Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1916 — DEATH MENACES 7,000,000 JEWS [ARTICLE]

DEATH MENACES 7,000,000 JEWS

Half of World’s Hebrew Population Have. Borne Brunt of War’s Burdens in Eastern Europe. New York, Jan. 30.—That the condition of the Jews in the eastern war ozne of Europe is appalling is the burden of a report issued today by the American Jewish Relief committee. The report is divided into four sections, covering Russia, Galicia, Roumania and Palestine. The report indicates that the seven million Jews affected —who constitute one-half of the Jewish population of the world—have by reason of their unfortunate geographic position actually borne the brunt of the war’s burder in eastern Europe. Nearly three million Jews, the report says, are now facing destitution, their homes having been pillaged and destroyed, their industries'-and trades ruined, and the entire fabric of their economic life torn asunder.

.Sam Duvall went to Indianapolis Saturday evening to visit his brother Ed and to make plans for entering , the state dental college in the fall. W. S. Parks went to Mentone, Ind., today to see his brother, B. G. Parks. Their father died at Mentone Monday of last week and the body was returned to Remington and buried last Wednesday at the Gilboa cemetery. The trial of Willis Barnhart, the young man charged with robbing stores in Newton county and who has been a prisoner here for some time, will be held Thursday, having been changed from today when it was previously set for trial. Now is the time to advertise your pure bred poultry and eggs, your seed oats and seed corn and to put on the market those things which are not earning you anything but which may be turned into cash. The Republican furnishes a medium of sale that seldom fails. There was considerable ram here Saturday night and Sunday and some that night and a little this morning. In some parts of the state the water is very high and causing a great deal of damage. The forecast for the fourth time in the past ten days is for colder weather and it is somewhat colder now than it was this morning. Travel has been almost abandoned on the country roads.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Otis Crandall, of Wadena, spent last week with Mrs. C. Gilson and son, Dell, in Rensselaer. In sending a note to The Republican about hirp resents the suggestion in The Republican that “Otie” is a has-been in baseball and says that he voluntarily jumped the Giants team for the St. Louis Feds, which is quite true, but the record of the two or three years preceding showed that the once great “Otie” was fast slipping and it was true that the Giants had on one previous occasion disposed of him to the St. Louis Nationals, afterward taking him back more out of friendship than anything else. He did not show much after getting back, however, and it was generally considered when ‘he jumped to the feeds that he was not strong enough fob the big leagues. His record in St. Louis was good, 19 wins and 10 losses, but the Feds were not nearly the players that the National and American leagues are. A once-faanous ball player does not lose his popularity with the fans simply because he has slipped back and there is no doubt that New York fans would welcome him as a member of the Giants team, just as Sox fans in Chicago will continue to rave about Ed Walsh and the Cubs about Mordicaa Brown, but that fact will not make them gerat pitchers. If “Otie” can “come back” as a member of .the St. Louis Browns he will find the public and all of his old friends in this part oflndiana mightywellpleasedbut we don’t believe his reputation was done any considerable injury by The Republican saying that a “fickle public and the hard-hearted managers had relegated him to the rear."