A CHANGE FOR SUMMER WORK

Uncertainty as to how the summer vacation may best be spent always exists in the minds of many undergraduates until the examinations are upon us. Those who cannot afford to loaf at the seashore or seek liquid consolation in Europe or Canada are confronted with the important problem: What temporary employment is there available? A solution may be found in tutoring positions and the like, but the man who wants an open-air job, involving a not to too strenuous degree of physical labor, meets the greatest difficulty in placing himself.

In answer to this last qualification comes a call from the West for extra hands at harvest work. Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska start reaping their wheat in the latter part of June, and with the present shortage of labor, need at the help they can get. It is a tremendous task to gather a harvest in the vast western fields, and under the handicap of a lack of men, it appears well-nigh overwhelming. Outside of the work itself, then, employment harvest help is essentially patriotic. Physically, it offers healthful exercise in the outdoors; the exertion and the novelty are not too great for the average college man. As for wages, seventy cents an hour and board is paid. Altogether, the opportunity for an active, profitable summer, and at the same time a summer of appreciable benefit to the country, bears investigation by the undecided.