Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — Page 3

PAINTING THEM UP FOR WARFARE

American destroyers Patterson and Jenkins having their war paint put on at the Charlestown navy yard. Their numbers are painted out

FALSE ECONOMY IS THE REAL MENACE

Stop Wastage of Food, but Do Not Curtail Necessities, Says J. Ogden Armour. URGES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” Continuous of Great Prosperity That Has Ruled Country for Two Years |« Assured —Billions Loaned Allies to Be Spent Here.

k Chicago—The United States is in a position where optiipism is justified, according to J. Ogden Armour in an interview discussing the economic condition and future of the nation. “The prompt adoption by the American i people of the ‘business-as-usual’ idea is going to enable this nation to prosecute war without experiencing a temporary depression such as England and France have recently recovered from,” said Mr. Armour. “Modern war requires the expenditure of huge sums of money and means maximum employment and high wages for all 'workers. Other conditions, peculiar to this war, make it certain that this nation will enjoy a period of business and industrial activity tiie like of which has never been seen and which is assured whether the war lasts several months or severhl years.” No Reason for Alarm.

“But suppose people become overcautious as the result of the preaching of war economy—then what?” he was asked. “There is some reason to believe,” he answered, “that economy rules will be misapplied for a while, but conditions are such that the public will soon see, if they have not already, that there is no occasion whatever for them to become alarmed. “Continuation of the great prosperity that has ruled in this country for two years is assured. There is an abnormal dertanh for everything the workers of this nation can grow or manufacture. There is work at high wages for every man and woman who wants work; the earning power of the people is restricted only by physical limitations; the buying power of the public is greater than ever before.. There are certain guaranties of continued prosperity arid of an ever widening scope to our business and Industral life.” Releases Billions Here. “How about the billions of dollars we are lending to our allies?” he was asked. “Wouldn’t it be better to keep that money at home?” “As a matter of fact, it is a misnomer to call it a loan to our allies,” Mr„ Armour said: “We are primarily expending them credit. Instead of sending billions of dollars out of the country, tlie transaction means that billions of dollars will actually be freed for circulation in this country. Practically all of the billions we lend our allies will be spent in this country for the products of our soil and our factories and for payment of our workers. “We are the storehouse and the factory of the world now, mid the more money the world can get hold of the more will-be sent here, and the more that comes here, the more vyork and the iribre business will result.- And in this connection?-remember the government of the United States is now a buyer for war purposes and the dollars of Uncle Sam already have begun to pour forth to stores, factories, and farms to pay for the expense of mobilizing, drilling, equipping, and feeding tire army and navy. “Under the civilian boards gathered together by the president to direct the great work of preparation, this nation is going ahead, fortified against delay and mistakes through the intelligent application~of thq, lessons learned in England and in France. This applies to industry as “well as war. Time Most Auspicious. “I consider the present the most auspicious from the standpoint of national prosperity in my memory. There is not one good reason why the business of this country Should not proceed in Its normal course and op ever increasing lines. There is not one reason why people- shoaid fear for the futbre or Should peimit themselves to be swayed

from the certainty that they are on a sound financial basis. The per capita wealth of Americans today is greater than ever before —greater than that of the people of any nation at any time in the past or in the present. “Whether the war ends tomorrow or whether it lasts indefinitely this- much is certain: The United States, having possession of approximately 40 per cent of the) world’s supply of gold, the greatest natural resources and geographical isolation, is certain to suffer less than any other nation in the war or in the whole world. . “The nation has been advised to economize on food. Economy means the intelligent use without waste; it does not call for self-denial. Economy was recommended to stop the waste of the $700,000,000 worth of food which goes into the garbage pall each year. The wave of patriotism sweeping over the country should not- seize upon parsimonious economy as a means of expression. There is mo need for people to cease purchasing; there is need only for the elimination of extravagance and waste. There is no reason whatever for curtailment of the use of things ordinarily needed by people; there is need that everything be put to use. “As patriots, it is our duty to stop the wasteage of food; as patriots it is equally important that we do not stop the ordinary purchasing on which the business and the Industry of the country are founded. Hysterical economy is as much a menace to the nation as is prodigal waste.

