The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-05
THE BOYS WORKING
. RE:SERYEEAP'L.ANED
President Wise on Commends
Highly Efforts Being Made
% '., "a. 10 Help the Country y

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Very timely, indeed, Is the follow.
ing article on "The United States
Boys Working Reserve; It's Aim and
/ Spirit, which will be read with
1 great interest by both teachers and
students throughout Hawaii.
" Last week one bunch of twenty.
seven Honolulu boys left for Kauai to
work during the summer at Camp
Baldwin, Makaweli plantation. An.
other batch, this time Of upward Of
100 boys, is now on its way to the
Garden Island.
In these times Of war il is not only
the men and the women who are called
4 upon ito help the country; the boys
and the girls are also wanted in the
\ great work. The girls may be Of
great benefit Mt home and their busy
4 fingers win find many ways of assist
ing Uncle Sam.
! In the Boys Working Reserve, boys
of Hawai- will find field of unusual
usefulness The aim and spirit Of the
Boys Working Reserve IL thus told:
Army Behind the Army"
1 s;"Obviohsly the United States Bows
| Working Reserve has but one aim; as
the name fmplies 1T Is intended to fiji
mp the ranks of labor so alarmingly
depleted by the can to arms. 1t Is
for this reason that the movement Is
not a child's play, nor competitive
with any other existing organization
but the army behind the army 'the
second line of defense.'
CONSIDER what it means to feed
the army alone. The American army
cbnsumes each day four and one.half
pounds of food per man. The daily
supply Of food for the army is $3.50.
900 tons. This includes $4,000 tins
| OF IAN; lam requires sugar and Ha.
wall produces sugar. The American
army wants nearly all the pineapples
Hawaii can produce. Every section
and Stateain the union contributes it's
share Of the soldier 3 daily bill of fare
and IL Is not necessary to consume
space to enumerate these separate
items. But after we have the enor-
nous figures in pounds of food requir.
ed daily by the army we have only
a small fraction of the amount required
by the civilians Of our country and
those Of our allies. 80 that each sec.
tion ought to furnish a larger precent.
age, Of the civilian food supply than
Of the army. Hawaii does not supply
herself in some of the commonest ne
cessities of life and it therefore be.
comes al the more necessary that she
\ contribute what she can of the general
supply that Is in demand Besides
contributing sugar and pineappIes, Ha
wall can help as well by increasing
her own self support in meat, vegeta-
How, An May Help
I W. ImpoTtahC as .,Jv lah"r is in rpl".
! tion to the food supply there are GER
tain by-produets in such movement
As the Boys Working Reserve which
Lneed to. be carefully cultivated and
fguarded nv the leaders of youth.
Il ."(l) The Boys Working Reserve
'affords young men just under draft
age their opportunity for an expires
l,siOn of their Datriotism in highly
constructive form.
} "(2) 1t exaIts manual labor to a de
gree never before known since a war
of such gigantic proportions requisi
tions all the material resources Of q
great nation.
"(3) 1t should develop habits of
thrift, for no boy is. asked to work
without pay and it is such pay rs
| would have surpassed the youthful
dreams of his father before him.
"(4) Mammal labor, particularly in
, the open air, together with regula'
hours of physical exercise, meals and
sleep, are conducive to vigorous health
and is bound to harden muscles that
will be equally serviceahle in foot
ball or in fighting should they be call
ed eventually into military service
I'm accordance, with our. plan sci
forth in the Review last month every
public and private school where there
are boys between the ages Of l6-2l
, has been made an enrolment center
and these with other stations number
about 200. Over 5000 duplicated cards
, have been distributed Mt this writing
: June 81. As the enrolment has Just
commenced, few reports have come in
about $50 boys have been reported 81
, far, including 100 boys in Honolulu
J who are to go to Makaweh, Kauai
Z Let II also be said that the response
on the part Of the public school prin
,I cipals and others who have been named
Z to assist in promoting the plan hal
been loyal and encouraging Among
those employing boy labor some haV,
4 volunteered their sympathetic coopera
3 tion and special consideration for mem
bers of the Reserve. These are Mr.
7. n. Dole and Mr.. George r. Fisher
"f the Hawaiian Pineapple Company
r Mr.. Alvin Fraser of the Hawaii Pre-
serving Company Mr.. B. D. Baldwin
3 Of Makawe,i, Mr.. p. H. Broaden
ii Of Grove FIRM, Kauai md Mr.. A
INV. Carter Of the Parker Ranch.
/ spirft Of Uuse'fish Patriotism
Il '"The spirit Of the Bows WORKING
a. Reserve is unselfish patriotism. lie
no hesitancy occur in proelaiming that
While n is legitimate for boy t,
;. make all the money he can this sum
!. mer, his chief motive should be III,
8 consciousness that he Is helping to vii
4 the war. This ought to Puarante,
satisfaction to employers, The boy
can put heart into their work: n
b true patriot no soldier Of the Allie,
a. whether in furrOw or trench. will be
a Stacker in his work He is helpin
r himself. bis employer, his country. al
n mankind by the sweat of his brow i
productive industry-can any red
hlooded bow decline to work with a