Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-03-14
MANAGERS Of WORKING
RESERVE ARE BUSY
Several Men Have Been Appoint
ed in the County to Aid in
Enrolling Boys.

| The. state meeting of the county
directors of the Boys Working Re-
serve was held at the Capitol building
last Thursday. The Boys Working
! Reserve is organized TO enroll, from
atriotic motives, for service on the
farm every boy from sixteen to twen-
ty-one who is physically qualified,
and who is not otherwise engaged in
productive service Sixty-five of the
counties Of Michigan are organized
with four hundred enrolling officers
to encourage the boys of Michigan to
do their best at producing food this
year.
Gratiot county was represented at
this meeting by Blaine Curtiss, whom
Gov. Sleeper has appointed as county
director
The following men are interested
in seeing this work pushed and are
acting as enrolling officers; Jotham
Allen for Alma, Frank Harrington,
Ithaca; B. c. Hubbard, St Louis; NJ.
A. Becker, Breckenridge; Guy NJ.
Rowell, Wheeler; Eugene NJ. Becker,
Lafayette twp; Leon w. Louderback,
Hamilton twp Geo. Clark, Emerson
twp; Putnam Taylor, Elwell; w. +.
Scope, Riverdale; W. II. Davis Perrin
ton; John K. Hudson, Middleton;
William Traub, New Haven; II. c.
Reed, Pompeii; L. A. Chisholm, Ash
ley; Elmer n Post, Fores Hill and
Henry Kennett, North Star
Mr.. Butler, the Federal state direc-
tor for Illinois was among the speak
ers. He said this was among the
greatest patriotic moves the Govern
ment had started and also reminded
us that this is the first time the gov
ernment has recognized the country
boy. All enrolling officers are urged
TO enroll the boys who are working
on their fathers farms as we'll as
those in cities or villages who go out
TO spend their vacation on farms
Every boys who enrols and works
thirty-six days or more on farm
receives the official Badge as a recog.
niZation from Unkle Sam that he has
: served where he was most needed.
? Mr.. Butler said that II per cent oil
2 farmers who used boys in llinoi.
5 last year wanted them back this year
This would indicate that where tn,
/ work was correctly supervised anC
the boys really wanted to serve theii
e country by helping produce food, the
G work was a success.
Mr.. Kelley, Superintendent of Pub
p lie Instruction. said, keep the boy
$ in school if possible, but if they mus
e be used before school closes, give then
2 their credit in the school work" IL
J, also said parents should encourag,
). the boys in this move and that far
mers must have the right attitud
p towards boys if they are to be sue
: cessful farm help.
G One Detroit School Superinten
d dent said no boy in his school woul
s be allowed to take part in athletic
n next season who did not work on
Y farm this summer.
Grand Rapids had one hundre
: fifty-fve boys who averaged thre
+ months on farms last summer ex
d poets to enroll five hundred his yea,
! An effort is being mad, % enro
$ two thousand boys from the Uppe
S peninsula to work on farms in tn
i Lower peninsula.
e Mr.. Chas. b. Skulley told of hi
/. experience with two Detroit boy
e whom he got in reply to an ad 70
r help in a paper. They were sixtee
and seventeen and would do anythin
on the farm. He said for farmer
who need one or two men through tn
rush season, the average city boy
= better than the foreigners TO take in
; to ones home. He also said they ex
pect to use one hundred Detroit boy
, in Lapeer county this summer.
Gratiot county has as good soil a
any county and il is hoped that he
boys will do their best to see that i
y produces food. II is life and deaf
matter. Someone in Europe ma
, starve to death if one of us spen
our vacation in an Improbable way
Our soldiers are trusting us and
tHey dit WhiiIlb 10 ldcc SuDnidtllts
bullets, shells, and deadly gas to pro
J. tect those Of W at home, surely we a
{ young Americans are not going I
II finch at few days hard work. blis
4 ters, and backaches.
n Let every fellow between sixteel
and twenty -one, who has not arrange
to spend his vacation in productive
: service, enroll in the Boys Working
: Reserve and help Cratiot count,
farmers Keep she srlies from starving