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Show SEEKS FARM LAND . FOR JEWS TO FARM Rabbi A. R. Iaevy of Chicago, secretary 1 and founder of tha Jewish Agriculturists' Agricultur-ists' Aid society of that city, arrived her thla mom lag from an official trip of Investigation In-vestigation throughout tha northweat. Th work of tha society la to procure farm land and bring tha ?wlsh people from th cngeatd district In tha large eaat erg citie to form 0ok.nl. A large lumbar lum-bar of famine hav baan ' colonised In Wyoming and North Dakota with tha moat - factory result. Rabbi Lavy leave tomorrow morning, but will look mto the opportunlUaa for tha work In rtah. It la tha contention of tha Jewish "-organisation that .their people ware originally origin-ally farmer of the first water, but were driven to commercial bualnes by outer force, and It I the purpose of th society, so-ciety, to bring th poor Jew back to the fa on. Rabbi Levy aaaerta that th Jew will be-ca-me a great factor In thla kind of activity and will prove even more Interested In-terested In It than In the needle industry and clothe manufacturing, the Jew' two leading Industrie In America. Great headwsy haa been made In the work and over 600 f ami Ilea hav been homeeteaded In the wetrn state. Rabbr Levy, who waa In Halt Iake twenty yeara ago, aay th growth and tba development ia Incredulous, In-credulous, a "The atate," ha aaya, "offer seetlent opporiunltle for th extension of th work, and Jewish families will soon be located within Us boundariea on. amall acreage." |