Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1918 — Don’t Use Bacon And You Will Help Feed The Sammies [ARTICLE]

Don’t Use Bacon And You Will Help Feed The Sammies

PLEASE DO NOT ORDER BACON. If you do some soldier boy at the front has to go without just that much—and he may be your soldier boy, too. This card, printed in bold type so that he who sits may read, is being used in restaurants of the large cities, where an honest effort is being made to follow the recorhmendations of the federal food administration. The Indiana State Council of Defense at the suggestion of Dr. Harry Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, as recommending the plan to proprietors of public eating houses in this state. “The best advertisement a hotel, restaurant or boarding house can have, at this time,” says Dr. Barnard, “is the public knowledge that it is sincerely patriotic and assisting the government to discharge its duties to the armies and civilian population of our associates in the war,against Germany.”