Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — Page 3

Plan Outlined for Making Melting Pot Do Its Full Duty Toward Democracy

By DR. I. N. HOLLIS.

ran ever again set up in America. This is the melting pot, and it is our duty to make sure that, when the whole mass is fused, it remains an American democracy firm in its convictions. If there is to be service in war, the whole nation, every individual, men, women and children, must share in the sacrifice and must be prepared. We listened too closely to the politician a few years ago, and we have been fed up with three or four thoughts that would destroy the discipline and the correct reasoning of any nation if that nation believed them. I have never been a believer in the German system, because it gave too much control into the hands of a comparatively small number of officers constituting the German general staff. The idea of service beneath that system is, however, good. It makes for the education of young men and for obedience to law. Military training is probably the best method we have of Americanizing the young men who come to us from foreign countries, and every one of them ought to be required to take his turn of service. It is not necessary that a foreign citizen, making his home here should be required to bear arms against his old country; but he should, for the sake of teaching him American ideals and American institutions, be obliged to take his place in the camps with young Americans if he is permitted to make his livirtg on our soil. The simplest of military training is learning how to keep step, and that is a great moral influence. We need it beyond everything else in this country, where the forces are so pronouncedly centrifugal. Keep step!

American People Should Not Forget Foremost Fighting Man in the World

By FRANK J. KIRCH,

The regular of our army is an independent, care-free fighting man, •who will never complain in any circumstances. I should like to say a word in behalf of this straight soldier, who goes ahead with his task and does not whimper because the other fellows get all the “goodies” and attention from the folks at home. So much has been made of National army men'and National Guardsmen, whose home ties are, perhaps, stronger than those of the regulars, that, the man who enlisted under Uncle Sam’s flag to fight as a “sureonough regular” is receiving less thought and less of the good things of life. The regular will not .ask for anything except that which is his due (from the constituted military authorities. He can growl, perhaps, as (frequently as any civilian, but he growls only when he knows he is not getting what the law intends he shall have. For mollycoddling he cares not a bit, but he is just as human as any selective service mart*or National Guardsman in this whole broad land. In these days, when solicitude is felt for the selected man and Guardsman, let some heart thought go out to the regular. He does not get as many letters from home as the other men get. Frequently the regular has no family ties except those of the great human family, but at that he appreciates it when he knows he is being remembered. No one ever asks about the fighting qualities of the regular, because the question is unnecessary. He is licked only when he is dead. He doesn’t ask for kind thoughts or kind gifts, but he is grateful if he receives them. The American people should not forget the foremost fighting man in the world, the United States regular, and they should try to convince him in some way that they appreciate the fact that he is taking his life in his hands for their sake and the sake of democracy.

Democrats Are Willing to Go on Fighting Until Thrones Disappear

By WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING.

In all the leading countries of the world the tories are uniting for an ■immediate or German peace. They are not friends of the Prussian junkers—not by any means—but they realize that to defeat the Prussian junkers and the semidemocratic governments of the entente countries, England, France and Italy, may have to be further democratized. This democratizing would mean the end of the entente tories. Therefore the plutocrats and aristocrats of these countries are now ready for a junker * peace. If the war is prolonged for another year or more their estates, monopolies and privileges will be confiscated. ' Lansdowne in England has secured the support of a large part of the British lords and earls for his policy of surrender. Caillaux in France was involved with a large number of the leading •plutocrats and aristocrats of that country. It took over a year before the French chamber of deputies dared to put this powerful personality on trial. In Italy Giolitti has the support of a large part of the plutocracy and aristocracy, and has been working steadily for a German settlement from the very beginning of the war. In a late dispatch from England, Sir Algernon Methuen gives the tory reason for supporting the Lansdowne peace movement. Unless the war is settled forthwith, Sir Algernon says: “Thrones will disappear and foundations of society be shaken.” Exactly I If the war is prolonged a year or so—the time required to administer a thorough defeat to the junkers—thrones will disappear, aristocracies will be abolished and plutocracies will receive their death blow. Therefore, say the tories, let the war be ended forthwith. Therefore, say the world’s democracies, let the war continue.

President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Through our workshops and our schools and through associations we should teach ideals of citizenship. This is more important than importing into the United States great examples of art in Europe. The perpetuation of German or other foreign societies in America is unthinkable, and we ought to break that down in one way or another. There should be a great organization within the United States for Americanism, and it ought to be used to counteract all other influence by public speaking and by a more effective propaganda than the Germans

Private, 38th U. S. Infantry, Headquarter* Company,

3rd Division. Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C.

American Alliance for Labor end Democracy

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A Bird in the Band

(Special Information Service. United States Department of Agriculture.) WHEN IS A SMALL FLOCK PROPERLY HOUSED?

