Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — Page 2

Alliance With Great Britain Would Be of Value to United States

By PROF. AMOS S. HERSHEY

' An alliance with Great Britain would make much easier the preservation of our liberties and vital interests, and I-he- development of our national policies in America as well as in, the far East. The British empire is largely a confederacy of free peoples with sentiments and institutions similar to our own, and, except in certain limiters of trade, our mutual interests are not seriously antagonistic. Where such interests do conflict? as perhaps in Latin America, they are readily capable of compromise or adjustment; The fundamental mutual interests of both the British empire an the United States are those usually denominated in our presidential campaigns as “peace and prosperity.” In the main. I»oth peoples are materialistic and utilitarian. Tn >ot countries no slogans appeal with more force than those L of the “full dinner pail" and national security with a view to the enjoyment of all the comforts of home.” War is generally regarded by the Anglo-Saxon world not merely as r useless survival of a barbaric past, but, as a rule, an unwelcome disturbance of business, of games, and of all the other peaceful vocations and avocations in which our citizens as well as British subjects delight. Another mutual and perhaps sentimental (though no less vital) interest is that described by such terms or phrases as democracy, the right of self-government, western liberalism, the. political and economic freedom of the individual (including the emancipation of woman), etc. If we desire, the triumph of such ideals over Prussian militarism, autocracy and organization, the best way would seem to be to fornl alliance with the British empire and act in conjunct ion awakened democracies of Russia and China, as well as with the o (er democracies of France and Italy. Besides, we Cannot ignore the fact that England is an important? American power, nor overlook the vast significance of our past, present and future relations with < anada. —; . Finally, we should not fail to consider our mutual interests in t le far East, particularly in China. In common with Great Britain, we have an enormous stake, commercial and otherwise, in the future dete opmerit of the Chinese empire.

Poultry Raisers of United States Can Aid in Feeding the World

It is up to the United States, the world's greatest, richest and most resourceful nation, not only to look after the welfare of her own citizens, but to give aid and assistance in supplying food to countless thousands of suffering humanity in the torn and stricken war zone. Ihe great agricultural resources of America must prepare to assume this burden. Lvep one of us must do his bit. Every acre, every nook and corner must bear its share. . ~ . ■ - . ■ * « . It is lucky that in poultry we can produce the cheapest and mos quick Iv producing meat .of all the various sources of our meat supply. It is a well-known fact that-the-J-vailable supply of meat productsns today the lowest in our country, per capita, in the history of the I mtei States To meet the extremely dangerous condition we have within ourselves a wonderful opportunity of aiding what may prove to be a worldwide cry for food. Let us all join enthusiastically in putting forth now every effort to meet the demand thht is sure to come for untold quantities' of foodstuffs. Never in the history of the world will there be a greater demand than in the next 24 months. The margin of profit on the production of eggs and poultry for meat is far in excess of the percentage of profit in normal times. But aside “ ro » the »t profit. A«.a„s tunst look atjhe —■ from a philanthropic ams humat.i'iSan sfaWon.Vanfi each and every one "do his hit." Let us trv to be a factor in the production of an cxtia hundred million pounds of poultry meat, which is less than one poum additional for each man, woman and child in the I nited Sta is. agrmulture Ims just an estimate that upwards of seven hundred ffltttfons of dollars is the annual X.- ® W 8 intoffecd to produce poultry and eggs? . Every lipnte can have a self-supporting ami profitable flock in the back card l.v verting the oftalfront the table ami knehen .nlo the ven 5 jamlirv teed. Why such an astounding waste niter « mvaganee that costs us nearly for every ..tan, woman and Sold if the I iiiteT States? Let every W» haven nraPTtoultry home ainLa few wejl-kgpt-prpfitable fowls. —_ „

