Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-11-22
OUTLINES PULLMAN'S
AFTER WAR DUTIES
j. n. Emerson Urges People to
Utilize Spirit Engendered by
War To Good of Community


Der of commerce last Tuesday, j. n.
Emerson, county food administrator
outlined Pullman's duties in connec-
ton with the great reconstruction
program that must follow the war,
and urged that the spirit of thrift
public service and sacrifice in a
good cause which was engendered
through the eXigencies of the great
war be continued after the war and
diverted to community interests and
public good, The entire program
mapped out by MIR. Emerson was ap-
proved by the chamber and COM
mittee including Mr.. Emerson, Will
lam Goodyear and l.. E. Wenham was
appointed to consider the sugges-
tons and ascerto in the manner in
which the different points may be
assigned to chamber committees and
brought to maturity.
The paper, in full, Was as follows:
What part are we to have in the
q
we learn to work for our town and
community as we have learned to
\ work for our nation?
will we teach our community
slackers their duties as we have our
siackers in the war work?
Our community, the same as
every other community, must assume
its share Of the responsibilities that
We owe to our boys who will come
back. They will want to slip back
into civil life, Industrial life, bust
ness life, and we have got to make
place for them. If we do our duty
to these boys, our heroes, we will
have the openings ready for them,
'E waiting for them to step into immedi-
ately on their return.
I'VE may feel that we have done
our full duty in buying bonds and
money for war work, and conscient-
| iously living up to all the rules OF
| the food administration, but we have
1 duty more far-reaching than any Of
1 these that we have heretofore had
/ placed on our shoulders and | feel
sure that the people of Pullman are
! going to meet this great patriotic OBJ
4 legation just as Loyalty as they have
every other that has been assigned
for us. We now have to overstep all
boundaries of what the government
says we must do, and do more-we
must go the limit
ITO do this we will have to show
people their duty, and it is their
patriotic duty to learn what essen
Tails really mean. We have been
talkng so long about n-essentials
mat we must now talk about essen
tans. And another word we have
oeen using must not be forgotten,
and that is conservation. We must
now turn every ounce of energy and
every cent of money for the recon
Struction in all lines that must be
made. In studying ways to conserve
curing the war we have been made
70 realize the great extravaganza and
waste III the daily life of the Amer
can people and some of the sery-
ices we demanded we have found
We're a detriment rather than a
blessing.
In the same way that our boys
nave fought for the future genera
uons, we now must live for the flu
ufe generations and not demand
mat everything we do and every cent
TAX we pay must be for our own
PERSONAL enjoyment
We have learned to work and
sWe during the war as never before
and we must continue now to profit
This important lesson.
mere is n work for us all to dc
and We must find out what is to be
June and then the professional man,
He farmer, the merchant and the
aoorer must do his share.
Just few suggestions of what
Pullman Chamber of Commerce
ah look forward to as its work for
~ coming year, this work not to be
1s' the work of the Pullman Cham
~r OF Commerce, for this body
s1ouid be Just the machinery, and
ery citizen should be willing to
fnish part of the power First lei
= make plans for a grand celebra.
'n when our boys get home; the
ection of fitting memorial fol
sur fallen heroes; a job for every
Jug OF our home boys that comes
CONTINUED IN last naee)