Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — Page 3

LOCAL MARKETS ARE ESSENTIAL

Equil Responsibility for Their Support Rests Upon the Farmers and Merchants. MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER Prosperity of Community Depends Upon Each of These Two Classes 'Buying Products and Goods of Each Other. (COpjllCht, itlf. Western Newspaper Union.) The first essential in the develops went of any. business is the possession of a ‘market? The manufacturer must have" a market for his products or he cannot succeed, no matter how valuable those products may be or how efficiently his plant may be operated. The merchant and (Jie retail tnerchant may have the choicest 8toc» of goods, but they may as well go out pf business if they have not a market where they can dispose of thelt stocks. The farmer may produce bumper crops, but they will rot upon the ground if he cannot find a market for them. The wage earner’s skill and muscle bring him no returns unless there is a market for hlslabor. The question of markets is the big one in every line of business and in every community the question is a vital one. In each community, which must* be taken to include not only all the people who live in the town but the farmed who live in the surrounding country as well,' We are two sides to the market question. The business men Of the town must have a market for the things which they have to sell. Otherwise they cannot continue in business. At the same time the nWifeiW'must have a market for the things which they raise or they may as well go out of business. When Either Faile Both Suffer. The merchants of the town can provide a market for the products of the farmers and the farmers can provide ' a market for the goods Which the merchants have to sell. As long as each class of citizens provides a market for the other class all Is well and the goose hangs high, but when either class falls to provide a market for the other the goose ft cooked, not only for the class which is deprived of the market but for the other as well. The farmer has a right to expect the town which is his natural trading point to provide a market sot his products, and the town is not performing its proper function as the trading center of its' community if it does not see. that such a market is provided. The responsibility of looking after the fulfillment dl this obligation rests largely upon the of the town. The farmer IS s'producer and he must dispose of his products before he can become a consumer. It. is, therefore, not only right but necessary from a business standpoint that the merchants should aid thp farmer in turning his products into money. Otherwise the farmer naturally will to spend in the stores of the town. Obligation on Farmers. On the other hand, the merchants of the town have a right to expect the farmers to provide a market for the merchandise which they have to sell, and the farmers are not doing their duty to their community if they do not provide such a market. In this case, alao, it Is not Only right but it is necessary to the prosperity of the farmers that they should aid the merchants in turning their merchandise into cash. Otherwise it is obvious that the merchants will have no money with which to buy the products of the farmers. This is a double-barreled proposition and the obligation rests equally upon both the merchants and the farmers to maintain the markets which are essential to both classes of citizens. Any town which would import from points hundreds of miles distant the farm products which it could buy at home would be pursuing a very short-sighted policy, for it would be making it impossible for the farmers in its territory to buy the goods of its merchants. As a matter of fact no town does this unless it is forced by unusual conditions to do so. A town may be located In a community which is not productive enough to meet the local demands, and in that case it is forced to import farm products but the town which is compelled to do this is at a disadvantage from a commercial standpoint unless it is essentially a manufacturing town, In Which case its products are sold to other communities and bring in enough cash to offset that'which Is sent away to purchase

farm products. Must Have Outside Business. In the average community, however, the town Is dependent for Its prosperity upon the money received from the armers In the ordinary channels of tfhde, rather than upon that obtained from the sale of its own products.* In the average town the merchants cannot make money and continue in business if they are dependent solely upon the people of the town, for their business. No business can last long with *ev- ■ it and nothing coming illy true that no buslated on the principle inning In and nothTo maintain the balpessary to the malnte- , rity in ajmmrthnttyj i even trade between qf thetowa.

INSIST ON MATES OF MORAL HABITS

majority of girls make thm FIRST REQUIREMENT ~RMfi*niili at University of Mlseourt Give Views on Matrimony hi SympotiuM. Kansas City, Ma— What asa your requirements of the person whom you would marry? That question was asked of the students in connection with a discussion on “convention” by Prof. T, 1, Bernard in his sociology class of the University of Missouri the other day. Sixty-eight students—forty-one women and twenty-seven men—placed on the professor’s desk anonymous statements in reply.

