agri-j culture slaughtered a 16-year-old horse and distributed the meat among a score of families. They found the horse steaks had a rather familiar taste and are growing a bit suspicuous of some of the beefsteaks they have been eating.fortparreult;ma:XeitW. L. Nelson is being urged to makethe race against Congressman Shackleford, and is sure to make the race interesting if he gets into it. As an editor of the Bunceton Eagle and later as assistant secretary of the state board of agriculture, Mr. Nelson has impressed thousands of Missourians with his unusual ability and has been of great service to the farmers of the state.oeTUiiAvstienselpr;coisclA man from Jewell City, Kas., arrived in Cassville a few days ago to foreclose a mortgage on a farm there. He had traded a stock of merchandise outin Kansas for the mortgage, which wasmtgljB1V’frytss*'»1ifbndi-el-113lrufoilmi ac unsi:Tt ins exCoblio\\toCOofgeboi foiin cuoilfeeurfirTlofaf cu ha visCOon in th tilt; at coi mbl blA i1o-odilise.toA M'KUSHEVIKI OF TF1K AMERICAN WOMEN’S LAND ARMY. WHO ADVOCATES OVERALLS AS TIIE ORGANIZATION’S UNIFORM.(From a photograph by the Western Newspaper Union, jWimmsomthaihalf riding suit, half poet and peasant, in which tiie girl farmers are to pull in the hay and pick off the peaches.The other sterner and more utilitarian group—the Meusheviki—hold in con-Ia3fL.Vh-IJOrdinute-aIdidn-tystjkofhi S■s. |is Itempt any of these farfetched and fancy appurtenances. They are for the plain, the primitive, the back to the soil habiliments, for overalls and the gray flannel shirt. Tiie real girl workers, they say, will put on these rags of simplicity and the most liardslielled agriculturist looking at them cannot but shout, Them gals certainly look like they meant work.” Which is the impression they wish to convey—this Woman’s Land Army.to harvest 1918 CROP.Anyway, with this still to be settled, the Woman’s Land Army is about to begin recruiting. The Woman’s Land (Army, organized with confidence after I the success of various women’s agricultural units on tlio land last summer, | is (lie result of a conference of the representatives of various farm and ' garden societies, women farmers and employment experts, held a few weeks ago under the direction of the National Council of Defense.The result of that conference was the formation of an executive committee to organize and manage the Woman’s Land Army, which is to supply units of woman labor wherever they may he needed in harvesting the 1918 crops. Acting with that executive committee of ten is anand they can stand monotony and put up with fatigue because they are used to it. Young women still in college, on the other hand, like to go jumping around from farm to farm to try all the different environments. One element tones the other down or up, as the need may be.The land army differs in plan from the Woman's Land Army in England in that the workers under the American program will live in colonies, going out each day to work on farms in the vicinity, whereas in England they live and work on the farm.accompanied by an abstract drawn up a by the Barry County Abstract Company.He found that the mortgage was value-1 e‘ less and that there never had been an I cc abstract company with that name. Not m all the gold bricks are sold to farmers.laL;HMISSOURI NOTES.JA state university wit has named a friendly but unattached yellow dog Tuesday, because it is so meatless.Real benefits continue to result fromthe war. Over in St. Louis, the townwhich made ouija famous, three rnjija hoards have predicted that the war will end February 28, which ought to convince a lot of people that ouija boards do not know anything.The prediction that Buchanan County’s 2 million dollar bond issue for hard roads would wake up all Northwest Missouri is proving true. Petitions for a $990,000 issue in Ilolt County are beingcirculated, a meeting to launch a campaign was held in Andrew County yesterday and the Tarkio Avalanche is urg-advisory committee of one hundred, on t nig Atchison County to follow suit, which are names known all over the;Two inkwells were stolen from the California postofflce the other day, and the postmaster, knowing the habits of Isi those wells, has instructed the town j is marshal to look for someone with badly j It stained hands. in1 » -»»» »«,.«»». ♦ \ s ^ ^ jdon’t wait for aid.Charles W. Fear of Joplin, editor ofjslt; the Southwestern Automobilist, believes ei state and federal aid for good roads is not an unmixed blessing. He argues that permanent roads are such a good investment, even when the local community pays their entire cost, that no community should hold back, waiting for aid, The good roads movement is becoming stagnant because of the fact; 1b that many are waiting for the slate to j build roads and hoping that federal aid! ti will relieve them of the local duty also,”I t.1 he writes. “Every community must IF work out its own salvation, and the I si quicker the community decides to help j li itself the quicker will that local commit-,1 n nity receive support and aid from both IF state and Nation. Don’t wait! Get busvt tlnow. Organize a good roads club and' get to work.”siwrct(tcitScHYSTERIA OF THE ARCTIC.ir-rd United States as farmers, agricultural ne j experts and economists.The headquarters of the army are atOne-half the world, says the Brookfield Daily Argus, doesn’t know how many of Hoover’s rules the other half is following, but would like to find out.Loittf liny* and Lonjj Ninlit* Have Cn rioiiM FnyJBuatrienl Hffects.)From the Scientific American.In a paper dealing with tiie University of Oxford expedition to Siberia, of whichli A tY\ Afllt;1\\t.113/\I 11 *nVcx.. ,
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Kansas City, Missouri, US
Tue, Feb 19, 1918
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