Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1917 — Page 3

TO AVOID CENSORS

Soldier Boys Use the Regulation Blue Envelopes. Mutt Sign Certificate on Outside That Contents Are Personal or Family Matters Only. ‘The bine envelope has made a big hit with Sammy. It is the one feature of the army’s field censorship regulations to which he gives a kind word. Not that the censorship Inhibitions are unreasonable or Irksome especially to him, but because It is soldier’s proverbial and Inalienable right to “beer* against the censor, writes a correspondent with the American expeditionary force in France. The provision regulating the blue envelopes reads as follows: “In order that men may forward personal or family letters without the necessity of having them read by officers known to them personally, such letfefs may be Inclosed In the authorized blue envelope and sent directly to the base censor through United States army postal service.” authorized envelopes supplied to organizations at the rate of one per man per week may be used. More than one letter, however, may be forwarded In the envelope, but all the letters must be from the same soldier wjio signs a certificate on the outside of the envelope to the effect that the letters Inclosed relate to personal or family matters only and do not refer to military subjects. “It’s a great stunt,” said one dough boy. “You see If me and the missus want to have a little tiff on paper I don’t want the captain to be knowin’ all about it. What do I care If some fellow miles away, whom I’ll never see in my life, reads It I gtiess it will seem like a little bit of home sweet home to him I” Or, as another put It: “You know any time a fellow writes his girl, of course he has to gush a little. Maybe spring a little poetry and sometimes, by gosh, you mean it. Believe me, you get mighty lonesome over here hearing a lot of chattering you don’t know nothin' about And when her picture Is lookin’ down at you from the wall and the moon is helpin’ out the candle to light the room and you get thinkin’ of the .night you said good-by, It’s powerful helpin’ to sit down and write her all about It.” The blue envelope Is a development of this war. It Is new In our service. The French and English, though, have been using It for quite a while, and as we have adopted In many respects the censorship regulations of the English army, the lady In blue, as the envelope has come to bo called, came with them. Today she Is the one popular member yf her family.

No Food In Seventy Hours.

Not a bite of food for 70 hours was the terrible experience of a native who was admitted-to the Krugersdorp hospital (South Africa). The man had been severely burned about the legs in a fire in an outlying village, and with the other injured persons had been placed on a passing freight train to be taken to the nearest hospital. The man pulled a tarpaulin over himself, and so, when' the others were removed, he was overlooked. The train arrived at Krugersdorp during a Saturday evening, and the truck was shunted into rhe station yard. The whole of Sunday and Monday the native remained without food or water, under the tarpaulin, apd he was only discovered on Tuesday afternoon when a checker went his rounds. Railway men were on the point of placing mealies on the truck when they noticed a z movement under the sail, and the native, semiconscious and partially demented, was found unable to move much. On close examination it was found that his lower limbs were in a terrible state, and he was removed to the hospital.

Japanese Make Paper Clothes.

Underclothing made of finely crisped or grained paper is manufactured in Japan. After the paper has been cut to a pattern the different parts are sewn together and hemmed, and the places where the buttonholes are to be formed are strengthened with calico or linen. The paper is very strong and at the same time very flexible. After a garment has been worn a few hours it will interfere with the perspiration of the body no more than do garments made of cotton fabric. The paper is not slued, nor is it impermeable. After becoming wet the paper is difficult to tear. When an endeavor is made to tear it by hand it presents ahnost as much resistance as the thin skin for making gloves.

Certainly No Harm.

Her Husband —I hear th,e druggist. Boozewater, Was arrested for keeping a blind pig. Mrs. Goodsole —I don’t see anything wrong in that He was probably trying to cure the poor animal.

Wouldn't Work.

“Jones swore he’d tell his wife the truth always and at any cost this morning.” \ “Well?” “Well, he went home to lunch; tonight he resumes diplomacy."

Wishfulness.

“When 1 was a boy 1 wanted to be a clown'tn a circus.” “Gs course you outgrew that?” “Oh, yes. Clowns don’t get very much salary. Now 1 wish I was an actor In the movies**?