We Must Know Meaning of Americanism Before We Can Teach It to Others

Brforewbuwn van .ea,l. . Inklren llw nwanmg V 4 mu“t first understand it themselves. . I I Eope more «.™> understand it than na-n-that is, Hum men 1 Ued 1 have asked men it. almost every walk of life, and what do y u ‘snpliose'l got „an average answer? That an A»»r.«u was a num knew how to get rich quick. ; . . , ' H’s up to the American woman to think out for hermit means to be an American before she attempts to teach ber else schildren what itTmeanrt wish thatwt-niight have an American a national erped mind of the men who wrote and signed our Declaration of Independence. , , • ~ I believe women are coming forward splendidly through their organisations and offering their services, but 1 believe that service can and will be even more completely mobilized. • ■ , There is one thing women must not forget—that the. most important thing they can mobilize is their sex. Now more than in times of peace women owe it to their country to bear children, and to bear them intelligently And whpn they have borne them, it js their sacred duty’to bring tliem up in a full understanding of the ideals om which our fathers built

By E. E. RICHARDS

President American Poultry Association

By HONORE WILLSIE,

.’i ■ g, 1 ’ of Indiana University

, Editor and Authoress

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

BRITISH UPSET GERMANY'S PLANS

Remarkable Mobility of Britain’s Army Defeats Strategy of Hindenburg. TRACTORS THE BIG FACTOR German General Staff Failed to Calculate Quick Repair of Roads and Immediate Advance of Light and Heavy Artillery. By JUDSON C. WELLIVER, Correspondent of the New York Sun. London. —AU the world wondered — und nobody more than Marshal Hindenburg—that the British were able to keep instantly and constantly right on the heels of the retreating Germans after the recent evacuation of the territory back of the Bapaume-Peronne line. The thing didn’t fall out at all as the Gerinan general staff had foreseen. Those masters of the art of war had carefully calculated that when they yielded a very little ground after having first destroyed villages, blown up roads and furrowed the terrain with trenches and shellholes it would take at least a series of weeks for the British to bring up their forces and prepare -for—a- new-alla ek. —This was the whole strategy of the establishment of the new Hindenburg line. The weakness of Hindenburg’s calculation was that he knew too much about the established and accepted rules of war and too little about English and American ingenuity in producing the new types of war machine which make it possible for an army nowadays to, move faster than it ever could before.

Caterpillar tractors, as big as a respectable locomotive, make it possible to do things' with even the biggest howitzers that were undreamed of even when this war began. —Tractors the Big Factors. I have seen a couple of these leviathans taking a ten-inch howitzer over a road that had been theoretically “destroyed” three days earlier, almost under the fire of the enemy and actually within their own range of the nearest enemy positions, at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. All the horses that ever were commandeered couldn’t have been harnessed to do that job, simply because they couldn’t have got themselves through the mud, to say nothing of pulling something after them. I studied for several days the methods by. which one army was fairly leaping on the trail of another, and it seemed to me the greatest wonder that the war had—developed, The steel works of Birmingham and Bethlehem and Pittsburgh were doing it. But even before their giant contraptions could perform, the road must be_ready for them. .This reconstruction of roads is just plain, back-breaking, awful drudgery; but what magnificently organized and predigested drudgery! One would imagine that there must have been tens of thousands of huge motortrucks just back of the British line, everyone of them loaded to the last ounce of capacity with rock in graduated sizes, with massive timbers, piles, steel bolts and nuts and spikes and hammers and .sledges and everything else requisite for the road building to the front. Nothing had been forgotten, and although the evacuated region was a horror of mud and utter desolation, the evidence of absolute

STOP WASTE OF FLOUR

“I appeal to the bakers of the United States 'to quit making pastry during this emergency. "“I appeal to the housewives of American to stop buying pastry of bakers who do continue to make it. And I appeal to housewives to stop making pies, cakes and cookies in their own kitchens.” This is the plea of Dr. Gurli Mellenthin, who has just started a nationwide propaganda against the use of pastry as a means of conserving flour for the needs of our allies as well as far our own use.

