Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — Boys’ Working Reserve Extended [ARTICLE]

Boys’ Working Reserve Extended

Plans Would Place 500,000 on Farms This Year

An industrial unit of the United States Boys’ Working Reserve, the aim of which shall be to maintain the agricultural training of all American boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty who are engaged in industry, is the plan of the Reserve for 1919. This unit is already partly organized after the plan of the Farm Unit of the Reserve. Other plans for 1919 which the Boys’ Working Reserve has announced are as follows: To enroll and place on American farm* 500,000 boys. To afford all these boys training in farm practice before they go to—the farms, by means of the central farm training camps and farm-craft lessons. “To help them raise enough foodstuffs to feed Europe in 1919. “To maintain the education and welfare of all American boys of high school age.”