Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1917 — Page 2

PRESENT WALL OF STEEL TO ENEMY

American Soldiers Will Be Armed to Teeth When They Go Into Trenches. BAKER GIVES OUT DETAILS One Hundred and Ninety-Two Guns and 480 Trench Knives Added to Equipment of Each Regiment in Reorganization. Washington.—American soldiers will be literally armed to the teeth when they go into the trenches. In addition to the usual rifles, bayonets and pistols with which the men are now armed, there will be added to the fighting equipment of each regiment 480 trench knives, 40 to each company; 192 machine guns, 16 to each company, and three one-pound cannon. Details of the men’s fighting equipment were given in a statement by Secretary of War Baker, outlining the new army organization for overseas service. 27,152 Men in Division. The new organization increased the ratio of artillery to infantry from three to nine, as at present, to three to four. A corresponding increase is made in machine gun strength. In addition, there are sections of sappers and bombers which have important parts to play in the new warfare. The strength of the new organizations will be: Divisions, 27,152; infantry brigade, 8,210; artillery brigade, 5,068; infantry company, 256, and machine gun company, 178. Each infantry regiment will have a strength of 103 officers and 3,652 men. There will be one headquarters, and a headquarters company of 313; three battalions of four rifle companies, each totalling 3,078; one supply company of 140, one machine gun company and one medical detachment of 56. “ The rifle company has 250 men and six officers. It is composed of a company headquarters and two officers and 18 men, and four platoons. Each platoon has twq sections of riflemen of 12 each, or 24 men; one section of bombers and rifle grenadiers of 22 men, and one section of auto rifle of 11 men and four guns. The 178 men of the > machine gun company will be armed with 12 heavy machine guns and four spare guns. Details of Organization. The organization of the infantry division in detail follows: One division headquarters 164 One machine guiwbattallon of \four companies Two infantry brigades, each com- ° posed of two infantry regiments, and one machine gun battalion of three companies 16,430 One field artillery brigade, composed of three field artillery regiments and one trench mortar battery...... 5,068 One field signal battalion 262 One regiment of engineers 1,666 Dne train headquarters and military police 337 One ammunition train 962 One supply train 472 One engineer train 84 One sanitary train, composed of four field hospital companies and four ambulance companies 949 Total „27.152 Each regimental headquarters will consist of seven officers and 294 men. There will be a headquarters platoon of 93, a staff section of 36, an orderlies’ section of 29; a band section of 28; a signal platoon of 77, including a telephone section; a sappers’ and bombers’ platoon of 44; a pioneer platoon of 55 for engineer work, and a cannon platoon of 33 officers and men. Sixteen Kitchens Included. The transportation equipment to each regiment will be 22 combat wagons; 16 rolling kitchens, 22 baggage and rations wagons; 16 rations carts; 15 water carts; three medical carts; 24 machine gun carts; 59 riding horses; eight riding mules; 332 draught mules; two motorcycles with side cars; one motor car and 42 bicycles. There will be 14 machine gun companies to the division. Each of the four infantry regiments will have one, each of the two brigades a machine gun battalion of three companies, and the division will have a separate machine gun battalion of four companies. This gives the division a mobile machine gun strength of ten companieswhich can be used as special needs require, while each regiment still has its own machine gun equipment in one of Its component companies. And in addition there are 48 sections of auto riflemen, each section carrying four light machine guns.

Cow Wears Glasses.

Ferndale, N. Y.—ln an effort to save a cow from becoming blind, its owner, 'Charles Hagaman of Ferndale, who values the animal at $7,000, has had an operation performed on the cow’s eyes, and it now wears colored glass spectacles to protect it from the sun. The cow has taken seven prizes at cattle exhibits in two years. Recently it contracted an ailment of the eyes that was threatening its sight It is said the animal’s condition is much improved.

Fire Hose Runs Amuck.

Brazil, Ind. —A demonstration of Brazil’s new fire truck and engine came to a sudden stop here the other day when the hose got away from the nozzle men and wiggled like a snake down one of the main streets, dispersing the crowds. ' j

BRIDGE OF SLATS

A temporary pontoon bridge of short-length slats used by the French across the Aisne river in France.