organization, of perfect arrangement, of preHse and yet thoroughly elastic and adaptable plans was to be seen everywhere.. The emergency engineers who manage these things are wonders''in their way. They seem to know by Instinct what will be required of them. But it isn’t instinctso much as it is the complete knowledge of the terrain that has been brought back to them in the photographs taken by the flying corps* observers. Everything is -on hand, everything is in its right place, every man understands, just what is expected of him, and when they move forward there is seldom a hitch. Inevitably, it is fearfully expensive business, and sometipies there is overpreparation for the sake of certainty. Light Guns Move Quickly. The lighter and more mobile guns of course go forward earliest. They are built especially for this kind of experience and can get over half-built roads with an agility and safety that could not possibly be believed if one hadn’t seen the performance. The French “755” are particularly useful in this style of quick advance, but the British light guns, as now built, are hardly inferior. The handling of the 6, 8. 10, 12 and even 15-lnch howitzers is, of course, must impressive. Hitched to the J-v-cater- - tractors, they jog along, keeping pace with the light field pieces that are drawn by well-trained horses. These big guns, as now constructed, are the last word in mobility. No need to worry about building emplacements for them. They can be fired from any sort of ground, and If things get tod hot for them in one place they can be coupled up and hauled off to another. Along with the big guns go complete outfits of repair material and machinery, so that if anything goes wrong it can be attended to without a minute’s delay. Nothing known to modern war is so

TEN MILLION ARE SUBJECT TO THE DRAFT

Census Bureau Estimates That Is Number of Men Between 21 and 30. __ TEN FER CENT OF POPULATION Figures Show Men of Draft Age in the Several States and in the Leading Cities—Government Ready for Registration. Washington. —According to a statement issued by Director Sain L. Kogers of the bureau of the census, department of commerce, there are estimated to be in the United States at the present time, in round numbers, 10,000,000 men between the ages of} twenty-one and thirty, inclusive. Tills number represents very nearly 10 per cent of the estimated population of the country —between 103,000,000 and 104,000,000. The table below shows, for the United States, and for the leveling cities, the numbers of males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, inclusive, on July 1, 1917. The figures for that date are estimated on the assumption that the annual numerical increase since 1910 in each state lias been the same as the average annual numerical increase between 1900 and 1910. Subject to Draft. July 1,1917 (estimated). United States ........................10.078,900 Alabama . 309,900 Arizona - 34.(00 Arkansas California - 3b2,0W Colorado N9,y00 Connecticut Delaware .... ...........• • • ?0,100 District of Columbia 3J.400 Florida 95,300 Georgia ............................... 255,400 Idaho .. • 51,800 6?9:wo Indiana Idwa ?..... 799,000 Kansas Kentucky Maine * .§7*2x2 Maryland Minnesota 244,700 Mississippi Missouri -J5.000 Montana Nebraska I®.*** Nevada ......... —iS>x2? Nev Hampshire 'MBOO -New Jersey ...... New Mexico ’■ New York •North Carolina • l-h. 400 North Dakota 89.000 Ohio 491.300 L Oklahoma ■■■ *3.500 Oregon • • • Pennsylvania J.. 874,000 Rhode Island 60,300 South Carolina •» 13<.100 South Dakota «-600 Ten nessee .. - rr........ i*.w Vermont West Virginia 1 ’« Wisconsin • •••• zg.ow ’Wyemfur-•«- ■• ■ ■ Cities’ quota. 700 Chicago, 111. •« ?-i sno St. Louis, Mo Boston. Mass .•••• •••••? Li'rain Cleveland. O. £'222 Baltimore, Md. "1'”22 Pittsburgh, Pa. O'- 200 Prepare sot Registration. Acting on these figures, the war department began the distribution of upward of nine million registration to be filled in at the polling ’and other designated places by the men who fall within the draft ages. The blank cards contain spaces for