The tabulated opinions show the women consider moral habits as the prime requisite. Nineteen women stake it tiie first requirement, six the second requirement, eight the third requirement, sixth the fourth requirement, one the fifth requirement and one does not mention* tt. Good social position is considered most important by seven women while the average place this requirement in fourth place. Good income is held to be of prime Importance by five women, while seventeen hold it to be of secondary and ten of tertiary importance. Congenially and good treatment is placed among the first four requisites by thirty-one women, three of whom make it tho first requirement One signifies her willingness to abide with a middle-aged man, while thirteen place youth as fifth in importance. One insists that good looks ds the ’ first essential in a husband, white the majority seem willing to waive this quality after putting in requests for a good income, congeniality fend a good social position. Just as the women require good moral habits as the prime essential, so the men insist on good character, and twenty demand it as the first requirement. White the women ore more insistent for Intellectual ability, the man base their faith on physical beauty. Uve men taake it a first teqnirement, white no one places it below the fourth place.

"AH except five of the men|express an opinion on congeniality, Itat they do not hold it as a high requmement, and indicate their trust In character, youth and beauty to ineludßf that quality. x The men are generally interested in the training for home this requirement average, fourchj in importance. The men are decidedly interested in good heredity, whffe the women make no mention of it Two women and two men desire their mates to be religious. One man yefiros for mutual infatuation; and places it as & third requirement in hto scheme of things for martial* Hiss. One woman longs for sympaltjy and assigns it In fifth pines. One jman tar sista on sincerity and commons sense, while another requires musical) talent in his wife-to-be find a third demands hto wile must be economical. I

INFANT’S BODY BECOMES MUMMY IN 20/EARS

Negro Baby Embalmed LongjAgo la Preserved by a Cheater, ffe, Undertaker. Chester, Pa.—A real mamma a little colored baby, bora somaftwenly years ago, who died alter Uwi? Bev " oral weeks, was viewed wtthpaterest the other day at an undettakhv establishment here. There is no record of the/p4aentage of the Infant, and, in brief/itspristory is that it was found dead twente; years ago, and the body was tnrnedfcver to the late Thomas Minshali, theo| an undertaker and deputy coroner. As the body was never claimed, he decided to use It for experimental purposes in embalming, and prepared a special mixture of emjbalmirfe; fluid, a portion of which be injected into the little body. The result proved raecesstel, and in a short time there were ewenees of mummification, and after taping an object of curiosity and a **tm days’ wonder.** the mummy, characterised “tale,” was taken to an unused room in the building and tucked spray on the top shelf of a closet. During all these years thri infant body has lain there except when some curious petton has called at the establishment .rafad requested permission to ste||U The mommy is twenty indies lo|og,|wrigbs two pounds, and resembiesraa evsaqr way a real colored baby. ”

TRAMP DOG ATTENDS FUNERALS

Nesquehoning, Par— Totals ity, has a dog which marjfeefila fondness tor attending funerals. Since attention was drawn to btfeihadt he has never been known to/wdsstfryiefc Be usually walks besldaftba lune and will go Into the chmrah iffmannitted. Ba has frequently/boen dnsen oat, but when this happens, he .wtfll loiter outside until sesMoes/are ower and then .’eortegpj to the guava, He is only/a 4 canman tramp dog, but sinew he

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COUPLE TRY MARRIAGE ON FIFTY-FIFTY PLAN

