Last spring the Department of Agriculture seriously proposed a plan to conscript the idlers and highschool boys of the cities to relieve the shortage of farm labor. Why tie combination of idlers and highschool boys I never quite understood. But time plan is so utterly impractical that it never received serious consideration from anyone who ever saw or knows anything about a farm. There is a certain group of college presidents and certain boards of financiers who are urging a change in our laws to permit the importation of Chinese coolies for farm labor. To me such a plan. even though it might be practical. is unthinkable. The American farmers are patriotic and are willing to offer up their sons to die for their countrys cause.