The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-08-25
BY Paul T. Gilbert

A prairie breeze from North Da-
kota blew into the Office today and
gradually the city, with it's skyscrap-
ers and stone pavement semeed to
dissolve into pictures of waving wheat
fields, lowing cattle and a land where
milk and honey flows.
She was Miss Sophia Lamb of the
department of immigration and agri-
culture of that favored state. All she
asks you to do is to stick a pin any
where in the map of North Dakota,
buy a railroad ticket to the nearest
town, get off and live in peace and
comfort to a ripe old age.
North Dakota, according to Miss
Lamb description, is a modern uto-
pia. It's cornucopia is o~verdowing.
1t wants, others to share it's bounty.
Needs $4,000 Harvesters
".And So" she said North Dakota
is asking for $4,000 harvest hands i'm
mediately and for 100 1000 families. If
they're not American born, we will
Americanize them with III schools
our lecture courses and our libraries.
IAN ordinary harvest hand gets Sc
a day, with meals and lodging, and the
Sc a day is all velvet, because he
won't have any time, until November.
to spend it.
"Then, if he has one-fifth the price
of one COW, the banks will stake him
to the rest, and he will be on his way
to independence.
''With five COWS and 100 acres you
are fixed for ife. You will want
to go back to the city. Your horizon
will be the boundless prairie, as chang
ing in it's moods as the sea. You will
your WI %fivver, your monograph,
your telephone, your rural free deliv-
cry and community schools for your
children"
Show Movies in Parks
In order to impress C%hicagoans Of
the advantages of North Dakota, Miss
Lamb, in cooperation with the Ameri-
c%anization department of the Y. NJ. c.
A., is showing educational movies this
WIEN a nv Slldll pains.
Many of those who already have
seen them have gone home, packed
their trunks and stuck a pin in the
map Of North Dakota. In these NOV
les you behold prize cattle at the state
fair in Fargo. You follow them to
the packing plant and see them ship
ped away as meat. You see the hap
Ply tieldhands, in broad brimmed straw
hats and overalls, making hay while
the sun shines. You see huge tractors,
harvesters and thrcshers that do the
work of an army of ieldhands. You
witness husking bees under the light
of the harvest moon.
"There eve was a state like North
Dakota" says Miss Lamb, who, by the
way, formerly was a Chicago girl. She
went out there herself as a farmland
and for her the bright lights have lost
their glitter. For every town-and
there are hundreds of them dotted over
the prairie-is a little Chicago in it.
self, boulevard lights, movies, a white
way.
"You See" she explains, we haven't
time to 60 to Chicago, so we bring Chi
cago to az.
Entertainment For You
But even in the country there is no
consequences, no pioneering. If you
get lonesome, you telephone the immi-
grafton department and entertainers
are sent out to amuse you. All you
have to do is to sit around under the
electric fan, listen to the photograph
and watch the wheat grow. Then,
when it is ripe, you harvest it. This
is hard work for a while, but who
wouldn't be willing to work hard to
save a $4,000 or $4,000 crop?
I'VE have the finest soil in the Unit
ed States. Farm land sells at SIG
an acre. Under the cow bill the state
furnishes you with dairy cattle, prov.
lded you put in five acres Of corn for
every COW. The department of agri.
culture shows you how to run you1
farm, so that ven if you're city bred
you can't go wrong. There is no coal
shortage up there, either. Our Goa