•tadMdual* Wedlock, They Catt but It Differs Very Little From “A Dutch Tree*.** NmV Y<*K N. Y^— Pretty tt-yosg-aid Eleanor Taylor, as attractive a gfcri m ever helped earry the daisy chain at Vassar College, has given Greenwich village a groat shock. And that is going some, for Greenwich village is a district populated chiefly by peteons connected with the arts who live thd so-called Bohemian Mie. From the qalet of the balls of the aoeient seat' of learning pretty Blear nor has walked with bold and undaunted step into the very center of the “village” Bohemians. What has rite done? She has entered into the qpeerest of marital contracts with Benjamin Marsh, war correspondent, radical and seventeen years her senior; in what now becomes famous M the ’individual marriage.” The "individual” clause of the contract was added when Miss Taylor and Mr. Marsh—not Mr. and Mrs. Marsh—found themselves sipping tea in the cheerful home they had previously fixed up in the environs of Washington Square. In a word, the clause that stakes a marriage an “individual” one is ' nothing to be scoffed at by the struggling artist who finds both ends hard to meet. True, it robs him of What many men glory in— dominion over his spouse— but it makes lite less worrisome. It seems that the wife is to retain her individual rights, including' everything. She does not even have to give up her name, her position, her thought, her work; nor does such a marriage permit a husband to support Ufa wife. She supports herself, and Mtos Eleanor Taylor and Benjamin C. Marsh are carrying their contract out to tho letter. Bach contributes an equal amount toward the morning meat Each has a Job in New York. At night they wend their respective ways home to 11 Vandam stoeeL Alter comparing expenses lor tile day they go over to the GeeeoMch Settlement House, where they dine sumptuously for 36 cents each. A« they stop at the cashier’s desk on the way out, Miss Taylor pays her own check, Mr. Marsh his. To the mortes, a lecture or the theater, Miss Taylor pays for her ticket, Mr. Marsh pays ter his. “I met Mr. Marsh a year ago at the Greenwich Settlement House,” she said. “Neither ot us wanted to impose his belief on the other. We agreed in purpose, tho. We decided on o® mode of Mvtag, because we knew it would make us happier; all the more because each has his own work. We decided that each contribute to the support of the household. We figure out the cost of boealrfast — Jnst now it is K cents—and we divide the amount We pay our laundry and other WUs separately. “No man, husband nor anybody else, could make me change my individual thinking, and why On our doorbell wa have Mr. Mandi and Mbs Taylor.”

LACE SHROUD PUT ON POISONED DOG

Owner Offora Reward for Araos* * of Those RMponteble for Death of Pot Gooeszwich, Conn. — Wrapped in a lace shroud and sealed in a pine box, the body of Kraafa, Mrs. Frank L. Brittain’s Russian wolfhound, a victim of poisoners, was burled hose on the grounds of the Brittain estate. While members of the household were directing burial of the animal, the countryside was being searched for the person who uteninl stared the pfUamn Kteria Was found dead by Mm. Brittain. A veterinarian fourid that strychnine had killed the antaml A grave was dug near the swimming pod, one of toe picturesque spots on the estate, and the coffin containing Krazia’s body was lowered into it Later Mrs. Brittata said that she would have a headstone placed over the grave. Kraria was valued at >2,000 and since puppybood had been the pet and alpost constant companion of Mrs. Brittain. The dog was 4 years old. Henry I* Brittain, president of the Umpire Metal Products Corporation, when seen by a reposter, seemed to bo deeply perturbed over the loss of the dog Kraaia. He said the dog had been the companion and protectar of hfei wlta "I have offered a reward of >SOO for the identification of those responsible far pnfamning Krasin,* said Mr. BMt» tain, "but Up to date Bribing has happened to bring us nearer the culprits. Kraria was of purest based and, aM» she possessed high mongr vataa, money could not buy M>e aflpctkm we imd for the animat Mbs.. Brittain particriariy feels the torn of the dog.*

BIRTH RESTORES HER SIGHT

Woman Bogine to Bae After !»wtae Are Bqrnr TtasMngfnn, Kan.- dfafc of.twins to tap restored the s&t of Mrs. Mtagd MoQuilowgh of this city. Ttoo weeks ago wtete at her housewofc Mas. MoCrtleußi was stricken Sly Mtaid. She was taken to the ak- iyaLniwMj~* ir W w * 1 •* Rosedale waking team » aound steep, wass«e to dtotiuapWi a light and gsaduafe to dknir dtottagaish otdeMs. , Bar s&t is gtodmdfr jewing bsttat anl the doctors bsßete she wfll wgßta* recover It la g tew daps.

