Show Capital Answers Urgent Appeal for Farm Help Political Bigwigs War Workers Service Folk Pitch In to Aid in Production of Orchard and Field Crops By BAUKHAGE o News Analyst and Commentator Service Union Trust Building Washington D D. D C. C Washington the town of bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bureau bureau- of soldiers desk-soldiers and sailors the place that tells you what to do doand doand doand and dont do itself but jes keeps rollin along I know that's what you say about us But when it comes to volunteering for the emergency farm labor program pro pro- gram how gram how about your national capital Believe me Washington is in there pitching I us use use the figure of speech advisedly advised advised- ly for the man who rallied a corps of volunteer farm help which will probably amount to fifteen thousand citizens of the District of Columbia by the time the peach and apple harvest ic is at its height is an old ball Not so old at that for Johnny Jones formerly of the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Athletics farm boy from Coatsville Pa and now of the department department department de de- of agriculture extension service is practically fresh off the diamond He quit baseball in 1936 and is now back as near to the calling calling calling call call- ing of his fathers as he could get Jones' Jones job is dealing with the help farm shortage and I interrupted interrupt interrupt- ed him while he was in batting for a q I s 's ik I Y J 9 i y iS f ia r i if c cv I f A v lf Woman marine digs postholes missing because of his own private manpower shortage He had just rolled roBed off of several thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand forms inviting government officials officials officials workers war-workers simple citizens and others in the District to attend his vacation camps which are already already already al al- al- al ready rapidly filling We arent aren't allowed to tell names of the ups higher-ups who volunteer but Jones has helpers who give their Sundays or longer periods from the White House staff the offices of cabinet members senators and con con- gressmen If it weren't an election year he thinks hed he'd have quite a showing of the senators themselves But what he takes most pride in is the service folk This includes the girls the and the WAVES and the Marines and the SPARS SPARS as well as the sailors and soldiers on duty here or convalescing Tells It to Marines With Good Results Results' The other day a tobacco farmer over the district line fn in n Virginia Jones' Jones territory doesn't run more than miles from the White House wanted to clear an acre of thick hick timber needed for fire firewood firewood it it it takes a lot of smoke to cure the tobacco for your smokes He couldn't hire help locally Jones told it to the Marines female and some 50 answered with action They cut the timber trees of about 28 inches sawed it into foot eight-foot lengths piled it up And soldiers and sailors seem glad to take a weeks week's furlough to go o out and pitch hay get in the wheat and tobacco crops or turn a hand to any other little chore The They sa say they consider it a great relief from loafing around a hospital or guarding guarding guard guard- ing government buildings or doing any other of the strictly military jobs lobs they have Even among the groups of girls Jones says you you'll lI find enough who can ean run a tractor or hitch and drive a team of horses One group cleared five and a half acres cut the trees sawed them up burned the brush And there is no shortage of civilI civil civil- sil I ian help either As elsewhere there j jare are the boys' boys and girls' girls camps which run all summer there are other vacation camps where ups grown-ups stay a week get a dollar and a half halt halfa a day expenses and earn 35 cents an hour or at picking peach-picking as much or more than a day at 10 cents a basket if they are arc handy Some earn 10 a day at that rate but hut they are old hands |