The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-22
UNJUST TO STATE
New York World Prints Fake
Harvest Story.
Quotes Free Employment Agent
Without Authority.
NRDnVN 10 TNGESN1nEn
GEROW is INCENSED.
Photographed Eastern Agencies
to Send No More Men.
Paper Says Harvest VIII Last
100 Days Longer.

State Free Employment Agent T. B.
Gerow knows now why the harvest
hands from Yale and Harvard keep
coming to Kansas. A reporter for the
State Journal this morning called his
attention to copy of the New York
World for Sunday, July 10. containing
a full page story of how bad Kansas
needs a few more football players to
harvest wheat. The paper stated that
men will be wanted for the next 100
days 10 harvest the crop. This probab-
ly means about 100 days more trouble
for Gerow.
by thunder!' said Mr. Gerow with
great emphasis as he looked at the
great, flaming pictures of football
players with the words: .Rah-rah-
wheat fields we will CO." issuing from
their mouths. Now wouldn't that jal
you?" continued Mr.. Gerow. Here l
sent telegram to Mr.. Bealin, at New
York, on July IL, telling him to send
no more men, and here comes this New
YORK World with a scare story like
this. I never did have any use for that
sheet, anyway-never would buy
copy of it, if l could find anything
else. The only trouble with this story
is that it's all a fabrication from first
to Last
In the story Mr.. Gerow was quoted as
giving out the following fiowery inter
view:
we need right away 1000 more men
TO work in the harvest field-good husky
football players. They are the ones
who line up against the rows of wheat
and gather it in. The football players
struggle against the wheat as an an
tagonist and not against time. Those
Yale boys hustle for all they're worth,
and at shutdown the Harvard youths
are ready to begin all over again. AS
for the Princeton fellows, they seem to
work i'll the Nassau cOlOred wheat as
though they were at home on their own
campus. It's a great, all-America team
working together Preparations for the
battle begin at 4 o'clock in the morning
and the men go on the field shortly af-
ter. Upon receiving instructions for
their line of attack the signal to begin
is given by the foreman Faces are
drawn, teeth clinched and rush for
the wheat is made By several mass
plays the boys plough their way down
the field, leaving nothing but their
fallen foe behind. Time is called for
dinner at noon. The last half is played
with even more vigor than the first.
Once in each half a few moments are
taken out for a slight rest. During the
fray the goal on the other side of the
field is reached several times and then
the fierce attacks are repeated"
Il never said it," Missed Mr.. Gerow.
L never said such lot of twaddle at
one TIME III ali lily ne 4-ooA a. AAi~Ae
heading, Tribute to college boys by Ia
Dor bureau chief of Kansas That is
rot I don't consider college boys as
good for harvest field work as a COM
mon plug laborer. The college boys
can't stand it. ! have nothing against
the college boys, and some of them may
do well in the harvest. but they are no
better than anyone else"
Although the harvest is practically
over with, Mr. Cerow received a tele-
gram today from the county clerk of
Rocks county asking for 100 harvest
hands in the vicinity of Stockton. The
harvest hand rate has expired, but if
Mr.. Gerow, or the Topeka employment
agency can pick up bunch of ten men,
they will be sent out to Rocks county.