Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Page 1

No. 206.

Attempted Robbery Of Brookston Bank.

Thirty dollars in pennies and a lot of silverware, together with a Smith and Wesson revolver taken from the cashier’s desk is all that is known to be missing from the safe in the Farmers’ bamk of Brookston, which was blown with nitroglycerine Friday morning. The large clock in the bank was stopped at 2:20 o’clock and it is supposed that this was the time the robbery was committed. The robbers were evidently inexperienced, because a clean job was not made of the cracking, of the safe, which was one of the strongest in White county. The bank funds amounting to several thousand dollars were intact in the vault and why the robbers lifted only the pennies and silverware is a mystery that is baffling detectives. Only one clue to the identity of the robbers was an empty suitcase on which had been written in pencil the name of George Patterson. The further mystery of the explosion is the fact that no one heard the noise. The safe showed evidence of having been tampered with after the explosion but the robbers had been unable to move the large doors. It was necessary to employ sledge hammers in order to finally force the massive steel doors apart in order to permit the bank officials to gain entrance to the vault.

Elihu Root on War and Traitors.

The following are excerpt* from Elihu Root'* speech at the Coliseum Friday night in Chicago: A nation which declare* war goes on discussing whether it ought to have declared war or not is impotent, paralyzed, imbecile, and earn* the contempt of mankind and the certainty of humiliating defeat and subjection to foreign control. The men who are speaking and writing and printing argument* == against the war now, and against everything being done to carry on the war, are rendering more effective service to Germany than they ever could render in-the -field with arm* in their hand*. . . Anybody who seek* by argument or otherwise to stop the execution of the order sending troops to France and Belgium is simply trying to prevent the American government from carrying on the war successfully. He is aiding the enemies of hi* country and if he understand* what he is really doing he is a traitor at heart.

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The Evening Republican .

Church Requests Pastor’s Return.

At the fourth and last quarterly conference- held at the Methodist Episcopal church of this city by District Superintendent McKenzie Wednesday evening, the large congregation without a dissenting Voice urged that Dr. Strecker be returned to his pastorate here for another year’s work. The regular annual session of the Northwest Indiana Conference is to meet at Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 26. This conference is composed of the following districts: Greencastle, Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Hammond. It includes four Methodist churches in Indiana, all the Methodist churches in Terre Haute, and also the Methodist churches of South Bend. A line connecting these cities would represent the eastern and southern boundaries of the district. There are two more conferences in the state. The one including the Northeastern part is called the Northern Indiana Methodist conference and the remaining part of the state is called the Indiana Methodist conference. There are eight hundred Methodist preachers actively engaged in that number of popular pastorates in the state. .

New Year 5678 of Jewish Calendar Will Be Observed.

The Jewish people will on Sunday evening, Sept. 16, enter their houses ’of worship to ushed in the Rosh Hashanah, or new year, 5678, which marks the beginning of -the cycle of sacred observation held during the month of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar. While jevery new moon of ancient times was greeted by the sounds of the Shofar (trumpet), the seventh month of the new moon, coming after six months of work in the field, was welcomed with religious exercises as a month of rest and recreation by the agricultural inhabitants of Palestine.

Four Damage Suits Filed For $40,000 Damages.

Four damage suits were filed in the Newton circuit court Friday by Attorneys J. A. Dunlap and M. E. Graves against the New York Central railroad. The four suits aggregate $40,000. They are for SIO,OOO each. This is the result of the accident on August Bth, in which Philip Hoaks, his wife and Ameddie St. Pierre. Joseph D. Law, of Morocco, had filed three of the suits, as the administrator of the estate of the deceased. The other suit was filed by Selina St. Clair, who was injured in the same accident, for personal injuries.

By James A. Woodburn, Head of Department of History, Indiana University. Have you ever read the indictments brought by our fathers in the Declaration of Independence against George III? There were some charges and most of them weije justified against that stupid German king But George did very little compared with what the Kaiser’s government has done against the American people. To prove it let facts be submitted to a candid world: It has sunk our ships without warning and unlawfully destroyed the lives of our peaceful citizens on the high seas. It is carrying on against us operations to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of a civilized nation. It has filled our land with spies, and excited domestic insurrections and disorder among us; It has intrigued with Mexico and Japan to attack us, and has partitioned our territory among them, at a time when we are still assured of its unshaken friendliness. This German government has poisoned the minds of a once libertyloving people by glorifying “blood and iron.” It has violated sworn treaties as “scraps of paper.” * It has waged war with unprecedented barbarity, employing weapons and methods hitherto unknown among civilized nations.

