Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — A. E. F. Publication Tells Soldiers “Over There” What Conservation Really Means [ARTICLE]

A. E. F. Publication Tells Soldiers “Over There” What Conservation Really Means

A private in a truck train, relates the Stars and Stripes, France, went to a reserve tank the other day, opened the faucet and drew a liberal quantity bf gasoline in a bucket. “I guess,” he remarked, “the old man will raise h—• if he saw this, but I’ve got to wash my pants.” Yes, the “old man” probably would have raised h—. If he is the right kind of “old man” he would have raised seven or eight different kinds of it.

Millions of schoolboys are selling War Savings stamps in the States to keep us going over here and millions are stinting to buy them. There were three gallons of gasoline in that bucket and, what with the money it cost to make it and build and run the ships to get it over here, we wouldn’t be surprised if it .represented a whole week’s work for some bright-eyed, enthusiastic, patriotic schoolboy. The private in question would probably fight if you accused him of betraying his friends in the trenches. Yet gasoline means airplanes, and airplanes mean dead Germans, and dead Germans mean live Americans. It’s the same with every commodity we handle. Conservation and care mean lives and a shorter war.