Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1916 — Page 3

HEALTH PLATFORM MEANS LIVES SAVED

May is the Month to Get Things Going—Resolutions That Will Produce the Best Results.

Many “clean-up” campaigns are scheduled in Indiana for the month of May. A good creed for the workers is the one written by Dr. Win. DeKlekie, and is as follows: I believe in the doctrine of “health first,” in the doctrine that health M fundamental to the attainment of the highest personal and social freedom. Hence I believe in health laws and in all agencies, that work for the pro-, motion of public health. I believe in a clean city, a clean community. I believe in clean streets, clean alleys, clean premises, safe sewerage disposal systems. I believe in pure air, day and night. I believe in deep breathing, in the open afr. ' I'ibelieve in -sleeping seven or eight hours every night with the windows wide open, winter and summer. I believe in clean food, clean milk, clean water. I believe in eating slowly and moderately. I believe in bathing frequently and in always w r ashing my hands before meals. I believe in the home as the place v/here the principles of “health first” can be most effectively taught. I believe in a clean home, in cleanly fathers and mothers, in cleanly children. I believe in clean thoughts. I believe in the doctrine of “health first” because I believe it will tend to promote the uplift and betterment of the race.

CHAUTAUQUA DATES SET FOR AUG. 10-15

Meeting of Guarantors to Be Held at High School Auditorium Friday Night, April 28. The date of the visit to Rensselaer of the Lincoln Chautauqua has been finally set for Aug. 10th to 15th inclusive, a slight change from the dates originally chosen. A letter received by Delos Dean states that the dates are arranged so as not to conflict with fairs, other assembles, etc., a$ nearly as it was possible for the company to set them. Looking to the success of the summer meeting, the program for which promises to be an excellent one, a meeting has been called by Rex D. Warner, the president of the local association, for Friday evening o' this week, April 28th, at the high school assembly and-it is desired- that -all-in the following list be present: Rex D. Warner, D. Delos Dean, Paul C. Curnick, C. E. Prior, C. E. Johnson, J. N. Leathemfan, George E. Murray, H. E. Parkinson, G. F. Meyers, C. Earl Duvall, B. Forsythe, Vem Nowels, Charles G. Spitler, C. M. Sahds, W. H. Parkinson, J. D. Allman, Wm. Traub, G. L. Thornton, Judson H. Perkins, E. D. Rhoades, Geo. E. Collins, A. R. Kresler, Hamill & Co., M. D. Gwin, Warner Bros., F. E. Babcock, P. W. Clarke, A. F. Long, W. O. Rowles, O. F. Parker, C. W. Hanley, Geo. W. Hopkins, W. L. Myer, Edd J. Randle, F. D. Burchard, W. S. Day, E. P. Honan, I. N. Warren, A. Leopbld, G. H. McLain, W. F. Osborne, Geo. H. Healey, F. H. Hemphill, Schuyler C. Irwin, W. L. Bott, B. Frank Alter, <5. C. Warner, E. N. Loy. It is also desired others interested attend the meeting and especially those who are interested in the junior work of the chautauqua, as Mrs. Helen B. Paulsen, one of the representatives of the company, will be present. Mrs. Paulsen is the founder of the junior chautauqua in this country and will outline the work and hopes to start a plan to interest the parents of the children and by the organization of a committee from the high school. She is a talented woman and parents and all who are interest ed in child welfare should try to attend the meeting. Mrs. Paulsen will be pleased to answer questions, make suggestions and assist the plans in any way. In a letter from Alonzo E. Wilson, the president and general manager of the Lincoln Chautauquas, to Mr. Dean, he states that Mrs. Paulsen will have a real message for every citizen in the community and should be given a large hearing. Rensselaer people, who have taken a great deal of interest and found much pleasure and instruction in the chautauqua assembles of the pa3t three years, should begin now to plan to make this the most successful of all. The splendid advantage offered of having the tented entertainers in Milroy park, right in the heart of the city, is a great drawing card and m order thevattendance may.be as large as possible and that all may have an opportunity to enjoy the sessfons it is well to keep the dates, Aug. lffth to ,16th in mind* JPI ans for having summer visitors should take the date into consideration. Last veai* the junior work was inconvenienced becaues tbe session came after the schools had taken up but this will no t h* the case this ye%r and the instructive recreation for the children should have the co-operation of every person to accomplish this to the best of possibilities all should hear Mrs. Paulsen Friday evening.