EFFECTS OF NOTED BATTLES

Probable Results If Outcome Had Been -Different, Explained In Book by English Writer Years Ago. About 60 years ago an English writer, Sir Edward Creasy, published a book which he called “The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.” His purpose was to describe those great military events which have had the greatest influence upon human history. Each battle described, had it resulted differently, would have completely changed the course of civilization* says the World’s Work. Had Charles Martel not have won the battle of Tours, for example, the whole of Europe, and that means also North and South America, would very likely have become Mohammedan In religion. “Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran,” says Gibbon, describing the consequences of this battle, “would now be taught In the schools of Oxford and her pupils might demonstrate to the-English people the tnfth of the revelation of Mohamet.” Ten of Creasy’s epochal battles have been fought since the beginning of the Christian era. Four of them represent victories which were won on French soil —the battle of Chalons, A. D. 451; the battle of Tours, 732; Joan of Arc’s victory at Orleans, 1429, and the battle of Valmy, In 1792. Another was a great French victory won on English soil—the battle of Hastings In 1066. Two others —the battle of Blenheim, In 1704, and the battle of Waterloo in 1815 —were great French defeats. It appears, therefore, that of the ten most decisive battles fought in the Christian era five were great French victories and two were French defeats. No other nation has any such military history as this. This mere record indicates the part which France has played In advancing civilization. So far as Europe Is concerned ■ the greatest events in modern history have taken place on French soil. At this time, when the democratic nations have joined hands to deliver France from the cowardly attack which Germany has made upon her, it Is well to keep this fact in mind.

Council of National Defense.

The Council of National Defense vas created under an act of congress passed August 29, 1916, and the same act provided for the creation of an advisory commission of seven to act with, under and by the authority of the council. By the terms of the act this council, with the “co-ordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare,” and with the “creation of relations which will render possible In the time of need the Immediate concentration and -utilization of the resources of the nation.” The main body, or central council of defense at Washington, consists of the secretaries of war, navy, Interior, agriculture, commerce and labor. The advisory commission consists of railroad presidents, financiers, manufacturers, educators and specialists In particular lines. The board acts as a clearing house for the war Industry needs of the nation with authority to determine the most effective ways of meeting them, and the best means and methods of Increasing production, including the creation or extension of Industries demanded by the emergency; the relative urgency of the different needs, also considering price factors, Industrial and labor aspects and conditions affecting food supplies and prices. The authority of the council is nation wide.

Non-Freezing Mixture.

Protection against possible freezing of wet materials in a cement mixer during cold weather is obtained at low cost by using an oil-burning heater which can be attached to practically any mixing machine. Such a device unquestionably can save money for a contractor by making it safe to operate continuously when the temperature Is low, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The heater is provided with a 25-gallon tank which is mounted above the mixer and is connected by a pipe with a burner situated at the opening in the side of the mixing drum, compressed air, obtained either from a hand pump or a compressor, is used to vaporize the oil and in this way a flame is forced into the Interior of the drunf, keeping the materials there thoroughly warm.

Save Tin Plate.

The housewife will do her bit in the conservation of the limited supply of tin plate by soaking and cooking her own dried peas and lima beans in the kitchen and thereby releasing a proportional amount of tin cans for use in the packing of perishable foods, where they are greatly needed. Consumers are urged by the department of agriculture, to read labels of canned peas and lima beans carefully in order to see whether they are getting a fresh or a soaked dried product.

Vacuum the Horse.

The latest application of-the vacuum cleaning principle is to the grooming of horses. Walter B. Guild of Roxbury, Mass., has invented a kind of glove which takes the place of the old curry comb land brush and cleans the hide thoroughly and quickly, says Popular Science Monthly. Between the fingers of the glove small, stiff bristles are set. These stir up the dust in the hide. The brushes are sepaTated from the walls of the glove.

Why He Kept On.

Judge—Why did you not heed the traffic officer's signal and stop? Chauffeur— Why, a pedestrian stepped directly In front of my car at that moment.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

ALSATIAN GIRLS FLEE TO UNITED STATES

Misses Lydia and Janet Bluffienthal, daughters of Daniel Blumenthal, who was mayor of Colmar at the beginning of the war, until the Germans advanced and deposed him. The two girls fled secretly from their home in Colmar to France to save- their Ilves as the Germans advanced into the town, and arrived recently in this country. Daniel Blumenthal arrived here six months ago. He is well known as a leader in Alsace and as president of the World League for the Restitution of Alsace-Lorraine. .

