H and H — San Antonio Express home-front page, 30 August 1919

Late-summer 1919 San Antonio Express page in the gallery under a “war 2” filename: the clip sits in the post–Armistice window when dailies still carried bond drives, ration talk, and retail ads on the same spread. Hoffmann-Hayman retail copy should be read against whatever Liberty Loan or civic material shares the column—use the scan to separate public appeals from the coffee lines.

Transcription

Just this: That every minute of the day, they are sacrificing them- selves for the sake of Liberty and America—that we’d be back of them to the last ditch, to give themall the “tools” they need to lick the Kaiser. ‘There is only one way to make good on that work, but to get the Government’s help in find promise—and that is for every last one of us ing men who can be taken from less important to put in every minute of his working day work. This can be done through the United where it does the most good. States Employment Service with 800 branch of- And there are not just minutes but whole days ices and 20,000 agents of its recruiting di- lost every time a man changes his job. A man vision, the United States Public Service Re- has to be found to replace him. He loses time S¢rve. There i no charge—and the service is in moving. He takes time to catch on to the 80 placing 200000 skilled and unskilled men ‘ways in’the new plant, monty i Tell your labor needs to the local Examinersin- ‘When a manufacturer needs more men, it is Charge, local agent of the United States Public his duty to the country as a whole not to dis- Service Reserve or to the Director General at turb plants that are engaged in essential war Washington. United \8) States Service USDerial aber WB Wilscabecy This advertisement prepared for use » by the Division of Advertising of of the Department of habor the Committe of Public Information | CONTRIBUTED FOR THE WINNING OF THE WAR BY HOFFMANN-HAYMAN COFFEE CO. LANIER HOTEL 5 .

Source

• San Antonio Express (San Antonio, Tex.), 30 August 1919. Page not marked on the project scan; add Newspapers.com or microfilm locator when known.
• Project scan contributed by Kevin Mackey — Newspaper Clippings (1919 Aug 30 San Antonio Express H and H ADV war 2.jpg).