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Show Back to the Land! BY EDWARD M. TJ I TERRY, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO. May 13. Farmers of Illinois fell over themselves to hiro young Paul Boes. Boes became tho farmers' hero. He was the only man among: Chicago's millions who yearned to bo a fRrm hand and who had the pep to get himseU' enough publicity to land tho job he wanted. Ho set the fashion. "Back to tho farm!" became a slogan among city "fellers" tired of playing goat to rent and food profiteers. One hundred farm jobs were offered of-fered the enterprising Boe3 within 24 hours after lie'wr.otc his back-to-thc-farm letter To ' a Chicago newspaper. He picked out one. And Immediately thore was a rush of applicants and an avalanche of offers from farmers. A week ago D. O. Thompson, secretary secre-tary of tho Illinois Agricultural asso elation, wafl waiting vainly for his answers an-swers to his plaintive ads for farm Now two men aro kept busy at tho association headquarters interviewing applicants who'vo been convertod to the farm Idea by Boes press agentry. . Boes, who Is only 21, was born oh a farm In Denmark and did farm work two summers. He has a French wife and a baby son. Hla advertised qualifications quali-fications wero that he could milk a cow, drlvo an auto and a gas engine. Besides, ho had an ambition to loam the farm game and eventually havo a farm of his own. Now he is working on A. W. Davis' farm'at Big Rock, 111. The Boes family fam-ily have a cottage of their own and chickens, a cow and a pig. Inexperienced men can get farm jobs, too, because of tho gravo shortage. short-age. The big cry, though, is for men who can milk cows, handle teams and I plow. |