Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — WAR HINTS, HELPS AND DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS, HELPS AND DUTIES

Compiled for the State Council of Defense by George Ade. The boys at the front have shown their mettle. We know that they can meet the Huns and down them, man for man, IF they are in good physical condition and the proper fighting tools are constantly passed up to them from behind the lines. Who must furnish supplies of every description? You! When you see a war duty headed toward you, meet it half way and shake hands. The grouch has less market value at this moment than ever before in the history of the world. The program of the food administration is to put less into the garbage pail and take more out. It you waste your garbage you may find it impossible to look a hog in the fade. It is true that the wheat harvest will be more than abundant. If the government decides that a surplus I must be stored and asks you to continue mixing in a substitute with the white flour, you won't weep an over the grocery store or ask foolish questions, will you? We thought not. A lot of farm labor in Indiana will have to be done this year by hands who are either green or rusty. A patient employer and a willing worker will get along all right together in the end.

The “work or fight"order becomes effective July 1. If you are regis tered for service and suspect that you may be classed as an “idler,” go to your local draft board and find out where you stand. Now is the time of year for using the short-lived foods grown near I home, s<r as to liberate the concentrated and staple foods which I must be sent abroad. Don t forget the late plantings. Keep on !>eg ' ging seed into the ground. Ise home vegetables until frost comes. To Mrs. Housewife: Can or preserve every ounce of fruit or vegetables that you can get hold of. All the home-canned stuff will be for civilian use. For several reasons it cannot be sold or given to the army. If you are a farmer, you had better consider the wisdom of storing your grain or stacking it. Elevator men are urging farmers to hold back deliveries so that all the grain in the world will not be trying to get frow the tail-end of the machine into tthe elevator, all at one time.

Get ready to cut down on beef again. And, while you are cutting down, don’t roast the food administration for shifting regulations. Conditions change rapidly these days. Who could have foretold, a few months ago, the enormous movement of troops to France? Beef is needed for export and it .must be had, and we are. not goSng to look at it oftener than about twice a week. Substitute pork products for beef. Also, conserve sugar. Use it as if it cost $1 a pound and you were a step-mother. The government will let you have some sugar for canning and preserving but play fair when you put in your order and don’t try to grau somebody else’s supply.