Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Page 1

No. 212.

HATS OFF TO BRITAIN

LAST GREAT DRIVE PROVES THAT BRITISH SOLDIERS x DO THEIR PART. People who have tried to find some point to criticise the war have taken a great delight in repeating the German lie that England was pushing her colonial soldiers forward and holding her own back. In this, the greatest drive of the year, the soldiers from England have proven that they are capable and willing to do their part. . .. . God speed the Briton sons m their drive east and north of Ypres! They are attacking with all the bulldo tenacity of their breed; they are making ridiculous, nay, idiotic,/ those threadbare Teutonic lies about England’s getting other folks to fight her battles. But we might as well recognize that this push will meet the stiffest resistance that the dwindling resources of the central empire can muster.

The British drive is in two ways a deadl ymertace to the German scheme. Every yard that it progresses weakens the hold jof the Germans on the Belgian coast —and consequently on their valuable submarine base at Zeebrugge. If the Britons can get even within ten or twelve miles of that port, they can make it a most unwholesome place for the Kaiser’s murder boats. And every net and barrier placed in the way of the submarine campaign this fall means added weight in the dose the Kaiser is to get next spring. So much is at stake, even on a short British advance. A victory which drove the Germans from the Belgian coast would be still more far-reaching. It would put the allies in touch, on land, with Holland: and from the hour that such contact takes place, Germany never will know how soon the Dutch will be added to her list of foes. _The aristocracy of Holland is pro-German, like the privileged classes everywhere. The merchants who have made tens of millions out of German trade the last three years feel kindly to the Kaiser. But the masses of the Dutch people know him as a tyrant who sinks their ships, ruined and butchered their Belgian neighbors and threatens to absorb themselves. Let them be sure of competent allied support and they are more than likely to make their sentiments manifest in action. Any British victory in this territory must be won over the greatest force of men and guns which the Kaiser can collect. Under such circumstances a gain of yards means much and advance of a mile is epochal.

Squire Bussell Settled Damage Case Friday.

Squire Bussell, monarch of Hanging Grove township, settled a damage suit in his court Friday afternoon. The suit followed an action brought by Roy Helsel against Albert Swing, Jr., in which the former charged the latter with having been responsible for an accident which occurred when their autos crashed together. The accident occurred near Lee, when the cars the two parties to the suit were driving, met on a bridge and locked fenders. The squire, after hearing all of the evidence, rendered a judgment of $6 in favor of Helsel. An automobile man by the name of .Nelson was present and stated that the damage to the Helsel car would amount to about six dollars more than the damage to the Swing car, hence the decision of Mr. Bussell.

Bicycle tires, the largest line in the city. All new stcok at the old low prices. Also bicycle repairs and repairing.—Main Garage. GAYETY TONIGHT ESSANAY PRESENTS MAX LINDER MAX IN A TAXI The Gieatest Laugh of the Year. Hearst Pathe News MOTOY PICTURES PRESENT A TRIP TO THE MOON. RING RIVALS Featuring Dan Russell and Gladys Roach 2 Part L-KO Comedy. FORD Animated Weekly. _ ATrip to the Hawaiian Islands. MONDAY ' GERTRUDE O'BRIEN in A WOMAN’S FIGHT

The Evening Republican .

ALL PATRIOTS ARE CALLED

GREAT PATRIOTIC DRIVE TO BE MADE IN INDIANA NEXT WEEK. Ninety-two of Indiana’s greatest men will tour the state in groups of four next week. Each group will visit four counties. The drive will begin Tuesday, Sept. 25, and end Friday, Sept. 28. The purpose of the drive is to arouse the citizens of this state to a reality of the seriousness of the great war in which we are now engaged. . Those who know most of the actual conditions place the minimum duration of the war at three year?. Let every person in this county arrange. to be in Rensselaer Friday afterrioon at 2 o’clock and hear what the men who are to be with,us have to say. The men who come to Jasper county are: L. C. Embree, of Princeton, Ind. Edgar Durre, of Evansville. Frederick Feick, Garrett. John S. BUczhowski, South Bend. Indifference and lack of co-opera-tion will extend the war. This will mean that more of our soldiers will have to give their lives and in the end we will all have to make greater sacrifices than if we will here and now awake to the seriousness of the situation and all do everything in our power to bring the war to a successful close.