EARNS 14 CENTS A DAY; HAS WIFE AND BABY

And Yet Hiis True Story Has a nappy Ending. Even a Frenchman sometimes loses, for awhile at- least, his “unfailing” sense of bumor, Take, for Instance, the case of a ' meh 1 from Lille, a' soldier, Wael tele by name and only twenty-three. He had done pretty well, for the youngster had already his own printing shop in that northern French’town, which is still In’side the Gertnan lines. In the trenches Waeltele developed tuberculosis, and be was sent to.a hospital at Grenoble. There he was considered Incurable; and after the usual three months ot treatment he was granted his 14 cents a day pension. Said his fatherly army doctor, “My son, you can perhaps cure ydnrself if you will live In the mountains, if you will eat plenty of nourishing food and, above all, if you don’t worry.” Waeltele should have smiled, but he didn’t He was thinking of his baby and his wife—and his 14 cents. “Don’t WOrryl” The Humor of It entirety escapedhlm. Then the Red Cross stepped in. He was found by an American woman with some American Red Cross money for just such cases, and within a few hours he no longer had need to worry. He was sent to the mountains at Earners, in the French Alps, happy In the knowledge that his family was being cared for by these amazingly kind Americans. And now the army doctor’s words are coming true. Waeltele’s lung is healing fast and he is dreaming of another printing shop and of living again some day with that little family. There have been over 400,000 new cases of tuberculosis in France since the war started, and to care for these cases and check the White Plague s spread is merely one of the big Jobs the American Red Cross has pet out to accomplish.

FATHER AT WAR, TRAGEDY AT HOME

Jost What Home Service Means to a Soldier. The father kisses his wife and kiddles goodby. shoulders his gun and marches away to war. For a time the current of life flows smoothly for the soldier’s tittle family. Then comes the tragedy. Mother Is taken 111. The little brood of broths ers and sisters is helpless. No father to turn to. A helpless mother I To whom can the American soldier’s family look at this critical period! Must a brave main's loyalty to his country mean desolation and suffering to those nearest and dearest to him! No I Emphatically no! The American people win not permit the famiIles of their soldiers and sailors to suffer because their breadwinners are fighting for their country. And so the Red Cross Department of Civilian Relief has created a nation-wide organization for home service for the families of soldiers and sailors. Under the banner of “Home Service” patriotic' men and women have enrolled and are 1 devoting themselves to the noble task of helping soldiers’ families to meet and adjust the problems of everyday life and aiding them to maintain the standards of health, education and Industry. Home Service—True Service. Home servlee meaas keeping the soldier's children well and tn school. It means tiding the family over financial troubles, arranging the household budget, meeting Insurance premiums, adjusting a mortgage, bringing med- > leal aid and legal advice to bear at the right moment. In short “Home Service” Is true service, in that It provides the warm handclasp of friendship rather than the humiliation of charity. It calls for sympathetic understanding and Intelligent consideration of the most vital needs of the soldier’s family. The Red Cross is pledged to “Home Service" wherever needed In the United States. In snch chapter effthe Red Cross there will be a home service section, under eompetent hands, whose mission wIB bo to protect the welfare of the soldiers’ and sailors’ homes and to safeguard the normal development of their famines to-employment and In ideals of self help and self reliance.

“The work that the Red Cress is doing hi Bronco this winter is worth more than a million and a haff American soldiers In the lines in France today.* —General Petain.

