Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1914 — Page 4

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The Terre Haute Tribune

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An Independent nenapaper, Dally and Snaday. The Terre Haute Gazette. established 1860. The Terre Haute Trlbase, established 18M.

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Entered as secondclass matter January 1, 1906. at the postoffice

at Terre Haute, Indiana, under the act of congress of March 2. 1879.

A Terre Haute newspaper for Terre Ilaate people. The only paper In Terre Haute owned, edited and published by Terre Haateans.

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HEALTH DAY.

October 2 has been set aside as Health day. The program as published in the Tribune, Friday, Indicates that the school children will take a prominent part. The tide of events has peculiarly directed attention to the conservation of health.

If Europe can enlist an immense volunteer army to destroy life, surely the "United States should be able to enlist a great volunteer army—a national health guard—to save life by combating its deadly but conquerable enemy, preventable disease. This enemy can be fought and checked and in the end conquered, without costing the life of a single ^volunteer.

In our battle with the preventable maladies we lose 650,000 lives every year.

This is nearly four times as many people as were killed on the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian war, and undoubtedly far more than will be killed lh all the battles of the present great war.

Our annual loss is equal to a battle of Waterloo every sifxteen days during the entire year, and a battle of Gettysburg about every three days.

Every year diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys, which are nearly ell preventable or postponable, if detected In time, cost us as many lives were destroyed by wounds and seases in the union army during the

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Jvil war. In Europe they are destroying life by human design here, by human neglect.

WAR PROFIT OR LOSS?

Since the outbreak of the European war some citizens hafve accepted as extenuating circumstance the fact that war in Europe will help this country In a commercial way and that we will prosper while Europeans shoot each other down. "We must always assume, unless we have positive reasons to the contrary, that war is an injury rather than a benefit even to neutral countries," observes Dr. T. N. Carver, expert economist in the agricultural department at Washington. "War makes for scarcity rather than abundance and scarcity is bad for the world at large, though It may benefit a few."

Th« world Is bound into a closer compact than ever before. What disturbs one part disturbs all. There can be no absolute immunity. The present conflict in Europe is a universal affliction. There may be advantages accruing to some, direct or indirect, but they are overbalanced by the general harm inflicted.

These are facts to be kept in mind as the great conflict grinds on. It^s consuming world capital which belongs to all the people of all the nations.

A TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

Members of the republican state committee complain that the progressives are stealing their thunder. A few days ago the republican state committee mailed out thousands of cards inviting the progressives back. The cards said: "Eventually, why not now?" The progressives to whom party fealty and party principles mean more than office grabbing, have been changing the cards to read "Eventually. but not now."' The best reply to the republican point of view was made a few days ago. It voices the attitude of the true progressive.

In his speech in Kansas City, Kas., opening the state campaign for the progressives, Henry J. Allen declared for the new rule in county and state

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toy local application!, aa they mnnot reach the diaeaaed portion of the ear. There Is only one way to Cure deafnen, and that la by constitutional remedies. Deafness la caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it la entirely closed, Deafneaa la the reault, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube reatored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine caaes out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucoua surfaces.

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affairs, defended President Wilson's administration in its Mexican and other policies, and declared that the new spirit In politics called for the elimination of politics from local and state affairs. "The only argument that is made for the amalgamation of the progressive and republican parties is that united we can 'whip the democrats.' Thai has been the aim of all our political activities as far back as I can remember. That is the reason we have made such slow progress in the development of government Has It occurred to you that possibly the democrats do not deserve to be whipped? If Woodrow Wilson carries out his program anflk succeeds in doing what everyone concedes that he Is trying to do, possibly the American people will demand his re-election, and why shouldn't they? That is the new idea, the new spirit in politics. 'If he falls It will be because his party is merely the democratic party and unable to catch the new spirit. Then his party should be defeated, just as the republloan party was defeated. "Let us get the Vision of the government, rather than the party."

Now that Boss Barnes has departed there is a squabble among the survivors over the question as to who ousted him. All claim the honor.

Zeppelins are now being called "Dreadnaughts." This is a doubtful compliment to the British warship which created the name.

The Boston baseball team's exemplification of how the laBt shall become first will long remain an inspiration for American youth.

Perhaps those senate leaders are anti-vivisectionists they object so vigorously to cutting any pork from the rivers bill.

It seems that the Terre Haute base ball team ran Into those Uhlans in the neighborhood of Dayton.

Louvain is no more, but Its name will long be used to point a moral and adorn a tale.

The entire Balkan family is growing grouchy.

Larry Qulnlan day. Hurray!

BOOKS WOBTH WHILE.

A series of suggestive titles furnished to The Tribune by the Emellne Fairbanks Memorial library.

