Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — Page 3

Pacifists Are Menace to Nation And Activities Must Be Curbed

By JOSEPH H. COIT.

in the position of a man close to the border line of treason and, possibly, over that line. One great weakness of this country—a weakness that stands out like spines on a cactus plant —is that we argue too much. Instead of telling the traitorous and un-American pacifist to shut up or get out of the country, we try to make him come around to our way of thinking. This cannot be done. The pacifist will remain disloyal to the end.

Constructive Thrift Is Sane Spending as Well as Sane Saving

We are in the midst of a period when great care must be exercised by all of us lest we bring harm to the business interests of the country through the practices of misguided thrift. We must bear in mind that there are two kinds of thrift: destructive and constructive. Neither indiscriminate tightfistedness nor wanton waste is constructive thrift. Constructive thrift is sane spending as well as sane saving. If every citizen of America quit spending money, it would not be long before we found ourselves in the midst of industrial chaos. Whether in times of peace or war, waste is reprehensible, and at the present time waste of food is unpatriotic. But the legitimate currents of money that turn the nation’s wheels of industry must flow on.' , The declaration of war was a business shock from which we still have not entirely recovered. In the midst of this crisis the nation sought refuge in thrift to conserve our resources and keep up the food supply for ourselves and our allies. Naturally there was considerable hysteria. Happily, however, we are now getting around to normal conditions —we are beginning to find ourselves. > / _ l Secretary McAdoo recently stated to the bankers of Chicago that the United States and her allies will Spend $9,000,000,000 for supplies in America in the next year, if the war continues that long. At the same time he offered this excellent advice: "Have you ever reflected what it would mean if every man and woman in the country should save during the next year what is ordinarily wasted by each in the way of food and general supplies? If 100,000,000 people reduce their demand upon the general supply of food and materials through the stoppage of waste and extravagance, it would release an enormous amount, which in turn could be used for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the 1,000,000 soldiers in the field. "Moreover, it will have a helpful influence in keeping down the prices of food and preventing the hardships which are imposed upon all the people whenever the general price level of the necessaries of life is raised. Let each citizen study his individual case. Let him eliminate waste, do his bit toward the production and preservation of the nation’s food supply and exercise care lest he indulge in the baneful practices of misguided thrift and thus keep from circulation money that rightfully belongs there.

Increased Production of Gold to Make America Real Banker of World

By W. C. RALSTON.

' Formerly Assittont U. S. Treasurer at San Francisco

Those who have given thought to the financial situation know’ that immediately after peace is declared a heavy outflow of gold will begin. We shall be called upon to return all that has come in here and more besides. The question naturally suggests itself, Where is this more to come from? _ The United States and its territories produced in gold in 1916 slOl,000,000 and in 1916 $95,000,000, which shows that our gold production is falling off, l)ut the stock of gold in this country has increased from $1,887,000,000 at the outbreak of the war to about $3,089,000,000 today. Our government, unlike any other government in the world, does not interest itself very much in the production of gold. Once in a while you hear someone make the statement that there is plenty of gold in this country, and it leaves you with the idea that gold does not cut very much of a figure in the finances of a nation. The true answer to that point qf view is found in asking the question, What gives England her supremacy in the financial world ? Not her navy, not her manufacturers nor her products, but the fact that she controls the gold, product of the world, and for that reason is able to establish, under ordinary conditions, the rates of exchange and to make the English pound the basis thereof. We are told that we have been getting much profitable knowledge from the visits of the foreign commissioners to this country regarding war conditions and how we can meet them. Let us go one step further and add financial preparedness to our present work, and adopt Britain’s method, “dig more gold.” We have a wonderfully rich domain in the territory west of the Bocky mountains and in Alaska. It is only awaiting development, and when properly developed will increase the production of gold to such an extent that we can become the bankers of the world in fact—not tn name only, as we are today. A man would be foolhardy who would attempt to foretell what will happen in this country when the war ceases, when this immense amount of gold has gone back into its natural channels, and we are called upon to furnish more gold to help resuscitate and rebuild the countries now at war. I myself would not even hazard a guess. But one thing is certain: an increased production of gold will go further toward helping any condition that may arise than any other one thine.

