Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — Page 2

Enlightened Public Opinion Alone Can Bring Free and Wholesome Government

Vigilant and thoroughly sustained public opinion . The whole scheme of this government, its efficiency and its strength, rest at last upon the shoulders of the individual citizen. The whole structure has no other guaranty, no protector save an enlightened public opinion.,. , We can make up our minds once and for all that if we are not willing to make the sacrifice in time,' thought and means, by and through which _citizenship is kept'up tu the highest standard of intelllganea and physical well-being, and bv and through which the powers of the government are exercised for the general welfare, tlien while we may have some furm of~ “organized some shambling' pretense of a government, we will not have a republic in fact—a free, wholesome, uncontrolled government having its well springs of national purpose apdF power in the esteem and affection of a loyal and devoted people.

Full Development of Alaska Waits on Reasonable —Rates for Transportation

The trade of Alaska with the United States for 1915 exceeded $82,000,000; that for 1916 will exceed $100,000,000; if that for 1917 shall be as large, the total trade balance due Alaska-on October 18j 1917, the date of the semicentennial of its purchase from Russia, will exceed $1,000,000*000 Over and beyond all the national expenditures made in its purchase, government and development. The trade of Alaska for 1916- will amount to more than $100,090,000, and every pound of it, both imports and exports, must move over transportation lines, to, from or in Alaska. The miners and merchants, the shippers and settlers of Alaska now pay, and for years have paid, the most extortionate freight rates of any people in the world. Xothing has been done by their government, or its appointive officials in Alaska, to protect them from unreasonable and discriminatory rates, and the transf oripationof A task a into aland ofhomes and developed industries is being actively consummated under greater handicaps than ever before burdened any part of our American frontier. The enormous output of the territory to date has been produced from that portion of its natural resources most easily and rpadily to,be reached. It has come from bonanza r —placer mines and other-resources on the- seashore, where -the cheapest rates obtain. Any attempt, however, to develop lower grade placer and quartz gold, copper or other mineral products in the interior or at any distance from the seacoast must fail until some governmental control of rates of transportation will enable capitalists and laborers alike to have reasonable and equal charges for freight. Settlers away from the coast caunot get household goods and farm implements to their farms, or their farm products to market, without that control is exercised. In short, the greater development of Alaska waits on the control and reduction of transportation rates. k

Stop Rapid-Fire Marriage Habit and the Divorce Evil Will Be Eradicated

By JUDGE JOHN PERRY WOOD

Grant no marriage license until 30 days after publication of the announcement that a couple intends to secure a license. This persons an opportunity to reflect before they go dashing madly into wedlock. It will save much repenting at leisure. It will stop people from marrying on a bet, from tangling themselves up in a nuptial knot on short notice, also from wedding before they are of legal age. Stop this rapid-fire marriage habit and much will be done to reduce divorce. People do not think sufficiently before marrying. The trouble is not with our oivorpe Taws but with our marriage laws. The divorce evil isn’t the -disease. It is merely the symptom—that symptom of social and personal unrest which comes from living at ninety miles an hour instead of twenty and thirty, as did our ancestors. A law similar to the | French system would be at least deterrent ol this evil and would, do much to eliminate many troubles that accompany the divorce problem.

Man Who Triumphs Over Inclination to Be Bad Deserves the Greatest Credit

By REV. MADISON C PETERS

A man is to be judged not merely by the evil he refrains from doing but by the amount of temptation that he overcomes. He is to be judged not by his victories alope but also by his defeats. Many a man passes through life without a spot on hi A character, who, notwithstanding, never struggled so bravely as lie who fell. No one deserves credit for goodness unless he has the inclination to be bad. A vice omitted counts as zero, but the virtue that crowds a vice out and puts itself into the soul as a vital force counts at least one. Sunday you must mind the 'Bible, but tomorrow you may sell goods thai wash out, pile inferior fruits upon false bottoms, or help knaves out of jail by law quibbles. A great merchant was converted. A woman in His store asked him, “Is this real English lace?” “It was before the revival, but it isn't now; it’s simply imitation," was the reply.

By SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH of Idaho

The call of America today is less.for a change in institutions than for a change as to the vigilance and civic activities of individual citizenship. If there bedevils menacing our institutions, if: - these.-evils seem, to strengthen—year by year, the lawmakers and administrators of the law are not the only sinners. Ours is a .government of public opinion, not in a superficial but in a most profound way. If was to he, so and it cannot it cannot liver except it be sustained bv a well-informed, eternally

By JAMES WICKERSHAM

Delegate in Congress From Territory ot Alaska

of Los Angeles, C*l.

of New York City

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

JEALOUSY AND LOVE

THEY Are quite distinct and BEPARATE ATTRIBUTES. A Idea That There Can Be No Love Without Large Admixture of Jealousy Is Not by Any Means Well Founded. The prevailing Idea appears to be that there can be no love without a pretty lurge admixture of jealousy, and that, conversely, almost every case of jealousy springs from some misguided love affair. Whether this Idea is the right one or not is decidedly open to question. Ideal love affairs preclude jealousy alconfidence exist therSTs no room at all for the green-eyed monster. It is only when the course of true love ceases to run smoothly, or where the passion is an unlawful one, that jealousy creeps in like a canker at the root. One curious attribute of the jealous woman who plans to sweep her rivals out of the way is that she generally shows a marked lack of brains in her methods. Jealousy is nonularly supposed to arouse a diabolically clever ingenuity in the breast of the jealous fair one—but, as a matter of fact, it seldom does anything of the sort. In my opinion,'jealousy makes women do the most stupid things in the world! Not only does it blunt all their finer feelings, but at the same time it causes n curious confusion of mind, which fails to take the proper grasp of consequences and which Is utterly illogical aud childishly reckless in its workings. One has only to glance at the daily papers to see this fact practically illustrated. The schemes of the Jealous woman are the most childishly Imrnacase fall'to pieces and bring speedy retribution on her own head. For not alone does the victim suffer. The worst generally comes upon the plotter herself. Love very often does bring a certain amount of jealousy in its train. But at the same time it is entirely up to ourselves to curb those feelings and to keep them from outward and visible sign of expression. Moreover, it is perfectly true that, although love generally does admit of jealousy, the latter can exist and flourish pretty successfully without love. A woman may be desperately jealous of the attentions which a man pays to another woman—without In the least loving that particular man. Jealousy may spring from hurt pride, or from balked hopes, or from the fear of what people may say, quite as frequently as It springs from love. Therefore, in the last analysis, we 'may- most assuredly cluim that jealousy and love are two distinct ,ancL quite separable affairs. —Philadelphia Inquirer.

Artist Excels in Making Splints.

Here’s an artist who attained fame by deserting her art. She is Miss Grace Gassette of Chicago, and General Joffre has just received her at his headquarters, the first and only American woman he has so distinguished. Miss Gassette is known as the painter of portraits fine enough to be hung in the Paris Solon, but it was not for that that General Joffre received her. It was because, leaving her art, she Tipvotftd—herseif~To inventing devices to make wounded soldiers more comfortable. So many ingenious splints did she contrive to make war victims easier that French surgeons asked her to write a textbook on the subject. _Ngt long ago she went to the front to introduce a new surgical bandage, and General Joffre, hearing of it, expressed a wish to see the clever young American woman.

Caressed the Wrong Hand.

The Broad Ripple car was crowded and she and her young man were standing just inside the rear door. She leaned against the young man and he held to the door which served as a support |or the conductor also. She reached over and patted a hand the conductor’s hand. Passengers on the rear platform smiled. The conductor winked and squeezed her hand. Block after block the caresses continued. She looked contentedly up at her young man—and he didn’t know what he was missing nor what the rear platform passengers wereTaughing about Neither did she.—lndianapolis News.

Asks for "Movie” Censor.

