Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — WAR HINTSHELPS-DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS-HELPS-DUTIES

COMPLIED AND CONDENSED FOR STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. The nut sundae heads the casualty list this week. The soda fountains must cut out all special drinks requiring sugar syrups. Candy-makers and soft-drink dispensers and housewives are expected to cheerfully obey orders these days and get ready to save more sugar. Are you using in your home more than three pounds per person per month? If so, you are sneaking a little more than your share.

The Red Cross is still looking for nurses. The campaign for the. enrollment and training of nurses is to continue indefinitely. The first agricultural training camp for boys of the Working Reserve [has been opened at Purdue. One. hundred boys wet# into camp last Monday the 24th. They will be instructed for two weeks and then assigned to farms. Then a second group will be received for two weeks, and so on. The camp will be open until the middle of August. The boy who enters must be between 16 and 21 and have the consent of his parents to work on a farm for at least four weeks. Boys already working on farms,are not asked to come. All counties should be represented. The lads will live in the frat houses at Purdue and be in charge of Dr. Stanley Coulter who is one of the friendliest souls on earth. Boys will pay their own railroad fares but they will be housed and fed and instructed at Purdue free of charge. The volunteer who brings a musical instrument and is ready to play in the land will be received with cheers. Save the ice. Ammonia is required in the making of munitions and should not 'be used in the making of ice which is carelessly wasted,. Save the manpower required for the manufacture or delivery of ice. Keep the refrigerator in a cool spot and close the doors. Don’t open it except when necessary. Don’t load it up with warm food. Don’t think that you have to freeze your innards by slamming fragments of ice-berg into all the food and drink served during hot weather. The State Council ventures to suggest in connection with a patriotic Fourth that the explosion of fireworks will not scare the Germans, that the consumption of much highpriced food will damage not only the stomach but the conscience, and that candy and sweet drinks contain sugar. The submarine is trying to sink in the sea all the sugar we start to the allies. Don’t co-operate with the subs. Stop singing sugar. You are in partnership with every American soldier and sailor in service, with every man under the flag of an ally, with every civilian in the regions laid waste by. German cruelty. Play fair with your partners even if they have no chance to look over the books every week. We approach the 28th of June. It comes on Friday of this week. On or before that date, every man, woman and child claiming the protection of the American flag and asserting loyalty to the great cause, is expected to be the owner of government Savings Stamps and to have delivered a pledge to keep on buying. President Wilson says that the practice of thrift in peace times is a virtue. To save in war times and to make your savings help to win the war “is a patriotic duty and a necessity.” It looks as if a good many folks who haven’t been doing farm work will have to go into the fields this year. Each neighborhood will find it advisable to organize a clearing house where volunteers will register and where farmers may come for help. In working out your plans have a friendly understanding with the county agent and the county council of defense. After you have bought Liberty Bonds, thrift stamps and War Savings Stamps, after you have hoed the weeds from your war garden, and said good-bye to wheat flour and resolved to eat beef only two or three times a week; after you have given to the Red Gross and the Y. M. C. A. and the Salvation Army and the Knights of Columbus; after you have had your sweet tooth extracted and have learned to shudder at the sight of a frosted cookie; after you have cleaned up the old straw hat and patched last year’s suit and sent out all the old shoes to be half soled, if you Still have a surplus ol patriotic zeal, you might go ahea< and build a sild.