Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1917 — Page 3

Friendship of America One of the Greatest Needs of Russia

Hbml of the American Red Grom Special Comminion to Ruuia

Russia’s greatest need today is sincere friendship from the outside. In her struggle for a constitutional and democratic form of government, America can be of immense service, not so much in the way of gifts of money, but by letting the people of Russia know what is going on in this country, and what the United States is doing in the war. Russia is absolutely without any American news that is worth while. Most of what they hear about the United States in the war comes to them through pror German propaganda, and is to the effect that this country is fighting for pecuniary gain; that the United States is a vassal of England, and that England wants to rule the world. They have not heard a word of President Wilson’s reasons why we are in this war. However, America is looked t® by the Russians as their best friend. The further cementing of friendly relations will aid Russia in its war operations, and the Red Cross, through its relief work already done and that which will be carried on, will do 1 much to bring this about. Red Gross commission to Russia has established a well-organized office, with an efficient personnel in Petrograd and on the road as transportation Russia turns to America as her best friend, and if America will recognize the great power of the people of Russia, their inherent goodness of character and stability, their desire for order, their desire for democracy, by the help which America can give she will cement that friendship for all time. -n • -l With the American Red Cross firmly established in Russia, it is to be the policy to furnish such material as may be needed in the care of the sick and injured soldiers, and some degree for the civilian population. The members of the cabinet of the Russian provisional government, the sanitary department of the army, the Russian Red Cross, all the relief organizations, and the “All Union of Zenstvos” have expressed their gratitude for the aid which the American Red Cross has already afforded. A continuation of this good work by the American Red Cross will be one of the most potent factors in cementing friendship which is so much desired.

TO THE HOME GIRL

By Edgar Rice Burroughs.

You have laid down your knitting to read the paper. The chances are fifty-five or better that you are knitting a sweater that won’t fit or a scarf that is too narrow or too wide, for some soldier or sailor, and the other «nfl of the bet—and it may be the safer end —is that you are knitting a mustard-colored sweater for yourself. The boys need sweaters and scarfs, and more still they need something that you can give them —andjiot interfere with your knitting. They need association with the sort of girl you are —the good girl, the home girl—the sort of girl they went to see on “beau night” back in Syracuse, or Escanaba, or Nampa, or Hermosa. There are soldiers passing through your home town, or, may be, there is a great cantonment near you. What are you doing for these boys that a knitting machine couldn’t do? They art; the same kind of boys that you have always known —they are the best boys, the cleanest boys that the country hau produced. You can give them something infinitely finer than a sweater—something that will warm them more than a scarf. You can give them a memory of virtue, and character, and patriotism to take to France with them that will represent an ideal to them — an ideal of home, mother, sister, and sweetheart, of all that personifies country, of all of which the flag is the emblem —an ideal to fight for, to die for. You can give them this if you will open your home to them, if you will place in J your window some sign that will say to them that any man in the uniform of our country is welcome there. , Many of these boys have never before been away from home. They are homesick. They are worked hard five and a half days a week and then they go to town on leave. By that time they are ready for anything that will help them forget their homesickness. Here is where you can help. There are girls who meet them on the street corners —little fools who mean no harm and do a lot of it — and there are other girls, who live under the red light, and serve, unwittingly, the kaiser. From these two classes you can protect the boy who has gone away from his home to learn to fight for you and your home. If a bad woman may hang a sign in her window to lure men to destruction, it is your duty to display an emblem upon your home that will offer these men the home life which is the only antidote for the homesickness which drives them to purchase evil companionship.

Photographic Lens and the Human Eye Are Quite Alike.

That the human eye and the photographic lens are very much alike in design and operation is a well-known Jfact. If you look through a photographic lens you will see nothing clearly. To perceive the image, says the Popular Science Monthly, a piece of ground glass or a plate or film Is necessary. A plate Is a piece of plain glass which acts as a support for an emulsion. This emulsion decomposes when struck by light, and the decomposition is made visible by a process called development With an ordinary photographic plate only one such impression, or image, can be obtained. With the motion-picture film, however,' a fresh piece of film is continually exposed to the lens. Just s>ch an arrangement exists in the human eye. An emulsion called visual purple acts as a film of great

By DR. FRANK BILLINGS

latitude, renewing itself as soon as it is struck by the light and discolored. It adapts itself to various intensities of light, protecting the retina from too brilliant a glare at all times.

