Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1917 — Page 2

BLACKJACK’

He's the general in command of the first division of American soldiers that has gone to the rescue of heroic France

tr\S} NOWN to his men variously as JaC ‘ 4Fi g htin ? John.” “Kitchener” Pershing and “Black Jack,” the man who commands the first American division in France is the ideal type of American soldier. The grim lines of his mouth indicate the qualities which —have made hi in successful in war. The Pershing smile when it illumines his face hints of those other qualities which have endeared him even to his foes. Major General Pershing—he won his two stars for the conduct of the expedition into Mexico—is a chivalrous soldier. He is the type who fights relentlessly until he has beaten his enemy and then helps him. His fellow officers say that he attained his present rank because he “soldiered hard,” and it is a pretty good sign lhat he has fairly won his rank when he. is so generally well thought of by the over the heads of 862 of whom he was from the grade of captain to tfcjp£#o£ brigadier general by President KOoSevelt. The Ideal American Soldier. General Pershing began to be the Ideal soldier on the day he entered the United States Military academy at West Point. He graduated as senior cadet captain, which is the highest rank which can be attained at the academy. He was immediately appointed second lieutenant In the Sixth cavalry and, under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, plunged into the thick of the fighting against the Apaches. He had not been in the’ saddle a full year when General Miles complimented him in orders for “marching his troop, with pack train, over rough country, 140 miles in 46 hours, bringing in every man and animal In good condition.” In Mexico General Pershing more than lived up to the record of a dashing cavalry leader which he established as a second lieutenant in 1887. The campaigns against Geronimo taught Pershing his first lessons in real war. The kind of fighting he learned from the Apnche and Sioux campaigns stood him in good stead when he tackled the Moros. How modern armies fight, or did fight previous to the present war, he learned in Cuba and as military attache and observer with the. Japanese armies in their war against Russia. In 1889 young Lieutenant Pershing won commendation again from General Miles when, as commander of Troop A of the Sixth cavalry, he .took ' ten men, rescued a band of cowboys who had been captured by one hundred hostile Indians, captured a number of horse thieves who were among the Indians, and returned with his party to Fort Wingate, without having fired, a shot, lost a single man or'killed an Indian. That is typical of the man. He is the true American soldier. He does not kill when he can win without It. The experience Pershing gained fighting Geronimo and other Apache chiefs caused him to be sent to the Dakotas in command of the Sioux scouts in the wars against the rebellious Sioux. After this period of fighting he became military instructor in the University of Nebraska, where he took the degree of LL.B., and in the early nineties he was sent to West Point as an instructor. Valor at El Caney. When the Spanish-American war began the young lieutenant became restive and begged tp be sent back to the line. He was assigned to a negro regiment and won commendation in orders for his work at El Caney. A more substantial reward for his valor came, after he was sent to the Philippines. in the form of a captain’s commission. It was in the Philippines that “Black Jack” Pershing did his greatest work and won glory for himself and. the American army. A little more than ten years ago the United States faced a tremendous problem in the Philippines, Almost incessant warfare han existed between Christians and Moslems In the archipelago since Magellan was slain during the voyage in which Europeans first circumnavigated the globe. Spaniards, British and Americans ao far had failed to settle the problem. Its entire weight was shift*

CONDENSATIONS

Thousands of Mohammedans know the Koran by heart. Vienna reported a saving of $142,000 worth of gas under last year’s new time Schedule. A Frenchman has obtained a patent for a process of bleaching and drying seaweed for packing purposes. A substitute for cement used in gome parts of Turkey consists’*of a mixture of liiiseed oil, slaked lime and cotton fiber.

