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V . ... .'-. v9liiD LJ J n QJ i (v m -tWi , J . l U U ) h (J cJ-d fei A civ A Farm and Home Weekfkr - The CaMtn UNDED 1886. AT RALLlGH, Vol. XXXI. No. 47. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy A Message to Southern Merchants, Banliers, and Town Farm-oivncrs 7 J FIRST of all, we should like for every town merchant, banker, and city-dweller of any sort to read the letter about the Morrillton, Arkansas, Chamber of Commerce on page 7. Its seventeen com mittees illustrate the range of interest a town organization? should show in country de velopment. If you want town and country co6peration,the first thing to do is to try to get a chamber of commerce as rural -minded and pro gressive as that of Morrill ton. It's a model worth copying! Then there is J. Z. Green's appeal on page 24 for your help v in -getting rid 61- crop; . lien slavery in the South. You ought to help about this. It isn't fair for a state, to say a man shan't charge over 6 to 8 per cent a year on a loan, but may charge at the rate of 60 to 80 per cent per annum in the form of "time prices And our merchants would be far safer by getting on a cash basis. ' "I-- -..."" ' . . fc For the merchant there are just two emphatic appeals from farm folks in this issue. The farm men say: "'provide' a cash market for our prod ucts. If you sa we should 'buy at home' when it comes to shoes, clothes, and groc eries, you should; 'buy at home' when we have-hay, corn and meat; " AndVthe farm women say : "Join to gether and fix up a woman's rest room in each town." Mrs; Edna Teas Smith on Page 22 -also suggests that.' l, -4' r'U.r- , - -. -. - - merchants in each town issue cooperative price lists so that the women ffiay figure at home oii their wants and order as intelligently as they do in ordering from a foreign firm. Then Mr. French points out how merchants may cooperate to keep down expenses so that they need not fear mail-order competition; And Prof. McKee urges merchants to cooperate with farmers' organizations. If a farmers' club brings you a Wg order with the cash, saving you all' the expense of handling: and aU the risk of charging, don't alienate these farmer friends, but place the orQer for them on a small margin xf profit. We hope our -banker friends wjlf also give this number a careful J) JL '.WHO.XRE YOU?" reading. And if Mr. Banker has time to read only one thing, we hope it will be the article by Mr. P. W. Goebel, President of the American Bankers' Association, on productive vs. consumptive credit The failure to grade cotton properly is another often heard complaint against townsa complaint voiced, in this issue by Mr. D. W. Boyce, of Pine Bluff, Ark. Every town seek ing the farmer's trade should protect him at this point. And, finally, read on pages 6 and 23 the appeals to city farm -owners to show more consideration for the social life of country neigh borhoods. If there is a group of struggling white farmers trying to keep together so as to have satisfactory schools, churches, and social life, don't displace a white tenant there and put a Negro into" this little community of white neighbors . In your city home, you would probably get fighting mad if some ab sentee landlord should put Negroes into the houses on each side of you. Very well; try to show the same con sideration for the white farm er and his wife and his daughters out in the coun-. try. S v And these articles, Friend Townsman, are only a few in thisTown and Country Co operation Special" deserving your attention. Better read alUof them. X DON'T FAIL TO READ- ' Provide a Cash Market for the Farmer's Products Extend Constructive Credit Qnly, Mr. Banker Mr. Townsman, If You Own a Farm, Read This . What One Chamber of Commerce Is Doing . . "Whatever We Do in Life We Do for Ourselves" . How to Terrace Land . . . .y . . . How Townf and Country May Work Together . . The Dallas County Woman's Rest Room . . . How the Business Man Can Help the Farmer . Page 5 6 6 7 9 11 15 22 24 ... I . I t t I : I .i;t I i T ' 1 ' .1 1 m m 11; m Am W. If V. IS . . . fi I: I IV. if I XI V 1 1 n If 1! 3ii n ! i 4.' 'ft ij ft I ill . If hi- '5! ! 11 I j1 1111 m ,1 M F 1' S .' 4 ;. ! if. t. -1 -t j U i e It If i 8 1 r
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