Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — Page 2

VOLUNTEER SPIRIT IS A LIVING THING

War Department Gratified Over Record of Four MonthsLßecruiting for Service. 1,750,000 MEN PASSED UPON Regular Army Officers Urge Necessity of Early Dispatch of Large Number of Troops to Training Camps in France. By EDWARD B. CLARK. ' Washington.—War department officials are expressing their gratification tat the record of four months’ recruiting lor the different branches of the service. The enlistment books show that the volunteer spirit In the United States is a living thing. I Recruiting figures compiled from official sources show that In the last four months more than 1,750.000 men have volunteered for the military and naval services of the country. This does not mean that this number of men have been accepted for service, but it means that volunteers to the number given have tried to get into the ranks either of the army or the navy. For every man accepted by the army, navy, marine corps, the National Guard, the officers’ reserve corps and the various reserves there is official sanction for the word that at least two men willing and anxious to serve their country were rejected for physical or other reasons, for every one man that succeeded in passing the examinations. The regular army and the National Guard, according to the last figures, have each gained in four months’ time about 185,000 mett Everyone of these men was a volunteer. The rejections numbered something over one million. During the same period of four months the navy has taken in for fighting purposes about 88,000 men. More than 150,000 young Americans have applied for a chance to enter the various officers’ training camps throughout the couhtry. The marine corps virtually is recruited to its full war strength and every man of them is a volunteer. Plays No Favorites.

The war department officials In Washington believe that the selective conscription plan for a great army is the best that can be adopted, because it plays no favorites. It makes every man of military age, no matter what his social position or his wealth, take his chance with every other man. The officials have tried to keep the volunteer spirit in everything that has gone to make up the new National army, and seemingly they have succeeded. They say that the selected man will be considered a volunteer. It is pretty well known that hundreds of thousands of young Americans, if they had not known that selective service was coming, would have volunteered for the regulars, the National Guard, or the navy. The fact that young men saw a chance to serve in the new army, the war department officials believe, kept many of them from entering the established services. It is held, however, that nearly 2,000,000 men having shown their willingness to enter the regulars or the Guard is proof enough that the volunteer spirit Is still vibrant. Here is the table indicating the number of men who have volunteered for the American service in four months: Branch. Applied Accepted. Regular army , 540.000 180,000 National Guard 540.000 180,000 Navy 220,000 <o,ooo Marine corps 45.000 —, 15.000 Training camps 150,000 50,000 Naval militia 75.000 25.000 Army reserve 25,000 15,000 Naval reserve 150,000 50,000 Totals 1,750,000 590.000 Ranking officers of the United States army, ranking in position and in military sagacity, have come to take the position of the French army men in the matter of the necessity of the early dispatch of large numbers of American troops to the training camps back of the battle line. A definite plan has been submitted [giving the number of divisions that should be sent to France and fixing the latest time limit for their arrival abroad. It Is not best to give the numbers of men asked for, nor to fix definitely the time when the army men hope they can be put into the place of greatest advantage to the war cause, but there is no harm in saying that the more active minded army men are asking that the order for “double time” be given. ’ ' Speed Up Preparation. There has been an acceleration of the pace of preparation in the army and the navy departments, but things in the military service are comparative as they are in civil life. If the quickspirited ones of the service have their way the Germans will feel the American hand and handlyenades with much greater force and in much greater numbers than the wise men of the kaiser’s militaristic machine had any thought would or could be lse case. Little by little the civil authorities In the land and sea departments have been yielding to the advice, occasionally. emphasized by the spur pricks, of the soldier element. There was a disposition on the part of civilians for some time to point out obstacles supposWly In the way of quick support for the allied Unes of Europe. All that army officers had to do was to point ✓ to the campaign rule which provides

