Wayne Township

Report Of Red Cross

TA. Ann 7 4. 7 oe IP * " 3; nee me +> 4 a EnroOliment Committee, Mrs.Tina Eviston oh 7? ne ee . or i ae Vian = OF Pit ad Home Economics, Mrs. lydia Jeffery. Be hy. oe 42 Re wk ws" 4 aa i 2 aN i Food Production, "rs. Wilbur Pisher D7 -

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Hach member of the Committee = * the 18 a of her neichborhood at. the district school am resis tered them. The township »can Glaim simost 100%\ of their Jeéids ects o tering, and the Chai rren with her able body of assistants felt doubly repaid for their work by the' hearty response from sll.

Report Of U. S. Food Club Of Wayne Twp

Pirst meting in June at Banquo. Demonstration on war bread by Home Dem ons tration Agent-Miss. Grace Walkup. A good 6 ttendance and much interest shown.

Third meeting at Banquo. Several in attencgance. A good program was given from the printed programs sent from Dr. Barnard, Also school lunch denvonstration by Miss Grace "alkup, Home Demonstration

Report Of Food Coiservation

All war mothers belonged to. this committee and the food conservation principles were strictly yer to in all parts of the township and there was more food pres erved this. year then any

The work of Baby Registration in Wayne Township was undertaken by the Chairman, lis. Jessie Fen, Rig many missivin ot i many and varied Seemed the opinions of the people as to its success,

Relying, > :however;on the loyalty of the mothers, she appointed a woman in eachischool district to notify the mothers of families in that district that Raby Registration vould be held eat the Banquo High School Auditorium June 6.

The workers were fortunate in secw ing the services of Dr. M. Fe Pisher, practising physician at TaFonteine, and that of his brother, H. G. Fisher, then & student of the John Fopkins Medical

The day proved a decided success, as sixty-seven( 67) tots were brought to the school tmilding. Fifteen (15) cards were sent out 'to those sick or wehle to attend, totaling eighty-two (82) res sistered, whileonly six or seven failed to be recistered on @ccount of indifference of varnnts., The youngest children brought to the school tMilding were the twin babies of Mr. & Mrs. Harold

In some cases, where the mothers were wuneble to attend, the fathers brought the children, quitting their work to do so. Others brought mot ther and children at the noon how and one father brought his small motherless daughter, al though it meant a trip of five miles. The people of the towmship stood behing the Committee hee

WAYNE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OF DEFENSE © - ° . > - ~ f A. D. Fisher, Chairman, LeFortaine, Ind. #1. Albert Ken, Vice" '9 * oy ee " i. orence Spanlding, Sec. " , u ipl Arthur Thomas, Treas. Re ae ete 3 district attorney, electrified the audience at the final session of the all day County War Conference last night at the Methodist church by his terrifie indictment of the German military machine, The session opened with Peter Martin, | chairman of the County Council of De-} fense, presiding. The Rey. L, A. Swisher, pastor of the Methodist church, delivered the inyoeation and J. B. Bailey n Y¥, M. C. A. cantonment worker and Dr. Julius Lincoln, also made addresses. | Thousand of persons attended the ¢onference sessions which started yester-| day morning, and at all times the seating capacity of the church was over: crowded and hundreds had to stand up Many were turned away last night unable even to get inside the building. Cites Frightfulness.

Traversing the past three years since the German troops started their work of destruction Mr. Dailey citdd instance after instance of the frightful methods fised in their attempt to Conquer the world and destroy. all that'stood in their, path. Calling attention to the bombing of villages and the destroying of hospi- | tals by the German airplanes, the sinking of vessels loaded with human freight. by the submarines and the use of liquod fire and poisonous gases and the erucifixion of Belgian children, Mr. Dailey hurled at his audience the question, "Who is responsible for this - terrible frightfulness ? Ask Germany, she knows." ;

Referring to the distance of the war being three thonsand miles ~ away Mr. Dailey said that this y geography and not of et ics, anc th murder of women and children was jus as barbarous when committed away from home as if it had occurred in our own country, y

Mr. Dailey detailed how averse - the United States was to entering the conict and how for almost three years it had bent: every energy and used every

He spoke of a friend at college written an essay entitled the of Lying," and position could be stated now words, "fhe Impérial German Government." And in this, he said, the German government had reavhed the highest degree of efficiency. Would Still German Tongue.

