Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — Page 4

INTERESTING FIGURES FROM JASPER THIRD LIBERTY LOAN.

Prepared by the County Chairman, James H. Chapman, who deI serves great credit for the splendid showing. • 1329 men buy >846,500. 745 women buy >96,400. Total subscnpI Hons. >470,700, which exceeds our minimum quota of >170,000 by 8300J00 and our maximum quota of >240,000 by >230,700. Per cent of subscription was over 270, being the highest in the state. Jasper F county stands at the head of the 92 counties of Indiana. The largest individual subscription was for >IOO,OOO. The second largest was for >14,000. 1,250 people bought >50.00 bonds. * -The subscription through the banks of the county were as follows: THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK, Rensselaer .>163,100 : :::::::::::::::::::: g? t BANK OF WHEATFIELD, Wheatfield «0»000 I BANK OF DEMOTTE, DeMotte ••••••• iV .?» 000 Study the following detailed report of sales in each of the thirteen township of the county:— J - .« - - - - I • & . a JO -c . if S aEg |a h If 4 §« if §3 8 BS Eg ; 46 2SOO 100 32 3200 18 1800 r 150 1 160 200 3 COO 250 2 600 1 250 , , * ? r 500 L 3 1600 L _ 600 .1 600 _ .. • . 2000 1 2000 » 3000 1 3000 E 5000 1 5000 _____ ■ I 156 22100 65 4360 3 26450 3 10600 3 160C0 I CARPENTER TOWNSHIP—--50 36 1800 90 4500 i 100 64 6400 40 4000 150 2 300 2 300 1 250 27 5400 6 1200 250 4 1000 6 1500 300 6 1800 9 2700 400 4 1600 500 11 5500 5 2500 600 1 *6O 1000 9 9000 ' 1500 1 1600 2500 1 2500 3000 1 3000 JojOO 158 16700 57100 38000 64000 GILLAM TOWNSHIP—--50 17 860 25 1250 100 14 1400 3 300 200 1 200 250 1 250 1 860 300 1 300 500 1 500 800 1 800 1000 1 1000 2000 1 2000 . - 37 7100 30 2000 9100 6700 BCOO HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP50 36 1800 16 800 100 11 1100 5 600 ' , . • 500 4 2000 1 500 800 1 ,800 1000 1 2000 1 2000 =7--7 54 8700 22 1800 10500 5300 7500 JORDAN TOWNSHIP— . 50 21 1050 28 - 1400 100 14 1400 9 900 200 5 1000 1 200 250 ' 1 250 400 1 400 , , 500 1 600 1000 3 3000 —— ~45 7350 39 2750 10100 6400 9000 KANKAKEE TOWNSHIP—--50 30 1500 7 350 100 12 1200 1 100 150 1 160 1 150 200 3 600 2 400 250 1 250 500 1 500 1 500 1000 2 2000 2000 1 2000 1 4000 - ~51 8200 13 5500 13700 3400 4800 KEENER TOWNSHIP— n 50 66 3300 7 350 100 15 1600 200 2 400 300 2 600 1500 1 1500 ’ 86 7300 7 350 7650 6400 9000 MARION TOWNSHIP— , - 50 221 11050 147 7350 100 95 9500 69 6900 150 5 > 750 2 300 200 17 3400 8 1600 . •. 250 2 500 3 760 300 5 1600 5 1500 350 1 350 400 3 1200 500 26 13000 10 5000 700 1 ?°° 750 1 750 1000 15 15000 4 4000 1 Z 1 1 2000 2500 1 2500 2850 1 2850 3000 1 . 3000 1 3000 4000 2 8000 5000 2 10000 2 1000 J x 14000 1 14000 100000 10l 200360 257 50200 250550 64000 90000 MILROY 100 7 700 250 2 500 —— “25 2000 13 650 2650 2500 3500 NEWTON TOWNSHIP—--50 29 1450 29 1450 100 12 1200 4 / 400 150 1 150 1 160 200 4 800 1 200 500 * 6 3000 2000 1 2000 1 2000 2500 1 2500 4000 1 4000 —— "55 15100 364200 19300 7100 10000 UNION TOWNSHIP50 86 4300 36 1800 100 22 2200 7 700 IM 1 150 200 6 1200 1 200 350 1 350 400 1 400 500 8 4000 700 1 700 WALKER TOWNSHIP— * , M 100 7 700 150 1 150 200 2 400 ~50 5150 16 800 5950 3400 4800 WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP—--50 49 2450 34 1700 100 14 1400 7 700 150 1 150 200 2 400 250 1 250 300 1 300 400 2 800 500 1 500 4 2000 600 2 1200 oTno 7450 45 4400 11850 Tr 6600 9400 Purchased by non-residents through banks of this county 27800 epeoooo T0ta1....1329 3346500 745 396400 3470700 3170000 3240000 This report does not include bonds purchased by residents of Jasper county through banks outside of county.

