Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of tho Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FARMS ARE SHORT OF HELP Situation Is Critical and Needs the Attention of the Nation. The country ie losing its population to the industrial centers at an amazing rate. It Is said upon good authority that Starke county has lost one-tenth of its population in the past two years, counting those gone to war. As a result our farmers will find it more difficult than ever to get sufficient help and scores of farms will He idle for want of tenants. And yet the city newspapers accuse the farmers of being slackers, as to furnishing men and .money to win the war. There will be fewer bushels of grain grown in Starke county this year than is usuaL What Is true of this county is likewise true of all sections of the state. Since it takes food to win the war why are so many of our farm hands being called upon for war service? Doubtless the war department holds, with city editors, that all the country . folks are good for is to go to war and to furnish mankind with food. On Route 2, out of Knox, there are twenty-two wacant farm houses. —Starke County Republican.