Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — Page 3

Value of Parole Law Shown by Number of Delinquent Boys Who “Make Good”

For 21 years I was president of the board of managers of the Illinois State reformatory. During that period, siaee the operation of the parole law, I helped parole 8,000 boys and young men. Every crime inthe catalogue, major and minor, had’been committed by them. Some of the (‘ases seemed utterly hopeless, but the methods and discipline of the new system wrought a marvelous change. We tested the truth of John Locke’s statement, made over three hundred years ago, that heredity counted for one-tenth only in a man. Education, he asserted, took care of the other nine-tenths. By education Locke meant environment, a word which came later into our language. Were the ratio reversed, there never could be any progress for the human race. • —t was permitted during my presidency to visit every reform and industrial' school in the United States, to find out as far as possible the lapses of these boys into crime after their parole and discharge. I visited the greater number of state prisons in the country and corresponded with the wardens of all the others to ascertain how many paroled boys were inmates of these penitentiaries. First, I found that nearly 80 per cent of the boys discharged in the aggregate of all those paroled were “making good.” Second, I found that not 3 per cent were inmates of state prisons. I made a careful estimate of the known wages paid to those paroled and discharged boys and learned that these united amounts were larger than the entire sum paid by the various states for the support of their reformatory institutions. Here is proof enough to convince the most hidebound skeptic of the value of the parole law! I believe in the boy. I have met the lads who have been graduated from their parole period in many cities of the Union. I know of them as occupying influential positions. I have married many of them and seen the happy homes winch they have established.

"Labor Famine” Exists Only Where Long Hours at Low Wages Are Demanded

■\ tendency- is-Ure-*aecept?meeof organized labor’s position on immigration restriction. During the past year the acid test of experience has verified the claim of trade unions that American institutions cannot assimilate nor American living standards resist the flood tides of induced immigration that has been the policy of captains of industry. Information and reports received by the officers of the American Federation of Labor clearly demonstrate the face that a “labor famine” exists only where employers still demand long hours at low wages, and where they ignore the living standards set by the workers. Another element among employers who talk of the scarcity of labor do so to entice a sufficient number of idle workers to their factory gates as a menace to those femployed and who are liable to demand better conditions. These employers oppose restriction of immigration because restriction will defeat their policy of having two or more men for every job. Another tendency is the growing opposition to labor injunctions, which class labor power as property. The congress of the United States has voiced this opposition in amendments to the anti-trust laws. Judicial interpretations of the term “property” in the fourteenth amendment to the federal Constitution are losing their fore*. AVhat was originally intended to end slavery has heed used to thwart the enactment of social legislation, but courts have failed to check the swelling tide, of democracy.

All Men Should Be Compelled by Law to Divide Incomes With Their Wives

The work a woman does at home is so dignified and so important that it ought to be paid for. Except for the services of his wife in the home, a man would have to employ a cook, a nurse, a bookkeeper, a scrubwoman, and a chambermaid. r I he wife w r ho manages the household should receive half of her husbands’ income. Individual agreements to that ellect will not hold and cannot be made to apply to all families. Every state should have a law requiring men to divide their incomes with their wives. All the law requires now is that a man keep a roof over the woman to whom he is married, 'lt is customary for him to say: “Here, Mary, is five dollars for you.” Whatever money she gets comes from the husband only because he is moved to give it to her. Too many women take the attitude that he earns the money and that it is all They do not put the proper alue on their own services in the house. It is better for a woman to be an independent wage earner. There is no relationship so delightful as when both husband and wife work and contribute toward the expenses of'tfie household on equal terms. Love is kept alive. It is not smothered in luxuriousness or domesticity.

Strife for Precedence Has Been Great Tragedy in Most Big Moral Campaigns

There are too many of us trying to go through the world, on a big bluff. Ignorance is not always discreditable, but to pretend knowledge you do not have is always so. If you think yourself so very wise, I pray you become the fool —that you may become wise. This is what the Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, and it is just as good advice toddy. This strife for precedence and a place in the world has' been the tragedy of the Christian church and of most of our great moral campaigns. Most of us would rather have a thing not succeed than succeed through one other than ourselves. Don’t seem to be; something; be something. I’m pleading for a little healthy recklessness. You have been cautious too long. Some men and women devote all their lives to the fine art of getting on the winning side at the moment of victojy. E

by RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS

Bishop of Reformat! Episcopal Church

By FRANK MORRISON

Secretary of the American Federation of Labor

By INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN J

By REV- CHARLES F. AKED

THE EVENING - REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND,

QUEER FUNERAL IN JERUSALEM

An unusual funeral procession In Jerusalem. A Turkish soldier Is being carried to his grave, a British officer acting as one of the pallbearers.

