Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — Page 3

MEN WHO WILL LEAD NEW NATIONAL ARNY

President soon will appoint a number of major-generals and brigadier-generals to command the “Liberty Boys" of 1917 :: Edward B. Clark gives valorous records of some likely candidates

S SOON as the various and A perhaps multitudinous recommendations can be studVSIA led and the majority approval determined, major & generals and brigadier generals will be named to comSkrff mand divisions and brigades in the new National army. It may be a matter of interest to young men who are to serve their country to know into whose keeping their leadership is to be committed. The names of the men selected for high service with the new National army have not yet been made public, but it Is virtually known that the major generals will be chosen from officers of regulars now holding the rank of brigadier general, and that the brigadier generals will be chosen from regulars now holding either the rank of colonel or of lieutenant colonel. On June 8 last the president sent to the senate nominations for new major generals and brigadier generals for the regular army. It must be understood that these men were named for regular service and not for National army service. It Is probable, however, that several of the regular brigadiers will be made major generals of the new forces. It will cause no surprise If Col. John W. Heard of the Fifth cavalry shall be a general officer of the new forces. Young Americans may know that if they get Heard as a commanding officer they will get a soldier with a fighting record. Heard wears a medal of honor given to him by a vote of congress for conspicuous personal gallantry. During the Spanish war the transport to

FUNNY PROPOSITION IS LIFE

Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonder, sit and think, why we’re here and what this life is all about? It’s a problem that has driven many brainy men to drink. It’s the weirdest thing they’ve tried to figure out; about a thousand different theories all the scientists can show. But never yet proved a reason why. With/ all we’ve thought and all we’ve taught, why, all we seem to know is, we’re bom and live awhile and die. Life’s a very funny proposition,' after all. Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and gall; three meals a day, a whole lot to say; when you haven’t got the coin you’re always in the way. Everybody’s fighting as we wend our way along. Every fellow claims the other fellow’s in the wrong; hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call. Life is a funny proposition, after all. When all things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man, why, then, life to him Is sunshine everywhere. Then the fates blow rather breezy, and they quite upset a plan; then he’ll cry that life’s a burden hard to bear. Though tbday may be n day of smiles, tomorrow’s still in doubt. And what brings me joy may bring you care and woe. We’re born to die and don’t know why, ~bf“what’s It all about; and the more we try to learn the less we know. Life is a funny proposition, you can bet, and no one’s ever solved the problem properly yet; young for a day, then old and gray, like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away. Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour; everything’s a guessing and nothing’s absolutely sure. Batties exciting and fates we’re fighting until the curtain’s fall. Life’s fi very funny proposition, after all.—George M. Cohan.

SCRAPS

Coast guard stations will be equipped with airplanes for rescue and observation work. 1 When water In a minnow pail cannot b? ehanged often a bicycle pump ■blowing air in the water Is worth while. A parachute which can We guided by pulling cords that draw in its sides ■has been invented, in France. A new pocket to protect valuables being carried about is designed to be attached to the lining of shoes. A deer’s new horns are called “velvet” because they grow inside of a tough skin which is coarse and brown, like plush. For a long time he will not thrash his horns In the brush. A luminous paint for automobiles invented in England is said to be so es-. fective that a car coated with ft is visible at night for two miles without the |pae of lamps.

which he and his immediate command were assigned became disabled at the mouth of the Manlmani river west of Bahia Honda, Cuba. Behind the rocks and in the thickets on the shore were scores of Spanish soldiers. The deck of the transport was being swept by Mauser bullets from the rifles of the hidden foe. Mechanical communication between the engine room and the pilot house of the transport was out of service and it was necessary to transmit orders by messengers. Because of his place on th 6 boat Heard did not know that two of his men had been shot in quick succession while performing the duty of order bearing. When he heard of it he said: “I will ask no more of my men to expose themselves. Give me your order's.” For twenty minutes he carried the messages along the deck, though Mauser bullets cut his blouse and splintered the railings and the boat's upper works all about him. Every step Of his way was marked out by shots, yet he came through unscathed. He wears the medal given “For Valor." When President Wilson recently promoted some colonels to be brigadier generals of regulars one of those advanced was Col. Joseph T. Dickman, cavalry officer, now in command at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. It probably is not poor guessing to place Dickman as one of the brigadiers who will be given the command of a division of the new National army. He is a sturdy soldier of high record, a student and fighter. For army boards appointed for investigation and method-reforming purposes Dickman always has been a favorite choice. He looks like a soldier and he has proved on many a field that he has the soldier Instinct. There is a feeling here that one day he will be heard from in France.

