Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Page 2

Women Playing as Big a Part in Great World War as Are the Men

By JOHN BARRETT.

whatever that today the women in every country at war are fighting the ■battles back of the line just as bravely, loyally and faithfully as are the men in the long lines of front trenches and across the deadly reaches of ■“No Man’s Land.” Now that the United States has taken up the gantlet of war thrown down by the central powers, victory or defeat for the United States will depend as much upon the women as upon the men. This is no exaggeration. It is an undeniable truth. The more and the sooner the country -appreciates this fact, the surer and the sooner will the conflict end successfully for our land and flag. Knowing, therefore, the capability and adaptability of our women, and-ever holding in niemory the wonderful self-sacrifice of our grandmothers, our mothers and our sisters, in former •wars, let us draw conclusions from the recent experiments and achievements of British and French women and make practical recommendations for the women, young, middle aged and old, of America. The first quality required of a woman, as of a man, for competent national service is loyalty. The second is efficiency in every action or duty, in behavior and character —an efficiency which makes one in every waking moment do everything she has to do the best she knows how. The third quality expected is the ability to pick and perform unselfishly the work to which one is best suited, and. which one can actually do best, without regard to personal preference, pride, social ambition, or ’bodily comfort, but with due regard, of course, to one’s physical strength and health. The fourth quality is that of practicing economy and avoiding extravagance in all things. '

Duty of Every Young Man to Take Part In Practical Politics of Nation

By WILL H. HAYS,

To the young men of America I appeal for a larger interest in the politics of the country. The young men of today are the burden bearers of tomorrow. On the shoulders of the young voters will very soon rest governmental problems measured only by the vastness of the country s future. These difficulties must be met. This evolution is inevitable. To the young men of America I appeal. Become interested in politics. What we need more than all else in this country is an increased participationby. the good citizens of.the country in the actual politics of the nation. To which party you may now be inclined is of less importance than that you seek for the truth, and, finding it, act and then act continually. From his earliest manhood until his death, Abraham Lincoln actively participated in the politics of the country. At no time in his incomparable career did he think he was either too busy or too good to take part in the practical politics of his community. He believed this to be 'his duty; otherwise he would not have done it. Thus acted the greatest character not divine that ever-trod the earth —and what a condemnation is his conduct of those smug individuals who today sit with their hands folded and expect governmental affairs to be right, while they do nothing whatever to make them so! Things do not happen in this country —they are brought about; and , I have no use for the man who is either “too busy or too good to interest himself in politics. Study the histories of the great parties; see what they have accomplished in the past and what they promise for the future, and then, in every instance, make up your mind and act accordingly. And let us ibe certain that we “join ourselves to no party that does not follow the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.”

Producers Victims of Gambling System Dignified by Name of Speculation

By CHARLES S. BARRETT

Preiident Farmer*’ Education*! and Co-operative Union of America

Anything done in the name of business so hypnotizes the American people that they become very polite, and thus it has come about that we have dignified gambling by calling it speculation. The difference between legitimate business and this gambling which we call speculation is that in an honest business transaction both parties to the deal are benefited, whereas in the speculative transaction one man must lose that another may win. In the the producers whose products are the counters in the gambling game are the big losers, though they may never have had any part in the gambling. , , For fourteen years we have been publishing this truth, but never have we been able to get a hearing. The cotton farmers of the South have in the last 49 years been robbed of fully eight thousand millions of dollars •by the speculation in cotton. In the same period the wheat farmers have been mulcted in an equally large sum by the speculation in wheat. We can see now where some of the wealth produced in the country has gone, it has taken this frightful war, with all its calamities and sufferings to open the eyes of the people to the evils of speculation. And •evep now they only see it because the food gamblers are making everybody ipay the losses that they may pile up unearned millions. Now the people are talking about lampposts for food speculators, that drastic remedy would be merely treating a symptom. Tl» disease must be eradicated. We must abolish speculation in all our

, Director of the Pan-American Union

. The European war today is as much a womans war as a man’s war. The women are playing just as great a part in the struggle for humanity as are the men. There is no doubt the ambitions of male rulers were more responsible than the women for the precipitation of the conflict. There is no doubt if that ideal democracy in which women’s influence is duly recognized had prevailed all over Europe before the war, as it will when the war is over, the world would never have seen this titanic combat of rulers and peoples. There is, on the other hand, no question