PEOPLE UNDERFED DY THE GERMANS

Weekly Ration Not Sufficient to Maintain Bodily Health and Vigor.. B OUNCES OF MEAT A WEEK Food Allowed to Germans and Inhabitants of Territory Occupied by Germans Is Lacking in Energy Producing Elements. Washington.—lnformation concerning the weekly ration now being allowed the German people and the civilian population of the occupied portions of northern France and Belgium have been received by the United States food administration. In food value the ration is insufficient properly to maintain bodily health and vigor. The German ration is as follows, the amount being those allowed per person per week: Flour, 3.45 pounds; potatoes. 7.05 pounds; cereals (oats, beans and peas), 7 ounces; meat, 8.8 ounces; sugar, 3 ounces; butter and margarine. 2.8 ounces; and other fats, 2.8 ounces. Stated in terms of American housekeeping, these Items amount to sufficient flour to bake pounds of bread; one-half peck bf potatoes; a cupful of beans, peas and oatmeal; one-half pound of meat; 12 dominoes of sugar; 6 individual patties of butter; and an equal amount of other fats. In Northern France. For the population of that portion of northern France occupied by the Germaps, the allowance is as follows: Sufficient flour for five pounds of bread; one-fifth peck of potatoes; one cupful cereal, 12 1-3 ounces of bacon and lard; and 10 dominoes of sugar. Here meat, butter and margarine are all replaced by bacon and lard. The allowance of flour and cereals are slightly Increased, but the allowance of potatoes Is less than half the German ration, while sugar Is also rebelow the meager German allowance.

The ration for the civilian population of the occupied portion of Belgium is similar to that of northern France, except bacon and lard are replaced by meat and butter. The German ration, compared with the ration used as standard for purposes of comparison by the food administration shows that in bodybuilding protein the Germans have .41 of a pounds and the standard ration 1.08 pounds. ‘ln fats, the German ration contains .43 of a pound, as compared with standard 7 pounds. In carbohydtates, the German ration contains 4.17 pounds, as compared to 9.9 pounds for the standard ration. In total calories, the German ration aggregates 10,542 as compared to 24,000 in the standard ration. The standard ration Is regarded as sufficient only for a person in a sedentary occupation, or one involving relatively slight physical labor; and yet it provides two and one-half times

YALE HAS COLLECTION OF WAR LITERATURE

New Haven, Conn. —Yale university has collected probably the most exhaustive mass of material op the great world war in this country. Under direction, cf Prof. Wilbur C. Abbott, a committee, 1 appointed in the fall of 1914, has scoured this country and Europe for publications of all kinds on the war. The collection consists not only of books, but complete flies of newspapers and magazines from Europe and this country, besides pamphlets, proclamations, posters and letters of all kinds and descriptions. «•

as much body-building protein, and nearly twice as much fat, and nearly two and one-half times as much carbohydrates as the German ration. Ration Not Sufficient. In the ration for northern France, the substitution of bacon and lard makes the weekly allowance of protein equal only three-fourths of the German ration, and only one-third of the standard ration. In the whole, It may be said that for a person in an occupation requiring only a moderate degree of activity, these rations provide considerably less than the amounts requisite to maintain bodily health and vigor. The greatest efficiency, is in energyproducing foodstuffs, although the lack of body-building proteins is physiologically more lmportant, and liable to have more serious and more permanent results.

ROYAL NURSE ON DUTY

M. Justin Godart, minister of health in the French cabinet, on a tour of inspection of the allied war hospitals conversing with Princess Narishkine and the French commander at Skocivir where the hospital founded by the princess is located.

