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Show HARVEST ARMY TO GI-7T RECORD WAGE THIS YEAR I (By International News Service.) I KANSAS CITY, Mo. The 1920 har-jvest har-jvest field laborer will not' only be the i highest paid but also the boat fed.; : housed and "mothered" in 'history. 1 Civic and church organizations ' throughout Oklahoma, Kansas. Missouri Mis-souri and Nebraska are planning to be i "fathers and mothers" to the soldiers of the harvest army. Kansas wheat growers have set the pace in fixing a minimum wage scale. The lowest figure to be paid will be (seventy cents an hour. It la expected expect-ed that a similar scale will be adopted adopt-ed in the three other states. I-arge I tents will be erected, where entertainment enter-tainment will be provided, stationery supplied and buttons sewn on by tho j "mothers." |