, Chairman of Republican State Committee of Indiana

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

CARRY A SIX-TON BUILDING

Squad of 250 Soldiers Move Structure, 72 by 24 Feet, Without Aid of Any Machinery. Carrying a six-ton building, without the aid of machinery, or other equipment, was one of the unusual tasks performed hy 250 North Dakota soldiers when they were on the Mexican border, according to the Popular Mechanics Magazine. The frame structure that was moved housed the army Y. M. C. A. at Mercedes, Tex., and measured 72 by 24 feet Because its site was undesirable, It was proposed to hire a contractor to move the structure to a new location, but the army engineers devised a plan by which the men themselves could perform the task and so save money. They estimated that with 250 soldiers helping, each would have to carry less than 50 pounds. Accordingly the building was well braced and its walls provided with runners. Since there was no floor the men were stationed along all four walls, inside as well as out, each soldier standing next to a beam inserted beneath. At the word of command they lifted the building from the ground and marched away with it, to a site 200 yards distant.

CIGAR AS OPIUM SUBSTITUTE

Aiding in Redemption of China, Where Natives Are Now Frequently Seen Smoking Their Cheroots. The cigar Is doing a large part In the redemption of China. It is no uncommon thing to see a native smoking his cheroot, which promises to enjoy the favor once bestowed on opium. The import of cigars into various Chinese ports has been greatly on the Increase in the last few years, and now amounts to about $350,000 annually. Of this trade four-fifths normally is through Hongkong. There has been a marked increase In the quantity of Dutch-made cigars used in South China and other portions of the Far East during the last year or more, where, for various reasons, Philippine cigars have been losing in favor. Previous to the outbreak of the war In Europe considerable quantities of cheap cigars were sold In China and the Far East through German firms in Hongkong, and a German cigar factory was operated in Hongkong for the manufacture of cheap cigars for the Chinese trade and also for export to Europe. This factory is still operated under Chinese control.

Diamonds to Remain High.

The high cost of diamonds keeps up. If you have any hidden away among your potatoes and onions hold them, for you may not get any more. This is the prophecy made at a convention of the New York State Retail Jewelers’ association at New York, which predicts that the high price of diamonds will hold for a good many years after the war. Benjamin Rees, a diamond importer, in the role of prophet, said he had been abroad on diamond-buying excursions five times since tire war began ; that diamonds have advanced in price 30 to 40 per cent in the past year, and that the high prices will hold because the 17,000 cutters and polishers in Belgium are gone, the Kaffirs who mined the rough diamonds are making munitions and that England probably will put a tax on rough diamonds.

Candles Vs. Electricity.

The Society for Electrical Development, anxious to encourage a wider use of electricity for lighting, has prepared figures showing it is much cheaper than candles or kerosene. A recent test of six candles showed that for 1 cent only 2.68 candle-power hours were obtained. If electricity for lighting costs 9 cents for a kilowatt hour a 20-watt lamp can be lighted for 50 hours for 9 cents. The efficiency of a 20-watt incandescent is a candlepower for 1.17 watts. Thus a 20-watt lamp will provide about 17 candle power. It will burn 50 hours for 9 cents, or 850 candle-power hours will cost 9; cents. One cent will buy 94.4 candle-power hours, or 35 times as much light as can be obtained from a candle for 1 cent.

Salesmanship in Schools.

Boston has a director of salesmanship in its public schools. The place is filled by Isabel C. Bacon, who, at a session of the National Retail Dry Goods association, presented the question of co-operative courses in salesmanship in high schools and stores. She reported that her classes had increased in the last four years and that store executives were co-operating to make the work a success. In teaching salesmanship there is actual demonstration of the processes, a teacher acting as a customer and another as a salesgirl.

Cost of Dyes Before the War.

The dyes used on this side of the water cost the consumers between thirty and forty millions of dollars in normal times- This sum, says the Enginering Magazine, does not measure the total value of the industry, because in addition to the dyes produced there are many drugs and chemicals obtained as by-products of the manufacture which swell the total to probably $50,000,000 annually.

Nonpatriotic.

Gladys—Mother, I don’t speak to Jeanette any more. Mother —Why, dearie; what is the matter? And poor little Jeanette has been ill, too., • ■ " Gladys—That’s just it, mother. Shi went and had German measles.