Awake, fellow citizens; come out and hear the men who are coming to us with a most virile message. We are in the war. The Gerrrrtfti Tyrant must be defeated and the world must be made safe for democracy. Before visiting our county the four men above named will be at Delphi,"Sept. 25; at Monticello, Sept. 26th; and at Winamac, Sept. 27th. Attend this meteing and you will go home with a better conception of home with a better coception of your duty to your country and the joys who are going forward to fight for the principles for which our forefathers fought. ' s Our fellow townsman, Edward P. Honan will make the campaign with the number four consisting of Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes, Charles Bookwaiter, Indianapolis, C. N. Neizer, Ft. Wayne, E. P. Honan, Rensselaer. They will be at Auburn, DeKalb county, Sept. 25th; Angola, Steuben county, Sept. 26; Lagrange, Lagrange couty, Sept. 27 and at Albion, Noble county, Sept. 28.

Company M. Gives Their Side Of Unpleasant Occurrence.

Recently there appeared in the Morocco Courier a letter written by Private King, a Morocco boy in the United States army, entitled, “Soldiers Refuse to Eat With Human Beings,” referring to some of the Company M members who attended the dinner given by the citizens of Morocco to the enlisted and conscripted men of the community. It is said that some of the members of the local company refused to take places at the table alongside of the conscripted men. The following' letter was written to the editor of the Courier by Company M, giving their side of the story: Ft. Benj. Harrison, Sept. 18, 1917. To the Editor: Would be glad to see the following in print in your paper. In reply to Pvt. King’s letter in the Morocco newspaper a few days ago, under the heading, “Soldiers refuse to eat with Human Beings,” we, Company M, 3rd Ind. Inf., of Rensselaer, have a few words to say in behalf of ourselves and our organization. , v We think this article is a wonderful display of intelligence and literary art, but are surprised that Mr. King had the ability to write such a spiel. As for tin soldiers, we beg to say we stand one and all for foreign service, although there were a few wise critics who were inclined to look on their home boys as a joke, for joining a home organization—one which they should have given their heartiest support—and we are only wishing for the opportunity to prove our metal. We did not wait until war was declared and jump into a home defense league, as it were, then go knocking some true soldier aggregation through the homer newspaper. We joined together with the expectations of facing the enemy’s firing line, not to sling cosmoline and walk guard along the coast. We are very thankful for the fine supper and the royal treatment we received at Morocco, and sorry so much trouble arose over it. But all would have been averted if one radical fanatic could have felt true military patriotism. Sorry Mr. King forced himselA.in a matter that did not concern him and which was settled in a friendly way. In conclusion we want to say we have a fine brigade and our company is one of the best in the regiment. We should be glad to show Mr. King some real soldiering if he will make us a visit sometime. —Thanking the editor for printing this, and the home public for its cooperation and sentiment, we are The Members of Company M.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Nagel, a boy, Friday, Sept. 21, their first child. ( Mr. and Mrs. Dal Yeoman, of Tab, Ind., are spending the week end with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Strong.

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MEN ENTER BATTLESHOP

CAMP TAYLOR, HOME OF INDIANA DRAFTED MEN, AN INTERESTING PLACE. Oamp Zachary Taylor, of Louisville, Ky., home of the Indiana drafted men who have been called up to date, presents a most busy and interesting sight. Men from all walks of life are quartered in this battleshop. Big, stout, hearty farmer lads from the rural districts of Indiana and Kentucky are lined up with the raw-boned Kentucky mountaineers. Sandwiched in between these two types of soldiers stands the city youth dressed in a suit of the latest cut and wearing shoes of white. However, the clothes made no difference to the officers in charge and in a very short time when the military togs are distributed it will be hard to tell the different types apart. Hundreds and hundreds of men have been arriving at the Kentucky cantonment for the past several days. Faces, faces, faces —will they never .cease passing, in half smiling, half grim procession through the big chute and then on across the hills to the miles of wooden barracks that Wait to become their war impressed homes? There marched into Camp Taylor Friday from a southern Kentucky county a company of young men, each with a bow_of red, white and blue ribbon tied "about their wrists, and in his ribboned hand a beautiful bouquet of fall flowers, tributes from the girls back home. Would they lick the Kaiser for those girls? You bet your life they would. As the men arrived in their quarters they were registered and the officers made out what is styled their identification cards. Among the items on the card is the question concerning what the soldier would wish done with any money he might leave were he rendered inactive by a German shell. Lieutenant Hank Harper, of South Bend, bobs up with a story to the effect that one young man found considerable difficulty in disposing of his property. Of oourse, first of all he would give his property to his wife. “But,” said the lieutenant to the newcomer, “you are required to name a second person in the event your wife dies during your service. Have you no other friends to whom you would like to give the money?” “No, I have no friends. You might as well give it to my mother-in-law. Yep, go on, just let her have it I lave no friends.”