Taking his andience step by step told of the methods Germany had used in an attempt to' Germanize America. here was no law on the statue books of Indiana, he said, referring to the teaching of French or Italian in the public schools of the state but on the other hand there existed asa 'part of the statutes a law making the teaching 0} Serman in our. public schools compul. sory. The church. fairly rocked witk 'applause when Mr. Dailey .declared, "1 hope that. the first. act of the n 4 lature -of Indiana after the opening prayer of the chaplain will be to repeat this 'infamous. law.' , this statement. he told of how special act of theIndiana

)/AS indicating the Germans' mania fo teaching militarism as the one supreme inciple of govercment he referred to Ne fact that berore the war over 700 x ks & vear relating to war was published in Gersaany: on an aryerage of two a day. To the German mind, under the military teaching, God and war walked in hand and were inseparable and the linked this fecling with the further contradictory action of the German fighting alongside of the unspeakable Turk who abhors the Creator and whose chief amusement is cutting the -throats of Christians, '

Mr. Dailey referred to an organization of women in Indianapolis who made it a point to see that all the boys from that city serving with the colors would receive encouragement by hearmg from home and where any boy was without a mother another woman volunteered to look after the boy's welfare. This organization, he said, was doing a great work, in sustaining the morale of the men at the front and of earing for the relatives at home. He spoke of one mother who in a burst of patriotism, though her heart was bleeding for her son, said that she did not want her boy to come back until the United States Field artillery had marched / down the streets of Berlin.

let the public know where they stood. 'Some, he said, had been in the habit of using the country as a grazing ground to eat off the clover tops.

Has Son in Service. "The blue is emblematie of the feeling of the country, brought about by war's frightfulness; the white repredeclared 'this entire com- ents the purity of our intentions; the | from a Protestant.

he was compelled to pause until he had mastered' this feeling. Mr. Dailey has one son, Field Dailey, now serving with the colors "Somewhere in France."

Musie by the orchestra and the 'singing of the Star Spangled Banner by the audience, wa followed by the ever popular Temple quartet singing, "It's a lon way to Berlin, but we'll get there." As an encore they sang a somewhat com- 'ical piece being a recipe for corn bread.

discournge them or give them # @! _ feeling." a. | Many Can't Read '} Tie said there were 2400. reereits Camp Taylor who 'could neither read or Lwrite and impressivly' detailed an inci tent of how one of these boys had come io him to have a letter written to*the boy's father and mother, After the letter had beer' written he said the returned with a "funny smile" and ask: jed him whether he would write another jletter for him. Sensing what was in the boy's mind Mr. Bailey asked what | the girl's first name was and penned Tor jthe boy a love letter. to the girl who, was waiting back home. His doserips tion of this incident and the manner im which the boy had opened his heart to iim with childlike simplicity and trust made a deep impréssion on his hearers. That' was a part of the work of the} Y. MC. A., Mr. Bailey said, and was a) sample of how the organization was) making every effort to cheer the bays and help them with their task. He spoke of the service flag hanging] in the churth and 'of the names' on 'the roll of honor should be in the home of tering the building and stated that this roll of honer should' be in the homse of every member of the church and that @ prayer should be offered up each day | for those who wete so loyally ads.

at the front. _ "¥" Will Watch Boys ' He spoke of . the temptations confronting the soldier gripping hint at] times with terrific force and urged that] the ¥. M. G. A. be notified in advance;] if posible, whenever a boy was entering | the camp. They would watch for him, he said, and give him every attention toward lead'ng a clean life, The Yoo, Fe. A. he said, was saving thousands of boys who otherwise would Succumb to 'temptations that existed outside the camps . | "We know no creed at the camps," he! declared. "You. cannot tell a Catholic The YieM. C. A.

in. four red the blood our boys will leave on for- ! and the K. of (. work together for the leign soil, and the stars the collection of good of cach individual soldier." Tn this connection he told of an incident where. a Greek, boy had asked for a Greek | church and that he. was accompanied on} his quest by a Catholic and a Protestant