Grinding Wheels Must Do The Very Finest of Work.

Grinding wheels have fine work to do, writes Ellwood Hendrick in the Scientific American. Limits of irregularity as low as 0.0005 inches and 0.00024Jnches are often given. And it shoula be remembered that when 0.00025 of an inch is being ground, the heavy slide that carries the wheel and wheel spindles moves forward only half that distance. If a piece of tissue paper were split twelve times consecutively, it would have the thickness under which these machines have constantly to work. And yet, when we consider the forces present in a wheel weighing 200. pounds rotating at a speed of 1,200 revolutions per minute, we are not reminded of a watchmaker’s lathe, despite the exquisite precision of the operation.

Many of the ostriches of South Africa are incubator hatched. Most of the inhabitants of Bagdad live in the cellars during the day. Thq potatoes of Greenland seldom grow larger than the marbles used by the small boy. Rabbit hair is supplanting wool in the felt hat making industry of Australia. El Paso’s jail has steel “sun parlors” in which prisoners may get fresh air and sunshine without possibility of escape. The wreck record of the Baltic sea is greater than that of any other body of water in the world. The average is one a day throughout the year.

GOOD JOLES

She Was Troubled. Mrs. A. —Are you troubled much in your neighborhood,,with borrowing? Mrs. T.—Yes; a good deal. My neighbors never seem to have a thing I want Advantageous Marriage. Mrs. Jlggs—So your daughter married a surgeon? Mrs. Noggess—Yes; I’m so glad. At last I can afford to have appendicitis. Hereditary Instinct Hoarder —Madam, I am told your father was a railroad official. Landlady—So he was. What of it? 7 Boarder—Nothing, only It accounts for your tendency to keep cutting down the fare.

Around the World.

Strategy.

Lady —I like the house very much, but I hear that It is haunted. Landlord My dear madam, I attend to that personally. The ghosts only appear to tenants who do not pay their rent and refuse to move out.

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Gayly Decked Fijians Do Artistic Dance Imitating a Tide Rising on a Reef

The Fijians are perhaps the best dancers in the world. One of the most curious dances that they practice is one representing a tide rising on a reef. The idea to be conveyed is that of a tide gradually rising on a reef till at length there remains only a little coral isle, round which the angry breakers rage, flinging their white foam on every side. At first the dancers form in long lines, and approach silently, to represent the quiet advance of the waves. After a while the lines break up into smaller companies, which advance with outspread hands and bodies bent forward to represent rippling wavelets, the tiniest 'waves being represented by children. Quicker and quicker they come on, now advancing, now retreating, yet, like true waves, steadily progressing and gradually closing on every side of the imaginary islet round which they play or battle after the manner of breakers, springing high in mid-air and flinging their arms far above their heads to represent the action of spray. As they leap and toss their heads the soft white masl or native cloth —which, for greater effect, they wear as a turban with long streamers and also wear round the waist, whence it floats In long scarf-llke ends —trembles and flutters in the breeze. The whole effect is most artistic, and the orchestra does its part by imitating the roar of the surf on the reef —a sound which to them has been a never-ceasing lullaby from the hour of their birth.

Fireflies Have Code of Signals and Utilize Them to Conduct Flirtations.

Fireflies are not flies, but beetles. Their light is emitted from three segments near the tip of the. abdomen. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that it is provided by nature as a means for-exchanging signals between the sexes at mating time. When darkness falls the males emerge from their daytime hiding places and fly about. A little later the females climb to the tops of blades of grass and remain motionless, showing no light. A male passes by and flashes his lamp. The female flashes back. Instantly he turns to the spot whence the signal came and alights. He signals ; she replies. Thus the courting is accomplished. The tropical fireflies, much larger in size, belong to another family—that of the click beetles. Their glow is continuous, not intermittent. In Cuba the natives use them in lanterns in place of a candle, so bright is the light they give, -and women on festive occasions attach them to their garments or fasten them in their liair.

Steel Glasses for Soldiers.

