Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — Page 2

HE survivors from a great tragedy are always * ■Afj looked upon with inter- * Isl est, especially when > ears have P assed since w JBRBv- the event - This disposition of the public will explain a part of the attention which will be given to the Grand Army on Memorial day. The men who will ride or march on that day are survivors of a war which to the younger generations has become almost ancient historyl They are all old men, though many of them will not admit it.

There is this strange thing about the celebration of the day. The Civil war became, before it ended, an antislavery war, but the men who were prominent in the antislavery movement will not appear in the processions. They are gone. One can almost count upon his fingers those who remain. But the men who fought the battles that were brought on by their agitations still live, by hundreds of thousands.

The explanation Is a simple one. The antislavery agitators were mature men—some of them old men. The Civil war was fought, largely, by young men and youth. More than 800,000 enlisted at seventeen or below that age; more than 2,000,000 were not more than twenty-one Only 618,511 were twenty-two and above, and only 46,026 of these were twentylive or above.

And so it happens that among the marchers will be seen many who, nearly fifty years after the close of the war, will not appear to be old. So, also, it happens that the pension rolls contain the names of more than 400.000 veterans of the Civil war, who are still living.

If one cares to compare these selected men with those who were rejected as physically unfit or defective, he will be interested in noticing the Grand Army button on the lapels of the coats of gray-headed men, as he passes them in the street The little bronze button, or the smaller red, white and blue button of the Loyal Legion, appear very frequently, and that in spite of the fact that hundreds of thousands of the men selected as fit were killed in battle or died of wounds during the war, and many others have since died from disease contracted during the contest. The youthfulness of those who made up the army of those days suggests a thought not often made prominent in discussions of the pension question. While a pension is not designed to recompense pecuniary losses incurred by the pensioner in his service, it is well to remember that the boy or young man, from sixteen to eighteen, who left school for three years in the formative period of his life, was never able to make up what he lost in education. and that those who were above eighteen, many of whom were just taking the first steps in promising careers, by giving up their opportunities lost their chances in life. The prooession closed up, and when they returned at he close of the war they were obliged to take a place in the rear, if they got into it at aIL Decoration of the graves of the fallen heroes of the civil strife and of those who have subsequently joined the ranks of the departed In the noblest war that Ims ever been waged, is Indication of the country's reverence for Die valor of the slain

NO NATION FREE FROM SPIES

.System Has Taken Such Hold That at Present it Is Practically a Universal Curse. Spy stones have flown thick and Ha.st, reading like magazine fiction, yet « sufficient number of persons have * Bro^T-”-■iim'iii ■# m-rtT-n.nlnrl aI| A fsii+t that

Memorial Day Lessons.

and appreciation of the vast bestowment that the blood of the fallen contributed to the nation and to the world. Freedom unfurled her banner once more, and this time it was over the gory fields of fratricidal warfare; this time it was not to the trumpeting of a declaration of independence, but to the sonorous sound of the proclamation of freedom for the servile classes of the population. The South was freed from its trammels and blossomed out as the section of the country most American and endowed with the greatest wealth of unrealized resources. The country blossomed out in the new power and Influence of a union indissoluble, of a house no longer divided against Itself. The world paid tribute to the heroes of battlefields as sacred as any of those which, in Holy Writ, set forth the epochs in the progress of mankind in the theocracies of the past. Freedom had given it a new content and civilization had bestowed upon it a new dignity, and life, and valor were given fresh glory in the tremendous struggle which is commemorated on Decoration day—the day of solemn hush, yet of glorious recollection, the day when the tears of sad recollection are, shot through with the rainbows of a perennial rejoicing.