PET COON AMONG CHICKENS

Mixup Causes break in Friendly Relations Between Old Neighbors. Nortonville, Kan.—Edouard Sharp has a chicken house and a lot of chickens. James Skinner had a pet coon, and because the two got mixed up the other night, Ed and Jim aren’t on the best of terms. About midnight of the time inquestion, Ed was awakened by a neighbor who said that something was in Ed’s chicken house. The two got a flashlight, a gun and a club and marched silently out to the chicken house. On entering they saw a big coon on the perch. Ed used his club. The neighbor used his gun. The coon discovered it was an unlucky combination: Next morning Jim missed his coon. He heard about the row over at Ed’s place and went over. It was his coon—dead. %

16 AMERICAN CITIES BUILT BY ONE MAN

Washington. —If ever there was reason to be proud of American determination, speed and ingenuity there Is reason now to be proud of the remarkable accomplishment of one man — Maj. W. A. Starrett, who built' 16 cities each to accommodate 40,000 persons, complete with light, heat, ventilation and sewerage systems, all in three mo’nths. Maj. W. A. Starrett was an architect before the United States got'lnto the war. When congress severed relations with Germany Starrett became chairman of the committee on emergency construction of the council of national defense. As soon as the conscription bill was passed Starrett set to work to construct the great cantonments that are now housing the drafted men of the National army. The feat is unequalled in history.

WIFE AND SON HELP FIGHT

Poilus in Trench With Disguised Family Keep Their Secret— In the Chasseurs. Paris. —A land owner of Vergeze has received the following letter from his son, a staff captain: “I heard a strange story today, that a woman and a boy of sixteen had been found among the men of the battalion of unmounted chasseurs. An investigation was made and they were found to be the wife and the son of a chasseur who had determined not to be separated from him. Both went into the trenches with the other poilus, and the most striking thing about it is they had been with the battalion five months before the authorities found out. Of course everybody in the battalion knew, but, as you see, the secret was well kept. =A “As an old chasseur yourself you will be proud to learn that a father and mother and son have been under fire together in your old battalion.”

HUNGER BRINGS HIM BACK

Tennessee Private Deserts and Defies Pursuers, but Lack of Food Makes Him Give Up. Nashville, Tenn.—Lincoln Burkhardt. private in the First Tennessee infantry, after twice deserting, faces court-martial. He deserted several months ago, was captured and returnedto his command. He was given a light sentence in the guardhouse. Recently he deserted for the second time. He made his way into the hills with his uniform, gun and ammunition and de-’ fled his pursuers. When he got hungry he hung out the white flag. ~ \

Dog Outwits Alarm.

Siberia, Cal. —When his alarm failed to work, James Atkins, investigating, found his pet bulldog, who had contracted Atkins’ habit of late rising, turned the alarm lever night after Atkins was asleep, and then turned it on again the n?rt morning to avoid suspicion. Atkins is buying an electric clock with a time lock. ■

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

DOCTORS EAGER TO LEARN FROM ALLY

American Surgeon Calls Tale of Serious Differences a German Canard. UTMOST CORDIALITY EXISTS 1 ' Excellent Work Being Done by American Units Hasßeen Subject of Complimentary Remarks by British Surgeons, T British Headquarters in France and Belgium. German agents recently have been spreading broadcast on the continent the report that serious differences have arisen between the British army medical service and 4he American surgeons and physicians who have been working with the British forces in France. Special publicity has been given the story by its,sponsors in Belgium and France. The correspondent of the Associated Press accredited to British general headquarters has made a careful investigation of the facts, visiting not only base hospitals which have been taken over by American medical units, but casualty clearing stations in which American surgical teams are working. The utmost cordiality has and does exist between the British medical service and the Americans who are working with them. The assertion that there has been any quarrel between the bodies is without foundation. As one eminent American has put it: “The story is a gross canard. The reasons for circulating it are obvious. The Germans are trying to create among Belgian and French civilians a contempt for America and Great Britain and consequently a hostility toward these two nations.” Americans Are Part of Machine. The six medical units which were sent over from the United States to take charge of six British base hospitals have become a part of the smoothly running organization that the British have developed. The Americans feel that they are fortunate in their position. They realize that they have much to learn about war hospitals and they are having the opportunity of learning rapidly from men who have had more than three years’ experience. The British, on the other hand, recognize fully the sacrifices that have been made by the Americans, many of them eminent surgeons with big practices at home, to come to France to do their bit In caring for the wounded. The, excellent work being done by the American units has frequently been the subject of the most complimentary remarks by all ranks of the British medical organization. The service which the workers from the United States have performed is viewed as one of the bright spots in a war which is causing so much misery. When the Germans began their ruthless sinking of hospital ships and it became apparent that it would be unsafe to try to transport wounded British soldiers and German prisoners to England, there was a hurry-up call for the establishment of more base hospitals in France. America was asked for assistance and the six units were rushed across to Europe, without stopping to bring their full equipment. They immediately took over large base hospitals, and although they were handicapped for a time because of lack of supplies, their institutions soon ranked among the best, for while the units were inexperienced in war work, they were highly trained in hospital service. - Hospitals Care for Germans. Roughly speaking, the six base hospitals conducted by the Americans have beds for about 1,500 patients each, and there are many times when they are filled to overflowing, for base hospitals must care not only for their own wounded but for Germans as well. The six base hospitals have, in addition to their other work, furnished about ten surgical tennis for service in casualty clearing near the firing line. These teams usually consist of a surgeon, an assistant, a nurse and an orderly. American surgeons whose names are famous internationally art* laboring beside youthful medical officers who have sat upder them’in the classroom at home. Doctor Crile of Cleveland, Doctor Cushing of Harvard, Doctor Brewer of New York, Doctor Harte of Philadelphia, Doctor Murphy of St. Louis and Doctor Frederick Besley of Chicago—they call them majors over here —all have been or are at present working night and day in casualty clearing stations, which have been caring for the wounded from the last great offensive. These surgical teams have had one characteristic experience. Their work is hampered and their lives are endangered by German airmen, who persist in hurling high etplosives down among them. In one of the latest raids the German aviators killed or rewounded many of their own men who were prisoners being cared for in one of these hospitals.

