Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — War Conservation. [ARTICLE]

War Conservation.

“In the midst of monster destruction,” writes Isaac F. Marcovson in Everybody’s, “an enormdbs conservation is achieved. Only the dead are laid away. Nothing is ‘scrapped.’ They make laces out of castoff shoes; redeem shattered guns; convert refuse fat into glycerin; replenish the flickering fires of life Itself. War is not all waste. “And when this moving picture, more animated than any imaginative play ever thrown upon cinema screen, has passed before you, you realize, even before a single shot is fired, that energy and organization of the highest order have been tested to a welbnlgh Incredible extent. “It dawns on you that war is work!”