The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-21
ASK BOYS TO AID
 IN RAISING FOOD
 DURING VACATION
Organization of United States Boys Working Re-
 serve to be Formed.
CHANGE TO HELP IN
 FOOD CONSERVATION
Federal Representative, Dr.
 Geo. W. Edwards, Coming to Direct Work,

Hartford, Feb. 21.-High school boys and other students, between Is and 21 years of age, many of whom did their plt last summer, are to be given the chance to do their utmost the conojno suEanrer, in the cause of food conser- yation. This welcome information +n present and prospective Connecticut members of the United States Boys Working Reserve was made public to- day by the Connecticut Committee of Food Supply, together with the an nouncement that an official represent ative of the United States Department of Labor was in Hartford, last even ing, and is coming back to Connecti- cut within few weeks.
 The federal representative is Dr. George W. Edwards, formerly an in structor at the City College of New York and now Zone Director of the U. $. B. W. R. for Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. He has been senf to Connecticut by William E. Hall, the National Director of the Boys Working Reserve, to aid the state committee T organizing and mohilizing and especially to explain what is being done in other neighbor- ing states and how.
 Arthur Howe, former Yale football captain and now assistant head mas ter of the Loomis Institute at Wind- Sor, is an officer in the national body and one of the leading spirits of the Boys Working Reserve in Connecti- cut. Chairman George M. I4anders of | the Connecticut Committee of Food Supply has appointed the following | ub-committee on Military and Agri- cultural Camps: John P Elton, Wa terfoury, chairman; Arthur Howe 1 Windsor, secretary; Charles L. Beach, Storrs; General George M. Cole, Hart | ford; Edward Hazen, Haddam; Will | liam c. Cheney, Manchester; Julius c Stremlau, Meriden; Nathaniel H. Bat chefder, Windsor; Charles T. Davis, Middletown; Henry H. Smith, New Haven; Charles L. Eirschner, New Haven; William J. Mulhgan, Thomp- sonville.
 | Major Elton, chairman of the com mittee, purposes to call his committee | together soon in this city and Dr. Ed wards has agreed to return at any time, and to give the committee the benefit of his visits to neighboring states The week beginning March IS is to be enrolment week and dur 1 ing the six days March 1923, boys will be enrolled in the various schools of the state, chiefly in high schools. The state committee among other things is to consider individual farms on which individual boys may bye em- ployed during the farming season and also camps in which a number of boys may live, working on farms in the | Immediate vicinity. Inasmuch as these two plans were tried out sue cessfully last year, it is possible that they may both be used again this year. The committee is sanguine ot enrolling about 1,5OO boys in this state, this figure being predicted on reports from the agricultural sections of New York. Last summer, the New York farme rs at first experienced about the same difficulties that con- fronted the Connecticut farmers and in some cases, in both states, the boys camp idea was condemned with
 out a fair trial.
 Dr. Edwards reports that for the most part, the New York state farm
 CTS are now enthusiastic and eager
 that the Boys Working Reserve shall
 be a success this year because the summer of 1917 was ended, the de- Imand for boys on the farms far ex-
 ceed the supply. Though in the spring
 the farmers were generally apathetit toward the notion of young city boys Idoing any real work for them, during the harvest season the managers could
 not supply them fast enough. As { !, splendid production aid, the Fedora
 Food Administration for Connection is in hearty sympathy with the move , ment and Food Administrator Rober
 Scoville has pledged the full suppor
 of his entire organization in the en
 rolling and placing of the boys.