Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-05-03
GET BEHIND A HOE.
Appeal to Boys Of Vermont TO Work
on Farms.
70 the Boys of Vermont:

To the Boys of Vermont:
If the war is won, America must win
it. If America wins it, everybody must
fight. The American army, your big
brothers, are proving their worth on
the firing lines of France Many of
them have done their duty to the full
they can never come home again
Many more are going, ever going for
WARDEN to save England-on to save
France-on to save Bclgium-ycs, ON
to save your mother and your sister
from the horror of the Hun.
These boys of ours and their allies
need food-good food and lots of it
to keep them in fighting trim. eve
got to furnish it, Our farms must
produce it.
The farmers of Vermont, like the
farmers all over the country, have re-
sponded to the call for service as food
producers. Already they are producing
more food with less labor than ever be-
fore. They are limited in their pro.
duction by their own strength. Acres
of crops last wear would have given
much larger yields if the farmers could
have had labor enough to have given
them proper care. The farmers are
planning everywhere to plant large
acreages of staple crops, and are hop.
ing and trusting that from somewhere
will come the needed labor. They real
i've that only small amount of addi-
tional labor can be secured from any
source.
You boys of Vermont of high school
age, who are not employed on farms,
have before YOU an opportunity to
serve your state and your country just
as real and vital as though you were
polishing your bavonct in a Flanders
trench.
You are force which must be
reckoned with if YOU will enlist in this
farm service and become a "fghting
unit on Vermont farms. You need
like the men of the armies. to be mob
ilized, trained, and detailed for duties
in which You are fitted and efficient
Farmer boys have enlisted in the army
and navy. and have been trained to
operate deadly mechanical fighting
machines of which they never
dreamed. Is it any more impossible
that the boys of Vermont who are ig.
norant of farm life can be enlisted and
trained to do TN less intricate but
equally important farm operations?
There is training camp available t.
you. the first of its kind in the state
1t ia ready now to enlist You.
| Poys, it's your chance. Don't lie
/ It BY. 'r'Fhe7"6Fde sons of Vernon
stand staunchly on the battle line 70
| liberty, for freedom. for drcency. The
have offered their all. They are pa
triots of tho highest type.
Boys of Vermont! Can't you catcl
the spirit of the world s great cause.
Can't you hear your older brother:
seuding you the call?
When the morning sun in all its RI
dance rises over the hills and bathn.
Camp Vail in gold and glory. it viii
reveal stalwart lads of Vermont
alirned before the flag mast to pa,
their heart 5 devotion to Old GLORY
rs it mounts ON high to watch ovel
their day.
And when with evening hour the
sun goes down, it will bid good nigh
to these same Stalwart lands, who a
the end of n day of work and effor'
can send across the ocean wide thi
message to their brothers over there
"Carry on. Men of Vermont, the lad
at home are backing You up"
How about it, boys? Is it the rea
thing' Can YOU loaf this sum
mer away!