Individual Biographies.

Thomas Carlyle—"James Welsh Carlyle." J. A. Froude—"Thomas Carlyle."

B. Alderson—"Andrew Carnegie." K. Wallisaewskl—"Catherine II Russia."

GERMANY'S WAR CHEST.

Out of the five millards of francs, the war indemnity paid by France to Germany In 1871, 200,000,000 marks in gold coins, mostly French, were put away as the nucleus of a ready war chest. In a little mediaeval-looking tower, the Julius Thurm, near Spandau, lies this ever-Increasing driving force of the mightiest war engine the world has ever seen. It is ever-increas-ing, for quietly and unobtrusively 6,000,000 marks in newly minted gold coins are taken year by year and added to the store. On the first of October each year since 1871, three ammunition wagons full of bright and glittering twenty-mark pieces clatter over the drawbridge and these pieces are stored away in the steel-plate subterranean chambers of the Julias Thurm, ready at an instant's notice to furnish the sinews to the man wielding this force. This Is a tremendous power In Itself, for there are now close to 500,000,000 marks ($120,000,000 In minted gold coinage in the storage there. This provides for the German army for 10 calendar months. The authorities have no necessity to ask the country, warring politicians— in this instance the reichstag—for money to start a campaign. They have got it ready to hand. Once war Is declared and started they will get the rest if they need It.

This money is under the sole control of the military authorities. It has often been declared a myth. I know it to be a fact. Notwithstanding the financial! straits Germany has gone through at times, or may go through, this money will never be touched. It i-s there for one purpose only and that purpose Is war. Needless to say, it is amply guarded. Triple posts in this garrison town, devices to flood lninstantly the whole under 15 feet of water from the river Havel, are but Items In the system of protection. Twice a year the emperor, or his heir apparent, personally inspects this war chest. Mechanically balanced devices are employed to check the correct weight. It is a marvelously simple mechanism by means of which in less than two hours the whole of this vast hoard of gold can be accurately checked and the absence of a single gold piece detected.—Collier's.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Ignorance is the inspiration of nearly all arguments. Being tho friend of a "good fellow" Is an expensive Job.

More things come to those who are too busy to wait for them. A man must use his head if he would get there with both feet.

Ever notice how little attention is paid to people who talk too much? A man's conceit looks suspiciously like wisdom from his point of view.

There's one thing we like about a girl clerk in a department store she never snoaks off to the basement for the purpose of smoking clgarets.

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HOROSCOPE FOR A DAY.

Sunday, September 6, 1914.

Astrology finds this a fortunate day, even though Mars Is strongly adverse in aspect, for the sun, Uranus and Mercury are all friendly.

The Influences are favorable for seeking aid in large philanthropic enterprises and for making plans for the future. All charities should benefit.

During this aspect whatever is related to the spiritual world should be more readily sought than under ordinary conditions. The rule is most fortunate for the clergy.

Writers and speakers should benefit greatly today. The sway is believed to awaken the imagination and to quicken the intuitive faculties.

The stars indicate a prosperous ume for editors and publishers. It is foretold that a new era in the making of books will dawn and that gTeat profits will accrue.

While this configuration lasts young folks are supposed to toe particularly favored. It is a day counted exceptionally propitious for seeking ways tcr satisfying high ambitions. College plans and educational schemes are easily realized under this rule of the stars.

The good aspects of Uranus conduce to attractions between men and women. This day's rule should further romance as well as friendship.

Persons whose birthdate it is should guard the health during the coming year. Business anxieties are probable, and travel or change may bring profit.

Children born on this day may be great favorites. They will be inclined to pleasure, and may spend money extravagantly. These subjects of Vir^o who have Mercury as their principal ruling planet have the omen of fairly happy lives.

LET HER SOB.

Innocently the two old farmers looked at each other as they chatted in the busy marketplace, talking on 'tatcrs, turnips and a.ll other farm claptrap.

And then, as if it had just occured to him, Pontln asked Farmer Steele if he still felt inclined to sell that shorthorn cow. "Will you take 12 pounds for her?" he suggested offhandedly. "No. no," mumured Steele stolidly, as he lovingly fingered his watchchain. "Couldn't part wi' *er for that, by a long way." "Oh, but I thought you said last market clay as bow you might let her go for that'" suggested Pontln. "Maybe. But something's 'appened to 'er since then "She bain't dead?" said the prospective buyer, looking up quickly. "No but the missus, she's dead tot on that coo. Wouldn't part wi' 'er for anything, and quite loves her. She'd sob 'er eyes out if I parted wi' that coo." "Um! Suppose that ends it, then?" said the farmer, as he prepared to move along. "Well, I don't know. Look here, Pont, malce it lB-pound'-lO, and let the missus sob!"—Answers.