It was Dickman who in 1892 with a small detachment fought, defeated and captured the bandit chiefs, Benavides and Gonzales, with many followers, in the chaparral country in Texas. He distinguished himself at the battle of San Juan and later was chief of staff to General Chaffee, going with his to the relief of the beleaguered ones at Peking. He was in the thick of the fighting at the Pa-ta-chao temples near the Forbidden city. Colonel Grote Hutcheson of the cavalry Is likely to have a brigadier general’s command In the new army. It was Into Hutcheson’s arms as he stood under fire on the walls of the Forbidden city in 1900 that Captain Reilly, his comrade, fell dead. At time Hutcheson was an aide to General Chaffee. With his chief and with Reilly he stood on a wall where the Fourteenth regiment had planted Its flag. A detachment of Chinese marked the three and a shower of shot splattered about them. They stood uniharmed. Another shower and the gallant Reilly, who, conquering all obstacles, had fought his battery to the front, fell dead into the arms of Hutcheson. Col. L. W. V. Kennon of the Infantry almost unquestionably will have a brigade anti possibly a division command in the new army. Kennon served for a long time on General Crook’s staff in the Indian wars of the West. He went to the Philippines early in the war game and he did not leave until he had played his hand for six years. It was this army officer who, although attached to the infantry, was given the engineer's task of building the Benguet road In the Philippine islands. It was the most difficult engineering job ever undertaken in the Islands. Kennon, although a. junior officer of the army, had commanded a brigade in -the northern campaign of General Lawton. He brotight to the work of road buildingmearly two thousand members of the tribes In country he had been campaigning. The battles with them over, he asked

Visitors to Sing Sing will be barred from seeing the death chair under a new order. The supply of singing birds has been cut-off by the war and canary / prices are soaring. 1 — The Big Horn or Rocky Mountain sheep can travel as far over the mountain peaks in a few minutes as a hunter can go in two hours. , The German Mauser can fire faster than any other rifle used in the war. The magazine holds five cartridges, picked in charges. — r '

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these men to aid him in the works of peace. They liked him, trusted him and they stood loyally to the road building task, which was completed more quickly than anyone knowing the ordinary inclinations of Philippine laborers thought could be the case. Col. Walter K. Wright of the Twentythird infantry, now stationed at Syracuse, N. Y„ is likely to find himself promoted shortly to the command of a brigade. Wright will fight and he will lodk after his men; and when this is said it covers the entire military case as the true soldier views it. Wright’s quick thinking made him an army officer. In the New York district in which he lived as a boy a com* petltive examination was held for the appointment to West Point. Wright was a candidate. It was a question as to which of six youngsters best had stood the test, and so the examining board called them up to ask them some questions. The first question put was, “Why do you want to go to West Point?” The first five thoughtlessly answered, “Because we want to get an education.” In other words, the youngsters Implied that they wanted nothing more than to be educated at Uncle Sam’s expense. — The sixth boy to be asked the question was Wright. He had heard the answers of the others. His answer was, "Because I want to be a soldier.” He is a soldier. There are many men to be promoted to high commands in the new army. Of some of the others and their record it will be the duty and the delight of pne who knows most of them to say a word later.

JAPANESE KNOW NO PRIVACY

The Bay of Kizukl is a Japanese watering place, and, like any watering place in America, it has a fine sandy beach stretching half a mile between two long green hills and a great hotel and casino and good fishing. In addition to these things it has a sacred temple and a wonderfur’rock. The hotel is sufficiently different from any outside the Orient, for Its every room is open to the street, and you may see at a glance dozens of families playing, eating, sleeping. The Japanese do not know privacy as the Occident knows it. They go about all thligs openly. Which has led some observers to call them a nation of monkeys and others to say that they are the most natural people in the world. All day at Kizukl bay the people will disport themselves as man has disported by the sea since before his memories began. The water will be filled with splashing figures and the air with the shrill voices of children and women, the deep guffaws of men. There Is music, too, of the Japanese sort, and men put out in boats to fish and sail in the safe little harbor within the arms of the hills. But the event of the day comes In the evening, when the sun drops Into the bay. turning it into gold, and the protecting arms of the hills are plunged in night. Then does the lone rock spire of Kizukl bay stand out in a silhouette of majestic curves against a fiery sky. And all the people come to, look and admire. For to even the humblest Japanese the severe beauty of a rock spire against a sunset sky Is solace and Inspiration.

One of Them Did.

As good a real kid story as you’ve probably noticed for a while is related herewith: The four-year-old son was having lunch with his grandmother. At his proposal they agreed to play “father and mother.” He was the father and she was the mother. After the few wordg. of grace he bent forward, in excellent imitation of his father, and said, “Well, mother, and have the children said anything cute today?”—Philadelphia Star.