, Chairman of Board of Trustees, American Defense Society

This country must "get” the pacifist before he gets the country. There is need now for strong warfare within our own geographical limits against the man who wants Uncle Sam to turn the other cheek, .to take the insults of anyone who wants to hand them out, and to allow any militaristic nation in Europe to step on our toes rather than fight. The pacifist is a menace. The fight against the pacifist must be carried on relentlessly and he must be reminded that, in the face of the declaration of war against Germany, he stands

By S. W. STRAUS

President of American Society for Thrift

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSEEAER, -IND.

Is Dainty Frock

The little frock shown in the sketch' is made of beige-colored georgette,* embroidered in silver braid to form a girdle, and trimmed about the neck and bottom of the skirt with bands of navy faille ribbon. A wide girdle of ribbon is used. The frock buttons from neck to hem with small bullet-shaped navy buttons. To make the frock five and a quarter yards of material 36 Inches wide will be required. Dresses made entirely of georgette, usually trimmed „with metal, silk or bead embroidery, are very popular for

Georgette Frock.

dressy wear. The material even in light colors Is serviceable, for it is easily laundered, and is dainty and eooHooktng, says a writer in the Washington Star. Lingerie frocks are also extremely popular, voiles, organdies, fine lawns and various linens being favored materials. - •• —— Dainty trimmings, fine tucking, hemstitching and other handwork are largely featured in the selection of decofations.

FOR RAINY DAY IN SUMMER

One-Piece Dress of Dark Material Offers Solution to Problem Confronting Many Women. Everyone wishes to dress as comfortably cool as possible when the thermometer is doing its best to register as far above the nineties as possible. Light-weight clothes, light colors and sensible styles are necessary for summer comfort. There are days, however, when a light dress looks out of place, and yet the atmosphere Is so full of humidity that one must have something cool. The one-piece dress of a dark color Is the solution to this problem which confronts every woman, but Is more serious for the woman who goes to business every day. Dark blue is perhaps tLe color that will be most welcomed, although dark green Is a close second. There should be at least one or two frocks of this color In every summer wardrobe. As for the materials of which to make them, there are many suggestions to give. Voile is a very wise selection. It is cool, it does not add bulk to the figure and it launders beautifully. Handkerchief linen is another delightful material, although the objection that Is likely to be raised to this is the fact that it musses quickly. One business woman who is always the picture of neatness and coolness even on the hottest day upholds the advantages of having at least two dark silk dresses In the summer wardrobe. light-weight taffeta. Whichever she selects Is combined with georgette crepe, for with sleeves of this material a frock cannot help but be cool.

MANY NOVELTIES IN CAPES

This Article of Apparel Seems to Be Becoming Smarter and Odder, But In Some Cases Impracticable. Capes get smarter and fodder, although, In some cases, more impracticable. White pique for an under waistcoat, for instance, la not practical at all, but Is very good to see, combined with navy-blue tricotine. The cape ties with a black silk bow at the throat, just below the upstanding pique collar, and repeats this effect at the belt of black silk. It finishes In a point at the back. Navy blue serge with a lightweight white serge lining showing at the turning cuffs and collars Is the materiM. of another one. The back is a panel attaching to the front with buttons under the arm openings. Braid weaves In and out from the shoulders down to the waist, in and out of folds of the material. Braid also fastens the high collar. < A little cape and waistcoat combination is In navy blue serge for the cape, black and white flannel for the waistboat, and white flannel for the collar. i —

The one ties with a black and white striped tie. It has regular sleeves in It, underneath, which are cuffed with wide white flannel. Extraordinarily smart, and somewhat different, is one of tete de negre bolivia cloth, light weight. This is full .and straight, high-collared and broad-belted. It is a coat, except that the sleeves are not sewed together underneath. Instead, they flow out and down Into a long, full cape behind. The cape being joined to the coat part by the belt, however, gives somewhat the effect and the feeling of sleeves. Large black buttons finish this.

