Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1918 — Page 2

Warnings About Tornadoes

{"ynffiAw Usually Preceding Setae Windstorms ' and Pre- -

The' causes and effects of windstorms, the seasons when they are ™ os likely to occur, how to forestall tornadoes, and precautions to prevent ln |u r J are outlined in a series of warnings issued by the United States weather bureau, which are briefly summarized as follows: Tornadoes are usually preceded by high temperature and humidity—a weather condition generally said to be “sultry," “sticky,” or “oppressive. Ram may come before, with, or after a tornado, or, very rarely, there may be no rain at all. The barometer does not foretell a tornado, though it indicates low pressures; and tornadoes always occur in a “low” area. The season in which tornadoes may be expected varies according to the region. They may visit the Gulf states in winter, and as the season advances the region of greatest frequency is in the Plains states and the Mississippi valley, from April to September, inclusive.' In this region May is the worst month, with April next. East of the Appalachian mountains, however, tornadoes rarely occur until after July. Generally they come between 3:30 and 5 p. m., but they may even come at night. . Persons may somewhat avoid tornado danger by watching the local signs and reading the weather maps, which at least show the conditions which favor tornado formation. The local signs are heavy, dark clouds, first in the southwest, almost immediately followed by clouds in the northwest and north, A funnel-shaped cloud is a sure sign, though there may be a tornado when such a cloud is not readily seen. If a funnel cloud cannot be seen, the whirling motion of the air may be known by a peculiar roaring noise, somewhat like the rumble of distant thunder or the approach of a heavy train of cars. If one can see the cloud and get an idea of the direction tn which it is moving, the zone of safety is at right angles to the direction of motion. The southern margin is usually more dangerous thap the northern, and this should be remembered In seeking a place of safety. The width of the path of greatest destruction is ordinarily not more than a few hundred yards, though this destructive diameter may be from some rods wide to a half mile, or sometimes < wider. However, the worst part is comparatively narrow, and relative safety may be had only a short distance at right angles to the line of the advance of the tornado. ..... , „ „ . In some of the Plains states there are so-called “cyclone" cellars, and where these are not available the southwest corner of the cellar of a frame building is the next best place. Brick buildings are not so safe, but the cellar is probably the safest place In them. In the Omaha tornado of 1913 very few brick houses were seriously damaged. These are ordinarily unroofed, though sometimes the walls crumble or fall outward.

Saving Foodstuffs

By MRS. LUTHER BURBANK

Wife of Noted Plant Scientist

In all ages the plentifulness of food or its shortage has meant

Mrs. Burbank.

himself still the military genius of old, starvation forced his retreat. And so it will be in all ages and for all times. A well-nourished body means victory, whether in civilian, or military pursuits, while a hungry person can neither fight nor work. This country has been asked to save wheat, meat, fats and sugar. Why? Wheat is the grain most easily transported. It takes up less space and does not spoil. Europe knowfe nothing of handling cornmeal, and, even if she did, it would do her no good, because corn easily spoils. Wheat does not. The sugar shortage in Europe has been caused by lack of transportation, hence ft Is up to America to get this necessary food to them tn our own ships and from our own supplies. Fats are vital in making ammunition, such as nitroglycerin, and in keeping the soldiers in warmth-producing food. The chief reason why so much stress is laid upon the saving of pork ts because it is the easiest kept and contains nourishment and’fat. Pork products, such as bacon and hams and shoulders, may be kept for an indefinite period, whereas other meats will spoil unless they- are kept upon ice. Refrigerator ships cannot be had, exeept in hmited numbers, hence it is .desirable to transport only those supplies which take up the least cargo space and with the minimum risk of spoiling. No man or woman in this country would refuse a starving person a slice 6f bread, but this is, indirectly, what we are doing. The allies are holding back the German hordes while the American armies are preparing. Yet these people are in want; their children are suffering from lack of proper foods and If we refuse to give up some of our pleasures of taste that their sufferings may be relieved, we are placed in the same position as one who has plenty yet will not give to the hungry. Already we have shipped to the allies our surplus of wheat and now all future shipments must come direct from savings from our daily consumption. If we tail in this we will have sacrificed thousands upon thousand? of lives to our taste and greed by prolonging the war. By getting food to the allies we enable them to hold Germany until American troops get on the fighting front, and once they are there, victory Is In right

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victory or defeat. When Napoleon made his sreat drive on Moscow, he accomplished his military objective, but he went down to defeat because he could not keep open his lines of cornu unication. Italy lost a quarter of a million men to the Teutons a few months ago because of hunger. Napoleon’s food ran short ; his soldiers hungered and, while he had Russia «Q her. knees and was

