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Show UTAH BOYS GIVEN A PATRIOTIC CHANCE i Expected to Rally in Large Numbers in National Enrollment En-rollment Week. "FEED THE FIGHTERS" Working Reserve Depended Upon to Form an Agri-I Agri-I cultural Army. To the rousing war-time slogan, "Feed the Fighter," the loyal lads of Utah, beginning tomorrow, will rally to the work of the farmers ' fields at the call of Undo Sam. This week has been designated national enrollment week fof the boys' working reserve, planned to bo a mighty reinforcement to tho nation's agricultural army, and the young fellows of the state, who did such splendid work last year, will-flock to the colors en masse and do much more, and even better, work this year. As the need is greater, so will the effort and its result bo greater. The boys of America want to have a hand in downing the Hun, and their country is giving them a chance. Who would be a slacker in the field of patriotic pa-triotic effort? few boys in the United States, and not a single one in Utah. As American men would rather fight than brag when a good cause in at stake, so their sons would rather lend a helping hand than dawdle and loaf, delaying the day of victory. Every rod-blooded young American wants to read in the papers thnt Old Glory is floating over Berlin, with the kaiser's flag trampled in the mire somewhere far below, and consequently, consequent-ly, when the opportunity eomes to back the firing line that will make the long eastern drive some day, they all jump in the car and open the throttle. Many of Utah's boys jumped in and showed a great line of speed in 1917. A great many more will enlist in the agricultural service in 1918, and if- the experts know anything about the matter, mat-ter, the home state's showing next fall will mean a lot of' added strength on the great west front. No "Patrioteers" Here. . Profiteers have felt the lash of public pub-lic indignation and the penalties of the law, and now, behold you, someone has discovered there is such a thing as a " patrioteer. " No one could miss the definition of this newly coined word. A man who poses in the front row and shouts and stamps when the earnest orator points the way through labors and suffering to victory's path,.' but slips a big stock of sugar in the cellar before the price goes up and the famine comes on. A man to the fore in every demonstration that demands no sacrifice sacri-fice beyond that of lung power, but out of town or ailing when the Bed Cross pleads for funds or the war stamp champions look for buyers. The man who yells that the country must produce pro-duce more foodstuffs or the Germans will put the world in their prickets, but who insists on being the man on the platform with the good clothes and not the man with the hoe. And so the description de-scription might go on indefinitely through each line of real toil that seeks to spell, the difficult but certain result of 'the downfal of autocracy. The government is giving all the boys in America between the ages of 16 and 21 years a chance to help win the war by authorizing the organization organiza-tion of the boys' working reserve, an army for boyhood alone, that affords one grand opportunity to help land a solar-plexus on German militarism. Hindenburg Line in Danger. With American boys working on the farm and American men charging the enemy trenches, the Hindenburg line is certain to find itself rolling up and back before long. There is nothing of the patrioteer about the boys of Utah. A fellow made of that kind of stuff would soon find his air bags punctured and his serene flabbiness of flesh and spirit bruised and sore, if he stayed around for. fifteen fif-teen minutes with the class of real American striplings they're growing now and always did grow in Utah. With the older young men busy on such a big and heroic thing over in the trenches, you can bet your last dollar dol-lar or newfest war savino-s stamp that their brothers back home are going to furnish them the foodstuffs to keep the steam up .all the time. So this week will witness the boys of Utah showing their mettle and their fidelity to Old Glory that they are up to snuff when it comes to being as good as their fathers were before them, and as willing, peppery, industrious and full of determination as Pershing's brave cohorts across the sea. Take Pledge of Loyalty. The boys' working reserve will take the pledge of loyalty and obtain their parents' and a reputable doctor's permission per-mission before going to work. In addition to the boys' working reserve re-serve is the junior bovs' working reserve re-serve for Utah." Many lads in these parts under 16 years of age work regularly reg-ularly in the beet fields and orchards. So this junior organization is planned for the boys under 16. Tbev will register regis-ter just as the older boj-s do, will do the same kind of work and will receive, re-ceive, after successfully working on the farms for six weeks, "a badge similar to the badge awarded the older-boys by the state council of defense. The principal of every school in Utah will co-operate in this work. The farm- ers want the boys and the bo-s want to help, so there will be a grand' getting together and .crop planting in the fertile fer-tile fields of Utah shortly after enrollment enroll-ment week goes by. Watch the boys' of Utah toe the scratch this week. |