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Show U. S. BOYS WORKING RESERVE A more intensified activity of the Boys' Working Reserve is a most important im-portant reliance of the Government in meeting the enormous increased demand for food brought about by the Winning of the war. Twenty million mil-lion toils of food is the new burden placed on the American people according ac-cording to Wm. E. Hall, National Director of the B. W. R., who has issued an appeal to all principals of high schools through out the country to enroll, in the organization, their boys between the ages of 16 to 20. The Organization of the Boys' Working Reserve consists of national district, state and county directors The national director is Mr. Hall and Ernest G. Dudley is district director in charge of this district which includes in-cludes Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada Mr. J. Challen Smith, principal prin-cipal of the Summer Junior High school of Salt Lake City, is Federal State director and under him operate oper-ate forty county or district directors. Outlining the work to be undertaken under-taken in Utah, Mr. Smith says: "Immediate steps are to be taken throughout the district to start a program pro-gram propaganda through which it is expected to enroll at least 90 per cent of all the eligible high school students in the Boys' reserve. Each reservist is to be provided with a uniform un-iform and insigna denoting him a volunteer in the scheme of aid production. pro-duction. During the winter and early ear-ly spring months classes of instruction instruc-tion and information In farm work and agricultural pursuits will be held "in all high schools, in addition to the regular curriculum. These classes will furnish preliminary instruction in farm work from milking, hitching no a team, through the entire1 gamut of preparing the soil, seeding, tending tend-ing and harvesting product. Bool" of the various subieets. prepared by Professor 'Fwrene Davenoort of the Universitv of Illinois, will be provided provid-ed each volunteer Immediately after December 15. Instruction Plans in elude a period of actual training a a school training camp at the Agricultural Agri-cultural Colleee at Logan, in May or June. At this camn instructors at th-coiipp-e will pdvp. actual demonstn-Hons demonstn-Hons in the theorv and nrWetice o Utah farming. The camp school is nlanned to continue about a fortnight. fort-night. Credits earned in the hieh school agricultural classes will be piven." J. T. WORLTON. Acting Federal State Publicity Director, Di-rector, Boys' Working Reserve. |