means for troops to surmount or to get around obstacles. There is a very distinct understanding in Washington that the transport problem is in a fair way of quick solution. With this problem solved there remains the problem of supplies, but in this matter also hope has come in “great quantities.” Then there is the matter of the preliminary training of the recruits who in numbers have joined the regulars and the National Guard. In every newly formed regular regiment there is something more than a nucleus of veterans. Army men say that green men can be mafic into soldiers twice as rapidly when they have a battalion of seasoned men to train and to rally about. The trained regulars who, with the recruits make up the new’ regiments, are of course in better shape for immediate fighting than are the National Guardsmen, no matter how long the state troopers may have been in the service, but with daily drill and instruction it will not be long before the Guardsmen are regulars. Therefore, the training of the Guard recruits ought not to take much longer than that of the rookies who have joined the regulars. Make Rapid Progress. Reports to the war department show that the troops now in France have progressed rapidly in the lessons of the school of the new warfare. It is pretty well known in Washington that army officers now abroad believe that one week in camp in France is w’orth a month in camp in the United States. This fact has quickened the desire of army officers, and presumably that of the civilian authorities, to increase as rapidly as possible the number of troops ndw preparing for actual conflict. While some persons are still trying to delay democracy’s w’ork and thereby gratify the Germans, there seemingly

BRITAIN REVEALS ITS AIR SECRETS

America Given Results of Experiments Carried on for Several Years. BIG FLEET PLAN OPPOSED Turning Out of 30,000 Craft Deemed Unwise, in View of Continual Changes Made Necessary by War Experience. London. —If the United States produces airplanes on a large scale and they prove successful in the fighting on the western front it will be due in no small measure to the great aid rendered America by the British government in aeronautics. Britain is today supplying American aero factories with concrete results developed by experiments carried on for several years, a few of which are outlined in a recent report by the advisory committee for aeronautics. The work of tile advisory committee has grown to such an extent in the last year that subcommittees have been appointed for special work along certain lines. One subcommittee is experimenting on internal combustion engines, while another is dealing exclusively with light alloys. As a result of experience gained in actual warfare changes are made in construction almost daily, ami it is this fact that makes the plans of the United States for the . immediate construction of 30,000 airplanes seem Tiuulvisable. ’ Perhaps the greatest advance in airplane construction has come through the work of the committee on aerodynamics, which has tested models of every type of aircraft now employed. Important tests have been made of various shapes to discover which offered the least resistance and which best distributed air pressure. Airship Stability.

Along this line a vast amount of experimental work has been carried out along the theory of airship stability. A complete series of tests have been completed relating to air propellers with a view to increasing the accuracy of prediction of performance, thus facilitating the design of propellers for special types of aircraft. Extreme care has been devoted to the study of design to secure adequate strength in* high-speed fighting machines. These machines which the United States already is at work upon require high power, while the weight must be kept.to the minimum, and the best compromise between these two opposed conditions does not admit of precise determination—Special attention has been paid to the manner in which strength varies wjth dimensions. Machines have beep? placed upon test tables which allow of accurate observations of the effects of vibration. Every wire, brace and stay has been put to Severe tests.' The use of light alloys has become of paramount Importance, and the Improvements made in the last year along this line are going to have tremendous effect on future development The national physical laboratory has

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REGISTERED? “FIRED;” THEN SUES FOR $1,000

Tulsa, Okla. —Alleging he was discharged because of the time it took him to register for military service, Albert Golden has brought suit against Bumgarner & Downing, furniture dealers, fbr SI,OOO damages. Golden, who was employed by the defendants as a teamster, claims he left the store at 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon to go to fits precinct registering place, but when he arrived the line ahead of him was so long that the registrar did not get to him until 10:30 o’clock that night. The following morning, he says, he was discharged.

is no chance that they will be able to “submarine” our transports before they leave port. There Is only a ismall backing in congress for the attempt which is being made to prevent the sending of National Guardsmen and the new National army to France. Of course If this attempt should be successful the w’ar would be lost unless the allies could win it for themselves. Officials believe that there is virtually no chance that the Supreme court on a constitutional question would decide that the members of the National Guard and of the new army must stay on this side of the water. An attempt to take a test case before the court is, however, one of the blocking schemes. ' The training of the National Guard troops will be quickened if the war department does not yield to the demands of the politicians and make brigadier generals out of unserviceable civilians. The brigadier general under the new fighting rules must be a man of military parts. Washington looks for quick results in the National Guard camps and as goes without saying in the camps of the regulars. The word is for troops and more troops quickly to move to the front, and seemingly belief is that the word “will go.”