William VanArsdel, of Monon, was hers Monday to visit his brother, Charles, who is in the hospital here. This is Rooster Week. Mr. Rooster has been convicted of spoiling a million dollars worth of Indiana eggs in 1917. He must pay the penalty—death or imprisonment. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gleason, of Liberty, came Monday for a visit with relatives here, they had been at Indianapolis for a few days visiting a sister. Before returning home they will visit relatives at Crawfordsville and Rockville. Uncle Dennis •ays they are out on “a regular old

Mrs. R. P. Benjamin has received a very beautiful souvenir from her son, Charles R. Benjamin, in France. It is a painting on silk cloth, the work of a noted French artist Mrs. Benjamin values the gift very highly because it came from her son and for it’s real intrinsic worth. The war is not three thousand | miles away now and the attack on the eastern coast means that the end of Germany is a might sight nearer than that All together on a war basis and lets do the job nght and do it NOW. We are in it loth win it Come across or the Kaiser will. Be a man behind the man behind the gun.

THZ SmmiG BKPUBOOAIf, BBM—BIaAJMU UP.

The Long Arm of Mercy

The Red Cross is the Long Arm of Mercy. It is the Kindness of Mankind —organized. In Man is an Angel and. a Devil, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Red Cross is the Good, aroused, energized to thwart the Bad. It is the best antidote we know to the bane of war. There are other Charities, more or fess helpful. The Red Cross is the mightiest of all Charities, the Ixive and Pity of all men made supremely efficient. If, as Emerson said, “sensible men and conscientious men all over the world are of one religion,” this is the expression of that religion. The Red Cross is Humanity united in Service. It asks no man’s opinion; only his need. Black or White, Friend or Foe, to the Red Cross there is nd difference; it only asks: ** who is Suffering?” And to him it goes. The Red Cross is so Efficient that Governments recognize it; so Pure in its purpose that whoever wishes well his fellow men, desires to help it; so Clean in its administration that the most suspicious can find no fault in it. The Red Cross not only seeks to alleviate the cruelties of War; it is the expression of those human sentiments that tome day will put an end to W ar. It is the impulse of Love, striving to overcome the.im pulse of Hate. It is Mercy’s co-operation struggling against War’s rivalries. ■ It is the one Society in which every Man, Woman and Child should be enrolled; for it knows no sects, no prejudices, no protesting opinion; the human being does not live that does not feel that the starving should be fed. the sick tended and the wounded healed. Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy; it finds the fallen on the battlefield, it brings the nurse and the physician to the victim in the hospital; it leads the weeping orphan to a home; it feeds the starving, cares for the pestsmitten whom all others abandon, and pours the oil of Help and Pity into the bitter wounds of the World. Where a volcano has wrought desolation in Japan, or a Flood in China, or a Hurricane in Cuba, or a Famine in India, or a Plague in Italy, or ravaging Armies in Poland, Servia or Belgium, there flies the Red Cross, the Angel of God whom the fury of men cannot banish from the Earth; and to the Ends of the Earth, over all the ways of the Seven Seas, wherever is Human Misery, there is extended, to bless and to heal, its Long Arm of Mercy.

THE SCARLET CROSS

Of the Vloilantea. What is it that you do today, who lift the Scarlet Croesi For all the withered world is down to ruin add to loss, Aad aU the world hears dashing sword, and hSars no sound less plain— What >en you do who lift the Cross, but heal to tight again! Wo gnard the women loft alone, heartbroken for their dead, We nave the children wandering where all save Fear has fled, Wo raise again the broken towns swept down by shot and shell, We heal again the broken souls hopeless from learning HollOh, they who raw but Grief and Hate oee now our red sign Plato— We mvo the ghd world’s soul alive that War had nearly slain I

Bombardments Cannot Drive This Woman Back

•be Thinks Coffee for Soldiers Moro important Than Safety.

