Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1917 — Page 3

Universal Military Service in Line With All the Nation’s Traditions

By CHARLES J. BONAPARTE,

and applied during th& first fifty years of our national history, as well as in our entire colonial period, and fully sanctioned by laws in force today and which have been in force, in substantially their present form, from the very foundation of our government. An American mother who:says she didn’t raise her little boy to be a soldier in the day of the nation’s need, if she knows her country’s past history and her country’s present laws, must-know also that she says, in effect, she didn’t raise him to be an American citizen, in the full and honorable sense'of the word; that she has taught him to shirk a part of the duties of a citizen, and precisely that part of those duties which all mankind have ever deemed-it most disastrous to the state and most shameful and dishonorable to the man himself that he should shirk.

Production of Farm Machinery and the Labor Supply Must Be Protected

Chairman Executive Committee, National Implement and Vehicle Association

The truth is that unless prompt action is taken by the government, our country is headed straight toward the same mistakes that have resulted in compelling our allies to appeal to us to save them from famine. Unless we protect the production of labor-saving farm machinery and the supply of skilled farm labor, we, too, must soon face a shrinkage of food supplies. Anybody can realize how calamitous that would be in the military as well as the economic sense. We are now confronted by shortages of raw material and factory labor that will begin to be manifest in shortages of certain lines of farm machinery this fall and will result in serious shortages in many vital lines neit year, Stocks on hand in important kinds of tools and machines are smaller than in normal years, because of earlier scarcity of factory labor and a rapidly tightening scarcity of all raw materials. Present and prospective conditions as to both elements make it certain that the shortage of our output will soon be serious. For the last ten years farm labor has been more and more difficult to secure, and now, with an enormous increase in the demand for labor in munition factories, and the withdrawal of many young men from productive occupations, ‘there is bound to be a shortage of farm labor such es this couritry has never known. We regard it as vital to keep on the farms the ftien now there who know the business, especially the men trained in the use of labor-saving machinery. It would be wasteful and foolish to let them go and afterward try to replace them with unskilled men. We seek no advantage for our industry over any other, but we realize that without this product and without sufficient labor the farmers of the United States cannot increase, or even maintain, their production of foodstuffs next year. .• . ' These are the measures that we declare to be vital to the feeding of this nation and its allies next year: . ■ 1. That the manufacture of farm materials be given equal preference with the manufacture of war munitions as regards supplies of necessary raw materials. 2. That service to the country in farm machinery factories be conBidered of equal importance with service in munition-mak'ing plants, government or private. ’ " 3. That labor on the farms be considered as of equal importance with the production of war munitions. 4. That raw materials for farming machinery and the finished goods toe given equal preference by the transportation agencies of the country with munitions of war.

Hoarding and Indiscriminate Parsimony Long Way From Real Thrift

“It is not the aim of thrift nor the duty of men to acquire millions. Hoarding millions is avarice, not thrift.” This bit of philosophy, uttered some time ago by Andrew Carnegie, can well be applied to American life at the present time. Lack of a proper ■understanding of thrift has been responsible for a< great deal of harm in America recently. ' . 4 This has been due to false economy, but people are rapidly geltting around to the viewpoint that hoarding and indiscriminate parsimony ere a long way from real thrift. What we all must learn is to eliminate waste. There is a great deal of difference between waste and sensible spending. The most reprehensible form of waste, of course, at the present time is is the matter of food. Secretary Houston has said that if only a single ounce of edible food, on the average, is allowed to spoil or to be thrown away in each of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000 pounds of material would be wasted each day. This would be at the rate of 464,000 pounds of food a year. Think of the millions of acres of land and the thousands of people nec-’ . essary to produce this vast amount of food I ' > It would be a very good idea fqi* every American home today to adopt the slogan, “Save an ounce of food a day.” z This ia a little thing to do. It really requires no amount of selfBacrifice. ' On the other hand, we have all bdfen eating a little too much. Cutting down our rations a trifle will be good for .our health. “Save an ounce of food a day.” ' . Let every American home do this and we will have gone a long way toward the solution of our food problem. ‘ r .

