Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1918 — Page 2

Keep Yourself Fit You can’t afford to be laid up with •ore, aching kidneys in these aavs of high prices. Some occupations bring kidney troubles; almost any work makes weak kidneys worse. If you feel tired all the time, and stiffer with lame back, sharp pains, dizzy spells, headaches and disordered kidney action, use Doan's Kidney Pills. It may save an attack of rheumatism, dropsy, or Bright's disease. Doan’s have helped thousands back to health. An Illinois Case Chas. Masson, Depot _ _ St.. West Chicago, lii , says: "Sitting in one position so long at a time ZLi orouglit on kidney troubls. There was a dull, / ache in my back day BA vK and night and often I , -had to stop work. The pain nearly killed me. | /■■■ The kidney secretions burned terribly in passage and I had to get up at night to them. I was and lost flesh. In. fact, JI was a physical wreck.■ ■* Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me completely and I have worked hard every day since.” _ GM Dew's at Any Store, 60c a Box DOAN S K piluJs T FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y.

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The Reason.

“Are they really going to try to float’ that stock on the market?” “Oh, no; it wouldn’t hold water.”

Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria

Once in a while a woman gets so angry at her husband that she refuses to talk back. If you would keep good company, wear khaki. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. —Adv. Retaliation renders neither party better. *

ft m MARCH TO VICTORY Courage is a matter of the blood. 'Without good red blood a man has a .weak heart and poor nerves. In the spring is the best time to take stock of one’s condition. If the blood is thin and watery, face pale or ? limply, generally weak, tired and listess, one should take a spring tonic. One that will do the spring housecleaning, an old-fasl.foned herbal remedy that was used by everybodj’ nearly 50 years ago is still safe and sane because it contains no alcohol or narcotic. It is made up of Blood root, Golden Seas root, Oregon Grape root, Queen's root. Stone root. Black Cherry bark—extracted with glycerine and made into liquid or tablets. This Hood tonic was first put out by Dr. Pierce In ready-to-use form and since then has been sold by million bottles as Dr. iPierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. If ■druggists do not keep this in tablet form, send 60 cents for a vial to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Kidney disease carries away a large (percentage of our people. What is to (be done? The answer is easy. Eat less 'meat, eat coarse, pla'n food, with plenty <of vegetables, drink plenty of water between meals, and take an uric acid {solvent after meals for a while, such as Anuric (double strength), obtainable at >almost any drug store. It was first discovered by Dr. Pierce. Most every one troubled with uric acid finds that Anuric dissolves the uric acid as hot water does sugar.. You can obtain a 'trial package by sending ten cents to Doctoi Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, N. Y. When Your Eves Need Care Try Murine Eye Remedy SvEmi BXM MAILED X CO.. CHICAGO

GRENADE RECEPTION FOR A HUN ATTACK

This Pollu in the first line trenches “somewhere where the battles rages" Is ready to fire a rifle grenade into the ranks of the oncoming Teutons.

To Spend Fifty Millions For Workers’ Homes

Government Plans to House Its Big New Army of Shipbuilders. TOBE DONE IN RECORD TIME Community Houses, Equipped Like Club; for Single Men—Homes With All Modern Conveniences for Married Men—Standardization for High Speed. By JAMES H. COLLINS. In a hastily remodeled 'suite of Washington offices today sits a man who has a war task that appeals to the imagination. Between now and July 1 he is to build $50,000,000 worth of homes for ■workers In Uncle Sam’s new shipbuilding army, which is being mobilized from the picked mechanics of every state in the union. This army will number something like 40,000 men. Fifty million dollars Invested in houses for a work force of that size gives $125 per man. That seems rather a limited sum of money with which to provide anybody with warm sanitary living quarters, having baths, hot and cold water, steam heat, electric light, modern kitchen facilities, and all the comforts of home. Yet this man is going to make his $125 per man suffice for the job and carry out his construction in record time. It is interesting to figure with him a little I—if 1 —if you just remember that present figures must be rough estimates to a certain extent. First of all, he can eliminate a large proportion of this shipbuilding army, because many of the new shipyards are handy to cities with ample housing and all conveniences, and Uncle Sam w’ill'solve the housing problem in those places by improving the transportation service between a man’s work and his home. But other shipyards have been created in undeveloped spots along our wide stretches of seacoast, and in these places it becomes necessary to provide workers with modern living quarters. Community Dwellings. ■*• Thousands of these shipbuilders will be single men, and for them a special type of community dwelling has been designed on the order of a club house. Each community dwelling will accommodate 125 men. Each man will have a room to himself and it will be an outside room. Each clubhouse, moreover, Will be divided into five groups or separate clubs of from 25 to 30 men. Each of these separate clubs will have shower baths and a large community lounge, making it possible for a worker to find a congenial crowd of his own and for that little community subdivision to organize its own home life, amusements, sports, social affairs, and studies. Each club house will have a community dining room with modern kitchen and serving facilities, giving Joard on the mess plan at reasonable rates and with minimum labor. These community club houses are to be of frame construction, but standard type. Many of them will be erected In localities which are not likely to become permanent shipbuilding centers. Therefore, permanent construction has not been the chief necessity. Nevertheless, they will be substantial enough to last 25 years if need be, and where erected in localities with severe winter weather will lack nothing In warmth. When the plans for such houses were standardized by the shipping board experts, they achieved two results in house building that seemed to be new. First, speed of construction. All the doors, windows,, pipes, and other things that go Into a house were put on a harts of uniform rtsaa. Much

