Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers.

If It is necessary to maintain a standing army, why not pay the soldiers good wages and have them do useful work when not drilling? A short time each day would certainly be enough for drilling; the rest of the time let them be employed on work Qt national importance —conservation and reclamation projects, Improvements of landways and waterways, etc. This would make of them intelligent, efficient, patriotic citisens taut nr* of the paid idlers they are BOW. —.—ij - There are gil kinds of people in the world, including the man who prefers baker's bread* to the home-made variety,