Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1918 — OBJECTORS TO BE GIVEN WORK [ARTICLE]

OBJECTORS TO BE GIVEN WORK

Use Men Opposed to War in Food Production. - i Vexed Problem of Their Presence at Army Cantonment* I* Now Solved. Washington. —After struggling for a long time with the knotty problem of conscientious objectors in army cant amenta, the war department now antunces that the difficulty has to a large degree been solved through the aid of the farm help specialists of the United States department of agriculture. In the various states where there are .farming communities which indude sects opposed to war, such as the Ponkard* and Mennonltes, and where additional farm help is needed, these are made known to the cantonment commanders, together with a ree-

ord of thel? farm labor needs. The plan has worked out so well that In the three camps where definite lists of objectors were compiled practically all of these men have been placed. Camp Meade had 88, all of them now at labor on farms; 100 of the 102 men at Camp Lee have been placed and the majority of those at Camp Taylor.