Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-17
TRUMPET CALL
FOR BOY FARMERS
Director of Boys Reserve Asks
Delaware Youths to Show
Patriotism.

Director Armstrong Of the Boys Work
ing Reserve has issued the following state
mcnt.
This is to the fortunate ones who.
ten years from now, viii he enjoying
the benefits of what all future histories
will call the Great War.
~ on boys who are getting ready to
vote will know moro about this war when
YOU arc plump and mIddc-agcd than
anyone can possibly know this year:
When the dust has cleared away and
the large events of the war can he seen
from distance then YOU will understand
that the issues involved had to Toe fought
out. that the United States had to take
part. that the task VIC are now undertake
ing had to he accomplished. Let us
hope that each of you can say twenty
years from now, / WAS young at the time,
but | knew what the war meant, and l
helped
Not all of the heroes arc IN the trenches.
Perhaps YOU have heard about the Work
ing Reserve. 1t has been carefully or
ganized under government supervision.
II has received the official Endorsement
of the President. The whole plan is
/ working out successfully wherever 1t Is
understood. The trouble is that some
still a little doubtful regarding enlist
mcnt because they don't know how much
of an obligation Is assumed. Here Is the
plan in nutshell: Thousands of enlisted
and selected men have gone 10 the tram
ing camps Ii may be that thousands
more will 20 These men are being called
from factories and workshops and farms.
/ Every factory and every farm must con
! tinuc production II we are to render full
| service to our faithful allies during the
war How can We fill the places of the
| Young men who have gone away to fight
! We must rely upon tho boys who are old
/ enough and husky enough to work, but
/ who are still too Young tor military service.
80 here Is a trumpet cali for all clty
| boys and town BOYS between the ages
! Of l6 and u. Prove your patriotism and
| help your country hv jumping IN and
dong the work OF soldier who has gone
| to the front Nearly every soldier now
wearing uniform could make moro
money at home You are not asked "a
work because YOU need the money. on
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 II your hig brother can
dig trenches surely you can plow corn.
/ Go to the recruiting officer and enlist
/ for the Bows Working Reserve Then,
when you are called upon, 80 and make
good IN the Job assigned 10 YOU and win
your medal and wear it and be proud
OF it When the government began "a
organize this voluntary service among
boys. 50 as 10 meet the inevitable short
/ age Of man power the skeptIcs and fault
finders got busy They said that boys
. 1 ~.
induced to work on farms that farmers
! didn want 10 have the town BOYS around
because they would prove 10 he green
or lazy or indifferent, and the whole thing
! was 81 fool contraptIon Doesn your
! common sense and your knowledge Of
| addition and subtraction tell YOU that
if We suddenly take 1000, 600 or more
men right out Of the productive industries
of this country. We must either find a
million men To take their places or else
60 short on production
Are We going to do as they have done
( IN England dress the women and girls
IN men garments and put them TO ciean-
ing the streets and making explosives
and wlpIng up locomotives in round
houses and dong all the hard menial
tasks We mustu I come to that-not
while we have on hand whole army of
Young fellows between l6 and p. nearly
every one of whom has gone IN for some
kind of athletic sport and Is physically
able and would be as mad as hornet
if YOU told HIM he was mama : pet and
not able TO do a man work. The BOYS
between 10 and u can and will supply
the shortage Of man power. There will
be loud call TO them this year and
they must answer the call