The Madrid Society for the Study of Penitentiaries and Upbuilding of Dehas petitioned the Spanish government to create a censorship of moving, picture films, as it declares that a number of the criminal offenses committed nowadays by the youth of the Spanish capital are directly traceable to the portrayal of crime in moving picture dramas.

The Difference.

“Politician, isn’t he?” “Oh. no, he’s a statesman." “Well, what’s the difference?” “A statesman, my dear chap, Is one who is in politics because he has money. A politician is one who haw mopey because he is in politics.”— Bor-ton Transcript.

One on Him.

Author — My rich uncle Jack nevei read a book in his life! Friend —Then he may remember yoi handsomely in his will —what 1”

PITTSBURGH ON EDGE OF ASIA

In Baku Persian and Tartar Millionalraa Ride in Jewaled Cars. •' . . * -r''- ; I’m afraid that I shall have to tell my great-grandchildren that the Caspian Is very little to look at, at least from Baku, writes H. G. Dwight in the “Century. It has no color and it smells outrageously of kerosene. Baku, however, Is something to look at. (Baku is the Russian trans-Cauca-sian seaport on the Caspian sea.) It Is a kina of Pittsburgh dipped In Asia, and It tickled me beyond measure. Not bo long ago it was a wretched fishing village inhabited chiefly by Persians and Tartars, who were too stupid to sell tlfelr land to prowling oil prospectors. So those same Persians and Tartars now roll in gold. And they TTrin’t whHt *n do <+ The consequence is that nobody but a millionaire can afford to live in Baku; But* what a fantastic hodgepodge of civilization and barbarism! What types! What costumes! What morals ! Above all, what motor cars —satin lined, emblazoned, gilded, jeweled, skithering there on the edge of Asia! It’s too good to be true, but I shan’t tell you about It. What I want to tell you about-is a parb ttreTltfssfans have made there on the shore of their Caspian.—They always do those well, you know. No green thing will grow for miles around Baku, but those Russians have coaxed a few trees to sprout in tubs in that tidy little park, and bands far better than I ever heard in Central park play you Tschaikowsky and Rimsky-Korsakof, not to say Wagner and Verdi and Bizet. And you should see the extraordinary crowds that listen —the Russians, the Persians, the Armenians, the Georgians, the Lesbians, the Tartars, the wild, the" swarthy, the fiery, the rainbow colored! My son, when in doubt, go to Baku. I sat there in the park one afternoou, smiting their Caspian, tapping my foot in time to their “Glinka,” when I suddenly made a discovery: That coon song we used to sing when we were young, “Lou, Lou, I Love You,” came out of “Life for the Czar.”

War Prices in Paris.

One Hears a greatdeai about the rising cost of living in Germany, resulting from the British blockade, but comparatively little about the privations of the allies. The following Tetter from an American engineer in Paris tells something of the hardships of the City of Light: “Cold boiled ham costs ninety-five cents a pound and each thin slice comes to ten cents. Butter is uneatable at less than sixty-four cents .a pound, and everything is in proportion. Gasoline Is twenty cents a quart. Alcohol is out of the question, as It is now forty-eight cents a quart as comparedto—fourteen before the war. Sugar Is fourteen cents a pound. “I believe the war won’t be over before next year, so we settle down to it as a fact to be borne. -It hits everyone except a few. I am comfortable, have enough to eat and a good bed, but living in ‘juste’ (narrow); I ■just about come out even.” —Wall Street Journal.

Pink for a Baby Girl.

Why pink for a baby girl and blue for the boy? The reason for the distinction Is not very clear. We are told that in Russia and in America blue is used in the preparation of the outfit for a baby if the parents desire a boy and pink if the preference is for a girl, and then the old stork brings just whichever one he pleases regardless of the color scheme; so the wise mother uses both pink and blue in her layette. A Russian maiden not only wears. pink in her girlhood, but adorns her wedding trousseau plentifully with this hue.

New Discovery.

