Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1917 — Page 2

Russia Developing Own Industries But Still Offers Big Field to U. S. Trade

Head ol Department ot Slavonic Language*, Columbia University

Russia is bound to become a great indTislmrnation, ]>erhaps a rival of our own. As Russia .increases her power of production she is going more and more to. protect her own industry. Still, there remains an enormous opportunity for this country. Russia needs so many things and 3MKso many that for years she cannot begin to make them all herself. For exafftple. they are still using the old wooden plow throughout the land. For modern American farm implements there is an almost limitless field in Russia. x - Then the Russians need telephones. Moat Americans probably do not realize it, but Russia has a really excellent telephone system. Next to Sweden’s, it comes nearest that of the United States, which is the best in the world. But during her Nihilist troubles before the war Russia rather frowned on private telephones. But the war 1 las practical Ivystopped tliesOfoubles. because all the people, even the Jfivyg., have united against the foe. — 1 These are two specific things’-the Russians"n€gtU There .arg_anjLJnimber of others. Thev want pmK ff^^fe r clocks Sad machines for making machinery. They want machinery for making motors and motor vehicles. --There is. 1 think, only one actually Russian make of motor on the market. Russia is bound to beeb'ine a great industrial nation —perhaps a rival of ours, How can America share in the trade her growth is bound to bring, and in the Russian trade*, which Germany lost when the war began? The only~way to do it is to educate ourselves in the Russian language and in Russian commercial methods. The most important feature of the latter is the fact that Russians are accustomed to long credits. The Russian thinks nothing of letting a bill lie unpaid for six months, and to let it wait a vear or eighteen months is not uncommon. The Germans knew that, and thev adapted their trading policy to this Russian practice. The fact that the Russians pay their bills in the end is sufficiently attested by the enormous German trade with, that country. The Germans are very ca mmu s Im s i ness pi’ople. an d won Id not Trade with people whb'<lid not pay their bills. . . . - - _ . j^ US j,j a -- g - Traf } e w j t h Germany .amounted io 000- annually before the war started. A lot of that is going begging now. It is up to Americans to grasp their opportunity.

Poverty and Consequent III Health As Factors in the Propagation of Crime

One cannot meet Thomas Mott Osborne or study the work that he has done in the reform of prison conditions at Sing Sing without feeling that society is making an awful mess of its efforts to solve the problem of the criminal. Osborne has shown that the convicts he hasicome to know so well are. in wanr-resper-tSTTmrefi the same as the generaTrun of people outside of prisons. Others are more like irresponsible,children than the vicious individuals we commonly consider criminals to be. Some time ago a lawyer who has had a great deal of experience-with criminals expressed the positive belief that crime is largely an expression of ill health. He stated that the average criminal is fourteen pounds under normal weight. He said, in part, that the ability to resist crime is physical and. depends largely on health. With ill health or malnutrition in the young, the first thing to give way is tire power of self-control. Poverty causes ill health; ill health causes crime; accidental mutilation creates an aptitude for crime; neglected youth and education cause crime. In 1870 a Scotch prison physician said that it is frequently a difficult problem for the expert in mental diseases to determine “where badness ends and madness begins. The inmates of asylums and of prisons are so nearly allied that thin partitions do their walls divide.’’ In our WiKmfrsm~~pfis~dh it has been found that the inmates lare uncommonly subject to degenerative diseases which cause a breaking down of mental and moral I It is a ,are especially -.-U-fee »f. thoir general lawless tendency or is responsible for breaking down the ability to resist evil tendencies, is frequently a debat&hlp^uestion in an 7 individua 1 instance. In either case, however, a health problem is presented, the solution of which is sufficiently difficult and sufficiently important to warrant the employment of the most skillful medical brains. And while it is quite possible that mental-disease experts may fall .down on the job, also, the evidence that .crime is a manifestation of disease, rather than a condition whidli stands alone, is sufficient to commend the consideration