It has ravished, enslaved, plundered and starved the non-combatant population of Belgium, Poland and northern France with an efficiency of heartlessness unknown since Attila the Hun. It has bombarded defenseless towns from the air, and its pirates submarines have ruthlessly done to death multitudes of unoffending men, women and children. It is impossible to live in peace with a government like that. Its guilty deeds have created a state of war. We have entered upon this war tb curb this mad power. To the successful prosecution of that war we have pledged to one another our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock and son, Delevan, returned Friday evening after a visit in New York state. They"‘ made the trip by automobile. Joseph Norman and Harvey Davisson returned last night from a trip down in Mississippi. Mr. Norman is greatly pleased with that country and says there are splendid opportunities for money making in. that state. Anyone wishing to see me will find me in the Trust & Savings Bank on Saturday afternoons. —H. O. Harris, phone ,134.

Do We Dare Resist the Kaiser?

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917.

HOME-READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN-SOLDIERS

HOME READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS Why We Fight. Every American knows the causes of our war with the German government. Yet we must give a brief review of the events that finally forced us into war, when at last there remained “no other means of defending our rights.” The soldier of an autocratic Kaiser may fight best when he understands least of the true meaning of the war. To tell him the facts would be to chill his enthusiasm. JJut the citizen soldier of a democracy is entitled to know for what purposes he enters the struggle. He fights best when he sees most clearly why he fights. The resolution of congress declaring" a state of war (April 6, 1917) expresses the immediate cause in these few words:

“The Imperial German government has committed repeated acts of war against the government and the people of the United States of America.” Chief among the acts of war were attacks by German submarines on American ships and on unarmed merchant ships of other nations carrying American passengers. “Vessels of every kind,.” said the president in his address to congress on April 2, 1917, “whatever their flag, their character,, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruth lessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the prescribed areas by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle ♦ ♦ The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a~warfare against mankind.” There were other acts of hostility in addition to the submarine warfare In his Flag Day address delivered at Washington on June 14, 1917, the President summed up the events that brought on war as follows: “It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraordinary insults and aggressions of the Imperial German Government left us no self-respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign Government. The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance—and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German Government itself here in our Capital. They sought by violence to destroy our in-

CO. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rensselaer, Indiana. Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 18, 19 TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 1:30 Roll call of townships. Three minute report from each County Officer. I X Vocal Solo —Mrs. Arthur Hopkins. Address —Dr. Fleming. - TUESDAY EVENING. 7:30 Song setvice led by C. E. Prior. K. “Building Bigger”—Geo. N. Burnie, State Secretary. Vocal Solo—-Mrs. Edd J. Randle. “Opportunity”—‘Miss Lemon, State Elementary Supt. ' ~ - WEDNESDAY MORNING. 10:00 Music. , Teacher” —Miss Lemon. i VocaiSolo —Mrs. John A. Dunlap. “Keeping Our Boys and Girls”—Geo. N. Burnie. Appointment of Committees. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 1:30 County Survey—Geo. N. Burnie. Half hour quiz. Vocal Solo—Wilda Littlefield. “Co-operation”—Geo. N. Burnie. Election of officers. Adjournment. IN THE MIDST OF OUR MILITARY TRAINING, LET US GIVE i-,. HEED TO OUR SPIRITUAL TRAINING. " ’ ‘ . ’l ... ..

