Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1918 — FEW FARMERS WILL BE INCLUDED IN PRESENT CALL [ARTICLE]

FEW FARMERS WILL BE INCLUDED IN PRESENT CALL

That the men engaged in planting farm crops are, in so far as possible to be passed over in the quota of men that is called out March 29, was the main feature of the instructions to be given out by Robert Baltzell, state conscription agent, in submitting his instructions to the local conscription boards. This does not mean any favoritism is to be shown, but is done merely to keep the agricultural forces of the country at work producing food necessary to the successful prosecution of the war. The present gall is for seventeen per cent of the net quota to go into service on March 29, which means that Jasper county be called upon to provide either nine or ten men this time.

The largest wheat acreage the country has ever known has just gone through one of the best winters for wheat production. And at a gov-ernment-guaranteed price of two dollars a bushel when this crop comes in it will be all absolutely new wealth. Some of the returns are bound to be spent even foolishly. So every merchant can afford to be a booster for War-Savings Stamps.