Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1915 — Page 2

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GUNNING FOR THE AIRSHIPS

Modern Warfare Haa Developed New Field That Calls for Scientific , * Marksmanship. The advent of the aeroplane and the airship introduced a hard problem for the riflemqji whose duty it is to bring down hostile craft of this kind, says Popular Mechanics. Even with its enormous speed the bullet discharged by a modern rifle is not fast enough for the aeroplane, as has been discovered in the European war, bat the expert riflemen who are con 1 stantly on the watch for hostile air craft are fast learning the requirements tor hitting these swiftly moving targets. They no longer aim at an aeroplane when trying to bring it doom, but at a point about six lengths ahead of the machine. The airman running the hostile craft also knows this and. when under fire, seldom flips far in a straight line if he can help it, but follows a zigzag course. The Zeppelin is a much slower-mov-ing craft and can be “plugged” about the center of the envelope if the rifleman aims at its nose.

Fiction and Reality.

It is a simple truth to say that many things happen in fiction which would be quite impossible in fact, as any censor knows. It is in failing to dis: tinah between these two that many artists and most critics blunder and thin error is in effect the same as that of the ambitious actor who, having once to play the part, for the first Uma of an intoxicated ruffian in a certain melodrama, went to a neighboring tavern and intoxicated himself. He thought that this would storm the house, but on the contrary he was immediately fired by the management for a fool—and rightly.—P. H. Martin, in the Book Buyer.

The Reason.

“Young Mrs. Jdillyuns certainly did prove a devoted nurse to her husband In his critical illness. She must love Him, after aIL” "Love him. rot! She knows she looks fierce in black.”

Flashes of Humor.

"Why are you wearing glasses, Blinks? • ■ ■- - ' .-'l*.• a_mi J hv n*w daw, wii nearly Duoaeo oy my w*

The Pennsylvania was launched at Newport News, recently. Misd Elizabeth Kolb of Germantown, Pa., was the sponsor. The Pennsylvania will be the largest vesser in the United States navy, being 699 feet long. 97 feet beam and 31,000 tonnage.

SELLING ALLIES BILLIONS A YEAR IN MUNITIONS

Great Stream of Business Flows Into United States as Result of War. PLANTS TAXED TO UTMOST Most of the Contracts for Supplies Run for Two Years or Longer— Goods Bold for Delivery Here —Shipment at Buyer’s Riak. New York. —A common estimate of the war’s length Is three years. In the first six months of the conflict the United States sold about $400,000,000 In war supplies, not taking Into consideration foodstuffs designed for civilian populations. By August 1 our trade will reach $1,000,000,000; and unless something occurs to check this phenomenal business $3,000,000,000 will have poured into the United States before the treaty of peace Is signed. Even if the war ahpuld stop right now our trade In the materials of war would soon reach a billion, for most of the great contracts are written to be fulfilled without regard to the course of the war and run for two years, or even longer. Our gain would be even larger could we supply both sides. As It Is, almost nothing is going to the Teutonic allies. The United States government officials are unable to give anything like correct figures of the trade in war supplies. A large proportion, how large It is impossible to say, goes to Canada first and is shipped from there to England, France, Rub sla or one of their allies.

There is no penalty for mlsbilllng exports. Much gunpowder is going out in cases marked sugar or salt, especially through Pacific ports to Russia by way of Vladivostok. In the most authoritative circles It is estimated that the principal items In the four millions of dollars' worth ordered here in the first six months were: Motor cars, 125,000,000; arms, explosives and the like, 1105,000,000; iron and steel, $65,000,000; uniforms, socks, sweaters, etc., $30,000,000; chemicals and hospital supplies, $6,000,000; soldiers’ shoes, harness and other leather products, $18,000,000; miscellaneous, Including food supplies known to have gone to the armies, $160,000,000. Plants Run Night and Day. It can be said without fear of contradiction that the allies have not contracted for the entire output of the arms and ammunition factories of the United States, while scores of concerns are enlarging their plants and running three shifts a day to fulfill their foreign contracts. . Many of these companies do not know they are turning out goods for a foreign power. They may surmise ft, but they do not care. They dealt only through a broker or agent and with great secrecy. Goods are sold for delivery here, and shipment is at the buyer’s risk. The buyer enforces secrecy, because the goods are contraband. The manufacturers surround their plants .with high fences and troops of armed guards in order not only to co-oper-ate with the buyers in maintaining secrecy, but also to prevent meddling by agentß.of governments hostile to -the buyers. The 75 firearm and ammunition factories in the United States ordinarily employ.. 20,000 persons. Ncfw their forces number 50,000 and are increasing. The enormous demand for high explosives. has forced prices to high levels. Picric acid, used in making explosives, has risen from 25 cents to $2.50 a pound and the entire supply on hand has been bought up. Those who still have guncotton on hand which can be delivered within 80 days are asking 78 cents a pound. The usual price is 20 to 25 cents. In February the French government tried to boy 24,000,000 pounds of guncotton, offering 65 cents. It was unobtainable, so contracts were placed with a number of mills running over two years. More than 10,000 automobile trucks have been shipped to England and France since August 1. but from the way new orders are coming in, this