FARMER PATRIOT OFFERS FREE SEED POTATOES

Morristown, Tenn. —D. C. AT liters. a Cocke county farmer, is a patriot of the first order. He is a prosperous fanner and last fall he stored many bushels of Irish potatoes. Recently a buyer from the East offered Waters $2.50 a bushel for them. He declined the offer. Then he notified the neighborhood he had plenty of Irish potatoes for seed H nd that if any of his neighbors did not have the money to buy seed this spring he would give them potatoes to plant without making any charge. “Nbw “p - tato patches” are to be found everywhere in the community.

pampered, so delicately nursed, as -a big field howitzer, unless, perhaps, it be a superdreadnaught or a temperamental Missouri mule. And when <.ne of these delicate intruments gets Into range, that Is. so that It isn’t necessary to fire more than half way across a good-sized middle Western county, it can do an amount of business that quite (Justifies all the trouble it has required. A six-inch howitzer will drop an explosive shell everyten seconds, ami drop It exactly where it will do the most harm. Their accuracy in firing is almost unbelievable and quite indescribable. The biggest of them are manned by crews of naval gunners, trained to shoot from the unstable deck of battleship or cruiser and to hit the nuuk. When they get a chance on dry land which doesn't roll or sway beneath them it becomes highly undesirable to attract the diligent attention of one pf these crews within ten or a dozen miles. All this is a mild suggestion of what went wrong with the Hindenburg line. It was undoubtedly a mighty good line —once. But the engineers and mifChine shops behind the French and British armies had made their arrangements for wrecking it long before Hindenburg had even thought of establishing it.

answers to 12 questions, which will embody all the Information, will ch the government desires of each individual. Commercial travelers and others within the' ages of twenty-one andthirty, inclusive, who happen to be absent from their homes on registration days will be required to procure cards wherever they may be on that date and mail them to the county clerks in their home registration dlstricts. ' . l

BIG CROPS FOR NEW YORK

Western Portion of State Gives Promise of Big Yield of Potatoes and Small Truck. Buffalo, N. Y—An early census in the western New York agricultural districts shows there will be harvested over 100,000 bushels of potatoes more than in any recent year. This is the result of an organized effort to stimulate general crop production in larger quantities than ever. Indications are that the Niagara fruit belt will register a tremendous yield this year. Small truck is being raised in heretofore unheard of quantities. The great Chautauqua grape belt is expected to register another nilllion-dollar crop, with grape juice and wine companies already contracting for larger than usual tonnage of grapes. Early in the spring a great labor shortage loomed up, but this has been overcome in a measure by the farmcadet movement, which sent hundreds of boys into the rural districts.

RED CROSS GROWING RAPIDLY

Patriots Barred From Armed Service Find This Way of Doing Their Bit. Washington.—As a result of the warinspired patriotism th'e number of Red Cross chapters in the United States has more than doubled in the past three months. The number Is now three times that of a year ago. More new chapters were formed in April than existed In the whole country last July. Twenty-six new chapters were organized in the month of February; 74 in the month of March, while April surpassed nil records with 190 new chapters, a 51 per cent increase This brought the total number to 562 chapters, as against 272 at. the first of the year. Requests for chapters have come from every quarter of the country, from Alaska, Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines.

TAKE NEW “ANTITANK GUNS”

British Discover That German Invent- • ora Have Devised of Weapon. London. —Germany’s war inventors have devised a new form of weapon known as “antitank guns." These cannon are used against the hugerhrmed and armored monsters which the British have been using with such excellent results on the western front. The “antitank?, gun is a short-barreled seven-inch weapon, hurling a shell with tremendous power. \ A number of them have been Captured by the British forces on the Arras front.

