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Show if YH W' JK fW--: 4J tt Farm YouthofuTsT Looks to Tomorrow TOMORROWS farmers and farm homemakers are second to no school group in their enthusiasm for Investing In War Bonds and Stamps to make sure their future U secure. Through the Schools At War program they are investing what they save and earn in War Stamps and Bonds. First evidence of this is the amount the 4-H Club boys and girls and the FFA boys invested in war savings In 1942 from "Victory Pig" and other projects. A million and a naif 4-H Club members put $6 000 -000 of their own savings in 'war Bonds and Stamps and sold $2 500 -000 worth of War Savings to their neighbors. Nearly a quarter million mil-lion members of Future Farmers of America invested more than $1 -500,000. ' Spurred by the realization that the financial welfare of farm families fami-lies the next 20 years depends on how wisely they use today's higher incomes from increased food, and other wartime production, both groups have set their goals still higher for 1943. These farm youths are building financial reserves, and urging their parents to do the same, for after-the-war necessities, to meet financial finan-cial emergencies and to help them get started in college. They're building reserves today for tomorrow's farm buildings and for the other things they will need when they're tomorrow's farmers and homemakers. Acme Photo His Pigs Go to War young Johnny Clay of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is typical of farm children raising victory pigs and devoting profits to War Bonds. |