dustries and arrest our commerce. They tried to excite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her and that, not by indirection, but by suggestion from the foreign offive in Berlin. They ampudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. Yet even the list of “extraordinary insults and aggressions” does not tell the whole story. Our motives for war go even deeper. Not only our rights and self-respect, but our liberty and safety, are involved. Speak ing on July 29, 1917, at the officers’ training camp at Madison Barracks, N. Y., the Secretary of State said: “The evil character of the Gen man government is laid bare before the world. We know now that that government is inspired with . ambitions which menace human liberty, and that to gain its end it does not hesitate to break faith, to violate the most sacred rights, or to perpetrate intolerable acts of inhumanity. Let us understand onfee for all that this is no war to establish an abstract principle of right. It is a war in which the future of the United States is at stake. ” The record out of which grows our deep conviction that it is necessary at once to put a curb on so powerful and unscrupulous an enemy is set forth in an official publication “How the War Came to America.” “Judging the German government now in the light of our honest attempt to keep the peace, we could see the great autocracy and read her record through the war. And we found that record damnable. * * * With a fanatical faith in the destiny of German kultur as the system that must rule the world, the Imperial Government’s actions have through years of boasting, double dealing, and deceit tended toward aggression upon the rights of others. And if there still be any doubt as to which nation began this war, there can be no uhcertainty as to which one was most prepared, most exultant at the chance, and ready instantly to march upon other nations —even those who had given no offense. The wholesale depredations and hideous atrocities in Belgium and in Serbia were doubtless part and parcel with the Imperial government’s purpose to terrorize small nations into abject sumbission for generations to come. “For the evel it has effected has ranged far out of Europe—out upon the open seas, where its submarines in defiance of law and the concepts of humanity have blown up neutral vessels and covered the waves with the dead and the dying, men and women and children alike. Its agents have conspired against the peace of neutral nations everywhere, sowing the seeds of dissension, ceaselessly endeavoring by tortuous methods of deceit, of bribery, false promises, and intimidation, to stir up brother nations one against the other, in order that the liberal world might not be able to unite, in order that the autbcracy might emerge from the

“Casey” Tells of The Camp Life.

—Co. M, 3rd Ind. Inf., Fort Benj. Harrison, Ind. Republican, Rensselaer, Ind.: Lieut. Jay Nowels has recently appointed me reporter for Co. M. I will try and interest you with a letter or two a week. We arrived here about 12:30 Monday and from ttfcat time' untiT nOW, things have been powerful busy around camp. The camp we are in we are getting regular training by is not a permanent one. We are not in the regular training quarters, by the way. The Y. M. C. A. work is a wonderful affair; it means so much to a soldier. Wte have our picture shows and other amusements. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” they say. I believe every man in camp read Alfred Thompson’s letter which appeared in your Wednesday’s issue. It was a splendid letter. It seems like a letter with an understanding like that would make a man wish he was not in the army, but it does not; it makes everyone envy him and also admire him.

A company of soldiers in my mind resembles a circus somewhat, when a person sees the parade. Then invariably want to see the big show. It is the same thing in the army; when a soldier gets his training he wants to apply it and get under the big top. ——- A common slogan down here is: ia a gay life but a short one.” Everyone is feeling good and in tip-top condition. Coach Meyers ought to have his football team down here and they would be in condition for war football, if there is such a thing. I might say, too, that every man in Company M is Comfortable and likes his new work. The food is good and wholesome and easy to take after four <r five hours of drill. I asked someone the other day: “How many soldiers are there in town.” He said: “About 100,000; if you don’t believe it, count them.” I took his word for it. Of course there are not that many, but I know of 18,000 men in our reservation. Itwassaidliere today ThaT Sunday

is going to be our last day here, but news in the army, I have learned, is a very uncertain thing. It is like that food story: “You can’t live on promises.” The entire camp was examined for T. B. last Wednesday. I don’t think anyone from Co. M failed to meet requirements. There are so many, many things to write it is quite impossible to write everything, but if you will tell me what will be the most valuable to you I will try and suppy it. Sincerely,

“CASEY” HEMPHILL.

Painting Barns to Direct Air Machines

The parties in charge of the work of placing arrows and marks on barns for the benefit of the aeronauts who intend to fly from Rantoul, Illinois to Daytoni Ohio are at work. ' It was stated by the parties in charge of the work last night that they would have the work completed within a few days and that machines would be making their trips cross country within the next two weeks. The route followed from Indianapolis has been the Dixie Highway and includes the following towns: Indianapolis, Pittsboro, Brownsburg, Lixton, Jamestown, New Ross, Crawfordsville, Waynetown, Hilsboro, Veedersburg and Covington. The barns selected by the government are about foiir miles apart, along the whole distance of 230 miles. A large arrow making the flying direction toward the two points.has been painted white on the bam with the number of the bam in a circle.