American Mills Are Urged to Manufacture Peanut Oil; Good Market for By-Products

It is possible with the use of Improved machinery for cleaning, shelling and pressing peanuts, to make a high grade of oil in American mills which is well suited for use in cooking, according to the United States department of agriculture. Before the war cut off practically all imports of French and Dutch peanut oils, the United States was importing nearly 900,000 gallons a year at an average price for all grades, Including soap stock, of more than half that of edible olive oil. Specialists of the department state that American oil mills should prepare to make this oil at home both to utilize the large peanut crop and to increase their profits. Peanut oil mills, the specialists say. should be located where the farmers can profitably grow the Spanish type of peanuts, w T hich are high in oil content and have less shell than the Ihrger Virginia varieties. The mills should be equipped with peanut cleaners, and all the nuts, after going over screens to remove the stocks, stones and other trash, should be thoroughly scoured. For the by-products obtained in the manufacture of peanut oil there is a growing market especially for the Pfess cake, which stockmen now realize is a very high-grade cattle feed. There is also a demand for flour made from hull-less peanut cake for human food, and there is no reason why it should not become a popular article In human sustenance, the specialists say. With the manufacture of high-grade peanut oil for cooking and shortening, the manufacture of hull-less peanut cake for human food and peanut-hull cake for stock feed, the millers «an utilize all of the peanut crop to best advantage.

Do You Know That

There is no fat in potatoes. Lard is nearly 90 per cent fat. Butter is practically a fat. The fat of plants is contained In the seeds. ) At least a third otAhe body’s food should be fat. Cocoa Is the only popular beverage which has “fat.** Body fat is of three kiAds—stearine, palmitin and oleine. A loin of mutton has more fat nutriment than any other joint.

Hotel Manager Puts Ban on Bones and Meat for Canines

- Bones at 40 cents each and chopped meat, at 50 cents a portion for aristocratic dogs have been cut from the kennel menu at the Hotel Majestic, notes the New York American. The Hooverization of this hostelry is now complete, according to the management. Recently there were many dogs in town seeking the blue ribbons at the Garden show. Copeland Townsend, manager, served notice that eatables would not be supplied for dpg consumption at his hostelry. “Many sweets and meats and milk are purchased for blooded dogs,” he said. In explanation. “This food is needed here and by the allies. Even the bones that are given to dogs are in demand. “I,understand a conservation dog biscuit is being manufactured. If this is so* the problem will be solved, but unless it is, some other means must be found to supply pets with food.” Six of the dogs at the Majestic were Poms. They are owned by Miss Estelle Kelcey of San Francisco, who I* said to hare purchased them from a destitute Belgian prince In Paris. v

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PRAYER OF THE ARMY MEN

At the going, when we stumble up the gangway to the ship, While we wish, and curse the wish, that we could stay; On the channel, as we watch the yearning cliffs of England dip, Help us. Lord, to hide our sickened hearts away! On the marches—oh the marches with the blisters on our feet. When our kits weigh not much less than half a ton. And our one idea of heaven is a place to sleep and eat— Give us strength. Lord, till .our thirty miles are done! Through the weary, starlit vigils when we guard the sleeping tents. When they huddle- gray behind us in the gloom, Bid us challenge every phantom that our fear of death Invents; Keep your ears alert to hear the creeping doom! In the trenches, with the bullet-ridden earthworks spurting dust. And the peering rifle muzzles spitting flame; In the sweating bayonet charges, with the thrust and wrench and thrust. Hear us when we, dying, call upon Thy name! In the winning, tn the losing, In the triumph, the despair. Be we victors or the holders of defeat. Keeps us mindful of the honor of a nation that we bear; Let our souls, Lord be above the fate we meet!— —— —,, —Kenneth Proctor Llttauer, In Leslies.

SOME SMILES

Serious Plight. “Smith was telling the other night of the awful trouble he had one time when he was shipwrecked in getting away from a man-eating shark.” “Yes, but did he ever tell you how he succeeded in dodging his wife when she was after him for a bargain hunting shopping trip?” Quick Success.

“Well,” said the young lawyer, “I pleaded my first suit yesterday, and won it” “You don’t say!” “Yes; congratulate me, old man; . I’m engaged to Miss Rich.”

With a Benediction. A private had received from England a gift of a new pair of woolen socks, and put them on joyfully on the morning before a heavy march. He was soon limping, but got no chance to take his boots off till the end of a 20mile day. Then he got the socks off, and found in the toe of one a piece of stiff writing paper, on which he could just read the words, w'ritten in a childish hand: “God bless the wearer of this pair of socks!” Drat the Cat.

“That man ought to .be arrested ! He threw a lump of coal at a cat!” “Are you going to tell the S. P. C. A.?” “No, Pm going to tell the fuel commissioner!”

