Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — Page 3

USE SCHOOL BOY POWER OF NATION

Harness It and Put It to Work for Uncle Sam, Urges Lakewood, 0., Teacher. PRESENTS PLAN TO CONGRESS Would Organize Boys and Girls Into the “Public School Preparedness League”—Congressman Emerson Speaks for Plan. Washington.—Every patriotic American is anxious to do something to help solve the niany problems that ’ face the nation at this time, and many are the suggestions that are coming from the four corners of the United States of ways to help. Congressman Henry I. Emerson presented to congress the other day the interesting plan thought out by one of his constituents, Mr. Paul J. Bast, manual training Instructor in the Lakewood (O.) high school. He sees great possibilities in the productive power of the millions of schoolboys and girls throughout the land. “Give our schoolboys and girls an opportunity* to feel that they are an Integral part of our industrial life,” he says, “and that upon them rests a responsibility which can ohty be discharged by unselfish —devotion and service to the state. He suggests that a nation-wide organization be formed, 'toT>e known as the “Public School Industrial Preparedness league,” the object of which shall be to mobilize the school children of the nation for such I industrial work as they can do, the school shops and domestic science rooms and such equipment as the (schools possess are to be placed at the disposal of the state and nation. Boys and girls from the ages of twelve to eighteen years, not otherwise employed, could thus be employed to serve in the general-scheme of national preparedness. Organize to a System. The work must be carried on more or less on the basis of a small industrial plant, with its executives, office force, and shop force. Books would necessarily have to be kept and, a strict account of all incoming and outgoing products must be had. Costs could be figured as to what a saving was being made to the government, and would be the basis of making comparisons with other communities that were doing the same w’ork. With the aid of a national sheet which would publish facts and figures about the work, a rivalry would spring up to keep the cost of production as low as possible. This paper would also disseminatenew ideas and methods to help stimulate the work. Schoolteachers with industrial sense who understand children should supervise the industrial establishment. These teachers could enlist the aid of trained workers, who for a short time would Instruct the youthful worker in the practical technique of the work. a hen for every district counting a certain number of schools a government officer would act as an Inspector, thus putting the official stamp of approval

TO WED JOHN WANAMAKER, JR.

Miss . Pauline Dlsston of Phlladelphla\yhose engagement to John Waniamakek Jr., was recently announced, Is herSkhown In a costume to represent "Hawaii,” worn by her, at a recent Res*Cross benefit. L

TWO ANARCHISTS SENT TO PRISON

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, who were found guilty of conspiracy against the selective draft act and were sentenced to two years imprisonment each and fined each SIO,OOO.

on work well done. He would see that the specifications were being lived up to and his presence w’ould give an air of authority and inspire respect. Chambers of Commerce Would Help. The chamber of commerce of each community should give itself wholeheartedly to this work and co-operate with the school board in carrying out the plan. If the macninery and equipment is not given 'outright the chamber should see that funds are raised for the purchase. The Interest the men and women show and the support they give to the cause will impress the young workers. The sense of. father and sou and mother and daughter standing shoulder to shoulder in a common work would give the community a feeling of solidarity that will be the finest asset of which ther nation can boast. The work in any community would fall into three divisions: 1. Work in the shop. 2. Work in the sewing room. 3. Work in the domestic science room. The articles which could be made in the shop would be limited only by the equipment the schools possess and other macblnes that might be Installed. With such automatic machinery as we now have much may be done. The sewing room would not only take care of Red Cross work, but also do the sewing necessary to make cots, stretchers, tents, shirts, khaki uniforms, etc. Both boys and girls could he employed In this work. Domestic Science Departments. In the domestic-science departments

