Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — Page 3

One-Half of All TaXes Goes to Pay for Results of Preventable Disease

Ftitty onc-haif of all taxes gws to ptfy disease which in a higher state of civilization—WeXvould not have. Now, there is insanity. Mental disease is the term the doctors now prefer. Where does it come from? Why do we have mental disease? But first, as to its cost to Indiana. In round figures we plank down in cash $2,000,000 annually to care for the insane. But that is not all the cost;. for there are 6,000 insane, all adults and all withdrawn from, productive life. If each one earned SSOO per year —and this is a reasonable estimate — then the loss to the state is $3,000,000. The total loss due to insanity is, therefore, $5,000,000 each year. Turn the problems over Jo the health cranks, keep the practical politicians at bay, and the fearful annual loss would each year grow less. After one generation under-health-e¥&nk-inanagemeni~.jxe. could,.close one or two of our five asylums, and after two generations we would need only one. The saving would help cut down taxation. Then there is crime. It is a very costly accompaniment of civilization,or perhaps it would be fair to say —our stupid management. The health-cranks would prevent crime by preventing sickness and disease, for out of these 75 per cent of all crime is born,Munsterberg said, “Hygiene can prevent more crime than any law. He was Unquestionably right. Only through hygiene can we‘throw off any of the taxes laid on account of crime. —7 ———l The direct cash cost of consumption paid out of taxes is a tidy'sum—about $200,000 annually.’ Through the practical application of hygiene (which we will practically apply when we become sufficiently practical), we would, in saving thousands and thousands, increase our morality, efficiency and happiness. AVljat we need is healthier, stronger men. How shall we get them? How many such will consumption, typhoid, diphtheria, etc., bring into Ix>t us have a hygiene machine —one as good and up to date as the last machine gun. Then let the people co-operate, and then will begin the beneficent reign of hygiene.

Careful Study of Every Divorce Plea Would Aid in Mitigating Growing Evil

1 cannot tell you why there are so many divorces today. I can onlv say that 1 know it to be true. This is a phase of our modern life with which we are dealing in the domestic-relations branches of the mupiciEal courts. And we are accomplishing results in the way of mending hearts and reuniting estranged couples by .giving careful consideration to their cases-and helping them to overcome their domestic ditlieu I ties. There is no doubt, about fhemresent-dav-conditions—l mean the large increase in the number of divorces being granted. The figures are indisputable. What we are concerned with, therefore, is in lessening the number. How to do it? I should say, first of all, inaugurate and maintain a system whereby a careful study is madeT of each application for divorce. Take time, trace out the contributory causes to marital disruption, and then try to reunite these Arouse public opinion to the situation. The tlting uppermost in my mind is the harmful effect on society of this abnormal increase in divorce. The home is the foundation of our civilization. Tear it away and you wreck the nation. This subject demands dur attention. We must do something about it.

Active Cooperation Between the Home and School Greatest Educational Need

There is no other co-operative agency so much needed by the school -as the home. There never was a time when the need was so great for intimate connection between .the home and school as at present. The conditions of modern life are so complex, opportunities for good and evil are so numefous, the occupations of the home are so meager unless they are related to the school, and the work of the schodl is so abstract unless it has a practical outcome in the home, that it is imperative for parents and teachers to get together. The co-operation should not be confined to a sentimental regard and respect of each for the other. The training of_each must supplement the other. Such co-operation can come in no other way so well as through -organizations that bring parents and teachers mtn friendly and frequent nssoeiafion. The problems of character buiMing, of habit formation, of training, of vocational counsel, ’ in fact, all the questions that pertain to the early period of child life, are of equal importance to parents and teachers, • . ~ \ 1 <- -•

