The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-06-07
DRIVE FOR FARM LABOR.
Governor Makes Appeal-Eforts To
Be Made To Secure Every
Available Man For The

L AO Ndi yIdnu NOuHCll OI DOIenS6
and the federal state Offices of Labor
and Employment have combined IN
drive to secure every available man
for farm work in Maryland.
To that end they are calling upon
men of farm experience, who are
now employed in other occupations
and appealing to them on the ground
of patriotism to devote their sum-
mer time to cultivating and harvest
ing the crops. The need is acute
and the farmers arc sending appeals
every day to the Offices in Baltimore.
Governor Emerson C. Harrington
has issued an appeal which will he
distributed throughout the state.
The Governor expressed the deepest
interest in the movement, and stated
that he appreciated the urgent
necessity of it. The harvesting
season is almost at hand, and unless
help goes from the towns and cities
to the fields, there will be an enor-'
nous food loss in Maryland The
appeal of Governor Harrington is as
follows:
Governors Appeal.
81 have been requested bv the
Maryland Council of Defense and by
the Federal State Director OF Labor
and Employment, to aid them in the
important work of supplying toN thu
n 0rry10
crop seasons of the present year
sufficient farm labor for the harvest
ing of their crops. Maryland farm
ers have responded to the world
great need for food oby planting
larger crops and more extensive
acres this year than ever before, ami
the time is rapidly approaching
when some of these will be ready to
be harvested, while the need con-
tinuously exists for the cultivation
of growing crops. Farm labor in
Maryland this year is at present
short 5000 laborers, and this short
age must be made up somehow. if
the crops are to be successfully har-
vested.
ITO aid in this work is the patri-
otto duty of all persons who are
capable of helping, and who can,
even at personal inconvenience and
sacrifice, arrange to do So The
urgency and necessity of this work
is so great that, in obedience to the
request of the Maryland Council of
Defense and of the Federal State
Director of Labor and Employment,
| address this appeal to the people of
Maryland, asking and urging all who
can assist in this important work of
crop cultivation and harvesting to
do so, and l address this appeal espe-
cially to residents of Baltimore and
other cities of our state who are
employed in the cities and who will
take one or more weeks vacation
during the summer, which custom
arily, would be spent in the country,
requesting that these vacation
periods be devoted to work on the
farms of the state, helping In the
cultivation and harvesting Of crops.
Proper pay and compensation
will be made by the farmers to all
persons who will so help, and by this
means vacation periods can be turn
ed to, the profit of both the yolun-
teers who help and to the farmers
as. WELL
Persons are requested to register
for this service at as early a date as
possible at the United States Public
Reserve Office, &c Commerce street
Baltimore, at the branch Offices of
the reserve in Cumberland. Hacers-
town, Salisbury, and with the most
masters of all other towns through
out the state.
Our boys have answered the call
to duty, to service and sacrifice
They must be fed, as must Our Allies
over there.
This appeal is a call to duty to
all who can help"
Many a man is out of work for tho