The commission of liberty cannot be laid aside, even if the nation that has set up the standard of freedom for mankind could discharge its obligations to the world otherwise. Wherever there are oppressed there is felt the magnet of the influence of American freedom; and so from the serf-afflicted land of Russia, from the life-burdened lands of Europe, come the slaves of oppression and of harsh discrimination, the subjects of the curse of inequality, that they may join in the song of those redeemed from such conditions or those whose birthright it is to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No wonder that the country is virtually at pause as the observation of the sacred day of reverence for the nation's slain uplifts to the view of mankind the dignity and power of ideals that are woven Into the life and character of a free people. No wonder that from the highest to the lowliest the officers of state and the citizens pay tribute to the men who remade the nation. Animosity, resentment, schism are all in the past and a united people rejoice in the outcome of a fiercely dividing struggle. To the world of today, this great tragedy of half a century ago is but tradition and not a living memory, but the passing years can never efface that record from the very souls of those who went through that fiery furnace in the great struggle for the nation’s life with its frightful toll of precious young lives sacrificed to the Moloch of one of the world’B greatest wars. Costly indeed was the price with which the dawning peace was bought: Fourteen thousand men killed and wounded at Shiloh; 15.000 went down at Chlckahominy; 13,000 at Antietam, and 13i000 more at Fredericksburg; 17,000 killed or crippled at Chancellorsvtlle; 23,000 lives sacrificed on the field at Gettysburg; 16,000 at Chlckamauga; 18,000 at Spottsylvania, while 17,000 fell in the Battle_of the Wilderness.

In those four years of blood and carnage, 93.000 men perished by the bullet, 186,000 by disease, and 25,000 died from other causes — a total of

the most dangerous group of German spies have their headquarters in the United States. This country has a secret service, it la true, but the complex, underground machinetigkJ s which are so important to the statecraft of Europe at all times and so much relied on during the war, are known to os only through hearsay. It would be easy to become a little puffed up by this. “We American* and aboveboard. We do not work ta the dark.” 1* an obvious comment Yet

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

304,000 dead —one man for every nine who wore the blud.

From the lips of thoughtless youth we sometimes hear the flippant charge that the “old soldiers are still fighting the old battle of the Civil war," little realizing what they mean to the scarred survivors of those epoch-mak-ing days. Who that “marched with Sherman to the sea” can ever forget? Who that came back from the slippery slopes of Gettysburg can ever forget the bloody tragedy which for three long days turned its peaceful quiet into a seething hell of shot and shell?

Who that witnessed the destruction by the Confederate army itself, of its last hope and Btronghold, the city of Richmond, in that memorable April of ’65, will ever forget the indescribable scene of horror, with the roar of an immense conflagration sounding in their ears, while the explosion of the gunboats shook the doomed city to its very foundation? Thirty city blocks swept out of existence by the spreading flames, 1,000 houses destroyed, while hundreds of hospitals and almshouse Inmates were said to have been blown into eternity. Such is war! God forbid that our land shall ever know another, but let us forevermore remain one people, loyal to one flag, and united in one earnest effort to make this nation the grandest ever risen on the tides of time.

Memories like these are ineffaceable, and who has a better right to live again—“fight,” if you will—the battles of that fast-receding period, than the proud heroes of that day? But the honored ranks of that once powerful army are rapidly thinning. Day by day in ever increasing numbers slowly winds the funeral cortege through the streets of Washington to that vast, silent encampment on the wooded heights of Arlington, that consecrated spot whose silence is only Intensified by the dropping of Ail' acorn or the whir of a wild bird e wing. Not many are the years before other hands must deck our soldiers’ graves with the flowers of spring, but when the last soldier of that great war shall have followed comrade and commander to that land which knows no bugle call to arms, may these lowly graves be still the shrine whereon an unforgetting people ghall lay their tribute of bloom and blbssom, and be forever guarded by that emblem of the world’s best hopes, and the heritage of a people yet to be—that splendid, costly flag for whose Every stripe of crimson hue. And every star on field of blue. Ten thousand of our brave and true Have laid them down and died.

New Electric Bell.

An original electric bell combination Is in nse at Paris which is designed to get rid of all trouble caused by the question of batteries, for these are now lodged within the apparatus itself. The usual box bell shape is retained, but the arrangement of the parts is different in-this case. All the magnet parts are now lodged under the gong itself, while the box being now left free, serves to contain a set of three dry battery cells which will last tor several years. In this way there are no connections to be made between the battery and bell, and the wires and push-buttons are the only pieces which need to be attended to.—Scientific American.

espionage is the very natural outcome of the grinding contact of nation against nation as it prevail at ail times. The spy as a type most be highly courageous and devoted to his cause. It gives ns a creepy feeling, just the same, to think that plottings and international may be going on in our busy and peaceful midst. —Detroit News. Probably the most important woman’s dab is the rolling pin.