Men Who Fail to Exercise Suffrage or Shirk Jury Duty Should Not Criticise

It is an everyday occurrence for us to stand up in the streetcars and demand our rights, or sit at home and criticize the work of the municipal and national governmente? We all shout that the city owes it to us to do this or to do that, but did you ever stop what you owe the city or the nation? Why criticize the administrations when you sit in your office on election da/and fail to register your vote for the party or man who will right your grievances? Why leave it to'the professional voters to elect'candidates? Don’t sit at honje and criticize the verdict that has been rendered by a jury in our courts when you have pulled every available string to keep from serving on that jury, thereby leaving an opening for a professional juror. As a duty to ourselves, to the city and to the nation, we should go to the polls oh election day and vote for the right man or party that will be free from political corruption, such as has marked so.many past admijiistrations. We should go willingly and serve on the jury when duty calls. If you don’t do this, then don’t criticize.

By QR. J. N. HURTY

Director of Public Health Work in Indiana

By JUDGE CHARLES L. BROWN

President Judge of Municipal Court of Philadelphia

By FRANKLIN B. DYER

Superintendent of Public School* of Boston, Masa.

By DR. J. P. KERR

President of Council of Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE EVENING "REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

PLYMOUTH ROCK LOOMS UP AGAIN

City of the Pilgrims Preparing to Celebrate Tercentenary of Landing. ANNIVERSARY C9MES IN 1920 Little City of Plymouth Thinks It’n Big Enough to Undertake Job of Fittingly Commemorating Historic Event. Plymouth, Mass. —What a great throng will be here if all the good Americans, who claim to be descendants~* of the —Bßgriin F&thegsvisit this, the oldest town in New England, during the tercentenary celebration of the Landing —capital L, please —from the Mayflower! The celebration,which might commemorate also’ the blessing Qf the new world with roast turkey and pumpkin pie, will not be held, of course, until 1920. But already the usual placid minds of Plymouth’s best and most prosperous citizens are perplexed by the question: How ean the coining of the Pilgrims to this shore 300 years ago be celebrated in the most fitting, the most dignified and yet the most brilliant manner? Any New England schoolboy will tell you that the Mayflower first cast anchor In Cape Cod bay, just within the cape, on November 21, 1620. This Is now the splendid harbor of Provincetown, the only windward port for' many a league where- the little vessel that bore Miles Standish and his companions could have lain safely. Nearly all the company went ashore, glad to touch land after the long voyage. They first fell on their knees and thanked God for the preservation of their lives. The water was shallow and they had waded ashore —the men to explore the country, the women to wash their clothes. Chose Landing Place. The spot chosen by a party of explorers for the permanent landing place of the Mayflower’s passengers was selected about December 20,1620, and there New Plymouth was built. Eroin about the middle of December until Christmas day the weather was stormy and the bulk of the passengers remained on the ship while some of the men built a rude shelter to receive them. On Christmas day most of the Pilgrims went on shore to visit the spot selected for their residence. Then, tradition hath it, Mary Chilton and John Alden, both young, were first to spring on Plymouth Rock from the boat that conveyed them. Small wonder is it that, with three such central figures as Priscilla, Miles Standish and John Alden at hand, so to say, a historic pageant almost certainly will be one of the great features of the celebration. There are some dubious ones here w’ho feared that Plymouth is not big enough for the celebration; that the town of 14,000 people cannot do justice to the great event. It has been suggested even that Plymouth be reproduced in Boston, where there is capacity to entertain thousands of -visitorsr~and-that held in The HuK But this proposition has already been dismissed; as well remove Plymouth Rock to Boston Common. —Plymouth will be the place ; Plymouth will rise to the occasion and welcome all America, if need be, to the very scene where those who risked their lives to give religious liberty disembarked. More than three years remain in which to prepare. Capitalists stand ready to build great hotels here; already the railroads are planning for the transportation of the Pilgrims of 1920. It is arranged to transport Plymouth Rock from its bed on the shore, for only a comparatively small piece of it is visible now to the patriotic eye.