Newspaper Most Potent of the Three Instruments That Mold Public Opinion

By REV. FRANK L. LOVELAND

The founders of our republic.painfully learned and plainly saw that only by a free press and free speech could w'e have a free republic. •J If public opinion be wielded in a wrong direction through the newspapers, the church cannot makeAgints as_ lasi asT vice and ignorance can. make sinners. So we__no..longer-look---on The bimk, thebusiness house, as private institutions, but as builders of the national ideals, makers There are three instruments, that mold public’opinion—the church,the school and the newspaper, amMhe-greatest of these is the newspaper.. The church reaches its handful of people twice a~week; the school reaches its larger group five times a week, but the newspaper reaches its thousands daily. Lesp than one-fourth of the people go to church, less than one-fourth graduate from the common schools, and only'2 per cent graduate from college; but thousands find their A-hurch. their college and their culture through the newspapers, for 99 pereent- read the newspapers, periodicals and magazines, and more >so here than any other country on earth,. / - ' ■*■■■■ ... . : r . In the days'-when I boy the newspaper was the expression of the editorial opinion of one man, as instance Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett.. But now the editor is a supervisor, and the skilled reporter is read more than the writer of editorials. There are today 30,00(1 newspapers in this'country,. 3,000 of them dailies. There are 10,000,000,000 copied in circulation annually, or more than one hundred, papers for every man, woman and child in Americ*.

By PROF. JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE

By DR. H. E. DEARHOLT

Director University of Wisconsin Health Bureau

of Indianapolis, Ind.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN,. RENSSELAER, IND.

KEEPS THE LOCATION OF SHIPS SECRET

Uncle Sam Chary About Telling People Where His Fighting Vessels Are. PRESENT STRENGTH OF NAVY There Are 359 Vessels of All Kihds Fit for Service and 53 Vessels of Different Classes Under Construction—Recruiting for Navy. By EDWARD B. CLARK, (Washington Correspondent of Western Newspaper Union.) Washington.—Uncle Sum makes no. secret of the number and thekindof ships which he has for the protection of his possessions. Just now, however, Uncle Sain is chary about telling concerning their whereabouts might be heard by someone “who would know what to do with the Information.” _ Within two years, and-possibly under the spur of .need, the United States government will have a good many more men of war=of various-degrees of offensive and defensive strength than it has today. Next year’sr naval apprbprlatiori bill probably will make provision for a total expenditure of $532,000,000. Today there are 359 .vessels of all kinds fit for fighting or other service in behalf of the colors which they carry. In addition to these there are 53 vessels of different classes under present construction. To these must be added 63 ships authorized and for which appropriations have been made. Then again must be added the shops for which congress made provision in the last hours of the present session. There are 14 battleships of the first class now in commission, and five are under construction, while the building of four more already has been authorized. Nowadays they call these firstclass battleships, “battleships, single caliber.” The second-class battleships are called "battleships, mixed caliber.” Of these latter there are 23 fit for service.

Is Guarded Secret. In a general way the public knows that so many of our battleships are in the Atlantic and that so many of them ~are Tn Hm Nb bne~today, however, is allowed to say definitely, even If he knows. Just where the Atlantic fleet is sailing or harboring. It can be said, because the information is public matter, that a good many of our battleships of the second class are in harbors along the Atlantic coast, Where they are being made ready' for possible hard service, —TortnyThere are no battle cruisers bT the kind possessed by both the British and the German navy, carried on our list of active-service ships. Four battle cruisers, however, already have been authorized, and the money has been appropriated for -their construction. The time when they will be ready for cruising has not been disclosed.—Of other ships of all classes the United States has today In the service or soon to be ready for the service these vessels: Armored cruisers, 9; first-class cruisers. 4; second-class cruisers, 8; third-class cruisers. 16; monitors, 7; destroyers. 78; coast torpedo vessels, 16; torpedo boats, 17; submarines, 105: tenders to torpedo vessels, 8 ; gunhoats, t-ansportn. 5; nnnnly shins. 5; hospital ships. 2; fuel ships, 23; converted yachts, 14 ; tugs. 49; special type vessels, 9; and vessels unserviceable for war purposes, 20. To these must bp added the ships provided* for in the present naval appropriation bill : Battleships. 3 ; battle cruisers, 3; destroyers, 15; destroyer

