Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — Page 2

Doctors and the Credit System Briefly Considered.

Sickness frequently occurs in families that are regarded m mighty poor pay. Even harsher terms are sometimes used tn speaking of these people who for some reason are always (behind. The grocer, the butcher, the clothier and others can demand that they receive cash tor their wares, but the doctor in eases of sickness is asked to rush to the bedside of the sufferer day or night and minister to their needs without regard to whether or not he is to receive his pay. He is considered very mercinary if -he .asks when called Wether or not the pay will be forthcoming. The ushering of a babe into the world is sometimes a tedious process and a physician may have more than one case needing his attention at the same time. One he knows is cash, the other doubtful or altogether bad. Has he not a perfect right to ask of the father: “Will I feet my pay?”

'But whether there were conflicting cases or not, the doctor has a right to know. He has spent years of study to acquire his professional knowledge. That is what he has for sale. The lawyer selfs his profeasionai services and demands cash for his services, The dentist can require cash before he performs his work. The undertaker even makes himself reasonably safe, but many expect the doctor to rush at breakneck speed to the bedside and use the drugs for which he must pay and then wait until the spirit moves the debtor to make settlement. Doctors report that the spirit'frequently fails to move them at all. Many go as far as they can and then get another doctor and are terribly aggrieved if the physician asks if they can pay if he responds to their call. There is no reason why a doctor should attend a suffering patient who will not pay any more than a butcher should give his meat to families who are in want 'but who are improvident. If one’s love for a member of his family is such that he wants to have the physician relieve their suffering and restore them to health, then it should be so strong as to pay the physician tor having done eo. Recently at Duquoin, 111., a man called a physician to his home. The man was poor pay, already owed the doctor and had made no effort to settle. The doctor eaid he would not come. The man hunted up the doctor and killed him. He will probably try to defend his crime on the basis that he Was crazed by the suffering of a member of his family. The defense will be a false one, for had he loved his family so intensely as that he Would have paid his bill and thus prepared for the family the protection of a physician's services when they were needed. The doctor should be entitled to make the Same demands of payment that the merchant does. He is not obliged from a standpoint of sentiment to attend any person. He should not 'be criticised for asking where the money is to come from. There is a county physician in every county in the union whose services are available for those who can not pay. Those who will not pay deserve no sympathy whatever.

The progressive party of North Dakota has fallen short of the number of votes required to qualify candidates for a place on the ballot Under the law, party candidates must have 25 per cent of the total vote cast for the candidate for governor in the last previous election. The progressives registered only 2,430 votes in the state, thus eliminating the party from the primary fight.

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HOME TOWN HELPS

CO-OPERATE FOR MODEL CITY Civic Organization* and High School Boys Doing Splendid Work at Reading, Pa.

Reading, Pa., has a number of civic organizations, such as the Woman’s club, Cific league, civic division of the Woman’s club and the Reading Kindergarten association, and all have accomplished noble work. But the youngest workers, and probably the most enthusiastic in this sphere, are the members of the high school for boys, who belong to the civic classes, and who are under the instruction and direction of Prof. S. H. Ziegler, one of the city’s greatest enthusiasts for a more beautiful Reading, a cleaner, better, larger city been teaching and preaching at almost every recitation civic pride, uhtil the noble work of the boys has been recognized by the former board of trade, and the state board of education has taken an interest in what they have accoqaplished and set out to accomplish. City officials and the chamber of commerce give them encouragement, so that there are almost 100 boys from freshman to seniors who are peeping into every nook and corner of the city, Into alleys and byways and around corners and over, fences to see If they can find something that ought to be removed.

Practically every member has a paper pad in his Inside coat frocket and a kodak in the outer pocket when they make their trips of investigation, and as things appear before their eyes they are noted in the book or pictured on the film, so that they have a twofold record which will bear them out when they make reports as to the necessity for immediate remedies or Improvements.

TREES IN SCHOOL GROUNDS

Of Material Value In Prosecution of Studies, aa Well as Pleasing to the Eye. In the grounds of every school there should be a collection of both fiAlt and ornamental trees, and all the &r----mer should have at least one other warrant for use, aside from the fruit crop. Trees should be planted for both ornament and material for instruction, and these should be of standard commercial sorts. No special plea is made for apples, peaches, apricots, etc., but a walnut and a chestnut both make grand shade trees in summer and are instructive types of deciduous trees.

As material from which to draw upon for the use of classes in botany, etc., these trees would not only be always close at hand, removing the necessity of using valuable school hours for collecting trips afield, but would be available when of greatest value and interest —when blooming, fruiting, seeding, etc. It would also give the entire student body some knowledge concerning the native vegetation of the state, es which he should have a good general Idea before studying that from foreign lands. With school yards so planted education could never.be confined to the four walls of classrooms nor narrowed to a consideration of the three R’s and closely allied studies.