The Venezuelan government by law has prescribed a standard of purity for butter, and has forbidden the sale of any that is adulterated. * Either a direct or alternating electric current, or one supplied by dry batteries, when neither of the former is available, will operate a newly invented dental engine. South African fanners are planting larger areas in sisal than they have dope in the past, recognizing that the cost of operation decreases as the sizs of the plantation is enlarged.

Women Must Make Study of Clothes

New Tort.—An English paper has recently published an article dealing with the attempt and failure of American women and designers to be independent of Paris and congratulates us on our good sense, as it were, in returning to the source. In truth, there was not a serious or concerted attempt to, be Independent

This evening gown has a separate bodice. The skirt is of cyclamen tulle, accordion pleated, with garland of embroidery and formal bouquets. The bodice and sash are of black satin.

of Paris. It was only natural that the American people should feel that the outbreak of the war in France would stop all the wheels of her commerce in clothes and that the other countries would be compelled to go on their own. It would take us a century to_accompllsh what we now buy from Paris in a week. We are too canny to give up the best source of fashion on the planet for no reason whatever. If we had to depend on our own creations for the commerce in clothes, threequarters of the firms engaged in this Industry would fail within two years. It is a happy piece of news to report in support of this outlined sentiment that the shipments of costumes from France which will take place this fall will be as heavy as in normal times. The number of buyers "who have gone abroad has been reduced, on account of volunteering, conscription and changes, therefore, in the personnel of many business houses, but the resident buyers and the Important representatives for groups of houses have been able to transact the expected business.

Where America Comes In. So much for Paris. But, with all that she will do, the war places an important task on American women. Never before in the history of commerce in clothes has this especial demand been made upon them. It Is this: they must work out their own salvation. Our heads of shops and dressmaking houses are far from being aids to the dumb. They must sell what they have bought and made and they have rarely studied the needs of the Individual. The buyers who went to Paris in other days haunted the fashionable places where the women of pleasure and power foregathered. These women made and marred the fashions put out by the designers. When our buyers saw that these leaders were featuring certain fashions they brought them home for the American. But, and this is the new situation, the women here are now confronted with the fact that thousands of new costumes will soon be unpacked from the boxes that brought them over the ocean, and as they were chosen from whatever the French houses had to offer, it will be our part to select from that heterogeneous mass that which brings out our special type and suits our environment This Is sane and sensible wartime adjustment of one’s times and income, and possibly the lesson may be so thoroughly learned and digested that it will prove to be a lasting benefit to the national community. Make a Study of Clothes. It Is not a waste of time to be fully aware of the kind of costumery that you should adopt The comprehensive adjustment between your type and your clothing will save money, nerves and regrets. The time will soon be upon us when we can become the arbiters of our own sartorial fate. The war in France has abolished leadership in certain fashions by their acceptance hi the highest circles of power; Uhd, with our dressmakers and shops somewhat puzzled as to what will lead and what will not, we have the best chance of our career to suit ourselves. This will be really the millennium In dress. Paris, the center of art in the world. Creates from a point in air, as the engineers say, and from the mass of material she sends we choose a thousand different types of costumes If we wish. fx>ok a bit into the history of each costume, as Paris does, and say to yourself. Does my face and, figure, iny physical and mortal individuality reflect that period? If the an-

swer is in the negative, don’t let any one persuade you to buy it. When the ships that dodge the man made sharks of the sea bring to ui these cases of silks, brocades, metals embroideries and velvets fashioned for the American woman, we will see that these clothes are the heirs to all the ages. China will dominate some bits of costumery, ' the Influence of Napoleon will be there, the Russian Cossacks who threw themselves before the retreating Eleventh army In Galicia will be another motive for certain cut and color, and the recent- exhibition of French clothes in Madrid is reflected in the things that were brought out of Spain. Not only will different countries be represented in the medley of costumery that is coming to us. but various epochs In the history of places, especially of France —the First Empire, the Consulate, the swirling and transparent draperies made famous by Mme. Talllen, the Queen of Shreds and Patches, as she was nicknamed, the biblike panels of embroidery worn by the (queen of Roumania when she arrayed' herself In the native costumes. The polonaise will be revived from that day when the predecessor of Rose Berttln, who gowned Marie Antoinette, made fashionable the striking garment worn by the Polish princess, Marie, whom Louis XV made queen of France. Those Chinese wraps and sleeves and tassels worn by the noblemen who represented Pekin as the first embassy sent from China to France are recalled into the new fashions because China is with France and is fighting, as she fought, to be a republic. Rakish Continental Hat. The green coque feathers flaunting from new hats have been borrowed from the hats of the sharpshooters, the berspglieri of Italy, because the fighters of the Vosges and the Alpine passes have a comradeship. The rakish continental hat was Included in the fashions because the land of that George Washington whom General La-' fayette came to assist is spreading her soldiers over the pleasant valleys of the sister republic and sending her huge guns to protect the Road of Ladies as all gentlemen, good and true, should do. The pinched-ln crown and the rollicking brim have been Included in the most fashionable hats because these