Home Town Helps

NEED FOR CITY PUNNING Many Intelligent Men Do Not Seem to Understand What Is Meant by the Term.

Mr. J. Horace McFarland, president of the- American Civic association* took as the subject of his annual ad* dress at the convention of the association in Washington, “Wanted —American City Planning for American Cities." By way of introduction, he said: “It may truthfully be said that to the average intelligent American, be he mechanic or business man, doctor or professor, preacher or politician, the words ‘city planning* at once refer themselves as part of a vague propaganda for ‘the city beautiful,’ having to do with permanent or temporary courts of honor, extra illuminations, and other forms of municipal frippery. It serious fact that this complete misunderstanding exists to such large extent -among the many excellent people who call themselves ‘practical,’ and who really try to be good citizens. This fundamental error of conception prevents these good people, most essentially necessary to the efficient progress of orderly city making, from realizing that city planning which is at all worth while is concerned, first, witlfe means of intercommunication, with % transportation, with markets and house sites and factory locations, with water and sewerage, with parks and playgrounds, and all the other factors of prosperity, efficiency and convenience, rather than with appearance or ornament as essentials. When we shall have established in the minds of these unknowing citizens the plain fundamentals of that larger use of architectural and economic principles which have to do with the community efficient, there will be far less trouble in bringing about the use of common sense in those municipal operations concerned in th'e framework and structural details of our towns and cities.”

REAL TRUTH IN THESE LINES

One Might Criticize Them as Poetry, But They Contain a Lesson Worth Heeding.

A Quincy traveling salesman, who keeps open a most observant eye in his travels around the country, noticing the influences which affect a city’s prosperity, sends to the Herald what he terms a “good piece of poetry.” The poetry may be open to question, but the sentiment is one which every Quincyan should have deeply impressed upon his mind, and hence it is worth repeating. It is as follows:

"If you want to live in the kind of a town like the kind of a town you like, you needn’t slip your clothes in a grip and start on a long, long hike. You’ll only find what you left behind, for there’s nothing that’s really new. It’s a knock at yourself, when you knock your town. It isn’t the town —it’s you. Real towns are not made by men afraid lest somebody else gets ahead. When everyone works and nobody shirks, you can raise a town from the dead. And if .jyhlle you make your personal stake, your neighbors can make one, too, your town will be what you want to see. It isn’t the town —it’s you." The Quincy man further says in his letter: “It will be a good thing to put in the paper for Quincy people who go to Chicago and St. Louis to buy their goods.” For these very persons it is here reprinted. —Quincy Herald.

Making Gardens.

A Chicago man has given SI,OOO to buy seed for gardens to be made in the vacant lots of the city. There is help to a noble municipal enterprise. There is nothing that will so enhance the beauty of a city as well-made gardens. A garden is the workshop of the soul. It not only awakens the better natures of men, but it crowns the table with vegetable delights that make good blood where greater spirits dwell. There is nothing that reflects more joy than a well-made garden. It conduces to good citisenship. It drives away selfishness, meanness, grief, disappointment and fills the heart with beautiful impulses. Every vacant lot given over to waste is wasted opportunity, and indicates a lack of true enterprise in the citizenship. There ought to be an organization in every city to make the vacant spots blossom as the rose. Talk about education —here is a chance for the best that can be had.

Plant Snapdragons.

Have a bed of snapdragons tor the garden. These old-fashioned weeds/ as they dtp sometimes called, have become very popular. As a table flower they surpass most any other. Sow the seed inside in pots, or outside when weather permits, broadcast. When the plants are five inches tall set them in rows two inches apart each way. ' Close growth gives the best effect and bloom. All colors and both tall and dwarf are consistent hloomers.

City Gardens.

A movement has been started to make Chicago a city of gardens. That is an example which ought to spread to every city and town in the country.

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