Our Schools in War Time—and AfterDean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
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Our Schools in War Time—and After
Dean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Education -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Schools
Each boy will provide his carfare to and from the fruit
section, provide his own knife, fork, cup, plate, spoon, wash
basin, tick for mattress, pillow, blankets, etc., and pay for his
food and cooking. Boys will mess in groups of 12 to 25 or even
more. Each group will have a capable boy cook and in camps of
over 20, two boys. The first boy will receive $4 a week besides
his meals, the second boy $2.50 a week and may earn some more by
picking fruit. A teacher supervisor will supervise one large or
two or three small camps and advise as to preparation of food, buy
supplies, and act as camp director.
Regarding cooking outfit to be supplied by the fruit grower,
it may be said that all except stove and ice box can be purchased
new for about $10. It is desirable that these be ordered by the
camp director, who will judge the size and kind and take advantage
of wholesale rates. An oil stove and oven is recommended unless
a suitable stove is on hand. Inexperienced boy cooks cannot be
expected to satisfy a score or more of hungry boys with equipment
discarded by the skilled housewife.
It is further understood that these boys will not work on
Sunday nor will they be located on farms where farm help is not
treated with consideration.
An illustration of a "concentration and training camp" is that
established by the state of Maine. This state, in coöperation with
the state Young Men's Christian Association, developed a state camp
for the purpose of enlisting and training boys and young men to
supply the extra demand for farm labor made necessary through the
increased-acreage propaganda. The boys were organized under the title
of "The Junior Volunteers of Maine." They were virtually farm soldiers
of the state, and were sworn to obey all rules of the camp before and
after leaving it for the farms on which they were placed.
The boys are sent out in squads to work in different sections of the
state, as opportunity may offer, under the direction of competent adult
leaders. These leaders have full charge of the boys until they return
to the mobilization camp.
When a boy comes to the camp he is examined for his moral and physical
qualifications, and then is assigned to a company and to a tent. The
adjutant general provides necessary tents, uniforms, and camp utensils.
The boy is instructed with others in the squad how to pitch a tent and
pack camp utensils, and he is also given lessons in sanitation and
the elements of military drill. He has a lecture every day given by
a professor of the state agricultural college. He also works on the
Y.M.C.A. farm, which is being used for this purpose, and is taught the
use of machinery, and how to manage and care for horses, sharpen tools,
and milk cows.
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