Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1917 — Page 3

Americans Must Make Sacrifices That Are Demanded By Great War

By JEANETTE RANKIN,

It is a misguided patriotism that believes direct action has a place in civilized society. I have no patience with that spirit that seeks to destroy property to satisfy personal grievances, or with the thought that direct action can right existing wrongs. The man who, destroys a grain field is taking bread from a hungry child. The burden of waste always rests heaviest on those least able to stand the strain. v . % ■- Nor have I any patience with that spirit which seeks to destroy the truth by printing false and mis-

leading statements. Those character assassins who would poison the minds of their fellow men with falsehoods are most aggravated traitors. Always bear in mind that the greatest, the most liberty-loving nation in the world is engaged in war—in the most tremendous conflict recorded in history, and we must all put our shoulder to the wheel and strive to make a greater and fuller democracy. War spells sacrifice—none can escape its far-reaching effects. The effort of all right-thinking people is to sacrifice as little as poeeible of the constructive principle, and to be most generous with all things whrich will protect life and reduce suffering. It is easy to estimate the casualties of the battlefield, but the casualties of the home in wartime remain uncounted and unreported. The young manhood of this country is bearing the brunt of this conflict—that manhood which is offering its life has and always will have the respect of the people of America. For theirs is the greatest sacrifice. We must spare nothing to save as many of their lives as possible.

Employers Should Educate Boys Forced to Quit the Grade Schools

By ALFRED RONCOVIERI.

Public education is to maintain and improve the standard of citizenship. When a boy leaves school without finishing his elementary school course, the permanent welfare and happiness of that child is threatened. But economic conditions sometimes force children to leave school to help make a living for those at home, themselves included. They should be allowed at least one hour every day in a continuation school until they are seventeen or eighteen years of age, at the expense of their employer. In such schools the mathematics and sciences, and any other subjects that are allied to his vocation would be taught the boy. The worker who increases his technical knowledge not only renders himself a more efficient workman, making his products more marketable, but is on the road to promotion and higher pay. The experts in craft owe their success to technical education. The time has come for a boy to rebel at the modern tendency to make him a small, insignificant cog in the wheel of industry, and to be thus converted into human machinery. The great captains of industry, through the complex machinery which American genius has for the most part invented, use our boys as mere tools to feed this machinery. It is only too true that the apprentice who learns his trade under our modern system usually learns only a single part of it and knows little or nothing of other processes involved in the trade as a whole. He has become an automatic part of the “machine” on which he is working. The man who does not understand the science of his trade and who feeds the machine is the modern “man with the hoe,” hopelessly bound to it and the weak object of attack in the constant war to lower his wages. He is most apt to be thrown out of employment in times of depression. Such men are hopelessly handicapped in the struggle foj better wages and conditions because captains of industry hold them as slave workers in one part of the trade. , It is an economic shame that our children must sometimes drop out of school before completing the grammar course, but if they must, let us insist that the classroom follow them to the. shop insofar as it can be made to.

Millions of Acres of Land Worthless Because not Properly Utilized

Head of Colonization Department, Grand Trank Pacific Railrood

The thing we should consider at present should be: What can we do for the future? How are the people going to get out of the soil the greatest amount of value for the greatest length of time, and what the soil and different locations, according to the. topography of the country and the climatic conditions, are best suited for ? It-should be made easy for a man to know where to look for certain lands that are good for certain productions and be from an authoritative and reliable and not from a speculative standpoint only. Now, this should be taken up through organizations that make a special study of the topography and climatic and soil production validations of each separate district There is one industry that has been so sadly neglected, and is today becoming only .a remnant of the original greatness—that of stock raising—through ignorance of distribution of lands properly adapted to stock raising. There are today millions and rpillions of acres of upland, plateaus and hillsides for, summer and winter grazing that site good for nothing else, but worthless at the present time, simply because stock must have water in great abundance and sufficient agricultural land adjacent to it for the raising of a certain amount of yinter feed. But through careless legislation the watering places and the rich little valleys tributary and necessary to the perpetuation of the stock-raising proposition utilizing these beautiful upland summer and graz'ing fields have been allowed to be taken, promoted and sold for fruit and truck gardening purposes, while they are hundreds of miles away from the market of such commodities, and when there are thousands of acres already proven to be more valuable for such purposes and good for nothing else. And it seems a pity that these lands could not be in some way procured and again attached to the useful grazing lands to be used to produce winter feed and water places. .' o

Congresswoman from Montana

, Superintendent of San Francisco Public School*

By DR. L. E. EVANS

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

WAR SAVING GAME

European Conflict Takes Sportsmen Out of the Field. Increase In the Price of Guns and Ammunition Makes Hunting a Rich Man's Sport. Despite the war the permanent wild life protective fund la continui|ng its battle to save American game from extinction, writes Frederic J. Haskin. War is a benefit to wild life in that it takes many hunters out of the field and has raised the average price of guns and ammunition about 50 per cent, making hunting what it is rapidly becoming in this country, anyway— a rich man’s sport.

