Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — Page 3

CITIZENS WILL SPEND MILLIONS TO LEARN WAR

50,000 Are Expected to Attend Various Training Camps This Summer. TWO DIVISIONS FOR JUNIORS Plattsburg Alone Will Have 20,000 Recruits—Applications for Seven Posts In Other Parts of the Country Total a Like Number—May Win Commissions.

WHERE CITIZENS WILL TRAIN. Eastern Department. Estimated Camp and Dates. Attendance. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., three sessions, now open, clones Aug. 8... 3,500 Plattsburg, N. Y., five sessions, nov open, closes Qct. Tnr... . . ...-20,000 Fort Terry, N. Y., one session, July 6 to Aug. 10 2,000 Western Department. Monterey, Cal.; one session,' June 12 to July 8 4,000 American Lake, Wash.; one sesslm, Aug. 14 to Sept. 9 3,600 Salt Lake City, Utah; one session, Aug. 21 to Sept. 16 3,500 Central Department. Fort Benj. Harrison, Indianapolis; three sessions, July 5 to Oct. 5.... 8,000 Southern Department. San Antonio, Tex.; one session, June 5 to July 1 4,000 National Guard Camp. PeeMskill, N. Y.; two sessions, Aug. 9 to Sept. 9 2,000 To'tal 60,500 Figuring the average cost per student at S6O far a month’s training, and an estimated attendance of 50,500, Americans will pay out of their own pockets $3,030,000 to learn something about the art of soldiering.

New York. —Business and professional men of the country are planning to spend more than $3,000,000 out of their own pockets and a month or longer away from their offices so that they and their sons may learn something about military affairs and be ready to serve the United States In the event of warr More than 50,000 American business and professional men and their sons will attend the military training camps this summer under the direction of the war department at their own expense, showing they are so much in favor of preparedness that they are willing to make great personal sacrifices. Each course at the various camps covers a period of about a month. “ To most of them it means they will have to give up vacations which might be spent at a mountain or seashore resort and put in four weeks at hard, Intensive work studying military science instead of loafing and getting a rest. None of the military camps will be a place for a man looking for a rest, and the officers in charge have made this known to all applicants. 20,000 Expected at Plattsburg. But this has in no way dampened the enthusiasm of the prospective student soldiers. About 20,000 applicants for the seven camps to be held under

FIRST VISIT IN 18 YEARS

Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of the British statesman, recently arrived in New York. .■* I This is Mrs. Chamberlain’s first visit to the United States in 18 years. Mrs. Chamberlain had little comment to make concerning the war. “The struggle Is horrible,” she said, "but it must go on to the end.” the direction of regular army officers have already been received. i * .a -

Registration for the Piatwnurg camp, where five sessions will be held, has reached 8,000, and the committee is confident the number of recruits will be in the neighborhood of 20,000. The Plattsburg camp will be conducted by the department of the East, U. S. A., which also has charge of the work at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. The camp will be open until August 8, tlinee sessions being held. There are dents taking courses in the present session, and the total enrollment for the three is estimated at more than 3,000. The western department will have charge of three camps. They will be aj Monterey, Cal.; Salt Lake City, Utah, and American Lake, Wash. One session will be held at each of these camps, the dates being set as follows: Monterey, July 10 to August 5; Salt Lake City, August 21 to September 16; American Lake, August 14 to September 9. It is estimated that 11,000 men will attend the three camps. At Salt Lake City 2,000 students have been receiving instructions from regular army officers for more than a month.