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of the work in building a single house, as«anyone who has paid the bills will know, consists in sawing, cutting, and fitting the material. Everything Cut to Fit. With standardization of every possible item, most of this cutting and fitting will be done in factories and the material shipped ready to be put together by carpenters and plumbers. Second, the cost of housing an individifal was reduced to a most reasonable figure. It is still too early to give totals in dollars and cents, but present estimates indicate that the investment in these community homes for single workers will not exceed $350 per man this including living quarters, baths, community lounges for each club of 25 men, kitchen and mess-hall facilities, hefcting and lighting—everything. If all the housing appropriation for shipworkers were spent on these community dwellings homes would be provided for about 125,000 men, or nearly one-third the whole emergency shipbuilding army. But many of the new shipworkers will be married men with families, and for-them separate dwellings are being built. Something like 50 types of five, six, and seven room cottages have been

CAMOUFLAGE WAS PUZZLE TO HUNS

Originated by French Painter in 1914, Serving as Ordinary Artilleryman. . NOW ONE DEWAR’S SCIENCES That Section of French Army Now Has Over 2,000 Men, Artists, Scene Painters, Engineers, Etc.— Many Tricks Employed. Paris. —“Camouflage” that has come to be one of the sciences of modern warfarp, was originated at Toul, France, during the early days of August, 1914. A painter, Guidand de Scevola. attached to a battery near the Lorraine city as an artilleryman, soon found his battery was a landmark and open target for the German gunners. One night, with a comrade, he constructed some papier inache rocks and painted them with a dash of green, representing herbs and foliage, and they were installed over the battery. The peppering of their battery ceased from that day. The painter’s ruse was reported to General Castelnau, in command of the sector, who passed the word along to M. Rene Vivlani, _then minister of war. The war minister immediately ordered the creation of a special section of the army whose entire duties were to be those of “camoufleurs,” or concealers. De Scevola was placed In charge of the work and called to his aid other painters who had been mobilised in the army in some cases as ordinary privates In the infantry or in the service corps. Many Now In the Work. “Camouflage” spread until today the section has over 2,000 men, artists, scene painters, engineers, etc. The official figures show that camouflaged batteries have operated in comparative safety, only four per cent of their number having been put out of action by direct fire as opposed to 50 per cent of batteries where the guns had not been painted or otherwise concealed. * One of the most notable works of the “camoufleurs” was the erection of a hollow, armor-plated wooden structure 800 feet from the German lines,

studied and reduced to staudaids In the same way. Everything is calculated for quick, economical, durable construction. Each separate dwelling will have its bathroom, heating, lighting, and kitchen equipment. Moreover, great pains have been taken to avoid any appearances of standardization or monotony in exterior design. Only the materials and inside appointments have been reduced to standards while exterior lines and ornament may be modified aecortling to local conditions to secure individuality and beauty. That is not all. The plans have been drawn for these individual family cottages with the idea of permanence. In so far as possible, they will be erected at shipyard sites which are fairly certain to be permanent. Single men are free to move to temporary employment for and disperse if shipyards are abandoned when peace comes. Married men with families cannot do this, of course, so they will be assigned to the permanent yards x as fast as possible with the expectation that they may live there for years. The plans take into account not only the provision of homes for them when they are shifted into shipbuilding to meet the war emergency, but the purchase of their own homes on installment payments equivalent to rent if they feel that the new locality is a suitable one In which to work and live, and bring up a family. Present estimates indicate that the family houses can be erected for considerably less than $3,000 each. This does not Include the cost of land, nor has that been figured in the building of community houses for single men.