, Farmer Attorney General of United State*

It is often, asserted, and yet more frequently assumed, in the discussion of current events, that compulsory military service is something new and unheard of in the United States; something more or less at variance with the traditions of our early national life and with the practice and counsel of our country’s fathers. This is not merely untrue; it is precisely the reverse of the truth. . ' Those who now advocate the enrollment as soldiers and sailors of all our citizens fit to bear arms are urging a return to. principles universally accepted

By CHARLES S. BRANTINGHAM

By S. W. STRAUS

President of American Society for Thrift

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

CLOTHING UNCLE SAM’S NEW ARMY GIGANTIC TASK

Immense Supply of Materials Necessary to Equip Men for the Field. BIG PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED In Addition to the Regular Army and National Guard, Supplies Must Be on Hand for the Drafted Men. Washington.—When a nation goes to war, naturally the people back home want action. The first thought is to whip the other fellow as soon as possible, -whip him good and plenty and jet it over with. Congress votes an army. The people, and rightly so, want that army In training camps as quickly as'possible and made ready to fight. America’s national army of half a million men probably will not get into camp until September. Miracles, almost, will have to be accomplished to do that. Even most of the National Guard won’t be in camp until August 1. And war was declared early in April. ; There have been delays here in Washington getting things under way that are hard to understand. 'There have been minor blunders and mistakes that appear inexcusable. It has taken longer to do things than appears on the surface, at least, at all necessary. But practically every complaint of-this character, serious or minor, is traceable back to the fundamental of the whole situation: When this country went into war it was emphatically on a peace basis. Most of this lost time and motion has been spent in building up the tremendous organization necessary, not alone to supply the army when it takes the field in numbers with munitions, but with the plainest necessities before they are ready even to take the field for preliminary training and to keep them supplied..

Big Industries Simplify Task. If the United States were not a big Industrial nation, the biggest in the world, the task would be almost impossible. As it Is, it presents a problem the average person back home has little conception of until he goes Into actual figures of needs and requirements. When war was declared,, it naturally Was supposed the National Guard, our second line of defense to the regular army, would be put In intensive training at once. It wasn’t. The reason was that the army didn’t have the equipment to take care of the National Guard, if it should recruit to war strength at the same time the regular army was fillings up its ranks. There was no particular object in calling out the very men who had had the splendid experience on the. border. The Guard had to be doubled and nearly trebled in size and it was the new recruits who needed the intensive training. And the government couldn’t take care of the new recruits. It will have a job fully equipping the National Guard when it does take to camp. But the' army says it can <Jo the task now. Something like a half million recruits have been taken into the regular army, National Guard and navy already. And the first contingent of the national army, 625,000 men, must be equipped in September. That was the army job on supplies, apart from arming the men. The nation went to war without huge storehouses full of reserve supplies. We were operating on a small army scale because we didn’t think we would have to go to war. The Clothing Requirements. Concrete figures give a real idea of what it takes to clothe and eqtflp an army, Here are the clothing requirements for a million men and the upkeep in clothing, for nine months, for the army has to know where the next few months’ supply is to be had as well as the initial equipment:

Belts, waist 2,000,000 Breeches, cotton, foot so 1d1er......2,®,000 Breeches, cotton, mounted soldier.. 1,292,000 Breeches, woolen, foot soldierl,Bß2,ooo Breeches, woolen, mounted soldier 951,000 Coats, cottpn .’....2,100,000 Coats, woolen 1,270,000 Cords, hat 2,500,000 Drawers, summer ......5,175,000 Drawers, winter v 5,600,000 Gloves, horsehide, yellow;. 41,000 Gloves, riding 740,000 Gloves, wool 1,865,000 Hats; service . Laces, shoe, extra pair5....7,300,000 Leggins, canvas, f00t1,130,000 Leggins, canvas, mpunted.......... 560.000 Overcoats 1,675,000 Ponchos .1,117,000 Shirts, flannel 4,000,000 Shoes, russet ....3,050,000 Shoes, field ..1,500,000 Slickers 675.000 Stockings, cotton 3,767.000 Stockings, wool, 1ightweight........6,583,000 Stockings, wool, heavyweightl,ooo.ooo Tags, identification ..2,645,000 Undershirts, cotton .4,700,000 Undershirts, woolen 4,000,000