LOCAL INFECTION EXPLAINS ILLS

Baffling Eye Affections, Joint Ailments, and Even Appendicitis Accounted For.

DOCTORS ADMIT LAY WISDOM

High Priests of Medicine NoLonger Regard Patient's Diagnosis as Mere Superstition—Tonsils and Teeth at Bottom of Trouble.

New York. —Recent experiments, Investigations, and experimental treatmentm the domains of medicine flnd surgery have led to a solution of many of the hitherto puzzling problems df medical science. Physicians are beginning to realize that many general constitutional disturbances whieh battled their skill are still due to sniull local foci of infection. When these are removed their putients soon recover, sometimes, indeed, with astonishing rapidity. How recent the realization of the real solution of these medical mysteries is may be judged from the following editorial comment in the New York Medical Journal: “For many years it was thought that we were well acquainted with bacteria and their vagaries, but recently we have discovered that there remains much to be learned. Of the various activities of bacteria the most interesting at present is that of the so-called focal infection. By this is meant a small, more or less quiescent point of disease, which, although it c#Uses mr local disturbance, gives rise to symptoms elsewhere in the body. Most Important Manifestation. “Probably the* most important of these manifestations is the involvement of the various joints of the body. If we pick up our textbooks to read about arthritis, the chances are that

AGED PERSONS ARE MARRIED

Romance That Began Nearly Half a Century Ago Is Happily Ended.

Cleveland, O. —A romance which had its birth a half century ago in the public schools of Niles, but which was broken by a lovers’ quarrel, culminated Monday night at eight o’clock at the parsonage of Rev. T. Alfred Fleming at No. 9515 Pratt avenue, when Mrs. Emma Davis of No. 10720 Massie avenue and David Armstrong of No. 30521 Grantwood avenue were married. Mrs. Armstrong is fifty-eight years old, her husband is sixty-two. Armstrong and his bride were playmates in Niles 50 years ago. Almost constant association brought their two hearts together, and as years passed, plans were made for their marriage. Armstrong was then twenty-one. # Then came the lovers’ quarrel—a trivial disagreement' —and the twain drifted apart. Armstrong married; so did*his first love, and then nearly 40 years passed away. Death left them single again, and fate drew them together. Both settled in Cleveland scarcely a thousand yards apart. Their love dream of youth was resumed. And they began courting anew! The aged “newly weds” will make their home at 10720 Massie avenue.

BOY GETS A HOODOO DEER

California Lad Shoots Old Buck That Dodged Bullets of Other Hunters.

Sal Inas, Cal. Monterey county, which usually has more deer- killed in it than any other county in California, tops all the local records with a forked-horn buck that weighed 231 pounds, dressed. The buck was killed fn the last day of the season by William Casey, Jr., near his home at San Lucas. The doer was an old one, and hunters have been trying for years to get it, but the wily buck always managed to escape the bullets and was called “the hoodoo."

we shall be much discouruged, not only by the unfavorable, prognosis, but also by our inability to determine the cause. “Since the work of Rosenow nnd others, however, we are fast realizing Jhat a small collection of bacteria may be responsible for the joint condition, and we ure also discovering the fact that the only way to accomplish much good is to attack the primary focus. “At present the capable physician is no longer content to give antipyretldcs in expectation of a marvelous cure. If a patient now gives a history of chronic and painful joints, the first thought of his physician should be fochl infection. To determine the presence or absence~of suctr a comllllotlTs not atways an easy task, and outside aid, particularly the Roentgen ray, will have to be called upon. Tonsils and Teeth. “The tonsils may be diseased, or, What is very common, there may be infection at the roots of the teeth. This last is a frequent condition and may be present without local indications. It is also interesting to note that many inflammatory conditions of the eye are directly referable to tlental infections. This has long been recognized by the laity, but the idea was considered to be mere superstition by tlie medical high priests. “After removal of the focal infection the patient’s rapid recovery, in many instances, is little short of marvelous.a!n most cases no further treatment seems to be necessary, thq joints cease to be painful, and the convalescent goes on his way rejoicing. “That bacteria in the foci cause the distant lesion has been proved so many timefc that there can now be no doubt as to the causal relation. The isolated organisms, when injected into experimental animals, show a special affinity for tissues similar to those involved in the original instance. A joint will be attacked, an eye become inyolvedy,even" the~appen< lix will succumb, according to the affinity shown in the first case. “The more thoroughly the matter Is investigated, the clearer it becomes that focal infection seeins to explain satisfactorily certain of the hitherto unsolved itroblems of medicine.”