Pictures In Parks.

Before anybody comes forward with the suggestion that the park commissioner’s plan for “moving pictures” in the parks or playgrounds Is whimsical or that it would involve the city in extravagance it is to be hoped that the proposition will be studied from all Its aspects. The most extravagant course a city can pursue is to permit Its children to go wrong. There are the public schools, of course; but despite the existence of these safeguards there are large numbers of sadly unschooled children in the city—children whose parents appear to lack either the ability or the will to attract young people’s interests. Anything the city can do to attract the Interest of these children in harmless or wholesome things Is well worth doing. Children who are Interested in moving pictures are not contemplating mischief of any kind. Young people who are capable of realizing that the city is interested tn them are sure to become Interested in the city, if they are endowed with normal reasoning power.—St Louis Times.

Points for Improvement Workers.

The waging of improvement work Is dependent for success upon the same support accorded all effective warfare, for the greatest need is money and the second greatest need is more money. Funds are necessary for immediate action and for perpetuation of the work and these should be secured before starting on any specific problem. Annual dues are necessary to insure permanence, for little lasting Interest is felt that is entirely aside from all feeling of proprietorship. Interest all classes and all ages; do not overlook the children and the work they may do. Select for your initial work something in which all, or nearly all, are interested. Have regular and frequent meetings; nothing is more contagious than enthusiasm.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

ONE KIND OF BARLEY

Ths Beaeflt of Establishing the Variety Beat-dkdapted to Soil and Climate.

The barley crop is grown for two chief purposes, namely, feeding and malting. For feeding, the grades and market price are based largely on the physical qualities of cleaness and soundness. For brewing purposes, however, the trade requires also uniformity of germination and endosperm reduction. Different varieties show marked differences in the rapidity and efficiency of germination and consequent decomposition ofthe starch endosperm. These properties depend very largely on the shape and size of the kernel. Two varieties may have the same malting ability in the end, that is, the power to produce the same quantities of digested starch to the pound of original matter, and yet be of much decreased value when mixed, due to the different times required for complete endosperm reduction and the necessity pf waiting for the slower .one.

If such is the case with different varieties having the same ultimate malting efficiency, how much more is it true where one of the varieties in a mixture has a low efficiency dfae to the undesirable shape of the kernels. Such admixture may result from individual carelessness on a single farm and yet the mixed seed contaminate the purer products of the entire community at the elevator. Only community action can insure safety.

It is very important to barley growers, therefore, to produce not only a good variety for the purpose intended, but also only a single variety in |a given locality in order that the community product may be pure and uniTram and thus be able to command the highest price paid. The extensive and almost exclusive growing of the fiderbrucker variety in Wisconsin by the members of the Wisconsin experimental association is an excellent illustration of organized co-operative effort in of a single profitable variety It • MMkcrop.

ONE VARIETY BEST.

There are many advantages to be derived from growing a single variety of a given cereal In any particular community. There are climatic and economic factors which may make it desirable or even necessary to grow more than one variety of a ce.eal, as, for instance, a spring and a winter wheat, on a single arm. This phase may be neglected Jjere in order to place Jieavy emphasis on the opposite aspect. One of the comnuaest observations is the mixture of varieties. These mixtures greatly reduce toe vaaie of the crop for seed purposes, even if they do not cause a lowering of the market grade. 1 bey entail loss through non uniformity In ripening ind differences in length and strength of straw, disease-resistance, adaptability to soil types and climatic conditions, and other similar chrracters.

Twp points 1 be held in muid. First, mixtures are fundamentally w rong. Most growers will not be able to distinguish between the mixtures which may not cause loss and those which will. Secondly, no Investigator can predetermine when, in an apparently harmless and profitable mixture one variety shall be taken and another left. Only in purity is there safety. Another advantage of pure varieties is the better yield which usually results if the proper variety is The mah or the community mayfiCT receive a better price for the pure seed but would be profited in any case by the increased yield. It should not be forgotten that the neighborhood separator is a powerful factor in mixing varieties where many are grown. It seems scarcely necessary to mention the mixtures of wheat and bariey or oats and barley, which are difficult to separate and objectionable on the market. Such should be avoided at any time. —Carletdn R. Ball.

A ROAD LAW.

The Tice road law of Illinois is one to be studied by every state whose roads are in as bad a condition as those in Illinois. It is certainly a fundamental step. Good roads are one of the main factors to be considered in the plan of building up any community. With all of the present discussion of marketing conditions we might well include the cost of marketing since the following is true of one of the greatest of our grain states: “Less than 10 per cent of these roadways are improved, and for one-third of the year the unimproved roads in this state are in many extensive districts practically impassable and unfitted for use by the farmers of the state.”

MODEL FARM HOUSES.