To Teach Jiu Jitsu.

San Francisco.—The soldjers of the United-States are to receive a thorough course in the Japanese art of jlu jltsu. Allan S. Smith has been commissioned by the government as instructor, he has recently returned with the’"black belt," an honor corresponding to the heavyweight title in America.

WED, COURT LATER

Armenians Choose Girl First, Take Chance on Love. American Principal of School In Turke* Receives Letter Requesting Any One of Three. Armenian marriages are always arranged, the question of love not entering, writes Hester Donaldson Jenkins in World Outlook. I remember when the principal of an American school said to one of her teachers who was contemplating matrimony: “I hate to have you go, bat I should not mind so much if yoa loved him, ** that the Armenian drew herself up indignantly; she would not be so unmaidenly as to love a man before marriage. An Armenian man generally picks out his own wife, one whom he has seen and approved. But he does not court her; instead he goes to her parents and makes very careful inquiries as to her health, disposition and housewifery, after which he bargains keenly for her dot. Without a dot an Armenian girl may scarcely marry. The American principal of a school for Armenian girls In Turkey received a great many applications for wives from the Armenian men of the neighborhood. Once she received a letter which redd something like this: "Your Nobleness. “Mademoiselle: I wish to marry one of the girls in your school. Will you get mi little Aznlf, her of the curly braids and strong eyebrows? Or If you cannot obtain her for me, then I will take Marian, with the big, black eyes and the shining teeth; or if I ctuinot have her, I wish Zarroohee, with the straight features and white skin. But do not offer me any other, for I love only these three.” In. the same school occurred the unique experience of Schnorrjg. Dikran had come to her father and bargained for her. When she was told of her Impending marriage she was sulky and sad, for she had read English books and did not wish to be sold to a husband like a bale of rugs. But she left school and let her mother prepare her trousseau. At the formal betrothal she and Dlkfin met for the first time. When the priest put the question whether she was • willing to be betrothed to this man she shocked all the relatives assembled in festive array by a bold “No.” The priest 1 argued with her, and the Irate father would probably have forced her by pushing her hend forward had not Dikan declared that he •liked her spirit and would not have her forced to take him. So the party broke up in tears and lamentations. But the two young people met each other a good deal that winter, naturally taking an interest in each other, so the story ends with a happy marriage after a real American courtship.

Why Swagger Sticks Are Used.

The use of “swagger stick,” much In evidence lately among the boys in khaki, has been misunderstood in the United States. In Canada recruits at any time during the last three years have, in certain stages of their training, almost invariably carried these little canes when off duty, not through affection or vanity, but simply because tho use of them prevented the young soldiers from slipping their right hands Into their trousers pockets. The finished soldier would not think of putting his hand in his pockets, but the soldier in the making is likely, unless constantly on his guard, to be guilty of this breach of the rules. The Canadian youths who jauntily and gayly swung swagger sticks at Valcartier, Quebec and Aidershot, Nova Scotia, even one short year ago, have since become the heroes of Vimy Ridge and Hill No. 70.

Prize Fighters Needed, Too.

“I suppose you’re very anxious to become a soldier and fight for your country?” said a physician to a robust young man who came before him for examination. “You look good and I’ll pass you. Do you claim exemption?” “Well, I should say I do,” replied the robust young man, in an injured tone. “I wouldn’t make a good fighter; I’m sick, I am.” “You’re sick?” inquired the physician. “You surprise me. What’s the trouble?” “I’m nervous, doctor,” replied the young man. “You’re nervous? What’s your occupation?” ' “I’m a prizefighter." “Well, go over and win a few prize; knocking out the enemy and I think your nervousness will wear off. Passed.”