Good Typo of Open-Front Poultry House—Front Can Be Closed With Muslin Curtain During Storm or Cold—Brick Supports Discourage Rats—Plans of Another Model House Shown Below.

MODERN METHODS OF HEN HOUSING

Tight, Warm Structures Should Give to Well Ventilated Quarters. FRESH AIR VERY ESSENTIAL Detailed Plan Given for Construction of Ideal Home for Twenty to Twenty-Five Fowls—Curtained Windows Favored. Modern methods of poultry housing make due allowance for the capacity of domestic birds to withstand low temperature and for the advantage of ample ventilation in the poultry house. Except in extreme northern sections, or for breeds of fowls having very large combs, it is no longer considered necessary to build houses so substantially that when they are closed the cold is excluded and the temperature in the house appreciably raised by the heat from th§ bodies of the birds. Tight, Warm Houses. The system of tight, warm houses, once very popular, was based upon the Idea that to have hens lay in cold weather they must be kept in houses where water would never freeze. The methods of housing now most widely approved and used are based upon the experience of many poultry keepers that egg production is more stable and the hens keep in much better condition when the house is built and used with a view ( to giving all the fresh air that cpn be given, without exposing the birds to a temperature that will frost their combs. It Jjas been found that the combs of Hefts accustomed to low temperatures became frost resistant to a remarkable degree, and the birds themselves much less subject to colds than when an effort is made to keep the houses as warm as is practicable. Light Durable House. Except when the winters are long and severe, hens may be kept comfortable and productive in a house of the lightest durable construction, provided the house has water-tight and wind-tight roof, rear wall and end walls, and a front which can be opened as much as is necessary to give thorough ventilation, or closed as much as is necessary to keep out rain or snow. For ventilation in summer it is advisable and often necessary to have apertures In the rear wall, or in the ends, toward the rear, which can be dosed perfectly tight in winter and

Hans of Inexpensive Poultry House Described In Accompanying Box.

opened as much as required at other seasons.

MODEL HOUSE FOR SMALL HEN FLOCK

Here is a house that can be built quickly and feasily and inexpensively to house a flock of 20 to 25 hens. The accompanying plan shows how to build it. It is 8 feet square and can be made of 2 by 4-inch pieces and 12-lnch boards. The 2 by 4 pieces are used for sills, plates, corner posts, and three rafters. No studding is required except that necessary to frame the door and window, space. The boards are run up and down and give the house sufficient strength. They are used also for the roof, which is covered with roofing paper. The back and sides of the house also can be covered with roofing paper or the cracks can be covered with wood battens or scrips 1% to 3 inches wide. In front of the house there should be left a window or opening which can be closed, when desired, by a muslin screen or curtain which serves as a protection against bad weather but allows ventilation. In the side a door should be provided. A shed or singleslope roof is best because easiest to build. A height of 6 feet in front and 4 feet in the rear is ample. If desired the house may be built higher so that it Is more convenient to work in; the Increase in cost will be slight. The ventilator in the rear is not needed in the northern part of "the country, but is desirable in the South where summers are very warm. The complete bill of materials needed to build this house is listed piece by piece tn Farmers’ Bulletin 889, “Back-Yard Poultry Keeping,” of the United States department of agriculture. The bulletin also tells how to build dropping boards, roosts, nests, and the other equipment needed in a poultry house and makes suggestions about the location of tfie house and yard.

Cheapest Eggs From Pullets. Feed to produce one dozen eggs cost 10 cents with pullets, 14 cents with two-year-old hens, and 19 cents with three-year-old hens In a threeyear feeding test conducted by poultrymen of the United States department of agriculture.

TALES FROM BIG CITIES

High Winds Make Trouble for Gotham Pedestrians 1 NEW YORK.—The problem of how to conduct oneself, or where to conduct oneself, or .where to be conducted In an 80-mile gale faced'virtually every one who had the temerity to shut an apartment house door behind himself or

herself on the way to business one mo.rning recently. All sorts of persons took the storm In all sorts of manners, but In the main New York regarded the draught rather seriously and went In whatever direction or at whatever velocity the breeze suggested. One young woman who refused to give her name, address or any inkling of what she thought of the day was blown all the way across City Hall park from Broadway. She continued

to run at the rate of about 20 miles an hour until she managed to get hold of an “L” pillar in Park Row, She swung around It three times and her hat was blown high in the air and hung suspended from the “L” structure. * For three tortuous moments the young woman strove to keep a hold on the pillar and keep her tailor-made suit where a tailor-made suit should remain, after which she went running again and wtfs carried straight through the swinging doors of a modest saloon.on the east side of the street. There her hat was delivered to her and a policeman led her to the subway kiosk. Samuel Vlchle, a twelve-year-old schoolboy living at 83 Oliver street, never knew his strength until that time. He wns standing at the corner of Lafayette and Duane streets when the gale sWept Into his reefer and rompers and lifted him quite free of the earth, lie flew across the street and landed- against a team of stalwart horses. Roth horses fell down, and a moment later, to the boy’s utter astonishment, the truck rolled over after them. The boy suffered slightly from shock and greatly from ego. At nine o’clock a human chain formed at the corner of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street and Broadway and for more than half an hour a steady stream of persons made their way to the subway by the expedient of getting a place in the line and holding onto the hand of the person before them.