The wild life protection fund, in its literature and the lectures of its campaigning trustee, William T. Hornaday of the New York zoological park, is seeking to spread the idea that the sportsmen must act to save the game, that they are robbing themselves and future generations if they do not This idea has been well set forth in a poster of the New Mexico Game Protection associations, which have set out with determination and success to save the wild life of that state. The poster is as follows: “Your grandfather hunted elk and buffalo until there were none. “You are hunting deer. There still are some. “What do you want your son to hunt? Rabbits?” The average New Mexican reading that sign knows that it is true. He has heard from the olditimers what the abundance of game used to be; he sees In a flash the long generations of ruthless destruction, the inevitable end when the. mountains where he loves to hunt will be lifeless. Another difficulty in the path of game preservation lies in the opposition in congress to federal action in the matter. Nothing but federal action saved the wild fowl. By reason of the migratory game law, drawn by government scientists and providing protection for waterfowl from Canada to Mexico, they are now believed to be safe for a hundred years. The fact which the average sportsman does not realize is that when a species of wild game is reduced to a certain point it cannot “come back," no matter how much it is protected. For example, in 1884 the buffalo hunters said and believed that there wpuld always be plenty of buffalo. In 1885 they went out to hunt them and there was none. It took them two years to realize the fact that the buffalo was practically extinct. Wolves and hunters destroyed the remnant much faster than it could breed. Of course the buffalo has been overworked as an object lesson in game protection. As opponents of protective measures have pointed out, the buffalo could not have survived civilization except in very limited numbers anyway.

But this is not true of deer, elk and mountain sheep which inhabit the high mountain ranges that will always be a wilderness. There is only one measure which can save them, and that is the provision of game refuges in national forests where these animals can breed unmolested, and the increase restock the surrounding country.

Dress in London.

Something might be said of the changes that three years of war have brought about in our clothes, says the Manchester Guardian. Evening dress Is not abolished, but It is becoming much less customary in theaters and restaurants, and people coming up to London who used to bring evening clothes with them no longer do so. Stiff white collars are disappearing, and the soft collar is worn by all classes. The democratic process had already set In at the house of commons. One remembers the shock that Mr. Keir Hardie’s cloth cap created on its first appearance there, but it has advanced immensely since the war began. Frock coats are in small and diehard minority. Spats are on their last legs. Top hats survive miraculously, it might seem, until one remembers their enduring qualities, so that their persistence is only a form of war economy after all.

Dining With the Private.

It has come at last —the offense of an officer dining In public with a private. It was bound to ?)pme, soon or late. The present writer, notes the London Daily Chronicle, met not long ago a private in uniform and two men In mufti. Of the two, one who should have been wearing the uniform of a second lieutenant, explained: “Private Blanks here, Is my uncle. He is up for a visit, and according to regulations I ought not to be seen about with him. Since I joined the army I have grown bang out of my civilian rig, so I’ve borrowed a suit from the guv-nor, haven’t I, dadr “Yes, you have, and it’s my best, you villain,” answered the second civilian.

Mostly So.

“You’re finder arrest'’ exclaimed the officer, as he stopped the automobile. “What for?” inquired Mr. Chuggins. “I haven’t piade up my mind yet ril just look over your lights, an’ your license, an’ your numbers, an’ so forth. I know I can get you for somethin’.”

No Alarm.

“Did you hear there was great breaking out at the jail?” “What was it? The worst charao tors there T* .> “No; the measles. 1 *

THINKING ALOUD IN RUSSIA

Crowd* Assemble on Streets to Participate in Debate* Whieh Really Amount to Very Little. Along the Nevsky that evening Id the parks, and open spaces, little herd* of people were packed together as sheep crowd together under a tree on an August afternoon. In the center two persons debated, shaking their hands in each others’ faces. They had been talking like that for weeks all over Russia, writes Arthur Ruble in Collier’s Weekly. * All Petrograd was one big village meeting—the village habit of talking over together the village's business being transferred to the capital. And coming in late at night from the edge of town, you could see every now and then these black little clumps of people, still talking, still huddled there, vaguely pathetic, like sheep under the trees. > - -

‘ Any one of hundreds of excited phrases flung off in these little debating clubs might, I suppose, have sent a man to jail or Siberia a generation ago. Now they could say anything, gather anywhere, listen as long as they wanted. Russians have a gift for talking and a happy lack of self-conscious-ness in doing it They really like to make speeches. Mr. Root, in one of the lighter moments of his stay in Petrograd, remarked that one of the tragedies of the Russian revolution was the turning loose on the world 180,000,000 orators. Now one saw some old peasant a giant of a man, come down with a barge of firewood from the north, perhaps, holding forth with great quaintness of phrase and gesture to an amused group of city folks. Or while one talked some expansive old fellow, in the long coat cap and boots of the old-style merchant would be doing a sort of comic accompaniment on the edge of the crowd, throwing out his arms and putting a “galubchlk moi” (“my little dove”) between every other sentence. - Much of .this talk which looks interesting—so expressive is voice and gesture —turns out to be a mere sort of thinking aloud.