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MONSTER BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED

ning. 1 The French war authorities figure the average life of an auto truck is only seven days. Thousands of Buyers. There are thousands of buying agents for the foreign governments all over the country, but the two largest Mocks of contracts are coming through Charles Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel company and J. Pierpont Morgan, head of the great banking firm. Schwab has made two visits to Europe since the war began_and has obtained contracts amounting to more than $50,000,000. His Bethlehem works are making even 12-inch guns for the allies, hut in addition to what is turned out here he haa sublet orders in a dozen different cities Morgan is now the general purchasing agent of the British government and all orders go through his firm. Every section of the country where manufacturing is a large feature of business Is benefiting from war orders, although these orders in many cases are not large enough to offset the depression in domestic trade. Many orders are from governments which never before bought in the American market and American business men believe they can hold this trade after the wpr Is over. They argue that much of the work now being done here for Great Britain, to take an instance, has previously been done in Germany, and that the bitter feeling after the war will preclude its being done there again. A Philadelphia factory is making swords for the British army. Such a contract had flhver before been received in this country. In the past British swords have been made in Germany. In* the Pittsburgh district, which includes Bethlehem, many Germans who formerly worked for the Krupps are employed. They are now making war material for the allies, although, of course, they do not know this definitely. The men in the factory are .not informed for whom a particular six-inch shrapnel shell is being made.

Some odd Items are. reported. The French government has paid New England manufacturers $260,000 for snowshoes. One concern In Philadelphia is turning out a folding saw with wooden handles for cutting wire entanglements. When the war started the armies used steel pliers for this work, with the result that many men were shocked to death by high voltage electricity. Factories turned to New Uses. All sorts of factories have been pressed into commission to make things useful in war. A company in Bridgeport, Conn., which usually makes cemetery monuments of bronze, is now turning out forgings fbr an auto truck concern which has a large order from the allied countries. Bridgeport, by the way, Is enjoying huge prosperity because most of Its industrial concerns are working on war orders. . All through Massachusetts and Connecticut war orders are helping to overcome the depression of the first few months of the war. The Fore River Shipbuilding company is very busy. It is generally reported it is making ten submarines for the British navy, these to be delivered at the end of the war. In addition, It Is making about 25 other submarines. Demand for many particular articles has been so great that the allied governments have signed contracts at prices most attractive for the manufacturers. In addition, it is pretty well established that middlemen, brokers and agents are gathering in millions in commissions, some of which are exhorbitant. , It 1b said by a Chicago merchant, for Instance, that there is a well-or-ganized band of extortionists, with agents in all the big cities on both sides of the Atlantic and headquarters In New York, which Is exacting a toll of from 15 to 20 per cent on practically every shipment of war supplies that leaves the country. In general the agents of each government maintain that their nation is buying right, while stating a belief that other nations are being fleeced, i A well-known Russian exporter of New York city says the Russian government is suffering the most heavily of all. He has sent over a report for wide publication in Russia in which he says that already $20,000,000 has been lost through the exploitation of American commissioners and brokers.

Fatally Injured by Tool In Pocket.

Atchison, Kan. —Railway men report an unusual accident which befell L JQuarrells, who lives near Superior, Neb. Quarrells boarded a train at Superior and when it passed his home going twenty miles an hour he jumped off. A chisel in his pocket penetrated his heart He la In a hospital at Concordia, fatally Injured.

MAY LOSE HIS ARMY

Pope Will Lack Guards if Italy Enters the War. Entire Vatican Force Liable to Call to Colors, and Unprecedented Situation May Arise —Law of Guarantees Silent. Rome. —In case Italy goes to war one of the most serious complications which will follow in the relations between the Italian government and the Holy See will be in connection with the papal army. There Is no provision in the law of guarantees contemplating the eventuality of war. When this law was before the Italian parliament in 1871 a member proposed an amendment to the effect that all privileges Accorded to the pope should be suspended “in case of war between Italy and other nations, as also in the case of war between foreign nations when Italy had declared herself -neutral, and in every circumstance when such a measure should be necessary for the Internal and external security of the state.” This amendment was accepted, but not embodied in the law, which, it was then explained, was concerned with the rights of peace and not with those of war.

