Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1918 — DEFENSE COUNCIL ENDS ACTIVITIES [ARTICLE]

DEFENSE COUNCIL ENDS ACTIVITIES

Chairman M. J 5. Foiey, at Me meeting of the State Council of Defense in the State Houee Thursday, was authorized to eliminate the working forces of the various department* of the organization at his discretion. The members voted to ffisoautiimu the regular weekly sessions tat v® hold themselves subject to can of the chairman at any time. A resolution to terminate the activities of jfce council, including the Boys Working Reserve, the speakers’ bureau, the publicity department, the department of investigation and the redaction off the office force to two or thrOeper--90 ns was introduced by Chaarmna Foley and was adopted. _ The members expressed fbetr desire to eliminate the expense of me council as eoon at s possible, hot decided to keep the council intact so that it may act in confoCTidty wartfa the plans of tike Council of National Defense, winch will be made known an a week or two. Because of the economic readjustments which inlay become serious problems, and because of the wax saving stamp and other campaigns that have to be conducted, at was decided that the county councils of defense as well as we sage council should not disband for tine present. " , In a statement read by tmurmaa Foley it was shown that the expense of the council during the" seventeen months of its existence was $82,000, as compared with the Illinois council, which spent $200,000; Ohio, $150,000; Michigan, $3,600,000, end New Mexico, $225,000. Other states cited spent greater sums than lode* ana. *. ’ Charles Fox introduced a Desolation urging employers andeanpioyea to guard against sudden changes to policy during the period of readjustment. The resolution was adopted. It is possible .that the Jasper County Council of Defense will have no further meetings, as the necasaaty for the organization seemed to have been done' away with 'by the ending of the war.