South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-06
BOYS RESERVE
IS SUGGEST Ill
Organization Proves Effective
Help in CuItivating
Farm Products.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 6. Salts
factory reports from the various
states. telling Of more and more
boys going on the farms and MAX
ing good there and Of farmers so
pleased that in some cases they are
voluntarily raising the boys waSes
indicate in some degree the pro-
gress which the L. :. Boys WorG-
ing reserve of the department of la-
or is making This success - attri-
buted by William r. Hall. national
director Of the reserve, largely T.
the fine spirit and enthusiasm which
the state directors and other Lead
ers are showing and TO the care wiz.
which they are selecting the boys
whom they are sending out ON n
farms.
The increase in the operations OF
the reserve has necessitated its ova
erfiow into a new building which
has been taken as an annex 20 th-
department of labor
National Director Hall has held
a number of important conference
in the past few days with state iii
rectors and other officials, LOOKING
TO the forwarding of the work
These conferences are resulting in
a constant expansion of the effort
and in a closer cooperation on the
part OF all engaged in the work. The
shortage Of farm labor in some parts
of Maryland and Virginia and the
best method of filing this with boy
labor, was discussed at a conference
between Mr.. Hall and +. w. Holden.
state director for Maryland. ana
Robert c. Howard. acting director
for the District of Columbia. other
state directors who have been here
recently in conference with the ma
tional director are DR. Stratton u.
Brooks of oklahoma, j. c. Futrall
of Arkansas, and W. c. Trotter OF
Mississippi The appointment of two
state directors during the past Wee
3. Harvey Alfred of Boise. Idaho.
and r. x. Bliss Of Iowa state COZ
iege. Ia.-completes the organic
ton of the reserve in practically ev-
cry state.
Boys Profit, Too.
kilograms of consolidation were
sent to the recent Indiana state cor
ference by Sec'y of Labor Wilson
Herbert c. Hoover and Mr. Hall
Isaac d. Straus state director for
Indiana, reported that the confer
ence was a great success and that
the work there has started off with
a vim
Numerous indications of the
hearty and patriotic manner il
which the boys are going into this
farm work, are being shown i'm the
correspondence being received at
the headquarters here" said MIR.
Hall, who added that he had moth
ing but words OF praise for both the
state leaders and the boys who are
helping to make the world safe fer
democracy 10y going out to increase
the nations and the worlds needed
food supply.
And to show what this farm
work may mean in the way Of profit
TO the boys themselves" said III.
Hall, "let me cite the case cf SO
boys in Arizona who in five weeks of
work at chOpping and thinning cot
ton have earned $500, out O.:
which they paid $1,000 for board
$4,000. These boys thinned and hOed
nearly 1000 acres of land to the
great satisfaction of the owner.
The boys had their own camps i'm
charge of their own officers who
were teachers in the Phoenix hien
school with some agricultural ex-
perience. The camp discipline
which was on a strictly military
basis. is reported to have been ex-
cellent The demand for boys was
greater than the supply; and at
least 500 more boys could have been
placed recently from Phoenix alone
according TO the report of Indie
b. Orme. state director.
Coming halfway across the con
tinent TO Nebraska we receive the
excellent report that. TO make up
for the loss in winter wheat in that
state there is an increase of 1000.
900 acres IN corn this year: and tha-
the boys have adopted the slosar.
'Nebraska's corn crop in the CRIB
by Christmas Paul II. Mckee. the
AtNtl4AAA dpRuAlttu STATE III tNlb bt
the reserve in Nebraska, is lining up
the boys 10 do their part and the
word comes that, there VIII be
splendid patriotic reaction in the
minds and hears of these boys be
cause they are doing so important
service to their state and nation
W c. Trotter. recently appointed
state director Of ATiSSissfDpi report
that he is expecting 10 send some
boys from that state TO the wheat
fields of the central west He SAYS
that Gov. BilbO expects 10 ask IN"
legislature for g special appropria-
ton to carry on the boys reserve
work.
Exceeding All Hopes.
Going now C the extreme north
eastern corner Of the United state
we get the report from Gilbert TOT
man, one OF Jefferson G. Smith
efficient camp leaders in Maine. that
the work the boys are doing in the
potato section Of ArOOstook count
is exceedingly beyond our most san
guine hopes Mr. Tolman declares
that the farmers are very well salts
fled and the boys are happy. Tho
BOYS are from the southern part o.
Maine and the work fbe-- a re- ooir-