Margaret, aged eleven, had just returned from her first visit to the zoo. “Well,” said her mother, smiling, “did you see the elephants and the giraffe and the kangaroos?” Margaret looked thoughtful. “We saw the elephant and the giraffe and the dang-ger-roos.” “What?” said Mrs. Blank. “The dang-ger-roos. It said ‘these animals are D-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s/** ~

Nothing Doing.

Anxious Mother—Your lips are awfnilv red, my dear. I hope that young man who Just left- didn’t ~ Pretty Daughter (interrupting)—No, of course he didn’t. If my lips are red it’s because he made me so angry I bit them. * Anxious Mother—Did you get angry because J»e tried to kiss you? Pretty Daughter—No; because he didn’t.

Worse.

“Whenever my wife and I have a falling out my mother-in-law always takes my part." “That’s very nice of her.” “Yes, she means well, but she only makes it twice as hard for me to square myself.”

Many-Sided.

“There are two sides to every arguHent." “Two sides represent thp minimum. Some aiguments sound as if there were as many sides as there are speakers.”

Different System.

“My wife constantly pesters me for money. Does yours T “No; the people she buys things fron dq that.”—Boston Transcript.

PROVERBS AND PHRASES

Credit Is capital. Who never climbed never fell. Beauty vanishes, virtue endures. Better to wear out than to rust out. Begin in' time to finish without hurry. None so blind as those who won’t see. If thou canst not see the bottom wade not. Blessings brighten as they take their flight. The golden rule in life is “making a beginning.” A library Is a repository of medicine for the mind. •_ A man should sell his ware at the rates of the market. A handful of common sense Is worth a bushel of learning. Ohean things are not good, good things are not cheap. In this world it is necessary that we assist one another. Marriage has its pains, but a bachelor’s life has no pleasures. There Is no man so bad but has a secret respect for the good. —-From the same- flower, the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.-—Richard Baxter. Doctor —“Well, and how did you find yourself this morning?” Patient — “Oh, I just opened my eyes and there I was." —Purple Cow. _ Court—“ln the case of this assault by the defendant’s goat, are there any rebutting witnesses?” Plaintiff —“Only the goat."—BaWmore American. A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches. —Written In a copy of the Grete Herbell, i. 561. The Overbearing Lawyer—“lgnorance of the Jawexcu&es no- one I” Tbe- Culprit—“l’ll be sorry for you, then, If you ever get in trouble.” — Browning’s Magazine. “I don’t believe a lot of the stories they tell about you,” said the sympathetic friend. “H’m!” mused Senator Sorghmuar “Which don’t you believe? The good ones or the bad ones?’’— Washington Star. —■ Can’t agree with the suggestion that the horse will ever become as popular as, or with, a lobster. You couldn’t look into her eyes and say, “Let’s have a broiled horse!” —New York Evening Telegram.

THINGS WAR INTRODUCED

Germans introduced liquid fire. Germans introduced asphyxiating gas. Germans introduced lachrymose vapors. French Introduced aeroplanes carrying cannon. French and Eritish Invented antigas masks. Germans introduced merchantman submarines. British Introduced use of nets in trapping submarines. Germans introduced steel arrows discharged from aeroplanes. French introduced air torpedoes discharged from aeroplanes. Italians Introduced avalanche warfare, creating avalanches by shellfire.

BRILLIANTS

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide—Chesterfield. f* „ 1 - ■ Every man seeks for truth; but God only knows who has found it. —Chesterfield. As scarce as truth Is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. —H. W. Shaw. However rich or .elevated a namedess something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. —Horace. Truth does not do so much good in the world as the appearance of it does evil.—La Rochefoucauld.

