Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — STATE COUNCI OF DEFENSE [ARTICLE]

STATE COUNCI OF DEFENSE

(George Ade, Chairman Publicity Committee) Indianapolis, June 12. —-The State Council of Defense has issued the following statement of its activities in- the preparation of Indiana for an honorable part in the war with Germany, by organizing the men, ■women and material resources of the commonwealth for concerted, co-ordinate activity: The third week of the State Council’s activity has been produc-

tiveofmuch of a tangible nature. The county councils have beeh reported from practically every county in'the state, many have already organized, others will do sp during the week and all are asking what their part is to be in the prosecution of the war. The council is rapidly preparing suggestions for local activity and within a very short time’the work will be systematized and extended „to include every hamlet in the state of Indiana. The fact that the highest type of men and women, representative of practically every line of business, every profession, the home—through the one woman, at least, on each county council—and the workshop, for every council has recognized the important and digthat labor is to play in the work to be done. The medical profession of the state has been organized to take care of the multiple duties that will devolve upon it in the conflict abroad and the diminished resistance to the Inroads of disease at home. Under the supervision of Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the medical school of Indiana university, the leading physicians, heads of the nurses’ organizations of the state, hospital supply men and pharmaceutical supply men, have been enrolled for one of the gigantic professional tasks of the war.. TThe council has taken up in a practical manner the question of the conservation of food in storage houses, the shipment if ice and coal; the, inspection of grain elevators and Warehouses; the increased ale of Liberty bonds and the fullest measure of co-operation with the United States marine corps for the enlistment of more than Indiana’s share of the 4,000 marines wanted to fill up the official quota during the current week. The state council is extending its activities as rapidly as the opportunities permit. During the week representatives of the two parties in the legislature met with Governor James P. Goodrich to give their stamp of. approval to his efforts and to pledge their support. They unanimously concurred in the resolution adopted by the state council, requesting the governor to secure ?100,000 on the credit of the state for the purpose of financing the work of preparing Indiana for "her part in the war. D.' Frank Culbertson, ' Democratic floor leader in the senate; Senator 'Robert Bracken, leading Democrat of Frankfort; Senator Arthur Rk&p_-_ son, Republican floor leader in the seventieth general assembly, which met last winter; Speaker Jesse Eschbach and Republican floor leader in the house, Charles A. McGon'agle, agreed to support legislation guaranteeing the appropriation from the state’s funds, the- necessary money, when the legislature is in session.