Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1916 — Page 3

Greenland Ultimately Must Belong to United States for Use as Naval Base

By REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY. U. S. N.

“ Would some of the objections voiced in regard to the present treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies be met if the treaty provisions as to Greenland were reversed, and the bargain took the form of Denmark transferring to us her rights in Greenland, and giving us the Danish West Indies and Greenland for $25,000,000 ? Will turning Greenland over to Denmark now mean our purchase of it later, or will obtaining it now mean closing the incident and placing Greenland where it must ultimately belong? A North Pacific naval base for the United States in the Aleutian Archipelago is a recognized possibility. Why not a similar base in the North Atlantic? Cape Farewell in Greenland is but little north of Sitka. It is in the same latitude as Petrograd, Christiania, Great Britain’s naval base in the Orkneys, and the northern entrance to the North sea, which £reat Britain has patrolled with her warships incessantly now, cummer and winter, for two years. There are fjords in southern Greenland which would hold the entire navy, with narrow, deep water —impregnable entrances. Thirty hours’ steaming due south from Cape Farewell by 35-knot war craft would put them in the transatlantic routes midway between New York and the British channel. With the rapid shrinking of distances in this age of speed and invention, Greenland may be of crucial importance to use in the future. Greenland is the largest island in the world. Its total length from Gape Farewell, its southern extremity in 60 degrees north latitude, to Cape Morris K. Jesup, its northern extremity in 83V 2 degrees north latitude, is in round numbers 1,500 miles, almost exactly the same as the length of the United States on the 97th meridian, from the mouth of the Bio Grande to where our northern boundary crossedthe Bed river of the north. The greatest width of Greenland is about the same as the distance from New York to St. Ixiuis. Becords of the state department show that when the proposal to purchase the Danish West Indies came up in 1868 the suggestion was made that not only Greenland but Iceland, another Danish north Atlantic island, be included. ,a

Business Men of Today Have Abandoned the Old Idea That Might Makes Right

(T.™™... Board of Director*. Usited State* Steel Corporation

There is a principle in the subject of co-operation, private, public, national and international, which has become necessary to the highest success. The general sentiment throughout the world is opposed to the old notion that might makes right; that the stronger power is justified in crushing the weaker out of existence; that an individual or a collection of individuals, as long as the rules of law are observed, may ignore the rights of others. It is because of this fact that modern laws have been enacted to protect the weak. The old, hard business lines which were altogether selfish and arbitrary, are giving way to the later methods which are considerate and fair. As a matter of course we all realize the necessity of being practical. The ethics of business do not require us to neglect our customers or ourselves. We must get our fair share of the trade; but we are not required to misrepresent, to deceive our competitors, to go outside of our proper and natural spheres of operationsj to suddenly and unreasonably change our prices in special places and on particular occasions, or to resort to any of the old tricks of the trade which were intended to harass, demoralize and bankrupt our rivals. We can be practical and successful and at the same time fair, frank and gentlemanly toward our competitor. It is probable the federal trade commission may be of much benefit to business men, depending upon the disposition of its members. So far as we have had opportunity to observe, this commission is favorable to business success. I would like to have its authority enlarged so as to permit it to advise in advance if inquiry should be made as to a contemplated action; but even under present conditions the commission should be of real service. Ido not believe in governmental paternalism or management; but I do approve of governmental supervision, and 1 favor patriotic, intelligent, generous operations by private individuals—in cooperation between officials and private interests.

Every Court Should Have Alienist to Aid in Detecting Mental Defectives

When an epileptic, insane or feeble-minded person is committed to our penal institutions such person is not benefited, and his presence is a great drawback, and interferes with discipline and industrial efficiency of the institution. > • It is not an easy task always to make a correct differential diagnosis in these cases even by those scientifically trained, and the need for proper treatment is so emphatic that it seems but the and humanity that the judges, charged as they are with the grave responsibility of committing these social misfits to some institution, and depriving -them of their liberties, should avail themselves of every possible means to avoid so grievous an error as committing one of these unfortunates to a penal institution instead of a hospital, as is too frequently the case. Judges and prosecutors would think it presumptuous for a layman, or even a physician, to undertake to interpret the law, and so it would be. Is this not equally true of the judge or prosecutor who assumes to correctly interpret the obscure symptoms of epilepsy, insanity and feeblemindedness? Persons suffering from epilepsy, insanity or feeble-mirjded-ness in some one of their various forms may be both dangerous and wholly irresponsible, and may take on all the activities of a violent, willful criminal. These are the cases incapable of sustaining themselves in the field of industrial competition. 1Two conclusions very naturally suggest themselves. First, court should be provided with official alienists on sufficient salary that they would not need nor be allowed to do private practice and would devote their entire time in aiding the courts in recognizing such cases. Second, special institutions for the proper, permanent care of the feeble-minded, regardless of age; additional facilities for the care of the criminal insane and all epileptics should be provided.

