The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-05-23
EVERY BOY TO
WORK FOR THE u. S.
Every Boy i'm State of Washing
ton Will Have Chance to En-
roll i'm Junior Reserve
Boys, you are called!

Boys in school, in the industries, on
the farms, can do their share towards
winning the war.
To unity and direct the boy power
of the state is the object Of the u. S.
Boys Working Reserve and the Junior
Boys Reserve which is just being Or
ganized turnout Washington by State
Director Robert Moran and State Man.
ager Frank G. Moran, with headquar-
tiers 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 a
special study Of boys and their welfare
as head master of the widely known
Moran School, on cambridge Island
across from Seattle, and leader in the
Congress 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 enroll in
the reserve and exert their combined
strength for the public good, under
competent direction, according to the
plan worked out by Manager Moran.
Boys from 16 to 81 will be eligible
for membership in the reserve and
from the 18th to 10th birthday, in the
Junior reserve. Director Moran says:
"a boy who maintains ajwar garden
helps his father on the farm, gives
his services to patriotic organiza-
ton like the Liberty Loan, Thrift
Stamp, Red Cross, Food Administra-
ton, or boy who applies himself to
his school work in the spirit of patri-
otto service, by completing 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 the wheat fields at stipulated
salary. The working feature of the
reserve will be to pledge every boy
who enrolls conscientiously to plan
with purpose all his time, winter as
well as summer, to the end that there
shall be no more loafing or lack of d.
rection to the utilization of the energy
and power of the boy to help the ma
ton" |
The five purposes of the reserve are:,
1. To present to the boy of the state
of Washington his responsibility in.
the face of the present national and
worldwide crisis.
2. To arouse a renewed, pure pa
triotism and love for country.
8. To fix the high ideals Of youth
for clean speech, clean thought, clean
act, thru inspiration and leadership
and thus set.a moral stamina for our
youth for fit preparedness.
a. To set before the boy in a pro-
per light some Of the social and indus
trial difficulties facing us as nation.
5. To harness the adolescent boy
power of the state for profitable util-
ization of his energies and time,
whether at school or at work, winter,
spring, fall and summer.
Any boy can enroll by filling out
an enrolment card. obtaining the con-
sent of his parent, take the "Oath of
Service" and he then receives GER
tificate and an enrolment badge.
There are three recognitions for SER
vice: 1st-Agricultural unit. When a
boy assures the authorities that he has
spent six weeks Of conscientious and
satisfactory service on farm, or on
our fruit lands, he is presented with
federal badge, bearing the Great
Seal of the United States if he is en-
rolled in the U. S. Boys Working Re-
serve. If in the Junior Boys Reserve
he will receive a proper similar recog-
milton, but not the federal badge.
End. 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.
Srd-The Vocational unit. The Re-
serve recommends that all boys who
are at school remain there and use the
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 a training center for boys. The
first session will be for training $50
adults who will give leadership to the
boys under the Reserve.
The second session will be for one
hundred and fifty carefully chosen