This Is the clothing requirement alone. Before the* year is out the figures will have to be doubled. The United States Is ftoing to get these supplies. It Is getting them now in dally Increasing amounts. The war department In conjunction with a department of the national council of defense of which Julius Rosenwald «f the Sears-Roebuck company Is the, head, has built up a tremendous organization. Mills are rtnhlng at full

capacity turning out the army needs. Contracts are let almost dally In figures that before the war would have been a real news Item, but which now occasion no comment. It is all a part of the day’s wort. Tents and Khaki Scarce. Two Items presented the most dlf-, flcult problem—ducking for tents and khaki cloth. The country bad 6den pretty well drained of both by the demands of our allies before we entered the war. In fact, one war speculator had practically cornered the market on khaki. But “scouts," representing the Rosenwald committee, and representatives of the quartermaster’s department have scoured the country, peering into every place or mill or supply house where either material could be had In quantities. The supply available for government use has increased by leaps and bounds since the mobilization of resources began. But clothing is only one side of equipping an army. Tents upon tents are needed. This Is a particularly big problem right now, as the National' Guard is to be boused in tents. And tents have to be replaced every three to six months, on an average. The following table presents the needs of one million men with nine months’ upkeep: Axes 130,500 Ax helves 102,000 Baas, surplus kit 183,000 Bags, water sterilising 21,550 Bars, mosquito 1,950,000 Bedsacks 1,800,000 Blankets 3,-450,000 Brooms, corn 360,000 Brushes, scrubbing Bugles 23,000 Bugle slings 20,600 Cots 1,900,000 Containers, neatsfoot oil 70 Covers, canvas, folded war tents.. 2,020 Desks, field, large 2,070 Desks, field, small 23,200 Headnets, mosquito 202,000 OH, neatsfoot, pints '.. 160,000 Pickaxes • 130,000 Pickax helves ..... 127,000 Pins (tent)— Large .10.630,000 Small 10,375,000 Shelter .... 12,560,000 Poles (tent). Canvas Latrine Screen— UprlghL-7-foot 172,200 Horizontal. 7-foot •••• 24,000 Horizontal, 9-foot 49,200 Shelter 2,040,000 Hospital, TropicalRidge Upright 1.410 Wall *.280 Hospital WardUpright 6.500 Wall 6,600 Pyramidal 280,000 Storage Ridge Upright .?.?• W. 422 Wall BT ’ MO Wall (large)Upright .k............... 16,400 Ridge Wall (small)- . Ridge 82,900 Upright Poncheo, music *3.000 Slings, color 5.320 Shovels, short handle 97,500 Spades 82,400 Stands, music U.ooo Sticks, shoe size U>sw Shields, tent, g. 1 J»-0w Stoves, tent »• Stovepipe, elbows W.WO Stovepipe, joints tDW.OOO Spark arrestors ....... ZZl.ow Stretchers, shoe 11. wt Tape, foot measure... li.uw -Tents— Hospital, tropical Hospital, ward Pyramidal Shelter halves 2,14»>000 Storage •' 3.480 Wall, large Wall, small 64,400 Tent Flies— Hospital, tropical - W Storage Wall, large Wall, small 3 Screens, canvas, latrine Whistles and Chains— Acme Siren K ’ ooo Materials— Boblnette, 36-inch, yards 30,600,000 Buttons, shirt, o. d.. gross... 218.800 Buttons, overcoat, bronze, gross.. 152.000 Buttons; coat, bronze, small, gross «2.350 Buttons, coat, bronze, large, gross 219,925 Cloth, cotton, o. d.. yards 39,000,000 Drilling, unbleached, yards.,. v ... .15,476.w0 Duck, shelter, tent, yard5.■••..•••12,900,000 Duck, khaki. Nd. 4. 42-Inch, yards OMTTOO Duck, khaki, 12.4-oz.. yards 37,375.000 Duck, khaki. 8-oz., yard 9,562.500 Flannel shirting, o. d., yards 8,250,000 Jeans, oorset yards Meltons, o. d., 16-oz., yards 9,903,750 Meltons, o. d.. 90-oz., yard5..7.262,990 Bedding, canvas, yards 2,327,500 Serge, luster wool, lightweight, vards 2,975.000 Silesia, o. d„ yards Tent slips. No. 2 9,712,500 Tent slips. No. Tent plates and chain......... 325,4 Tent squares azo.wj

