Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-16
BOYS NEEDED TO HELP
IN HARVESTING CROPS
Opportunity for Employment At
forded on Farms Adjacent
to the District.

There is demand on the farms in the
vicinity of the District of Columbia FOL
boys to assist in harvesting the crops
and It was decided yesterday at the
meeting of the District branch OF the
United States Boys Working Reserve
that the work will be started on the
nearby farms Henry P. Blair. chair
man of the temporary organization
committee, said that when the local
demand was met it would be extended
to cover more distant points The opln-
ION was expressed by a number of those
present that the weeks or months spent
In the country by the boys would pc
both beneficial to the nation and to
the health of the young men.
Charles F. Nesbit.- District superin-
tendent of insurance, who has been
looking into the food situation in the
vicinity, reported that the crops of
nearby farmers were larger than they
could handle alone. Some truck grow
ers, he said, are in need of from ten to
twenty boys.
F. C. Daniel Chosen Director.
Prof. Frank c. Daniel, principal Of
the Mckinley Manual Training School.
was chosen director for the District OF
the reserve and L. w De Cast. secre-
tary of the boys department of the
Y. NJ. C. A. head of the enrolment
bureau. De Cast also will act as sec
retarN of the executive committee,
which was selected. consisting of Henry
c. Davis chairman; Henry 2. Blair.
vice chairman: William X. Cooper.
Robert c. Howard, DR.. Noble =. Barnes,
Frank C. Daniel and L. w. De Cast.
General Committee Named.
The general committee for the Dis
tr1ct was named as follows:
Tt,ar LAS II
Corby. Frank C. Daniel. Judge William
H De Lacy, Joshua Evans. jr.: Robert
c. Howard, Rudolph Kaufman. John
B. Larner, John E. Laskey, Colin II.
Livingston, Arthur C. Moses. Walter F.
Rodgers. James Sharp. Daniel W. Shea.
Paul Sleman, Eugene E. Stevens. Ernest
L. Thurston, Fred A. Walker. DIR. Will
liam Parsons. William H. Littlepage, NJ
W. Baldwin, Willard Buell., BENJAMIN
R. Johnston, ]. G. Hanna, w. f. Fowler,
Grant Leet, Edmund s Wolfe. NJ. w.
Fawcett. R. A. Ford, Elgin Smith, L. A.
Williams. j. F. Boeln. Prof Emerson w.
Matthews. John Brayshaw. jr.; James
Del Carpenter, r. W. Price. H. G.
Davis. A. E. Leckie. c. NJ. Exley, c. A.
Baker. DR.. George w. Pope. Prof. H. E.
Day. DR.. II. H. Settler. H. S. Omohundro.
Edwin Williamson. S. u Croft, S: D.
ner, Rev. E. S. Dunlap, Prof S. e.
Kramer, Charles F. Nesbit. Judge ]. W.
Latimer, Clarence A. Aspinwall. H. H.
Grogan, +. 4. MattheS, DIR. s. ii. Greene,
DR.. Charles Wood, DR.. j. S. Montgomery,
DR.. w. C. Sparks. DIR. Albert E. Pazan.
DR.. ]. E. Mitchell, DIR. W. H. Hunting
ton, DIR. William T. Parsons. DR.. Will
liam H. Littlepage, Henry Surguy. Ru-
dolph De Zapp. Judge Milton NJ. Doyle.
Julius 1. Peyser. J. r. Hildebrand and
DR.. Noble P. Barnes.
Thousands of Boys at Work.
Thousands of members of the bows
working reserve, organized by the De-
partment of Labor to aid in farm work,
have been put on farmk. it was an
nounced at the department.. and many
other thousands are ready to start to
work as soon as arrangements can be
made to place them.
The California state director of the
reserve telegraphed the department
today that $4,000 boys had joined the
organization in California and would
be put to work soon. The New Jersey
membership now numbers 1000. Penn
sylvania 1000, Connecticut 700 and New
York city 1000. New York state. it was
said at the department today. probably
will furnish the reserve with $4,000
boys.