Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — GIRLS WARNED OF SLACKERS [ARTICLE]

GIRLS WARNED OF SLACKERS

< Yellow and Black Signs Posted at Pittsburgh License Bureau—Rush Continues. Pittsburgh,- Pa., April 13.—Applicants at th*' marriage license bureau w ere confronted by the following sign, printed in black on a yellow background: ‘ ■“A man who tmtrrieS a girl to shirk his duty to hi- country is not going to think very nm<-h of shirking Jris duty to his wife. Girls. H-ware ! ” All re<- rd< have l..*en broken at the bureau the last few weeks, the majority of men applying for marriage licenses being between twenty and twenty-live years old.