Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Those Who Don’t Fight Must Work. [ARTICLE]

Those Who Don’t Fight Must Work.

The United States Boys’ Working Reserve was organized under the United States Department of Labor for the purpose of forming a reservoir of boy labor from which the nation might draw in the present crisis. The Reserve is non-mili-taristic, it is in fact a working reserve of man power for industries and farms. The service is not compulsory, and any boy may be withdrawn by his parents at any time. Its chief function has been to supply boys for the farms, but it is planned to extend its scope into essential industries and vocational training. ’ The tremendous task confronting those who remain at home is hopeless unless the boys and young men of America will shoulder a man’s responsibility and do a man’s job in a man’s way. I,t is for the Eurpose of intelligently placing the oys in touch with these various tasks that the organization .of the U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve is designed. Have you enrolled? IT not do so at once, for demands for boys are coming now to supply the labor necessary to replace the men who are leaving for the mobilization and training camps. The hour is near at hand when every man, woman, boy and girl must devote his or her whole energy .to the service of the nation. Everyounce of power, human, as well as material, must be made effective in the conflict If liberty- and democracy are to continue in this country, America and her allies must win.