The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-06-22
275 Men on Job Yesterday; Pep Of First
Assault Maintained; Over 400
Acres Cleaned
'SLACKERS TO Be MOST
UNPOPULAR HUMAN
To Keep Hard On His Trail; Much VOluu-
ieer Labor is Feature Of Drive;
Money TO Red Cross

Two hundred and seventy.five men
made up the fighting division that
modified yesterday afternoon for a
second assault on the weedy cotton
patches of the county Many of
these were veterans of Thursdays
expedition and not a few were fresh
at the business. At any rate the
drive was made with perhaps more
yigor than was shown the first day
as the routing committee directed
the finish of the weeks relief to the
fields.
Forty fields with an average of
thirty acres each have been worked,
C. NJ Hollingsworth, county food ad-
ministrator estimated this morning
and reports in the hands of Arthur
Ersland, secretary of the Retail Mer-
chants association, show that over
four hundred acres have been clean
ed out during the crusade. In addi-
ton to this, one hundred acres OF
wheat we're shocked by volunteer
parties from the city yesterday after
noon alone.
How the Council u Defense went
at the task of drafting slackers for
the fields makes up the feature of
yesterdays work, according to Off
cials who lead the advance from the
farm bureau. Dan Williams, until
the recent bacE-to-thefarm move
ment began an employe in a local
restaurant threw down the gauntlet
to the council, declaring he had new
er been a farmer and did not intend
to break his record at this time. All
yesterday afternoon he hid at his
home, authorities state, refusing to
come from cover lest he be forced
\ into the harness Williams has his
goods packed and is ready to leave
today but the council will insist that
he buy his passport by laboring in
the fields.
1--WE intend to make public all re-
sistance to the councils farm work
ruling" said Mr. Ersland this morn
ing when discussing the Stacker
draft. "If we must publish com
plete list of the objectors and even
use other means they must come
across" Only doctors certificates
will exempt registrants from chop
ping out their quotas.
"We have heard no complaints
from farmers who employed men
from town and l believe the work
in general has been satisfactory, -
said Mr. Hollingsworth today. In
most of the cases work has been
done on the fields of needy farmers
and in these instances no pay will be
accepted, volunteers declared to the
council. Some receipts from field
> work have been donated to the Red
Cross.
Plans drawn up at a meeting OF
the council OF -sefense this morning
b call for a change in the working
hours as outlined last week. Busi
ness houses will close at p. III
every afternoon next week except or
Friday and Saturday and crews vii
work in the fields until nine p. N.
J. Captains we're selected by c. NJ
: Hollingsworth this afternoon TO han
die volunteers, each captain having
charge of twenty men. These lead
ers will be responsible to the draf
committee for keeping time and col
! lccIing wages for men in their divis
u ion BY this scheme the committe
! which has been directing all the wor
F" until this time will be relieved S
that members will be permitted to G
II to the fields Following is the lis
l. of fifteen captains who have bee
called to meet this evening at eigl
y o'clock for a few minutes to divid
the work: J. NJ. Hopkins. E
= Bitsche. Will Hopkins, E. J. HUI
to bard, VIM. Elliott, Earl Barton. To-
r Dwycr, E. C. Burton, A. J. Hallur
er John Crib, l. A. Bone, J. E. Scho'
s.. l.. Erlich J. W. Wilson and To
Driggers.