Out-Hooverizing Hoover. , “Are you doing anything to economize on your pleasures?” “Oh, yes; I’ve cut out my wife’s matinee trips and the children’s movies.* Vernacular. “Why did you discharge your cook?” “She said she wouldn’t be reprimanded." “Did she express herself to that effect?* “Yes, but what she really said was, ‘I won’t take ho sass often nobody/ ”

One Man Delegated to Rename Over 15,000 Sioux Indians

To make the Sioux Indians’ inheritance of land more simple and secure, the United States government commissioned Dr. Charles A. Eastman to rename more than 15.000 with their family names. The task was a hard one, says the San Francisco Argonaut. Where possible Doctor Eastman kept the original Sioux name of some member of a family, as In bestowing the name “Matoska” meaning “White Bear,” on the family of that chief. The hardest task was In finding new names for the absurdities of Indian nomenclature. “Bobtailed Coyote” was a young Indian who has come to prefer himself as “Robert T. Wolf.” After a long struggle with “Rotten Pumpkin,” Doctor Eastman at last recorded the owner of the name on the tribal records under the noncommittal title of Robert Pumpkin.”

Blame It on Mars.

During the 1916 opposition- of Mars the northern snow cap of that planet extended about 185 miles farther south than in the previous opposition. In reporting this observation. Prof. W. H. Pickering suggested that it would be interesting to see whether a cold winter on Mars would be followed by a cold winter on earth. ■'Apparently this was the case, as the winter of 1916-1 T seemed to have been considerably colder the average In both Europe and America.—Scientific American.

FAMOUS ATHLETES NOW IN UNCLE SAM’S SERVICE AT CAMP LEWIS, WASHINGTON

These eight famous athletes have deserted the field of sport for the field of battle and athletic glory for Old Glory. They are now serving at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Washington. Seated, left to right: Lieut. W. L. Stanton, former football coach; Capt. L. A. Wattelet, baseball manager and owner of several Western teams; Rev. Father J. Galvin, former Dublin university football star, and Robert L Simpson, world’s champion hurdler. Standing, left to right: Corp. L. E. Ireland, featherweight wrestler; Capt. T. G. Cook, director of athletics at Camp Lewis; Willie Ritchie, former lightweight champion boxer, and Eddie Heinholz, former star all-round athlete of the State college of Washington.

CONNIE MACK HAS HOPE

Connie Mack can’t see why baseball writers everywhere are predicting, utter ruin for him next summer. “My team won’t be so very bad,” says Mack. “No, It won’t be as good as I would like. It won’t be a pennant winner; that is, I hardly think it will; but my team will play some mighty good baseball, or else I shall be greatly mistaken. I may finish eighth, but I don’t expect to.”

FIRST MAN TO WHIP JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Jimmy Page was the first man to whip John L. Sullivan, but the records are silent. They credit James J. Corbett with that lone distinction. Jimmy Page w T as headmaster of the Dwight School, Springfield street, Boston, Mass., and one of his twelve-year-old mischief-makers was pne John L. Sullivan. One day, after the young man’s teacher could no longer endure Sullivan’s idleness and trickiness, he sent for Jimmy Page, long a hero in Boston’s school circles. “Step up here, young man,” said Jimmy to John L. “Now you’re going to learn better manners.” And John L. stepped up and, without a whimper, took his rat-tanning in front of the whole class. But the records don’t say .a word about this, first defeat of John L. Sullivun. “ ' -

HORNSBY BAT SHY IN MINORS

Prefers to Face Big League Pitchers Who Are Less Wild—-Dislikes Shaggy Pills. Food for deep reflection may be found in the remarks of twenty-one-year-old Rogers Hornsby, the new Belehanty of the National league. The second-best batter of ex-Gov-ernor Tener’s organization ought to be an authority on .that particular topic. Rogers doesn’t believe in using camouflage on major league pitchers. Listen to him: “Lead me away from those Class C and D pitchers, who have so much speed they don’t know where it’s going. “We played down around my old home league last spring and I was afraid to go to the plate. The kind of birds that threw ’em at your head without trying to are dangerous. “Up here they *shoot’ at you occasionally, but you generally know when it** coming. they have new balls in the big show all the time, and I surely do like to swing at the white ones after looking at the shaggy bush league nllla.”

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

This is the busy season for that well-known old veteran, Charles Horse, * * * Allan Sothoron, Brown hurler, has been put in the deferred class by his draft board. • * « ’Tis rumored the Great Zlm wore out three pairs of running shoes at Hot Springs. • • * Twenty years ago an offer of $50,000 for a championship battle would have caused a panic. • • • While that New York draft board 1% examining Benny Kauff it might measure the. size of his bump of ego. * * * Lee Magee will find himself at home In Cincinnati, now that he has been traded to Matty by the Browns. * * * Marty McHale, former Yankee hurler, is now a first lieutenant in the Twenty-second engineers regiment. * * * Vic Saier has written the Pirates that he will be unable to play this, season as his injured ankle has not healed. * * * A White Sox rumor has it that Swede Risberg will be understudy to Chick Gandil this year as a first baseman. * * * The San Francisco club announces the signing of the veteran John Hummel, with the idea of using him in the outfield. * * * After an intermission of ten years, rugby football is to be played by Kansas City (Mo.) high school athletes next fall. • * * Nick Altrock, vaudeville artist of the diamond apd. coach for the Washington twirlers, will again be seen in his usual antics on the field. * * * Corporal Homer J. Wheaton, reported killed in action in France, was for six years sporting editor of the Worcester, Mass., Gazette.