ed to the broad shoulders of the then Captain Fershing pnd he straightened under the burden and carried it to the end. In 1899 he became adjutant general, executive officer of the department of Mindanao and Jolo. In this capacity he studied the Moros and the Moro problem. He tried in every honorable way to conciliate the native chiefs and judges or dattos, but the Moros would not fake the word of a white man. Later they learned that Pershing’s word was never broken. Finally, after studying the question from every possible viewpoint, he decided that the only way to subdue the natives was to prosecute a campaign against them. Washlngtdh coincided with this view and Pershing went into the jungle. - Every foot of the way, through muddy rqads little better than jungle trails, where guns and caissons sometimes sank hub'deep and had tmbe raised by planks and levers; through insect infested forests, in an atmosphere fraught with fever and malaria, he had to fight against crazed Mohammedan warriors, who believed that to die - slaying Christians insured them of a life in heaven with a white horse to ride and beautiful houris to wait upon them. Against odds like this the expedition fought and cut its way to the Lake Lanao country, where the Moros had gathered in force. At Bayan Captain Pershing gave the rebels their first taste of American fighting. The battle resulted in a brilliant tactical victory for our troops, and the expedition pressed forward. Destroyed 40 Forts. The sultan of Macolod, one of the most powerful of the nntive rulers, refused to surrender. With a battalion of Infantry, a squadron of cavalry and a section of guns Pershing moved against him and threatened to demolish his fort unless he gave in. The sultan was defiant. He dreamed that his stronghold was impregnable. In two days it was a memory and the American troops had received upon their bayonets the last maddened charge of the Moro band. The Americans had two men wounded. One after the other 40 Moro forts fell under Pershing’s assaults and the island of Mindanao was at peace, two Americans having lost their lives. Then the Pershing smile succeeded the fighting grimness of his face and the Moros became his friend. They made a datto of him and they submitted to his judgment in their legal disputes, and the United States made him military governor of the department. For this work he was advanced to the grade of brigadier general, although 862 officers had priority over him. For a time Pershing was relieved of his Philippine duties because of ill health, but the Moros of Jolo continued to make trouble and he was sent back to subdue them as he had the rebels of Mindanao. It was a bigger task, arid one the magnitude of which has seldom confronted a regular army officer except in time of actual war. Pershing picked a command of men every one of whom he knew down to the last private—He loved them all as children and they loved him as “Black .Tack” and “Fighting John” Pershing. There wasn’t a man under him whose face the genernl didn’t know and whom he could not call by name. The Moros —men, women and children —had taken refuge and fortified themselves in the crater of Bud Dajo. an extinct volcano, on the island of Jolo. Pershing announced to his men that he was going to drive the rebels out of the crater if it took ten years to do It. There were 600 Moros, everyone of them imbued with the faith that each Christian he slew’ would be his slave in the Moro heaven, lurking under the rim of the big hole in the top of the mountain. Guerrilla Warfare. The addition of a band of Filipino scouts brought the American forces up to about one thousand men. Every inch of the way from the shore of the island they had to fight against the hidden enemy. Outposts w’ere stabbed in the night by naked savages, who wriggled through the tall grass without a sound. Pickets and patrolling parties were fallen upon and slain by beast-men, who swung from.the branchos of tropical trees and palms like panthers, but the relentless column cut its way further and further toward the heart of the Moro stronghold and at last spread in a thin circle around the base of the ancient volcano. Several times reconnoitering parties of American troops crawled to the ritn of the crater and observed the disposi-

There are 14,000 acres of land apart from public gardens, lying idle in London. When keeping the yolks of eggs for a day or two, drop them In a little cold water. It will prevent hardening. More than 90 per cent of the alcohol and alcoholic drinks that are made in the Philippines ape derived from the sap of palm trees. An undercovering of cotton flannel or felt, made to fit the dining table, is desirable. It prevents noise, and the Cloth may be laid more smoothly.

