The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-16
This Amounts to $2,00O,OOO in
Farm Labor Alone.
Governor Capper Issues Work
ing Reserve Proclamation.
Line UP AGAINST THE HUN
German Lads Are Doing Same
Thing Across the Sea.
More Than 1900 Youths Are
Available in the State.
Let the boys of Kansas contribute
600 600 days and 50 0OO 900 in farm

labor to the cause of democracy.
This is the motto of the Boys
Working Reserve of Kansas in the
campaign beginning Monday for the
enlistment of at least 1900 high
school, college and grade school
Youths between the ages of 16 to
21 to aid in the farm labor shortage
over the state. The movement is ma
ton wide and under the direction of
W. l.. Porter of Topeka. federal state
director, is is anticipated that every
available boy will arm himself with
agricultural weapons.
Across the sea in Germany the boys
have been doing this ror years They
have been spending their vacations
from school on the farms that men
might be released for service in the
trenches II the United states most
serious shortage is faced, due to the
call to the colors Never before in the
history of the country has food and
the cultivation of crops been such
necessity.
director Porter has organized
Kansas for the cause. 1t doesn't cost
q boy anything to register and make
himself ready for the call to the farm.
The executive committee of the
United States Boys Working reserve
fo- the state council of defense is
composed of: w. L. Porter. chair
fare lirector; Arthur j. Carruth, jr.,
director of publicity; F. w. Knapp,
director of wages; F. d. Pierce. di-
rector OF training, and President w.
NJ. JarGine. director of cooperation.
Governors Proclamation.
Governor Capper today issued a
procla nation in regard to the work
and tire enlistment over the state. The
governor says:
III three months this summer the boys
of Kansas between the ages of 1G and II
years have the opportunity OF earning
100000 for Uncle sam This This account ,as IT.
labor on the firms of the state by the
1900 available boys of high school age,
aitho it will go into the pockets OF the
youths. will he an indirect contribution to
the cause of the war by relieving the labor
shortage on the fhrms
The farms OF Kansas, admitted by our
national leaders to be invaluable in aid
ing the cause of America and her allies,
must he developed to 100 per cen. efficiency
and production this year. Never has there
been such demand for agricultural pro-
dut.ts Never has there been such short
the soil, Thousands of Kansans have been
5nken from from the farms st to b dGm tiio the olive
Here is the plan The United States
youths of from 1G TO 81 years to. work on
the farms this summer during the school
va,ntion. Every state in the union has
hppn enlisted in the campaign Kansas has
II. 900 high school boys who could he used.
For week. beginning March Is, these
hovs may enroll with city and county en-
rolling directors. appointed by W. l..
Porter. director for Kansas. 1t rosts moth
ing for the boy to thus identify himself
with his countrv's cause. Just enroll and
await the opportunitv of going to the farm
for the summer months.
Here is chance for the Kansas boy to
line up at the front against the Hun lad
ncroSs the
Such men as President Woodrow WILSON,
ex-President VIM. Howard Taft. ex-Presi-
Hoover and Secretary of Labor Wilson
have endorsed. encouraged and induced
the
Now therefore I. Arthur Camper. gov
week of March Is rs Bows Enrolment
Week l call upon all to lend instant and
caDable support TO this most important
enterprisp to the end that Kansas NAV in a
commanding way support and sustain the
national government in its lofty service to
ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor.
Anxious to Enlist.
Letters are being received daily by
w L. Porter Kansas federal director
of the Boys Working Reserve, from
young men anxious to enlist in the
farm service. letter arrived this
morning from the Lexington. Mass,
school committee. asking for informa-
tion about the reserve. We have
heard of your most commendable
tswork in Kansas" the letter said, land
Would like to have all the information
you can give US, to see how far the
scheme would be practical in connec-
l.