Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1918 — Page 3

THE TWO SWORDS

By Lewis F. Crawford.

Regents, North Dakota

(“The Hymn of the German Sword” appeared in a German paper published itn Leipzig, Germany, and has been widely copied in papers of other countries. ,A copy which came to the attention of Lewis F. Crawford, Sentinel Butte, N. D., president of the state board of regents, impressed him so strongly that 'he prepared “The American Sword," as a contrast to the spirit shown in “The German Sword.”) * HYMN OF THE GERMAN SWORD It is no duty of mine to be either Just or compassionate; it suffices that am sanctified by my exalted mission, and that I blind the eyes of my enemles with such streams of tears as shall make the proudest of them cringe In terror under the vault of heaven. I have slaughtered the old and the sorrowful; I have struck off the breasts ;«f women; and I have run through the bodies of children who gazed at me with the eyes of the wounded lion. Day after day I ride aloft on the shadowy horses In the valley of Cypresses and as I ride I draw forth the life blood of every enemy’s son that dares to dispute my path. - It Is meet and right that I should cry aloud in my pride, for am, I not the flaming messenger of the Lord Almighty? Germany is so far above and beyond all the other nations that all the rest of the earth, be they who they may, should feel themselves well done by when they are allowed to fight with the dogs for the crumbs that fall from her table. When Germany the divine is happy, then the rest of the world basks in smiles; but when Germany suffers, God in person is rent with anguish, and, wrathful and avenging, he turns all the waters into rivers of blood. THE AMERICAN SWORD I am the American sword. I have never been unsheathed except in the cause of Justice and humanity. . ,— _ - I punish only under solemn and compelling obligation. In my presence national perfidy and dishonor never go unchallenged. I opened in. generous trust to all nations the portals of American opportunity and gave equal rights to all In the inheritance created by the toil and blood of our ancestors. In me everything that is good finds approval, everything mean meets rebuke. My people are enticed to love me by the gentle persuasiveness of my life. I am the visual enchantment of the downtrodden and the oppressed; the emblem of national honor; the embodiment of the world’s hope. In me is linked the command of duty with the love of Calvary; it is mine to trace the hidden equities of divine reward and connect national wrong-doing with its swift retribution; under me fulfillment adds splendor to the gorgeous Mosaic of our dreams. O kaiser! obsessed with power, drunk with passion, enemy of peace and right and freedom throughout the world, .slayer of age and infancy, ravisher •of virginity,' spreader of contagion, fiend incarnate! Against thee barren fields cry out in protest; venerated works of art and architecture, hallowed by the centuries, thou has crumbled under shells of frenzy; thou art wasting the flower of the world’s manhood in red ruin spurred on by the grim reaper of Hate. Thou international brigand, enslaver and robber of Belgium, looter of Servia, betrayer of neutrals! thou art a pirate running mad on the pathless sweep of oceans, plundering and murdering on the world’s highway. I Diplomatic intriguer, thou has faithlessly broken age-old treaties, thou has torpedoed hospital ships, bombarded defenseless cities and unleashed liquid fire and poison gas—outlaw demons of destruction. In this epilepsy of the world’s horror thou art not bowed with a sense of unfathomable guilt and sodden shame; thou, the arch gutter-snipe of civilization, art more unsparing than Torquemada, more Nero, more atrocious than Caligula, more crafty than Geronimo; thtffi'hast loosed the hosts of ill upon a peaceful world and darkened the heavens with blasphemy. i Thou art chased by the maddening billows; the deeps in malice open to receive thee; ashen faces turned toward flame-lit skies, appeal for vengeance. My presence gives courage to endure the appalling strain and omnipresent peril of battle. I I bestow superhuman nerve, sleepless caution, capacity for sacrifice, and the justice of my cause palsies the hand of brutal might and insensate ambition. . I pity the victim, not the violator; the sorrows I bring wear no weeds of mourning. i I open a new era in history; I fire the human soul with new daring and new hope; I will survive this conflict and pronounce its sentence. When the name of kaiser shall have lost its stench and been covered with the dust of countless centuries, I shall still be glorified as the mainstay of de-mocracy—-the peacemaker of the world.

