Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1917 — Page 2

Government Must Know What Each Woman Can Do Best in an Emergency

Preiident New York Stale Anociation Oppoaed to Woman Suffrage

All women of the United States should be registered by the government. Some of us can do one thing best, some another. Ihe government thould know, in detail, in case of emergency. are ready to be called upon, Ix 4 each of us take up the work in which we are most proficient. There is no need of our repeating in this country the mistake l.ng land found she had made at the beginning of thejwar. They_ngedgd women for hundreds of different purposes, and quickly. They found that nurses only were registered. Some can drive automobiles. Some are more useful in clerical work. Others have a knack for machinery, which, if properly directed, would make them invaluable in factories. Aet others can nurse experth. Others have the executive faculty. Still others have the peculiar quick-thmking powers and the quick-moving powers that would give them their greatest efficiency as messengers. There is scarcely a field in which a woman cannot be of great use if you know just what she can do best and takes the greatest interest in. Preparedness is not a new idea to us as an organization. We American women, representing all classes, are active in all sections of the country. As a .body we have from the beginning been strong advocates of woman preparedness. It is fully in line with our policy and our ideals to stand back of our men and help them in whatever way we can.

Character of Our Dreams Shows Whether We Are Overworked or Are Merely Lazy

Dreams are a good test of the need of sleep, and many times answer the question of overwork or idleness. It is possible to judge by one’s dreams whether one needs sleep. If'the dreams are of a rambling variety, the kind that seem to pop from nowhere or anywhere, it is a pretty.good sign that yon are not overtired. On the other hand, if the dreams are a continuation of the day’s worries, the chances are that you are overtired. Dreams remote from the day’s work are a vacation, but dreams connected with the day’s work are overtime. ' Dreams will often tell, therefore, whether a person is really tired, or just lazy. They should be noticed, and will many times serve as an indicator of health. Insomnia is very rare. Fitful sleep is often mistaken for insomnia. To go to sleep, get the body and mind comfortable. The body is easier to make comfortable than the mind. A rubdown, a bath and a little bite to eat help bring that about. To compose the mind, read some familiar book of poetry. That soothes the mind, for no exertion is necessaryto - read it. — . 7 __ _— r Symmetrical fatigue is the best kind. After a day of sightseeing a good night’s sleep generally follows, for the muscles and the senses are tired. But when only the mind or-the muscles are tired sleep is often jehlBLYfL - /.

Government Ownership of Roads Would Be a Political and Economic Tragedy

A Mutant Chairman Railway Executive*’ Advisory Committee

Government ownership of railroads is a popular fetich to which the Unthinking turn whenever baffled by some pressing railroad problem. Yet there is no experience in history to justify the assumption that «uch a plan would be a success in this country. In our unco-ordinated democracy it would be a political and economic tragedy. The evils of the .‘•pork barrel” would be intensified a hundred fold. The political menace of the office holder would be increased a hundred fold again, |nd in the grasp of governmental inefficiency and red tape transportation would become constantly more expensive and less serviceable. Only in a highly centralized and autocratic government has government ownership achieved any degree of success, and in Germany, its chief exponent, freight rates are nearly double those charged in this country. Too long the attitude of the public toward the railroads has been one of detached criticism and punitive legislation, treating the railroad interests as though they were something apart from itself, from which it might properly wring the last possible ounce of service at the lowest possible cost, with eyes fixed solely upon immediate local and selfish interest. Impaired railroad credit, reduced efficiency and transportation facilities inadequate to the needs of commerce are the harvest we are reaping from thb years of discord, often unintelligent, manysided and punitive regulation.

National and Local Issues Should Be Divorced by Use of New Ballot System

When an able and faithful public servant goes down to defeat at the hands of the electorate, one is constrained to seek the cause. It may be. in part, ignorance of the service rendered. In studying the question, a reasonable answer to it appears in the form of the ballot presented to voters at most elections.. The diversity of issues offered for intelligent' consideration may be jgrouped under the heads of national, state and the more-local one of county issues. Surely a blanket ballot. That so large a number of voters untangle the diversity of questions presented is a matter for congratulation, predicating, as it does, a high order of intelligence. ■ / It is to be hoped that in some future arrangement of electoral questions the election of national officers may stand alone, so that the solution of federal questions may have the consideration due to national issues untouched by local coloring. , With the isolation of the federal election a candidate for the office.of coroner need not take as a slogan, “Preparedness,” nor a,.candidate, for the office of assessor, “Protection,” nor an aspirant for the office of state’s attorney, “the full dinner pail.” In fact, the pleas put forward for election on national issues could not be used to confuse the voter. „

By MISS ALICE HILL CHITTENDEN

By DR. PERCY G. STILES

By FRANCIS H. SISSON

By MARY A. CROWE

THE? EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

GROWTH OF THE BATTLESHIP

This diagram, trom Sea Power, illustrates the increasing size of battleships since the Oregon was constructed in 1896.