By ELBERT H. GARY

By DR. DAVID C. PEYTON

Superintendent Indiana State Reformatory

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, INU.

NOTED BERLIN BEAUTY

Tatjana Yrrah, Berlin’s most noted beauty, has arrived In this country and tells of food conditions In the German capital. Miss Yrrah, who is a noted screen star, has been forced to leave her profession In Germany because of the film shortage there. “On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays the eating of meat is prohibited,” says Miss Yrrah. “On Tuesdays and Thursdays, meat may be eaten, but no other fats. On Saturdays and Sundays one may e_at what he Wishes, if he has the price,” she continued. “Chicken now costs $1.25 a pound, aiid then it isn’t good, because no butter with which to cook it can be obtained on meat days. For my part ham Is the best tiling on the German menu now. That costs $2 a pound now. There is no dearth of duck, fish and vegetables.”

NEW DISEASE IN WESTERN FRONT

“Aspiro-Chetose Ictero-Hemorr-hagi(Jiie,” Is What the Doc- - tors Call It. MEN CALL IT “YELLOWNESS” It Is Believed to Be Caused by the Action of Rainwater on Shell Cases —Effective Serum Has Been Found. Paris. —A new and deadly disease which has appeared In the trenches along the western front, particularly in the Somme area, has been defined. It Is caused by soldiers drinking water which collects in shell holes, and in nearly all cases has proved fatal. A serum has been discovered, however, which Is expected to save many men afflicted with this “acute jaundice” or “yellowness,” as it has been erroneously called for some months. In the Russo-Japanese war appeared the first cases of “aspiro-chetose ictero-hemorrhagique,” as the disease is technically termed. The sufferers assumed a yellowish, Jaundice appearance, and usually within three to five days were dead. Symptoms were particularly hard to note in the case of Japanese sufferers because of their naturally yellowish cast of skin; when hundreds of Russian troops were stricken with it during the battle of Mukden it was realized that a new disease had been encountered. Almost before the doctors and surgeons had time to get down to work =on this mysterious disease, however, the Japanese had stretched the Russian line to a breaking point, snapped It, and won the battle and the w3r. Cases in Russo-Japanese War. “Yellowness’ did not appear In any degree of frequency in the present war until the Somine offensive was well under way. The Champagne offensive did not last long enough to produce the disease, it lk believed, and the French did not classify the malady under Its proper terms if they encountered it at all at Verdun. But when dozens and scores and then hundreds of British troops came down with It at the Somme the British doctors concentrated on the peculiar disease. They sent guinea pigs inoculated with blood from "patients suffering from the deadly disease to the Pasteur institute here. Drs. Louis Martin and Auguste Pettite took the matter in hand and began elaborate experiments. They received further reports on the disease as it raged on the British front. Fifty sufferers were concentrated In one hospital near Amiens. Doctor Inada of the Japanese School of Medicine, who had worked on the strange malady when it appeared in the Mikado’s ranks before Mukden, aided the British and French doctors in studying its cause and course. « The Symptoms. Men suffering from the disease first complained of severe headaches, then repeated strokes of fever and intense Jaundice, when the skin took on a vivid yellow color. , In many cases there was hemorrhage. An isolated virus was finally ob-

talned from the infected guinea pig and this was used on rabbits and horses. From these experiments the doctors agreed on a solution, the strength of which was Judged proper for a man. Now all suspected cases are given the serum Immediately. It is believed that the action of rainwater on shell cases Hnd other metal fragments usually found In shell holes, as well as the presencfe often of putrifylng flesh, causes the generation of a peculiar form of poison. Then when soldiers, trapped In these shell holes by barrage Are, drink the water they are immediately stricken. “Yellowness” Is said to be the first new disease directly discovered and classified In this war, as, although It made Its first appearance In the Husso-Japanese conflict. It was never definitely classified.