WIDOW OF LINCOLN PARTNER

-.Mrs. B. M, Cox, wife of Capt. K. M. Cox, who commanded a company of Illinois volunteers in the ■Civil war, who has applied for a pension in San Francisco. Mrs. Cox said t.hat he? husband died in ISI6 -and she thought she would never need to apply for a pension, but circumstances have changed. Her husband was a law partner of Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln was a struggling lawyer in a little Illinois town.

tender, 1; submarines, 18; submarine tender, 1: The Navy League of the United States furnishes the following Informationconcerning recruiting for the navy: "In the summer of 1916 there were 53.Q00 enlisted men in the navy. Congress then authorized an increase Up to 77,956. But despite the efforts of the department and its officers, the en-listed-force is now only 53,500 —or 24,50|feshort of even our peace-time \-onipWent. Not only is the Atlantic fleet short of seamen, but the 16 battleships in the reserve force of our eastern coast have only about 25 per cent of their needed crews. “In recruiting the navy competes for men against Industrial concerns and civil employment, where high wages now prevail. Further,4nen in clvil life. do not kimw -t4u>- jmvy. and shun it as being mysterious and forbidding. They do not k now the ad vantages and the pleasure it.offers. Recruiting officers ■are handicapped by being strangers In the district where the work takes them —and our people are incredulous to the offers of strangers.” It is the intention of the Navy league, acting with the sanction of the na.vy department, to ask its members to aid the work of recruiting for the navy, throughout the country by supplying Information concerning just what the navy does for young men and tire advantages it offers them in peace times. Of course it is expected that in war time the ordinary patriotism of the people will supply the recruits that are needed.

It seems likely as a result of legislation that a large sum will be put at the disposal of the president to be used if necessity arises. The legislaAla., a quantity of letters and papers tfon reads like this: “To enable the president to secure the expeditious delivery of materials, equipment and munitions, and to secure the expeditious construction of ships authorized, for the purchase or construction of such ships, torpedo-boat destroyers, submarines, submarine chasers, and such other naval small craft, including aircraft and ammunition for all of said vessels and for each and every purpose connected therewith as the president may direct to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the president, $150,000,000, or so much thereof as it may be necessary, and to to be immediately available.” The big guns and the general armament of our naval vessels have been made from time to time a matter of public Information, but today there is no strdiigdeslre on -the part of the United States government that undue publicity be given to the strength of Its “ships in armor plate for defense and in batteries of guns for offense.

SALESMAN WINS BIG FORTUNE

Goes to Russia on Commission and Returns With Orders Totaling ’ Memphis, Tenn. —After having gone to Russia to secure orders for American shoes, Arthur S. Biggerstaff of this city has returned with orders totaling more than $2,000,000. . ’ When the salesman suggested an Invasion of Russia the house he represented looked with disfavor on the "plan arid declined to advance him expense rfibney. He jnade an agreement with the Tibuse that he would go at his own expense, receiving in return a percentage on all the business he secured. His profits amount to almost $500,000. Mr. Biggerstaff will return to Russia in the spring. He says American manufacturers could secure an almost unlimited amount of business in Russia if they were more optimistic and willing to make the proper effort to get it.

LEATHER PRICES STAY HIGH

Use of Substitutes in Manufacture of Footwear to Show a Marked Increase. Boston. —A marked increase In the nse of substitutes for leather in the manufacture of footwear, such as fiber soles and cloth uppers, is predicted by leather shoe authorities .of New England. a/ Shoe ninnu facthrers express the opinion that leather prices are not likely to decline from the present high points in the next few months. Alfred W. Donovan, chairman of the state boy rd of labor and. industries, and a shoe manufacturer, declares the utilization of so-called substitutes is a natural development of the shoe mmfacturlngindustry. __

STORK TURNS IN TRIPLETS

Peekskill Gardener, His Family Suddenly Increased to Ten, Says “I Should Worry.” Peekskill, N. Y. —Unconcerned about the high cost of living, N. A. Vlctorlne of Katonah, near Peekskill, jubilantly announced to friends that the stork made three trips to his home and left robust baby triplets. ■ » Although he earns only $2 a day as a gardener, yictorine, when asked how he was support ten children on his small pay. remarked, philo-; sophically,. “I should, worry.” . The new arrivals; a boy and two girls, weighed slightly more than five pounds each. Mrs. Vlctorlne gave birth to a child a little more than a year ago.