QUESTION SUPREME

As a Professing Christian What Do I Stand For in the Kingdom? There Is one problem which we, as Christian people, must face and may solve Where do we stand in these times? Put in a personal way, “What do f stand for In the Christian cause?” The future of Christian ideals and effectiveness is an Individual problem when we know what the Individual will do, we know what all will do, and what Christianity stands for and will do through us. Each of us can find himself, come out in the opeq, and stand up and be counted. This, therefore, is the problem, how to translate our Christian faith into life and character which are able to meet new conditions and stand for the truths which are never old nor outworn. It Is our ideals which are changing with our conditions. If this were to exalt our ideals, then the change would be progress. We fear, however, that this is not true. Something is lacking, becoming blurred, to some of us. It is the sense of some sharp, dear, gripping Christianity which constitutes the-sign as alarming weakness on the part of many who once enlisted

for Christ. Communicants In Name Only. We have so many communicants who are communicants in name only. In the countries now at war if a man counted for no more and contributed as little to the needs of his country as these people count for or strengthen Christianity, he would be called a “slacker,” and most justly. It is a “sleeping sickness.” the loss of spiritual grip, the indulgence of a liberality in Christian conceptions which ends in the loss of biting conscience and living convictions. Doctor Horton’s allegory is not inapposite as descriptive of those who. In the decline of religious consciousness, are missing at roll call. The Spirit of Modern Progress one day called up a human being and finding him discontented gave light, modern plumbing, telephones, telegraphs, motor cars, comic operas, and steam yachts. Then said'the JSplrit, ‘Do you desire still more?’ and the human being replied. ‘Yes, make my religion more -comfortable,’ ‘That—ls simplicity itself,’ answered the Spirit, and thereupon he gave the human being magnificent churches, good preachers, and 20mlnute sermons. ‘And now,’ asked the Spirit, ‘are you satisfied nt last, or is, there something else yet lacking to your happiness?’ ‘Yes,’ was the answer, ‘■my conscience troubles me, make that comfortable.’ Took Away the Personal Devil. ‘“That is the easiest thihg of all,’ said the Spirit. And thereupon he did away with the personal devil and gave the human being an easy-going suminer and a hell' that makes a comfortable winter-resort. At that the human being fell back In his easy chtjir, and remarked: ‘Really, my dear . Spirit, you hflve made my religion so comfortable that I shall hardly need to think of it,’ and he burie# himself in the Sunday newspaper.” What of the future? Continued hopefulness to all who keep their faith and their mission. . Det each find the answer to the question, “If I am baptized, what obligation rests upon me?” As well ask, “If I enlist in the army, what is expected of a soldier?” Is it to be an amiy minus - or an army plus? “Is the church any stronger because I belong to her?” It would seem to be too elementary to go further and ask, “If I am confirmed, why?" “If I am a communicant, why?” No one can answer these questions for another, tie must answer them In and for and to himself. —Rt. Rev. C.E. Woodcock, D.D.

COMFORT TO THE NEEDY

There Is the “Friend That Sticketh Closer Than a . Brother.” Could words, mere words, adequately describe the infinite, merciful, forgiving love of the “Friend that sticketh closer than a brother?” Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom andknowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out! , Who then can express the inexpressible wonder of the love of God? And yet, there are times in our life when we feel we must try to speak of it; when not to speak would seem disloyaltyto our friend ;■ times when we have, as. it were, sounded th e fathom - less deep, sealed the yer flgl nous heights of the love of God, when we must exclaim with awe: “Lord, what Is man that thou a’rt mindful of him?” “Lord, I am not worthy of the least of these thy mercies;” The friend that sticketh closer than a brother, the one, true, unfailing friend! It is perhaps, when we have met with disappointmentwith air earthly friend, that, turning to our heavenly friend, we see more clearly the pure light of his love, with its manifold and hence perfect sympathy; perfect knowledge, hence perfect patience; yes perfect love, utpvorthy though we be! Shall we pot pray that to us may be granted the burning vision of his perfect love, that we may patiently await the time when we shall know as we are known, and love even as we are 10-ed?—Living Church. -

The Greatest of These is Charity.

, This. I think, is charity:.To love God foe irimself and our neighbor for God. —Sir The tn as Browne.