TOOLS USED BY EGYPTIANS

Unearthed by a Scientist and Said to Be More Than 40,000 Years Old. Philadelphia, Pa.—Stone Implements and household tools, estimated to be 40,000 years old, forming part of a collection owned by Meremptah, son and successor to Raineses the Great, 1,300 years before Christ, have been unearthed In the prehistoric monarch’s palace at Memphis, ancient capital of Egypt. Advices telling of these Important discoveries have reached the University museum here from Dr. Charles S. Fisher, lender of the Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., expedition to Egypt. In a full report, Doctor Fisher, describes wandering through the spacious halls of the great palace that for centuries lay buried In ancient Memphis. Gold ornaments, scarabs, vessels of various kinds and vases were found intact, just as they must have been when the lords of those days departed. Many of the relics found, says Doctor Fisher, date back to the Stone Age. Traces of a fire that must have ravished the palace are found on every side, according to the archeologist.

DOG IS TRUE TO HORSE

Latter Died, but Former Watched Over Body Until K Was Buried. Hood River, Ore.—Chuck, the black cur dog of P. Reed’s family, on the Columbia river highway, west of the city, Is possessed of remarkable loyalty to his friends. Several days ago, when one of the big team of horses driven by Mr. Reed, and a boon companion of Chuck from his days of puppyhood, became sick and died in the field, the dog refused to leave the side of his dead friend. The harness was removed from the dead horse and taken by the master to the barn. Still Chuck lingered, lying quietly by the side of his fallen chum. Donald Nickelson, a University of Oregon medical student, who was spending his summer vacation near, carried food to the dog the day following the horse’s death. Chuck refused to eat, and despite a former reputation for friendship, attacked Mr. Nickelson on his approach. That night the dog w>as led home by Mr. Reed at the end of a rope. During the night the rope was chewed In two and Chuck was again found beside the horse, where he remained until the animal was buried.

SOLVES HIGH COST PROBLEM

Champion Hen Gets Into Bed With Kids and Lays Twenty-Five Eggs in Thirty Days. Chicago.—Tony Marino, who live* in the 1100 block on Milton avenue boasted to the neighbors that he had found a way to solve the problem of the high cost of eggs. , “I no buy eggs any more,” he laughed. “I gotta de champion hen. Margarita, she lay twenty-five eggs in one month.” The hen is kept in one of the four basement rooms where Tony and his family live. The basement is dark and the hen is tied to a bed post. “Dat hen she very busy,” said Tony. “She get right in bed with the kids and laya de egg at night.” At the present price of eggs Tony’s hen has earned one dollar during the month he has owned her.

NOT A “TANK” SO IT CAME TO GRIEF

This motoV car ran into the range of German Ore on the western front, and not being a “tank” it came to grief.

3,000 AMERICANS IN MEXICO

Only This Number Now Rsmain of ths 100,000 Thers Before Msdero Revolution. I.nredo. Tex. —Barely 3,000 Americans remain In the Republic of Mexico, as compared with the 100.000 or more who lived In that country prior to the Madero revelation In 1911. These figures were complied here by an American who concluded a ten weeks’ tour of the republic at this border point. His estimate and distribution of the American citlxens below the bonier Is: Mexico City, approximately 300 Americans; Tampico, approximately 900; Pnnueo oil field district, near Tampico, 200; scattered through Sonora state, 350; scattered through Chihuahua state, 250; State of Nuevo Leon, Including Monterey, 100; Guadalajara, 10; state of Pueblo, 00; Queretaro and Guanajuato, 20; Ton reon, 30; Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 25. Five hundred additional Americans, he said, are scattered through various other states and cities of Mexico, mostly at points remote from railroads, where they are engaged In ranching or mining.

MAN AND SON RIDE FISH

Mounted on Back of Forty-Two-Pound Catfish for Half an Hour. Wichita, Kan.—C.” A. Whitney of Route 9, on the West side, and his slx-teen-year-old son rode around on the hack of a 42-pound catfish for half an hour In the Clilckaskla river near Drury the other day. They finally landed the fish and brought It to Wichita. Mr. Whitney and his son have been camping for the last month. .Neighbors told them of seeing several times a monster fish In the river. Mr. Whitney, wading Into the river, felt around until he located the fish. He got one hand In the catfish’s gills and jumped on Its back. The fish darted forward and whipped around In the water until It was about to throw Its rider off. Mr* Whitney’s son rushed to his father’s aid and climbed on top of the latter’s back to weigh down tffe catfish. For half an hour tne two men rode the fish around, struggling to get It to the bank.-They finally succeeded.

'DON’T ARGUE WITH HUSBAND’

It was a strange party recently given in honor of the seventy-fifth birthday of Countess Magri, better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb, who is less than three feet high, in her home in Middleboro, near Boston, Mass. As a special favor the guest of honor and her husband, Count Magri, played several musical selections for the guests. Countess Magri, the tiniest lady in the world, was married to the count in 1883, after the death of her first husband, Gen. Tom Thumb, and now there is not a happier couple in all New England. She explains her peaceful married life in this way: “Don’t argue with your husband. Let him have his own way—but win him to your way when he doesn’t know it.” Countess Magri has been before the public for 00 years fe traveling around the world a score of times in that period. The count is slightly taller than his diminutive wife, so she calls him her “big” husband.