Keep Faith, Advice. “Faith is the great need of the people today—faith in Providence to lend might to our right, faith in nature to respond bountifully to the wonderful efforts of our agriculturists to Increase the food supply to provide a surplus for our allies, and faith in our government which has taken hold of the problems before it in a way that demonstrates it is deserving of out faith. “If I were asked,” concluded Mr. Armour, “to give a message to the American people—to the farmers, the wage earners, the merchants, the manufacturers, and all—it would be this: "Be strong in your faith that nature will reward the efforts being made to produce big crops and co-operate with our president, Woodrow Wilson, in his efforts to keep the nation composed and so organized as to most efficiently prosecute war. Be confident and- live your normal lives, as far as possible. Make business proceed as usual.”

FLEES CELL IN GUARD’S GARB

Prisoner Beats Keeper Insensible at Auburn, N. Y, —Trailed to Barn; Surrenders. Auburn, N. Y—Reynolds Forsbrey, a notorious criminal, beat Keeper John Betts insensible, donned his uniform and escaped from the state prison the other afternoon. He was serving nine years for first-degree assault, arid faced a second term of 20 years or life for murder In the second degree. When Betts was found an hour after the escape hundreds oT keepers, police and sheriff’s deputies started combing the surrounding country. Forsbrey the guard’s gun, and his prison reputation indicated he would put up a stiff fight If found. He was discovered several' hours later in a barn and surrendered to two guards without resistance.

FILIPINOS EAGER TO ENTER U. S. NAVY

Manila, P. I.—Enthusiasm for the war rules 'high among the Filipinos. They are almost unanimously loyal tc( the United States. They have not forgotten how the German fleet threatened Dewey at Manila in 1898, and might well have attacked the American warships had not the British fleet made it clear it would support the conquerors of the Spaniards. The islanders are especially eager to enter the United States navy. t .

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DON'T EAT ANY OLD POTATOES

Millions of Patriotic Citizens Will Obey Edict to Insure Big New Crop. OLD ONES NEEDED FOR SEED Prominent Chicago Club Starts Movement Which Quickly Spreads to All Parts of Country—Speculators Hoarding Supply. Chicago, Hl. —Several million patriotic citizens will eat no more old potatoes until after July 1. They take this method of helping to make as large as possible the potato crop of the United States next harvest —a very important matter. The “Eat No Potatoes” movement started a short time ago with the Hamilton club, one of the leading political and social organizations in the country, quickly was taken up by other clubs and hotels here, and soon was spreading out over the nation in all directions. Who started the movement? An agricultural expert of international reputation, Eugene H. Grubb, is the man. He made a public statement in Chicago, saying: “If all the seed potatoes in the United States were planted this spring they would not produce a sufficient crop to meet the needs of the country.” That was an ominous statement but Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, backed it with this: Needed for Seed.

“There are several things I wish to urge upon the American people for the sake of economy and as a patriotic duty. First, don’t eat any old potatoes. We need them for seed potatoes. Buy new ones, if you can afford them, or use rice or something else as a substitute.” That settled it Hamilton clubmen formed a committee which began work by taking potatoes off the club restaurant menu. Other clubs in town were asked to co-operate. Then clubs and hotels and prominent individuals aU over the land were asked to ban th< potato and use their influence tokeexi folks from eating old potatoes. The replies came in a flood, and they were the right kind of answers, too. The Hamilton club committee also started an investigation in the Chicago vegetable markets to see how many potatoes were held here. Imagine their surprise when they found certain commission men and food speculators in possession of more than half a million dollars’ worth of the vegetable. This supply had been bought up during the late winter and early spring and the owners were planning a profit of millions of dollars. And now the appeal has gone forth to farmers: “Don’t sell your seed potatoes at any price.” The potato planting season begins very early in the South, but it does not end until about the first of July in northern Michigan, Minnesota and Montand, which are imtv'rtant potato states. The American who wants to help Uncle Sam win the war ant! who will be delighted to get a chanc* to trim the food speculators, has his ipfort®nity now: He should eat no old p* tatoes until after the planting mxisqq.

BEST FED CHILDREN

Harvey W. Wiley and John Pres ton Wiley (right), sons of Dr. Harvel W. Wiley,former food expert of th< United States government and authol of many volumes of scientific work! relating to foods, are practical exam« pies of their father’s teachings. “Theft boys, since their births, have had noth* ing but proper foocte,” said Doctoi Wiley, when asked tff share his recipe with others. “First, their mother’! milk weaning time; then,modified, pure, fresh, clean cow’s milk from tu. berculin-tested animals until they were large enough to begin to chew, They have been given only foods containing mnterinls to secure growth and not to make fat. They eaWrown bread, purs milk, good fruits, succulent vegetable* and after three years of age they hat; a little meat, but not very much. Theit teeth are especially well nourished regular, being hard, white and flinty, They have not had any Candy, very little sugar or sweets of any kind, except the sugar natural to their food Their typical meal at nighttime 1| wholewheat bread with a , little port butter, and a pint each of pure, twali milk.