Camps in Middle and Southwest. The central department will conduct a camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind., and the southern department one at San Antonio, Tex. Three sessions will be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison, from July 6 to October v 5. The middle West is now taking great Interest in the camps. Business men in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities are working with the committees in charge of enlistment, and from present indications about 8,000 men will attend the sessions at Fort Harrison. In view of present conditions along the border, the southwest is also taking much interest in the training camp at San Antonio. One session, running from June 12 to July 8, will be held there. It is predicted that at least 3,000 will enroll, with the likelihood of the number reaching 5,000. Plattsburg, the original training camp, will be kept open until October 5. So great is the interest taken in the Plattsburg camp that many big business houses and corporations are allowing their employees to take a month off with full pay if they enroll. The same offer is being made by corporations In most of the big cities of the country. Men from every state in the Union will attend the sessions at Plattsburg. Every student who attends a training camp will have to deposit S3O upon his arrival. Of this $5 is a deposit on government equipment to guard the United States against damage which may be done to its property. The other $25 is to pay for the recruit’s board and lodging. The only other expense the recruit will have will be $ll.BO for his uniform, exclusive of shoes, which will bring the cost of his outfit to a little more than sls. Men May Win Commissions.

Transportation expenses will also have to be paid by the recruit. These, with a few minor charges, will make the cost of a month in the opem approximately S6O per man. The majority of the men enrolling for work in the training camps are college gradiktes or students, and army officers map out the courses of Instruction so as to prepare the students for commissions in a volunteer army in the event of war. . So successful was the intensive method of study at Plattsburg last year that many army men hold the opinion that those who took the course are fairly well equipped soldiers now. The first training camps frere held in 1913 and were started by undergraduates of the colleges. The movement gradually grew until last year the business and professional men’s camp at Plattsburg was attended by 1,800 men. College men, professional

NEW NOSE EACH FIVE YEARS

Mexican Has Silver One That Has to Be Replaced at Regular Intervals. St. Louis. —Does your nose ever wear out and have to be replaced? Here’s a man, Aurilius Rico, a Mexican, who has to nose every five years. It is a silver nose,' and not quite so hard to replace. Rico has had a silver nose for 12 years, having had to replace it twice during that time. Seventeen years ago, while residing in Mexico City, Rico developed a very rare skin disease, and it became necessary to remove his nose. Three operations of skin grafting were tried. Rico carried his arm bound to his face for 24 days at one time. Next four attempts were made to give him a plastic nose, and finally paraffin was poured into the cavity in an effort to make a bump there that would serve as a nose. At last Rico hit upon the idea of a r silver nose and purchased one. Being an artist, he found it simple to tint the nose with flesh coloring so that it can hardly be detected by one not “in op the knows.” It is held in place by spectacles.

INDIAN MAID GOES TO JAIL

Liquor Is thd Cause Although She Is Weafthy and Drives an Auto. Spokane, Wash. —Christine Arripa, age twenty, an educated Indian, whose father is one of the, richest of the Coeqr d’Alene tribe, Is in jail again. At the Seattle House lately®- she, with Mary Zackery, another Indian, and Barney Daniel, {ndian rancher of Rockford, had just started on a jamboree when Patrolman Senseny interrupted. Peter Ford, a handsome young No*

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

RACE HORSE BREAKS NECK

This remarkable photograph shows Impulse falling and breaking his neck during the jumps in the timber toppers’ champion chase at the opening of the United Hunts association at Belmont Park terminal, Queens, L. L

men, bankers, merchants, and city, state and national officials rubbed elbows with men who work for a daily wage. Two Camps for Juniors. One of ‘the camps at Plattsburg will be for juniors, youths from eighteen to twenty-one. But the demand for admittance to the junior camp by those not yet eighteen has been so great that a subjunior camp Is to be opened for those between fifteen and eighteen years. This camp is a subdivision of the Plattsburg camps and will be run on exactly similar lines under the supervision of regular army officers. It is to be held at Fort Terry, on Plum island, near Greenport, Long Island, which is a government coast artillery post. Here an opportunity will be given to learn the workings of the heavy coast artillery, an opportunity obviously not available at Plattsburg. Although this Fort Terry camp is a recent development, already enrollments have been received from the following high schools: Montclair, Glen Ridge, New Rochelle, Yonkers, Englewood, Erasmus, Manual Training, Regis, Hartford, Dalton, Hughes, and Mount Vernon and from such private schools as Lawrenceville, Virginia Military academy, St. Paul’s, Andover, Newark academy, Polytechnic and Worcester academy. Apart from the military work there will be plenty of time at Fort Terry for recreation, and the facilities for baseball, swimming and other sports are excellent.