BASQUE PITCHING RETIRES GERMANS

Expert ?Pelota”. Players Strike Out Teuton Regiments With Hand Grenades. ENEMY GUNNERS ARE BAFFLED Pyrenees Troops Hold Craonne Key Position Despite Desperate Attacks—German Artillery Fires ' Almost at Random. French Front. —Grenades thrown with wonderful precision by devotees of “pelota,” the national game of Cuba, of Spain and of the Basque .country in the southwest of France, have done much toward defeating the almost incessant counter-attacks by the Germans on the plateau of Californle, overshadowing Craonne, and on the Casemates plateau, further west along the Chemln des Dames, which are joined by a narrow crest. These men, whose homes are in the Pyrenees, have fought gallantly since the outbreak of hostilities. It was they who took Craonne, the key position of the eastern end of the Chemln des Dames, and it was they who were In possession of the town and its vicinity when the Germans made their repeated efforts to reconquer the ground, to which their commanders attach so much importance. The latest vain German effort was made on June 3, when General von Bohm with two fresh divisions of Rhenish troops, the Fifteenth and the Forty-first, who had just been hurried back from the Roumanian front/ as ‘ sa’ulted the Californie amj the-TJase-mates plateau with a suddenness and fury such as has rarely been noted oa the part of the Germans. Snug In Their Shell Holes. The attack opened with a most intense artillery bombardment, under which, however, the Basques sat tight in their trenches improvised out of shell holes. When the awful "hurricane of shells ceased-the* occupants of the trenches saw advancing toward them wave after wave of German Infantry, who crossed the torn up ground elbow to elbow, their numbers far in excess of those of the French defenders... Not a sign, however, was given by the Basques of yielding ground until the German ranks opened and brought to view men equipped with implements throwing liquid flames. Then and only then the Basques fell back' at those portions of thelV lines which were sprinkled with blazing retirement was but a temporary one. The French soon organized a counterattack with grenades and bayonets. The hand, grenades were thrown by them with such precision owing to their lifelong practice at their favorite game that they forced the Germans out again rapidly and in the fury of their onrush even advanced beyond their original lines. On the right of this Basque line the famous chasseurs had an equally se-

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equipped with pressure cookers great quantities of vegetables and fruits might be canned. The gathering of such vegetables and fruit w r ould be done by pupils in private automobiles and wagons. Pupils might even help orchardists and truck farmers gather their crops and for compensation be given a share of what they pick, which would be turned into the canning department of the school they represent. The growers, stirred by patriotic impulse, would surely contribute a small share of what they raised for such a purpose. Both boys and girls could be employed in this department. The women of the community could be a real help and inspiration to the girls by supervising and helping in both the sewing and domestic-science rooms. In fact, the Red Cross work could be more effectively carried on under such auspices than in any other way. The men in spare moments might come around to give the boys a word of encouragement and help out wherever they could. Under these conditions the spirit of enterprise and work would hold of a community in a way that would be a revelation to its inhabitants. For the active shopwork two shifts of four hours each would be employed, say, 20 boys to the shift —the shifts to work from 8 a. m. till 12 and from 12:30. to 4:30. These shifts could alternate on morning and afternoon work every other week. The number that could be handled in a shift would, of course, depend upon. the kind of work, the size of the shop, and the amount of supervision.

vere fight with the attacking Germans, who were eventually thrown back, after suffering great losses. ' German Gunners Baffled. Not an inch of the ground gained by the French In the first movement of the offensive has been lost. The German artillery is compelled to fire almost at random, since the French possess all the most valuable observatories, whence they can watch the movements of their enemies in the valley of the Allette down below and on the crest at the other side, which before the French offensive was the third German position. Information gathered from the prisoners shows that the .German high command cannot reconcile itself to the loss of Craonne and the Chemln des Dames, and the officers of the fighting units have been ordered repeatedly to retake them at any cost.

SHE RIDES ELEPHANT FOR RED CROSS FUND

Madison, Wis.—“To the Red Cross, from Helen Ehler, SIOO won on a bet that she wouldn’t ride an elephant in the circus parade,” This note accompanied a subscription to the local Red Cross society. The circus came to town and Helen rode the elephant, declaring after that she even enjoyed the experience.

WOMEN HELP IN WAR WORK

Motor Service Organized by Mrs.* J. Borden Harrimatj Is Latest of ' K rter Activities. Washington.—Womeß’s activities in the war game are intoafising every day. A woman’s motor Service, organized by Mrs; tL Borden Hamman, in which scores of Washington SW&iety women ■ have enrolled, is one of thw^ test. The cars are kept busy on work directly far 1 the war department. 'W These women drive their to which an army ambulance, "'as a trailer. Is frequently attached as they are sent to the training camp of marine corps at Quantico, Va., or tfie engineering corps‘at. Belvoir, Va., tO? bring to Washington for hospital treatment sick or injured men. The women are also getting intensive training themselves under officers of the war department. ~ , They are getting the same drills and the same maneuvers as regular army units. The course of Instruction Includes litter drills and training in ambulance work. The women’s motor service in Washington has been taken has a rpo'del for similar organizations throughout the country and the w*ar department is receiving daily applications for officers to be detailed ,to train women in motor ambulance work.