been conducting experiments in light alloys for many years, and during the last two or three months results of special interest - have”T)een achieved. To carry out the manufacture of the nearest type metal the subcommittee on light alloys hopes to co-ordinate the work being ddne in various centers and of placing the information gained by experimental work at the disposal of manufacturers. Fabrics and Varnishes. This information, in part, has been sent to the United States and will take its big share in the final achievement of tremendous output. with the military air department, the advisory committee for aeronautics has taken up several questions dealing with the use of fabrics and varnishes and protective coatings.' These materials have been tested for use in the tropics and for use in the cold high altitudes and in the winter months on the western front. Conclusions of Importance have been reached in this line and changes have been made in the materials and coatings for wings with regard for the changes worked by spnlight, rain and other atmospheric conditions. Aviation schools have aided: greatly in the work of perfecting bombs to be carried by airplanes and the same schools have also supplied valuable information regarfiing the use of aerial Instruments and the effect of altitude on them. Two new types of bombsights have been tested and a new form standardized. Lastly, the advisory committee reports that establishment of stations in the proper areas to report upon the development and cedure of thunderstorms. They ’ are traced across the map and reported to the affected districts.

CRAVE FOR WHITE BREAD

Americans in Paris Envy United States' Soldiers Home-Baked War Ration. Paris.—The decision that real white bread is to be furnished the United States troops now encamped in France has awakened a feeling of envy and a craving of appetite among Americans living in Paris. For months they hgve been eating the dark, heavy war bread, and, as the English say R are quite “fed up on it.” An American hostess who -was giving a small dinner recently wished to give her guests a treat. She arose at five o’clock in the morning to get to the one place in central Paris where white bread is procurable before the limited supply was exhausted. She paid 10 cents for a tiny loaf the size of the ordinary 6-cent loaf in New York, and It occupied the place of honor on her table that evening.

Hair in Form of Cross.

Petersburg, Ind.—Lester Battle is going to leave his hat at home for a while. After much study Lester decided on wlmt he thought would be the best Scheme to show his enthusiasm for the Red Cross. He went to a barber shop and whispered a few words to the barber. Then the barber got busy. When Lester left the shop- his hair was Cut closely—except for a spot on the back qf his head, where the hair was left In the form of a cross.

Experiments by a British expert In reforesting some of the hills of China have led to the establishment of a comprehensive course in forestry In a university in that country..

SNAPSHOTS

Misfortune Is the bosom friend of the man who “didn’t think.* Men are worn out, enfeebled, aged more by corroding care than by hard labor. We always love those who admire us; wo do not always love those whom we admire. True manhood comes from self-con-trol —from subjection of the lower powers to the higher conditions of our being. Real struggling is Itself real living, and no ennobling thing of this earth is ever to be had by man on any other terms. Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do the danger is that we shall do nothing. The road ambition travels Is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science. Men are like trees—each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. Education Is only like good culture; It changes the size but not the sort. To know the pains of power we must go to those who have It; to know its pleasures we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. In the active and vigorous games and merriment of children there are the most health-giving conditions that can be’obtained, because they are the wise combination of exercise and mi rth.

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

A globular lifeboat which can carry 16 persons safely through the roughest water has been invented by a Dane who once saw an iron -water tank floating several weeks after a wreck. An English inventor has patented a process for so treating the edges of paper money that, when placed in a phonograph_pf his invention, they produce words attesting their genuineness. A Missouri inventor’s anti-skidding device for automobiles includes legs to be so carried on the hub of an automobile wheel that they can be projected to engage slippery roadways. The seats ori a recently patented sightseeing automobile are slowly revolved as the vehicle moves, permitting the passengers to see both sides of a street without twisting their necks. Where high power electric transmission lines cross highways in Norway networks of wire are erected to protect persons using the roads, should the heavily charged wires break and fall. A Nebraska man, after 11 years of experiment, has invented a device that enables a user of a party telephone line to identify any other subscriber who may be listening to his conversation. — Houston Post.