One of the new autumn suits In green velour with turned-up hem on coat and wide girdle forming sash in front.

soldiers have been smiled at and, some say, kissed by the midlnettes as they strolled the boulevards at noon hour. Why try to outline the conglomeration of episodes that are reflected in these autumn clothes that we will soon be asked to buy and mold to our individuality? France has put the passing panorama of the planet into costurnery. If we adopt it all, we shall look like a procession of the ages staged by gome Gargantuan stage director. It Is our part in this procession that is of vital importance. It Is necessary that each woman should face" the situation with some knowledge, much discernment and an inclination to express herself. : ■■■ ; (Copyright, 191", by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

An Ail-Season Frock.

Georgette and chiffon are now considered suitable for winter wear upon many occasions, and are sheer and cool enough for wear in dog days. The various silk crepes are also capable of all-the-ygar-round service and by combining georgette or chiffon with silk one has another all-seasons frock.

Home Town Helps

BAD ROOFING FIRE DANGER Investigation Into Causes of Big Atlanta Conflagration Lays Blame on General Use of Shingles. Following the Atlanta conflagration of May 21, 1917, the committee on Are prevention of the national board of lire underwriters dispatched one of its most experienced engineers to the stricken city in order to make a close study of the characteristics of the fire, the causes to which it was due and the lessons which might be deduced from it. • The report finds that the Atlanta disaster was essentially a “shingleroof’ conflagration of the familiar type; it questions the utility of the dynamiting of buildings and records the fact that some of the hose sent from nearby cities could not be used through lack of standardized couplings. The report's greatest emphasis, however, is laid upon bad roofing conditions, which are summed up in the following statement: This conflagration, together with two of the other fires occurring at the same time, emphasizes the ease with which spreading fires may develop in cities where wooden shingle roofs predominate, eveq when the fire department is mainly well equipped' and manned. It illustrates the startling suddenness with which such a fire may grow into a conflagration under favorable conditions.

TREES NEED PLENTY OF ROOM

Should Be Planted Far Enough Apart For Them to Become Perfectly Developed Specimens. If you own your place the first thing you wish to do is to plant trees and shrubs, because these take years to mature, and naturally you do not want to lose a year. They are the only permanent elements in the garden and they cost more in the first place than seeds, bulbs or perennials. Therefore, here is your great chance to make a success or to spoil the effect of your place and waste a lot of money. Here are some good rules: Save money by planting your avenue trees far enough apart for them to become perfect specimens. Nearly everybody plants too close. Measure the spread of the best specimens in town of the species you want Try to get all the people in your block to plant the same kind of tree. Don’t plant silver maples, box elders or Carolina poplars. Their beauty is short lived. The elm is the quickest growing of the long-lived avenue trees. Save money by not planting a useless hedge across your front yard. A hedge is never cheaper than a fence, nor can you expect it to be as effective in keeping out animals. A tall, thorny hedge, like osage orange, is a bad thing for a suburban place.

Reducing Fire Hazard.

- It is of the utmost consequence that every individual In the United States consider himself a committee of one to co-operate In the removal of all unnecessary fire hazards that may come within his knowledge. The urgency of this cannot by any possibility be exaggerated, says the Scientific American. The difference between adequate attention to this warning by every resident of our country, and its complete neglect by all concerned, might very well be the difference between winning the war and losing It. And while of course this figure is an overdrawn one in the sense that certainly everybody will not ignore the warning any more than everybody will heed it, this fact does not in any degree diminish the measure of Individual responsibility. Everyone of us can contribute something to the lessening of the fire loss for the year to come.

Business Men Educate City.

The chamber of commerce of York, Pa., believes that its main function H to educate the people of York to the need of better things. It is at present devoting its educational efforts to the children, because “the child of today is the man of tomorrow.” An information folder has been issued by the chamber which shows how the work is being done. Prominent business men have been asked to make ten-minute addresses on civic topics in every school building in the city of York and its The folder contains, suggestions for talks, and gives a list of the business and professional men who have consented to co-operate in the movement this year. The first work of this character was attempted in 1913, when 34 men gave their services. In 1916 there were 53 volunteers, and. 109 men are assisting this year.

A Domestic Indignation.

“I just can’t get along with my busband, and that's all there is to it,” re- _ marked the square-jawed woman _ “I understand you begged him with tears in your eyes not to go Into thearmy if he could possibly avoid it" “I did talk rather sentimentally about the fear of losing him. And het made my affection an excuse to puti up such an argument for exemption; that they’ll probably let him out. Pvei got to look ‘forward to having a slabk-i er sitting around the house all through] the war I”—Washington Star.