NO MEMORIAL AT GRAVE OF LAWTON

Resting Place of Great Soldier Marked Only by Government Stone. FALLS AT HEAD OF TROOPS Hero of Spanish-American War Had Long Record of Splendid ServiceNative State Honors His Memory.

By EDWARD B. CLARK.

(Washington Correspondent of the Western Newspaper Union.) 'Washington.—ln Arlington, the great National cemetery, lies the body of Henry Ware Lawton, major general United States army. He was one of the most noted soldiers of the American service, and yet save for the little government stone over his grave his resting place is unmarked. Other soldiers of a fame which that of Lawton eclipsed have mighty memorial stones erected in their honor. Lawton is not forgotten, for his name is cherished by the American people, but there has been criticism time and again of the fact that this great American soldier who fell at the head of his troops while leading them in battle has not been honored by the government of the United States with a memorial in Arlington commensurate with his services to the republic. 'in Indianapolis, Ind., from which state Henry Ware Lawton entered the military service as a private at the outbreak of the Civil war, there is a magnificent monument to his memory. There is a strtty connected with the erection of this monument, and it has a bearing on the absence of a memorial in Arlington cemetery. Before going further into the details let it be said that the members of General Lawton's family are in no wise responsible for the absence from Arlington cemetery of a monument to his memory. Left Only Small Estate. General Lawton like most soldiers died leaving only a estate. It was his expressed wish before he died and the understanding is that he left 1 a written request to- the effect, that none of the’ small amount which he bequeathed and which was intended to support his family should be used to erect any monument to his memory. Some years ago the writer of this article noticed that Lawton’s grave in Arlington, except for the little government headstone, was unmarked. He wrote an article about it and called the attention of Louis Ludlow, correspondent of several prominent Indiana papers to the fact that the great Indiana soldier’s, grave was without a fitting memorial stone or monument. Mr. Ludlow wrote to his papers about the matter and his letters being published, a movement Was started in the state to secure funds .for a memorial to Lawton. It was expected that this memorial would be erected in Arlington, but the intention was changed and the money was used to put up a splendid monument in the City of Indianapolis. It is difficult to get congress to appropriate money for mem or i a Is. If Lawton’s grave in Arlington is to be marked with a fitting tribute to his

ARREST RANSOMER OF AFFECTIONATE COUPLES

Los Angeles—After several affectionate young couples In automobiles had been arrested on the foothill boulevard and then released by their captor for considerations of $lO each, the police began wondering who was making the “arrests.” So, to find put, two officers, one of them dressed as a woman, werit motoring through that section and found Sam Freeman, a selfappointed deputy sheriff, in .ambush for them. After the two bona fide officers were “arrested,” they in turn. arrested Freeman and charged him with extortion. A

great services the people probably must undertake the work. % Henry Ware Lawton served all through tiie Civil war and later he was conspicuous in the various expeditions against hostile Indians. It was said of him that he would go into dangers into which he would not send one of his soldiers. It was he who in the spring of 1886 was chosen by General Miles to lead a picked body of troops into Mexico in pursuit of the murderous Geronimo. “For three months with saltless mule meat and sometimes little of that for rations, he marched his command 1,396 miles through parched and barren deserts until Geronimo and his band were captured.”

Victim of Sharpshooter. On December 19, 1899, Lawton was on the firing line at San Mateo, in the Philippines. He was very tail and he wore a brilliant uniform. He was leading his troops into battle. He fell, shot through the heart by a bullet from the rifle of an insiirgent sharpshooter. In the grave next to General Lawton lies the body of the brave Major Llscum of the Ninth Infantry, United States army, who was killed at Tientsin, China, while leading his regiment in the expedition of the allied nations to the forbidden city of China, where the members of the foreign embassies were besieged by the Chinese Boxers and whose lives were in imminent danger. . Probably. the most beautiful monument in all Arlington from a purely artistic standpoint is the one at the head of the grave of Major Llscum. Liscum deserves this memorial, but it brings out more sharply the fact that a major general of the United States army who, like Major Liscum, lost his life in defense of his country, is resting in a grave virtually unmarked. To aid night fishing a tiny electric lamp has been designed to be fastened beside the bait, an insulated cord providing current from dry batteries.