WHIPS INSULTER OF FLAG

Acting Wheelman Leo li. Luksich. just promoted to his present rating and shown for the first time in his new uniform, photographed outside the coast guard service station in New’ York, where he is assigned and where he patriotically defended the American flag from insult, knocking down the man who insulted the national colors.

Wheelman Luksich was promoted in recognition of his brave defense of the national honor and flag. While on duty recently at the coast guard recruiting' station at the Battery barge office. New York city, he severely thrashed a teamster who In passing wiped his hands on the colors. He was officially commended in orders by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Peters. At the annual dinner of the'Sons of the Revolution he received the Bennett gold medal .and a great ovation from those gathered at the tables.

Luksich is by birth an Austrian, but is now a naturalized American citizen. He isserving his eighth year in the United States eoast guard service.

BAREFOOT GIRL TOTES MAIL

Traveled Over Lone Mountain Route That Paid Her -Twenty-Fly® Cents a Day. Whitesburg, Ky.—Miss Mary Hall, aged sixteen, is a rural mail carrier on a star route leading from Colly, a village in Letcher county, to Hilliard, Ky., four miles. Over this route little Miss Hall, many times In bare feet, has made the trip afoot over lone paths through mountain fastnesses, with only an occasional farm home on the way, for which she earned 25 cents a day. “To keep the wolf from the door," is the explanation of the young woman. “pother has no one to care for her and is unable to w’ork, being a sufferer from a complication of diseases, and I realized that I must do something for a livelihood. No other work being available, I accepted the rural carrier’s place from a neighbor, was "sworn in, and entered upon my duties to the best of my ability. I have made a patient, regular employee of Uncle Sam, doing my duty at all times.” Her four years’ tenure expired some time ago and Miss Hall said she would not care to enter again for a four years’ term with the United States unless she got a better price for her work.

HE COULDN’T CLIMB SO COURT WENT TO HIM

San Diego, Cal.—The unique situation has been presented here of an adjournment of court to accommodate a witness- who was too bulky and lame to climb the courthouse stairway. The change to a ground floor court room on the opposite side of the street was agreed to by the attorneys interested and the testimony of Dr. W. Allen, health officer of National City, in the case against Davis Green on a statutory charge, was taken. with Judge Lewis presiding.

Paper Blown Sixty Miles.

Reo, Ga. —Relatives of J. A. Swartz, killed in the cyclone several weeks ago. recently received from Des Arc, which were blown away when the Swartz home was destroyed. They had been carried more than 60 miles by the wind.

Walks to Discharge Debts

St. Paul, Minn. —Charles ' Joy, a lumber jack frorii Akeley, Minn., walked 47 miles in two days, he says, to return $3 borrowed from Detective Captain Wells, and a pair of overshoes loaned him by Jailer Neuman,, six weeks ago.

Child Shoots a Hawk.

West Baldwin, Me. —Melville Ward, aged, eight, of West Baldwin, seeing a hawk about to raid the henyard, ran to the house, got his father’s shotgun. and succeeded in shooting the uawk before it could’*■» any damage.