The following extracts are taken from • letter written by a Red Cross Canteen worker, Helen Mcßlhone, an American woman and college graduate now located tn a district almost constantly under bombardment: “Foyer des Allies, "Bar-le-Duc. •Things took very black to me. I am discouraged at the big outlook of affairs and also at .my small doings, but it may be the blackness that comes before dawn. Let us hope no. Our seen certainly need help now as much as the poilus. I am beginning to soo those who have boon at the treat In fact lam beginning to see gome of the results of this life. They are sick and homesick, and worse things have happened to them. Several have said : 'All we ask is to get to the front and do what we have to do. Anything is better than this life. . . .’ This morning we had more Americans than I have seen before at Ono time. One came up to me here as 1 was

By DR. FRANK CRANE

By Margaret Widdemer

drawing coffee from a big marmlte as fast as I could fill cups and, pointing to his pipe, said, Tobac, tobac.* I said, 'Do you sent some tobacco}* He seemed stunned for a moment and then said: 'Do you know it nearly gave me a 9t to hear you speak English. I haven't heard a woman speak English in five months.* He said he had been walklag about in the cold since four o’clock last night He couldn’t Ind a hotel or a bright light because, of course, everything is closed and darkened on account of the bombardments. . . . The Americans are very fond of ham sandwiches. They oat much more than the French soldiers, and when they first came in and ordered six eggs apiece it caused consternation throughout the land. The funniest thing of all to to hear the Sammies grandly urging these wealthy English girls to ‘keep the change—oh, keep the change I’ . . . We start the day at five and work continuously until nine, when three fresh cantinleres relieve us. At flvo we go on for the evening shift from five to eight, and it is the most exciting and exhausting of the shifts. There is a certain time when they come down on us like a flood, eight or ten deep around the counter and throe or four hundred altogether in this little room, as eager sad tired as schoolboys.’’ The foregoing letter Indicates that our soldiers look to the Red Cross Canteen as an oasis tn a desert. They would not have it if it were not for your Red Cross, \

SELECTIVE BOARD ASKS FOR VOLUNTEER MECHANICS.

War Department Office of Adjt. General of Indiana, Indianapolis, National Army Division, Jane 1, 1918. Gentlemen: ' —. • Call No. 574 Preserve. Uns gives your quota. '' . .. . v Your quota under above call to be sent to Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, is 2 men. This means your Local Board must send 2 white men and no more to Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, under Call 574. These men njay volunteer up to and including Friday, June 7th, after which time, if your quota is not filled, qualified men shall be selected from Class 1 to fill the deficit in your quota after deducting the voluntary inductions. The men inducted under this wll will be entrained on June 28th and we shall furnish you a railway schedule in' ample time. Your special attention is directed to that part of the telegram fixing the qualifications of registrans to be inducted and also to that part which provides the clothing to be taken by the registrants. Your entire quota under this call will be entrained upon the same day. The same rule, as heretofore given, applies to the issuing of transportation and meal tickets. It is not necessary for you to notify this office of inductions under this call until the day of entrainment at which time you should write us a letter giving number sent which must be 2 men and no more. Kindly following instructions closely and get highly qualified registrants to fill this call and oblige, Very truly yours, ROBERT C. BALTZU, Major Inf., U. S. R., Executive Officer. War Department Office of Adjt. General of Indiana, Indianapolis, National Army Division, June 1, 1918. Gentlemen: ’ Call No. 620. Preserve. This gives your quota. Your quota under above call to be sent to Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis, Indiana, is 6 men. „. This means your Local Board must send 6 white men and no more to Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis, Indiana, under Call 620. These men may volunteer up to and including Friday, June 7th, after which time, if your quota is not filled, qualified men shall be selected from class 1 to fill the deficit in your quota after deducting the voluntary inductions. The men inducted under this call will be entrained on June 15th and a railway schedule will be furnished in ample time. Your special attention is directed to that part of the telegram which fixes the qualifications of registrants for induction under this call, also to that part of the telegram which provides the clothing to be taken by each registrant Your entire quota under this call will be entrained upon the same day. The same rule, as heretofore given, applies to the issuing of 'transportation and meal tickets. It is not necessary for you to notify this office of inductions under this call until the day of entrainment at whic htime you should write us a letter giving number sent which must be 6 men and no more. Kindly following instructions closely and get highly qualified registrants to fill this call and oblige, Very truly yours, ROBERT C. BALTZU, Major Inf., U. S. R., \ Executive Officer.

