PENROD ON THE
U. S. S. G. ARMY
Hon. Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of Interior,
Washington.
Dear Mr. Secretary—A kinc
friend of mine told me that
you wrote to him to tell me to
write a letter* ,'a^bout raising
vegetables to eat and all. His
name is Mr. Tarkington or
something like that and he said
he would address the letter
and all and write what is at
the top of this letter to start
. with. Well I do not know
much about raising vegetables
yet t?ut I will tell you all I
know. Miss Spence said our
class better join the U. S.
School Garden Army and when
she says we better why we
usulay we got to. Besides she
said the U. S. Government
says so too and it is the School
Garden Army of the U. S. Gov
ernment and if we belong to
it we are just as much in the
army as if we had guns and
will get a badge and all and
besides can get some money
by selling the vegbles. Well
I wold like to have some money
by selling the vegbles. Well,
I wold like to have some mon
ey and so wold any other boy
and girl in the army and have
a badge. And I can eat some
of the vegbles myself and all.
Wei. anybody wants to be in
the army of course, so I am
now a going to be a member
of the army. Anybody what
says I am not going to be ask
whoever they like they will
tell them quick enogh I am
going to be in the army be
cause I am going to be in the
U. S. S. G. Army. It has the
U. S. before it and I guess that
is enough for me I guess.
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Well so we thought we naa
better get some practice rais
ing some vegetables, so we
went to Sam Williams’s yard
and got two colored boys so
as to have them to do a good
deal of the work, as they have
got to work almost all the time
anyway at their own house.
These two colored boys they
used to live in the country out
about five miles and one-half
miles and they know how to
raise cabaj and all.
Well, Sam said we could dig
up his back yard and he wold
help some. We also got some
seeds that we got by trading
some old iron to the rag man,
and we had onion seed and we
had some potato eyes and also
some corn. Well, it did not
look like much use. You can
dig up a yard and put these
things in and cover them up,
and maybe put some rich dirt
on top, and it does not look
like much use, I tell you. Well,
we sat around there after
school for several days; whei
we had put all these things
in the ground we felt like we
wished they would come up
so we cold look at them.
This is not the first time Sam
and I have planted seed be
cause I expect in our time we
have planted more cherrj
stones and peach stones and
orange seeds and lemon seeds
and apple seeds and once we
must have planted anyway 1,
000,000 watermelon seeds in
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Keep Faith With Your
Boy “Over There”
When your boy was so little that all the
world was a foreign country to him, he
trusted you to take care of him.
You sent that boy to school and to play
and on your little errands, and with implicit
faith he did your bidding.
Now we have sent your boy or your neighbor’s boy out into a
foreign land, into terrors that we cannot even know—and his
faith has not faltered. He knows we will do our part, and we
know he will do his.
Are we keeping the faith ? Are we scrimping and saving and
giving to help our boys do the thing that humanity has asked of
them, and to help them come back to us sane and whole ?
June 28th
National War Savings Day
Saving to help our sons is not to be called by the ugly name of
duty or sacrifice. It is love’s blessed privilege.
National War Savings Committee
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This space contributed for the Winning of the War bj ———
E T. WHERRY & SONS, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, McCRORY, ARKANSAS
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our back yard but you cold go
to the place 1,000,000 times
and look at it for a couple of
hours if you wanted to, but
you wold never see any defer
ence. But that wras when we
were little and now we are go
ing to be in the U. S. S. G. Ar
my of course we wold know
better. When we were little
we wold just as leaf do our
planting in October as any
other time.
Well, so one morning Sam
called me over there and he
was all hopping when I got to
our farm because there was a
little plant sticking up out of
the ground and signs of some
more coming with little leaves
and all. I tell you we never
did feel better than when we
say that because it was our
own little plant on our own
little farm and it made us feel
hungry like we wanted to eat
it right away but we did not
because of course it wold be to
vong and if we went and eaten
it we cold not sell it. Well,
we were pretty glad all day
and after school we sat and
looked at our farm and pulled
some weeds out and we cold
see this plant was some bigger.
Sam said it was going to be po
tatoes and I said onions. Ver
man said corn but he probably
said thaf because he is tongue
tied and it was easier for him
to say.
Well, we did not. I went
there before school next morn
ing and Sam said*look what
happened and he was almost
' crying because this is what had
gone on. Well some old chick
ens had been there and they
had scratched up our whole
farm up the vile old chickens
and eaten up all our seeds that
had not sprouted and there
was not any farm left.
Well we called the two col
ored boys an they were as mad
as anything but they said if
they could find those chickens
they knew what they wold do
with them and so we wold be
gin all over again and make a
new farm, because the spring
was early yet and if those
chickens cam back well just
let them try it that’s all.
So we are going to start our
farm again and it is going to
be a mighty good farm. She
said this army was going to
have 5,000,000 boys and girls
just as many as there will be
soldiers in the army, and our
farm is going to be the best
| because we have already got
the experience of one farm
and we wold not take anything
for how we felt when we saw
our own plant coming up and
getting ready to eat. That is
a kind of a felling nobody
knows how much excitement
there is in it till you see your
own plant coming up like that.
Well and so that is about all
because our army is getting
ready to begin and help win
the war and see their own
plant coming up. Well we
have got some pretty good
spades and hos and rakes and
trowls and we found where
those vile old hens came from.
They belong to old Mr. Tron
ket lives three doors up the
street from Sam so we thought
we better warn this old Tron
ket and we wrote him a note.
It said if any more vile hens
found on our farm they will
be the propty of a poor colred
famly that it in need.
So we expect there will
probably be no more trouble
and pretty soon some morning
we will see our own plants
coming up again and will all
be looking at our own good old
plants and wearing our badge
of the U. S. S. G. Army.
Yours sincerely,
PENROD SCHOFIELD.