Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — Selfridge Orders Employee to War. [ARTICLE]

Selfridge Orders Employee to War.

London, Sept. I—Harry Gordon Selfridge, owner of London’s “American" department store, notified the heads of the store’s departments to intimate to every man in his employ between the ages of twenty and thir-ty-five who is unmarried that he must enlist immediately or resign his position. Mr. Selfridge Is ready to pay half wages to the wives of all men In his employ who enlist. As a result, about thirty per cent of the eligible employes joined the ranks.