"Congress will not be able to take up the question of military training for men under 21, until they have attended to the pressing needs of the country," Senator Reed of Missouri told a representative of the Yale News in Washington recently. He emphasized the great value to be derived from a summer spent in working on a farm.

"The imperative needs of the Government are very great now, and they must all be met before the question of military training for those under age can be considered. From the present out-look this will not be very soon; certainly not this session.

"The best thing that a young man under age can do now, while awaiting such congressional action, is to remain at college and take the military training there. I should not advise anyone to enlist before he is actually needed, for we must not use up all of our strength at once--if this is exhausted we should have little to fall back upon. You are like substitute football players, who are of great service although not actually in the game.

"Put the proper spirit into the training you are now receiving and get the full benefit from it, and then you will be ready when you are needed.

"I know of no experience that can be of more benefit to a college man than a good hard summer's work on a farm, and especially the big wheat ranches of the West.

"There is always a greater demand than supply for good farmhands, and it will be even more so this summer, because so many of these men will have joined the colors."