SOME GEORGIA PHILOSOPHY

The gent who is truthful as the day is long might be a big liar at night. We reckon umbrellas and hats come under the head of overhead expenses. One thing in favor of the blind man is he can never be accused of loving at first sight. Many a fellow has a change of climate, unless he lives in the torrid zone, when he dies. A good way to make people read an article in a paper is to head it this way: “For Intelligent People Only.” L" ' . • . Don’t fret about starving to death as long as there are poll Ues, because there will always be a dish of crow for someone to eat. Several years ago a woman could be accused of “putting on,” but the way styles are at the present time it looks like they “take off.” The gent who said think of others, meant think of them in a kind way. Now let your thoughts roam about the man who invented beating carpets. — Greensboro Herald.

ODDS AND ENDS

To be known as a fool is the chief asset of a wise man. Energy usually brings success and success always brings energy. If you would strive to avoid competition be good rather than great. To the self-made man all selfmade men are nothing but upstarts.

HIT AND MISS

We always hate to win from a good loser. ( The theories of jealousy are always ’warped.

SAYINGS OF A CYNIC

Some men who live by their wits have to get along on very small capItal. An old bachelor says a woman’s heart is like a honeycomb—full of sells. • / '■* The only satisfaction some married women have is that they are not spinsters. Ignorance might be bliss if somebody did not think it his to put us wise. A married man seldom gets the last word because of his inability to remain awake. There are higher things' in life for woman than a good complexion—a pretty hat, for instance. His first love and his first shave are two episodes in every young man’s career that he never forgets. Adam had his foibles, but the records fail to Indicate that he was ever guilty of telling fish stories. , If a man succeeds the world envies him; if he fails it ®penl>sympathizes with him —and secretly rejoices. The father who is always repeating the bright sayings of his children may be good-natured, but he Is tedious. After a bachelor passes the age of forty It’s up to him to marry a widow If he marries at all. He’ll need wife who knows how cranky men are. —Chicago Herald.

STRAY PLANTS

Strange how Age finds life’s mileposts so much closer. The Lord’s great school furnishes few reviews for neglected lessons. As soon as men began cleaving the air like doves, they began fighting like hawks. Yes, “beetling eyebrows” are signs of Intellect—if they do make you think of a poodle. Sometimes a poor fellow lm.iglnes himself like an old wagon—needing constant soaking to make It firm. - The college athlete will be proud of a blacked eye he’d be ashamed of had he got it around behind the barn. A New York woman refused to chew or smoke, even for her health —and only lived to be one hundred and five. It’s possible for a man to go forth in the morning ambitious and eager, and come home at night tired and happy. Ever try it? Then, “universal peace” would enable us to put all the soldiers on the police force. —J. H. Mackley in Ohio Farmer.

WITH THE SAGES

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. George Eliot. Strength and wisdom only flower when we toll for all our kind. —Lowell. Man cannot make, but may ennoble fate by nobly bearing it— Owen Meredith. When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.—Browning. Every light hath its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.—Copernicus.

SOME OBSERVATIONS

There are two kinds of grocers—green grocers and cash grocers. . t Debt is disgraceful, but not being able to get into it is often more so. Truth is stranger than fiction, because there is less of it on the market. The irony of fate is as nothing when compared with the irony of a woman. A man must make his own way in the world, while a woman merely has hers. If you are a smart mad, honor the old folks and remember that they were on the ground first. “ The tightwad will pay a lawyer a hundred dollars to get rid of paying ten dollars to the government. It Is better for the plain woman to consult a cook book than a beauty doctor if she wants to make marriage a success.

STATISTICAL NOTES

Chile has population. Santiago, Chile, has 406,495 people. Jamaica has 2,213 miles of main roads. . ' Valparaiso, 207,003 inhabitants.