Bill and the Bank President

Mates oo the Good Ship of Thrift

It was long after banking hours and only the assistant janitor and the bank president were “on the job” In the great Chicago banking Institution. The executive, having cleaned up the mass of business on his desk, lighted a long, pencil-shaped cigar and lolled back in his swivel chair. Bill, the redfaced, good-natured member of the clean-up brigade, entered the office and headed for the waste basket. The bank president remembered that Bill had bought a SIOO Liberty bond in the second campaign. “Are you having any trouble in meeting the payments on your Liberty bond, Bill?” asked the executive. “No trouble, sir,” replied the janitor. ‘Tve done a bit o’ plannin’ and trlmmln*, though, but It ain’t given me any trouble. I’m better off for th’ plannin’ and trlmmln’.” “I Imagine you have —well, a sort o’ better opinion of yourself for saving up and lending your money to the government,” said the president. “I’m sorry I ain’t young enough to be ‘over there* with the boys,” said pill, “but since I ain’t there and won’t be there unless thearmy needs men with rheumatlz In one out o’ every three joints, I feel it necessary to do what I can do here at home. Oh, I know I ain’t doin’ much —ain’t doin’ anything, In fact, by lending my little money to the government and gettln’ good Interest on it, but I am gettln’ that little money together, thanks to the amazin’ way my wife trims here and there and workin’ th* left-over things into new dishes." “It’s a fine thing to be a bondholder —a real partner in the great firm of Uncle Sam & C 0.,”. said the president. “One really has a better opinion of himself when he feels that he is fending a hand.” > “I’d like to have ten o’ them bonds,” said Bill, “but, of course, I ain’t bttin’ off more’n I can chew. But I’m goln* to be right there when the third loan comes out There’s a real sport in editin’ out the things—unnecessary

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things. I’ haven’t been over to th’ ‘corner* with th’ gang for weeks. I used to feel that I didn’t ‘belong’ unless I drifted over there and spent at least a quarter every night My oldest girl has got that war-savings stamp fever for fair, and she’s coppin* all the extra quarters.” “You have bought a Liberty bond; your wife has trimmed here and there in order that you might have the necessary money, and your daughter is buying the war-savings stamps,” said the bank president “Your little home, Bill, is doing Its full duty, and you ought to be thoroughly proud of It— Including yourself.” “Ob, I ain’t doin’ as much as Fd like to do,” said Bill, blushing at the compliment, “but I’m doin’ about all I can do, so I really ain’t ashamed of myself.” ‘Tm trimming, too, Bill,” said tjae bank president. “This cigar I’m smoking costs just one-third as much as the one I’ve been in the habit of smoking, and I’m not smoking as many cigars a day as I used to smoke. I’ve had my shoes resoled for the first time In 20 years. It used to be that every time rd run my heel down a little Td chuck the shoes and buy a new pair. Tm going to wear this suit of clothes until it wears out, no matter how glossy it becomes. I’m going to—” “Oh, but you don’t have to pinch that way,” Interrupted Bill a bit apologetically; “you can afford to wear the best.” “I know it,” said the bank president, “but Fm going to be thrifty myself. As you say, there’s real sport In playing the game of thrift The government can have all Tve got I mean that It has been good to me and I’m going to try to show my appreciation. Hl be right there when the third loan Is out” “I’ll be Tidin’ along with you, sir,” said Bill with a chuckle. And now Bill and the bank president are mates on the,good ship Thrift

How Men Laugh.