Eternal investigation doesn’t hurt the War Saving Stamp. H. (h Johnson and Earl Osborne went to Mt. Ayr this morning to complete the decoration of the fine new residence of Mr. Miller at that place. ■ Paul Strecker left Monday for the Municipal Pier at Chicago and Worth McCarthy left today for the same place. This adds two more to our already long list of volunteers. That nothing be lost, use your small change to buy Thrift Stamps. For a rainy day War Savings Stamps are a real remedy.

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TELLS OF FUN IN THICK OF BATHE

BATTERY COMMANDERS BLOODTHIRSTY, HE DECLARES. Colonef Robert H. Tyndall, commender of the 150th fieW arbjery, in a letter to William HerschsD, of The Indianapolis News, reveals some of the humors ofbeing m “the thick o’ things" in France-, good stories of his battery manders and the cammenders of the headquarters and supplies companies. The letter fallows: “In the Field, May 10, 1918. “Dear Old Bill: —I hasten to answer your delightful letter of April 19, so as to encourage you to continue the good work. “We are having some wonderful times over here —a sensation nearly any hour in the day. Of course these are things you have been reading about for the last three and a half years, but actually to be a part of the thing is indeed very interesting. Many humorous incidents mark our lives here, for which we are all grateful, as you may know that if is were not for the humor the serious part of this game would grow monotonous, and we would all go to pot. “Say, Bill, I have the most bloodthirsty battery commanders you could imagihe. Even when not fighting the enemy they constantly are trying to outdo each other, always waiting to turn a trick on the other fellow. The other evening Captain Hofman, of headquarters company, came into the mess and remarked that he had seen what he thought to be a craps game going on down the road. Of course a guard was dispatched to break it up. Presently the report came back that it wasn’t craps game at all ; it was Captain Fetchman’s supply company standing retreat. It took Captain Fechtman three days to think up a get-back at Captain Hofman. Then he came in with a report that he had such a model company all of his menjwere attempting to imitate the, “Rainbow Stoop” affected by the officers of the headquarters company. “The battery commanders are so bloodthirsty that when I go to the battery positions the first thing they say is: ‘Weill, when are we going to lire?’ If we are quiet for a brief period they get hungary for action and there has never been a word of complaint from either officers or men about the work. In the last scrap we had fired day and night for three days—and swinging ninetypound projectiles and carrying them through the mud is no baby’s pastime. • The men of Battery A, under Captain Miller, and of Battery E, under Captain Kelley, fairly pray for action as they say their battery commanders never smile unless things are hot all around them. And that is really true. “I want to tell you a little joke on Captain Kelley. It happened while he was at his gun position at 4:00 o’clock one morning. He had a man on top of a dugout, the man acting as an observer to pass the word when the infantry signal rocket was fired, which would mean that the mission had been accomplished and our was to be shifted. As it apparently was taking more time than Captain Kelley thought necessary he asked by ’phone if the man was still up there. The man at the other end of the line, being somewhat of' a wit, replied: ‘No he has come down.’ I can not repeat Captain Kelley’s words here, but the enemy must have thought another barrage was breaking loose. But after investigation, Captain Kelley found that the man had come down through no fault of his own. A fragment of shell had hit him with just enough force to knock him from his observation point. It put a dent in his tin hat but didn’t hurt him seriously. * “Battery E has come in for considerable shelling and, up to date, has fifty-eight men in the hospital from gas. We moved this.baftery to a new position, believing the enemy had located it. But when they got into the new position the first thing Captain Kelley wanted to know .was when he and his boys could go to the old position, as all were complaining of lack of action. Kelley used the argument that, after having fired so many thousands of shells at the enemy it would be reasonable to suppose he would fire a few in return. ‘We’re a fighting outfit, you know,’ Captain Kelley said. That will make you understand, Bill, the fighting spirit of the men of the 150th field artillery. I had a little fun with Kelley, however, as I accused him of liking the old position best because the inspecting officers are not so anxious to linger around where * constant shelling is going on. “Major Prather, of the third batatlion, stood the heavy shelling in the vicinity of his dugout from 7:30 to 11 o’clock, then decided it was getting so warm he had better mbve, which he did. And he had not been ' out of that dugout more than a few seconds before a boche shell smacked it. I visited him in his new position a little later and we went back to see his old home. I asked him whether he had secbred all his belongings before leaving and he replied that he had. But I knew better and told him so, for I found several articles of apparel that he had lost interest in. “Well, I’ve told you about all a conscientious censor will permit me to tell and hope you will return the compliment early. And Bill, I still have more hair than Carl Fisher, even if mine is getting gray. “Youra, “808 TYNDALL.”

Save feed and save food. Sell or confine the roosters this week.