New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

more than sixty youngsters give up a
part of their vacations to understudy-
ing Herbert Hoover. Each child has
his appointed hours and days of the
week for the task, and there is keen
competition through the fact that \
prize is to be given TO the owner OF
the best garden at the end of the sum-
mer. The children have already been
so fortunate in selling their produce
that il is expected that their garden
will be at least self-supporting, and
furnish the funds for undertaking the
work on a much larger scale another
year. The picture illustrating the
Amity gardens was taken earlier in the
summer, it ought to be explained. and
gives no idea of the present appear
snce of the gardens.
A score of little girls between the
ages of ten and sixteen have formed
themselves into a Children's Red Cross
at Franklin Square, an auxiliary of
the direction of Mrs. Cstharine Pad
dock, The girls meet two evenings
week at Mrs. Paddock's home to sew,
knit. make bandages and comfort bags,
and their work has been so well done
that all of it is accepted by the mother
organization and included in the Red
Cross shipments. Lillian Bayliss is
the captain of the society, Catharine
Herman the secretary and Jeanette
Rath the treasurer. Supplemented by
the ranks of the Boy Scouts, the girls
have been particularly successful IN
bringing in donations to the Red Cross
funds.
Junior Food Reserve
OF course, they are too grown-up TO
be included in a story of children's
work, particularly when one takes into
consideration the fact that they are
holding down man-size jobs, but the
boys of the Junior Food Reserve
camps of the Long Island Food Re-
serve Battalion certainly deserve to be
headlined in a story of their own.
More than fifty of them, between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-one, are
encamped at Jericho and go out daily
to lend their services to the farmers
Of the vicinity, who swear that the boys
have got the regulation hired man
beat to a finish" as one OF them ex-
pressed il. 1t may be that boys don't
always work hard when they get to-
gether to weed and hoe. The recent
rapid rise of gardening as an industry
has inspired a number of funny stories
on the subject, and one of them. which
bears many earmarks of having stud
led the subject at first hand, repre-
sents the boys as doing their resting
first" But there is nothing like that
in the Junior Reserve Battalions at
Jericho, a fact which many Of the boys
who 90 out to the camp from New York
have not properly understood before
they got there. One of them survived
the first days work in the fields, but
the night in camp was too much for
him. When the director-in-general and
regent of the camp, Professor 7. X
Moore, of Teachers College, Columbia
University, got up the next morning
he found q pathetic plscard, which her.
aided briefly the fact that life Is full
of illusions. 1t said:
Dear Mr. Moore: =,
"Gone home. Too many mosquitoes.
The card still remains tackled TO
tree as a warning to new students who
may have been dreaming of farm work
as the other kind of idyll. Most OF
the boys, however, have come fully
reconciied to the idea Of hard work,
and Professor Moore and John Lewis,
one of their teachers, are emphatic IN
praise of their work. II Is a signih-
cant fact that the Junior Reserve Bat
talions worked so hard, in fact, that
thew hadn't even time to have their
pictures taken, being without excep-
ton at work in the fields when the
photographer called.
Camp Life for City Boy Farmers
Camp life has its lighter aspect, the
mothers of the boys may like to know.
Showers and swimming pools remove
the CRIME Of the fields before the boys
have been back in the camp zen
minutes Moreover, the somewhat hur-
ried and haggard appearance of Doc
tor" Brown, the famous camp COOK,
proclaims that hard work does nothing
10 iniurc the boys sppetites. Next to
the doctor" the most popular person
in the camp is it's Charlie Chaplin, one
James Coleman, of New York, camp en-
tertainer. Talent in other lines thar
farming has displayed itself in the
ranks. and Gilbert B. Rose, an az;
student of New York, has won fanie
through the way in which he has lad
out the camp grounds.
"Our boys are thoroughly capable
farmers" Professor Moore declared,
land it is our hope for them that they
NAV be able 10 go on with the farming
Of the state in case the country needs
them in this capacity"
So, with Sammy. Jr., and Miss Co
umbia of the short skirts on the Job.
none Of u. need worry any longer
about what the country's coming to.
The children WI take care of US.