The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-05
The Part Of Sentiment in Winning the War
and the Part That's Purely One of Business
George AIDE, In a Letter to Americans Between the Ages Of 10 and q,
Advises Both the Boys and Girls How They Can Help
&a@@ In National Crisis.
Perhaps you have heard about the

Perhaps you have heard about the
working reserve.
1t has been carefully organized un-
der government supervision. 1t has
received the official Endorsement OF
the president. The whole plan is
working II successfully wherever 1t
Is understood.
The trouble Is that some Of the boys
and some Of the parents are still .
little doubtful regarding enlistment,
because they don't know how much OF
an obligation Is assumed.
Here is the plan In a u shell:
Thousands of enlisted and selectes
men have gone to the training camps.
1t may be that thousands more will go
next year. These men are being call
ed from factories n workshops and
farms. Every factory and every farm
must continue production If we are 70
render full service to u faithful al
lies during the war. How can we NIL
the places of the young men who nave
gone away to fight? We must rely
upon the boys who are old enough ana
husky enough to work, but who are
still too young for military service.
! Trumpet Call to h Boys.
SO here is a trumpet call for all city
boys and town boys between the ages
of Is and FL.
Prove your patriotism and help your
country by jumping in and doing the
work of a soldier who has gone to the
front.
The United States boys working re-
serve Is not being organized for lads
who have to work for a living.
Ay~--p- r01Isn~ No" yyna ring
a uniform could make more money at
home.
You are not asked to work because
you need the money. You are asked to
work because your country needs your
help and relies upon you to chuck
aside false pride and join in the team
work.
If your big brother can dig trenches
surely you a pillow corn.
Go to the recruiting officer and en-
list for the boys working reserve.
Then, when you are called upon, go
and make good In the job assigned to
you and win your medal and wear 1t
and be proud Of 1t.
When the government began to Dr.
ganize this voluntary service among
boys, so as to meet the inevitable
shortage of man-power, the skeptics
and fault-finders got busy. They said
that boys living in cities and towns
never could be induced to work on
farms, that farmers didn't want to
have the town boys around because
they would prove to be green or lazy
or Indifferent, and the whole thing was
a fool c~ontraption.
Doesn't your common n and
your knowledge of addition and sub
traction tell you that If We suddenly
take 1000, 900 or more men right out
4 of the productive Industries of this
country, we must either find a million
men to take their places or else &c
short on production?
Are we going to do. as they have
done in England-dress the womer
and girls in mems garments and pu'
them to cleaning The streets and max
ing explosives and wiping up locomo
tives in roundhouses and doing all the
hard mental tasks? We mustn't come
to that-not while we have on hand {
whole army of young fellows between
16 and 21, nearly every n OF whom
has gone in for some kind Of ath
letic sport and is physically able ant
would be as mad as a hornet IL yo,
told him he was a mammals pet ant
not able to do a mans work.
I The boys between 16 and Fl can ant
will supply the shortage Of man-power
There will be a loud call for then
lin 1918 and they must answer the call