Expense to Juniors. The expense at the junior and subjunior camps, exclusive of transportation and the uniform, will be $22.50. This sum covers board, camp expenses and ammunition. The government loans tents, cots, pillows, mattresses, pouches, sweaters and ordnance as at the senior camps. About 2,000 boys are expected to be at Fort Terry. The course will extend from July 6 to August 10. Another camp for schoolboys will also be held in this state. It will be located at the Infantry School of Application at Peekskill and will be conducted by National Guard officers. High school boys are eligible to attend. The camp will be open from August 9 to September 9, and boys can spend the entire four weeks there or take a two weeks’ course. Board will be fifty cents a day per boy. About 2,000 boys will attend, it is expected.

Perce, was In the party, but because he appeared not to have smelled the bottles of alcohol and water too often was released. Christine is the owner of a high-powered touring car, which she drives. Christine and Mary and Barney were charged with vagrancy. In connection with their arrest Patrick Graham, age twenty-seven, was booked on a charge of having given liquor to Indians and is held without bond. In. the possession of two other white men brought in at the same time but later released were found six bottles, three of which contained alcohol.

HATES WATER IS NOT RABID

Steve Mooney Springs a Joke in Police Court at Winnipeg and Goes to Jail. Winnipeg.'— Steve Mooney does like to have his joke. He sprung one on Magistrate Richards in police court recently and was fined $5 and coßts for his pains. He merely grinned and accepted several days in jail as an alternative. "I’m suffering from hydrophobia,” said Steve when asked why he drank so heavily. “What’s that?” demanded the judge. "Makes you thirsty, I suppose?" “Nope,” replied Steve. “You see it’s this way: Webster says hydrophobia is derived from the two Greek words, hydro and phobia. Hydro means water and phobia hate. That means, hate water." “Take him out,” ordered the judge, reaching for the water pitcher.

Hen Lays Peculiar Egg.

driggttown, N. Y. —During a thunder storm a hen owned by Dr. J. W. Acken laid an egg which resembled a Zeppelin airship slightly-turned la at on* end. • - .

One That Was Left

By RONALD JONES

(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) The airship signaled, and the torpedo boat following flew like a bird that skims the surface of the water. Capable of forty knots an hour, she reached the, ocean immediately beneath the aeroplane within three minutes. Ab she ran she saw the little rippling wave thrown back by the submarine. But the airship observer saw the sheath of the periscope beneath him. He was seen. He dropped a bomb. It splashed into the waves, and, silently the ripple of the periscope vanished. The submarine went under. She dived to a depth of a hundred feet, but, high above her, under the surface of the water the aeroplane could see the shadow of tie great fish as she made her way northward. It signaled again. Meanwhile the wireless upon the torpedo boat had been calling, and swiftly a haze of smoke on the horizon developed first into a black wisp, then into the wireless prong, and then into the hull of a second torpedo boat. Swiftly it drew up and the two followed the aeroplane, now fluttering in the distance like a wounded bird. As the two torpedo boats raced side by side a sailor threw a rope from one deck to the other. Here sailors caught it, and soon there followed thicker ropes, then coils of wire, which were wound about a winch and slowly unfastened. Finally the net was dropped over the side and thp two boats steamed together, keeping it between them. The captain of each torpedo boat was a young man. Each of them had

He Dropped a Bomb.

