Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1918 — WAR HINTSHELPS-DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS-HELPS-DUTIES

COMPLIED AND CONDENSED FOR THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. Once there was a fellow who robbed his grandmother and after that he kept sinking lower and lower in the social scale until finally he wouldn't even back up his own country in time of war. Dr. Hany Barnard, food administrator for Indiana, says that the Hoosiers are a mighty cheerful lot of patriots when it comes to obeying regulations. You know, war bread tastes a good deal better if you treat it as a friend.

Keep the flag flying over the wheat bin and the sugar bin. The.state council of defense at the meeting last week adopted a resolution asking banks and trust companies to assist in protecting citizens against “wild cat” stock companies that are trying to exchange beautifully engraved certificates for Liberty Bonds. Put your government securities in some fire-proof place where moth and rust cannot corrupt nor promoters beak through and gobble. Does Germany begin to suspect that the greatest “bope-head play” in all history was to bring into the war a nation of 100,000,000 people controlling vast natural resources and saturated with latent abilities to produce and organize? Whatever the war may have cost you in money or the sacrifice of private convenience, aren't you repaid when you read that we have a million men in France and that we launched 100 ships in one day? If we ever learn to really “get together” and produce to the limit and practice economy and go after big objectives under the advice and direction of experts, what chance will Germany have, in the world markets, after the war? Whatever you do in support qf your government just now, remember that you are not only helping to fight back a murderous attack but you are laying the foundations of a new and bigger and better America.

Probably the most important discovery since Columbus landed in 1492 is the discovery by Indiana lousewives that syrup can be used nstead of sugar, even for preserving and jelling. All the meat produced this year cannot be marketed for weeks to come, so those who can stack it and postpone threshing, or those who have good tight bins and can store the grain, are asked to exercise a little patience and not expect cash returns at once. Federal Reserve banks stand ready to give financial assistance to every wheat producer until the markets can absorb the 1918 crop.

Indiana women must secure and sign certificates for their canning and preserving. All sales will be regulated by certificates except the regular three pounds per person per month for household consumption. If you live in town you can buy two pounds at a time for family use. ' If you live in the country you can get five pounds at a time. The woman who wishes to get the extra sugar for Canning purposes must tell how much sugar she has on hand and whether seh has previously obtained a supply for canning or preserving. After she gets through there won't be any secretsbetween her and the food administrator or his deputy. She cannot have the sugar delivered to her until this official has put his O. K. on j