Now this table represents merely equipage. And there are dozens of odds and ends that have to be added to It. The arming of the forces Is entirely another problem—the rifles, gas rnnßks, trench fire guns and the like, come under a different department and present a still more difficult task than clothing and camp equipage. ' But from this an Idea may be gaihed of the giant task war making is.

WEARS IN RING GERMAN BULLET THAT SHOT HIM

Cleveland. —Sergeant Maurice Snook of the First Battalion, Canadian Infantry, is recuperating from Injuries - received at the front Sergeant Snook brought back a unique souvenir of the battleground. It is the German bullet which sent him to the hospital for several weeks. Snoolc has had It mounted In a ring and wears ft every day.

TO ORGANIZE Y. M. C. A. WORK FOR SOLDIERS

This Is a specially posed photograph of Francis Bowers Sayre, son-in-law of President Wilson, taken just before he sailed to France, to organize Y. M. C. A. work for the United States troops abroad. Mr. Sayre married Jessie Wilson, daughter of thepresident

‘CHUCKED ME UP TO GENERAL’

General Ballloud of French Army Reminds Corporal That There Are Others. Salonlkl. General .Ballloud, commanding part of the French expeditionary force in the Balkans, is so popular with his men that nearly every good story originating In his corps is either about him or attributed to hint. The latest going the rounds tells how a soldier of the rough-and-ready style was returning to quarters near Monastir with a water jug in each hand. Coming across another mudstained “polln” sitting beside the road, he hailed him: “Hello, old man. Say, can’t you carry one of these jugs for me?” “Sure,” said the other, and they went on together. “Would you believe it,” said the first soldier, “they’ve chucked me up to the grade'of corporal.” “What of that?” replied the other; “didn’t they chuck me up to the grade of general?” After nearly dropping his jug, the soldier drew closer and made out three faint stars on a mud-stained sleeve. He drew himself up at attention and saluted. “Walk on, corporal,” said General Ballloud, who wouldn’t consent to give up his jug.

TRAPPER LASSOES BIG BEAR

Thousand-Pound Grizzly That Had Killed Many Cattle Captured In New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M.—A thousand-pound she grizzly bear was lassoed in the Santa Fe national forest by J. F. McMullen, trapper, of the United States biological survey. The animal was trailed down as she raced through the woods with a 45-pound trap and a sixfoot drag hanging to her feet McMullen tied the bear and sent a man to the Mountain View ranch to bring an audience of ranchers and tourists to see and photograph the brute before it was given the death shot The bear has killed many cattie recently. .■

FIND UTE BURYING GROUND

Cowboys Discover Ancient Indian Burial Place Near City Limits of Craig, Colo. Craig, living In this section of the state have discovered an ancient Indian burial ground within half a mile of the old city limits. They overheard an old trapper a battle fought In the early sixties'between the Ute and Arapahoe tribes, and going to the spot where he said the dead had been burled, found several mounds. Digging into the first they found the bones of an Indian chief. Great quantities of brass rings, marbles, elk teeth and snake rattles were found.

“SLACKER” HOLDS HE GAVE WIFE WRONG AGE

Kansas City, Mo.—To keep his wife from knowing his exact age. which he considered too advanced, Anthony Schwatken of Kansas City, Kan., told the clerk he was twenty-five years old when he applied for a marriage license last January. He regretted his efforts to fool Cupid when he was brought to police headquarters for investigation on a “s®cker” charge. He now declarer his agO is thirty and says he can prove it by birth records at Hammond, Kan.