PARIS WOMEN WEAR BROGANS

Scotch Shoes, With Overhanging Tongue, Come Into Fashion in French Metropolis. From Paris comes word that the low shoes, which well-dressed women of that city are wearing, are especially meant to go with the new length of skirt which the majority of the French couturiers have advocated. Many of the new shoe fashions have been taken from those worn by actresses id successful plays running during the winter at French theaters. Some of these include low-cut shoes tied with wide ribbons, the loops standing out in Louis XIII fashion. Others suggest the interlacing ankle strap for the low shoes. Then there are colonial pumps, which seem always to be in good style, particularly as the accom-. paniment of the tailored type of costume. The Scotch brogan with its overhanging tongue is said to be coming into fashion among some of the Parisian women who advocate distinction in their shoes. The perforated decorations of the Scotch brogan have been copied in some of the high shoes.

POCKET IS IN VOGUE AGAIN

After a Brief Lull It MakesAppeara nee on Evening Gowns as Well as on Sports Clothes. The majority of experts, confidently predicted the end of pockets last winter, and for a while there was a noticeable absence of them. The dressmakers thought that there was nothing new to be found in these appendages, but the late spring season brought them out in full force again, and a good many new Ideas seem to have been discovered for their summer vogue. They do not limit their appearance to sports clothes, but have become a smart bit of trimming on evening gowns. In the latter capacity they are made of colored tulle heavily threaded with jewels, and on one especially good gown they are carried like small buckets by a long rope of brilliants that passes around the neck. There are pockets that droop and pockets that are squarely placed across the material in a military manner. There are pockets that are smocked, quilted, embroidered and soutacbed. On white wool jersey skirts there are large pockets trimmed in the peasant manner of applying a design in brightcolored cloth with a buttonhole stitch.

FALL BONNET FOR KIDDIE

The fall fashions for kiddies have made their appearance and they are the prettiest seen yet. This is one of the moat charming of them. It la of maroon velvet combined with satin of the same color and is a bonnet that wilt gladden the heart of any little girl.

An Appealing Touch.

What homemaker does not have to confront this problem? Arranging flowers every day for the dining and living rooms, bunting out original, effective flower holders for luncheon or dinner table is one of the pleasures of the day. Not yet too well known is the wicker central mound with compartment for a tiny canary, over which flowers and green can be so well arranged that if starling pipes up, his song comes as a complete surprise. An inexpensive possession of this type lends an appealing human touch at table that is sure to be irresistible.

Petticoats to Match Each Frock.

A petticoat to match each dress is a new and expensive, but pretty, wrinkle. It must be very limp and flimsy—any crepe plisse—and foounted on a smooth hip yoke.

Peasant Life In Northern Italy

IT IS now nearly two years since Italy took her place beside the allies in the life and death struggle that Is holding the world in its grip, and yet the calm and quiet to be met with here in North Italy and close up to the firing line cannot fall to strike even the most casual observer, writes a correspondent of Country Life. You hear the roar of the cannon, some days almost continuously, just over the mountains that divide the “Veneto” from Austria; day by day the hospital train passes along the valley carrying its load of sick and wounded down froip the front; day by day motors and Tied Cross cars dash along the high road at breakneck speed, giving the impression that matters of life and death hang on the pace at which they can reach their destination ; and yet the peasants work on in steady adherence to their tasks barely looking up to notice all this unwonted movement, absorbed moretban usual at this moment in the land. This, however, is not from indifference as to the war; far from it, for the subject is one that all alike are keenly Interested in, and every family has sent one and often two or more members to fight for their king and country. But the Italian peasant also loves the soil on which he and his fathers before him have worked; his heart is in the land, and the success or failure of the crops Is to him a matter of well-being or starvation. Hard Life, but Healthful. In these times, too, the work requires an unwonted degree of attention and labor, for every acre must be fully cultivated. All the men from the age