Article 3 of the law of guarantees deals with the pontifical army as follows: “The sovereign pontiff can retain the usual number of guard's attached to his person and employed for the custody of the palaces without prejudice to the obligations and duties incumbent on those guards by reason of the laws in ~force in the kingdom." The obligations and duties mentioned in this article are those of every Italian citizen’s liability to serve in the army, and thus the law explicitly provides that pontifical guards cannot claim exemption from military service. In fact the pontifical gendarmes, who. are all Italian citizens, are purposely recruited fiom men who have served in the Italian army. The Noble guards and the Palatine guards, who are nearly all Italian citizens, not being on permanent duty at the Vatican, but only called for service when occasion requires, get special leave of absence when called for service in the Italian army. In case general mobilization is ordered in Italy practically all the 200 pontifical gendarmes would have to join the colors and thus the two permanent corps of the papal army, the Swiss guards, already reduced from 200 to only about eighty rank and file, and the gendarmes, will, be to all intents Snd purposes disbanded. Nor ram the pope rely on the Noble guards and the Palatine guards for the protection of his person and the custody of the apostolic palaces, as the great majority of these guards will also be called to arms. And the hundreds of men employed in the Vatican, the custodians of the museums and the galleries, the lay clerks in the departments and offices, the gardeners and coachmen and caretakers, all these will have to join the Italian army. Such a contingency is unprecedent ed in history and without a parallel In international law and it will serv* to prove the anomaly of a state within a state. Strangely enough while the next smallest army in the world after that of the pope, existing likewise in Italy, will not be affected by Italian mobilization, and not a single citizen of the diminutive republic of San Marino will be compelled to fight in the Italian army, the army of the pope will practically ceaae to exist when Italy goes to war.

The reason for this distinction between the two armies Is that San Marino is Italy’s ally while the Holy See, although its territory Is only a palace and a garden, is considered Italy’s enemy. . Officially the pope ignores the kingdom of Italy. It is a well-known fact that many radical changes will follow as a result of this great war. OFd nations wili-dteappear and new ones win be formed; boundaries and peoples will change their nationality, while Europe.wUl be remapped. Great as an these changes will be their historical importance will, however, be less than that of the great change which may affect the Vatican, the oldest institution in the world.

Offer to Belgian Clergy.

Amsterdam. —Members of the Belgian clergy have been informed by the German authorities that their salaries will be paid by the German government provided they sign a declaration not to do or my anytkfcv* fieial to Germany. T: % '.L , V' -

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Its Only Meaning.

Uncle Roger had been po*ly for some time, and had tried with alacrity every sort of patent medicine he could secure. An old acquaintance hailed him with: "Hello, uncle. How are you’all nowadays?" "How is I? W’y, bawss, fo’ mos’ly six munta a meal’s vittles ain’ mean miffin’ t’ me, ’scusin’ somepun tuh take medicine atter!” —Judge.

KIDNEYS CLOG UP FROM EATING TOO MUCH MEAT

Take Tablespoonful of Balts If Baok Hurts or Bladder Bothers—Meat Forma Uric Acid. We are a nation of meat eaters and our blood is filled with uric acid, says a well-known authority, who warns us to be constantly on guard against kidney trouble. The kidneys do their utmost to free the blood of this irritating acid, but become weak from the overwork; they get sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog and thus the waste is retained in the blood to poison the entire system. When your kidneys ache and feel like lumps of lead, and you have stinging pains in the back or the urine is cloudy, full of sediment, or the bladder Is irritable, obliging you to seek relief during the night; when you have severe headaches, nervous and dizzy spells, sleeplessness, acid stomach or rheumatism in bad weather, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast each morning and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids In urine so it is no longer a source of Irritation, thus ending urinary and bladder disorders. Jad Salts Is inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink, and nobody can make a mistake by taking a little occasionally to keep the kidneys clean and active. —Adv.

Ingredients.

"I don’t think your speech was as full of ginger as some of your former efforts.” “Maybe it wasn’t,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The way a man has to stick to a topic in these filibustering days makes him inclined to dispense with ginger and look for glue."

Shuts Them Up.

Church—l see Mrs. Bertie Brfxie of Webster county is the only woman sheriff in Missouri. Gotham —She is the only woman In Missouri who can shut up other women, I suppose.—Yonkers Statesman.

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One-Hundred-Doliar Tree.

The government has received $99.40 in payment for a single sugar pine tree that a trespasser cut in the Stanislaus National forest in California. It yielded more than enough actual lumber for a good-sized house, or for a two-foot board walk nearly two miles long. The tree scaled 18,933 board feet, and was valued at $5.25 a thousand feet. Officers of the forest service believe that although national forest timber is frequently sold at a higher rate a foot, no other tree ever felled in a national forest has been worth so much. —Youth’s Companion.

Ever Happen to You?

Bill—lt is said there are 925 separate operations in the manufacture of a watch that sells for a dollar. Jill —Well, there are more than that when one has stopped and a fellow is trying to make it go.

Really Reliable.

“Is your maid trustworthy?” “Trustworthy? Why, I even give her the key to the bread box!”

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