FOIL PARIS COCHERS

United States Soldiers Prove Not to Be Easy Marks. * Victimized at First, They Study Regulations and Now Pay Only Legal Rates, Paris.—Paris cabmen have not yet decided whether the American soldiers will prove a welcome or an unwelcome addition tp their patrons. When the men from across the sea first arrived they were all hailed by the cabman as millionaires and the tips they received were in keeping with the reputation thus bestowed upon them. But trust the Paris coCher to kill the goose that lays a golden egg. He practiced his old game of taking the most Indirect route to reach bis destination and never had any change when tendered payment. At night if no policeman was in sight he always balked at taking an American uniform without first extorting a promise to pay a fixed price for the course, which was at least twice his legqltere. The Afnerieans stood this impofettion for a time but finally got tired of being continually bled. Now they give no more than the French as a tip and as they become better acquainted with the city check the wily eabpan when he attempts to take them jby round-

RED CROSS EXPANDS

Growth of Organization a Marvel of the War. f ■ From • Membership of 20,000 It Has Increased to More than 4,000,000 .f Members. Chicago.—The growth of the American Red Cross in the last year has been one of the marvels of the war. The public mind has in some measure kept track of the army, the navy, the aviation corps, the marines, and other parts of Uncle Sam’s great fighting machine as they expanded. But consider the case of the Red Cross —least known of all three years ago: When the war began there were 20,000 members of the Red Cross scattered about the country, chiefly In the larger cities. Not one citizen In twenty could have told how it worked or what it did. except that in great disasters it cared for the victims. Even one year ago, when the war had been going on fcr more than two years, and it seemed inevitable that we should be dragfird in. there were only 163.587 Red Cross members and 250 chapters. Today there are more than 4.000.000 Red Cross members, and 2.736 Chapters, with new chapters being formed and new members enrolled all the time. Four hundred thousand of these 4,000.000 members are paid subscribers of the Red Cross Magazine. Of course this tremendous expansion, coining in a single year, has utterly overwhelmed the scheme of administration which was adequate for 170,000 members. An entirely new system was imperative, and it is now being Installed. Briefly, this is how it works:

The active head of the Red Cross is General Manager Harvey D. Gibson, who has volunteered his time for the duration of the war. The work is apportioned among bureaus —those of development, publicity, women, nursing, civilian relief, military relief, supplies and accounting. The territory of the United States has been divided into thirteen sections, each headed by a division manager. Each of these managers, like Mr. Gibson, has volunteered his services without. pay 30 long as the war shall last. Each manager is now reorganizing the administration of his division te correspond with thatafWashington, with a director at the head of each bureau —many of them also volunteers, working without pay.

TOLD TO ELOPE BY SPIRITS

Then Girl's Companion Pleads Guilty Under Mann Act at .Frankfort, Ky. Frankfort, Ky.—Roger W. Dale, alias Frank Hancock, pleaded guilty before United States Commissioner Wiard to violating the Mann act by bringing sixteen-year-old Bessie Lucille Smith of Toledo, Ohio, to Frankfort, where they have been living since October 3. According to the girl’s story she met Dale in the building where her father has his office. Dale became the gobetween for written questions and answers passing between the girl and a trance medium, whom she never saw and who wap supposed to live at 2016 Putnam street, the home of Dale’s mother. One of these communications from the medium conveyed the Information to the girl that she was in love with Dale, who would marry her. Then Dale asked her to run away with him. Dale told her they were married and showed her a certificate.

Arrow Cost Father $2,500.

Virginia, Minn. —Twenty-five hundred dollars was the amount awarded W. F. McDonald of Eveleth for who a few years ago was shot In the eye by a dart from an arrow in the hands of Simon, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Sax of Eveleth. The plaintiff asked SB,OOO.

about routes. They have solved the night holdup by climbing into the cab despite the protestations of the cabmen. If it is not later than the hour fixed for him to quit work he must take them at the regular fare where they wish to go or drive to a police station and justify his refusal. As the average cocher wants as little to do with the police as possible, he rarely if ever appeals to them. At One of the ports used by the Americans for landing troops the cabmen charged the soldiers such exorbitant prices that the men went to the police, obtained copies of the regulations governing the cochers and thereafter paid only regular fares, giving no tips. The cochers retaliated by refusing to take American soldiers as passengers, and if the men got into a cab anyhow they stopped dead where they were and, refused to move. It was some days before a compromise was reached.

Operated Upon Monkey.