DON’TS FOR FEMALES

Don’t steal a man’s good n&me because you waut a husband. Don’t raise your hand against your husband; raise a broom handle. {Don’t use a “gallon of words In trying to express a - teaspoonful of thought. * ’

TO EACH HIS SOUL

Eternal Salvation a Personal Matter Which Cannot Be Left to Others^ Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it Is God which worketh In you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.—Phil. 2:12,18. So far as our knowledge goes, Philippi was the first city In Europe to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ It was a city of some importance, having the position and the privileges of a Roman colony. It was situated in a fruitful district, near some gold mines, and also near enough to the sea to be a depot for Asiatic commerce. The congregation founded there waa madflup of earnest and sincere people, and Is specially mentioned for Its love and care of the Apostle who first brought them the Gospel. Eleven or twelve years had passed since the founding of this church. Paul was a prisoner in Rome. The Epaphrodltus arrived from the church at Philippi, after a long and dangerous journey, bringing supplies for the needs and comfort of Paul. He also bronght-tidloga of the condition the Philippian church, and assured the This letter was in a sense a response by Epaphroditus, and it is no wonder that it bears the marks of tenderness and affection for these people who loved Paul so dearly. Paul begins to think that he will never be able to come again to Philippi, and so he writes this letter to them and tells then) to continue'the work' in his absence as well as in his presder the Influence of a commanding personality. The weaker is dominated by the stronger and the cultivation of our own judgment is neglected. So Ban! warns the Phllipplans nottolook to him in every difficulty, but to “work out their own salvation In fear and trembling.” Does not this seem to contradict some of the teaching of St. Paul? Doctrine of Salvation. One of the fundamental doctrines of Paul was that salvation is a free gift due-to- the grace of God. Remember that writing to the Phlllppians Paul was addressing believers who already possessed this salvation. But: while It is indeed a gift of God, every man must appropriate It to himself. That is the work of the Holy Spirit, to work in us that we may “work out” 1 Into every fiber of our being, Into every activity of life, the salvation which God bestows upon us for Jesus* sake. A slave is set to work opt his freedom. He may be encouraged to do so and even be assisted by his master. But this freedom is to be won by his own exertions, to be paid for by his toil. If that were the sense in which wo are to work out our own salvation It would never be accomplished, for wtf sinful creatures can never merit heaven. But let us suppose that the slave Is given his freedom, and then told that for the sake of his own development he must make himself worthy of that great gift. He is to work out his liberty, not In the sense of buying It, but In bringing out what is in It, by using it well. He Is to prove himself free by self-control, by proper employment, and by selfc£ulture. He is to "Vork out a freeman’s life. Thus Hr Is that we are to work out our own salvation.

Salvation is a personal matter, it is our own salvation which we are to work out. No one can do it for us. Each man is an Individual soul before the throne of grace. One Law of the Universe. Nothing is of value unless It is individualized. Light is universal. It bathes the world in living ( spendor. But each optic nerve must' transfer the vibrations of light to the brain which interprets It in terms of color, perspective, and proportion. , The world is full of harmonious sounds. There is music of the birds, the laughter and the roar of the waves, the whisper of the breeze through the trees; but unless each auditory nerve gathers up these waves of sound and carries them to the appreciating brain, nature might as well be silent as the grave. The air wraps the whole earth round, many miles deep. There is. enough for millions more than tread the earth today, but unless each individual pair of lungs draws in this lifegiving air we might as well be In a vacuum. A drowned man is brought upon the shore. The-air is pressing upon his body with a pressure of 15 pounds to every square inch. All about him are crowds of people who are breathing the air, but he might as well be in some airless space of the world, because his individual lungs cannot draw it in. It is so with salvation. It is free as air. It folds us round like the atmosphere. It has a positive pressure. It whispers, woos and waits, and listens and longs for entrance; but unless it be personally admitted, adits universality will count for nought. It is a great thing in a man’s history when he grasps his own individual relation to God, when he realizes that he Is indeed the child of a heavenly father just as truly as If he were the only soul in the world.

Remembrance Is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Indeed our first parents' were not to be deprived of it.—Richter. Ten men have failed from defect In morals, where one has failed from do* feet in intellect.—Horace Mann.