Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-22
ASK BOYS TO AID
IN RAISING FOOD
DURING VACATION
Organization of United
States Boys Working Re-
serve to be Formed
CHANCE TO HELP IN
FOOD CONSERVATION
Federal Representative, DR..
Geo. W. Edwards, Coming
to Direct Work.

Hartford, Feb. 2.-High school boys
and other students, between 16 and q
years of age, many Of whom did their
DIT last summer, are to be given the
chance to do their utmost the coming
summer, in the cause of food conser-
Walton. This welcome information to
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, Connect
cut within a 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. s. B. W. r. for Connecticut New
York and New Jersey. He has been
sent to Connecticut! by William E.
Hall, the National Director of the
Boys Working Reserve, to aid the
state committee n organizing and
mobilizirg and especially to explain
what is being done in other peighbor-
| 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 Connect
cut. Chairman George M. Landers of
the Connecticut Committee of Food
Supply has appointed the following
subcommittee on Military and Agri-
cultural Camps: John P. Elton, Wa
terfbury, chairman; Arthur Howe
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
chelder, Windsor; Charles T. Davis,
Middletown; Henry H. Smith, New
Haven; Charles L. Kirschner, New
Haven; William ]. MulHgan, Thomp-
sonvilIe.
Major Elton, chairman of the COM
mittee, purposes to call his COMMITTEES
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 neighborine
states. The week beginning March
lis is to be enrolment week and dur
ling the six days March 1928, 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 be en-
ployed during the farming season ant
also camps in which a number of boy!
may live, working on farms in the
immediate vicinity. Inasml1ch az
these two plans were tried out sue
cessfulfy last year, it is possible tina
they may both be used again thi
, year. The committee is sanguine %
enrolling about 1880 boys in thi
state, this figure being predicted Of
renorts from the agricultural section
of New York. Last summer, the New
, York farmers at first experience
about the same difficulties that con
fronted the Connecticut farmers AM
7 in some cases, in both states, tn
5 BOYS camp idea was condemned with
out a fair trial.
: DR.. Edwards reports that for tn
most part, the New York state farm
: ers are now enthusiastic and cage
that the Boys Working Reserve shal
be a success this year because tn
summer of 1917 was ended, the de
mand for boys on the farms far ex
! coed the supply. Though in the sprin
the farmers were generally apatheti
toward the notion of young city boy
8 doing any real work for them, durin
= the harvest season the managers coul
$ not supply them fast enough. AS
splendid production aid, the Feders
= Food Administration for Connection
;. is in hearty sympathy with the move
e ment and Food Administrator Robel
t Scoville has pledged the full supper
= of his entire organization IN tine en-
0 rolling and placing of the boys.