American Red Cross Notes.

Washington, September 21. The American Red Cross announces today that Dr. Charles Ulysses Moore, of Portland, Ore., has been sent to France to reinforce the Infant Welfare Unit now at work there under the direction of Dr. William"?. Lucas of the University of California. With Dr. Moore, who is one of the eading pediatric specialists of the Pacific coast, go a group of sixteen nurses who have had special training in children’s diseases and social welfare work. These reinforcements are sent in response to a cabled request from Major Grayson M.-P. Murphy, head of the Red Cross Commission to France, under whose direction Dr. Lucas is working. The Red Cross will endeavor to decrease the present high death rate among children under two years of age, which with the falling birthrate, threatens rapidly to depopulate the country. While the plans of the unit are not yet fully developed it is expected that doctors ana nurses will be assigned to service at all the points of greatest need in France. They are to be stationed in groups of two or more at leading hospitals from which house to house work and educational campaigns can be conducted, both in the cities and through the country districts. A third detachment of doctors will said before the end of the month. >

The Red Cross has already established a children’s refuge near Toul where 750 boys and girls, from nearby villages which have been under bombardment, are now being kept safe from gas attacks under expert medical care, in co-operation with the French government. In Belgium the Red Cross, together with the Rockefeller foundation, is preparing to care for between five and six thousand children. To the American Red Cross Hospital, established by Dr. Joseph ABlake in Paris, two doctors from New England are being sent, at. Dr. Blake’s special request. They are Dr. J. B. McCook, of Hartford, Conn., and Dr. W. Irving Clark, of Worcester, Mass. Dr. Blake’s hospital has made an especially notable record in its treatment of fractures. Several novel methods are in use, including the “Blake Extension,” by means of which the broken member is suspended in a cradle above the patient’s bed.

Old Monon Engineer Died Tuesday.

John O’Herron, one of the oldest engineers on the Monon railroad, died at his home in Indianapolis Tuesday of cancer of the throat. His ailment was of short duration. His run of late has been between Indianapolis and Chicago on a fast passenEer train. Deceased was well known ere andwas one of the popular men of the service. .

LIBRARY WAR FUND WEEK

RENSSELAER ASKED TO RAISE S2OO AND COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED. At a special meeting of the public library board on Friday,, plans were made for the Library War Fund campaign, the week of September 24. The war department has asked the American Library Association to undertake to furnish library service to all soldiers and sailors, and the plans contemplate libraries for the 55 encampments in this country; for men in transport in trains and ships; for training camps, rest billets and the trenches in France; and for hospitals both here and abroad. Libraries for all ships in naval service are also proposed. A fund of a million dollars is necessary. Indiana’s quota is $125,000. Marion township and Rensselaer are asked to give S2OO, one dollar for each twentieth person or 5 per cent of the population. One dollar will buy a book and keep it repaired and in circulation for one year. Every donor will have his name written in a book for each dollar that he gives. In this way the soldier may see a name from home. It is monotony and not bullets that the soldiers dread, and the tedious homesick days of inactivity that will be made more cheerful by books and magazines. College boys will be able to continue their studies, and technical men can keep up with the developments in their work. The demand is for a high class of technical, informative, and inspirational reading. Authors are foregoing their royalties and buying arrangements lave been perfected that will make a dollar go as far as a dollar and a half expended individually. The following committee has been appointed to assist the board and the ibrarian. Mrs. G. E. Murray, Mrs. Delos Thompson, Mrs. Edd Randle, Mrs. Howard Mills, Mrs. Wood Spitler, Mrs. E. M. Graham, Miss Rose Luers, Martin Sauser, Moses Leopold, I. N. Warren, H. W. Jackson, Worth McCarthy, Chauncey Wood, Stewart Learning. They and all people interested in books for soldiers are requested to meet Monday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p. m., at th eßed Cross headquarters. ORA T. ROSS, Chairman.

Leaves St. Joseph; Taken Into Custody at Monon.