a sweetheart; each was thinking, even then, of his approaching marriage. The commander of the submarine was thinking, in his peril, of the home that he was never likely to see again, and of the aged mother who prayed for him every day before the crucifix in her room. The observing officer of the aeroplane had a dozen sweethearts, and he expected to have a dozen more if he lived through the war. He did not intend to marry any of them. The boats steamed on, guided by the aeroplane, which was drawing nearer. The submarine, beneath, did not know whether it was visible or not; it did not know of the net that was following If, and it turned and made toward its own coast. This gave the torpedo boats their opportunity. At a signal from the airship they dropped the net and reversed engines. The submarine, feeling its blind way along the bottom of the sea, found itself suddenly impeded. The commanderknew what that meant. He strove to rise, but the steel coils fastened themselves about him. His nose, tilting upward at an angle, rose to near the surface. He shut off his electric engines, intending to use the petrol ones for surface driving. But he could not quite reach the surface, and the periscope, tilted backward, allowed no glimpse of anything except the far horizon. Across the glass the image of the aeroplane kept flitting to and fro, like a swooping gull. The bow of the submarine was pointing in th£ direction of one of the torpedo boats. He issued an order, find two of his crew ran to the torpedo station. They drew a torpedo from the slings and thrust it into the chamber. At the same instant a bomb from the aeroplane grazed the side of the ves~sel and threw a cloud of water over it. The oxygen hissed, the torpedo started, and the submarine rocked from the recoil like a tree in a gale. An instant later the missile, directed blindly, found its billet. With a frantic roar the first torpedo boat blew up. Fifty sailors were instantly struggling in the water.. The steel net went down with the ship, and the submarine, partly'freed, reached the surface. The commander rah to the turret i_ ' (

and, opening the breech of the little gun she carried, thrust tn a shell. The layer at his side fired. The shell hissed through the air and found lodgment in the second torpedo boat. Instantly a gun on the torpedo boat answerod —and missed. Down went the submarine, freeing herself from the clinging net, and started beneath the water, her periscope swishing through the waves. The aeroplane circled above her, and the torpedo boat, having lowered a small craft to pick up the struggling sailors of the wrecked ship, started on the pursuit again. The sailors were mostly rescued, except the captain. He had stayed on the bridge to the end. His body had gone down in the wreckage. As the torpedo boat raced through the water in the wake of the periscope she fired again and again. Three shells fell short, three went too far. The seventh shell struck the periscope fairly and tore it away. The submarine’s eye was gone. She was blind. Instantly she rose, with a brief delay while changing engines. In that delay the torpedo boat was upon her. The eighth shell pierced the thin hull like paper. It made two gaping holes, one on either side. The submarine was doomed.

The commander, at the gun, adjusted his sights, allowing for the list of the sinking ship, and fired. The shell burst in the engine room of the torpedo boat, disabling her. She drifted helplessly upon, the water. The submarine was going down by the stern. The commander called through the tube to the men in the torpedo room. One more torpedo was left of the store which had been brought from port. The commander, at the wheel, worked frantically to bring the bow in line with the disabled torpedo boat five hundred yards away. If he could get that line before his vessel sank, the torpedo boat waa doomed. Upon tlie bridge of the torpedo boat the captain waited. He could not move his vessel, which drifted aimlessly upon the tide. He could swing her from side to side by working the wheel; he tried to keep her bow on to the submarine, so as to present the smallest possible target. The two ships watched each other, and the aeroplane, above, watched both. She had one bomb left. She circled lower and lower, describing narrowing circles above the sinking submarine. At last she dropped her bomb.

It crashed through the turret, killing one man. That was the commander. It tore a hole through the bottom of the submarine, which went down instantly, carrying her living freight to the bed of the ocean. But in that moment the torpedo, sent fairly home, blew the torpedo boat to atoms. g She disappeared, and only a few pieces of wreckage remained to show where she had been. Here and there a sailor clung, but the captain was gone, to join his fellow captain, under the sea. The aeroplane, left alone, turned and flew leisurely homeward. There was nothing that could be done. An old woman in a German town, prayed before a crucifix: “God, bring my sailor son home to me.” Two girls in English villages wept for the perils of their sweethearts upon the sea. The observer of the aeroplane, who had nobody to weep for him, was thinking of his week’s promised leave in London. «

Religious Women.

