The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-12
A Trumpet Call
BY George Ado.


This Is to the fortunate ones who,
the benefits of what all future his.
tories viii call the great war.
You boys who are getting ready to
vote VIII know more about this war
when you are plump and middle-aged
than any one can possibly know this
year
When the dust has cleared away
and the large events of the war can be
seen from distance. then you will
understand that the issues involved
had TO be fought out that the United
states had to take part. that the task
we are now undertaking had TO be &C
complished.
Let us hope that each Of you can
say, twenty years from now, Il was
young at the time, but ! knew what
the war meant. and / helped"
Not all of the heroes are IN the
trenches.
working reserve.
Il has been carefully organized /
under government supervision. It has
received the official endorsens ant n the .
president. The whole plan is working
cut successfully wherever it is under
stood
The trouble is that some of tho boys
ana some ~ the parents are still
little doubtful regarding enlistment
because they dent know how mucn Of
an obligation IA assumed
Hore is tho plaA IN q nut shell .
THOUSANDS of enlisted and selected
mer have gone to the training camps
II nay 10 thai thousands more VIII 20
next year. These men are beng called
from factories and work shops and
farms. Every factory and every farm
nuSt continue PIC lUction II We are to
render full service 10 our faithful al
lies during The war. How .an We MI
tho places OF the young men who have
gone away 70 fight7 We must rely
upon the boys who are old enough and
husky enough to work but wIo are
s.ill too young for military service.
So hero Is a trunap pet cail for all city
boys and town boys between the ages
81 sixteen and twenty-one
Prove your patriotisTc ana help your
country by jumping tn and doing the
work Of soldier who has gone to /
the front.
The United States boys working re- !
serve is not being organized for lads
who have 70 work for a living
Nearly every colder now wearing a
uniform could make more money at
home
You are not asked to work because
B , asked
itC work because your country aeeds
your help and relies upon you to
chuck aside false pride and Join in
the team work
II YOUR big brother can dig trenches
surely you can pillow corn.
30 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 II.
When the government began to or
ganizg this voluntary service among
! boys, so as to meet the Inevitable
shortage of man power. the skcptica
and fault finders got busy They said
that boys living in cities and towns
never could be induced to work or
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
vas a fool contraptiou
d 0asr vour com mon sense and
your knowledge OF addition and cub
traction tell you that If we sud emily
take 100000 or more men right out
i or The productive industries Of this
country, wo must either find million
men to take their places or else 60
short on productions
Are we going to do az they have
done in England dress the women
and girls In mems garments and putt
them to cleaning the streets and max
ing explosives and wiping ud iocamo-
Ffyee in round houses and doing all
the hard mental tasks? We mustn't
come TO that--1ot while We have on
hand whole army Of young fellows
between sixteen and twenty-on one
nearly every one OF whom has gone
in for some kind Of athletic Sport and
is physically able and would DO as mad
as a hornet IL you told him no as
nlamas pet and not able TO do
mans work.
The boys between sixteen and TWEEN
ty-one can and Will supply the short
age of man power
There viii be loud call for them
in 1918 and they must answer the
call.