Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1918 — WAR HINTSHELPS DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTSHELPS DUTIES

COMPLIED AND CONDENSED FOR THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. When it comes to saving foodstuffs we are all in Class 1. O'-'-O Even in the sultry heat of the dogdays don’t forget that you will require a lot of fuel next winter and that all. coal orders will not be filled. Can you use some teamhauled wood as a substitute for coal? O—O The following reminders are kept in stock all of the time: Build more silos. Keep on buying thrift stamps. Write cheerful and heartening letters to soldiers boys away from home. Make careful use of home-grown and perishable products so as to release the staple food-stuffs of condensed bulk for shipment abroad. Do not waste or throw away any materials which have value. Put into your war work the willing and resolute spirit of our soldiers at the front. • o—o Indiana has about 200 companies of civilian soldiers known at Liberty Guards. A new service has been assigned to them. They are asked to instruct young men registered for the selective draft and awaiting call. Gen. Crowder wants the men selected by the government to enter the service “willing, loyal, intelligent, clean and sober.” The boards of instruction have been asked to get acquanited with the registrants in Class 1 and help them to understand why we are' at war, what we are fighting for and how they can best prepare themselves for effective service. It is believed that the Liberty Guards already in military training can be a great help to the boards of instruction by taking hold of the prospective soldiers and giving them useful information and patriotic pep.

Regarding wheat: Grain buyers must not intentionally place a lower grade on wheat than that to which the farmer is entitled under the federal standard. The grower must get the price to which he is honestly entitled. Remember that no price has been fixed but the dealer who demands a larger net profit than was usual before the war is in danger of being yanked up for profiteering. Damp wheat will not grade. Indiana is asked to increase her acreage of wheat next year. o—o John W. McCardle, of the public service commission, and A. E. Reynolds, of the state council of defense, have been sent to Washington by Gov. Goodrich to get more cars for the handling of the two grain crops which are about to swamp all of the elevators in the state. The grain dealer is subject to a federal penalty if he holds grain more than 30 days. He wants to handle the grain in his neighborhood but he will be up against it if he. fails to get cars. The situation is critical but the governor has sent two energetic and presuasive men to headquarters and he has told them to “stay there until they get results.” o—o Plans for any kind of construction work involving the use of men, money and materials should be referred to the county council of defense before being presented to the State council of defense. Better still, pigeon-hole the plans until after the war unless the proposed construction, whether it be a farm house or a school building or a drainage sewer or a public highway, will assist in a fairly definite way toward the winning of the war. Railway trains anc money and skilled labor can fine steady employment now on important war jobs.

0 ■ 0 We get sharp orders these days and obey them promptly. Do not regard the food administrator and the fuel administrator and the other men of large authority as harsh dictators set above you to make trouble. They are merely your agents. We- must nail down certain important results without loss oi‘ time or waste of effort. We enengage experts to tell us what to do next in order to save food for our starving friends in Europe, to rush our soldiers to the front and provide equipment, to use railway cars so they will help to win the war and to so rearrange our private plans that they will not interfere with the one great plan of saving our country from defeat by Germany. The thing we do under orders are the things we would do voluntarily if we knew all the facts in the case and the urgency of the situation. When we obey orders without grumbling we are expediting our pwn business and taking a short cut to the goal. o—o Surgeon-General Gorgas send a message to the women of. Indiana between the ages of 19 and 35. He saye that the army and the country face a shortage of nurses. About 12,000 nursese are needed for the army immediately. These must be graduated nurses, taken from the hospitals and the care of the sick at home. When these graduate nurses go, their places must be filled. The young woman who now wishes to do her country the greatest possible service should go to a recruiting station of the woman’s coftimittee of the council of national defense and enroll in the student nurses reserve. This enrollment will make her a candidate for the army nursing school or one of the civilian training schools. To every girl who enrolls, General Gorgas gives his personnel assurance that she is performing an important and a most patriotic service.