DOG BURIES STOLEN MUFF

While Owner Seeks It, Pointer Digs Hole for Fur Piece She Picked Up in Yard.

Wlnsted, Conn. —Bess, a black and white pointer, owned by Col. F. M. Chapin of Pine Meadow, entered the yard of Wilbur Deining of that village where a black muff 15 inches square was out for an airing after being taken out from a cedar chest. The dbg carried the muff into Frtink Holmes’ yard and partly concealed it under the leaves when search was being made by members of the Deming family, Bess took the muff home and, after digging a hole in newly-plowed land, covered the muff with dirt. The searching,, party finally reached the Chapin premises and recovered the muff, which was undamaged.

STOP WAR DRAFT “DOPING”

British Government to Punish Men Who Drug Themselves to Escape Army Service.

London. —It will now be an offense to injure oneself in order to escape military service. An amendment has been made to the defense of the realm regulations, stating that any man in the reserve forces who,' when ordered to report for medical examination, feigns any disease or infirmity shall be guilty of an offense. 4 * ' The amendment in effect states that if a man produces any disease or ihflrmity or maims or injures himself, or takes any drug likely to render him temporarily or permanently unfit for military service, he is gbilty of an offense.

Placed Belfry on Wrong End.

St.. Clairsville, O.—The carpenters erecting the new Florence Methodist Episcopal church in Pinch Run placed the belfry on the rear instead of the front of the building. Members are peeved. The mistake may be rectified before the dedication, which will be the latter end of the month.

FIND A SNAKE IN BANANAS

Attacked toy Whole Office Force, terpent Is Cornered and Commits Bulcide. Tacoma, Wash.—-A well behaved, beautifully-colored, five-foot Porto Rican snake, species unknown, which had smuggled his wny some 5.000 miles In a bunch of bananas from his tropic home, arrived In Tacoma. Blit Hall, driver for Hammond & Co., packed a bunch of bananas to the scales. After weighing them he saw something that looked like a peculiar leaf In the top of the bunch. Bill stuck his finger down and the leaf turned into a big, red, hungry mouth. Bill let out a yell thut sounded like a steamboat whistle, and ran. The whole office force, armed with various weapons, advanced to the attack and the snake dropped on the floor and headed for the wharf. When surrounded he colled and was ready for battle. Seeing his chance for escape cut off the snake plunged his fangs into his own body, gave a final wriggle and turned over stone dead. . ... u

HORSE DIGS UP A PURSE

Clears Up Theft That Has Been a Mystery for More Than a Year.

Beaver Falls, Pa.—A. mystery of a year’s standing has been cleared up. Recently Justice of the Peace W. H. McElvaney of New Galilee received a pocketbook containing checks and railroad tickets from Mayor Christopher of Lisbon, O. Last year Justice McElvaney attended the Columbiana county fair in Lisbon and reported to the authorities thut his pocketbook had been stolen from his pocket. Mrs. MeEJVaney and a woman friend saw the thief Jake the pocketbook and the following dayvfho man was arrested in Smith’s Ferry, Pa., Mrs. McElvaney identifying him. The grand jury released the prisoner for luck of evidence. A few days ago J. B. Lyther of Lisbon tied his horse to a post in the fair grounds. The horse dug up the pocketbook. ■ •

OLD MINE WON AT CARDS

Thirty Years Later Claim Shows Prospects of Producing a Large Fortune.

Helena, Mont. —One wintry night some thirty years ago a group of men sat about a card table in Helena. It was late when one man shoved in his last “white” —and lost. Demanding one more try, he offered a mining claim. Not a gambler in the house would give the desperate stranger so much as a chip for his claim —none but “Swede Sam” Wallin. The miner lost. The land which became Wallin’s as a result of the night at cards lay in the Blossburg mining district, near Helena. As the years of three decades passed, its dirt remained unnoticed. Lately Wallin’s claim may have grown to beworth-$40(1,000. A prospector struck a rich vein of ore in the Blossburg district, running into Wallin’s claim.

MILLIONAIRE FISH MERCHANT.

Photo shows Alexander Paladinl, the oldest fish merchant on the Pacific coast. He has been in the fish business for nearly 65 years, and during all this time he has bucked the fish trust and worked without' vacation until he is known among his many acquaintances as the millionaire fishman. Life would not be worth living to Paladini if he could iot don his rough rags and work in the fishery with the seven younger Paladlnis.