CONGRESSMAN SEVEN DAYS

Paul G. McCork> served as a member of congress during the closing week of the last session. His one-week term was the shortest to which a man was ever elected. He succeeded' the late Congressman Finley, who served longer than any other member from South Carolina. McCorkle, who is blind, had never before sought public office. W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw succeeds him in the Sixty-fifth congress,

INVENTORS UNITE IN DEFENSE WORK

Secretly Planning Devices to Help Army and Navy in Event of War. I— ' , THEIR SERVICES GIVEN FREE ■ • " -t, • ... ' ‘ ..." ■ • - ■ = Government Is-Asked to Suggest What Is Needed in the Different Branches of the Service—Give Time and Money. New York.—Since January 340 members of the Association of Practical Inventors of America have been working secretly on inventions to aid the army and navy in the event of war with Germany, according to Timothy D. Gleason, president of the new organization. When perfected the inventions will be offered free to the government. Mr. Gleason, who resides at No. 512 West Fifty-third street, where meetings are held every Thursday evening, said he had written to the secretary of the navy and secretary of war asking them what is most needed if war should come. "We are all said Mr. Gleason, “and feel able to assist our army and navy in a substantial way if the nation goes to war with the Prussians. Of course we could go ahead and perfect several inventions, but they might conflict with those already in contemplation by the government. For that reason we have deemed it advisable to consult Mr. Daniels and Mr. Baker before we proceed In a general way. We have a few under way that we are confident are not being worked on by government forces and we are ready to submit these when called upon to do so.

Could Have Saved the F-4. “Take the submarine, for instance. The F-4 went down in Honolulu and everyone on board lost his life. We are confident this was all A Prussian submarine met with an accident last year and sank to a depth of two hundred and forty feet, yet only a single life was lost in the thir-fy-slx hours ft was Submerged. Thirty* four men comprised that crew. Suppose, for instance, an inflated tank with telephone wires and pipes attached could be released by a submarine in case of accident and floated to the surface, a whistle sounding an alarm, do you think lives would be lost? A simple invention of that nature will give you an idea what we are contemplating. “When practical inventors heard about the accomplishments of the Deutschland they wondered and a battle of .inventive ideas followed. The American Inventor has no superior, and the people of this nation may rest well assured that their interests will be guarded in proper fashion in time of international conflict. We take our hats off to no foreign inventor and are ready to show the nation we are not boasting. Inventors have been called soldiers of peace, but their position will be well defined if war comes. We already have established a fund.

“But the time to act is now. Preparedness must be more than a mere figment of the mind. We ask the army and navy to lay out- our work for us and we will donate our time and money. We are all loyal Americans, and to join our association a man must be a loyal American and a practical Inventor. Training Station Urged. “Several days ago I sent a letter, to Mayor Mitchel and Whitman advising them of a resolution adopted by our association at a recent meeting. We asked them to set aside the filled in land from the railroad tracks to the Hudson river between Eightyfirst and One Hundred and Twentyseventh streets for use as a military and navaj training station for the young men of this city. I received replies from them, saying the resolution would be given consideration. “Statistics will show that 47 per cent of the Colonial troops, 63 per cent of the enlisted men of the Civil war, 51 per cent of the Spanish-American war troops and 52 per cent of the enlisted men during the border disturbance were under twenty-one years old. This shows the advisability, if not absolute necessity, of training our young men even boys that the grand reputation of our state militia might be sustained.” A -

BRIDE’S PARENTS ON HONEYMOON FOR HER

Chicago.—Miss Gladys Carpenter and Robert Matherton Krug decided to get married and did. They planned a honeymoon. Then the bride had a unique idea. They went out to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newton H. Carpenter, took change of the house, and sent the older couple packing California.. “You see,” explained Mrs. Krug,' “when papa and mamma got married they didn’t* have time for a honeymoon, so we’ve sent ’em on ours- Maybe we’ll do the same thing twenty-fiVe years from now.”