MAY INCREASE CROP VALUES WITH FERTILIZERS MADE FROM THE AIR

Photo @ by Anschutz, Keokuk, Ia.

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DAM AND POWER PLANT AT KEOKUK AND THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.

By HUGH L. COOPER,

American tanners are going to scnooi. They are learning that farming Is a manufacturing business; that every gar. tlen. farm, orchard and ranch Is a "chemical laboratory. The chemists are the agricultural schoolmasters of today. The virgin soil contains certain elements which furnish plant food and grow crops. As these elements are taken from the soil by cropping year after year, its productivity diminishes and the crops fall off. Every intelligent farmer knows nowadays What these vital elements are and in wha L proportion they must be restored to the soli to keep up his crop yields and make bis business pay. With farmer and manufacturer alike the present day problem is*to secure an adequate supply of necessary raw materials and labor at prices that will give him a profit on his finished product. The war, for instance, has shut off our potash supply from Germany, and the government experts are almost hysterically seeking to devise processes for converting seaweed into potash or making available the immense supply of this salt locked up In the common rocks of our bills and mountains and scattered broadcast over the earth. Earth a Vast Cemete-y. The most important of the plant foods, though, and the most costly, is the nitrogen, which Is vital not only to plant life, but to all forms of life. We commonly think of oxygen as the life giving element, but the scientists tell us (hat were the supply of nitrogen cut off the whole of the earth would soon become a vast cemetery. So lavishly has nature supplied us with nitrogen that four-fifths of the atmosphere is composed of this element Agriculturally we must supply nitrogeneous plant food in the form of ammonia. Through countless ages a very small part of the nitrogen in the air has been made into ammonia, deposited in the soil by lightning and other natural processes. It is this tiny deposit of ammonia or nitrous acid which gives the virgin soil its plant building properties. These deposits, however, are so small that additionalpmfians must be found of changing tne form of air nitrogen and putting back into the earth the ammonia consumed by plant life if the soil is to remain fertile. * The processes of animal digestion fix some part of the nitrogen consumed by the body in the form of ammonia valuable as plant food. It Is these processes which give stable manure—lts fertilizing qualities. For many years we brought guano from Peru and supplied our ammonial soil needs' from the deposits of bird droppings accumulated there through countless ages. These Peruvian deposits are exhausted, and while there are similar deposifs In several parts of the earth they are so remote and inaccessible as to be practically unavailable. City sewage and garbage waste, very much of which is carelessly drained into the streams and ocean, contain valuable fertilizing qualities because of its ammonial content. In our desperate need for nitrogeneous fertilizers we are extravagantly using millions of tons a year of cottonseed meal for fertilizer manufacturing. Because of the high cost of chemical fertilizers, farmers in many sections find tbelr use unprofitable and are obliged to lose the use o 1 their land during frequent seasons, planting It In clovers, cowpeas and other plants of the small family of legumes which have the property of extracting nitrogen from the air, converting It Into nitrates and leaving these in the soil In the form of small nodules or pimples which form on the roots. Costly Makeshifts. These are some of the cumbersome and costly makeshifts to which farm-

WHY EUROPE GROWS BIGGER FARM CROPS

_The European farmer uses 200 pounds of chemical fertilizer per acre of cultivated lands. The average use of fertilizers in the United States is twentyeight pounds per acre. As a result the comparative crop yields per acre in bushels of European and American farms are: Wheat. Oats. Barley. Potatoes Europe 32 47 88 168 United States 15 if 29 25 96 We mtisMncrease our crop yields pm acre if farming in this country Is te pay and if we are to continue to feed of living. To do so means using more chemical fertilizers, and at present prices or even normal before the war prices of both fertilizers and crop* tt