SECRET OF REST

Taking Christ’s Yoke Upon Us Means Help and Rest in Bearing Life’s Load. 2 I want to const secret of rest, and to do so under the guidance of the New Testament. There is this advantage about the subject, it Is certainly not remote from the urgent call of common need.’ There Is a suggestion of weariness about the majority of us, al look of strain and tiredness as though wewere burdened with the greatness of the way; there Is surely a holy, urgency that we try to find the secret of God’s rest. There are one ,or two distinctions we must make before we can clearly think of a really royal spiritual rest. Rest is not ease. Ease is doing nothing; rest is fullness of strength to do what we need to do. Ease is rust, not rest. Ease is the feeling of indolence; rest is the sense of power. Ease evades its task; rest feels level with it and sTIII has strength to spare. Ease is to lie down; rest is to walk with God. And then again, rest is not isolation. We do not obtain rest by cutting ourselves adrift from the human calls and needs of our fellowmen. Beat is Fruit of Restoration, Rest is the fruit of restoration. It is life ever being filled with the imparted life of God. So that the symbol of rest 1s not a man lying on a bed, but a tree rooted in some wealthy bed and drawing up into all its branches, and into, every twig and leaf, the vigor which will make It invincible in the fiercest days of drought. So that at the very foundation of things rest is just a wealthy sense of the immediate presence and power of our gracious God. How, then do we come into possession of this rich ~and~±eaullfut reslT

What guidance does the New Testament give to us? Let us turn to the - teachings of the Lord. “Take my yoke upon you and learn of me . . . and ye shall find rest.” There are two sorts of yokes, single yokes and double yokes. The single yoke is for the single oi who pulls his load without a partner. The double yoke is for a pair of oxen, each sharing the burden of the other. And in human life there are two sorts of yokes, and I can choose which I will wear. I can wear a single one, pr I can accept The double one which is Offered me by Christ. The Lord says to me: “I bring thee a double yoke in exchange for the single one I My yoke is for two! Take my yoke upon you and let us pull the load together.” When I wear the single collar I confront everything in my individual strength. When I wear the double collar I face everything in partnershfel_

it is the fellowship of the Lord and me. Divine Fellowship. Now this is the first and primary secret Of rest. The restful life Is bora of divine fellowship. We are to accept the yoke-fellow and plow every furrow with him. This is precisely what the, apostle meant when he made his triumphant boast: “I can do alt things through Christ, who strengthened me !•” So it is needful that we examine our yokes and ascertain whether we are pulling our load In single collar or in communion with Christ. That heavy load of anxieties which I have been dragging about for some years! Let me examine my collar. Am I regarding it as a merely i-auivruuar or uhi I casting my burden on the Lord? And there Is that big load of small worries, and worrit extraordinarily burdensome. A load of sand Is haavler than ,a load Qt larger stones.

Tiny Worries. A heap of tiny worries can be more depressing than three or four larger cares. What am I doing with them? For the strange thing about this sort of burden is that when we yoke up with Jesus we often leave the cart behind! Then there is that bit of difficult road I am traveling, fall of ruts and holes, and with many steep gradients, so that in many places it is scarcely a road at all. What a hard pull it is for a soul I What am I doing with it? Am I Using the single collar or the double yoke? Is lb a lonely travail or is it a divine communion? “Take my yoke upon you.” This is the secret of essential rest.—Rev. J. H. Jowett, D. D.

God's Servants Must Be Alert.

God uses and blesses, as a rule at least, only eager and alert people, who, not keeping their gaze fastened on the ground at their feet, look afar, as from some Carmel’s height, to see what may be calling to them from beyondthe floods. Let us not miss the vision of the cloud out of the sea, for by it God may now be calling to our spirits to prepare themselves to receive the copious showers of blessing —perhaps revival blessing—which willbetoken and secure the plenteous harvestings of such a spiritual gathering as the world has never seen.—Rev. 0. A. S. Dwight.

Divine Providence.

The mantle of Divine Providence Is thrown over* the entire world. It shields not onlythe great oak, monarch of the forest, but also the sprig of grass, a tiny shred of the earth’* carpet. And, if in his infinite* watchcare God is so vigilant of these least things, will he be unmindful of man whom he has made the crown and glory of his creation. If he clothes with the beauty of the lily the vegetation of the field which today blooms and tomorrow burns, shall he not much more clothe us who are made In his likeness?—Biblical Recorder. ** -J ' ' ■