Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1918 — WAR HINTS HELPS, DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS HELPS, DUTIES

COMPILED AND CONDENSED FOR COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. The important message this week is to the working men— the unskilled Ibaorers of Indiana. It is aimed direct at those who are now engaged in work whicn is not helping to win the war If the editor wll permit me to work m some larger type, listen to this call: The Indiana State Council* of Defense appeals to you Sa * good patriot, and a loyal friend of our soldiers and sailors to enlist in some industry which is busy on war contracts. Listen: The nation needs a million men right away in war industries. Indiana is to provide 20,940 unskilled workmen. The laborer not engaged in raising farm crops, or mining coal or helping to operate a railway or in some industry directly contributing to the success of the war, is asked to enlist for war work. This does .not mean merely the men in large cities and factory towns. It means the workingmen everywhere in Indiana. We must send to France an unbroken supply of everything needed by the army. Every workman is asked to make it his personal business and first duty to inquire at the local district office of the U. S. Employment Service as to how he can get into war work. The nearest council of defense will adyise you. Go where the work is. Incidentally, you will probably get top-notch pay. Don’t wait for your duty to seek you out and tap you on the shoulder. The American soldiers don’t- compel the German army to hunt them up. They hunt up the Germans. Indiana farmers are urged to establish road-side markets and dicker with the motorists flitting by in their slivers. Save the extra hauling and the time required to get produce into town. Did you know that the Gas Defense Division of the U. S. army is asking for an unlimited supply of walnuts and hickory nuts, as well as shells of these nuts? The carbon from the nuts and shells is used in making gas masks. It is an absorbent of poisonous gas. Here’s a chance for patriotic service that you didn’t expect. Your county council will forward all the nuts and shells you deliver. The price paid may not make you wealthy, but think of the satisfaction you will derive from the knowledge that you helped our fighting men to stand up under a gas attack!

Burlap is getting into a class with silk. Wash and dry the second-hand bags and sell them. Even torn bags can be used. Burlap is needed in shipping supplies to the army. Don’t waste it. Once more the county councils are told to go after the sheep-killing dog. He is almost as pro-German as the open sugar bowl in the public eating house. James Whitcomb Riley spoke very highly of eorghum molasses. It is a grand war substitute for sugar. Keep it in tight cans and it will not ferment. The favorite nephew of Uncle Sam just now is the fellow who helps on every war job within reach, without waiting for some one to come along and build a fire under him.