Return to the Farm!

No matter what they may have seen in Paree, Lake County veterans were asked to return to the farm. County Agent Virgil Place was doing the asking, on behalf of Indiana's committee on food production and conservation. This was an attempt to solve two problems at once — to keep up the food supply for what remained of the army as well as the European relief effort, and to provide jobs for returning veterans, since the end of the war would probably mean a slackening of industrial work.


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From the Hobart Gazette of January 3, 1919.