Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1917 — DOING OUR DUTY. [ARTICLE]

DOING OUR DUTY.

Not all of us will be expected to don the khaki. But everyone who claims the honored title “American” will help in the war. Not every individual is wanted or needed at the front. It requires the combined efforts of fifteen citizen soldiers to sustain and maintain one warrior at the front. So that while your proportion of the population is in fighting harness, Mr., Mrs. or Miss Citizen, see to it that you are not slacking by failing to do hundreds of other things right close at hand. In the first place buy all the Liberty Bonds you can finance. They are not only splendid investments, but they represent something more than mere business sagacity. They will do more than earn a tax-free 8% per cent dividend. They bring, besides the interest, the consciousness of having served the cause of the country, when such service is needed. Watch your growing crops. See to it that every grain of wheat, every apple, is saved for human appetites, which will not diminish under stress. See that no coal, gas or gasoline or oil is uselessly applied. Put every ounce of natural as well as human energy to work in the way it will help others as well as yourself. Invoice your personal abilities as well as your store, your office, your factory, your entire available store of this world’s goods and use them all, conservatively, wisely and patriotically. The opportunities will open up to you in surprising profusion.