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tion and numbers of the Moros without being seen. At last General Pershing announced that if the Moros did not surrender within spur days he would storm the position. Two days, later ninety of the men came dow r n the side of the mountain and surrendered. Hunger had shattered even Moslem fanaticism, and thoughts of heaven had given away before the pangs of empty stomachs. • They were disarmed and set at liberty. The same afternoon 150 more, men and women both, straggled into cainp and gave themselves up. By nightfall almost five hundred of the Moros had throw’n themselves on the mercy of the Americans. When the Four Days Were Up. At the end of the four days General Pershing ordered an advance. The crater itself w r as found to be deserted, but a band of almost one hundred men had hidden in the jungle. They tried to break through the cordon of troops on the east side of the mountain, and so fierce was the fighting that Captain Barber was wounded by a shot fired so close to his body that it burned his clothing. Those of the band w’ho were not killed were driven back into the crater, and although they attempted several times in the night to break through the line, not a man escaped. All the available troops surrounded the piece of jungle In which the Moros were hiding, and it was only a question of time before they would.be annihilated. At this juncture an aged datto appealed to General Pershing, declaring that he could persuade the rebels to surrender. Always willing to spare bloodshed where it was possible, Pershing told him to do his best, but made it perfectly plain that the surrender must be unconditional. For two hours the datto paced back and forth in the jungle calling in the native dialect to his people. At last they answered and he persuaded them to surrender. Only forty-five were left. They marched down the mountainside and laid down their arms, several automatic pistols among them, and were sent- to Jolo, where they went aboard the cutter Samar and were taken to Zamboanga and spent some time in the Calarlan prison. It broke the back of the. Moro power in the Philippines. The dattos nev- . er became a menace again. Became Major General. In January, 1916, having endeared himself alike to the hearts of the Filipinos and Americans in the islands, General Pershing returned to the United States and was placed in command of the Eighth brigade of the regular army, with headquarters at El Paso. There he remained until the on Columbus, N. M., when President Wilson placed him in command of the flying punitive expedition into Mexico. That this expedition did not turn out to be more punitive was not General Pershing’s fault. General Pershing was under orders and in communication with the war department all the time, and the way in which he handled the Mexican problem met with the full approval of President Wilson. Pershing can be a diplomatist as well.as a soldier. General Pershing’s men regard him in the most kindly manner. Were he in command of French troops they would doubtless call him “Papa” Pershing, as they do the great marshal of France, but he Is over American boys, and to them there is more endearment in the terms “Black Jack” and “Fighting John.” v

Color Glass by Heat.

A process has been perfected In France for applying colors to glass by heat, so that stained glass win dows can be made without fastenic* many pieces of glass of different huei together.

Rabbit Has No Protection.

The game laws in 28 of our states, including Alaska, do not protect the rabbits. Most farmers refuse to pro* tect the rabbit, whose “takAi* way** have proved annoying.

Sweeping Lines In New Clothes

New York.—Ludle firmly believes that the time has come in American fashion for women to wear long, flowing lines of dignity and abandon the Jialf bodices, lack of sleeves and short, transparent skirts which have ruled us for three years. She is definitely committed to this idea and is designing all her autumn clothes in Paris and London to meet the purpose. The reason that her statement has such force Is that no one denies that she revolutionized ballroom dressing as the Vernon Castles revolutionized Its dancing and Irving Berlin revolutionized its music. The Castle-Berlin-Lucile combination has been in Europe, the symbol of America. But wjth Vernon Castle in the aviation corps, with Mrs. Castle not dancing in public, and with Lucile stating her far-reaching purpose to

Here is the hat with the palette brim. It is built of thin black satin and gets its name from the curve of its brim. Its only ornaments are two large pins of white jade.

oust frivolity and bring in seriousness in clothes, Irving Berlin, with his ragtime music, is the only one left of the symbolic three. If the women of America follow the dignified gowns of Lucile as they followed her hoop skirts, girdle bodices, bobbed hair and tango slippers, we will see a continent of women who look as serious as the times. The few models that have been advanced as forerunners of what is to come this" autumn, have about them a dignity and seriousness that the men of the community will applaud and indorse. There is no undue showing of the ankles and shoulder; the bodices are subdued in the decolletage ; the long, wing-like, medieval draperies cover the arms and fall to the knees; the clinging skirts start at a slightly high waistline and fall against the figure and cover the feet, in the manner of the eighteenth century. It is not a gown for the type of youth that we call flapper, or, as one of the dashing young editors of the day has termed it, poulet a la Ziegfeld.