FOOD 65 PER CENT HIGHER

General Cost of Living in England 46 Per Cent Greater Than Year Ago.

London.—The average increase of retail prices for the principal articles of food between July, 1914, and September, 1916, has been 65 per cent Including rent clothing, fuel and light the rise in the cost of living has been found by the food prices committee to be 45 per cent In comparison with a year ago it shows an average increase of 20 per cent w *

“INTO THE HEART"

Righteousness Which Alone Can Satisfy God Must Be Perfect in Its Purity. “Except yonr righjeemsness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribe* and Phariseesr'ye shall 111 no wlm enter into.ifie Kingdom of Heaven."— Matt. 5:20. A strange doctrine this must have been to those who looked upon scribes and Pharisees as foremost ih religion. The scribes were the mostnoted teachers of the law, the Pharisees the most noted professors of It. It had been said among the Jews, ft but two people were to enter heaven, one would be a Pharisee, the other a scribe. What a surprise, then, to hear from the lips of the great Prophet of Nazareth that “except your rlghteonsnsaa shall exceed”—go beyond, be better than —“the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall In no case enter Into the kingdom of heaven.” Wherein did the righteousness of the Pharisees and the scribes fall short? What was lacking? It did not go far enough. They were extremely careful to observe some of the laws or parts of the law, while they fell short In others. And It did not go deep enough. That was the chief lack. It did not penetrate beneath the shell of the outward life. Holiness Above All Things. But the law of God, properly understood, reaches deep Into the heart with all Its desires, njotives, and thoughts. The law of God demands holiness in the inner sanctuary ns well as in the outer courts. To drive this home the Savior adduces, by way of Illustration, several commandments of the decalogue. “Ye have heard It said” —The traditional Interpretation confined the , application of these commands to the actual crimes. Our Lord shows that It extends deeper—lnto the heart. In the sight of him who searches the Inner fountain of life, the evil thought, the wicked wish, and the unclean de* sire are as guilty as the deeds. And so the only rightoou.<ness that can please God Is the one that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees; that conforms to the law not merely In oatward deed and aetlon, but also In the Inner recesses of the heart with its desires, motives, and thoughts. And this conformity to the law must be complete, without any violation whatsoever. Accordingly the Lord closes this section of his sermon on the Mount with the words recorded at the end of this chapter : “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is In heaven is perfect.” Perfection, a 100 per cent holiness. Is the only righteousness that can please the Lord. But Is this doctrine not sufficient to drive a man to despair? For where on this terrestrial globe Is the man who has ever succeeded in working out for himself and of himself a perfect rightness? “There Is not a Just man upon earth, that doeth good and slnneth not” (Eccl. 7:20), says the Preacher Inspired by the Omniscient Spirit of God. If God’s message t» humanity were confined to the law no one might hope to stand before the Omniscient One and receive the reward of eternal life by virtue of his own self-made, fllthy-rag ’righteousness. The sinner must wander to his grave condemned —lost. * Savior’s Gracious Promise. But. thank God, we have from the lips of Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles also the sweet Gospel message, which proclaims to unrighteousness, condemned, lost mankind the Joyful tidings, “Unto you Is bom a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” And so what man could not do the Savior, which Is Christ the Lord, did. “Think not,” says he, “that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.’* The Savior here assures ns that the purpose of his coming was to fulfill the law —that is, fill It full. The law with all Its demands and penalties may be considered as a vessel. Man had been trying to fill It full by his own efforts, but unsuccessfully. All have come far short of the mark. Hence we are all under the condemnation of God and his broken-law—last. But behold! “The Son of Man is come to seek and to sa|ve that which Is lost” And how did he save them? “I am come ... to fulfill” the law. He came, and with his atoning life and death filled it full to the brim; full, so that not one .word of the law remained unfilled, and not one penalty unsatisfied. He worked out a perfect righteousness.—Rev. H. P. Eckhardt

Work and Worship.

We may serve God as truly in our work as in our worship. While Paul was in Corinth he was engaged at his trade of tent-making and preaehed as he had opportunity. Both alike he did for the glory of God. It is the will of Jehovah that man should work. “Six days shalt thou labor.** Thus our daily employment Is an appointed means of carrying out our Maker’s purpose. The Hindus, at one of their festivals, pay divine honors to their tools. The carpenter brings his saw and plane, the blacksmith his hammer, the farmer his rude plow; and bowing down they worship them. Not on rare occasion* bnt every day the spirit of adoration should be associated with our toil. Labor Is a part of the divine life. When we know the full extent at any danger, and can accustom our eye* to It a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. —Burke.