Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-21
BOYS RUSHED TO
FIELDS TO HELP
BRING IN CORN
Tech High Grants Needed
Farm Workers Leave
For Patriotic Service

The State of Pennsylvania is con-
fident that it will have 10000 boys
working on farms this summer, and
thus solve in great measure the
problem of labor shortage. Harris
burg itself is foremost in the activity,
but the High school superintendents
in Dauphin county, according to
state officials, have not been quick
to respond Their tardiness will be
only a trifling obstacle, however, for
the machinery of the commonwealth
is grinding swiftly and sure.
In this city boys are enrolling at
a lively rate to-day at Central High,
Technical High, Steelton High and
the Harrisburg Academy. Any and
every one who enrolls may have the
benefit of being sent to State College
for a two weeks preliminary train
ing at the expense of the state. Five
hundred boys at time are to be IN
structed there, the first squad now
being en- route to the institution.
The immense proportions of this
move, the United States Boys Work
ing Reserves, are only beginning TO
be understood by the bulk of Ameri-
cans. In this state the move was put
under way last year when twenty
Vile, in Adams county and about the
same number at Arendtsville. Camp
life appeals to the boy far more than
living at the home of the farmer.
Now that the State Public Safety
Committee has advanced $4,000 for
this cause. the prospects are for
many camps all over the state.
To BE Trained
As explained to-day by an official
of the Bureau of Vocational Educa-
ton, speaking for it's chief, l.. III.
Dennis, a State College expert VIII
be put in charge as leader of each
camp. Tents are furnished by the
state, sleeping tents, cooks tent,
mess tent. The leader attends 10
distributing the help. If one boy is
not satisfactory the farmer has the
of trying another. the
soil soldiers will board themselves
at their camps. The most extensive
one of these camps last year was
located at Scarborough, near Pitts
burgh, where seventy boys did gal
liant work in helping harvest the
strawberry crop. There were also
three big camps in Chester county.
The Harrisburg School Board has
responded with alacrity to the pa
triotic demand with a donation OF
$500 to pay expenses for the tute-
lage at State College and the hrst
squad of Harrisburg boys VIII start
for there shortly. All public schools
have made arrangements so that
BOYS may get away for the planting
season and then return for schooling
in July and August, only to go PACK
to the farm for harvest ume' IN
and October.
Bows Give Valuable Aid
To-day, to show how quickly the
army of boys is getting into service.
DIR. Charles Is. Eager, of the Tech
nical High. had a hurry call from
farmer near Harrisburg who was
with losing a whole neld
of corn left out from last fall. lm-
six husky Tech boys were
sent out on motor truck TO renuer
first aid. Six more were sent to-day
in response to a call from the Mid
dletown plant, and probably two
d Oxen more Tech boys will be work
ing there within a week. There Is
also a company of Tech lads helping
out the draft boards, particularly
No. l in the county courthouse.
The recruiting age for this serv-
ice is between 16 and 81 and appll-
cation at ans High school or to Arch
II. Dinsmore, of the Y. Nj. c. A., Will
insure an Immediate examination. In
this and nearby counties boys may
apply for any information as fol-
lows:
Cumberland, DR.. w. A. Hutchin-
son. Carlisle; Dauphin, Richard c.
Charles b. Eager, Jr.,
Franklin r. II. Pass
more, Chambersburg; Huntingdon,
James X. Wiley; Mt. Union, John
A. Adams; Juniata, Matthew Rod
gers. Mexico; Lancaster, Herbert b.
Kress. Lancaster; Charles w. Say
ers. Y. NJ. g. A., Lancaster; Lebanon,
Charles S. Harvard, w. w. Walter,
!. I.ebanon: York, w. V. Barnes, York;
William II. Kurtz, York.