Dr. G. M. O'Leary then introduced. | Julius Lineoln, a Lutheran minister of | Jamestown, N. Y.,/who recently return: | /ed from the froht:where he was one of six men sent there, by the United States for the purpos of studying conditions at first hand. Extracts from his addfess whith was vigorously ap-- plauded follows: she 'alarm wag sounded in the cay morning hours and we were advised to come down into the lobby. Gnas were booming, shells whistling, searchlights playi for somewhere vip in the skies wer beak of prey, carrying destrue~ tion im talons already dripping with the hloo 'ot lacerated women and children" _ Barbarous Tactics 'Detailing the frightfulness caused by, the German planes he spoke of the de-) | struction Wrevked upon Belgium during | the early Stages of the war and referred to the barbarous tactics used by 'the Teutons, ie one city children carried gas! 'mas to school and had been instrnct-_ fed im their nee. £ fully believe there is: only. one more horrible sight in this, orld than a .gnan who has been 'gas-; ed? Bulging, blood shot eyes, burned ' ifhunge, gasping, chitching, pawing, r breath a sheet of burning flame,' g and not being able to die, a more res orrible sight than that would be to see | chile 'gassed.' Wouldn't you fight if one should try that on your chillaren? Would you give yourself any rest Bi kage country would be freed from an enemy?" to the terrific battle around Vord un he said: "During the four of the flercest fighting, 18,000,000 3 were exploded. It is simply marthat the spirit of the French has 'not heen entirely crushed. Every able man between the ages of eight. and forty-five is in uniform." rring to the womanhood - of he spoke of the sacritices being dé and the work performed by them e the men were at the front. Coning he said "I cannot tell you how | teful it is to me to think of war oak of war. My life has~ been in preaching the Gospel of peace. pre is a time to fight and there is] 'to pray, and now we must pray m and we are in this war because wid not stay out, The time must er be past when one great nation, mscious of its power, straining every ¥e to develop that power, believing policy of blood and iron can tear h a civilization, which has been it up patiently and honorably. Never n must a mighty rece yr ne y disregard the rights of o endanger the safety of the world. this may become an «ternal fact, r ited States have dedicated their

Mrs Frank Felte? threw open the spacious rooms of her beautiful home in North Jefferson street Monday noon to the chairmen of the women's section of the council of defense, and their sub-committees. The affair was a1 o'clock luncheon, the women coming direct from the court house, where they attended the session of the war conference, to the Felter home, where luncheon was © served. The affair was for the sake of. business, giving the chairmen of the different committees an opportunity to meet their sub-committees, and get a definite idea of the work they are to be asked to do, and for the purpose of the organization of the women's section of the council of defense. _ Mrs. Felter received about 100 guests, and again proved herself tx be a charming hostess. The luncheor which was served buffet style, was in keeping with the conservation idea and was readily permitted by the food administrator, Dr. G. O'Leary, who was a specially invited guest The menu which was most a ypetizing, was minus meat, wheat flour, sugar and butter, excepting the sugar used in preparing the marmalade, and a small amount of sugar substitute used was used in the coffee to replace the Sugar otherwise used. The menu consisted of pressed chicken; mashed potatoes, corn, carrots, relish, marmalade, fruit jello, rye rolls, coffee and represenative of Dr. Barnard, was the honored guest of the afternoon, and responded to the introduction of th: hostess by telling the women some thing of their part and duty along vonservation lines. Dy. G. M, O'Leary also gave a few words of grecting and encouragement to the women doing the, work which Ifes before them. Mrs. Felter and her guests then attended the afternoon session of the i WAR CONFERENCE SPEAKER Every ' s P Very person tei Hu nt ington county will } ave the nrivilemel TELLS WHAT DIVISION OF RED of buying a bond of any size he may want of the "Fifth or Victory the j 'tory io } whi nf ' » tT : tat a a . tor , om, wh mh matures in four years and bears interest ICAL i at the rate of four and three-fourths per cent, is $1,088 00. Tt ts weet ee te "hh aft : : ait + : ate to say that the whole allotment will be readily snapped up by 5 the time the loan campaign ends on May 20).