Monon News. James Sigler, aged 13, of New Air bayn, was found here Thursday of ast week and taken in charge by Marshal Irons. The boy’s story was to the effect that he had been sent to St. Joseph college and being still in the grades he was naturally unable to grapple with higher studies as required by the Rensselaer institution. He therefore had started to >eat his way home and had reached this point on his way. The marshal cept him over night at his home, made up a purse, and bought him a ticket to New Albany, for which place he est at 11:30 a. m. Friday. Sigler said his father was a Louisville clothing merchant and had been responsible for sending him to college before completing the grade studies.

Ladies' Literary Club Met At the Library Friday.

The Ladies’ Literary Club met at the library auditorium September 21. Greetings from the following former club members were read: Anna M. Jones, 326 E. Court St., Washington C. H., Ohio. Mrs. S. P. Thompson, Logansport, Indiana. Rosa E. Sieb, 280 E. Green St., Pasadena, California. Lydia A. Moss, 5508 Greenwood' Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Lola M. Patton, 5508 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. W. L. Wishard, Rocky Ford, Colorado. Mrs. Mary Mayhew, Red Bluff, California. Mrs. Dr. Hamar, King St., Franklin, Indiana. Mary Washburn, 118 Oak St., Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. C. W. Coen, 721 Park Ave., South Bend, Indiana. Mrs. Geo. V. Moss, Frankfort, Indiana. Mrs. J. F. Warren, 931 W. 18th St., Oklohamo City, Oklahoma. Mrs. J. A. Randle, Sayre, Oklahoma. Alice J. Dunlap, Chicago, Illinois. Lydia Paris Kimball, 99 Russel St, Great Hills, Staten Island, New York City. Margaret Hill McCarter, Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. D. B. Nowels, Lamar, Colorado.

G. A. R. Celebrated Comrade Kresler's Birthday.

The regular monthly dinner of the G. A. R. was held at the home ol John Kresler Friday, Sept. 21 r and was a most pleasant affair, the occasion being the seventy-fifth birthday anniversary of Comrade John Kresler. There were 11 members of Post 84 present and 29 ladies of the G. A. R., who with other fnends made a total of sixty at the dinner.

I can lean yon all the moaayyotf want on that fam. My rate > S

LIBRARY FOR WAR CAMPS

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO GET BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS ON NEXT WEEK. One of the interesting features devised by the American Library Association for the country-wide campaign next week in the interest of the soldiers’ library, fund, has the heart interest touch—the book plate plan. It gives the contributor to the fund a chance to have his name inscribed in the volumes that will go to the cantonments, the hospitals, the trenches.

In the sweeping canvass of the Hoosier state, beginning Sept. 24, one dollar or more will be the amount usually solicited. In acknowledment of the contribution of one dollar, the giver is entitled to have his name placed in one book. A ten dollar donation gives the subscriber a chance at ten books. The plan has been given so much approval over the state that the Library War Council has ordered 30,000 book plates for next week’s campaign. Louis J. Bailey, Indiana directer of the Library War Fund, after a tour of the state said: “I am convinced that Indiana is going to, raise ler quota of $125,000. The $20,000 campaign in Indianapolis was given new life this week >y the entrance of the local Advertisers’ Club into the big financial drive. The Club will get under the oad with all its powerful and effecave machinery. Many of the prominent authors of the country and the most of the large book publishers lave pledged their support The writers will knock off their royalties

and the publishers will donate their profits to make the books cheaper when the government is ready to buy them. The books are to be picked by trained; specialists appointed by the American Library Association. One prominent Indiana librarian, putting the question of raising the fund squarely before a district organization meeting this week, said: “It is monotony—not bullets, that the soldier boys dread. Never fear, when the time comes they will do their part in maintaining the traditions dear to every loyal American heart. But during the months of training and enforced inactivity there will be tedious, homesick boys, days that books and magazines can help to make cheerful. Our nation has a big job on its hands. It is only a small part, perhaps, but a genuine part of that job is to keep up the cheerfulness of camp life. That is what the dollars for the Library War Council will be used for.” “It will do you and your library more good for you to get $lO in your town than for some one else to get $10,000,000 in New York City,” is the way another library expert put it. “The Library follows the flag,” is one of the appropriate slogans adopted by the Indiana Library War Council for its campaign next week for $125,000, in aid of the country-wide drive for books for soldiers. In Indianapolis the advertisers’ club has its shoulder to the wheel and will sponsor the campaign for $20,000. The club has enlisted 130 businessmen to donate $lO each toward an advertising campaign. Women’s clubs and labor organizations are taking an interest in the campaign all over Indiana. Evansville is pledged to raise $5,000 and Ft. Wayne will give $4,500. Terre Haute and Gary have both promised $3,000. For the information of those not familiar with the plan, the director has issued this statement: “Next week will be known as ’’Library War Week,” and will be specially devoted to raising a fund oi $1,000,000 for the construction, equipment and maintenance of soldiers’ libraries in every cantonmenl and camp in the land. Library facilities also are to be provided from this fund for Uncle Sam’s sailon afloat and ashore, for the wounded and the sick, and even for men or the firing line. “Probably a dollar has never beer as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund. Not only will eacl dollar do its full share toward th< construction of the library and th< branch library buildings, the instal lation of tables and chairs in th* reading rooms, and the provision o: expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in cir culation until worn out, and then heli to furnish a new one to replace th* old one. Every dollar in the func will prove itself 100 per cent efficient “Thin condition is made possibh by the fact that every dollar of tin fund is to be devoted entirely to ac tual construction of the buildings, U their equipment, and to circulatioi of the reading matter. Not a cen will be used for any other purpose than for supplying libraries an< reading rooms for the soldiers am sailors, at home and abroad, and so: the sick and wounded. The plan o every county, city, or communit; subscribing a total equal to 5 pe cent of its population to make up In diana’s quota of $125,000 is receiv ing approval all over the state.”

