Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1918 — WAR HINTS, WAR HELPS, WAR DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS, WAR HELPS, WAR DUTIES

When you see a war duty headed toward you, meet it half way and shake hands. The grouch has less market value at this moment than ever before in the history of the world. - .... Lest you forget, put coal in the bin—if you know where to find the coal. . . The program of the food administration is■ to put less into the garbage pail and take more out. If you waste your garbage you may find it impossible to look a hog in the face. It is true that the wheat harvest will be more than abundant. If the government decides that a surplus must be stored and asks you to continue mixing in a substitute with tfTff white flour, you won’t weep all over the grocery store or ask foolish questions, will you? We thought not. A lot of farm labor in Indiana will have to be done this year by hands either green or rusty. A patient employer and a willing worker will get along all right together in the end. The “work or fight” order becomes effective July 1. If you are registered for service and suspect that you may be classed as an “idler,” go to your local draft board and find out where you stand. Now is the time of year for using the short-lived foods grown near h£me, so as to liberate the concentrated and staple foods which must bp,,sent abroad. Don’t forget the latb planting. Keep on pegging seed into- the ground. Use home

vegetaoles until frost comes. ' To Mrs. Housewife: Can or pre-, serve every ounce of fruit or vegetables that you can get hold of. All the homecanned stuff will be for civilian use. For several reasons it cannot be sold or given to the army. If you are a farmer, you had better consider the wisdom of storing your grain or stacking it. Elevator men are urging farmers to hold back deliveries so that all the grain in the world, will not be trying to get from the tail end qf the machine into the elevator, all al one time. Get ready to cut down on beef again. And, while you are cutting down, don’t roast the food administration for shifting regulations. Conditions change rapidly these days. Who could have foretold a few months ago the enormous movement of troops to France? Beef is needed for export, and it must be had, and we are not going to look at it oftener than about twice a week. Substitute pork products for beef. Also conserve sugar- Use it as if it cost $1 a pound and you were a stepmother. The government will let you have some sugar for canning and preserving, but play fair when you put in your o»ier, and don’t try to grab somebody else s supply. . , If June 28 comes around and you have not given a pledge to take some of the War Savings stamps y?. u had better examine your birth certificate once more and make sure that you are an American, i