Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1917 — Indiana Council of Defense Busy. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Council of Defense Busy.

Indianapolis, July 23. —Encouraging the food conservation campaign of Herbert C. Hoover, national administrator, by rendering practical assistance to Dr. Harry E. Barnard, volunteer Indiana ,representative; educating the farm erg to the. patriotism and business sense of putting silos on their farms; serving the cause of an increased production of coal at reduced prices by active negotiations with coal producers; enrolling the boys of the state into a working reserve to replace the labor that Will be called to service in the army; regv istering women for the work they can do if emergency arises—many already busy knitting socks and making shirts; cataloguing the educators, engineers, physicians and other professional men so that their services may be utilized by the federal government —in fact in every activity suggested by the Council of National Defense, the Indiana Council of De--1 sense has been very busy during, the past week. Room 83, the headquarters of the council, has become the center of more activity than is to be found in any other similar space in the state house. A report from Carroll county says the county council has appropriated S3OO for the use of the local council of defense; Huntington county has appropriated $1,000; the Wabash county council will set aside a similaramount. These”counties will be followed by others who comtemplate like action when their county councils meet in August. These sums are used for the payment of necessary telephone tolls, stationery, printing, clerical work not done by members of the council, and in some cases for room rent. Not a single cent is being spent for salaries for the council members, and as a Consequence there is no likelihood that there will be the slightest question as to the regality of the appropriations.