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.... ii i !?. i ;iiordar, July 6- "181 I M , . . , SSaW' myO UJSF&EE&PEK Addrea Latere to "p ' (19) 78K BRAINS F his chin, fh three-dc4iarr day,. a quM ,. . n, nut on the farm making; hay: . . m. worth will increase with a bomrt' Jthe brain of a man is hi treasury house, . It to there where true' richer abound".- -ffl8 avoirdupois will not count' for cent; I fact, he may wish it weren't then But that Piece of machinery - way- up-, aloft May make him a great- mflMonalrer May make him a statesman, a warrior, a poet, ' . For brains are not measured by rule, But if he's not careful to use them aripht, He may t out tob. a wtojool. 5 pf OUR" yard were two ugly places onev . fwa a did flower pit that had been par tiaW filled and" the" Other was an old "well :' that; ha been filled once, but the dirt had ;unfe I set to- work and raked flirt- till: I had thenv leveled? am looking fine. W hadJ ia a new dining' room built and ; the irorknacea left a lot of sticks, trash and ea!tfut I cleaned this up too. ;v We have an arbor-at. the end of the front' yard which I trimme -up1, and also -the other shrubbery in the yard.-Then I brought manure from the barn-lot and put around 'the violets to make- them grow. I also planted several kinds of flower seeds which ' -i.-wlll bloom in summer. ABBIB TILLMAN. Before Chirstmas a man- visited: our- school ; soliciting funds- for' the Y, M." C A. fund. clas and society pledged about $10, of v about' $10tt in all, and . before thr close of school the last cent was paid. The next thing we were7 Interested in was War Savings Stamps.- A number of. the pu pila were - raising war gardens, 'and- were members-of the tomato, and poultry clubs. jt Then ' came the Junior Red Cross cam paign which we liked best of all. Our Behoof" was-10 per cent A gentleman lectured for us on "Mexico'' and the funds realized from this were given to the Red Crossi - The cooking:.-class-1 was taught to cools meatless and -wheatless dishes. MARY TOM MURPHY. D URINO the laet- termr of schowt we did. everything we coul to help win thr war. How the Scouts Make Money for the Red Cross ip HE girl and' boy scouts- have become very mucht interested' in making. money for the Redi Cross The'- first entertainment was given' by- the Parte Field soldiersi They of--fere to give a minstrel for the Red Cross'. if thevseouta; would furnish therm dinner. The boys brought- the soldiers from- the- camp - to the' auditorium in their-automobile. THev glri' served them sandwiches-salad, coffee?- STRIKE OUT "CAN'T" AIJD "BECAUSE" EVERY Southern farm- boy - and . girl, ought to strike the words- "can't" and "becaniW out of their vocabularlee, - - We too of ten get In the habit of using these-' words- as 1 an excuse - for net doing things, when there is really no reason why we should not do them,!'- If someone asks as to- dr task that Is really: impossible we oughf t- give spe clfle reasons why it is necessary to- refaxe their- reqnest not merely say "I ttm" nd - then in reply to--- their'1 question "Why?" answer- "Because If a person early In life forms the habit of doing: everything that comes- to hand unless there Is a good and suiueieat' reav senfor-noa- doing! it, th hablfr will be m vaiuabKreneir Let' strike out that words "canfs and ,"beMwei.'r tea . ice cream, cake, and- cigarettes; The minstrel proved a great success and the (108 which" was taken in at the-door was given to1 the. Red Cross. . On; Saturday afternoons the boyB and girls ' sell' ice creaim so that they may earn the two hundred dollars that they pledged to the Red Cross ANNIST RTJTH WILLIAMS. Walked 5,000 Miles; Who Can Beat It? ft (Boys' $1 Prlae Letter) HILE I admit that 516 mllea ia a pretty good record for a girl, I have beaten that record for the past sir years. I live two and one-half miles from Fort Deposit, Ala., and entered the fourth grade Hhere when I was nine years old, walking back and forth every clay. I went to the public school three years and then entered the county higlv school at Fort Deposit when I was twelve years old. I have made a grade- each term without being' conditioned and last