Indians in the Great War.

Indians have been volunteering for service in the United States army since 1861. In 1892 Lieutenant Scott, later chief of the staff, organized and trained a troop of the Seventh cavalry, which was highly commended by the inspector general of the war department The Indian is trained as the Swiss train their boys, so that they may be able to fire a gun accurately and earn a living. He has all the qualities of a good soldier —endurance, patience, courage and an instinct for scouting, London Tit-Bits says. The Canadian government recognized the great fighting ability of the many Indian nations and tribes who volunteered their services for king and country at the outbreak of the war, and there are hundreds of Indians enrolled in many of the different Canadian regiments at the front. Many have made the supreme sacrifice, among the first to fall being Lieut. Cameron Brant of the Six Nations Indians, who was a lineal descendant of the distinguished colonial warrior, CapL Joseph Brant of Revolutionary fame.

The Strength of Woman.

•"The work women are doing In this war!” exclaimed a member of the railroads war board, at a banquet. “Driving ammunition trucks, digging trenches; even, a§ in Russia, fighting in the front line I “Woman comes more and more to resemble Cornelius Husk’s daughter, Marne. When Husky Mame, as she was known In the township, presented her future husband to the old man, Corn Husk sighed and said: “ ‘Take her, son, but take good keer on her, for the little ladybird has been riz tender-like. 'Four acres a day is all I ever ast her to plow, and two acres of corn is all she’s been used to hoe ’twlxt sun-up and dark. She kin do light work, sech as rall-splittin’ and well-dlggln’, but she ain’t used to rough stuff, and you must be gentle with her. I tell you, son, it’s hard for the old man to give his little sunshine up. He’ll have to splits-his own wood and tend his own stock now.’ ”

Dream Came True.

The encyclopedic Andrew Lang is responsible for the following dream record, according to Katherine Cox, writing in the Occult Review: ’ “A certain barrister sat up late one night to write letters, and at about 12:30 went out to put them In the post. He returned to his rooms, and while undressing for bed missed a check for aslarge sum, which he had received during the day. He hunted everywhere In vain, went to bed, slept, apd dreamed that he saw the check curled round an area railing not far from his own door. He woke, got up, dressed, walked down the street and fofmd his check in exactly the spot where he had it in his dream!”

Kipling Made "Tommy Atkina."

Rudyard Kipling has Written an American story, “Captains Courageous.” Kipling made “Tommy Atkina.* Sir George Younghusband,; who has been In the British service for forty years, declares that nobody ever heard of “Tommy” until Kipling made Private Mulvaney and the other two of the “Soldiers Three” talk about him. He says that he had asked Innumerable old British officers if they ever heard of “Tommy Atkins” before Kipling wrote about him, and tbeyall agree that they never did.

CHRIST CONQUEROR

Ultimate Victory Will Crown the/ World Work of the Son of God. “He went forth conquering and to conquer.”—Rev. 6:2. Time was when the church dwelt almost exclusively upon the sufferingsand sorrows of Christ, and overlooked his majesty and glory. It thought of him as the lamb of God, and forgot to think of him as “the lion of the tribe of Judah| it thought of him as a weary man before his foes,'and forgot to think of him as a mighty conqueror, who possesses invincible power. In the book of Revelation he is represented in the latter aspect. He is not represented as coming to his kingdom. He is already a king. On his head are many crowns. Once he was scornfully rejected by the people, who cried, “The Crucified! may his "name and memory be blotted out.” Now everything, is changed. He rides forth “conquering and to conquer." To this vision of Christ it behooves us to turn in the present day when the larger portion of the wbrld is convulsed by fightings without and fears within. He is the one upon whom the hopes of humanity center; the one who is at the head of the forces which makes for the establishment of the kingdom of God on the earth. He is represented as taking the aggressive. Not-satisfied with acting on the defensive, he goes forth. His army is not one of occupation, but of aggression. His presence as its leader and commander is inspiriting. Someone has said that an army of .sheep would have been formidable led by Napoleon; for he would have transformed them Into lions. So we, catching the spirit of our leader, became heroic, and go forth with him to meet the great world

He goes forth to conquer. .This idea is put in the strongest possible form — “conquering and to conquer;” that is, victory succeeding victory. He triumphs over all oppositions, but not at once. Many a fierce struggle is called for before the forces of evil are vanquished. But the cause of righteousness will win in the end. We follow a leader who has never been beaten. He came into this, world to destroy the power of sin. It .was a gigantic struggle, and at first he seemed to be baffled. Looked at from the human point of view his death was a failure; but it was in reality a victory. By it he vanquished sin and death, Through all his earthly life he was a victor. He conquered disease.; he ruled the forces of nature; he cast out evil spirits; he delivered men from the power of evil. Never once-'dld he go down to defeat. The work of conquest which he began upon earth he is now carrying on with greater grower.

