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Show IT'S GROWIXG STROXGER Government statistics for the past years how that the much-talked of "back to the farm" movement is growing stronger. strong-er. There was a falling off during the year in the number of boys who gave up farm life for the glare of city lights and the noise of city streets. The heavy salaries paid during the war in the cities of the land began to drop last year, and boys who had deserted towns the size of Delta and those who had quit the farms for fancy salaries began to return to their old homes. Not only that, but the boys who hadn't left but were wishing for an opportunity, changed their minds when they saw wages commence com-mence to tumble. The tendency of farm boys and girls to enter agricultural collegs was greater in 1921, too, than for a long time, and this gave the back-to-the-farm movement added impetus. im-petus. For it proves that at last our boys and girls are commencing commen-cing to realize that slowly but surely the best paying jobs and the ones that carry the most happiness are not to be found where life is the "fastest" and gayest. |