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Show commissioned officer heads his 4MW I of men. It 's a wonderful training. Of: for the boys, and teaches a lesson tte will have incomparable . value laW life ,and means much to the public ft; year when increased crops are need;: more than at anv time in history. , terial from which the better types of country gentlemen are made. The youths of the land hare never failed to answer the nation 's call in time of peace or war. Tt is said that ooys under IS years of age won the 'civil war. Boysof all ages will win this war. , Boy's on the firing line and the younger set at home old enough to handle a hoe or drive any of the modern farm implements. Schools and churches are in this movement, move-ment, too. In the parades the teacher or spiritual director of the boys' classes is seen heading his boys in line as the MILLION BOYS TO INCREASE CROPS 0 III- :.-.4.'4r The youth of America is awake. ''To farms" as well as "to arms'' is the cry. Boys by the thousands arc going from cities to farms in a nation-wide movement to handle the big crops this year,. Bigger crons and more food this year means something that affects every man, woman and child of America Amer-ica and the allies. Shouting "The Battle Cry of Feed 'Em," and "Keep the Home Soil Turning." about 11,00(1 of the I.'nitcd States boys' reserve marched the streets of Chicago to show their down-state down-state farmers their future "hands." Other cities are having similar demonstrations, demon-strations, where the boys are becoming fast friends with farm implements, and particularly the farm tractor, the iron-horse iron-horse that turns furrows by the wholesale. whole-sale. The photograph here shows Mayor .Tewett of Indianapolis operating the Avery 8-11 for the benefit of the boys' federal working reserves in that citv. Judging from the crowd of boys watching watch-ing the demonstration, there is good evidence evi-dence 'lull the boy of the city is more 1 than anxious to become a man of the soil ami make things hum this year. Boys at the Purdue university arc operating op-erating an Avery tractor and plow this season. One can .see such work this year on many other university grounds throughout the country. Boys did remarkable work last vear. The Chicago board of education pfaced 700 of them aud had unsatisfactory reports re-ports of only three. They earned a"bout $50,000 in wages, and were paid only what the farmers thought they were worth. The work did rhem good", physically physi-cally and nioralh; gave them valuable experience; helped answer a serious labor la-bor shortage, aud did much to increase the crops. Many of them ' may later take up farming as an occupation and make it pay well. At any rate, all will he bene fited, for what 'man in 'the city later in life does not count the days of his boyhood on the farm as time well spent? This year will see another grand march of city youths to the farm lands. Those boys are not offering themselves as farm laborers, nor as oxpcrieC-cd farm hands, hut as vigorous, sturdyijua- |