of twenty-one to forty are, with few exceptions, away at the front, and those who remain must make good the deficiency. In this they have, however, willing helpmates in the women. At all times the women work in proportion as hard as their men-folk in the fields, and when to these duties are added those of mothers and housewives it is small wonder that they age before their time, and that a pretty fresh girl of eighteen is an old woman at forty. Their life, though hard in some ways, is on the other hand extremely healthful; their habits are simple and frugal, and they slide into old age with constitutions untouched by sharp vicissitudes of climate—the winters being excessively severe and the summers very ■ hot—interested and busy up to the last in all that relates to the land, the cattle, and their children. Family life is on patriarchlal lines; sons, daughters-in-law and their children (of which there is never any lack) all live with the parents under the same roof; all share the same food —composed chiefly of beans, Indian corn and cheese —and all share one purse, kept, often pretty tightly too, by the “head of the family” (U capo di famiglia), who receives any extraneous sums that any of bls children may earn on his or her own account, and doles out the money required for clothes, food, or any small expenses that the event of a wedding, a baptism or a funeral may call forth. The food question is, perhaps, the simplest of the lot. The peasant In this part of Italy shares with the owner of the land all that the land pro-

duces. He puts Into it his labor, he draws from it the half that that labor brings as his portion; and this arrangement of the "mezzadria,” or half-and-half system as we might call it, is, If honestly adhered to, fairer and more advantageous to all concerned than any other. By It the peasant has as keen, if not a keener interest than his landlord in the tilling of the soil, in keeping under the weeds, pruning and spraying the vines, hoeing the Indian corn, tending the cattle, and as from all these sources one-half goes to him, it concerns him closely to make the profits as abundant as possible. His day’s work is generally a long one, especially in the summer when he will be up and about at 4 a. m., but , as he can divide his hours entirely to suit his own convenience the hardship is not really a great one. In the hot months he will knock off work for a long spell in the middle of the day and after a good siesta he will begin again with a leisure that betokens much liberty of action and a total absence of any hint of being “driven.” If it be true that “it is the pace that kills,* your Italian peasant will certainly not be exposed to that kind of death! Women Doing Men’s Work. The war, though, has altered all this easy, calm-going state of things. The women, as in France, are acting in the place of the men, and are doing it, too, in a very thorough and admirable manner. Many of them handle the scythe in masterly fashion; others, when necessary, see to the management ot the farm; they pile up the high loads of hay on to the ox-drawn wagons with a will and energy, and when once the

A MARKET PLACE

difficulty (and it is a serious one just now in Italy) of obtaining wool can be got over they devote their spare moments to knitting socks for the men on the heights. The markets all through the country are the gainers by their industry, as well in picturesque effects as in useful and profitable supplies. Who that has ever been at Verona, in late summer, say, but will recall the scene in the “Piazza delle Erbe,” with its sea of wide white umbrellas pitched all down that lovely market place, with the baskets stacked with apples, white and black grapes, pears, peaches, medlars and quinces, while on every spare inch of ground .are piled vegetables, beans, Carrots, potatoes, cabbages, cardoons, with any number of pumpkins, huge in size, and in beautiful tones of color varying from dark green to bronze, orange and yellow? . The sites chosen for these fruit and vegetable markets are, when possible, beside some fountain, or occasionally at the of some great palaee, as for instance, at Florence at the Strozzi and Riccardi palaces, where the wide projecting roofs make a welcome shade, for the flowers which are arranged so tastefully upon their cool stones; more often, indeed, a small “piazza” or square is chosen that boasts a supply of water in its midst, around which “the neighbors come and laugh and gossip,’* relating the success or failure of their bargains, and more often than not indulging in language—often used quite unconsciously —for which their parish priest will reprimand-them one of these days from the altar.