The power by which Christ conquers Is the same as that by which he conquered when here in the flesh. He conquers by the power of truth and love. His weapon of conquest is the cross. In the epistle to the Hebrews Jesus is represented as making "one sacrifice of sin forever,” and then sitting down at God’s right band, “from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his footstool” (Chap. 10:12, 13). His expectation of coming victory was based upon his sacrifice for sin. He knew of no greater power than the cross. It was the highest revelation of divine suffering, redeeming love, conceivable. No greater power unto salvation can be brought to bear upon the hearts of men. It is God’s utmost. This is the weapon which we today are to yield in the battle for righteousness. “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual.” They may appear to be feeble, but they are “mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.” The cross is no failure. Following the crucified, we follow a conquering king.—Rev. James M. Campbell, D. D.

CHRIST’S SUPREME SACRIFICE

His Earthly Life, Strong and Beautiful, Was a Journey Toward Death on the Cross. Our Lord’s life on earth, strong and beautiful though it was, was really at the same time his procedure toward death. He lived as one laying down his life, not merely in one great sacrifice at the close, but from step to step along his whole earthly history. With no touch of the morbid or the fanatical, yet his course, in practice, had to be one of selLlmpoverishment, of loneWness, of-aetpnlntance with energetic hostility of sin and sinners. It had to be so if it was to be faithful. He knew not where to lay his head; he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself; he came unto his own, and his own received him not. Even his friends, whom he loved, and who loved him tn their Imperfect way, did. not love him wisely or magnanimously, and constantly became occasions of temptation which had to be resisted. Pain and trial were the inevitable characters of the work given him to do. It lay in his calling to put a strong and faithful negative on the natural desire for safety, for happiness, for congenial society and surroundings, for free and unembarrassed life All thls he bad steadily to postpone to a period beyond, the grave, and meanwhile make his way to the final crisis, at which, under a mysterious burden of extreme sorrow, accepted, as. the Savior’s proper portion, he died for our sins.—Robert Rainy.

ON THE FUNNY SIDE

ONE MAN'S CONCLUSION.

“Watches and political candidates are much alike." “What’s the matter now?" “That Is, unless they run well they are no good 1" Failure. Fame’s ladder none would want to climb For there'd be nothing to it. If men succeeded every time They tried to do It. Politics as She Is Did. - Political Leader—How does Bump stand? Henchman —All right, 1 guess. He belongs to the same political party as we do. » . Political Leader — Confound it! That’s ’no sign. Is he with us or against us? —Puck. A Lost Friend. “I’m up against it. I like Brown very much, but I see no way now to avoid losing his friendship.” “What’s the matter?” “He has asked me to lend him money. If I refuse he’ll hate me; If I lend It to him I shall hate him.”

A Mystery. “I don’t see why this'walter doesn't give me better service,” complained the stingy man. ‘ “That Is rather strange.” “Yes. I’ve never been In her before. Therefore, how could he know that I don’t Intend to tip him?” Where Retribution Waits. "I can’t help thinking about my friends and family,” said Senator Sorghum. “Homesick?” “No. Tin doubtful about what they’re going to say. Tm not so much homesick as I am home-scared.” _ i Those Hairpins. Beacon —Does your wife use invisible hairpins? Egbert—Why, yes; I think her mouth is full of them now. Not Always. “Are all women won by flattery?" “Not by any means. If that were the case prlma donnas would Invariably marry their press agents.”

BETWEEN BITES.

Doyle—The byes say' ye licked poor Dugan. Shure, he niver hurt iny man’s feelin’s. Boyle—He’s a shnake In the grass. The blackguard referred to me as his contlmperary, and Til be the contimperary to no man livin’.’ Not Wearing Well. She went and married a- gilded youth Of course she's wiser now, forsooth. She hears the folks who know him scoff And sees the gilding wearing off. Scientifically Considered., “I think a man derives bls mentality and character from his mother,” remarked the student of heredity. - “Then,” commented Miss Cayenne, “the mother pf a slacker must have been one of those girls who manicure their nails find eat chocolates while mother does the housework."