I am in business for myself opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store and am ready to meet all cars and all kinds of work. Batteries looked after, generators and starters fixed, radiators soldered and vulcanizing. We do expert work for the same price.—M. J. Kuboske, Prop.

war. “All this we know from our own experience with the Imperial government. As they have dealt with Europe, so have they dealt with us and with mankind. And so out of these years the conviction has grown that until the German nation is divested of such, democracy can not be safe.” One thought which you should keep always in mind is the clear distinction between our attitude toward the Imperial German Government and our attitude toward the German people. The president said in his speech of June 14, 1917: “We are not the enemies of the German people and they are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they will some day see it, as well as our own. They are themselves in the grip of the sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us.” 3 Every American soldier in this war fights for objects dearer to all of us than life itself—for freedom and democracy, for the safety of our own homes and families, for the honor of our country. “The world must be J made safe for democracy.” «

Two Children in Splendid Home.

Mr. and Mrs. Yeppe Hanson, of Gillam township, were in Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. Hansen called at The Rpeublican office to renew his subscription, which he never allows to become delinquent. For the past six years Mr. and Mrs. Hansen have had in their home two of the children of Al Herndron, who with his wife before her death lived in Rensselaer. The children are two bright boys twelve and thirteen years of age. The boys have been legally adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Hansen and are receiving the lovfe and tender care the same as if they were their own children by birth rather than adoption. The boys are very fortunate to have the privileges of so splendid a home. A conversation with Mr. Hansen brought out some most interesting points. Mr. Hansen was a soldier in the war of 1864 when his native land, Denmark, lost a considerable portion of her territory to Germany. When twenty-five years of age he landed in America. He had three dollars, which represented his entire material possessions. He could not speak or understand the English language. He went to work and when 37 years of age he had earned and saved about $3,000. He was at this time married and about twentyfive years ago he moved to Jasper county. He is now nearly 61 years of age and while he has been a hard worker all his life he still enjoys the best of health and is still quite active. He*owns about 380 acres of land, which with his other property interests make him quite a fortune. He has arranged matters so that his fortune is finally to pass to the two boys who are now members so his family. A sister of the boys has a most excellent home in the family of Oscar Rathburn, of Medaryville. A home that will shelter and treat kindly an orphan has the opportunity to reach the highest ideal of Christianity. To all such the promise reads: “In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my children, you have done it unto Me."

High School Notes.

There are 236 students enrolled in the high school this year. The clots enrollments are as follows: Seniors 42; Juniors 48; Sophomores 64; Freshmen 70; postgraduates 3; specials 9. This makes the largest number ever enrolled in R. H. S. The class elections were held Friday. The following class officers were elected: Senior Class— President, Charles Halleck. Vice President, Lawrence McLain. Secretary, Thelma Tilton. Treasurer, Paul Arnott. Sgt. at Arms, Worth Johnson. Historian, Thelma Tilton. Member of Student Council, Paul Beam. Junior Class— President, John Dunlap. Vice President, Ada Robinson. Secretary, Frances Folger. Treasurer, Leland Collins. Historian, Sarah O’Neal. Member of Student Council, Jeannette Crooks. Sophomore Class— President, Linn Parkinson. Vice President, Harold Nowels. Secretary, Helen Warner. Treasurer, Harold Halleck. Historian, Gladys Carr. Member of Student Council, Ruth McKenzie. Freshman Class— President, John Stockton. Vice President, Ruth Clark. Secretary, Gladys Shaw. Treasurer, Thomas Thompson. Historian, Jack Larsh. _ Member of Student Council, John Strecker. Beginning Monday, Sept. 17, Miss Nina Martindale will assist in the English department.

WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight east and central portions.

TODAY STAR THEATRE Carlyle Blackwell and June Elvidge THE PRICE OF PRIDE A WORLD PICTURE. MONDAY—Kathlyn Williams in OUT OF THE WRECK. Also the Burton Holmes Around the World. TUESDAY—VioIa Dana and Augustus Phillips in THE GATES OF EDENT WEDNESDAY—Lou TeUegen in THE VICTORIA CROSS. Also Pearl White in THE FATAL RINGFRlDAY—Pauline Frederick in SAPHO. 1,.NEXT SATURDAY—Montague Love and Gurda Holmes in A BRAND OF SATIN.

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