Steel spectacles are the latest addition to the equipment of the Netherlands army for modern warfare. The commander in chief has ordered that they Yshall be supplied to all the ma-chine-gun sections of both infantry, hussars and fortress artillery, as a protection against splinters of projectiles, flying chips of stone and the like. Stocks of the glasses will be kept in readiness to serve out to Infantry in case of war.

New Place to Sprinkle Salt.

Scatter a little salt from the saltshaker along the whole length of the window-sills right under the sash when cold weather comes. A fine, even coating of salt at this line will prevent snow or moisture getting between the bottom of the sash and the sill and freezing, thus making it impossible to open the window.—Good Housekeeping.

' Mutual Complaints. “My husband accuses me of extravagance. I spent SIO,OOO last year.” “I ‘wouldn’t mind being scolded on that basis. I have to stand for the same accusation on S2O a week.** The Quicker the Better. Hack—l suppose you always let your wife have the last word. Peck —Yes, and I’m tickled to death when she gets to it. Disappointed.

“What did you get out of that will case?” asked the first lawyer. “A hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” replied the second lawyer“Good round sum, eh?” “Yes, but I thought the old man left more than that.”

Up-to-the-Minute. “Is Mabel still devoted to that young man who owns the 12-cy Under car?” / • ' “No. She passed him up for as army aviator."

PACKEY M’FARLAND, FORMER PUGILIST, TO TEACH BOXING TO SOLDIERS IN TEXAS CAMP

Packey McFarland, former lightweight and welterweight boxer, is now located at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Tex., where he will act as boxing instructor. His wife and two children will remain in Joliet, 111., where McFarland has been making his home.

HERMAN OLCOTT TO HEAD JACKIES’ SPORT

Herman Olcott, coach of the football team of the University of Kansas, has been chosen director of athletics at the Great Lakes Naval Training station. He has been given leave of absence from the university for the duration of the war. He is now awaiting orders to report for duty. Olcott was an old-time Yale star.

FIVE HITS IN GAME RARITY

Unusual Feat Performed at Polo Grounds Recently by Roger Peckinpaugh of Yankees. Five hits in one game is a real baseball rarity, and the feat is accomplished very seldom in the two major leagues, though each of the 16 clubs plays more than 150 games per season. Roger Peckinpaugh performed the unusual at the Polo grounds recently

Roger Peckinpaugh.

by getting five safe hits In as many times at bat, and there were no fluke hits in his collection, either. He started with a single to right field off Williams, and followed with a hit to the same section off Danforth for one base. Then came a double to right, a single past third and a line smash to center, all off Danforth. Many players get four hits In a game, but it is a rare Occurrence for a player to hit safely on each of his five trips to the plate.

Club Must Fight.

The Great Falls club of the Northwestern league will have to fight for any money It gets from the Pittsburgh club for the services of Player Boeckel. A Great Falls bank has attached the money paid by Pittsburgh and still In the hands of the national commission. It seems the Great Falls people were in debt to the bank for some $1,600.

Larsen Won High Jump.

Clinton Larsen of Brigham Young university won the high jump at the recent far Western meet In Fresno, Cal., clearing 6 feet 2 inches.

Hutsell Gets a Commission.

Wilbur Hutsell, track coach of the Missouri A. A., has resigned to accept a commission in the army;

EXPECT BOOM IN ATHLETICS

It Is Believed That Indoor Sport Will Be Lively This Season —Panic Stage Passed. Indoor athletics will enjoy a much more prosperous season during the coming months than last winter. The breaking of relations with Germany was the signal for the closing of a majority of the armories in the middle of the season’s doings, and this spoiled many athletic meetings. Now that the panic stage has passed and the military authorities are encouraging the continuation of all athletic sports, there is every reason to believe that conditions something like normal will hold sway when the board of floor game gets under way. There have been not a few criticisms hurled in the direction of the track men because they have not done as much for war charities as have the men who follow tennis, golf and other games.. It cannot be said that the athletes have followed the exhortation of the Red Cross people to “give until it hurts,” but, on i the other hand, the cinderpath set have done something. Many of the smaller clubs and leagues have turned over the proceeds of games for charitable purposes, and the tfig athletic clubs have spent hundreds of dollars promoting athletic events for soldiers.

