Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — President Approves the Timely Injunction Sent By Redfield to Chiefs [ARTICLE]

President Approves the Timely Injunction Sent By Redfield to Chiefs

President Wilson has set the stamp of his approval upon a timely injunction addressed by Secretary Redfield to his bureau chiefs. It is to be circulated, posted up, and made a guiding rule" in the transaction of all war business. It should be a golden rule, a precept always to be heeded: "Forget how things were done before the war; eliminate red tape, We must learn with Germans that ‘the war won’t wait.* Delay is the kaiser’s ally.” Heads of department bureaus are not alone insisting upon doing things this year as they did them last year and the year before that The “business as usual,” “pleasure as usual," and “my own interests first” advocates are just as guilty as the tape-bound bureau chiefs. All such are playing Germany’s game of delay. It is the business of each individual to bestir himself to help win the war. It is the business of all to realize that everything is changed, that nothing can be done this year as it was last We must do the things the war demands, and do them now.