Poor Papa.

Little Bobby—Papa, did you ever see a cyclone carrying houses up in the air, and cows and horses and wagons upside down?

Papa—No, my son. Little Bobby—Did you ever see a sea-serpent?

Papa—No, my son. Little Bobby—I should think it 'ud be tiresome to live to your age and never see anything.—Tit-Bits.

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TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE.

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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. liie Trilmuo V'jirv

September 5, 1904.

At 11:15 o'clock in the morning, Edwin Bidaman was installed as the mayor of Terre Haute.

A. R. Markle was elected president and W. C. Ellis was chosen as secretary of the state convention of the Federation of Electrical Workers in Indianapolis.

Plans for the Labor day celebration were announced by the committees from the Central Labor Union. The speakers of the day were announced to be M. J. O'Connell, Ed Stepp and Frank Hamilton.

WAR IS AGAINST CIULIZATION.

Civilization is a living, breathing thing. Like life, which is with end and without end, it ia the hertage one Generation bequeaths to another. It Is not found In the soul of composite humanity it is In the intelligence and morality of the few men whose minds reach into the unknown and snatch therefrom its secrets—the great seekers after knowledge who find new hemispheres for humanity, the speculative genius who transmutes his dream into an electric car, the delver in chemistry who extracts radium from the fallow earth, the discoverer of antitoxins, the poet, the artist, the great litterateur. These men are the advance guard who weave the fabric of what we call progress or civilization, and back of them tramp the millions w'^o are capable of being led.

It is civilization that Is being shot down by machine guns in Europe. That great German host is not made up ot mercenaries, nor of the type of men that at one time composed armies. There are Erlichs serving as privates in the ranks and in the French corps are Rostands. A bullet does not kill a man it destroys a generation of annihilates the mentality which was about to be humanity's in- .... i.'m unearthing another of nature's secrets. The very vehicles of progress are the victims. It will take years to train their equals, decades perhaps to reproduce the Intelligence that was ripe to do its work. The chances of the acquisition of knowledge are being sacrificed. Far more than half of the learning on which the world depends for progress Is turned from laboratories and workshops into the destructive arenas of battle.

It Is Indeed a war against civilization. The personnel of the armies makes it so. Every battle is the sacrifice of human assets that cannot be replaced. That is the real tragedy of this stupendous conflict.—Philadelphia Ledger.

THE FONT OF KNOWLEDGE.

I had a hundred dollars once— A fortune pretty near! I kept it till I met a chap

Who whispered in my ear "Where river and a railroad meet A city sure must grow I have a site like this" and—well

I let my hundred go. Another hundred then I saved And at the proper time I met another chap who had

A mining venture prime "It has machinery, shafts and all— The others paid for that'— You're juet in time to get the cream!"

I coughed my hundred fiat. And still another hundred bones I saved and salted clown rnot a chap who had the "bug"

To start a "model town." "It means a fortune big." he said "In privileges and rent Besides it's real philanthropy,"

And then my hundred went! Three hundred bones at knowledge's shrine!

And though I'm badly shorn, I've learned that streams and rails can meet

Where cities can't be born I've learned that other's mining stock Won't buy my bread and meat. And "model towns" can get along

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BIRTH RAT£ IN FRANCE DECREASING STEADILY

New Phase In Shift in lines of Regional Prosperity—Some Districts Flourish.

PARIS, Sept. 5.—The figures recently published regarding the steadily falling birth rate of France has given rise to a series of articles In the press bearing on every phase of the subject. It Is an error to think that the .population is actually decreasing. The number of births still exceed the number of deaths, but by so small a margin that France Is In a condition of stagnation compared with her neighbors. She gained 41,000 Inhabitants last year, against the 800,000 odd gained by Germany. Next year she may find that she has galnod only thirty thousand, and in a few years time the statistics of birth and death may be running neck and neck.

According to M. Jean Lejeaux, a well known authority, threatened depopulation has been accompanied by a curious shift in the lines of regional prosperity. Certain provinces that not long ago were sunk in poverty have begun to boom, while the flourishing sections of yesterday are decidedly on the down grade.

Brittany Improving.