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| ban ks of Huntington county it be sue! deeniedtionaceeel 7 met Wednesday evening in & ; EM ferert that theue 1 Cross sect meeting of | Huntington and confirmed the! - wi of surh denemioation thal the w ence, held in the Red } forecast made that the mg oft) uy the large bayer Con be Seven ~ ae he acer the county would essentially buy | tb et rophatiealy stated od by Homer Wickend Cievelane up the whole Huntington county , a ah be ~ parr cation @f represent ViSvous: wctbrerer quota - that is they would guar-t, oie a oe ee denomi na sy F ' f : ' [ a ; $50, 5100, $900, $1.00 aad 6 on ' Red ¢ ; taking the antee the entire amount. The}} . t the { asy cleus ' , ay defined the rate of interest and the early |} Ne Patriotic Appeal work in waich he ia eng i to o now ey of the poah 'Take the In tormee- bend cammelens Ma RSTOlG reports ponds agin a & class that banks }¢ d teeeesary to Dring preweere i bear rhe purp of thia department, in can handle them to an &@dVan- [with as spneel to nate tienen and poshlie a few words," said Mr. Wickenden, | tage and every bank in Hunting rit, to make sales in sega eee is to take the place of the ideal ton county is anxious for a cood a's loon campaign nethian eee father in the home rhere are many Iv allotment. bind will be resected | an the iaieaa = a) fe : se . r to 'e or Ilowever, the deaire af the government f os - : " . at the banks themselves] , im : ' mt siled to in that these bende he distributed .aa ' * . vd 29 G0 VeRO re ' , ? hate ois widely as possible and that everyone ,5e< 28 . ald be willing te Bay and pe es ' 8 nary mot : ti have an oppertanity te purchase, Se it [°"" ' te : e ef invewtmene feate no eye . tan sneriy man has been arranged that fallewing the |» " , ei ise that sah would ae a | : ape Be is ) . oo K Po " opening of the Liberty lean campaign mers ' hat ery ene should aged ; : - " " j - _ - . April 21 any one whe wishes may call ha c me apportut te buy ae he wiebes ; rites 'f a pr ' 0 . ion | | at any bank in the county and make ar "ete te a , i ' ; - on ine ? ol see that those at home «et yund rangement for the purchase of any sie =e a lg | . a ° be e tw medical, legal and nal sdvice of bond he desires, Ile may bay the de ar mn : - » A - . i way ' a : of 1 work. Hunt | Remination ef bond which meets his re- |f rude . ' re of and every In ity rs : ' on : noe, | irements sod may pay fer the same (1° " bh ght in the agile ee See | | a =. rr sh of om the payment plan which Au ef : eat made through the bf thecordinary community: Im mangh |i" cash or of pay ' Seumpanrrs ts thendachi aL tea! aie rem , ~ that the government hes approved 4 OS ep age ' : . pia h ; i} pebli sPoertion ao Ha ae will they .will aave ' ey gir 4 be tghorant f the offering, but ne one do not know that the are tof it { ; ' he : will bw ged ¢ Pont In this way ft fe when it arises. ' \ in I Jamu ? id io tt tt hes V! proba! e that the campaign in fepbection

; not By. ihe army, the "entthia edge; 5 bu by the "business of qwar,<those? } tireless organizations which labor ah! Ways in' thé bockgeround to -see tha® cry of "U ean: nelean!" evePythine at home is going ricght be J.B. Bailey, -Y. M. C. A. worker, } hind tly ot t? nnd to see ; talking about what the church may do} that rl Loy tgs s to'aid the WM. C. A, said that the| will b ,; , 7 ; persons ai home writing to the boys ~ wil! : yi JULIUS" LINCOLN TOLD OF | in the should put cheer in their} (uf NECESSITY OF GETTING TO- letters, telling them they are glad a oe F § pL ata 7 , they are doing their bit. In addition, des. OO ms . ihe added that the church members, ie

"Broke Plédyes With U: S. - J. B. 2 just a week ago from a trip through Bailey Talks. 4. France, and is now fouring the coun- Jie anil mA,' try, said that all is changed in Eur- < jope. He told of thewast change, the war activities nnd, the dfre need fox food among the eivilians of the fighting mations. On the steamer he saw a father and mother with a six months' old baby, which wore a life belt, while men wept at the sight. In the hotels