Plans were made, ideas were advancedfor the tri-centennial as long as ifFyearSkago, when the Massachusetts Society of 'Mayflower descendants and the Pilgrim Memorial association interested themselves in the project. But there is no need for those who love to tread historic ground and to offer the tribute of their presence t° the forefathers to delay their visit to Plymouth. A “Live" Town. Old as it Is, this is a “live” and beautiful town, closely- dotted with places of interest. As a shipping post it is Second to Boston, in Massachusetts. It manufactures products worth more than $15,000,000 each year. Here one may see the national monument to the forefathers and that to Miles Standish; the site of the Common house on Leyden street, the first house to be built, the first street to A be laid out in New England; the courthouse of severely chaste colonial architecture; the famous Pilgrim hall, with its great collection of relics of the Puritans; Clark's Rfefuge; Old Burial hill, the burial pitfee of many of the first settlers, and Pilgrim wharf and Bawtry Island, where the Pilgrims passed, their first Sabbath. .

Fugitive Lives in Coal Mine.

Rockwood, Tenn,—General Cooper, a fugitive from Justice from Louisville, Ky., was captured here- in an abandoned coal mine. He had subsisted for four months on parched corn. •/„.

UNIQUE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Eleanor Taylor, pretty twenty-year-old Vassar college girl, has just entered into the latest matrimonial contract with Benjamin Marsh under the title of “An Individual Marriage.” When a girl enters an “individual marriage” it means that as the wife in the partnership of Husband & Co., she retains her ipdividual thoughts, works, beliefs and above all, her own name. They each go forth daily to their toil and they each contribute to the expenses of the household and share and share alike in the manner of a “Dutch treat” dinners, entertainments, theaters and the many “wotnots” enjoyed by the regularly married couple. The question of whose uame the children, of. an “individual married” couple will bear, has not yet been decided. Probably that will be left to the children, If children there be.

JAPAN CORNERING FIJI PEARL SHELLS

Monopolizes Supplies From Islands to Control the Button Market HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY Frenchman Sends Samples of Shells Home as Curios and Negotiations Are Opened for Regular —SuppHes. ~~ ~ Sydney. Australia. —Word comes to Sydney from the Fiji Islands that the Japanese have not only monopolized the trochas shell supply of that group, but are encouraging the “skinning” of the reefs, and are thus indirectly threatening the destruction of the shell output of Fiji. Not only so, but advices lately received from Brisbane are to the effect that the Japanese are seeking to exploit the shell supply of Thursday island and elsewhere on the northern side of the Australian continent. - In Curious Position. “The shell industry is in a curious position,” writes the Suva {Fiji), correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. “Buttons are made out of trochas shell, or, as it is termed in the Fiji islands, sici (pronounced seethee). The industry was started in a novel manners Over 15 years ago a Frenchman named Gaspard sent some of the shells home as curios, and they came under the notice of a man in the line who opened negotiations with Gaspard, and regular supplies were from then on sent to France to be turned into buttons. He paid the untutored Eijlans $1 or $1.25 per ton in those davs, but the present price in Suva is for No. 1 shell. S2OO per ton; No. 2. $147.50; No. 3, $97.50. The gradation is according to size. “France and Austria practically monopolized this industry, but the war caused a change, and it is doubtful if any buttons are made nowadays in France or Austria. The trade is now a Japanese monopoly. * All the local shell finds its way to Japan, whence it is exported as a manufactured product. -The price varies considerably for reasons not known here. The shells are found inf plentiful -numtiers on the coral reefs surrounding the (Fiji) islands, and merely have to be picked - * up. Enormous quantities are shipped to Japan by every steamer. “The high prices obtained for the product have, caused the natives to bring in large quantities of ‘chicken’