The real reason why women are more religious than men today is because they are more human than men. It is not by nature that they are so. Social conditions have made them so. As we have divided the labor of the world between the sexes, the work of men is almost entirely concerned with, the production and distribution of things; the work of women almost entirely with the production and sustenance of persons. We all of us at times notice the great throngs of men who go, at the call of the whistle, in and out of our great factories. To the average man’s mind, these hundreds of men are “hands,” and the purpose of the factories where they are employed Is to produce “goods;” but to the average woman’s mind, these hundreds of laborers are human beings, and the purpose of the factories is to furnish sustenance, through pay envelopes, to men and women and boys and girls and babies yet unborn. In most of our homes the man leaves human interests early in the morning, devotes the best hours of his day to the welfare of things, and returns to persons again only for the evening's relaxation. His wife, meanwhile, has hardly done an act of labor all the day, has hardly made a plan or had a thought, which is not with considerable intimacy related to human beings -r-her husband, her children, her neighbors. —Bernard I. Bell, in Atlantic.

Curtailing His Fun.

“The president of Razzler university writes that our boy Is behind in his studies,” said Mr. Gadson. “What are you going to do about it?” asked Mia. Gadson. “I don’t see how we can do anything to help him, except to cut down his allowance and take away his motor car.”

And He Owned It, Too.

“Thank goodness,” shouted the suffragette orator, “our sex doesn’t have any use for razors.” , ; “My wife uses a razor,” spoke up the meek little man In the gallery. “What for?” sternly demanded the s. o. “To sharpen pencils,” replied the m. L m. v

POSTSCRIPTS

Figures compiled by the Italian government show that the world produced 4,000,000,000 busnels of wheat last year, an increase Qt 800,000,000 bushels over the year before. Supported by spectacle bows from the ears, a respirator has been invented for surgeons, dentists and barbers to prevent their breath mingling with that of patients or patrons. Around the central tnbe of a new antiseptic telephone mouthpiece is a container for disinfectants that gfve off fumes in such a way as to kllf all that enter tne device. m The government of New Zealand is building a five-mile railroad tunnel at a cost of nearly $5,000,000 to give close connection between the east and west coasts of South Island. German lithographers have found they can electroplate paper for use In their work without danger of It absorbing the plating bath liquid by first coating the paper with varnish. For lessening automobile headlight glare there has been Invented a set of spiral plates so mounted on th® outer rim that they can be swung across the lens as much as is desired. A submerged oak forest covering several square miles, from which logs more than 100 feet in length have been taken, was discovered by Russian engineers while dredging a ri:er. The known coal areas of the United States cover about 310,000 square miles and there are about 160,000 square miles more that are believed to be underlaid with marketable coal.

DOLLARS AND DINNER PAILS

Most people measure business success by the amount of money a man makes. You want the money to buy comforts. That is your object, is it not? If money will not buy comfort, of what use is it? Better not have two coppers to rub together and be at peace with the world and the possessor of. a, few good friends than possess millions and be alone in the world. You say you envy the man with mil- o lions for the luxuries he can buy, but as a matter of fact you may be far richer than he. He envies you your freedom from care, and your warm, true friends. The man who ndt>s by you in a limousine, while you sit near your work and eat your dinner from a wellfilled dinner pail, would often give the car if he were ablo to eat the content* of that pail with a relish. It is the state of mind and physical being which make for happiness. Peace and comfort cannot be bought with shekels. Better go without the dollars, if you must have misery as a running partner.—Chicago American.

M’CLARYGRAMS

The hoss that’s alius jumpin' fence* must keep hisself thin. Never end a business sentence with* out a proposition. It is a lucky st:ike when merchant dlse walks out for more money than it has been getting. We have anotner theory that the less you do for people and the more you let them do for you, the better they like you. Someone says that we halve our troubles by telling them. Maybe. But don’t you ever believe that telling a trouble twice will do away with it! After all is said and done we can all agree to this extent: that nobody ever trusts anything that can by any stretch of imagination be called a trust. The man who turetches and strains his income in the attempt to look more prosperous than he really is, is sending out gilt-edged invitations to poverty.—McClary's Magazine.

SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY

Patriotism rarely consists of voting a straight ticket. When a man says plain talk be means unpleasant talk. There is also the sort of morality that is due to cold feet. Most men are busy enough not to want to serve on a jury, A friend is a useful institution it yop don’t use him too much. Sometimes a line of hot air is digni* fled by calling it a propaganda. While one is paying interest he shouldn’t lead reform movements. —Atchison Globe.