The far-seeing man with a sense of humor laughs in his throat In spasmodic little bursts. He looks before he leaps. He takes a good survey of a question before committing himself. Neither laughter nor speech escapes easily. He lets them out judiciously.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN,/ RENSSELAER, IND/

Government Lessons Reach Millions of the Boys and Girls in United States

“Machine industry and community life are the special themes in the series of lessons on the war, recently issued by the United States bureau of education, department of the Interior, and now being studied by a million or more school boys and girls of all grades throughout the nation. “"The bureau’s series of lessons on “Community and National Life,” as they were termed by President Wilson, in his original announcement to the schools, have now reached their third issue. Recent issues dealt. with the organization of modern industrial life as compared with pioneer days, the effect of war on commerce in nitrate, the war and airplanes, production and wise consumption, and similar topics. The idea of teaching the principles of conservation underlying successful prosecution of the war originated with the food administration, but the plan has now been taken over by the bureau of education. Prof. Charles H. Judd of the University of Chicago, with the assistance of a corps of writers in the various fields, is preparing these government texts for the pupils in the elpmentary and high schools. Parents as well as pupils will be interested in the lessons. The older highschool students will learn of the rise of the machine industry, from the day of the hand loom and the spinning Jenny through the chances wrought by the industrial revolution, to the large-scale productions, world markets, and social problems of modern industry. The various elements of cost in factory operating, education as encouraged by Industry, the contribution of the press, are also treated in the lesson for older pupils.

BACKYARD POULTRY KEEPING

If the best results are to be expected from the flock, the hens must not be allowed to become overijpn with lice or the house with mites. Usually there will be a place in the yard where the hens can dust themselves in the dry dirt. If such a place is not available, a box large enough (about two feet square) for the hens to get into it shpuld be provided in the house and a quantity of dust such as ordinary road dust or fine dirt placed in it to allow the hens a place to dust themselves. A dust bath aids the hens in keeping lice in check and therefore adds to their comfort. Usually the lice are not present on the birds in sufficient number to.prove particularly harmful. However, it is better to keep the hens as free as possible from this pest, and if they are not able to keep them in check by dusting themselves, other measures can be undertaken.

To rid the hens of lice, each one can be treated by placing small pinches of sodium fluorld, a material which can be obtained at most large drug stores, among the feathers next to the skin —one pinch on the head, one on the neck, two on the back, one on the breast, one below the vent, one at the base of the tail, one on either thigh, and one scattered on the underside of each wing when spread. Another method is to use a small quantity of blue ointment, a piece about as large as a pea on the skin one inch below the vent If mercurial ointment Is used ..instead of blue ointment, It should be diluted with an equal quantity of vaseline. Any of these methods will be found very effective In ridding the hens of lice and should be employed whenever the lice become troublesome. Two or three applications a year usually prove sufficient Mites are more troublesome and -more harmful than lice. They do not live upon the birds like the lice, but during the day hide In the cracks and crevices of the roosts and walls of the house, and at night they come out and get upon the fowls. They suck the hen’s blood, and If allowed to become plentiful—as they certainly will If not destroyed—will seriously affect her health, and consequently her ability to lay eggs. They may" be eradicated by a few thorough applications of kerosene or some of the coal-tar products which are sold for this purpose, or crude petroleum, to the interior of the poultry house. The commercial coaltar products are more expensive but retain their killing power longer, and they may be cheapened by reducing with an equal part of kerosene. Crude petroleum will spray better if thinned with one part of kerosene to four parts of the crude oil. Both the crude petroleum and the coal-tar products often contain foreign particles, so should be strained before attempting to spray. One must be sure tht&athe spray reaches all of the cracks mid cfevlces, giving especial attention to the roosts, dropping boards and nests.

Wise and Otherwise

Love Is one kind of praise and envy is another. Your life Is not worth living unless you think it is. ' Self-inspection is a sure cure for self-esteem, it is said. One way to attract attention Is not to seek it. A woman’s idea of a remarkable feat Is one performed by her son. When a hatdiet is buried It is In some convenient spot.

Boys of the Country Are Proving Great Aid in War

The boys of the United States are doing much to help the country In thq war crisis. This picture shows men of tomorrow learning trades at New York's Vocational school. One is doing electric wiring In the shop.