* * * Both San Antonio and Fort Worth report the signing of Earl Bitting, a third baseman. One of the magnates must be standing on his foot. * Jimmy Archer, by returning to the Pirates, lands with the club with which he started his major league career. Jimmy joined Fred Clarke there in 1904. • * * Cornell baseball players will be required to furnish their own uniforms, equipment, etc. When the varsity nine is. chosen it will be outfitted by the Athletic association. * • * George Burns feels that the fates have been unkind to him. Shortly after, he received word that he was in class one In the draft, he was notified that he had been traded to the Athletics for Ping Bodie. ** * ' For the past two seasons Walter Johnson has led his league in strikeouts. He fanned 185 men last summer and 228 in 1910 for a total of 413. His best year was in 1910, when he turned back 313 would-be hitters. * * * When Babe Ruth’s days are ended as a major league pitcher he will be shunted into the outfield, instead of being sent to the minors. His hitting ability will keep him in the big show. Last year he hit .326, in 1916, .272, and in 1915, .315. •• • - Eppa Jeptha Rixey, the elongated Philiy hurler, is getting farther away from home every day. He la k lieutenant and has been transferred from Camp Bowie, Tex., to Camp Fremont, Cal. Eppa’s specialty is- making the cantonments sanitary. \

MAGNATES BROUGHT ON HEAVY EXPENSES

High Cost of Major League Ball Ho Fault of Players. * Club Owner* Formed Habit of Spending Money Like Sailors on Shore Leave for Stars of Game— Also Built Fine Parks. The high cost of baseball, as It applies to the major leagues, is being Celt more heavily than ever before by the men who control the game. There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction expressed by some of the club owners over the expense, of running a hlg league ball club for -the past three, or four years, but since Uncle Samuel tossed his chapeau into the big ring it has grown stronger. Yet, In reality, the magnates have little leeway to yelp, for with the (Exception of adverse influence caused by the Federal league they are alone to blame for the fact that operating major league clubs costs like sixty. The players are not responsible for the fact that the club owners formed a habit of spending money like sailors on shore leave for the stars of the game. They are not to blame because certain clubs or club owners were willing to pay big, fat salaries to their headliners. And It Is no. fault of the player that he has come to expect these thing!* in the big show. Baseball has grown to be the greatest of sports. It Is the most popular pastime and recreation of the American public, and the mags have made it what it is. They have made it a strictly commercialized sport that Is very much in demand, and as in any other business, the club owner who makes the biggest hit with "his public Is the one who gets the gravy. There hasn’t been a major league ball park built within recent years that was not built to accommodate a world’s series crowd. That is the aim of every club —to get into a world’s series. But fine parks, high salaries and spirited bidding for the services of the stars of the diamond are the work of the club owners alone, so why should they yelp? Baseball is a red-blooded sport and a cold-blooded business. It has been built up to a standard level and it must be kept there. So what’s the use of the magnate ouching over the high cost of it? He doesn’t lead the. worst life in the world by a whole lot.

WINS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP FROM WOMEN IN FLORIDA

Sterling golf that simply could not be beaten won the women’s championship of the state of Florida, for Miss Ethel Campbell of Philadelphia. She outputted her rivals, and she outdrove them. Her game was superior in every way, so she had comparatively little trouble in winning the championship. This photo was taken after she had concluded the final round of the match. Miss Campbell’s golf in the South this season has been altogether sensational. She has had few bad days, and her average has been extremely high.

TRIPLE IN UPPERS

Joe Cantillon of the Minneapolis Millers, says he has no patience with ball players who kick on being assigned to upper berths or even doubling up in them. “Why, we used to triple In uppers,” says Joe. Some one 'expressed doubt as to that and then Joe explained the “system.” “We worked it by relays,” he said. “Two hours in bed and two hours on watch. At the end of two hours, the man on the Inside of the berth had to get out, the man on the oqitside moved over and the man who had been sitting up on watch climbed In.”

Lacks Experienced Oarsmen.

Bob Roche, who has been elected captain of the Princeton eight Is the only man with much experience in school, and who has never rowed In a varsity crew. He stroked his freshman eight in 1915, and was a member of the second crew In the two sub*** qnent season**