THREE PITCHERS ACT AS PINCH HITTERS

The old idea that a pitcher couldn’t hit is being rapidly dissolved. Ray Caldwell is the main pinch hitter of the Yankees. Walter Johnson is the leading pinch hitter of the Nationals. But the premier bird of them is Babe Ruth of the Red Sox. Ruth is probably the best hitting pitcher that baseball has ever known. George Slsler started out as a pitcher, and he may have challenged Ruth’s title, but not even the Brownie star is as feared as the big left-hander on the Red Sox staff. He is not only a consistent batsman, but he is as likely to crack one over the fence or up into the stands as any man in baseball. Last season Ruth had as many home runs as Tris Speaker or Joe Jackson, two of the game’s leading sluggers, who played in almost three times as many contests.

TO PAY LARGER PRICES

Club owners in the major leagues expect to pay an additional $2,000 for hotel bills this season. Several of the club presidents have been notified that some of the hotels where their teams stopped have found it necessary to raise their rates 50 cents to $1 a day for each man. The clubs usually carry about twenty-five men on the road, and this will mean the payment of sls to $25 additional each day, or about $2,000 for the season.

MACK’S GOOD HITTING TEAM

Philadelphia Speaks Enthusiastically of Athletics’ Chances—No Slacker in Bunch. James W. Gantz, a Philadelphia writer, speaks enthusiastically of Cbi> nle Mack’s chances for a good hitting team. Here is what he has to say: “From the way that the Athletics have been handling their bats and recalling their reputation as minor league sluggers, there is every reason to believe that Connie will put on the field this year a team which in hitting strength will be the equal of any that he has ever had. Every man who is counted upon for a regular position in the infield or the outfield knows how to handle his bat. There isn’t one of them who, to/use the language of the players, puts his foot in the water bucket. There isn’t a batting slacker in the bunch. Every man faces the pitcher fearlessly and steps into the ball instead of pulling away from it. Connie had the minor leagues combed for hitting talent last year, and he appears to have landed what he sought.”

LEGORE TURNED DOWN OFFER

Informs President Phil Ball of St. Louis Browns That He Wouldn't Play Professional Ball. Harry Legore, football and baseball star of Yale university, has refused a contract with the St. Louis Amerieans. He was offered a position at-the close of the present college year. Phil Ball, president of the club, said Le-

Harry Legore.

gore had informed him that be would cot play professional baseball for $50,000 a year. _ There is nb doubt that this famous athlete, were he so inclined, could take his place as one of the greatest players in the game, but he (Refers the khaki.

TWIRLERS WHO ARE HEAVY HITTERS.

DIAMOND NOTTS

Those Cardinals are playing a good game of ball. * • * Dilhofer, the new catcher of the Chicago Cubs, seems to be a find. I Barney Dreyfus says he Is not discouraged over the showing the Pirates are making. • • • If some ball players were permitted to filibuster, one ball game would last all summer. * • * Mike Massey, playing second for the Braves in the absence of Evers, is a smooth and tidy workman. • * * The National league twirlers are now restricted to three throws in warming up before innings. * * * Some baseball clubs play so mechanically that they ought to be operated on the nickel-in-the-slot basis. • * * It’s pretty tough on a guy who is both a basebait, and boxing fan. ’ The poor fish never gets a vacation. • * * Pittsburgh fans are pulling strongly for Jimmy Callahan in his efforts tc build up a winner in the Smoky city. * • • The Athletics are moving up in the standing and Manager Mack’s men will certainly bear watching this summer.