Open-Air Schools.

Quite the popular fad in the East is the outdoor school, especially for.thp very young children. These schools are generally on the porches of the houses wher& they are held and are thus partly protected, and at the same time get plenty of fresh air. Miss Aimee Harvey, formerly of St. Louis, who spent a year at the Montessori school in Rome a few years ago, has charge of such a school at Lexington, Mass., for the winter, having also taught a summer class out of doors.

Baffled.

“Mr. Dubwalte talks In his sleep and it Is causing Mrs. Dubwafte great concern.” - “That shows she’s a true woman. “Exactly what I was telling Dubwc’te. She’s probably worried because she cin't understand what he says.”

DENVER MONKEY A HUGGER

Simian Causes Sensation When Ho Boldly Embraces Young Woman Passing Along Street. The lovable monkey is loose. When he swung from the low branches of a tree at Twelfth avenue and Detroit street and threw his arms about the neck of a young woman pedestrian there was a lot cf commotion, says the Denver Post. Aside from breaking the spooning laws, the monkey shouldn't have chosen broad daylight. A scream from the young woman brought residents to their doors. They saw her running in one direction and the monkey in another. It was difficult for them to ascertain which was the more frightened—the young, wom-an-or The lovable monkey. Patrolmen from the Capitol Hill station have been pursuing the lovable monk all over the Montclair district. Where the monkey came from is ■ a question. The zoo keeper at City park says all his monkeys are “just where they should be”; that none of them would be ungentlemanly enough to leave home and try to hug pedestrians. Residents of the Montclair district have joined In the hunt. A tree-to-tree search is being made by the posse, including an examination of the nursery at Eighth avenue and Clayton street, whete the affectionate simian was last sighted. The monkey sought temporary haven on the front porch of G. A. Clason’s home, at 945 Detroit street, but when an attempt was made to capture him he curled up his tall and departed suddenly. In addition to the frightened woman pedestrian, the monkey was seen hugging several trees. Just now he Is hugging some secluded spot. Residents hope he is apprehended, as they do not want to be monkeyed with any more.

Call British Tanks “Willies.”

During the summer of 1916 an enemy agent, trying to tap the wires in England might have been mystified to pick up such messages as: “Twelve Willies reach you today,” or “Send tails for six females,” writes Col. E. Da Swinton In the World’s Work. “Willie,” a pet cognomen adopted as suitable for the telephone and Obviating the use of a code for telegrams, was suggested by the fact that the first experimental “Landship” completed, though equally malevolent, was smaller and less powerful for evil than Its Immediate successor, eventually the type adopted. When the two creatures were togther they gave the ludicrous Impression of being child and parent of a monstrous and evil brood. Hence, naturally, “Little Willie” and “felg Willie." The “Big Willies” were also somewhat unblologlcally classified as males and females, according to their armament. Incidentally, to help to conceal the destination of the tanks at the stage when any illusion as to their purpose was precluded, they were painted with the Inscription, “With Care. To Petrograd,” In large Russian characters.

England's Need.

Howard E. Coffin, who is standardizing the American airplane, said to a correspondent: “Standardization is the modern efficiency method. The Germans have standardized their submarine. England is a great country, a brave country, an unconquerable country, but England needs standardization. “When an Englishman wants to say that a check is ‘for deposit only’ he doesn’t write that on it. No, that isn’t the English way. He writes* Co.’ “A Cambridge professor once explained to me some of the terms used at the great English university. “He said ‘full term’ means threequarters of a term. ‘May week’ is the first two weeks in June. ‘General admission day’ is the day everybody leaves. An ‘ordinary degree’ is one obtained by a special examination, and an ‘arts inspector’ is an arts students.”

Long Flights of Birds.

A thrush was caught at Southport recently with a ring on its leg marked, “Inform Witherby. High Holborn, London.” Mr. H. E. Witherby, who is the editor of British Birds, has, since 1910, had 75,000 birds so marked in the hope of learning something about their travels. A swallow ringed in Lancashire was found seven months later at Grahamstown, South Africa. 6,000 miles away. A “lesser blackbacked gull,” ringed at the Fame Islands, off ' Northumberland, was found eight months later at St. Louis, Senegal, and a blackbird, ringed at Landon, was found in Moscow a few weeks afterwards. It would seem that birds are greater travelers than most of us imagine.— Exchange.

