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Show Another way in which the tired business man can serve his country this year will be by planning to take his vacation va-cation on a farm, and timing it so that he can be of use in getting in the hay and threshing the grain. So far as he is seeking exercise for his flabby muscles and outdoor air for the little-used recesses of his lungs, farm work presents all the advantages of hiking and is far superior to an automobile trip, while as a genuine contribution to our preparedness it is not far behind a season of training in a military camp. - '" Their efforts as individuals may not be individually prodigious, but taken all together they will count The matter of wages ought to be capable of adjustment among friends, and anyway the citizen who is looking for an economical way to spend part of the summer can afford to be liberal. Who knows that he might not be laying the foundation for a substantial movement back to the soil? Portland Oregonian. |
