The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1918-03-21
BOYS WORKING RESERVE
Muhlenberg Boys Enrolling In the Ma
@ tiOuaI Patriotic Movement.

| yOutuS OF SlXteSu years anu uuucI l
years of age. organized under the
Department of Labor. Its purpose
is to meet the shortage of labor
made acute, and rapidly growing to
be very serious indeed, by the with
| drawal of millions of men from the
farm and shop for the army and Ma
Wy and for the manufacture of mu-
nitions and of other things necessary
to the successful prosecution of the
great war of democracy against au-
tocracy. Its history runs back to
May, 1917, SO that now it Is round
ing out the tenth month of its activ-
ity. Within six months 1t effected
its organization in forty one states,
including District of Columbia.
Thousands of boys haye enrolled
into its membership aud have work.
ed the past summer upon the farms
from Maine to California.
A boy who enlists into the U. S.
Boys Working Reserve is bound
first of all by his honor and patriot
ism. With his parents consent he
may surrender his badge when he
will and leave the service. There is
nothing, if his parents sanction his
withdrawal, to compel him to remain
IN it-nothlng but his love of coun.
try and his conception of noble be-
havior. He may break his Oath of
Service, and if he does there is moth
ing to punish him put his conscience.
What he does is voluntarily done;
there is absolutely no compulsion
about it.
One difficulty at the outset was
the attitude of the farmers towards
boys from the cities. They had no
faith in such boys and did not want
to engage them. But as the need
for help compelled the farmers to
find it where they could, the boys
we're employed. After a summers
experience this attitude was changed
and the farmers have been demand
ing them far beyond the power of
organized effort to supply the need.
Besides this, the boys have come
to see that farming is a great and
noble occupation. In innumerable
instances they have come to like the
farmer and to find in him kind and
generous friend. So that through
this past summers experience the
greatest single step toward the solu-
ton of the gravest of the farmers
problems, his lack of helpers, has
been taken. To bring the boys to
the land so that they shall love the
land is, at this and at every time,
the open secret of our agricultural
efficiency. The U. S. Boys Work
ing Reserve has gone fal to accom-
plish this and it will go farther.
The boys may work on farms,
around mines, railroads, or some
"essential industry" to the War Pre-
gram of the Government. They
may work on their own farms, their
fathers farm, or may hire out at
agreed wages. No military service
is required in this enrolment. 1t
has no connection with Army or
Navy; it is organized under the de-
partment of Labor at Washington.
No boy is enrolled without parents
or guardians consent. Boys will
not necessarily be taken from their
homes, but can earn the certificate
and medal working on their fathers
farms as we'll as on any other.
When a boy has made up his mind
that he wishes to serve his country
to the best of his ability, and, there
fore, that he desires to JOIN the
Boys Working Reserve he may ap=
ply to Gordie Young of Greenville,
KY, County Director. or one of the
following enrolling officers. f. E
Rice, Depoy; Leroy Craig, Graham;
Miss Edna Gatewood, Bevier; Nj
c. Hughes. Dunmor: J. r. Whitmer,
Central City; K. E. Sutherland,
South Carrollton: Miss Nell Shut,
Bremen. Persons will be appoint.
ed in other sections of the county
from time to time for his enrollmen,
card.
| When he has obtained the consent
of his parent Of guardian he will
take this enrolment GARD to the
nearest enrolling officer ana receive
from that officer the enrolment but:
ton and epfoIment certificate bear:
! ing the great seal Of the United
States, on WHICH lis na,ae Is lpscrips
ed, and wherein it is stated that he
has been duly enrolled as a nembc,
of the reserve.