Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — WAR HINTS, HELPS, DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS, HELPS, DUTIES

COMPLIED AND CONDENSED FOR THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. We used t 6 think that Niagara Falls was some splash of water and the Grand Canyon was quite a hole in the ground and a national debt of two billion dollars was a lot of money. That was before the days of moving 300,000 soldiers a month or launching 100 ships in one day or spending a billion dollars as if it were a Canadian quarter. We are now thinking in large numbers and huge sums. We are beginning to know our own capabilities and resources. The registration of September 12tb is going to be a whale of an undertaking but it mpst be accomplished without the slip of a cog or one whimper of complaint. After the “18 to 45” iob is out of the way, we can get ready for another Liberty Loan drive. The Indiana State Council calls for a short campaign and high speed from the start. It doesn’t take a simon-pure patriot very long to make up his mind when his country calls for help. Have the wheat money and the oats money, all ready to convert into bonds. Have you noticed that the Liberty bonds are in demand at high prices?

Join the food club in your neighborhood. v Don’t forget that the unskilled labor of Indiana is now asked to stop trifling with side-issues and get busy on war contracts. Don’t be mowing your lawn while a house is on fire across the street. In order that war industries may steam ahead, you and all of your neighbors must save coal. Clean your furnaces and stoves'; keep them in repair and study economical firing. Don’t overheat the premises. The cold weather isn’t here yet but it is proper tO'have the heating plants and the good resolutions all tuned up in advance. How many, teaspoonfuls in one pound of sugar? If the spoon is just evel full, about 96 to the pound. If you are trying to 'limit table consumption to one pound a month, you could use three of these skimpy spoonfuls each day. The rounded spoonful runs about 48 to the pound or one and a half daily. The heaping spoonful averages' about 32 to ;he pound. That would be one a day. If you are heaping the spoon more than once a day you are using some other fellow’s sugar. The war news sent from the other side to this side is most inspiring. Jon’t let any item of war news from this side to the other side be a disappointment to the men in uniform. Be sure that the home paper goes to all the soldier boys in twining camps or “over there.” The editor cannot send free copies. He should not be asked to do so. A quick way to get home news to a soldier is to clip 6ut the live items and forward them first-class.