Robert Burns Never Went To School, but Read and Wrote at Very Early Age

Robert Burns, the "patron saint” of Scotland, and undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest poets, never went to school, relates London Tit-Bits. His father, although his income probably never exceeded the proverbial forty pounds a year, was a man of exceptional intelligence and a great reader, and the future poet of “The Cottar’s Saturday Night” could himself read the Bible at an early age, and was writing verses when most boys are learning multiplication. It is quite possible that hack Burns had great advantages Instead of great reverses and hardships he would not have developed his peculiar gifts. Perhaps the greatest of LloydGeorge’s predecessors never went .to school. This was Pitt the younger, the marvelous boy who talked on equal terms with the greatest men of his day at fourteen, and was prime minister at the age of twenty-four, when the average young man is just beginning to earn his bread and butter. But Pitt had the advantage of a home education which would put the best schools in the shade.

Sayings of a Cynic.

A warm friend is one who is willing to divide his cold cash. The woman who hesitates has no secret to tell. You can get insured against any accident except marriage. It is natural for some women : to act unnatural. Few students of human nature ever graduate. Most men are too polite to adhere strictly to the truth. —Chicago Herald.

Only Black Spot About the Polar Bear Is Tip of Nose

It has been pointed out that were a polar bear of a darker color, It would have no chance at all to stalk Its prey, especially seals. The only black spot about It is the tip of its nose, writes Edwin Tarrisse. Sailors who first landed on the unexplored Arctic shores stated that the bears used to take them for seals and begin to stalk them at a considerable distance, lying down flat on their bellies and wriggling along in that position until they came to an ice hummock, when they would' get up, peer over to see whether the “seals” were alarmed, and wriggle on again. The sailors said that they could always see the black nose when the bear got near, but vowed that the animal put its paw over its muzzle to hide it.

Our National Song.

The United States has three songs which serve on occasions as national songs, but by historic associations and common consent one stands first, observes a writer. This, is the “StarSpangled Banner,” written in 1814 by Francis S. Key of Maryland, while the British were bombarding Fort Henry, near Baltimore, and when the Americans did not know at what moment the fort might be captured or the flag shot down. While it has never been officially adopted as a national Song the circumstances under which it was written and its universal popular approval cause It to stand pre-eminent "T3ne other songs of a national character, but not so stirring or so popular are “Hail Columbia,” written by Joseph Hopkinson, in 1788, and “America,” by Samuel F. Smith, a Baptist preacher and poet in 1832. The “Star-Span-gled Banner" earily holds first place.

Influence of Good Sense Always Made Itself Felt In Guiding the Russians

“Next to free speech and free listening, free action Is a popular pastime,” writes William G. Shepherd in an article on distracted Russia published in Everybody’s. “Anarchists have seized palaces and newspaper offices and automobiles and paintings and even wealth. But in the midst of this apparent anarchy, this lack of government, there is always—and this is an astonishing fact that has Impressed the members of the American commission and all the other foreign statesmen who have come to Russia since the revolution—a checking influence of what we in the United States call ‘common sense.’ “There is always somebody in a meeting who offsets wild speeches; somebody in a crowd who gives a matter a second thought and offsets and checks the man who wishes to act without thinking. There is an unexpected hardheadedness about even the mobs. The country districts of Russia, thousands of its little towns, villages and cities, were being governed, three months after the revolution, by public opinion and common sense alone —and astonishingly well governed. “But all this makes a weird world, full of weird happenings. “Anything can happen In Russia these days. But the point I am making is that in Russia the influence of common sense has Always made itself felt from the first day of the revolution, and the council of workmen and soldiers was a concrete embodiment of this characteristic at a time in Russia when peaceful anarchy ruled; when one opinion or theory was as good as another and when there was a machine gun behind every theory.”

Should Cease Our Grumbling Because of Inconveniences

There should be a damper put on the grumbling disposition. Things cannot run smoothly in these harrowing days. Every one thinks that he could manage things to perfection, but if he had to confront the new set of conditions he would likely change his mind, asserts the Ohio State Journal. Here Is an Institution that is ordered to cut off light, heat and service, and yet we wonder because we are discommoded. There are new conditions confronting us whichever way we turn, and they all grow out of this horrid old war. They cannot be helped, though sometimes we think the situation might be improved, but we should not, think the Improvement should come all at once. When we get used to our inconveniences they Will seem easier, partly because they will be made lighter and partly because we will become more philosophical. But there is one tion which is that no one should permit the war conditions to stand in the way of a wise and thoughtful management of whatever interest he may control. The war adds duties to authority as well as to the people who bear the burdens.

