This Enrollment Certificate should be framed and hung upon the wall of your room at home to show that you are enrolled in this great patriotic organization of boys who will contribute so much toward winning this war,

The original yellow enrollment card should be mailed by your High School Director to the County Director of the Reserve in the County in which is located your school.

SERVICE IN THE RESERVE

Kinds of Service. The chief function of the Reserve is to supply boys for farms, but it is planned-when necessity so demands to extend its scope into "Essential Industries" and vocational training.

Work on Farms. Next spring and summer boys will become engaged in agricultural service in various ways.

(a) Boys who live on farms will return to work for their parents, if needed, otherwise, they will be placed elsewhere.

(b) Boys who heretofore have had agricultural experience will be placed in farmers' homes, either singly or in pairs as necessity demands.

(c) An effort will be made to place boys who have had

little or no training in farmers' service camps, from fifteen to twenty-five boys in each camp. Under competent leadership and direction, these boys will work on farms adjacent to the camps, taking their noon meal with the farmers and having their breakfast, supper and lodging in the camp itself. They will be given instruction by the camp director, who will also supervise their physical and moral welfare and see

that they receive just treatment at all times from their employers.

(d) On large farms donated for the purpose, plans are

being made to organize concentration camps where as many as fifty boys or more will be assembled at a time for three weeks' intensive training in the rudiments of agriculture. They will also receive physical training and some setting-up exercises, instructions in discipline, conduct, etc., but while in this camp each boy will be expected to produce the equivalent of the food he consumes.

As soon as one group of boys has finished training, they will be placed in agricultural service, either living with the farmers or in farmers' service camps. Another group of fifty boys or more will replace them to receive similar training for three weeks and to continue the cultivation of the crops planted by the first. group, and so on throughout the season.

Employment for boys who work on farms will be secured as near home as possible. However, a surplus supply of boys in one county will, with the consent of parents or guardian, be sent to such other county or counties where a deficiency exists, in order that the supply of agricultural labor all over the state may be equalized.

Industrial Employment in Essential Industries. A number of high schools are arranging their schedules so as to meet the demands of industries in their respective localities.

Vocational Training when so expanded as to meet the demands of the hour will aid materially in fitting such boys for effective service.

All boys are urged to take advantage of every opportunity for improving their worth and skill by enrolling in day or

night school classes offering vocational training in productive work in which they are engaged or to which they are naturally adapted.

TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS

It is natural that you should wish to know before you consent to the enrollment of your boy in the United States Boys' Working Reserve, just what the Reserve is, and whether you should allow your boy to become one of its members.

The United States Boys' Working Reserve was organized under the United States Department of Labor for the purpose of forming a reservoir of boy labor from which the nation might draw in the present crisis. The Reserve is non-militaristic; it is, in fact, a working reserve of manpower for industries and farms. The service is not compulsory, and any boy may be withdrawn by his parents or guardian at any time. Its chief function has been to supply boys for the farms, but it is planned, when necessary, to extend its scope into "Essential Industries" and vocational training.

No Interference with Present Occupation. The Reserve believes that the boy in school should remain there, except when emergency demands that he be released for short periods of time to aid in spring planting or harvesting perishable crops in the fall. However, he should plan to devote his spare time and vacations to some useful employment where his country needs him. It is not the policy of the Reserve to take boys away from their present occupations, nor to disturb boys working for their parents, or interfere with their wage arrangements. However, such boys are

urged to join the Reserve in order that they may be eligible for the Federal Bronze Badge.

Boys' Welfare. Unless the Boys' Working Reserve can accomplish the purpose for which it is designed without injury to the boy himself, it will be of no benefit. Therefore, the Reserve will at all times endeavor to protect the boys' welfare. There are potential future leaders and statesmen among them, and if they become bad citizens, the nation must suffer irreparably. Therefore, the Reserve, through its various committees and agencies, will at all times be mindful of the physical, spiritual and material welfare of the boys, and will protect them from exploitation, overwork and bad housing conditions, and endeavor as far as possible to place each boy in an environment at least as good if not better than the one to which he has been accustomed. in his own locality.

TO THE FARMER

How to Secure These Boys. Make application to the local Director of your County, to your County Agricultural Agent or to any school superintendent or high school principal, or write direct to the State Council of Defense, 83 State House, Indianapolis, setting forth: