Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — Page 3

HAS NEW RELIGION

Japanese Millionaire Becomes a Christian Convert. Creates a Sensation by Seeking Baptism at the Hands of Koji, a Reformed Convict. The Morimura Gumi, one of the largest and oldest Japanese export houses ■of porcelain and curios, is especially well known in the United States. Its head, Baron Ichizayemon Morimura, has for many years been a propagandist of temperance and undenom- . inational Christianity. Like Mr. Dwight L. Moody in America, he and several assistants have traveled about Japan, preaching to the people. He is ong of the earnest supporters of the joint church movement in Japan. A sensation was created recently, says a New York correspondent, when the baron sought baptism at the hands of Yoshltaro Koji, a reformed convict —a perfect prototype of the late Jerry McAuley of New York, founder of the Oliver street and Cremorne missions. Mr. Koji is an Interesting personality. He was raised among criminals, and served 23 years in prison, where he earnestly studied .Christianity and became converted. When liberated several years ago, he at once set out as •a religious teacher, going among all -classes of society—never obtruding his personal views, but chiefly 'exhorting to morality, self-sacrifice and humility. He did not preach the doctrine of any particular denomination, but based his creed upon Christ’s “Sermon on the Mount” and the “Lord’s Prayer.” He never has been recognized by the Christian missionaries in Japan, although many of them have shown him respect. He hasn’t any church of his own, but visits people to whom he is introduced, gains their friendship, and teaches them the broadest features of Christianity. He makes no distinction between Catholic and Protestant. He has much respect for true believers and practitioners of the .Mohammedan faith, especially extolling their temperate habits. He visited Korea and Manchuria and walked thousands of miles among the villages far off the beaten tracks and railways. Baron Morimura has for several years shown peculiar interest in the personality of this humble Christian, nnd recently asked Exhorter Koji to baptize him. Other members of the Morimura family are Protestant church members. The baron has organized a society to improve the moral standard of the younger Japanese generation, giving SIOO,OOO to start the movement and putting at its head Viscount Dr. Inajiro Tajlrl, a famous scholar. He Is opposed to all charities under government or. municipal direction.

French Aristocrats in War.

Although France is a republic, the French aristocracy has been as eager In its war service as the British aristocracy. The difference is that, while the British aristocrat is almost always a commissioned officer, the majority of the French counts and barons are serving in the ranks. Two thousand one hundred and seventy-six nobles have already written their names -on the roll of honor. Among them are Prince Louis Murat, a descendant of Napolean’s marshal; the Due de Rohan, who before his death had won both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, and the Comte de Turenne, a descendant of the famous marshal of France. The Comtesse O'Gorman lost her life while working as a Red Cross nurse, after having been decorated with the Croix de Guerre. —Dundee Advertiser.

How a Machine Gun Is Fired.

How a machine gun is fired through a revolving propeller is told in a recent issue of Aeronautics, in an article describing the more important features of two German Fokkers brought down behind the lines in France. On these monoplanes, according to the description, the machine gun is fired through the propeller by means of a small lever actuating a Bowden wire. Provision is further made to throw the machinegun mechanism momentarily out' of gear as each whirling propeller blade comes into line with the muzzle. This Is done very simply by means of a double cam fixed on the engine shaft and acting on a system of levers. The French Morane, after which the Fokker type has been modeled, also fires Its machine gun through the tractor screw.

Women Run Street Cars.

On some of the street railways In Great Brttaln over half of the motormen are motorwomen. There is some difference of opinion, however, as to the value of women at this post, though all are agreed that they make good conductors. On some of the difficult runs women have had to be replaced by men in the driver’s seat, because the woman has a tendency to “lose her nerve”~ln an emergency.

Only War Bread.

Mistress (greatly scandalized)—ls it possible, Hannah, you are making bread without having washed your hands? New Servant —Lor, whats’ the difference, mum? It’s war bread!

The Appropriate Costume.

“Is it an elaborate costume the women In that Russian Battalion of Death wear?” “I don’t know, but I suppose they ’are dressed to kill.”

WHICH WAY ARE YOU FACING?

Can You Distinguish Between th 9 Grgnd or Commonplace, the Noble or Contemptible? At a popular seaside resort two rows of seats stood back to back. One of these faced the ocean. A silver moon threw a luminous .path across the water, and touched with strange radiance the breakers as they broke in foam on the sand. A red signal light in the distance blinked its warning. Overhead the stars looked down silently. Seated there one forgot the the noisy jostle of the busy world, and felt life’s beauty and majesty. The adjacent seats faced in the opposite direction. The occupants looked on a merry-go-round and a screen on which moving pictures were being thrown. This bench was crowded. The young people who sat there saw many colored electric lights, in place-of the moon and the stars, and listened to the boisterous music of a steam piano, rather than to the thundering melody of the waves. They laughed over the fantastic pictures on the screen, unmindful of the sublime scene over their shoulders.— These young people, so close that their garments touched, carried very different impressions away from their evening. They had been together, but they had been facing different ways. Some had seen the petty and belittling, others had looked on the majestic and uplifting and beautiful; and the life of neither could be quite the same after that evening. The seaside episode has its counterpart in everyday life.' We can see the grand or the commonplace, the noble , or the contemptible, the uplifting or the degrading. Which way are we facing?—Girts’ Companion.

Increasing the Vocabulary.

When you read a book and come to a new word, do you pass it by or turn to the dictionary to learn its meaning? An extensive vocabulary is one of the best indications of education and culture, and careful reading is one of the most effective ways of adding new words. The use of the dictionary should not be regarded as a task, but as a pleasure to be resorted to upon every convenient occasion. Some people make a daily study of the words. The ordinary individual of fair education, we are told, controls from 6,000 to 8,000 words. A modem encyclopedia says that this estimate is too high, even in America. An English farm hand, it says, has a vocabulary limited to 800 words. A distinguished American educator believes that a well-educated citizen of this country can control from 30,000 to 35,000. The best English writers do not employ an extended vocabulary, preferring to appeal, as nearly as possible, to all classes of readers. —Columbus Dispatch.

Dr. Morrison’s Feat.

Boasting an acquaintance with China extending over nearly a quarter of a century, Hr. G. E. Morrison, whose famous library has been purchased by Baron Isawaki for £35,000, first went to the Celestial empire possessed of a strong antipathy to the Chinese. He came in time, however, to have for them a feeling of lively sympathy and gratitude. Always a great pedestrian, he walked, when little more than a boy, from Melbourne to Adelaide. Doctor Morrison was with the late Sir Claude Macdonald, the then British minister, in the British headquarters at Peking during the whole of the siege by the Boxer rebels; and The has probably created another record in having ridden 3,750 miles in 175 days—Exchange.

Try This on Your Parrot.

As the automobile party passed one corner they saw a soldier on guard, a big white dog beside him, and then a beautiful American flag. Of course this combination attracted the attention of every one in the car. The flag was silk, the dog majestic and the soldier proud of his trust. “Oh, look at that dog on guard,” exclaimed the woman. The little boy snickered audibly. All were impressed with the solemnness of the scene, and this outbreak seemed to the father uncalled for. “What do you mean, laughing, Johnny?” he demanded. “Oh,” cried little Johnny, “mamma said ‘look at that dog-gone guard I’ Indianapolis News.

Unexplored Quebec.

It is estimated- that in the north of the province of Quebec there are still 259,000 square miles of unexplored country, making, with the 642,000 square miles in western Canada, a total of 901,000 square miles. In other words, 28 per cent of Canada is still unexplored. In the basin of the River Mackenzie there are believed to be great petroleum wells. Natives state that they have seen lakes at the Yukon, from 60 to 70 miles long, that have pot been seen by white men. The Mackenzie mountains no one, not even the Indians, knows anything of.

What Concerned Father.

The minister was shocked to see the young lad with a fishing outfit on Sunday. “My dear lad, what will your father say about your fishing on the Sabbath?” * “Well, last time he said: ‘Where the thunder’s your fish?” replied the youngster.

Long and Short of It.

' “I wonder why it takes pay day so long to come around?” “It only seems long when you’re short, and the shorter you are the longer it seems.”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN* RENSSELAER. IND.

WHAT THE GERMANS DO TO HOSPITALS

Smoking mass of ruins of the French hospital of Vadelaincourt after it had been destroyed by German aviators with incendiary bombs. A number of helpless wounded soldiers and attendants were killed.

HOW TO ADDRESS THE BOYS IN KHAKI

Directions for Sending Mail to Men in Service of United States. WHERE CAMPS ARE LOCATED Distribution of Men In the National Guard "and the National Army by States—Officers’ Training Camp. Washington. —Mail for soldiers or prospective officers in training should be addressed as follows: JOHN SMITH, Company X, —— Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces. JOHN SMITH, Company X, R. O. T. C. (Camp in which training) (Town and state; location camp) JOHN SMITH, Company X, Regiment, (Name N. G. Concentration Camp) (Town and State). JOHN SMITH, ' ( Company X, Regiment, (Name N. A. Concentration Camp) (Town and State). Mall for the expeditionary forces will be forwarded by the government with the above address, which will be all that is required in view .of the enforced policy of maintaining the secrecy of the camp location in France. The parenthesis above denoted may be filled In by the following Schedule: NATIONAL ARMY CONCENTRATION CAMPS. ADDRESS AND TROOPS AT STATION. Northeastern Department Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass. First Division —Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Eastern Department Camp Meade, Annapolis Junction, Md. Fourth Division—Southern Pennsylvania. Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Fifth Division —New Jersey,. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia. Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. Third Division —New York State, Northern Pennsylvania. Camp Upton, Yapnank (L. I.), N. Y. Second Division—Metropolitan District of New York. Southeastern Department Camp Gordon, Chamblee, Ga. (near Atlanta). Seventh Division Georgia, Alabama. Florida. Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Sixth Division —Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina. Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark. Twelfth Division —Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Central Department Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich. Tenth Division—Michigan, Wisconsin. Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. Eighth Division —Ohio, West Virginia. ■ Camp Dodge, Des Moines, lowa. Thirteenth Division Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Ninth Division —Indiana, Kentucky. Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan. Fourteenth Division —Kansas, Missouri, Colorado’. Camp Grant','Rockford, Hl. Eleventh Division—lllinois. Southern Department Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Fifteenth Division —Texas, Arizona, - New Mexico. Western Department slump Lewis, American Lake, Wash. Sixteenth Division W ashington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah. NATIONAL GUARD CONCENTRATION CAMPG ADDRESS AND TROOPS AT STATION. Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. Eighteenth Division —Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas. Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. Eighth Division —New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia.

Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Seventh Division —Pennsylvania. Camp Green, Charlotte, N. C. Fifth Division —M*.lne, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Camp Cody, Deming, N. M. Thirteenth Division Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Ninth Division —Tennessee, North Carolina. Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss. Seventeenth Division —Indiana, Kentucky. Camp Logan, Houston, Tex. Twelfth Division —Illinois. Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga. Tenth Division —Georgia, Alabama, Florida. Camp Kearney, Linda Vista, Cal. Nineteenth Division California,

HELP RAILROADS IN WAR SERVICE

Co-operation ot Shippers and Traveling Public Contributes to Efficiency. PASSENGER TRAFFIC IS CUT Thousands of Train Crews and Locomotives Thereby Released for Hauling Freight Needed by the Government Chicago.—Reports just compiled for the railroads’ war board indicate that the traveling public in general and the shippers in particular are giving the finest kind of co-operation to the railroads in handling the increased traffic that the war has produced; What this co-operation means . may be gleaned from these facts: Since May 1 the railroads, aided by. the loyalty and understanding of the public, have been able to reduce their passenger service by approximately 25,000,000 miles. This has released thousands of train crews and locomotives for use in the freight service and cleared thousands of miles of track, thereby facilitating the movement of coal, food products and supplies needed by the government. In addition to the foregoing saving of equipment and trackage, the shippers, big and small, have rallied so splendidly to the slogan. “Make one car do the work of two” that a saving of close to half a million freight cars has been accomplished. This saving of freight cars has enabled the railroads to move approximately 25 per cent more freight since war was declared than during the same period , last year. Intensive Loading Helps. Intensive loading and a general increase in the size of the “trade units” used by the various industries has rendered possible the saving of car space. Cotton, for instance, which was formerly moved in units of fifty bales, now moves only in units of 65 and 75. As there are 18,000,000 bales to be moved by rail each season, the increase in the trade unit in this one commodity alone has produced a saving of anywhere from 83,000 to 125,000 cars. Sugar, on which the carload minimum from the South wak formerly only 24/ 000 pounds per car, now moves only on a 60,000-pound carload minimum. The producers of manufactured food products, especially the canners, have also come to a realization of the value of intensive loading and are now loading virtually all of their cars to capacity. Coal, which has been loaded beyond capacity on most fines since the beginning of the war, is also moving freely now, although labor troubles in some parts of the country is tending to counteract the efforts of the railrbads to meet the abnormal demand for fuel. During the past month the supply of cars on the “lake coal” lines has been increased 25 per cent and there has

Utah, Arizona. Nevada. Cplprado, New Mexico. Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala. - Sixteenth Division —Ohio, West Vlrginta. Camp Fremont. Palo Alto, Cal, Twentieth Division Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Part North Dakota. Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla. Fourteenth Division —Missouri, Kansas. Gamp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. Sixth Division —New York. Camp McArthur, Waco, Tex. Eleventh Division —Michigan, Wisconsin. Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Tex. Fifteenth Division —Texas, Oklahoma. RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CAMPS (R. O. T. C.) Belvoir, Va. (via Washington, D. C. and boat). Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. Deon Springs, Tex. (Exp., Boerne). Fort Logan H. Roots, Little Rock, Ark. (P. 0., Argenta, Ark.) Madison Barracks, Sackett Harbor, N. Y, Fort McPherson, Georgia. (Exp. and Tel., Atlanta, Ga.) Fort Meyer, Virginia, (Exp., Washington, D. C.). Fort Niagara, Youngstown, N. Yi (Exp. Lewiston, N. Y.). J f Fort Oglethorpe, Dodge, Ga., (Exp., Rossville). Plattsburg Barracks, Plattsburg, N. Y. Fort Riley, Kansas. • San Francisco, Presidio of, San Francisco, Cal. Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Fort Snelling, Minnesota (Exp., Mendota, Minn.).

For convenience of our readers in addressing members of the aviation training units we append the following. The address In Its entirety may be modeled on the form given in the first paragraph. AERO TRAINING STATIONS. Avia, Near Belleville, Ill.; Columbus, Ohio, Wilbur Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio; Essington, Pa.; Hampton, Va. Langley’s Field; Mineola, (L. 1. N. Y.; Mt. Clemens, Mich., Selfridge Field; Pensacola, Fla. (P. 0., Warrington); Rantoul, 111., Chanute Field; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Cal., North Island. ARMY BALLOON SCHOOL. Fort Omaha, Neb. (P. 0., Tel. and 'Exp., Omaha, Neb.).

been some increase in the movement of bituminous coal to the lake ports, but it has not been proportionate to the increased supply of cars, as labor trouble has tended to decrease the mine production. Renewed Efforts Necessary. Although excellent results have been achieved to date through the co-opera-tion of the shippers, the traveling public and the railroads, it will be necessary for all concerned to exert renewed efforts, as the abnormal demands upon the railroads In the movement of both troops and supplies is constantly Increasing, while the securing of new equipment Is virtually impossible. From now on 2,500 cars a day will be required by the government to move food and supplies to the. men in training at the National army, National Guard and other encampments, while the demand of the allies for cars to carry export goods to the seaports will be practically doubled. All of this additional traffic must be moved by the railroads, although they have only 3 per cent more equipment than they had at this time last year.

QUEEN OF SPAIN AND SON

Queen Victoria of Spain has been spending a great deal of time at the summer resort of Sardinero with her like all youngsters of their age, heartily enjoyed the opportunity to\romp on the sands, wade and swim in the water. The photo shows her with one of her sons, little Prince Gonzalo, on the sands. The young prince is dressed ready for a dip. This photo is the mosV recent taken of the queen and has just arrived in this country. The king of Spain is often mentioned as a possible peace maker.

No Frills on Her Overalls.

Logansport, Ind.—The first woman employee at the railroad shops to don overalls at her work is Miss Mary Johnson, who is employed in the oilrooin. There are no frills on the overails, as they are regular blue ones with white stripes. Miss Johnson says the Overalls are more comfortable than dresses and that she will continue to wear them.

BETTER MANHOOD

It Takes the War to Clear Our Vision and Make Us Live Wholesome Lives. In times of peace and prosperity ww are prodigal; when war comes we conserve and consider. We have been wasteful of food, of clothas, of natural resources, of human life. We have been Indifferent to the greater values while engrossed with the smaller. We have permitted the conscienceless middleman to levy tribute from both producer and and to fatten on profits unearned. Now we begin to "see men as trees walking.” We shall discover our point of departure preserftly. We shall recover, and, hereafter, let us hope, retain standards that have been wellnigh lost It took war to open our eyes. War In Europe would not have done It The shock had to be brought home to us. We could dissipate, we could waste, we could prey upon each other till a time of sore distress is imminent And then do we find that while we were clinking glasses and frittering our lives away in worse than useless dawdling, the brave sons of our neighbors aeross the sea were being shot and torn and strangled and burned in a death struggle with forces that may yet venture to touch our traditional treasures also. And when our own young men are summoned come, willingly enough, but thousands of them unfit because of vicious living we have tolerated and habits that waste and weaken. When food grows scarce the speculator hovers, vulturelike, over the scene ready to fill himself at public cost and fatten, though patriot in factory and field be starved by the process. In the midst of this there are certain cheering tokens. Early in July a public function was arranged at St Louis—by the Rotary club at Sappington inn, to be definite-—at which a venerable officer and a one-time university professor was to speak on "England’s Side of the War.” With a disregard for morals too frequent in these days, the committee in charge provided “usual” entertainment features. In the midst of the banquet the venerable guest of honor arose abruptly and withdrew. His explanation was as follows: "I was asked to speak on the war. Naturally I felt that the question was a serious one, and demanded a serious hearing. “The first part of the program was a military tableau of the spirit of 1917, and was very interesting. Then came a group of young women in disgracefully scant attire, who danced and sang and sat on the laps of the men, hugging them and acting in .a most disgusting manner. “I turned to the chairman and said: •This hurts me mentally and physically, and I feel that I cannot stay any longer.’ I went out of the room.” Bravo! grand old man. Give him the Chautauqua salute, all ye readers, says the Christian Standard. It takes more courage, and better, to do a thing like that tharf to face the cannon’s mouth, but the number of public men who can deliver a solarplexus blow on moral issues is increasing daily, thank God!

QUALITY OF THANKFULNESS

It Is Overwhelming When OneFThlnka of What God Has Done for Us and Given Us. Oh! for words to express that which is inexpressible: The unspeakable mercy and goodness of our God, the depths of his love, the heights of his glory, the length and breadth of his patience! Human mind cannot comprehend It, mere words cannot tell of it. Yet —there are times in our life when, reviewing all that" God has done for us, weighing, as it were, his tender, forgiving, inexhaustible love with our own utter unworthiness of even “the least of his mercies,” we feel we must use his precious gift of a clear mind to proclaim, as best we can, the goodness of our God. Not on our sinfulness would we dwell at such a time; on him alone would we look, to him our hearts be raised in a very paean of love and thankfulness. We have given ourselves, our souls and bodies, to looking back on the years spent in his loving service, we stand amazed at what has been given to us to accomplish for him. Can there be pride in our hearts! How could there be? Do we not know that of ourselves we could have done nothing? Do we not know also that they who came in at the ninth or,at the eleventh hour cannot possibly accomplish as much as those who have borne the burden and the heat of the day? Pride? God forbid! Thankfulness, intense thankfulness that he has called us ere it was too late and had given us a foretaste of his own diving self-sacrificing love. Dimly as yet—for how could we beat the dazzling light of a full revelation! he reveals to us the secret of his love: The life of loving service, the joy of giving, love forgiving, love guiding, love compelling and —O Lord, what is man that thou art so mindful of him?—with heart bursting with thankfulness we realize at last the wondrou* truth: That he has made for us himself and that, whatever betide, we are his, with all eternity before us to learn to love and serve him, our Lord God, our Creator. Redeemer, and Guide.-* Zoar. >■ . •J