Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1917 — The Problem In the Labor Problem. [ARTICLE]

The Problem In the Labor Problem.

The 1 idea of sending soft-handed, tender-heeled town boys out to help plant and harvest the crops brought . forth many a laugh from the sari mers this spring. As one of our readers remarked: “It would be mighty good"for the boy but mighty hard on the farmer.” There are ways, however, in which town boys and girls may help farmers as well as other employes of labor. We have an example in Montgomery county, Indiana, where under the direction of the county agent, nine schools undertook to test seed corn and at the end of the season they had tested nearly 8,000 ears for 161 farmers, enough to plant 600 acres. The schools in New Richmond, the county seat, led in the work, having tested over 2,600 ears for* 17 farmers. In order to make the work more interesting, the First National Bank of Crawfordsville offered three prizes to the three schools testing the most corn. In this case the work of the school boys on the interest of furthering production, was not only good for them but good for the farmer also. It is a big job to find a job for which every person is best suited, but it is a job worth while, if for no other reason than to keep people out of mischief. 7