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Show ORGANIZING OUR FARM WORKERS It Is a widespread but false Impression Im-pression that farm workers are not experts. The boy who has always worked on tho farm Is a better farm worker than a boy from the city. The samo thing applies to any other oth-er Industry. Tho man In tho machine mach-ine shop, trained to his work, is much moro useful In a machine shop than a farm boy. Those men over the draft ago, who are left In tho shop, should bo augmented by numbers num-bers of young men botwecn 16 and 21 years, to bo taught tho trade. But this same practice cannot apply ap-ply to the farm worker, for In all rural districts boys of that age already al-ready supplant older men. One exception ex-ception may prevail. If they are in schools vacations should be made in the seeding and harvesting seasons. sea-sons. Farm workers should be fur-loughed fur-loughed from training camps during these seasons of heavy farm work, on the condition that they work on the farm. In such ways tho workor over draft ago would bo reinforced by young American blood. Wo .are fighting a resourceful nation, which organizes Its industrial army as well as Its fighting army. Wo can only conquer organisation with organisation. organisa-tion. This food shortage will compel all American citizens to take a deeper interest In the agricultural industry and to see that farming is made more 'profitable. Tho fact that I say more profitable may seem very strange to some people In the East, ,but It Is nevertheless a fact. It Is tho useless middlemen and speculators who are making money out of farming farm-ing American Review bf Itevlews. |