Before a packed houve at the Meth- Odist' church Monday evening [rank | 'C. Dailey, formerly of Bluffton, J. B. Bailey, secretary of a» ¥. MC. A. | hut" at Camp Zachary Taylor, end | Dr, Julius Lincoln, a Lutheran minister, who recently returned from a trip rt to France, told of the necessity of ev- in England, the party was called from ye érybody getting together im the win- bed at different times because of aerhing of the world war. Music was 'ial raiders. He told of the sights of , : ph furnished by the Philharmonic orches- }wounded, women and children in tentra, the Methodist church choir, and ement districts, after the German the audience. raiders had passed over. Grass will Peter 'Martin, chairman of the grow over the battlefields of Europe, county council of defense, called the he declared, but the blood of the anil y meeting to order, and introduced Mr. @eTed women and children will cry [ Dailey and Mr, Bailey, and then in- aloud for vengeance. , ter, \troduced Dr. G. M. O'Leary, the county | "! must believe the stories now," attine | food administrator, who introduced 'he said, "for I have seen them." Dr. Julius Lincoln. He declared there was one more} Mr. Dailey, known over the state as ghastly sight than a man who had by 'the man who cleaned up Térre Haute, been gassed, and that was a child that if started his speech by propounding a | had been gassed. l Series of questions about the German Dr. Lincoln gave graphic pictures of ' atrocities, asking who should have the | Vimy Ridge, and positions around n 3anner, most credit, the man who dropped a Verdun, where the fighting was the 4, yy ran - bomb on an unsuspecting town, kill- heaviest, and where Germaup FER sop Lorteon | a 'ing women and children, or the one, ments, with their arms locked, and. Fin a ia Ree hts Sal who dropped a bomb on a hospital, their heads on each other's shoulders, ' Ae?, 'killing wounded men and physicians; moved forward to be mowed down by - - - - - ae ane Which was the most praiseworthy, jmachine gun fire. , : 'killing babies by drowning them or | Dr. Lincoln declared it was woncer- to "erucifying them; which is the greatest 'ful that the marvelous spirit of the |,j; in / military genius, the man who created \people of France had not been ned r ) gas or the man who made liquid fire, crushed. There are no exemption fj and how these compared to the inspir- | boards in France, and no examining lation to poison wells. The answer | physicians, All men betwéen the ages } lwas "Ask Germany, she knows." of eighteen and forty-five are in serv- r F The fact that the atrocities were ice, and the women are at work do- 'eommitted over in Europe is a study ing their best to fill their places. of ¢ 'of geography, and not of ethics, he'! He declared that the boys of France row? declared, and added that it made no | are looking to the second army in the (7 ; 'difference where they happened they ; United States, the civilian army, for \ = 'constituted an attack on the civiliza- relief and support in their fight for ; n 'tion of the world. the liberties of the world. "/Ppolk ........... "Mr. Dafiey then indicted Germany Dr. Lincoln told of meeting the Union .......... from the things that she has visited chaplain of an Irish regiment in J mt, aes ¢ in the United States alone, and de- | France - @ Catholic priest - who greet- Dallas .......) clared that these things were enough ped him cordially, and declared that ; OU ae to make the country go to War. He they met not as Lutheran and Cath- Rock ¢ told of the ease with which Germany olic, but on the common ground of yancaster ...... broke the solemn pledges she made loyal American citizens. un eee An to the United States, as easily as 6 8 ' my Jefferson ....... 74 broke the treaty which guaranteed | ~ ini i ty . tea fh Belgian neutrality. He said that any- * " 3 failing | getting pat Pek:, pi body wanting to write them on (the red C1 oun his | markabh ot » aint gefence of lying needed only to write ae hs tiiey Gis. eet. th wlowele as four words, "The imperial German tions of is . Vamperite tha government." : nt recovery. Worr = to' ili county He expressed the hope that -tho Un ncrtant part tot 1 was 12242 mer ea wx legisiature, immediately after", aes aa ve niliesja total 1 nt el ' e he prayer, would repeal the law i .y coming armytold members. re-signed. which made the teaching of German of + it 1 : she 7% compulsory in the schools of Indians. nadie and : ticate. - He reviewed the teachings of Ger fa any other ¢ which man philosophers that war is the hol- ek sake ie nd the est expression of civilization, and ntcor in which that the German idea was to conquel. "on. fhe people. A 4 and subdue, He told of the tmagim: . 4yedigasters that h: 4 ary Frankenstein "monster, and d@ | o.inus largely because t clared that the only difference be-- tween that monster and the German) military machine is that one was fic-, tion and the other is reality, He de elared that the question now is not