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Builder of th%Keokuk Dam. _

ers have been obliged to resort for plant food. Only three other sources of nitrogen supply are known. At present and for many years past the world’s greatest supply has been saltpeter or nitrate of soda from the deserts of Chile, where in the course of past ages nature has impregnated great beds of soda with atmospheric nitrogen. Until a few years ago the whole civilized world depended upon these Chilean nitrate deposits for Its supply of saltpeter, nitric acid and ammonia. Today the United States relies mainly upon this source, and American manufacturers and farmers pay tribute to the Chilean government, which collects an export duty of 60 per cent on the product, to the tune of upward of $12,000,000 a year. Even at this cost the Chilean supply is giving out, and we must face the prospect of still higher prices. The total export of saltpeter In 1860 was 70,000 tons. In 1915 it was nearly 2,000,000 tons. Robert Kennedy Duncan, late professor of chemistry In the University ot Kansas, says the best deposits of saltpetre In Chile will be exhausted by 1925. Then what are we to do for ammonia and nitric acid? In the process of coking coal some ammonia is obtained as a byproduct, but thisJg only a drop in the bucket as compared with our national needs, and to burn coal primarily for the production of ammonia means a fuel waste and cost that is unthinkable. Nitrogen From the Air. From where, then, ls~our future supply to come? Science has answered the question, as it answers most questions. Other civilized nations more progressive than we have accepted the aid of science and freed themselves from the Chilean monopoly, saved their coal, Increased their supply of fixed nitrogen and reduced its cost by harnessing their water powers, converting Into electricity the energy in flowing waters and using thie cheap electricity to burn the oxygen out of the air and change the free atmospheric nitrogen into forms of ackls and compounds available for chemical, manufacturing and agricultural uses. The supply of nitrogen In the air is Inexhaustible so far as It can be expressed In human terms. Above each acre of land on the continent there are 34,000 tons of nitric acid in the form of free nitrogen. Europe is using 1,400,000 horsepower ,of hydroelectricity to capture this nitric acid from the air. Germany is waging war with gunpowder made from the atmosphere and furnishing agricultural fertilizers to her farmers at one-half the price paid by the American farmer. The astounding thing in the United gtates today is that we. do not wake up and take advantage of our opportunities. Our natural resources, the richest In the world, are largely .neglected. Of our water powers, which compare favorably with those of any other country, we are using, only 10 per cent It Is said that only 5 per cent of our agricultural lands are productive. A Waste of Two Billions. In comparison with the enormous development and use of water powers In Europe not a single large hydroelectric plant has been built in the . United States for several years. Not one electrochemical plant has been established in this country. Not an ounce of atmospheric nitrogen is being produced within our borders. In the last ten years we have, by neglecting our water powers, destroyed and wasted more than $2,000,000,000 worth of fuel and labor that could, have been saved. The only reason the United States is so far behind other civilized countries In this respect Is that the federal government controls the use of our best water powers, and for nearly ten years, under a mistaken conception of con-

doesn’t pay to use more fertilizer on email grains and general farm and forage crops. The increased crop yield won’t pay for the fertilizer used to produce it In Europe the bigger crop yields pay because fertilizers are cheaper. The German farmer buys fertilizer for about half the price paid by the American farmer. We pay twice as much for potash to a German monopoly. We pay twice as, much for nitrates or ammonia to a Chilean mo noply. The nitrates are the most expensive element in fertilizers. European farmers are getting their supply Atom the air, made by water power. Onr water powers, which would give ua cheap fertilizers, arp not used. We must use the resources of the nation, not lock them out of use.— Woodrow Wilson.