NOT SEVEN TIMES

The Breadth of the Principle of the Gospel as Laid Down by Jesus Christ “How oft shall my brother sin aginst me, and I forgive him? till seven times? I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.”—Matt. 18:21, 22. “How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" What a beautifully simple rule that would have been I Forgive seven’ times I How easily the rule could have been applied! The merest tyro could have measured out his moral obligations to a nicety. “I say not unto thee, until seven times; but until seventy times seven.” Then the Master will not accept and confirm the simple rule. He rejects it. Not seven times, but seventy times seven! Now little children are governed by rules. In the government of childhood everything has to be strictly and minutely measured. Precise instructions have to be given. It is not enough to say to a child, “Be just.” You have to be more explicit. You have to break up the meat into small pieces. You have to go into details. You have to dissolve great principles into tiny rules. It is so with the whole round of a child’s life. It is governed by rules; But when childhood is left behind you get away from the minute guidance of rules into the freer guidance of principles. Simple Rules. Men have a strange fondness for simple rules. If you turn to the story of our Saviour’s life you will find what a strong partiality the Jewish, people had for the rules of their childhood. They dearly loved a rule- that was clear and manageable. They tried in a hundred ways to constrain our Master to put the Gospel of the Kingdom into a dozen simple rules. One came to him and said: “Who is my neighbor?” And he hoped that the Lord would draw a little circle and say, “All in there.” It would have been so beautifully simple to have been told that all your neighbors lived in a given area, and. that outside those limits aU the obligations of neighborliness ceased 1 But Christ gave no such rule. He told the story of tne Good Samaritan, a story which makes neighborliness not a thing which begins at this mile post and ends at another, not a thing confined within geographical or racial boundaries, but a thing illimitable as human need. He gave not a rule but a principle. And here comes Simon Peter, bothered with this matter of forgiveness, and wanting it all to be put Into a little rule, that he might know the beginning and the end of it “Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?” He is back in the childhood of the race. He wants his religion to be a vast system of petty rules. “How oft? Seven times?” The Master told him it could not be expressed arithmetically; it was a finer and subtler thing. Built on the Cross. Christianity is not built upon arithmetic; it is built upon a cross. We do not count our way into glory. Christianity gives no precise and minute instructions. It does not guide us by little lamps placed at every step of the way. It guides us by great stars. I make a huge mistake if I go to the New Testament sos a rule. ' I go wisely if I go' for a principle. Ever and always it answers my request for a rule inTfie’words of the Master: “Not seven times, but seventy times seven.” Take that principle into your life, and you will make your own rules. Be loyal to the God who is loyal to you. Show him that you are worthy of his confidence when he treats you as being more than a child. Be the man God assumes you to be when he seeks to govern you by large principles and not by arbitrary rnles. “Not seven times, but seventy times seven."— Rev. J. H. Jowett D. D.

Making Men Holy.

“The Gospel meffiod of making men holy,” says the New York WatchmanExaminer (Baptist), “is the method of God in Christ drawing men into likeness to himself through the action upon them and in them of the Cross of Christ. Altruism as an Ideal to be attained Is one thing. Altruism as a divine force .in men Is quite another thing. TheSufean life of God in Christ was the supreme expression of love. In and through that life and death God draws men to himself and shares with him his own mortal life. Thus the ethical ideal ceases to be merely a member of the cognitive series of human beliefs and becomes also a member of the casual serie* of divine facts.”- - '

Man’s Life Preserver.

“Every man’s task is his life-pre-server?’ There is no doubt that perhaps the majority of men would sink swiftly and irrecoverably beneath the graves of toll and trouble if they were not upbome, steadied, and protected by the tasks of life in which they are engaged. Work Is a great blessing; it serves not only as a channel of usefulness but atao as a preserver from deterioratiomind decay. The daily round and grind may be monotonous and irksome, but if we look aright upon life there is a glory in the commonplace.— Selected.

The Angry Man.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.— Publius Syrus. > :