Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1918 — Marked Men [ARTICLE]

Marked Men

In future years we are going to have a good many marked men in this country. Some will have honorable marks, denoting that they did their bit to the extent of their ability in sacrifice to win the war. Others will be decorated with the mark of disgrace because they were slackers. A slacker, as we understand it, is a man who though really eligible, evades his duty to serve as a soldier by hiding out behind alleged dependents, whom he never, until conscription stared him in the fact, thought ;t his duty to assit. In many cases le has lived off his alleged “dependents.” A slacker is one who escapes real service to his country through the influence of rich influential friends, who manage to anchor him into some safe government position. The slick slackers are those tighwads who are benefiting financially >y the war, but who refuse to do their share in supporting the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and other lenefit causes as essential to final victory as any service men and women can reader.