Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1918 — CAN INDIANA DO LESS? [ARTICLE]

CAN INDIANA DO LESS?

Prof. G. I. Christie, now an assistant secretary of "agriculture, reports that Canada, with 500,000 men in military service, two out of every three of whom came from farms, last year increased her food production 5 per cent beyond the yield in any previous year. This was possible only because thousands of Canadian women and high school boys stepped forward and filled the gap. City boys from Canadian high schools made good on farms. Surely American boys can not do any less, he said, in recommending that Indiana farmers, who will lose farm han in the next draft, avail themselves of the "help of the, Hoosier lads, 1 who will graduate from the Purdue agricultural training camp, Saturday, July 20. Farmers who live conveniently close to Lafayette are invited to visit the university this week and make arrangements through Dr. Stanley Coulter for employing these boys. Farmers who can not apply personally should write to Isaac D. Straus, 83 State House, Indianapolis, giving their postoffice address, number of boys needed, when to send them, kind of work, nearest railroad station and wages.