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Show FARMER JEREMY AND HIS WAYS Dr. L. P. Jacks has a way of writing fiction with fact as Its foundation, foun-dation, conclusion and application. In his brief story, "Farmer Jeremy and His Ways," he tells us that "Mr. Jeremey's system for the regulation of human life was summed up in the maxim, 'Put your back Into It' Now. Farmer Jeremy's bitk was the most developed portion of his' anatomy, and the skill of the tailors eonjd not hide it.- It made the man stand out In a crowd, and respect ed nt home; for it was the result of the sort of life he led, and not a mere physical abnormality. Farmer Jeremy had been putting his back Into his work all his life and It was a successful life. His farm was a good farm, "a finished specimen," to -use another of his favorite expressions. And, to quote the story, "Jeremy, for a farmer, farm-er, was the most outrageous optimist I have ever met. lie never grumbled, save at the politicians, and the worst weather could hardly disconcert him." This Is the sort of man that makes a country progressive, and develops on occupation that pays In contentment content-ment as well as dollars and cents. What farmers want, according to Jeremy, is not government intervention interven-tion in matters that concern land and landlords, but the opportunity to develop to throw they- backs lnty it. and make it pay. Truly, Jeremy is a pioneer even in an ancient civir Halation. And Jeremy's simple philosophy of life is not for farmers alone, but for all men regardless of occupation. To put one's back into his work requires re-quires that his heart be there also. It is not the enthusiasm of the chamber cham-ber of commerce, the sort that Inveigles In-veigles the farmer in Iowa to desert his Inheritence for a city lot in California. It is the spirit, that has made everything worth having what It is, that builds farms and business, contentment and prosperity. |