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

Mechanism in a German lighthouse that uses electric lights automatically switches on a new lamp and moveS It into focus should the original lamp be extinguished. Instead of an inner tube a new punctureless automobile tire has a removable rubber core that Is solid except for cup-shaped air spaces at each side to afford resiliency. As an automobile fender a Texan has invented a huge rubber ball that is intended to envelop a pedestrian it hlts t the air that he forces out of it setting brakes on the car. A time-saving concrete barn patented by an lowa inventor has a water tank and feed and hay lofts surrounding and emptying into a central space on the ground floor. Operated by clockwork, a Los Angeles inventor’s automatic poultry feeder at set times measures out the desired amount of grain and scatters it over a wide area. According to an English scientist there is an individuality in heart beats affecting the handwriting to such a degree that it can be identified when writing is magnified. The municipal authorities of Lima are endeavoring to enforce a Peruvian law making the metric system of weights and measures the. only official one in that country. s. ~ ’ —w—■ - French scientists believe that carrier pigeons are influenced by magnetism and that, with the spread of wireless telegraphy, much less dependence can be placed in them. Maintaining a speed of 34% miles an hour for four consecutive hours without showing any smoke was a record recently made by a United States torpedo boat destroyer—Houston Post.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

Faith is the thing that enables men to eat hash. Time is what people try to enliven when they want to kill it. The king can do no wrong—if the other fellow holds all the aces. If a man falls in love, only the woman in the case can rescue him. She who fishes for a husband seldom catches one who is worth while. Many a mtfn Is out of work for the simple reason that there is no work in him.

POPULAR SCIENCE

Grasshoppers have been found at sea 1,200 miles from any landThe annual sootfall of Pittsburgh is said ;o be 1,021 tons per square mile. Wireless waves are used by a French wireless expert to measure the speed of projectiles. Before the war the annual output of aniline in this country was 800 tons, and now it is 25,000 tons. Curious portable electric lamp shades are made from dried skins of the porcupine fish caught on the Maine coast. A cutlery steel asserted to be nonrusting, unstainable and untamlshable has been developed by British manufacturers. An apparatus which steers a vessel by pumping jets of water from either side of Its stern has been invented by an Englishman.

FLORIDA PHILOSOPHY.

When poverty comes in at the door love flies —into a rage. Lovely woman is strong for any new wrinkle —except one on the face. The man in straitened circumstances hopes he will soon be in straightened circumstances. It’s easy enough for the fans tosing a box artist’s praises, provided he will furnish the right pitch. Getting up before day, says milady, Isn't half so embarrassing as having to get up before a Pullman full of-people. When the old farmer tries to get his College graduate son interested in fetoe-bullding and potato-culture the yomig high-brow immediately switches the cMrersatlon to teleology, analytic, dialectlc/wnplrlcal epistemology, soumena, meohjla oblonggata, and divers esoteric andracontagious phenomena.— Florida

AROUND THE WORLD

Denmark is threatened with a serious coal famine. % Aberdeen, S. D., is soon tcxfcave its first Jewish synagogue.

LOVE OF JESUS

It Reaches Down to the Depths of Human Need and Lifts Up to God. “Blessed Is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna!” Matthew 21:9. God had sent forth his Son into the world because things were not right. That is why Jesus paused that memorable morning, in his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem, over the brow of the city, and looked upon the glory of Jts temple, and remembered all for* which it had stood in the history of the Hebrew race, and all for which it now stood in the minds of the multitudes who had gathered from all over the world—and wept. Jesus wept over the city because he loved It. But he did not tarry long to weep. Time was short, and the need of the world too great. He must hasten into the city, for the day of his opportunity had come. Messianic hopes ran high. The Deliverer had been promised. The three years of his public ministry had made marfy hope that he might be the promised Deliverer, but there were thousands in this city , who had never heard of him at all. Yet when his disciples reached the outskirts of the city, someone recognized him and said: “He could calm the seas in their fury; could not he become our King and Deliverer?” And another said: “He opened the eyes of the blind;” and another. “He has even raised the dead —surely this is our Deliverer 1” And the- children hegin to sing, and the young people to ■shout, and men and women to follow him into the city, tearing paim branches from the trees —emblems of royalty—and casting their garments before him as the throng accelerated, and singing and shouting “Hosanna I Hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!” His Real Mission.

But the real mission of Jesus Christ was to become the King not of the world as such, but of each Individual life in the-world. Standing upon the heighfs of eternity, Ift looks off to the city of your soul, and sees therein the evil thoughts, passions, hatreds, malice, envy, jealousy, that are the real foes of your highest and best seif. He is coming to you, coming with blessing, coming with life. Others are acclaiming him King, but he seeks the sovereignty of your soul. To deny him that place, to forbid his-many mighty works, in you because of your unbelief, as Jerusalem did, is to court the. forces of death. This is the essence* of sin. JesUs knew that sin was a reality. Paul knew it. Martin Luther knew it, Augustine knew it. And so do you know it.

