Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — ATTEND LIBERTY LOAN MEETING [ARTICLE]

ATTEND LIBERTY LOAN MEETING

RENSSELAER AND WIVES AT LAFAYETTE MEETING TUESDAY. A large number of representatives from the eight counties of this district met at the Fowler hotel in Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. The purpose of this meeting was to plan for the next big Liberty Loan drive. It is the plan to have a very effective organization perfected not only in every county but in every . road township and every road district in each county. The meeting was presided over by Thomas Bauer, chairman of Tippecanoe county. Will H. Wade, of Indianapolis, vice director of Indiana; Walter S. Greenough, formerly with the Indianapolis News, now publicity director for the Liberty Loan; Geo. H. Duncombe, of Chicago, representing federal reserve banks; R. E. Wisley, organizer of men’s Liberty Loan committees in the state and Secretary of State William Roach.

Lauds Work. Mr. Wade spoke at the opening of the meeting, lauding the work and the thorough organization of Tippecanoe county, and the excellent showing made by all counties in this district. “This war has reached to the homes of everybody. The people are keenly alive to the call of the government and subscription to the next loan will be mope liberal than ever,” he declared emphatically. Prof. George I. Christie, extension director of Purdue University, made a stirring address. “The farmer js just as patriotic as anybody,” he said “and has bought liberally of Liberty Loan bonds, but he with everyone else will have to continue to buy them. His sons and sons of his neighbors who have been called to arms will have to be backed up with Liberty bonds the same as with food.” Farmer* Handicapped Professor Christie told of how Indiana farmers had responded to the appeal of the government for more food last summer and last fall how they purchased more hogs and steers to feed during the winter.' Now many of them are unable to move the corn they have on hands or their live stock because of the car shortage, and regulation of mill feed prices is coming too late to help them any this year. Similar conditions existed in Canada the first year of the war, he said, and many more men were taken from the farms than in the UnitStates, he declared. Wives and daughters helped their husbands, more intensive agriculture and adoption of the most up-to-date labor saving devices increased the food production of the Dominion five per cent last summer. This was done in spite of the serious labor shortage. Professor Christie pledged the support of the Purdue university agricultural force in the loan drive. The keynote of all the other talks was intensive organization for the third loan drive. Mr. Dunscombe told of plans which have been used successfully in the Seventh federal reserve bank district. Mrs. J. C. Riggin, of Indianapolis, told of the plan which the women used there in co-operating with the various men’s teams. She, like the men speakers, voiced praise for the work done by the women in the last drive and declared they would do much more in the coming campaign.

Pledge SupporBrief talks were made by the various county chairmen, which included Mr. Bauer, Tippecanoe county leader; Burt Fleming, West Lebanon, Warren; Dan C. Reed, Attica, Fountain; Warren T. McCray, Kentland, Newton; George Roby, Fowler, Benton; W. K. O’Connell, Monticello, White; Secretary of State Roach, for Carroll; James H. Chapman, Rensselaer, Jasper. All of these men declared their counties were going “over the top” in the coming drive. Walter Ball, local banker, spoke briefly of the work accomplished in this county, and R } E. Wilsey, Chicago, told of the general organization work and of treasury certifiThose representing Jasper county in the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. James H. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Jiidson J. Hunt, James N. Leatherman and Louis H. Hamilton. You can buy some splendid work horses of Fred Schultz at his sale on Monday, March 1, 1918. By that time spring work will be at hand. If you want a first class horse, cow, or a number one piece of farm machinery attend the Fred Schultz sale March 1, 1918.