ALASKAN WOLF DOG KILLS MOTHER BEAR

Master From Whom Animal Recently Was Stolen Tells of "Timber Devil’s” Savage Nature, Seattle, Wash.—“ Wolf" Is Alaska’s savage outlaw dog. The blood of many creatures is on- his hardened conscience, and the brand of his Jang on man and beast. Son of the wild, he la, by virtue of what he has learned from his human associates, a super-brute. Many call him the "Timber DeviL” The story of his battle to the death with a she bear near here probably Is unmatched for dog courage and loyalty to master. It was told by Paul Buckley, widely known whom this remarkable dog was stolen. Wolfs mother was a husky, fete father a timber wolf. From puppyhood he has been a killer. Battle scars cover him. One ear is gone. A tuft under his jaw, like a beard, gives the booed, wolfish head a particularly sinister look. And he hates a bear with all the inherited venom of his breed. When Buckley, his master, hunting np Valdez creek, jumped a large she bear and two cubs in the blueberry bushes, Wolf leaped to the attack to protect" the man. Circling for advantage, slashing and snapping warily, the two arch enemies bore off up a slope. Buckley, fearing for his dog, tried to whistle him back. Once or twice Wolf attempted to return, but the bear outflanked him. Then Wolf, with all his began a deadly maneuver that ended only when the two had gone deep into the solitudes. Just as the she ’ bear had forgotten her cabs, so the wolf dog had- now forgotten his master until this wilderness feud had been settled. Running with tireless ease, Wolf drew the black bear on until fatigue had sapped her terrible energy, until her slashing charges had begun to abate; 3he was fat, and he was lean—the resilient leanness of fighting fitness. And they dosed, in a whirl of fury. It must have been magnificent, that finish of cardinal hate, but no man saw it Buckley, who had watched the beginning from a tree top, and who wafted many hours for his dog's return, had finally made temporary camp and had shot the two whining, deserted cubs. Hours later Wolf dragged himself into Buckley’s permanent camp six miles distant where his master's partner was getting dinner. His tongue was out He was badly mangled. With supreme effort he got upon Buckley’s bunk, calling weakly for his master. Bat there was bear’s blood on his muzzle, and a gleam ot victory in the baleful eyes. Next day, too, prospectors told of having found a dead she bear not far away in the timber—with her throat ripped open.

MESCAL-EATING HABIT GROWS AMONG INDIANS

Becoming a Menace, Says Secret Service Agent Fighting Evil. Winnebago, Neb.— The mescal evfl among the Indians Is becoming a menace, according to F. T. Thunder, an Indian employed in the Government secret service. In addition to his regular work Mr. Thunder la fighting the mescal traffic. Indians of the Winnebago reservation are especially given to the use of-the drug, Thunder declares. The mescal plant bears small brown pellets about the size of the average overcoat button. These when eaten in quantities of a dozen or more leave the user in a temporary state of mental derangement, during which, the Indians believe, they are communicating with the holy spirit “While you are under the influence of this drug you do not see things as they really are,” said Thunder. “I Used the drug for a long time, and I thought as some of them do now. I could hear bells ringing and could see visions of heaven. I had a hard time quitting, pyit I did so. I am trying to persuade others to quit “But we are powerless to stop the evil except thru gentle means. When I come upon a number of men using mescal, each has a Bible, and they say they are holding a religious meeting. If I try to interfere they call have me arirested for disturbing the peace. “There is no law I know of against the use of the mescal plant, but we hope the Legislature will take it np soon. It is killing many red men. Some of them feed it to their babies to quiet them.”

