Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1918 — Deserved Recognition Is Given The Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Deserved Recognition Is Given The Newspapers.

Newspapers, in the opinion of Stanley Wychoff, food administrator of Indianapolis, are doing mors to promote food conservation and direct the people along patriotic lines than any other agency or institution. “They have called attention to wheatless days and meatless days until the observance of these days has become a religion with the people,” he said. “The newspapers of the country, and especially those of Indianapolis and other Indiana towns, have educated the people to the necessity of saving food to the end that there be enough to feed the people at home and our soldiers in the field. Public sentiment strongly favors the making of every necessary sacrifice, all because the press has informed the people as to the necessity of it aIL” Mr. Wychoff told officials of the United States food administration with whom he has been conferring that the Indiana newspapers have co-operated in every possible way to obtain an observance of the food laws. “The newspapers,” he said, “not only have made it easy for food administrators to perform their duties, but they have encouraged army recruiting, they influenced the nation to accept the military conscription law, they sold the Liberty bonds and are persuading the people to invest in the war-saving stamps. Until I got into the food administration work, I never quite appreciated that the newspapers are such an influence in shaping public sentiment. They are our greatest promoters of patriotism.”