But Jesus Christ came into this world that he might take captive the city of the soul; that he might rule its thoughts, its ideals, its passions, its fellowships, its life. He reached out his hand to the fallen and lifted him up, and said, “Go, sin no more.” And he has been saying that to repentant sinners ever since. By some divine process which we cannot understand, but which we know to be true, he takes the sin from us as though it had never been, and gives us a new heart, a new outlook, a new passion that every moment of our lives may count only for the rightest and holiest things, both for time and for eternity. This is very far from saying that he takes away all of the suffering that sin entails upon us here. The scar will always remain; the conscience will never cease from its tortures; memory must abide. But, marvel of marvels! Christ has the power of so dealing with your sin that it is no longer yours but his. When he bore its deepest humiliation and died upon the cross, he bore the burden of our sin, and in so doing wrought a work which is for you and for me, as the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. When he passes into the city of a man’s soul, he enters into its deepest need, bears its deepest burden, lifts the load, and forgives the sin. He brings peace and the assurance of pardon, arid he also brings to us the desire to suffer with him in the salvation and service of humanity. —Rev. Victor F. Brown, D. D.

Plenty of Time.

We always have time enough to do God’s will. For God never requires more than we have time for. No one ever has too many duties; for the only true duties are Goil’s commands, and every command of his carries with it his own entire enabling. How good to remember, no matter how pressed we may be, that “the tasks are not too many, the hours are not too short, foi -the-doing of God’s wilk” -This means that we must let God show us whether wg have undertaken things that he never meant us to undertake. If we have, we are to admit our mistake and lay them aside as soon as possible. It means also that every second and every minute of every hour of every day is a precious stewardship, and Is to be administered as a priceless gift from God, used in his very presence before his own loving eyes. A life lived in this way will be an exhilarating and an always successful service. For God has made the program and God will carry it out.

The Cheerful Man.

For the dissatisfied man all life is l unsatisfactory, and for one that is contented the world is full of comforts. Bor the cheerful man even the Easterly wind is musical in the window crevices,, apd it makes solemn anthems for him in the woods.—William Mountford. i -

SCRAPS of HUMOR

ONE WAY OUT. It was the day before their first “hop over,” and the regiment was drawn up in mass behind the lines to listen to a “few words” from the colonel. He pointed out to them at some length the straight and narrow path wherein their duty lay, and after giving them the general direction of the road to glory, concluded with the lines: ' “If we go forward we die. If we go backward we die. Better go forward and die.** The awed silence which followed was broken by the languid voice of a Bllljlm in the rear. “Yairs,” he drawled derisively, “a bloke’s best chance is to be a blinkin’ crab!” —Sydney Bulletin. Just for a Change. "If I were writing a play in which a wealthy married couple had the principal role do you know what I would do?” “What?” “I would have them refer to their courtship in Petrograd, Constantinople, or Bucharest.” “But what’s the Idea?” “Oh, just to get away from Venice, Fiesole and Monte Carlo, where twothirds of the married people on the stage seem to have met each other.” HUFFED.

“So Miss Wrinkles is huffed at you?” “You bet She said that she was twenty-five yeArs old, and I said, ‘Certainly, but when?”’ Morose Nummary. And when the fishin’ trip is done, The fish ain’t much to eat. He’s mostly made of skeleton And mighty little meat. 1 Didn’t Count First Fair Autolst—Did you have to pay any damages to that man you ran over? Second Fair Autolst—No. Fortunately he was my husband. A Clear Case. “Great Scott! What alls that automobile? See how those wheels wobble.” “Looks to me like a clear case of auto-lntoxlcatlon 1” Down on ’Em. Katharine—What do you think of doctors generally? Kidder—Well, I have come to the Conclusion that there are a great many quacks outside of the duck trust. » Bumped. Fatleigh—Look out where you’re go* Ing. Can’t you see the length of your nose? . . Neerslte—l could if I was cross-eyed like you. Between Studio Pais. Artiste-Well, what do you think of the idea? Critic —It’s not half as bad as it’s painted. - ■ — Proof Positive. -- are fools.” . ... “Is that your theory?” “Yes.” A ’“Then we will let it go at that.” No, Thank You. She —Won’t you have a cup of tea, Mr. Rounder? Mr. Rounder—rm afraid It wouldn’t mix with what I’ve had. Crabbed Disposition. “Now, this is a snappy suit.” said the glib salesman. "See here, young man,” answered the grouchy customer. “That word ‘snappy,’ when applied to clothes is my pet abomination. I don’t want a snappy suit If you show me another Til get snappy myself.” Smoke Nuisance. Visiting Plumber—Cleanliness, my friend, is next to godliness. Native—ln this town it’s next to taH possible. *