serration, they Bare been locked onj of use by Inadequate laws. American capital and Investors have sought to develop the water powers and estabJlsh the new industries dependent upon ?heap power, which would make us free of the Chilean monopoly, but the laws have said “No.” To induce investment in these industries investors must have assurance of reasonable security and some hope of fair return or profit, and the laws deny either the security or hope of return. To no class of American citizens does this situation come home so closely, perhaps, as to the farmers. There is absolutely no relief in sight from the high prices of fertilizers or for fertilizers at all, except through development of cheap water powers. Not only does the water power ques tion affect the future of fertilizer sup ply and prices, but it is closely related to the labor question. For several years farm labor has been increasingly expensive and bard to secure. Immigration has stopped and is not likely to be resumed for years or generations to come. Europe will need all the men she hafc left after the war. Conserve tion of American labor means abolishment of unnecessary work and the re leasing of workmen for,better occupa tions. Our Undeveloped Water Power. The United States figures show that there is now undeveloped in this country about 35,000,000 horsepower of water power. To develop and use even half of this means conserving the labor of 300,000 men now employed In coal mining. ■ If applied to furnish power for present uses it would relieve the railroads of the United States of the necessity of transporting more than 110,000,000 tons of coal a year, most of It for their own use. Ele. trifieation of the railroads means better and cheaper transportation. To bring 300,000 men from the bowels of thp p.nrth and put them to work in the sunshine, in factories and on the farms, means not only a new' supply of farm and manufacturing labor, but bettering the condition of these men and making this country a -better place to live in from every human point of view. But to get these results, to get any development and use of water power we first must have federal legislation that will open the water powers to use. The United States senate the other day passed the Shields bill by a vote of 46 to 22. This measure gives water power companies the right under careful restrictions to dam navigabie streams and build power plants therein. A bill providing for leasing of power sites in the public domain has passed the Uouse and is now being debated in the senate. Certain men and interests are trying to defeat the purpose of this constructive and beneficial legislation by loading it up with unworkable terms and conditions. They are making charges and statements, generally vague and containing more innuendo than argument, intended to create suspicion and mistrust and prevent legislation. It behooves the American manufacturer, the American farmer, the American citizen who has any direct, indirect or patriotic interest in this subject to study this legislation for himself and arrive at his own conclusions. u A Suggestion to Citizen*. Instead of taking the opinion of somebody else I urge every Interested citizen to write to his congressman in Washington for copies of the Shields bill and the Myers bill and rdad them carefully, thoroughly, impartially and critically. After reading, these measures and making up bis inind as to their merits, I urge him to write his representative in congress exactly what he thinks of them, demanding tbeir passage" if he thinks them good bills, and their defeat if he thinks them bad bills.

Secretary Lane on Water Power. Under existing conditions, due largely to inadequate laws relating to the matter, a condition of stagnation exists, and water power resources are not being used. Existing law is not fitted for the uses to which it is put * * * There is that mystifying miracle of drawing nitrogen from the air for chemical use, which can be done only with great power, but is being done in Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland and elsewhere, by which an inexhaustible substitute for the almost exhausted nitrates of Chile has-been found. To increase the yield of< our farms and to give us an indejsende&t au4 jifleamte. snpplx o| gen for the explosives used in war we must set water wheels at work will fix nitrogen in lime.—Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Inferior.

ATHLETIC OPENER POSTPONED A WEEK

Park Will Not Be Ready in Time For Opener Sunday, Causing Week’s Delay; St. Joe the 14th. The game Scheduled for next Sunday with St. Joe at Riverside Athletic park has been postponed for a week, owing to the failure of the workmen to get the diamond anil stand in shape Tn time for the 7th. Owing to the continued cold weather it is probable that it will be better that the game has been postponed as it will give the team more time to get shaped up. All the players are in good shape and eager to play with the exception of Clark, who will probably be unable to get into the game in less than a month. Another pitcher will be secured to take his place, however.

Chance to Prove Patriotism Which All Beyond Doubt Feel.