Use Logging Cars.

In the serious shortage of railway cars w’hlch has existed during recent 'months the lumber companies, along with other concerns, have utilized every available resource to obtain transportation facilities. A large lumber company In Louisiana found a way out of the difficult situation by taking 50 of Its logging cars from its logging roads and making them up Into one long lumber train. By this unusual arrangement it was able to transport 1,500,000 feet of lumber in a single trainload. The effort was so successful that the train has mads a number of trips to the North,

Uncle Sam Becomes Teacher And Adviser to Every Home On Materials for Household

A new book just Issued on "Materials for the Household” Isof Interest to every family. It was prepared by ths bureau of standards in popular language to meet the need for reliable information for home nse and will be especially welcome to an who desire to manage the home as efficiently as * modern office or shop. In this work Uncle Sam becomes teacher and adviser to every household. Interesting accounts are given of the great variety of materials used in building and furnishing the home and in the many minor industries and activities of the household. The circular is practical and alms to stimulate interest in household materials (other than foods and drugs), to explain their desirable properties, and to aid in their intelligent selection, effective use, and preservation. A better utilization of materials will aid the efficient administration of the homo and promote the health, comfort, and general well-being of the household. Home economics is of universal and permanent concern, and as its importance is more fully realized it will become a vital factor in national wellbeing, says Commerce Reports. The excellent instruction in the subject now given in high schools and colleges has begun a new era in home management. This circular is a contribution from the bureau of standards to the growing literature in this field. Household materials are of added interest- to the housewife and student from the fact that formerly many such, materials were made up in the home. The making of soap, candles, yarns; and fabrics, leather, sugar, alkali, wax, tallow, pens and inks formed an interesting group of the old-time household industries. In fact, most modern industries are the outgrowth of what were originally household industries. The modern factory has taken up these home industries, and already some social control over the quality, form and: price of factory-made products is beginning to be felt through agenciee such as the consumers* leagues, co-op-erative societies, publicity in the public press, misbranding laws, government control and the like.

GOOD LAUGHS

In the Restaurant Patron —Walter, this la a meatlese day, isn’t it? Walter—Why, no, sir. What made you think so? Patron —It struck me It must be| from this lamb stew. Not Much of a Tale. "It won’t be much of a story,‘"will itr “What?" “When our grandchildren ask nd what we did in the great war, and wd have to tell them that once a week we went without meat”

Grounds f6r Fear.

“I wonder.” 1 “What are you wondering about?” ) “If this long, cold speU is going to spoil the ice crop.”

Justifiable Peace. “Can separate peace ever be justifiable?” -demanded the parlor orator, “Yes,” answered the man who wasn’t supposed to. “I once knew a man who made up with his wife, but kept her mother out of the house.” His Small Economy.

to hit me on my soapless day." Their Sort. “Didn’t the suffrage pickets sue for mercy when they were jailed?” “No, but they’re suing tor damages now." Modern Cookery. “Didn’t I tell you to cook this egg four minutesF “I did so, sir,” answered the waiter. “It was just out of cold storage. Four minutes wasn’t enough time to do much, more than thaw it nicely."

How Cotton Is Utilized.

The United States is the “land of cotton.” Nowhere else In the world is cotton grown in such and put to such a variety of uses, according to Popular Science Monthly. The fiber is made into doth; the oil from the seeds Is used as a cheap substitute for olive oil and as a basis for lard, and now the seeds themselves are being ground into flour and used for food purposes. Gingersnaps and jumbles are made from it, and it is mixed with finely-chopped meat and tied in sausage links. To make the cottonseed sausage, three pounds of sausage meat is mixed with one pound of cottonseed flour. This flour Is said to contain as much nutrition as the meat which it takes the place of, and to effect a saying of 8 cents a pound on the sausage.

“My friend, there la really no excuse for your not looking neat and dean.” “Sorry, mister,” explained Plodding Peter, “but I’m conserving my bit along wit de rest o* de folks. You jes* happened