term I finished- the tenth grade, and am fourteen years old. Now, while attending the -puWltf senxx three years I walked 2,400 miles, 5 miles per day, 1G0 days each term. In the higl school in three years I walked 2,700 miles 5 miles per day, 180 days each term,- or grand total of 5,100 miles that I have walk ed to school. I have ridden a few times, but at the outside not more than 1 00 -milesv ee you can see that I have walked 5,000 miles to school. Last year we had two literary societies the Benjamin Franklin, to which I belong,'- and the Lee. In Fort Deposit we-have a Boy Scout troop of which I am a member; ; The. Boy) Scouts are of great benefit to a communtty.J They helped, in the Third Liberty Loan arroV the Red Cross drive and in many other ways. I am at present staying at home wortotnF on the farm and also learning -to use the typewriter. I think typewriting- wilt dOnter Bood, and probably I can help my govern ment in reconstruction work after the war, as I aim to be a civil engineer. FRED-MARTIN. A Visit to Mount Vernon (Girls' $1 Prire Letter) JJOUNT Vernon is one of the most interest ing Places in America, I think;; first, be cause it was the home of "th Fatter of His ountry," and second, because it is such a tPlcal Colonial home. . We went d-n the Potomac on. a steam jat from Washington, and when we round a purve the band played "America" and all stood up. for there- on a high slope. 2n d bY trees' st th in. I ' never fort the feeling I badV-though cannot Scribe it rightly. JlUZ lan(ling we went by 'the' tomb and Jjthe tribute General Joffre had laid Rio??!"6 haS Seen plcfBr man e.ti' hU is muoh larer d more inter give. the i,mpreson the -pictures litUernT1 Washlngt0,s room-is- a queer kept n m Whih 8ome of hi clothing is Nellie Cu!r ;SW, d han on; the wall. In 'adder TuTu rm yU Se'e a mifttature step hish bed t "I1" USed in c,tmM Pon her ipcts of In, every room contains ob- oi interest. he lawn i , he ri,.. . periecy kept and the view of the riv from at,,, wonder(ul- A bir-nagfioat vant. . 1 e' At the back are small 1DB cach-house contftlfte an louses. tha Wash- ' General .Washington.- Mar exactly "Ks'nf nVs earden of flwers ia kept heJS6 ,ml " had th its stiff rows of ntl "weet old-fashioned flowers. HODA COLEMAN: ELLISON. : borhooa.y',1,r nehborhood a readlftgneighv K business that is as bi job TTTEEPING a nation of over lOtf JAmillioi! peoplerearljrstip- plied with meat and meat products is a big and complex job. - And a still bigger job when tail is added the needs of the American soldier here and in Europe and of the Allies as well. It is a job of confer tii the live .stock of the West into meat and meat ! products and. distributing, them in perfect condition over long , distances to the consuming centers the North, South, East, West and abroad A job of supplying with unfail ing regularity products that in the main are perishable, in the exact qualities and quantitiesmeed-edv-to the smallest outKf-the-wayv village as well as to complex and congested metropolitan centers. Only organizations like that of Swiff & Company, with its highly- g as its specialized methods of meat-dress-ingr-its hundreds: of-branch-distributing:ousespand its thou sands of refrigerator cars, could; have handled such a job efficiently and at a minimum of expense in the present war emergency. Today Americanmeat and meat; products are the recognized stand ard of the world; And the economy; with which these produrts are xxKiuced is in dicated by the fact that todajr the meat of a steery dressedr is sold for less than the cost- oP the steer on the hoof ! The - proceeds of by-products, made- out of what oncewas waste, have made this possible; The size of the jot has dictated the size o& America's packing in dustry. And America's packing industry has proved itself to be equal to its job. Swift & Company, U. S. A A nation-wide organization with more than 20,000 stockholders 1' T.-V MMMWWWWIUOWKIIiiiiiiiii mnni iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiii"- wiiliiiiiia,iii,nnwimflimwTWMMroM - r
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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