'The United States Deparement of Agriculture has issued the first of a series of plans for farm houses, which will enable the farmers to construct inexpensive and more convenient homes. The farm house is the most Important building on the farm, and 1 money well spent in the proper plan- ( nlng and building will never be re-, grafted. A very brief survey of the. living conditions in almost any rural community will convince anyone that this is an important step. The better living part of the County Agent’s ' work is bound to receive more and more attention. f

International Sunday School Convention Held in Chicago.

In Chicago the ’greatest international Sunday school convention ever held in America has Just closed. A goodly number of Jasper county Sunday school workers attended and to all who made the effort was given a great vision of the magniture of this field of church activity. The main sessions of the convention were held in Medina Temple a magnificent 'Masonic structure with a large stage and auditorium. The work of the convention was done largely in KtOll - I ferences each afternoon in the different churches of the city. There were 4,400 delegates and as many more visitors. When the budget was raised and the roll of states and provinces was called every state and province of North America was represented except Mexico. As the various states and provinces were called and their general secretary named tlie amount each would give for international work, I was proud of my native state of Illinois, which headed the list with $3,000 per year for the next four years, until the next international convention meets again, which will be in New York city. When our own general secretary, W. L. Burnie had to respond with only $250 per year I was sorry. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York were other general contributors. Alaska, Hawaii and central America responded to the call. Many large donations were given by individuals, the largest being that of H. J. Heinz, the Pittsburg millionaire, who gave $3,000 each year for four years. Mr. Hartshorn, of Boston, gave SI,OOO per year. 'More than 400 speakers were on the programs of the various general sessions and conferences, all being leaders in their various lines of work. The subjects discussed made a good sized book. On Friday night occurred the May Festival at the auditorium, the chorus of 1,000 young ladies compeltely filling the state of that vast theatre. This is the largest ladies’ chorus in the world and this year is the 21sit anniversary of its organization. The receipts go to the Cook county Sunday school association and up to this year 40,000 had been thus raised. Each Sunday school in Cook county is allowed two per cent of its enrollment as its representatives in the chorus. The audience filled the entire auditorium. Saturday evenig a pageant rep-

First Excursion To CANADA Tuesday, July 7th The first Canadian Pacific excursion from Rensselaer to Canada will start July 7th. Those intending to take this trip should make the fact known at once to the local agent. Fare from Rensselaer to Calgary, $49.50 Unlimited Stop Overs. Good for 25 days, returning via Winnipeg if desired. Come Join Us on This Delightful Trip and Secure a Farm of Your Own. Theodore George, Agent Rensselaer, Indiana

resenting the growth of religious teaching from the time of Abraham Lincoln until the present was given in the temple. , 7 Saturday afternoon a great parade of men, two miles tong, -uwept along state delegates, Sunday school boys, Moody church representatives, the exultant Salvation Army band. A peace army and always singing. The trill of it was enormous. As they disbanded the multitude swept into the side streets, whistling and humming “Onward, Christian Soldier.” Flaring extras greeted the crowds with the line “Johnson and Moran Both Nervous as Bell Rintga" Bht the people did not seen much interested. They were thinking about something else. The heart of the careless city had been touched and that heart was full of awe and gentleness. •

On Sunday at the temple Senator Richmond P. Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, gave a splendid address on “National Constitutional Prohibition.” Among the things he said, “Knowing as I do ihow utterly unprepared for war our own unfortified country from Alaska to South America, and knowing as I do the horrors of war, I declare to you, I would rather see our beloved country attacked by the united armies of the world than to see intemperate forces of this country left unopposed, for-it means selfdestruction.” Rev. P. E. Baker, national superintendent ‘, of the Anti-Saloon League, also, gave a stirring appeal. These are only a few of the many good things. The Sunday school exhibit, occupying a space 100x200 feet, was well worth seeing, and the display of the world’s Sunday school association, which is to be held in Japan in I§l6, was most interesting. Representatives from the Island Kingdom were present studying the methods employed in conduct!ng a great convention. Japan is preparing to give a welcome adequate to the coming of this greatest Christian convention to the far east. Its greatest leaders are behind the convention plans. “Surely,” as was remarked by one speaker, “the Sunday school is out of its swaddling clothes and has become a mighty force in the world’s progress.”

MRS. J. I. GWIN.

GASOLINE! Standard gas at 14 cents at Sage’s Garage, just cast of Republican office.

Harry Gifford Charged With Assault and Battery.

Harry E. Gifford, of Barkley township, was arraigned before Square C. W. Bussell Thursday charged with assault and battery bn Mrs. Arthur Behrens, who with her husband live in a tent near Gifford’s 'farm. - It is understood that a more serious charge was at flfist consul sred. Squire Bussell admitted Gifford to ball in the sum of SI,OOO with T. M. Callahan as surety. The case will be given a preliminary hearing by Squire Bussell Friday at 1 o’clock.

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