CALIFORNIA U. SETS RECORD

Scored Twenty-Six Touchdowns and Kicked Twenty-Three Goal* Against Oklahoma Team. Football is a game in which victory is generally attained after at least some semblance of a struggle. Which fact reveals nothing startling, but an astounding instance of animated action on the gridiron that has come to notice has all records for rapid-fire playing backed off the boards. A report emanating from Norman, Okla., states that in one hour’s playing time the University of California scored 26 touchdowns and kicked 23 goals for a 179 to 0 victory over the Kingfisher college of Kingfisher, Okla.

WINS ODD BET ON J. COLLINS

One of Strangest World’s Series Wager* Collected by Massachusetts Man-Made in May. The- strangest world’s series bet heard of was collected when Matthew Guiltinan of Pittsfield, Mass., a friend of John “Shano” Collins of the Chicago White Sox, realized on his statement of early last May that Collins would make the first hit in the 1917 world’s series and that it would be off either Salle or Schupp.

Polly McLarry as Manager.

Second Baseman Polly McLarry of the Shreveport Texas league team is mentioned as the man to succeed Syd Smith as manager. Smith says he has quit’baseball for the automobile game. If Syd is as successful in selling automobiles as he. was in winning one as prize for popularity among the fans he will get rich.

Rickey to Be Scout.

Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, will do his own scouting hereafter, he announced the other day. The announcement followed the dismissal of Eddie Herr, who, with Connery, did all the club’s scouting last year.

Loses Swimming Coach.

Yale has lost Max Schwartz, who for a quarter century was swimming instructor and coach of its aquatic teams. He has been forced to resign on account of ill health.

FOUR CLASSES OF GOLFERS.

Golfers may be divided into four classes. First, there are those who do not know that they do not know. They are impossible. Second, there are those who do not know and know that they do . not know. These are worth teaching. Third, there are those who know and do not know they know. These are asleep and need rousing. Fourth, there are those who know and know they know. These are wise golfers; follow them.

IS DROP KICKING A LOST ART?

Many Footballers Gained Much Fame Through Ability of Kick—Charlie Brickley Best. An accurate drop kicker is ofttlmea as greatly feared as all his colleagues banded together. Yet so far this season but few reports have been heard of long and timely field goals. To many however, it seems as but yesterday that Charlie Brickley was booting them over from all angles, and what was even better, from all distances. The toe of the Harvard back was known far and wide as a scoring machine in

Charlie Brickley.

Itself. Tibbett of Princeton; Pumpelly of Yale; in fact many other famous hooters all earned much fame through kicking ability and alb were respected by opposing teams as dangerous men, likely at any time to sail the pigskin through the uprights sot a deciding score. There is a dearth of good kickers this season, and the fact may also be true that coachers are putting less value on the play than formerly.

PING BODIE A FRIENDLY WOP

Former University of Maine Athlete Praises Mack’s Outfielder* for Helping Rookie. "Slim” French, the former University of Mains hurler and broad jumper, who was with the Athletics until he vfas called to the colors, claims that Ping Bodie, Amos Strunk and the rest of Connie Mack’s outfielders are the greatest bunch for helping out a rookie. Ping in particular made a hit with the former Maine athlete, and he cannot understand bow the Boston fans "bo” him when he comes to bat in that town.

JONES HAS ANOTHER BOXER

Fight Promoter Signs Contract With Bryan Downey, Columbus Welterweight Scrapper. Toin Jones, fight promoter, closed with Bryan Downey, Columbus welterweight, and will start a campaign immediately to force Ted Lewis into a match. Downey and his father drew up a contract with Jones and then signed the agreement. Jones believes he has;, the best welterweight In the game, and Downey predicts he’ll be champion In six months.

Bali Score as Sanity Proof.

Henry Marks, after being confined In Matteawan for 18 years as Insane, presented his ability to keep a baseball box score to Justice Platt at Po« keepsie, N. Y., as proof of his sanity.

Chief Meyers Released.

Boston Braves released Chief Meyers, Indian catcher. This is the second blue envelope of the season for the redskin. The Dodgers treated him the same way in the early summer.

To Race Yacht America.

The famous yacht America, which was recently saved from being impressed into freight service, will be restored to her orginal. rig. Three yachts* men plan to race her,