FAITH’S PARADOX

Psalmist Voices It When He Cries, “Have Mercy Upon Me, 0 Lord, for I Am Weak.” The Paradox of Faith! It is this: Faith is both an avowal of weakness and an assertion of strength. As an avowal of weakness. Faith throws itself upon God. As an assertion of strength, Faith—reverently be it said ,—throws a challenge at God. As. an avowal of weakness. Faith confesses man’s need of God; as an assertion of strength, it professes God’s need of man. In one breath it voices the helplessness and the indispensableness of man. Underlying all invocations of God’s help is not merely the knowledge that feeble humans must have divine assistance, but also the consciousness that Almighty <God mhst have us and our work for accomplishment of his purposes. We matter to God —or else why pray to him? Why should he stand by us if he does not require our presence in the world, If our work is of no consequence to his creative plan?

God Not Indifferent. The stars move on, though we grow too weak to stir; the flowers bloom qn, though our frame withers. The heavens are never stained by the blackness of our despair. No bird has ever ceased to sing whqn tlw lullaby of the bereaved mother was-silenced at the tiny grave. ,We live in a world that appears indifferent to our aspirations and longings. And if God shares this cosmic indifference, why invoke him in time of-distress? But when Faith invokes God it is convinced that he cannot be indifferent to us, since he needs us. He needs the work our hands find to do, the feeling that pulse in our hearts, the thoughts that flash up in our mind. He needs our love and our goodness; he needs the poet’s song and the prophet’s vision; he needs the painter’s color dream, and the martyr’s matchless heroism; he needs the smile that beams in baby’s face and the hope that blooms in the maiden’s* bosom. He needs our tears and our laughter; he needs all the unspeakable" misery, the incomparable richness, the’thrilling exaltations of human souls. Be we weak or strong —he needs us such as we are. Faith Challenges God. Faith, therefore, reverently challenges God, saying: This indifferent universe is so much vaster anjl mightier than man, and it is against the forces of this incomprehensible universe that man’s puny strength is constantly pitted; but if the cosmic forces crush man who will do his work and what will take his place? Will the silent stars? Will the rushing breakers? Weak and frail-he is—yet powerful to do his appointed work! Thus with the psalmist we rightfully express the Paradox of Faith -when we petition our Maker in the words, “Have mercy upon me; for I am weak,’* founding at the same time our petition upon the daring claim: “For in death there Is no remembrance of thee; In the grave who shall give thee thanks?” That is to say, if the Song of Man be silenced, feeble though his voice, yet will it be missed from the harmony of the whole. The great wonder of life consists in the fact that alongside of the cosmic forces there is room for the human soul. The still greater wonder is that alongside of God there is room for man. If this spells a responsibility, it also spells a privilege. Hence —the Paradox of Faith. —-Rabbi Joel Blau, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York.

Blessed Be Drudgery.

«Blessed be drudgery.” In times of stress how the truth of these words is revealed! Tennyson has it that “the anguish of the singer made the sweetness of the song.” But only to the few is given the relief which comes from the conscious deliberate crystallization of grief into achievement. The power of producing a great poem, painting a world’s masterpiece, or evolving haunting chords of melody is not bestowed upon the majority, and those who have it possessed it always, though it was perchance dormant, needing the urge of strong emotion to bring it to the surface. For each, however, there is the daily round, the common task. ’ Things formerly scorned for their irksomeness, distasteful by reason of their monotony, are transfigured by life’s Gethsemanes, become veritable havens of refuge. The swirl of the broom the cleansing of the platter, the guardianship of little children. Ah! these broods the tender angel of forgetfulness, be-, neath whose* pitying, outstretched wings the agonized soul may find comfort and the peace which passes understanding. —Ruth Davenport. .

Deadly Self-Consciousness.

I would rather have the gift of tremendous outpouring affection—love of God, and love of humanity—than any other gift in all the world. I desire It more than'anything else. And yet, even at those heaven-sent periods when my heart is full of love, how hard it is to express it! Of course, this is partly shyness—that curious, hampering mantle of reserve in which we are forever hastening to wrap, our spirits. How timid and anxious our little self is! Our spirit-self is forever shocking it! The stiff conventional self is constantly trying to cover up the spirit self—like a proper mid-dle-aged nurse pursuing a happy carefree baby who has adventured forth with too few clothes oh.—From the Atlantic.