The Graceful Long Skirt. There is nothing startlingly new in the gowns which will be worn during the late summer and autumn, if the prophecies of the experts come true. They have been shown in America ever since January, and in a certain blaze of Oriental splendor they have been worn by smart women at ceremonial functions. It is not, however, the gorgeousness of the Byzantine era, that is to be repeated in the newer style of dressing for the second half of the year 1917. Soft satins, brocades that have no body, georgettes that look like net, chiffon that resembles tulle, and the crepes ©f China that cling to the figure, are the fabrics that will go toward the making of the dignified gown for the serious e^och. There are inky black gowns to be worn, which are made of georgette that has no sheen. There are gowns of silver gray eharmeuse that swirl and cling to the figure from shoulder to floor. The folds of the skirt are softly pushed aside by the slippered foot, as the wearer moves. About all of these gowns which are to come and which are beginning to make their appearance among women who dress well, there are no ostentatious ornaments, no sensuous girdling of the hips in the Oriental manner, no faint reflection of the bazaars of Pelhi. The colors do not clash like symbols of victory. There is nothing triumphant about their procession. These are the clothes of women whose hours are given to war charities and war relief, whose leisure time is given to reading literature that keeps them abreast of the tremendous movements on this planet, and whose thoughts are turned not to ragging the scale, but to the lines; of khaki on the western front. Mind you, they are not povertystricken clothes. The American people are In arms against unnecessary saving and ecopomy that means ruin to others. But they are a revolt from what we have been wearing. Still the Chinese Touch. Over from Paris, where those who represent us are watching every twist and* turn in fashions, comes the statement that the Chinese touch grows inV; * m**'- - ' . **Vv;' iv • i‘. 1

strength and Importance. It is no longer advocated by the few, but by the many dressmakers. Therd is no wholesale repetition of Chinese costumery in these modern French gowns. The single garment that is taken in its original form is the Mandarin coat. It is used as an evening wrap. In America there has been a superabundance of Chinese coats worn after candlelight. One extremely good-looking New York woman who has been told that she somewhat resembles the artist’s drawings of Chinese faces, constantly in the evening with a superb Mandarin coat worn over her frock. Her black hair, brushed back from the coiffure, completes the picture. She also adds a great fan of peacock feathers set in sticks of jade. One has a strong impulse to lift her up and set her on a tiny pedestal of teakwood. Over in Paris the Chinesb idea is expressed in the new gowns in lines as well as in embroidery and coloring. The attempt is made to swing a gown freely away from the body in excellent folds, and then gather It in somewhere near the normal waistline by a girdle. There is a dominant Chinese note in the house gowns. One is made of jade green velvet, so thin that it looks like satin. The lining is of Chinese blue crepe. The Mandarin 6leeves completely cover the arms, and the long, straight widths, front and back, drop to the ankles. There is a slip of flesh-colored chiffon over satin, which clings closely to the figure from collar bone to instep, and over this slip, at a high waistline, the green velvet material is caught with a large, square. Chinese ornament in jade. There is a necklace of jade beads that drops down the front of the flesh-colored bodice and fastens to the ornament at the waistline. There is another Chinese gown for dinner or the theater, made of Chinese yellow brocade, extraordinarily soft and supple. It Is lined with flesh pink Chinese crepe. It hangs in loose panels from waist to Instep, showing an underskirt of Chinese blue chiffon edged with a tiny band of gilt at the hem. The bodice is draped In a loose surplice, and the girdle is of the material. The sleeves are Mandarinshaped, of transparent, yellow chiffon edged with a tiny rim of gilt. Those who look for new designs In embroidery, are reproducing the pea-

This evening gown revives the decolletage of 1870. It is of black chiffon printed with bouquets of colored roses. The barrel skirt has a deep hem of rose taffeta', and the Empress Eugenie bodice is held by a band of the same silk.

cock feather on satin and chiffon. They use the original colors In some cases, but often, the shape of the feather Is indicated and filled in with colors that a peacock never grew. One may be glad of that, for the intense blue and green which peacocks do sponsor, are not exactly becoming to every woman and grow tiresome and monotonous when constantly used as a motif for ornament, (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Reducing the Waistline.

