Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1918 — FARM LABOR [ARTICLE]

FARM LABOR

Through the action of the Federal government, what promised to be a famine-in s farm labor has apparently been averted. The work of t'he United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor is bringing relief to conditions that until recently were the cause of grave concern. Scarcity of farm labor may still be felt in some sections. Where this is the case the greatest publicity' should be given to the fact that the Employment Service stands ready at all times to cooperate witn the farmers in remedying the trouble. In any community suffering from a scarcity of farm labor, an application- to your rural route carrier or your postmaster will bring a blank form that, when properlyfilled out and forwarded to Washington according to directions, will put that community in direct touch with the Employment service. The heads of this service wish the country to know that to date the service has been able to supply labor to meet all calls, and hopes to be able to meet all future calls. Farmers needing help and unable to secure it, should not hesitate to call upon this department, which was created primarily for their relief. The government is urgent that no land in the United States lies idle this year if it is possible to bring it under cultivation. To .this end, farmers who, with the proper help, would be enabled to increase their acreage of crops, should avail themselves of the Employment Service and exert

themselves to the utmost to produce bumper crops. Don't get the wrong idea of this “Liberty Loan,’’ son. It doesn’t mean that YOU must do the loaning. It means that your government proposes to loan you the opportunity of investing your spare means in * a proposition as sound as the Rock of Ages. It means that the opportunity of your life is offered you to gather to yourself your portion of national honor and glory. It means that probably for the first time in your rather careless life you have the chance to become a really necessary cog in the great wheel of progress. It’s the turning point in your life, son. Be sure you make the right turn.