Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — Jennie Conrad Presents Plans Which Would Aid Fanners. [ARTICLE]

Jennie Conrad Presents Plans Which Would Aid Fanners.

Jennie M. Conrad, Newton county’s famous woman, who has been attending the meeting of the state woman’s council of defense, has presented plans, which if they meet with the approval of the government, will bode evil for the chronic loafers and those who for various reasons are. not available for war service. Mrs. Conrad proposes a drafted labor army that will be put to work to raise the food needed for the allied armies. Mrs. Conrad, who owns and personally oversees the management of 5,000 acres in Newton county, attended the meeting of the Women’s Farm and Garden Association in Chicago this week, and the draft idea was so well received that the women passed resolutions calling on the. government to put the plan into effect. Mrs. Conrad then hurried to Indianapolis to get the indorsement of the Indiana women. A similar resolution was enthusiastically passed, and will be presented to the men of the state council at its meeting next week. ~ ■ • ■' ~ ==«=-—: —-—r Mrs. Conrad said she couldn’t have gotten her hay crop in had not a woman made the stacks. Large numbers of young men were exempt from army service for physical defects stood around watching the harvesting, she said, and refused to work for $2.50 a day.