See Cha*. Pefley for trees* vines and shrub* of all kind*. Guarantee stock to grow or replace free of charge. For fall delivery. •*- Anyone wishing to see me will find me in the Trost A Savings Bank on Saturday afternoons. —H. O. Hanis, phono IM.

HONOR CONVICT HUS SELF

JOHN LYNCH, SLAYER OF JIM* MY LEATHERS, USES RAZOR FOR DEED. John Lynch, "honor" convict, slayer of Jimmy Leathers, former proBietor of a resort at Cedar Lake, lied himself in the Crown Point jail. Attorney J. A. Meade was the only witness to Lynch’s last act. Meade had just served notice on Lynch that he would not act as his lawyer at the trial of Lynch for the murder of Leathers.

Lynch was known qs an “honor” convict. He escaped from Joliet while serving sentence for a murder by the simple process of just walking away. Since that time he has faced trial for murder twice. Lynch died. protesting his innocence and stated to Attorney Meade, to whom he was talking through the bars: “I want you to bear witness that I never killed anyone except Jimmy Leathers and I shot him in self defense. I am innocent of the charge they railroaded me to the penitentiary on, and I did not kill the policeman.” Then Lynch took a razor from his pocket and drew the blade across his throat. He died before Meade could get aid. Lynch was convicted in 1914 at slaying John Barrett, a saloonkeeper. After his escape he shot Leathers, a former Chicago underworld character who had a resort at Cedar Lake, it is charged, and killed Policeman *eter Buffin in a holdup at the Chicago City Trust and Savings Bank. The robbers escaped with $12,000.

WHITE SOX GO OVER THE TOP

ROUT BOSTON AND BRING TO COMISKEY FIRST FLAG SINCE 1906. When John Collins singled to left ield in the first half of the tenth inning, sending little Ray Schalk over the rubber, there came to Charles Comiskey, president of the White Sox, the first American League flag that he has had since the fall of he year 1906, when Fielder Jones ed his crew to an American League flag and ultimately world’s championship. The old Roman was mightly pleased when the ticker showed that the White Sox had won over Boston and immediately wired his congratulations to Manager Rowland and the remainder of the Hose. The pennant chase in the American League this year has been close and it was not until the final drive made by the Comiskeymen that they were able to draw away from the unbleached hose. The White Sox can lose the remainder of their games and still win if Boston wins all of theirs. Reserved seat tickets for the first, second and fifth games at the Chicago park are now on sale. Anyone securing a reserved seat ticket must buy tickets for all three games. Quite a number from this city will'witness the elash against the New Yorkers.

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. Watermelons for sale, 1% miles north and 1 mile west of Parr.—Wm. Roudebush.

AT THE STAR Gerda Holmes and Montague Love in A BRAND OF , SATAN O’ MONDAY—THE UNDYING FLAME by Mme. Petrova. v Also TRAVELS by Burton Holmes. TUESDAY—Metro Quality Day, EXTRAVAGANCE. WEDNESDAY—MyrtIe Stedman in THE PRISON WITHOUT WALLS. Also FeaH. White In THE FATAL RING. THE LITTLE AMERICAN, Thureday, October 4th. ■ i ' ■*

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