Brittany, for Instance, is nearly tvvlre as prosperous as it was sixty years ago. In 1851 the total resources of the provinces amounted to three milliard francs ($600,000,000), where as last year they were estimated at little short of five and one-quarter milliard france. The fertile valley of the Garonne on the other hand, had fallen on evil days. Real and other property worth four and one-half milliard franca In 1879, is now worth barely two and one-half milliard. Dr. Labat, himself a Gascon, declared not long ago that "In Gasoony the holdings of the bourgeoisie are virtually all on the market"

Normandy, too, is In a deplorable condition. Depopulation haq made itself felt more definitely In this beautiful province than in any other sootion of France. All Its Ave departments show an actual decrease In the number of Inhabitants. The department of l'Eure has lost seventy thousand souls and the department ol l'-Orne 180,000 in sixty years in other words, nearly a quarter and more than a quarter of their reBpeotlve populations. The tiny village of Lison, near Bayeux, Is the only community In Normandy that can point to an Increase, And even Lison has no reason to be proud of its record It has gafned a single Inhabitant in the long period under review.

The prosperity of Brittany is largely explained by the fact that 270,000 hard working laborers have emigrated to this province during the last thirty years, whereas Gascony lost 200,000 producers in the same time.

Increase in Germany.

Another singular contrast is presented by the Limagne and Sologne sections. Values have fallen off in Limagne to such an extent that a piece of property worth 180,000 francs (i3G,000) in 1879 was recently sold for 43,600 francs (J8.700). The peasants of Cologne, on the other hand, have shown remarkable energy in draining the marshes of an unpromising region, and values have consequently gone up.

In this connection, the exposition of social hygiene, just opened at Stuttgart, Germany, illustrates In a striking manner the increase in population p.crosS the Rhine. In one of the halls there is a large screen on which vital

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statistics are displayed by means of an automatic device. A birth Is Indicated by a red disk, a death by a black disk, flashed behind openings In the screen. Other disks lnddcate the sex of newly born children, the principal causes of death, etc. In the course of an 1 our the red disk appears 225 times, the black disk 125 times. Thus there Is an average gain of one hundred souls an hour. There Is a birth every sixteen seconds and a death every twen-ty-eight seconds. Once In every 108 seoonds a ohlld Is born dead. There Is a death every four minutes from tuberculosis, and one every ten minutes from cancer. The black disk appears three times an hour to Indicate a fatal accident, and twice to Indicate a suicide. Accidents and suicide claim more lives In Germany than diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and typhoid fever combined.

QUEEREST corns ON EARTH.

Among the .strangest coins In the world are those used In certain out-of-the-way towns and villages In Southwest Nlgwla, on the west coast of Africa, and called "manillas." In shape they resemble a horseshoe with the two extremities flattened out like a camel's foot. Being mad* of solid copper, three-eighths of na Inch thick, they weigh over eight ounces each. In 'face value," seven of these queer coins are equivalent to one quarter, so that a dollar's worth would be an uncomfortably heavy load. Not only are these "manlllas" used among the natives, but white traders accept them as legal tender for goods sold at the various stores. At one time this Btrangely shaped money had q-uite a circulation in certain parts of the coast, but Its use is now restricted to a few bush towns and one or two of the smaller seaiboard places, including Bonny Brass and Akassa. "Manillas" are now very difficult to obtain, and curio-collectors value them not solely by reason of their scarcity, but because of the novel serviette rings they make when silver plated.—fWlde "World.

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WAR IS DOOMED.

The world rolls around every tw«»-i ty-four hour3 and with every revolution It comes a little nearer to the ultimate reign of peace. And the Gospd Is Its keynote. If that assertion challenged let us take a map of the! world and draw a line about tmtT spot of ground where the Gospel hue been preached then observe how w# have shut out night and baxtoartam from that charmed circle and have fhut in all the Influences that malce for humanity and progress, for the peMt of nations and tho welfare ot men.

The Gospel has not been In this world of ours for nineteen hundred years i* vain. The beneficent grip ot Christ,! making for ultimate peace, has been not only upon the hearts of his peopto but upon the reins ot his enemies am well. He has made the very vmtth of men to praise him. The roads which Caesar built for his legions, as he sap-' posed, proved to be highways for Christ'fl messengers of peace. The vast armaments of the nations are all working the same way. "War 1b their pose, but in the logic of God p«ac« will be their end.

The grain of mustard seed which was planted by the son of Man in th® earth is becoming a tree whose branches spread so far that all nations may sit In the shadow of it. Wherefore let ua greet one another with the old word "Marana/tha!" The Liord cameth! The time draws near when every eye shall behold him,' when even' tongue shall confess him. when every knee shall bow before him.. For lo, the days are hastening on,

By prophet bards foretold, When with the ever circling years Comes round the age of gold When peace shall over all the earth

Its ancient splendors fling. And the whole world give back the sonf Which now the angels sing.,

Then swords shall be beaten Into plowshares and spears into pruning-* hooks and every man shall dwell at peace under his own vine and fig--tree. Roll swifter round, ye wheel* of time, and bring the welcome day!—^ The Christian Herald. -O

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