What Women Did In Civil War.

vviiat --- - Women all over the United States formed societies and made bandages and comforts of, various kinds for the soldiers, but their work, too, lacked the direction and uniformity which are necessary for prompt and effective assistance. In the Civil war, country women were especially generous in contributing time and labor to the cause of helping the sick and wounded. In many Instances the men were not given enough green food, and farmers contributed potatoes and fresh , vegetables In large quantities, which frequently saved a camp from scurvy and other dlseases.-r-Farm and Fireside.

History Repeats.

"The penalties for poaching used to be very severe.” "Yes. And we’re drifting around to those times again. As values are going I shouldn’t be surprised to see stealing a watermelon or a chicken classed as grand larceny.”

BURDENS WE BEAR

How Each and All Carry- the Three Chief Burdens of Life. In the Christian life the forms of warfare may vary but the fight is one. Burdened people in apostolic days. were carrying just the same loads our burdened people are carrying through our streets today. The burden may have been done up differently, it may have had an unfamiliar cover, but if we stripped it of its wrappings we should find a modern commonplace. If a hundred Romans of the olden days and a hundred Britons or Americans of our own day could meet together like pilgrims at some friendly hostel along life’s way, and if they could just unwrap their burdens and display them, they would look at one another in surprise, for their sense of nationality would be swallowed up in the profound, consciousness of a vital kinship. And I will begin with the burden of sin. Sin is revolt against the holy sovereignty of God; it is enlistment and allegiance on the side of the enemy of God. Sin is essentially a change of flags; it is a deliberate desertion from the flag of the holy God to the black flag of mammon and darknes's. I need not elaborate this. I would only repeat that at the root of all sins we shall find the common sin of rebellion. Now, the revolt against the holy flag of God marks the entrance into bondage. I know that the bondage may be concealed, just as we may intertwine flowers and greenery through the links of a chain until it looks more like a garland than a fetter. But let any-man try to escape from the broad road and he will find that the gay wreaths disclose themselves as mighty chains. On the broad way th*e present is a tyranny and the past a debt. Such is the burden of sin. Well, how can we help to bear one another’s burdens? First of all perhaps we had better say’ that we cannot do IL No man can touch the burden of his brother’s guilt. We cannot get back into his yesterdays and make the crooked straight. We cannot go back and sweeten the fountain of an evil from which guilt derives its bitterness. We can do nothing for souls who are burdened with the guilt of sin except to bring them to the Savior, to the fountain that is open, for sin and uncleanness. But that is a glorious sharing of the awful load. We can share it by counsel. We can share it by gentle guidance. We can share it by mighty intercession. Let us now look at another burden which was found everywhere in the ancient world, and is equally commonplace in our own time. I will call it the burden of temperament. And this is what I mean: Even when a man has found the cross of Christ, and sin has been forgiven, and the great act of renewal has taken place, he has still to work out his own salvation. When the seed of the regenerate life has been Imparted it has still to be nurtured and matured, and it has to be matured amid the special constitutions and conditions of the individual life. That is to say, conversion does not annihilate differences of temperament, and thereby make us all alike, reducing our warfare to one certain form of strife. Every regenerate man has to fight the good fight of faith. Now can we help a brother to. carry the burden of his own temperament? Most assuredly we can. Take the man who is like a powder magazine, explosive, inflammatory, full of dry and touchy material, always ready to go off. What can we do with that man’s burden? Well, we can very easily increase it or we can relieve and lighten it. We can help him into liberty, or we can help to sink him into servitude. We can throw lighted matches about his magazine, or we can spray cooling influences about his life. And the real meaning of helping one another is to consider one another from the standpoint of chivalry and love, and to determine that by our conduct and demeanor we will help to fashion the knight in our brother and give him strength in the realms of grace with holiness. There is one more burden which I wLI name, and which can be found, everywhere —the burden of incompleteness. Ayd what I mean is this: No man is an integer. No man is more than a fraction. The New Testament teaches that no man is the whole body; he is only a limb. Humanity is the body, and the individual is only a member. One man is an eye, another Is a foot. And so I speak of the burden of incompleteness. God has made us dependent upoh one another, and every man is designedly incomplete. It is therefore the love design of our God that we surrender ourselves to one another in order that we may bear one another’s burdens, and by our own individual fullness complete the gap in another man’s needs. To live a selfish and exclusive life is to rob humanity of its due, and to dwarf and sterilize ourselves. —J. H. Jowett, in the Christian World.

Plant Virtues to Overcome Evil.

You will find It harder to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. In every person who comes near you look for what Is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in It; and, as you can, try to Imitate it; and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their times comes. —Ruskin.

The Only Safe Place.

Put your, faith where It will be safe; and the only place where a faith ever can be safe is In the shrine of an action.— Phillips Brooks.