Pitcher Fred Herbert, former Giant and Brooklyn Fed twifrler, has announced his retirement from the game. Robert Quinn, efficiency expert of the Browns, so far has confined his efficiency experting to the business office. • . * * H. B. (Happy) Harrison, formerly a welLknown minor league player, has been elected city clerk of LaPorte, Tex. • • ♦ In addition to being a golf caddy, Jack Adams,W the Quakers, once was a chauffeur, although he held the job for only a few days. « * • Dave Bancroft of the Phillies was once a candy butcher; that is, he sold refreshments, fruit, candy and newspapers on a railroad train. * ♦ • Can’t blame the fans if they don’t turn out this season to the games of the tail-end clubs. The submarine peril is something awfuL * ♦ ♦ - Ray Richmond, a pitcher who had a trial with the Bloomington Three-I league club, has quit baseball and joined the army aviation service. *" ♦ • Gary Fortune, the youth frdm North Carolina, is the soldier pitcher of Pat Moran’s squad. He belongs to the National Guard at Asheville, N. C. ♦ ♦ • J • ■ Pitcher Hub Leonard of the Red Sox is making good headway in his argument that he can pitch good ball even if Bill Carrigan is not there to catch him. • • • Ping Bbdie, with the Athletics, is making good his promise to “show up Callahan.” Ping is staging a real comeback and bls hitting is a big figure In what success the Athletics are having.

YOUNGSTERS IN FRONT

Five Clubs Playing Brand-New Shortstops Regularly. -—to Imposing Array of Pitcher* Scattered Among Different Teams in Major League*—Guisto Making Good at Cleveland. There are few clubs right now In the two major leagues that are not flashing some youngster, his first year out. In some position as a“regular. -Tua old-timers, seemingly, are taking the count collectively. There are no less than five clubs who have brand-new shortstops performing regularly, and there is a horde of new regulars in the Other positions. . . The Reds have three new ones, all regulars.; Cueto, an outfielder, and Shean and Kopf are debutantes in the charmed circle of major leaguedom, and they’re getting away with it Shean Is a veteran as a ball player, but he lias taken a veteran's place now in the majors. Kopf has seen major league duty, but never as a regular until he became shortstop for the Reds. Cueto is a youthful Cuban, who knows hew to bang the ball and play the outfield. Risberg Is the new White Sox shortstop, Fabriqne has taken over the same burden for tfie Dodgers, Chick Ward is in the same fix with the Pirates, and Wortman proved a sensation in the shortfleld for the Cutfs until he was injured. The Phillies and Braves have placed newcomers on the bench to wait developments. Both are shortstops. McGafligan is with the Phillies and Rawlings with the Braves. There is an imposing array of new pitchers. Nearly every club has its new sensation. Joe Oeschger is trying his new spurs on for the first time for the Phillies. Urgan Shocker is drawing all his pay from the Yankees this year, Cadore is a Dodger regular. Connie Mack has a whole fistful of them. Howard Ehmke is a Detroit regular. Christy Mathewson is showing a bevy of them how he used to fool the boys. Louis Guisto is hammering the ball and fielding like a demon at first base for the Indians. It’s his first season as an honest-to-goodness big leaguer. And even with this array of minor league talent making good Jimmy Callahan is using an outfielder at first base and is combing the bushes for a man to take his place.

ONE TIGER WAS OVERLOOKED

Manager Rowland of White Sox Underrated Hitting Ability of Southpaw Coveleskie. “When I had my short try-out with the White Sox,” says Hod Eller, one of the Cincinnati recruit pitchers. “I shared in some marvelous managerial instructions. Yea, verily, as the good book says, I’ll never forget our first game against Detroit. Manager Rowland carefully went through

Hod Eller.

the list of the Detroit batters and explained just what each Tiger could and could not hit. “He told us what Cobb, and Crawford, and Veach, and Vi tt, and all the rest were supposed to miss, and we absorbed the instructions attentively. "When Rowland had finished, somebody spoke up and asked: ‘How about Coveleskie?’ Rowland laughed merrily. ‘Never mind about Coveleskie.’ said he. That fellow can’t hit anybody, so what’s the use of bothering with him? And that fatal afternoon Coveleskie imade 'four hits in four times at bit, and won his own game against us.”

WANTS TO RETAIN BASEBALL

Vice President Marshall Baye> Country Needs Game—May Be Utilized « for Patriotic Purposes. Notwithstanding the war, Vice President Marshall hopes the American people will not be deprived of baseball. His views are set forth in a letter to President Johnson _of.the Amer- . lean league in acknowledging receipt of an annual pass. “Baseball may be utilized for patriotic purposes by the thoughtful citizens at the present time,” the vice president wrote. “And as they see the contending clubs play to the limit of their ability for dub success, may every man and woman in the grandstand be impressed with the duty of playing the gn.me of patriotism to the end that American arms may triumph.”