SPAIN FULL OF MUSIC NOW

Bands of Hungarian Gypsies Fled From France at Beginning of War to Avoid Internment. Spain is filled with music. At nearly any hour of night or day one can hear the twanging and twinging of musical Instruments. The country 18 overrun by orchestras of Hungarian gypsies. . ... , ", .—— . These bands are among the most famous in Europe. usually are located, at Paris, Monte Carlo, Nice and other centers of gay life. When the war began these players, being Hungarians, had to get out of France or be interned as enemies. If they had returned to Hungary they would have had to put rifles on their shoulders in place of violins. So they all migrated into Spain, filling the country with music. Spain already had its share of gypsies, relics of the days of the Moors. These greeted the newcomers with open arms. They play together and often hold grand entertainments, at which one of the Hungarian gypsy bands play, an Austrian-Polish gypsy sings and a Spanish gypsy dances. Pastor Imperio, the fiery queen of the Spanish gypsies who married the king of the bull fighters, Guyio, is one of the star dancers. It is said the weird, Oriental strains of the Eastern gypsies combining with the wild toreador music of the Spaniards makes strange but pleasing music. A few bars of American' ragtime is introduced now and then to give dash to the dancing of the tango and one-step. This~medley of mustc~iß- - everywhere, at entertainments, theaters, hotels, concert halls and even in the streets, for Spain is crowded with these wandering players.

HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THEM

But He Could Tell Folks at Home That He Had Seen Exhibits in Art Museum, Anyway. He was little and bent and aged and a queer old felt hat flopped about his ears. But his eyes were bright and his chin stuck out at an aggressive angle. He evidently was on the home stretch through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He stood gazing with a puzzled -expression at a Venus de Milo. Then he passed on to -a. piece of fine art, a pair of sculptured legs which apparently were speeding through mid air for no reason at all and with no body to support. After gazing at these for some time the little man from Hi Holier or some such point scratched his head, then turned and made a bee line for the outside door, a relieved expression on his face.

“Well, doggone! I give ’em the once over, anyhow,” he was heard to mutter. “And I can tell that to the folks at hum !”—New York Herald.

The Man With the Hoe.

In the poem that caught general attention a few years ago the man with the hoe was presented as a stunted object, a pathe/ic failure, without reward for ceaseless hard work, a creature who never had a chance to know the-joy of living. It was a fafse note at the time, but suggested a subject worthy of thought. The national Secretary of agriculture has reviewed the food situation and he declares: “The farmer who makes five bushels of grain grow where three grew before contributes as much to victory and the future peace and security of the world as any- man in the trenches.” So runs the argument everywhere in a world crisis in which energetic, practical action Is a grim necessity. A danger must be overcome lest it overcome civilization. The real man with the hoe is now in evidence. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

War’s Little Tragedies.

“It’s all right for them to counsel the stay-at-home woman to sit tight and economize and thus do her part to help the - nation,” complained a boardinghouse keeper in Forty-second street. “But what are you going to do, I want to know, when you depend for a living on running a boarding and rooming house, and five of your best young men go off to the training camp? And it does seem as if it was the spunkiest and most likable that go first! I got one solemn, long-faced bookkeeper with me that never did shed a ray of sunshine round the place, but do you think he’d go? Not him! It takes the very best. Oh, dear!”—New York Herald.

Smoke Cigars by Electricity.

In tobacco factories and also in many show-window displays it is found desirable to have an electromechanical device which will smoke cigars in a similar fashion to that followed by mankind in general, says the Electrical Experimenter. A flexible cord plugged into the nearest electric-light socket supplies the miniature motor with power to drive a multiple-vane blower, his blower creates a back draft, and thus the perfectos of doubtful vintage may be smoked rapidly and naturally, The resulting length and character of the ash are noted by tobacco experts.

A Screw Loose.

The men were being drilled and the burly Ijut good-tempered sergeant was almost in despair about No. 9 in the front rank. “Now try left turn again!” he shouted, encouragingly. “It’s quite simple. Swivel round on the left heel—so!” No. 9 groaned and mumbled: “1 wish you’d let us do right turn a bit." “Why?" asked the sergeant. “Because my left rubber heel is coming unscrewed !J’ was the reply.

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Combats Work of Agitators Among Foreigners NEW YORK.—Mrs. T. D. M. Cardeza is a little woman with a great mission. Through her recent appointment as secretary to Mrs. Marian K. Clark, chief investigator of the bureau of Industries and immigration, she is