STUDENTS SHOW THEM HOW

F’u . . | Schoolchildren Hold Session In Colorado Senate in' Presence of Senators. • < Denver. Colo. — A lesson in the ways and means of running a legislative body was given the senate of the state off Colorado when the senate of the Emerson public schooL. of Denver sat tn The seats of the senators at the state capitol and field a ten-minute session. The Emerson school organization is a self-governing body, having all the officers and working machinery that hold forth ih the government of the United States. The “senate” was called to order by Vice President Ell Dorsey, thirteen years old, who is presiding officer of the senate. He Immediately called for the reading of bJJIs us proReading Clerk Beatrice Powell, ten, assisted by Enrolling Clerk Lulu Willlard, also ten, then read bin„.No. TT? by SehcrinrrhTffg, wlffFh was the “bone dry” bill under discussion in. the Colorado assembly. No sooner had the bill been read than Ethel Tonowski, who seemed to lie the Jim Hani LewTs of Hie senate, moved that the enacting' clause be stricken dut. Vice President Dorsey called for a vote and the enacting clause was stricken out. The vice president then the senate for its courtesy in allowing the seSsioir.

SAYS TO VARY COW’S RATIONS

Expert Tells Dairymen That Frequent Change of Food Is Necessary for Best Results. 7 Bozeman, Mont.- —“To have a dairy cow produce her maximum flow of milk* she must have the proper kind, amount- and variety of food,” Prof. G. Lf"7MaTfln told the dairymen who were in attendance at the state college farmers’ week. “When she is at her maximum of production, she has sufficient food to maintain her body and to produce all the milk of which she is capable. “If more food is supplied it goes into surplus flesh and fat. If less food is supplied, milk production falls off, for the amount taken for bodily sustenance cannot be reduced. ‘‘A. carefully balanced and frequently varied ration is therefore necessary with abundance of roughage to fill up the large stomach space.”

Twins Run in the Family.

—Evansville, Ind. The sixteenth birthday of Elsie and Ethel Brady, who are the second of three pairs of twins in ope family, was celebrated’ at their home at No, 1 Randall street. The'motlier of the gtris is « twin sister rtf Mrs. Izora Young of Rockport The younger sisters of Mrs. Brady are the third twins.

shell, which is of no commercial value, and if this conduct is permitted to continue the reefs will soon be stripped of the valuable shell. “J. M. Hedstrom, an elected member of the Fiji legislative council, who interested himself in the matter, brought it up at the last meeting of the council, and received the_B.r.QXolse -that-if-the-Suvjr And Levuka chambers of commerce were of the same opinion, action would be taken by the government. pi** ' “That gentleman showed your correspondent some samples of the shell. The shell from 1 inch to 1% inches in diameter, weighing about 45 to the pound, which is of no commercial value. No. 1 shell, from 2 inches to 3% inches in diameter, weighs about 5 to the pound, and fetches S2OO per ton. If the valueless ‘chicken’ shell, he said, were allowed to remain on the reefs, for two years, it would grow to No. 1 shell, one ton of it would weigh nine tons, and it would be worth probably $1,750 instead of nothing. ■—V- ■ “‘Chicken’ shell from one ancLonehalf to two- inches in diameter Is worth about $65 or S7O per ton locally. One firm shipped last November ten tons of this shell to Japan, and It was valued at about $750, free on board. If the shell had been allowed to remain on. the reefs for about two years It would have weighed about 50 tons and been worth over SIO,OOO. “Tlie Suva chamber of commerce has indorsed Mr. Hedstrom’s plan.” A market having been found in Japan for Thursday island trochas .shell, the scarcity of labor for the Industry will be met by engaging Australian natives for the work.

FORGER ON PROBATION GETS RICH IN 13 YEARS

Los Angeles.—Thirteen years ago Charles Ross, arrested on a forgery charge, was put on probation and told to go out and make good. He followed in- - structions to the letter and the other day walked into Judge Willis’ Court with credentials to show* that he Is now a very wealthy land owner. The case was dismissed.

Most of the whale fishing of Norway Is done in the southern hemisphere.

