The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-05-17
ORGANIZING TILL YOUTH OF THE
LAND IN AN INDUSTRIAL ARMY
From Is to 81 Eligible to the Reserve
from 13 to 16 in the Junior
Reserve
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Boys in school, in the industries,
on the farms, can do their share
towards winning the war.
To unity and direct the boys of the
State is the object of the U. S. Boys
Working Reserve and the Junior
Boys Working reserve and the Jun
ior Boys Reserve which is just being
organized throughout Washington
by State Director Robert Moran and
State Manager Frank G. Moran, with
headquarters in the Arcade Building
Seattle.
This movement is auxiliary to the
United States Public Service Reserve,
of which Robert Moran likewise is
State Director and Frank G. Moran,
manager the latter having made spe-
cial study of boys and their welfare as
head amster of the widely known Nor
an School on Bainbridge Island across
from Seattle, and leader in the Con-
gress of youth, held in Seattle last
year. The Congress of Youth is to
be held again this year as feature
of the Boys Reserve organization.
In every County in Washington,
boys will have an opportunity to en-
roll in the Reserve and exert their
combined strength for the public
good, under competent direction, ac-
cording to the plan worked out by
Manager Moran.
Boys from Is to 81 will be eligible
for membership in the reserve and
from the 18th to 18th birthday, in
the Junior Reserve. Director Moran
says:
"a boy who maintains war gar
den, helps his father on the farm,
gives his services to patriotic or
ganization like the Liberty Loan,
Thrift Stamp, Red Cross, Food Ad-
ministration, OF a boy who applies
himself to his school work in the
spirit of patriotic service, by COM
pleting that much earlier his training,
will be considered just as patriotic as
the boy who works in our industries
on our fruit lands, or in our wheat
fields, at a stipulated salary. The
working feature of the Reserve will
be to pledge every boy who enrolls
conscienciouely to plan with purpose
all his time, winter as well as sum-
mer, to the end that there shall be
no loafing or lack of direction to the
utilization of the energy and power
of the boy to help the nation.
The Five Purposes of the Reserve are:
Ito present to the boy of the
State of Washington his responsible
lity in the face of the present Nation
al and worldwide crisis.
2.-To arouse renewed, pure pa
triotism and love for Country.
3.-To fix the high ideals of youth
for clean speech, clean thought, clean
act, through inspiration and leader
ship and thus set a moral stamina
for our youth for fit preparedness.
4.-To set before the boy in a pro-
per light some of the social and indus
trial difficulties facing US as a nation.
5.-To harness the adolescent boy
power of the state for profitable
utilization of his energies and time,
whether at school or at work-winter,
spring, fall and summer.
"Any boy can enroll by filing out
an enrolment card; obtaining the
consent of his parent, take the Oath
of Service and he then receives a
certificate and an enrolment badge"
There are Three Recognitions for
Service:
1st-Agricultural Unit. When a
boy assures the authorities that he
has spent six weeks of conscientious
and satisfactory service on the farm,
or on our great fruit lands, he is pre-
sented with Federal badge, bearing
the great seal of the United States
if he has been enrolled in the U. S.
Boys Working Reserve. If in the
Junior Boys Reserve he will receive
a proper similar recognition, but not
the Federal badge.
2nd.-The Industrial Unit. If he
works in an industry essential to help
win the war, and after having served
ten weeks subsequent to enrolling in
conscientious and satisfactory work,
he is similarly rewarded as is the boy
in the Agricultural Unit
3rd.-The Vocational Unit. The
Reserve recommends that all boys
who are at school remain there and
use their time in preparation. The
boy who thus prepares himself and
trains himself is recognized with a
Vocational award.
The State Congress of Youth will
be training center for boys.
The first session will be for train