actual census she is the only employee of a state bureau in the government of the United States who presides over her own castle in Europe. Mrs. Cardeza has become a wbrkingwoman with a regular job, and she is quite willing that you should call it that, because she believes that this is the most effective way in which she can at present serve this country. - In her work of assisting Mrs. Clark she travels from one great industrial concern to another, addressing the men who work in the factories and assuring them that if they go quietly about their business and do not engage in any unlawful acts or take part in gatherings whose intent is hostile to this country they will be entirely,safe and free from governmental molestation. “Poor, bewildered people,” said Mrs. Cardeza, “it is necessary that we should reach them before the agitators do. These foreign men and women need someone to tell them in their own language exactly what the president said in his message. And it is necessary that they should be approached by persons who understand not only the language but the point of view of the European peasant. . _ —_ “Nor is it only for their sakes that the state industrial commission is sending us from one great plant to another to address these men in friendly fashion. It ,1s equally Important to this country. There are agitators here from their own countries who would incite them to engage in undertakings that might cause untold harm In the United States.” Famous Horse’s Last Days to Be Spent in Ease ST. LOUIS, MO. —Chief, the sorrel horse driven for many years by Fire Chief Swingley before the automobile became the modern fire vehicle, Is assured of a grassy pasture and nothing to do but eat as long as he lives.

For several years Chief has been pensioned by the city and was given his freedom in a pasture on Chesley Island. Recently Comptroller Nolte rented the island farm to Earl W. Jones.. Then Nolte faced the problem of what to dd with Chief. Nolte went to the Island to bring back the city stock and equipment not purchased by Jones. The subject of Chief’s pasturage was the last subject brought up. “Leave the old horse here and I

will keep him free of cost to the city as long as I live on the Island,” Jones told Nolte. His offer was accepted immediately and the sentimental problem was solved. Chief Swingley bought Chief in 1894 at the National stock yards in East St. Louis and he became the official buggy horse for the chief. He galloped’ to all fires with Chief Swingley for 14 years and was sent to the pasture about eight years ago. The fire chief never had ah accident on the way to and from fires while Chief was pulling his buggy. Chief absolutely refused to collide with, a street car and either stopped or beat the car across the crossing. Chief Swingley frequently went to a theater. When a fire alarm sounded his driver would drive to the theater and Stop. Chief, apparently knowing his master was inside, would whinny and the chief invariably answered promptly. Chief was turned loose at fires and loafed about all night, if necessary, but never did he leave until Chief Swingley returned to the buggy. Cat an Incorrigible “Nighthawk,” Says Woman BALTIMORE. —Among the things which the members of the joint committee on police and jail of the city council learned about cats recently, when a public hearing was given on an ordinance to tax cats, was that it is as impossible to keep a cat in at night

Destroy gardens. Play with rats instead of catching them. ■ Dig seeds out of gardens as fast as they are planted. Kill birds. Carry germs and spread disease. ■ . ■■ ' _ '. \ : The ladles who def Piffled the rights of the “tabbies.” however, did not ■ see things in the same light as the men who urged a favorable report on the ordinance. ' Miss Nellie C. Williams said germs have no more affection for the fur on the back of a cat than they have for the mustache of a man. “You would not put a collar and a tag on a man’s neck because he wore a mustache, would you?” It seemed that the several score women who were present all wanted to say something in defense of the rights of the felines. Woman Thinks Running Elevator Is “Great Fun” BUFFALO.— Don’t crowd, gents. All may have a ride. She enjoys run-, ning It Immensely, and doubtless will be on the job for many months to come. If you will form in line and wait your turn, we will now introduce

Mrs. May Tyrrell, Buffalo’s first woman elevator operator. . She runs the electric elevatpr in the new Colonnade building in Pearl street, opposite St. Paul’s church, i' “It’s great fun,” said Mrs. Tyrrell, slamming the ground-floor door. “There is no reason at all why women should not run -ele —floors, please?— for is a congenial occupation and one that it not tiring. First floor! “It took me only a few mintites to learn, and —yes, sir, you’ll find the

manager on the next floor —and running an elevator is a pleasant sensation—at least for a woman who is a beginner at it. I know that —top floor, watch, your step, please.” -. There was nothing left to do but to step out. - - B. B. Burbank, manager of the Colonnade building, said that he engaged! Mrs. Tyrrell because he had found trouble in getting an elevator boy that W ° U “They 4 have elevator girls in New York and Chicago, so I thought IJ would try it out in Buffalo,” he said. “It is such a success that manager* of one or two office •buildings in Buffalo have been over here to see how practical it is.”

engaged in assisting the representatives of the New York state industrial I commission in carrying the assuring message of President Wilson, that no one who obeys the law will be Interfered with, to the great colonies of workmen subjects of the central European powers who are' settled in New York. Mrs. Cardeza, who is the wife of a prominent Philadelphian, is probably the wealthiest workingwoman in New York, and it is safe to say without an

as it is to keep in a man. Miss Mary Shearer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made this statement. It was in reply to statements by some men who favored the ordinance that cats should be kept in at night and not permitted to keep the populace awake. Some of the knowledge obtained by the committee was: Cats howl at night and keep people awake.