St. Paul, Minn. —Adherents of the Darwinian theory of man's decent see additional evidence in its support In tße announcement that “Joe,” a pet monkey, belonging to Frank A". Übel, had just submitted to a successful operation for appendicitis. The,monkey’s allinenioWM diagnosed by Humane society physicians, and under an anaesthetic its appendix was removed.

HOME TOWN HELPS

TREE PLANTING NEEDS CARE AppsarancS of Grounds as Important as House Plans; Interior Decorations or Furniture. While house plans, Interior decorations and furniture play a prominent part In the life of the new home builder, care of the grounds about the house should likewise be given consideration, particularly as regards the planting of trees to trim up the general appearance of the house. In tree planting great care, foresight and judgment are required, says a landscape artist. The selection of young trees, their proper setting apart and their care after planting make beautiful grounds possible. In shade tree planting as in the construction of a building, the plan for the completed work should be determined 4n advance, for the tree planter must picture to* himself how his work will look a great number of years later and with him it rests whether the result is to be one of satisfaction or regret.

In making selections one must bear in mind that the tree must possess certain characteristics to be desirable. In the first place it must be hardy, capable of withstanding unfavorable conditions of city life such as poor soil, drought, smoke, gas, heat and dust, easily transplanted and propagated/ It must have a straight stem, * rounded well filled head, well developed roots and be symmetrical in growth. They must to a great degree be Immune from Insect pests, retain their foliage in good condition through the summer Until late fall and be clean in their habits of growth. The ideal shade tree must also be of medium growth and long lived. The desirability of developing good-sized shade trees as soon aS possible after planting is admitted, and it is unfortunate that the trees growing most rapidly are the most undesirable.

NEVER TOO SOON TO BEGIN

Start Is All That Is Necessary in Planning House That One Some Day ~ la Going to Build. There are two kinds of people who are Interested in the question of build-. Ing houses: Those who have built one house and live in it, and those who are living in some one’s else house. A pretty comprehensive statement, but really, who isn’t Interested in the matter of building a home? Jones has a house of his own, and he is concerned with the thing he possesses, says an exchange. Smith, who owns no house, is concerned with something he lacks. Jones is homesick only when he is away from home. Smith can never be homesick in any place other than his home. Jones is an owner, a master, a liege lord of lands and all, that is therein. SmlVh is a tenant, a payer of rent, a slave of tribute. Jones dwells on the right side of the door. Smith is eternally wishing that he did. It is never too soon to begin planning that house which some day you are going to want to build. It is never too soon, but sometimes too late, to save the money for a start toward it. The start is all that is necessary.

Ths Knocker's Prayer.

In the case of Bloodworth vs Times Publishing Company, 193 Southwestern Reporter, 527, Justice Wood of the Arkansas supreme court said. In substance, that where defendants in one part of Its paper referred to plaintiff as a “knocker,” and It was alleged that he was the person specifically meant. It furnished the necessary colloquium to show that the following prayer published In the same paper applied to the plaintiff: •The Knocker’s Prayer: Lord,please don’t let this town grow. I’ve been here for many years, and during that time I have fought every public Improvement. I’ve knocked on everything and everybody. No firm or individual has established a business here without my doing all I could to put them out of business. I’ve lied about them, and would have stolen from them. If I had the courage. I am against building a new church, even though I gave nothing. lam against the electric light franchise being granted to George Booser, George Washington, or Jim Tom. It pains me, oh Lord, to see that in spite of my knocking the town Is growing. Then, too, more people might come here, which would cause me to lose some of my pull. I ask, therefore, to keep this town at a standstill, that I may be one of the chiefs. Amen !” The Docket.

Fishing on Sunday.

Sunday fishing, which has long been looked upon as sacrilegious tn the Isle of Man, threatens to lose some of its terrors for the “unco guid,” notes an exchange. Until recently the North of England and Scotch fishermen engaged in the Manx herring trade have Sunday so rigorously that they have remained In port from Saturday morning to Monday afternoon. Fishermen from the South, resenting the loss of two night’s fishing, have tried to break t through the tradition and a Fleetwood boat put out to sea one Sunday evening recently, returning the next day with a good catch. The buyers at first looked askance at the herring as “Sun-day-caught.’’ but finally they were sold at a fair price. > r