CHAIN OF PRAYER

Golden Links That Bind This SinCursed Earth to God and Heaven. “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which Is in heaven.” —Matthew 18:19. We are dwelling in the, supreme hour in the history of Christianity. While this most terrible war has lifted the curtains of eternity before the gaze of earth’s millions:while united pflrayer and endeavor have opened the doors d? heathen nations to the gospel; while the spirit of unity pervades all denominations of Christians, shall not the Christian world get together and be bound together by the golden chain of prayer, uniting our world to the throne uTtheeteraai? — —= Oh, for a federation of prayer that will open the windows of heaven and shut the gates of hell and give the only permanent peace and purity to our troubled world! Is not the way to solve the mighty problems of this age the way of the cross of Christ, and is not the entrance gate to Cal vary’s sum-., mit one of Intercession and supplication? —- Strength of Unity. “If two of you shall agree”—Jesus gives just the smallest number possible—for unity in petition. “One can chase a thousand, but two shall put ten thousand to flight.” Four shall vanquish one hundred thousand, and eight a million. What wonderful might Ues in the unity of Christendom! Where two are gathered in prayer, there are always three, for Jesus Is there in the midst. He will inspire your petition, helping you to ask in his allprevailing name, and therefore tn pray in harmony with The will of God.~ We know that prayer is a secret, Invisible power, exerted not by the voice, or the personal presence, not by direct effort of individuals, not by activities in service, but by the sieving of the hand that moves the universe. How like electricity is prayer! It can be everywhere in a moment, as quick as thought. One may be on a sick-bed, helpless, able to do nothing else but pray, and yet mightier than the mightiest who is only exerting his own strength. Prayer is very close to the omnipotence and omniscience of God. Prayer, it has been said, may not change the purpose of God, but It wflT change his action. God does not coerce a soul; he cannot give unless we are ready to receive. When Heaven and Earth Meet Prayer “is the moment when heaven * and earth kiss each other.” Yea, when the sotrt of the father -touches. that_.of.. his child In loving, sweet communion. In God’s left hand he holds the laws of nature, but in his right hand he holds the law of love, that flows out as he embraces the children of his bosom. Individual prayer is a duty and an Inestimable privilege; but united intercessory prayer for the salvation of others and for the world of lost men is the mightiest human power ever exerted by the church of the living God. It is exerting supernatural power to move and energize the machinery and methods and missions of united Christendom. The prayer that springs from wells beneath, That hath Its sources from above. The prayer that gives, theprayer thftt. -T- goes, -- - The prayer that prays from very The prayer that prays unceasingly, The prayer that prays for friend ana foe, ' ' The prayer that prays untiringly— The prayer that prays • for high ana low; *llllß prayer is, prayed In Jesus’ name; This prayer is only Spirit-given; This prayer will always end in praise— This is the prayer that reaches heaven. g —Rev. Edwin Whittier Caswell, D. D.

The Will to Act

Two words are very significant in life —situation and action. The sphere in which a man is situated, or what is called "environment,” will largely determine what he is to be, but no amount of “situation” will of itself precipitate vigorous action of a noble kind. Manly men are made by the right sort of reaction against environment. Whatever may be claimed for heredity and association, a certain amount of free play must be allowed to the individual, who in his turn, by strenuous and selective, action, contributes to the formation in future of a new heredity. No progress in human affairs would be at all possible were life simply to the last factor a recapitulation of previous lives. It is part of our heritage as sons of God that we can build upon the fathers and yet be different from them —that we cap inherit the past and predetermine the future. It is true that some men are circumstantially situated more favorably for success than are others; but the man who has in him the will to act, even though he be a poor and physically weak Paul, will in the end, in spite of beatings and shipwrecks oft, win out among the best.

True Religious Achievement.

If -the relentless drift is bearing away some traditional and conventional “household gods” and ecclesiastical sanctities, there is abundant compensation in the unveiling of higher ideals, the vitalising of thought and character, and in the dispersion of rubbish which has almost hidden the Divine lineaments of man£ nature. Religious advancement is seen in the increased emphasis which is placed upon^ these living realities about which men cannotdiffer. Henry Wood.