The daily Alaskan., 1917-10-20

the "MarseillaiSe" and then they are ready to capture some more trenches.
 Repressed emotions sometimes turn sour. Don't be ashamed to let your enthuSiasm float publicly to the breeze.
 You never saw football team advance the ball unless it was get ting encouragement from the girls on the side lines.
 Now for the boys. Perhaps you have heard about the Working Reserve.
 It has been carefully organized under government supervision. It has received the official indorsement of the President. The whole plan is working out successfully where eyer it is understood.
 The trouble is that some of the boys and some of the parents are still a little doubtful regarding en- listment, because they don't know how much of an obligation is as sumeyd.
 LIere is the plan in a nut shell: Thousands of enlisted and selected men have gone to the training camps. It may be that thousands more will go next year. These men are being called from factories and workshops and farms. EYerye fac tory and every farm must continue production if We are to render full service to our faithful allies during the war. How can we fill the plac- es of the young men who have gone away to fight? We must rely up- on the boys who are old enough and husky enough to work, but who are still young for military service.
 So here is a trumpet call for all city boys aud town boys between { the ages or ID anu = l.
 Prove your patriotism and help your country by jumping in and do- ing the work of soldier who has gone to the front.
 The United States Boys Working Reserve is not being organized for lads who have to work for living. Nearly every soldier now wearing a uniform could make more money at home.
 You are not asked to work be- cause you need the money. You are asked to work because your country needs your help and relies upon you to chuck aside false pride and join in the team work. If your big brothr can dig trench es surely you can blow corn.
 Go to the recruiting officer and enlist for the Boys Working Reserve, Then, when you are called upon, go and make good in the job assigned to you and win your medal and wear it and be proud of it.
 When the Government began to organize this voluntary service among boys, so as to meet the in svitable shortage of man-power, the skeptics and fault-finders got busy. They said that boys living in cities and towns never could be in duced to work on farms, that farm CTS didn't want to have the town boys around because they would prove to be green or lazy or inA different, and the whole thing was fool coutraptiOn.
 Doesn't your common sense and your knowledge of addition and subtraction tell you that if we suddenly take 1 100000 or more men right otu of the productive indus tries of this country, we must eith- ST find a million men to take their places CT else go short on produc- tion?
 Are we going to do as they have done in Eugland-dress the women and girls in men's garments and put them to cleaning the streets and making explosives and wiping up locomotives in roundhouses and doing all the hard menial tasks? We musn't come to that-nOt while we have on hand a whole army of young fellows between 16 and 21, nearly every one of whom has gone in for some kind of athletic sport and is physically able and would be as mad as a hornet if you told him he was a mama's pet and not able to do a mans work, The boys between 16 and 21 can nd villa supply the shortage of man-power.
 There will be a loud call for them in 1918 and they must ans wer the call.
 EarIv last sDring Mrs. Thomas