Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — WAR HINTSWAR HELPSWAR DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTSWAR HELPSWAR DUTIES

THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS ARE FROM THE PEN OF GEORGE ADE. 1 • . This week the Red Cross is making a drive in Indiana to enroll nurses and get students for the nurses' training schools. The public is asked to get along with as few trained nurses as possible these days, because the Red Cross needs them and needs them badly. Just a few reminders: Build silos! Economize! Buy coal for next winter! Invest in war stamps! Until next harvest* forget there is such a thing as wheat flour! Write to the soldier boys! Think and talk victory! Most of us are too busy these days to do police work on the side, BUT, if you know, for sure, that some resident of the state has been making disloyal statements, send the facts in the case and the names of witnesses to L. Ert Slack, U. S. District Attorney, Federal Building, Indianapolis. Briefly, Mr. Hoover says to you: We still need meat and meat products to send abroad. In the allied Countries each person has been reduced to an average of 1 % pounds per week. Over here we average 3% pounds. This average should be cut to two pounds, including poultry. Go easy on meat and meat products. Also continue to go very, very light on sugar.' Most of the supply this summer, will be needed for canning and preserving. As for wheat, the situation is so serious that all persons who can do so without affecting their health or working efficiency are asked to abstain from wheat until the nejct harvest comes in. The Indiana Committee on Food Production proposed to name a man in every township, to confer with the growers and millers and elevator men, so that all the crop will be properly harvested and delivered and the best fields inspected and held out :or seed.

Farmers are b£ing urged to raise a world of beans and then store them carefully in paper or “seamless” cloth sacks, so that the weevils cannot get at them. So long as more meat is needed abroad, the true patriot will demand beans frequently. The State Council of Defense, responding to a call from the President and the National Council, calls upon the people of Indiana to make the celebration of this coming 4th of July a day of patriotic fervor and consecration. A special invitation is given to citizens of foreign evtraction to join with their brothers in a declaration of loyalty to the flag. Independence Day will have a big significance in 1918. Begin planning immediately to make it a shining day in the history of the state.. If we grow fifty million bushels of wheat in Indiana this year and the elevators can receive only about eight million bushels at a time, it means that a lot of wheat will have to be stored on the farms while the crop is being moved. Therefore clean up the bins and see that they are grain-tight

So many “drives” and campaigns these days, sometimes we can’t keep track of all of them. For instance, did you know that this week, from June 3rd to June Bth, had been designated as Coal Week? You* are reminded that if you have to look into an empty coal-bin next winter, possibly it will be because you did not camp on the trail of your coal dealer until you got your supply carefully snugged away for the cold weather. j It is the sense of the Indiana State Council of Defense that lawyers should not collect fees for clerical work on behalf of dependents who are seeking to collect allowances due from the government. In each, county there is a legal Aid Committee which will assist the relatives of soldiers in adjusting all rightful claims against the government. The men of fighting age in Indiana who have been put into deferred classes are asked to co-operate in food production and to lend organized assistance to all war activities. The state council has voted. In several counties the exempted men and those awaiting call have got together to make seed surveys,‘test seed, distribute labor and otherwise pull together so that every farm will come through with a full yield.' The service thus rendered is purely voluntary. The men are not under military orders.