Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1918-03-22
Boys Working
Reserve Reduces
Labor Shortage
County Director NJ. NJ. WickhMn
Has big Plans for Utilizing the
Energies Of All Boys Who
Are Under Draft Age.

The progress of the war Is driving |,
every widcawakc American to the |
realization that 1t is loyal active ser !
vice. and not sentiment, which will
win the war for the allies and their ,
eSpoused cause. Every resource,
force. and sinew of the Nation must
be harnessed on the side of eff
cheney. Efficiency when linked up
with material and moral resources
will open the shortest route to the
overthrow of the Gcrmanic scheme
Of Imperialism.
inc harvest seasons are about to
sweep across the continent of Amer
lea. and already there is discovered
to be a shortage of labor which If
not supplied will mean that we will
lose millions of dollars in our GER
eais. and by that reason fail to sup
port our battlc-lincs at the front
and those of our allies. There Is
talk that the women shall go into
the fields and help save the crops.
as the European women have done
But has America come to the point
where she is depleted of men and
youths to the extent that our mo-
theirs and sisters must go into the
|
for the allies? They who have
crowded the Red Cross rooms of the
country, and supplied the boys with
woolcn garments from the fircside"
Have they not done enough? There
are enough men in our cities and
villages engaged in unprOductive
pursuits: and there are enough
good red -blOoded youths through
out the length and breadth of the
land to marshal an army Of produc-
ers and conservatOrs such that not
"A crop in the season of 1919 shall
go to waste in continental America
That unmarshaled army as yet can
back every soldier on the battle
lines, in the cantonment, and on the
draft subject to call
The war has settled down to the
problem of slow attritiOn between
the powers of world democracy and
autocratic world imperialism. Every
healthy, able-bodied citizen. man or
woman, boy or girl. must awake to
I the vital necessity Of aligning them
! selves on a productive basis on be-
I half of the Government during the
{ war. AS the war progresses, many
: OF the unprOductive pursuits will b,
I dropped from sheer lack of patron
.. age; but the clarion bell of the houi
( is to make the shift on a loyal ant
{ lpatriotic basis and thus hasten tn,
program of our Government an,
K that OF the allies in restoring inter
national stability in a frenzie,
{ world
{ The L. S. Department OF Labor |
Z completing an exhaustive survey o
( the labor problem looking to "A con
servation OF our harvests this sea
{ son. But. at best. authorities ar
( agreed that there will be a shortay
I in labor: hence the Government
( through the Department of Labor
is making a patriotic appeal to tn
young men of the country. betwee
the ages of 16 and 81 years of ag,
through the L. s. Boys WOrkin
( Reserve. to enroll for productiv
service in field and factory durin
the season of 1918. and thus sul
port the Government and its wa
Z program in as effective Il way as
\ they were in the cantonment or %
the firing line.
( THE National drive will begin %
: the 18th of March. and in Bryn
county at the same time. said Nj
K Wickham. county director for IirN
: an county. just returned from tn
meeting of the State Council of Dr
Tense in Oklahoma City. whcr" h
was called in conference with IN
\ county directors of the state pre-
paratory To III" drive: "and il is ">
petccd that Oklahoma will suppl
3 10000 young men in this cOluntec
Z army. according 10 the estimates {
: Hon. 4. l.. Farmer, Federal stat
: Director for Oklahoma"
( All persons interested in tn" r.
Z serve will address NJ. NJ Wickhan
2 Durant Oklahoma or the prpSider