We hear a great deal about preparedness. Every person almost is for it and thinks that there should be legislation to provide for it, but there does not- seem to be any grand rush to provide it. Under the volunteer system it is up to the individual and unless he is encouraged and honored for making the sacrifice there is not much reason, he is apt to think, why he should do it. Citizens of Indiana have three chances this year to show their patriotism. One is to encourage young men to join the national guard and there get the training that will qualify them to render effective service iti time of need. One is to attend the citizens’ training camp to be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison in July, August and September. The third is to send some young man to the training camp to be held at Culver. Ihis will cost $17.75 and any young man who attends will receive valuable training. An enlistment in the national guard under the present conditions is the most valuable, for it not only gets superior training in the camp, the intermediate training fn the armory and the rifle practice over a longer period, but binds one to make use of the training in the event that his service is needed. However, the proof of one’s sincerity in the matter of preparedness can ibe made by any one of the three methods and The Republican will be glad to try to brmg together the Jiouth who wants to Attend tl\e Culver camp and the citizen who wjll pay his expenses. Last year many men whp themselves were too busy or past the age limit for attending the citizen training camps paid the expense of some one else at the camp. William B. Austin sent a young college man to the school at Fort Sheridan. There are many -men in Rensselaer and Jasper county, no doubt, who would be willing to send a boy to Culver for the-camp and pay the $17.75 for his expense, or a young man to Fort Benjamin Harrison and pay the cost, about $45. 'lf there are any so inclined The Republican wil be pleased to hear from them and the matter can be kept secret if the person does not want it mentioned. We will try to find a boy or young man t-o act as substitute for each person who wants to put up the money.

lirara Day DEALER IN Hair, Cemeni Lira* 1 , Uriel RENSSELAER * INDIANA

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Son of John Jacob Astor Can’t Live On $20,000 a Year.

The widow of the late John Jacob Astor finds that $20,000 'per year, which the court allowed for the support of (her 4-year-o4d posthumous eon, is insufficient to maintain him. The boy was born following the death of his father in the Titanic disaster. The court thought the child, who is heir to vast riches, should live comfortably on $20,000 per year, 'but'the mother now declares the amount is insufficient to supply all hfs wants and a statement was filed to show that during the last year $27<593 was spent on him.

Professional Cards DR. E. C. ENGLISH Phyticiaa anil Surgeon ODDoulte Trust anil Savinas Bank. Phones: 177 —2 rina» so. •fflse; > rings for residence. Bensselser. Indiana. C. E. JOHNSON, M. 0. Office in Jeasen Building. Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 1 to 1 and 7 to 8 p. m. Specialty: Surgery Phone 2ii. DR. I. N. WASHBURN Physician and Snrgean Attending clinics at Chicago on Tuesdays and Fridays from 5 a. m. to 2 p. m. Phone 48. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, Real Estate, Insurance S psr cant farm loans Offloa In Odd Pillows’ Block. I H. L. BROWN Dentist grown and Bridge Work and Teet» Vlthout Plates a Specialty. AU tfc» meat methods In Dentistry. Gas ad r.lslstered for painless extractlbs. OSloe over Larsh’s Brag Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN A. DUNLAP Lawyer (Successor to Frank Foltz.) Practice In all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Cc lectlon department Notary in the offica. asnssslasr. Isdtaa, E.N.IOY Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell Homeopathist ifflee —Frame building on Guiles straw east of court house. opfzox non ee. 'esiaence College Avenue, Phoae 111 BfllflflMT. fniiniin F. H. HEMPHILL Physician and Surgeon aaolaJ attention to diseases of warns. sad low grades es fever. Office over Fen dig’s Drug Store. Telephone, office and residence, 44t DR.JP. A. TURFLER Osteopathic Physician Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Bundles Rensselaer, Indians. Phones, Offne—• rings oa 100, res* once —2 rings on iOGSuccessfully treats both scuts a at oronlc diseases. Spinal curvatures s •Dedal ty. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS Lawyer Special attention given to preparition of wills, settlement of estates, Making and examination of abstract >f title, and farm loans. Office over First National Bank. TEPITM I BOTICB. The undersigned trustee Of Newtas township, will have an office day la Rensselaer, on Saturday of each week in the room with E. P. Lane over Mur--ay’s store. _ JOHN BUSH. Trustee