Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1918 — BOARD OF INSTRUCTION [ARTICLE]

BOARD OF INSTRUCTION

SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD MAKES APPOINTMENT OF FOUR MEN. “To put the selective service men into Camps willing, loyal, intelligent, clean and sober, and thus to fit them for rapid progress in becoming good soldiers.” “And to accomplish this by sysstematic personal instruction given before hand to each selective by members of a local committee of reputable citizens in each board area acting under the auspices of the local board.” The above is the object expressed and desired by' the government in the selection of a Board of Instruction. In obdience to the order of the government, the local selective board has appointed the following to constitute the Jasper county board of instruction: Chairman J. Budman Fleming, O. K. Rainier, J. M. Sauser and E. P. Honan. These men had been appointed by the Jasper county council of defense to assist the local selective board and to investigate and report to the council complaints that may arise either on the part of the selective board or account of persons attempting wrongfully to escape the of the draft law. We believe the local selective acted wisely In asking these men to accept this wider and possibly more imports ant field of duty. While most of the men that go to war from a community like this are, we believe thoroughly loyal and in most cases wilting to do their duty, special instruction as suggested by the government "will result in giving all who go to war a clearer idea of their relation to the government and the reason why they are called upon to enter into the service in its defense. The reason the American soldier is so valuable is because he is full of patriotism and knows full well the real value of the cause for which he is sacrificing.