While these dre the days of the Venus de Milo waists, still there are some women with waists that need reducing. A very good exercise for this purpose is as follows: Placing tho hands on the hips, bend tho trunk forward and stretch the arms dpwn until the finger tips touch the floor. Exhale as you bend down' and inhale as you straighten up. Repeat this exercise four or five times daily.

FARM MORE LAND

Cultivate for the Soldier at the Front This question of conservation of food has become so agitated by those who have a knowledge of what it means in the preservation of life, who have made a study of the food conditions, and the requirements of the country, that it is beginning to arouse the entire nation. The economist whose duty it is to study the output and compare it with the consumption, sees a rapidly creeping up of one on the othtfr, and, when the appetite of consumption gets a headway on the output, where will the nation be? It is time the people were aroused, for there Is danger ahead unless the intelligence of the people is awakened to the facts. The crop of 1917 will be less than an average one, and see the work it has to perform. It has to feed the man producing its and he is of less efficiency today than a year ago. His strength has been reduced by the drawing away of the thousands from the farms, who are now in the ranks of the consumer instead of in that of the producer. There is an inverse ratio here that can only be understood when confronted with the appalling figures presented by those in charge of the conservation work. The army has to be fed, dependents cared for, the navy has to have provisions, and we cannot sit ldly*by and see the women and children of the countries across the sea starve. There is such a great call for active participation in the matter of providing food, that those who are left at home in charge of this. work have a responsibility placed upon them fully as great as has the man at the front who has gone out to protect the homes, the sanctity and the honor of those who are left behind. The producer should think only of this; there should be economy, not only of labor. Every acre of available land should be producing. Advantage should be taken of every daylight hour. It must not be a case of how much can we make. It must be a case of “fight” with those who have gone overseas, but In our way, fight to win the war. Where that spirit pervades will be found the spirit of the patriotic American. There is no difficulty in securing land in any of the states. It may be rented on easy terms or purchased at low prices, and there should be little difficulty arranging with bankers to get the necessary funds to carry on operations. Should you not be able to get what you want in your own state, Western Canada offers an immense wide field for operations at the lowest possible cost, and Americans are welcomed with open arms. Homesteads of 160 acres each may be had on easy conditions, and other lands may be purchased at low prices on easy terms. The yields of all kinds of small grains are heavy. The prospects for a 1917 crop are excellent, and it looks today as if there would be as good a return as at any time in the past, and when it is realized that there have been yields of forty and forty-five bushels of wheat over large areas this should be encouraging. Now that the.. two countries are allies and the cause is, a common one there should be no hesitation in accepting whatever offer seems to be the best in order to increase the production so necessary, and which should it not be met, will prove a serious menace. Particulars as to Cana» dian lands, whether for purchase or homestead, may be had on application to any ’Canadian Government AgentAdvertisement.

Also a Separator.

“That summer boarder of ours spends a good deal of time in the dairy. Seems to take a great interest in the separator.” “Well, he’s in that line himself.” “Huh?” “He’s a divorce lawyer."

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General Worry Note.

Nothin© has alarmed us more in years than the .talk of a general substitution of kilts for trousers. We do not think we would look well in kilts. —New Orleans States.

Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle or CASTORIA, i that famous old remedy for Infants and children, and see that It a .“ t In TJee for Over SO Yean. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria It is easy to distinguish a violinist from a fiddler, for one draws a salary and the other doesn’t. He whcMlea down with dogs gets up with fleaS, Is the proverb says, but the plight of the dogs remains unrecorded.

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