El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-09-14
diIIionaireS And PauperS Are Modified Frank Carpenter
To Help Harvest Americas Bumper Crops
Banker Making $4,000 Proudly Earned
in the Field; New Army O. S Created
BY
Frank G. Carpenter
Copyright. 1918. by.
Frank c. Carpenter


IL Is worthy OF being kept in force all the
year round. II reads as follows;
Work or fight
upon every man within the draft age
self respect makes il mandatory upon
every man Of every age
II. perchance, there are any tdlers rnd
loafers continuing 20 lead lives CT useless
ness in your town. despite war needs Tor
man power you can do great deal 10
cause them 10 change their course iou
can make a complaint TO the sheriff or
chief OF police or any officer, charging
them with vaErancy- II the vagrancy laws
are not being strictly and unrelentingly
enforced in your community yours is one
Of the very few places en- the United states
where those laws are not being enforced
You can help 10 see that they are en-
forced You can see that loaiers In your
section get a job or 60 10 jail Livery
loafer put TO work releases a man who
may help on the farm
soldiers Must Have Food.
Farmers need hands. Soldiers must have
food Farmers cannot produce food unless
they have help. The loafer is aiding the
enemy whether ne means TO do so or not
The man so dead OF spirit as not 70 real
izs his patriotic obligation must be forced
10 see H. Give the loafers Of your town
a straight from the shoulder understand
ing Of their alternatives This Is no time
for word minclnE or baby talk
Make him 90 70 work or 20 to jan
Farmerettes Make Good.
The government has done a great deal
boys and women into the service ] am
told that the farmerettes are making
good. and that they are saving the day
IN many communities They have done
an enormous work in the gathering OF
the fruit crop. and their systematic or
SANITATION scattered through the farm dis
trict has been OF great value
The boys Of the country have been or
ranized by the labor department into what
Is known as the boys working reserve
Secretary Houston says that We have
the AGES OF IS and Is. who are not en-
ICED in productive work. and whose serF-
ices might be utilized for a large part
OF the year. So far something Ike a
Quarter OF a million boys have been mobi-
lized into this working reserve and tney
have been doing farm work here and there
all over the country Many OF them are
city boys who have gone out 20 the farms.
and some OF the best OF the workers have
been the sons Of rich men who had never
done farm work before Take a typical
taken from one OF the private schools
there and were put out on 20 farms 70
work during the summer vacation Each
accepted his Job as a patriotic proposition
and was paid wages according 70 the Work
he was able TO do OF the 20 be MADE
good and every one or them mas peeu
asked TO return next year 70 the farm on
which he has been WORKING TINS summer
The farmers were afraid TO use city boys
at the start but they have found thar
they are fully the equals OF their own
boys at home
in many OF the states. camps for the
training OF boys for farm labor have been
esta blished in connection with the agri-
cultural colleges In some OF these the
bows live in tents They wear uniforms
and have their regular military drllla N
with the work. There Is enc
camp in Pennsylvania which had at one
time 1900 reserve boys in training, ana
there were 20 other liberty camps through
out the state in charge OF experts Most
OF the New England districts have done
much as 70 mobilizing the boys and me
same Is true Of tho states Of the west ana
south IN fact the WORK has been going
IN in every part OF the Union. and II
promises to be OF more and more value as
0-7 Frank G. Carpetner.