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Show 1 Nationwide Move to Provide Farms For U. S. Soldiers KANSAS CITY. Mo., Oct. 18 A nation-wide movement to provide farms for tho victorious American soldiers on their return from the battlefields is endorsed by Franklin K. Lane, secretary secre-tary of the Interior, in a telegram to tho International Farm Congress, made public here by delegates who are leaving for their homes today following follow-ing the forced adjournment ot the congress con-gress yesterday on account of the ban against all public gatherings during the influenza epidemic Discussing the "far-reaching value and effect of your plan for making farms for returned soldiers," Secretary Secre-tary Lane's telegram continues, "I shall look for your congress in the hope thai you "who are pioneers in reclamation work, will give your ap- proval to this new and greater ad -1 venture. j "The boys in France are thinking of two things Berlin and homo. "They are determined to pass to the latter through the former. We want a guar- ' anteed peace and when our boys re-j turn we should have a job for each one. He can make his own home out of our unused lands." 00 |