The major part of this great building program will have been completed by the Ist of July. Some idea of its magnitude may be given by comparison with other building operations. On a peace time basis an equal investment would build five Woolworth buildings or two Equitable buildings. Hearing for All Comers. Naturally, the magnitude of a building program like that and the promptness with which it must be carried out appeals to the imagination not only of the shipyard workers who are to live in these dwellings and the American citizens who are interested in them as part of our war program, but to many persons who wish to assist with advice, plans, inventions, and special schemes and devices for speeding up the job. To the offices where this program is being carefully laid out have come in the past few w T eeks men with all sorts of proposals for the building of houses and dormitories in record time, and of many kinds of emergency materials and construction. Those having the project in hand have gjven a hearing to all comers, and moreover, gone afield themselves to investigate promising new methods. In the end, however, as the outcome of careful investigation and plans, these shipyard dwellings will be erected pretty much on standard lines of tried and proven materials with all elements of speed and economy centered in standardization of materials and largescale building by well-equipped contractors with capable organizations.

painted to represent a tree that stood between the French and German front lines in the Champagne region. The French had been operating at a decided disadvantage, as the Germans held the high ground from which they could carry out their observations at ease.. The commandant noticed the tree that had been swept clean of Its branches and foliage through shell and machine gun fire. At night he called in his camouflage squpd and confided a plan to them.

A week later a squad of sappers crept out on a dark night and dug a ditch on the French side of. the tree. The trunk was attacked from beneath the ground by saws that had been liberally dosed with oil and cut away. Long, steel-tipped peevies such as the Main lumbermen carry, eased it to the ground, where it fell into the ditch. The artnor-plated shell was set up in its place and two French observers climbed up inside of it. The next morning the only thing the Germans could see was the old familiar landscape with the battle-scarred tree. Puzzled the Huns. Pieces of shrapnel might whistle by. Machine gun bullets might rain on the trunk as before. Only a direct hit from a shell’ of larger caliber could demolish it and there was no reason for changing the range of the guns to demolish a trunk that stood in No Man’s Land and 300 feet from the French lines. Chance alone would destroy the post. From their telephoned In the observatory the French scouts reported all going on behind the German lines, regulated the fire of their big guns and told what effect the shells had. The puzzled Huns suddenly found sixinchers exploding in their depots. Their communicating trenches were peppered with an accuracy that could only come from directed fire, but the innocent-appearing trunk was not suspected until one night a patrol investigated it. Next day shells burst all around it until one finally toppled it over, but the trunk had served its purpose, and camouflage had turned a valuable trick for its originators.

Stray Dogs Under Ban.

Dußois, Pa. —A campaign to on to rid Clearfield county of all stray dogs. Fines of $25 and costs are befnf IM* posed on those who allow their Asfi to run at large. }

MH A -- “T the sun with WRIGLEY? Vision for a moment, those far off ports beyond the trackless seas— From Arctic Ice. to the torrid lands beneath the Southern Cross— From towns tucked In the mountains, to the busy river’s mouth— WRIGLEYS Is there! There, because men find comfort and refreshment In Its continued use. Because of Its benefits Sand because The Flavor ■ "After every

Energy in Swat, Too.

The public has to be educated to swat the fly, but when'it comes to the mosquito, no urging its necessary—it is banged without mercy.—Salem (N. J.) Sunbeam.

FRECKLES New it the Time to Get Rid es These Ugly Speh There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine—double strength—is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine—double strength—from your druggist, and apply a little of it night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have oegun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength othine, as this is sold under guarantee of money back if it falls to remove freckles-—Adv.

Quite Different.

“My money is clean spent.” “What, all gone?” “No; invested in soap.”

Safe.

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YOU NEED NOT SUFFER WITH BACKACHE AND RHEUMATISM

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Truth and Poetry.

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