Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1918 — ASKS PEOPLE OF INDIANA TO GO ON WHEATLESS DIET [ARTICLE]

ASKS PEOPLE OF INDIANA TO GO ON WHEATLESS DIET

Qpunty Food Administrator, John Eger has received the following telegram from H. E.’ Barnard, statte food administrator, which is self-ex-planatory : “I am today asking the people of Indiana to go on a strictly wheatless diet. I ask them to refrain from the use of wheat flour and other wheat products until the next harvest. - I ask this because I know we have lived on corn and can do so again. I know that our wheat situation is even more portentious than Hindenburg’s army in Picardy. I know as Hoover points out this is the most critical hour in our national history since Gettysburg; Indiana patriots do not need a command. They have arisen to every patriotic request made of them to this hodr. They will comply with this request. Their devotion to the cause of world freedom will be equal to the test.” Class parties continue to be the source of trouble among the students of the public schools. The habit of stealing refreshments, cutting hair, etc., is a very old one, but an incident which occqrred the other evening may tend to put a stop to these practices. One young man, who attended a party given by his class, was returning home when he was stopped by three young lads from another class, who informed him that they were going to cut his hair. “You are, are you,” said the young man who was to be the victim of their pranks, whereupon he drew forth a bottle of ammonia which he had concealed about his person and dashed it on his adversaries. The result was that one of the boys received part of the contents in his eyes. At present he is confined to his home, and for a time grave fears were entertained that his eyesight rrlight be permanently impaired. Such foolishness among the students should cease before something serious results, and the school and city authorities should work in conjunction in stamping out the evil.