On the Same Plan Youth Might Have Started Harem JERSEY CITY.—No matter how patriotic one may be, it does not pay to have more than one wife, James Hanlon, an elghteen-year-old sailor, learned when he was arraigned before Magistrate Grossman on a charge of

lon admitted, he shipped again, with Miss Emma Bolk of 508 East Eightythird street, Manhattan. Wife No. 1 learned of the second Mrs. Hanlon and got a warrant for Hanlon’s arrest. “How did you expect to take care of two wives on your salary f” Mr. McCrystal' asked him. ‘tOh, I’d live with them both,’’ was the naive reply. “They are not very big and I guess I could keep them from pulling each other's hair if they tried to start anything.” Hanlon told Mr. McCrystal Emma Bolk knew when she was married to him that he liad married Elizabeth Connolly. The second wife denied this. She said she had seen Hanlon and Miss Connolly come out of the church October 15, but thought they were coming from confession. She admitted the couple were followed by a crowd that threw old shoes and rice at them. . “I thought it was a Joke,” she explained, “and I joined in the fun.” Magistrate Grossman sent Hanlon to the Tombs in default of $1,500 bail for examination. Elopement Plans Ended by Stern Policewoman CHICAGO. —A crap game and a policewoman ended what had been planned as a happy elopement for “Yak” Williams and his erstwhile “future, Margaret Cord'ith. It all happened In a West side theater. “Yak,” a veteran

newsboy at Madison and Halsted streets, had talked things over with Margaret, and the stage was set for the elopement. “Yak” cpunted his day's earnings—s2.so—but still not enough to get married on. An alley erap game profited him to the tune of $37.50. With the money tucked away in a secret pocket, he n>4hed to break the glad tidings to Margaret. Margaret agreed to pack up at once, but said if they left before night-

fall her mother would become suspicious. So they agreed to take the midnight train for Milwaukee. In the meantime "Yak’s” luck took another turn, and this time the bones failed him to the extent of the entire forty. “Yak” came back to Margaret crestfallen. Margaret was determined not to let their future happiness be halted by a mere few dollars, and from a girl friend she borrowed all —$3.60. The happy couple decided t<» take in a "movie” before the train left Margaret was restless and “Yak” wns nervous. Their actions, coupled with their possession of the two overpacked suitcases, aroused the suspicions of a policewoman in the theater. Despite protests, they were marched to the Desplaines street station. Mrs. O’Brien, Margaret’s mother, was sent for. With a daggerlike glance at her “almost” son-in-law she rushed to her daughter’s side. She persuaded Margaret to return home. “Yak” is still selling papers on the corner, and Is confident that he’ll win his bride-yet. Youth Merely Victim of Overvaulting Ambition MILWAUKEE. —Anton Tuczynski is employed as an attendant at Muirdale. He took a trip Ito Windlake and Hayes avenues. A call was received by the police to send the patrol wagon to that section. “When we got there this fellow

“What was the matter with you?” asked Judge Page, when the accused was arraigned in his court. « “Well, your honor, I have an application in to be appointed a probation officer,'and 1 thought that If I went down in that section and cleaned up a . good case It would help my future,” said Tuczynski. “Then you thought that a little practice would make you perfect for the position which you desired,” said Judge Page. , “I think he is a little gone in the upper story,” interposed Patrolman Zarek. By order of Judge Page, Doctor Rupp examined the defendant, ami his decision -was as follows: The boy is sane, but he has a bug on being appointed probation officer, and I advised him that unless he mended his ways he would not be as euo» ployee of the county hut a patient of Doctor Young,” He was fined $5.

bigamy. Hanlon enlisted when this country entered the war. Clad in his uniform he made a big impression on the girls in his neighborhood. October 15 he married Miss Elizabeth Coftnolly of 26 Erie street, Jersey City. The ceremony, Hanlon told Assistant District Attorney McCrystal, to whom he surrendered when he heard a warrant had been Issued for his arrest, was performed in Jersey City by Rev. William T. McLaughlin of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church. January 7, Han-

told me that a man had tried to hold up a girl, but that he got away,” said Patrolman Zarek. The patrol wagon was sent back with a much-disgusted crew. “About ten o’clock I came across the defendant after he had told a small boy that he was Probation Officer Kelley, and that he was io- that neighborhood to break up the gang known as the ‘Bloody Sixty-Four,’” said