FIND WOOD IN HORSE’S HEAD

Animal Is Relieved of Oak Splinters After Ten Years. Covington, Ind., —Two pieces of oak wood, one two and three quarter inches long, and the other slightly shorter, were removed by a veterinarian from the head of a horse belonging to Julius Loeb. The wood had been in the animal's head for more than ten years. - John Bowers, who used the horse while on Loeb's farm, says the accident took place about eleven years ago. In striking its head against a projecting piece of oak, the left eye had been destroyed. The two pieces of wood which were removed from a place a little below the other eye, were well preserved. The horse had worked until a year or ao ago when Charles Howard, its present caretaker, turned it out to pasture. It is hoped soon to make all ct Yosemite National Park accessible throughout the yeas.

FORD CAR BRINGS A SHOWER BATH EVERY AFTERNOON

’Babies Grow Whiter as Doctor and Nurse Sene Daily Baths Fran Door to Door. "Good morning. We have come to give the children their bath,” this, of course, said in good French. Then from off the motor car slides a portable shower bath, carried into the house by doctor and nurse. For the next half hour that little cottage boasts of a bathroom In active service, for when the water Is heated the blessing of a warm, clean shower pumped by the doctor falls on the head of Young France, while the * nurse scrubs religiously and tho darkening water bears witness of a whiter, cleaner child. And as you might wen imagine, the kiddles like It, except the last cold dash that the doctor slyly engineers by quickly transferring the Supply pipe into a bucket of cold water—for hygienic effect. And what a blessing it is to those meek, tortured people, who for months, have been without aH of Ute’s comforts and most of life’s necessities* to be ministered to in this fashion It is perhaps understandable to them that "les Americains” out of sheer pity might offer them that meager thing that civilization calls “charity." Bui to be clothed, fed, sheltered and cheered as they have been by our Red Cross to more than they can understand. For they have seen a great miracle grow out of the darkest pit of human experience. They have seen a bright light out of which has stepped the ministering angel who has taught them to smile again. They are no longer tick. They are no longer cold dot hungry, end now, wonder of wonders, this same good friend has contrived tn some magic way—within the sound of the guns—to give thorn bathe.

BED, BATH AND BOARD IN JUNCTION CANTEEN

Brap Bera a Uttie Nearer ta aa American Sammie. A mother who is a Red Cross wortser In her home town gave to her chapter the following letter she bad received from her son tn France: “If you could have seen me yeeterday, when I left trenches which the rains have turned , Into open sewers* even you would never have known ma, I was mud from bead to foot, so covered with crawling things that the poorest tramp In the world would have run from me, and I fairly ached for rest. “You see, my first furlough had begun* and I caught a train for Parts, We were packed Into a freight car. Travel la so congested we spent most of our time stopping. At last, when night came, we were dumped out at a railway junction with the informaUon that the train for Paris would ba along the next day; Canteen Like Now York Hotel. “I tell you I was discouraged. Thea suddenly across the tracks from our station I saw an American Red Cross canteen, and all my troubles were at an end. “Lots of people must have the.eama Idea of these canteens that I used to have—just little shacks where you were handed out a cup of sloppy coffee. We are all wrong. These Red Cross places beat a New York hotel for variety of service, even if they don’t have the gilt furniture and tip takers. Here Is what happened to me: “First I had a bath, a real one. with plenty of soap and water. While I was getting clean my clothes, every stitch, were eleaned and sterilized. Then I bad a meal of real American cooking. actuaMy sitting down at n tar ble to eat it. After that I went Into the rmnteen barber shop and bad A shave • and haircut. Then, being a gentleman of leisure, 1 strolled into the canteen movie theatej and saw some good American films. However, 1 soon turned in for the night into a dean, dry bed that frit like heaven—or home “And oow this morning, after a lino breakfast, 1 am sitting to the canteen writing this letter td you and waiting comfortably, for my train. You just ota*t pesriMy Imagine what these Red Cross women are doing for us soldiers and for the French and English <•*«. Badi canteen takes 'care of thousands every day. “They make us feel like human beings onee again and give ns the nerve to go on with this game of Mrirtng the Kaiser Anc when we win you can give a good share of the victory to the American Red Croaa."