All GOT ON BOARD

MONKEYS INDUCED TOPERS TO CLIMB WATER WAQON. Disciples of Bacchus "Swore Off* Strong Liquor Whert New York Case Was Invaded by a Swarm of Playful Bimlans. When It cornea to furnishing a “never again” incentive, pink lizards witk green eyes have nothing on the ordinary or garden variety of take it from divers erstwhile customer* of a case down Broadway, remarks the New York Telegraph. The aforementioned former disciples of Bacchus tried out the treatment on a recent afternoon and know whereof they speak. It was along about three o’clock that Mr. and Mrs. George McFadden and Mrs. E. T. Connaughty walked up the street past the case In question, when Mrs. McFaddeu's attention was attracted to a vendoi of animals who offered his wares from the curb./ Mrs. McFadden already possessed a parrot and a dog, both of which she keeps In her apartments, but a menagerie is never so large there Isn’t room for one more. Accordingly, when she spied several tiny monkeys peeping out from various pockets of the vender she Instantly decided she must have one forthwith for her very own. Friend husband agreed and the salesman tendered the most diminutive specimen of bis collection. Ills hand proved a bit unsteady, however, and the young animal was dropped to the sidewalk, where it set up a terrific howling that galvanized all his sisters and brothers into Instant action. The animals sprang from their hiding places in the vender’s coat and made for the nearest haven of refuge, which chanced to be the case. Nearly two dozen patrons of the place were leaning in various attitudes of ease about the mahoguny bar as the monkeys entered. The first man to see the animals glanced a second time In a startled manner and then turned hastily to his neighbor to loudly discuss the weather, lest the other should notice his strange manner. When several of those present had noticed the Invasion, however, the first sightseer gained a bit more courage and he was able to ask in a rather squeaky voice: “Say, fellows, do any of you see what I do?” Upon being assured they did, he gained more courage and turned to tuke a second look. By this time, however, the band of Intrepid invaders had begun to feel more at home and two of them were already making free with the bar, while a third was getting Into intimute acquaintance with a vast >array of cut glassware that flanked the shiny mirror behind the mahogany. One of the glasses was accidentally, upset and the sounding of crashing glass seemed to unloose all the pent-up energy In the bodies of the animals. A wide sweep of the paw sent a dozen expensive glasses following the first one and his brethren turned to with a will to help out on the work of demolition. Before the vendor could corral his pets, the case resembled a set for a Kansas cyclone scene, and the two dozen patrons were In full flight. Finally the animals were collected and the damage estimated —but the patrons did not return. They were down at the corner holding a solemn conclave. “How about it?” one of them asked his fellows. “We’re with you,” they all intoned. “Never again!” “

That Treacherous Omelet

For some time, so runs Le Matin, many Parisian merchants noted the disagreeable fact that eggs were being subtracted regularly and with mathematical precision from their cases la the merchandise station of VangirardL An inquiry finally localized the place where the numerous thefts had taken place, and the surprise of the police was great to note that the perpetrator of the greedy deed carried out his dangerous scheme in the station proper, right under their very noses. Although the strictest surveillance was exercised, all attempts to secure the culprit were vain. A few days ago an employee, one Jerome Gennekerque by name, having finished his daily work started for home. As he was leaving the station, the “bon homme” had the ill luck to fall. Immediately an unsightly yellow stream treacherously proceeded from the pockets of his jacket, thus proclaiming the unfortunate Jerome as the pilferer of the coveted edible. He is now' taking a prolonged rest at: the “depot”

Officer's Daring Cost Life.

An accident during bombing practice, which caused the death of Lieut. George Stanley Charles Baker, twenty years oldr of the Duke of Corn wail’s light infantry, was investigated at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, says the London Chronicle. , j|jjj The young officer, who had been to the front, was in charge of a bombing class, when the last of the party, a young soldier- named Boyle, in throwing his last bomb, failed to clear the parapet. Lieutenant Baker endeavored to catch the grenade when it rebounded, but let it slip and while trying to regain it the missile burst and- killed him. ’ Sergeant Instructor Allen, who grabbed Boyle and threw him into safety, said Lieutenant Baker had time to reach safety if he had not attempted to throw the bomb clear. He had successfully thrown away a bomb dropped, in a similar way the previous day.