THE MINARETS OF PSKOV IN TWO WARS—

The Russians are fighting in the outskirts of this gateway to the Baltic today. And so, Arnold Ronnebeck, Denver artist and sculptor, presents this picture of the ancient cathedral of Pskov, which he took in 1918 when he was with the German Army of Occupation as a

first lieutenant in the Elite Guards of His Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II. The German officers, the Russian officers and the civilians in the picture have just been to common mass in the cathedral, which dates from 900. The mass was in Latin, then German, then Russian.

Mid-Air
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st Perry, left, of 2858 W. 40th ave., and
16 Osage st., having gone to school
to the army together and received the

Tighter Farm Draft Policy
Called an Aim to Up Output

The new, tighter selective service policy toward agricul-
tural deferments is designed to step up farm production and
at the same time obtain more men for the armed services,
Col. W. M. Wilder of selective service, Washington, told the
regional Farm Labor Conference in the Shirley-Savoy Hotel
yesterday.

"Our change in the minimum of production units required for an agricultural deferment is not a drastic one," he said. "It is rather the result of a gradual development of local feeling that original minimums were too low.

New Minimum Units Are 16

Colonel Wilder explained that the unit system assigns a certain value to specific amounts of various types of farm work. For example, complete care of a milk cow equals one unit.

"Originally," he said, "we set eight units as the minimum under which a worker could be deferred. We found that this was not equal to a full day's work in some regions, so, after consulting local officials, we set the new minimum at 16.

"All we do is set the low. Local officials may require more production in areas where production work is easier.

"This new minimum will affect the lazy farm worker in one of two ways. He will bring his pro-

duction up to a reasonable level
or enter the armed forces.

"The worker who meets his local minimum should not be bothered by the draft."

Conference Closes

Colonel Wilder explained that the United States needs a million and a quarter men by July 1 and said the government wants to get them with the least possible disruption of war production and family life.

The three-day conference closed with committee reports and a summary by M. C. Wilson, deputy director of the Federal Extension Service in charge of the extension farm labor program, and Col. Philip G. Bruton, director of the WFA Office of Labor.

Optimists Meet Today

Henry W. Hough, Denver regional manager for Time, Life and Fortune, will address the Rocky Mountain Optimist Club at 12:10 p. m. today in the Hotel Albany.