THE RECONCILER

By His Teaching, by His Life and' by His Atonement Christ Seeks to Win Man Text —n Cor. 5:19. “God was Ln Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.” Jesus is set before us in the gospels as the revealer of the Father, as the Supreme Guide of man, as the Sinless and Perfect One who showed that the price of this world had nothing In him. These offices and acts culminated in his death and resurrection, which, in a thousand ways we can never fully realize, abolished the hindrances and barriers between the Creator and the creature. Hence the apostle. In describing the ambassador’s trip of the Christian ministry, lays its weight upon one paramount moral and spiritual truth embodied In the historical Redeemer. He solemnly assures us that God was In Christ, reconciling us to himself, giving unto all who believe pardon for their trespasses and sins, admitting them into the fellowship of life eternal. What love, what service, can be as vital o*r as precious as this love and service? Certainly, all men, however degraded, have an inkling of their Maker. Belief in his existence is too deeply rooted in the human soul, too magnificently expressed In the Scriptures, to be In any real danger. But our Lord raises this instinct for God, this faint apprehension of his existence, this his nature, into a state of grace andnoliness and love. He vivifies the conception of the Eternal One until it \ gains measureless capacity for life apd power. And he does this in three great ways: by his teaching, his life, and his atonement. Hit Teaching. It is not a superficial or an arbitrary relation. On the contrary, It arises out of the divine element in man, which God ever seeks to affiliate with his infinite love; to bring into closest fellowship, Into one living unity. Such an exalted view of our natural affinity with the Father of the spirits of all flesh can be held consistently with the fullest recognition of that radical moral disorder and spiritual failure of men which we call sin. Christ speaks of the best of men as being evil. He traces this evil to their hearts, and draws the darkest pictures of its gravity and consequences. He calls saint and sinner alike to repentance, and tells the learned and pious Nicodemus that he and all others must be born from above, regenerated, before they can enter the kingdom. He detected sin In its first Inceptions, and tracked it down to its last and dreadful result in punishment and in spiritual dissolution. What others regarded as anger he denounced as murder; where the ordinary person saw no more than desire, he saw adultery. His Example. Jesus met this disaster by announcing himself as the Shepherd who seeks the lost sheep, the Physician who heals diseased souls, the Saviour who pays the ransom for forfeited lives. His mission was to bring men out of the false and ruinous relations which are wrought by sin, and into the true anil enriching relations due to their restored inheritance In God.

But how could such instruction as this prevail against fleshly appetites and immoral tendencies, if it stood alone, unsupported by example and left entirely to precept? Prophets and sages have given us similar advice, not so illustrious, not so authoritative, but wise and clear enough to be received. They were not so received because those who aspired to be our guides were themselves in a like condemnation with us. Therefore it is Important to recall that if Jesus reconciles us to God by his words, he reconciles us still more by his life. Be was sinless, without spot or blemish ! Hla Death. Thus, with one' exception, the life of Jesus- and the teaching of Jesus have been the greatest religious forctes that have entered our mortal sphere. That exception is his death. Not on the teaching nor bn the life of the Christ do the New Testament writers lay chief stress as the means of deliverance from sin, but on the death of Christ. Consider the space and treatment given to the death of Christ in the scripture. Now it recurs again and yet again; now it is attached to all heights and depths of love, sacrifice, deliverance, holiness and adoration. Consider its permanent monument in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, which is to be to all Christians '“a memorial of his precious death until his coming again.” Here the' whole Deity is known. Nor dare a creature guess Which of the glories brightest ehone. The Justice or the grace. _ , —Rev. S. Parks Cadman, D. in Christian Herald.

We Must Walt on God.

“Be still, and know that I am God,” is an exhortation of the psalmist that is not always easy to heed. It is sometimes more difficult to, keep still than it is to go, forward. but lt is sometimes just as necessary. We must keep in restraint our impatience. We should like to see the evil banished from the world in a day, but it is not likely to be done. We would go at once and pull up the tares by the roots and throw them intcn the fire, but the Master says that thu| doing we might root up the wheat also. We must walk with God, neither running ahead not lagging behind.—RatetghChrfsttan A 4 vocate. - -■