Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — WARHINTS HELPS, DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WARHINTS HELPS, DUTIES

COMPILED AND CONDENSED FOR COUNCIL OF DEFENSE BY GEORGE ADE. Once there were two men. The first walked right through the hellish fire of a machine gun, with a grin on his face. The other bought a cup of coffee at an eating house in Indiana and wailed with grief because the sugar was measured out to him and he couldn’t get a free crack at the open bowk _ ♦ ♦ ♦ * Go at the Fourth Liberty Loan as if the Germans were trying to hoM you Iback from your objective. Remember, it is to be a short campaign and the volunteer who goes the limit and does it early is the man who won’t be ashamed to wake up at night and find himself in his own company. Don’t wait until the last day. Don’t compel the committee to come around and see you. Don’t subscribe in the hundreds if you can count your holdings in the thousands. ■*♦ ♦ * Just as you receive this letter the big registration will be on. No need to remind the men between 18 and 45. They have been getting ready for two weeks. ♦♦ * ♦ The bell has begun to toll for the Kaiser and his crew of perfumed murderers. Keep it ringing until We have fully completed the interesting exercises at the cemetery. No let-up of effort! No peace settlement that has a “joker” concealed in it! Many a small-guage man who couldn’t see beyond the corner two years ago is now ready tb give the coat off his back to help some friends who are 4,000 miles away. *♦ ♦ ♦ To the farmers of Indiana who have millions of bushels of grain in storage: Don’t put up any “Welcome’ signs for the rats. The Intelligence Department has investigated the rat and found him pro-German. ** * • Here is a ten-word telegram to, every citizen: Save sugar, beef, wheat; use fruits, vegetables, milk, fish: economize. ** * * Keep it in the front part of your head that the unskilled labor of Indiana must be applied to war contracts. If the Iboys can go across the ocean to get acquainted with the Huns, surely the workingman can go across a couple of counties to connect up with a war job.