Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1918 — Page 3

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

BURLESON HAS BUNGLED says New York merchants who ask congress for an investigation of the postoffice department. 46 “OBJECTORS” given twentyfive years. Sentence of life imprisonment was imposed by court martial today on forty-five conscientious objectors who refused to wear artsy uniforms at San Antonio, Texas. The sentence were reduced to twenty-five years and the men sent to Fort Leavenworth. M. E. FOLEY WILL make the Fourth of July address at South Bend. He had been invited to make address here, but had been secured for the South Bend celebration before our invitation reached him. ONE CENT FARE for soldiert, with the proper certification is now granted by the railroads of ,the country. This is a iftovement worthy of great commendation. _ , MAYOR BENJ. BOSSE, of Evansville, will drive a grain binder on the old Bosse homestead during the wheat harvest. THOMAS F. MORAN, of Purdue, will make the commencement address at the Newton commencement to be held at the Huntington home, Friday afternoon and at the Marion township commencement to be held at the Consolidated school Friday evening. LOUIS J. RETTGER, of the Indiana State Normal, will make the commencement address for Jordan township, Thursday, June 27, and the Barkley township address Friday, June 28, and Milroy township, June 29. All addresses will be m the evening.

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Anna Timmons came from Arizona Saturday for a short visit with her sister, Mrs. J. F. Cochran and family.’ Mr. and Mrs. Korah Eldridge and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cochran and Albert'Linback attended a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Eldridge Sunday. A number of other relatives were also present, the occasion being in honor of Ezra Eldridge, who recently enlisted in the service. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Cook visited his brother, Ernest Cook and family near West Point Sunday. Miss Ivah Poole, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cook for sometime, returned home with Ed. Cook. There will be an ice creaih social at McCoysburg Saturday night, June 22, for the benefit of Sunday school. A committee of five women have been appointed to take charge of the supper on that evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Baughman visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Baughman and family Sunday. Hanging Grove township will hold its annual Sunday school convention at the preaching hour Sunday afternoon, June 23rd. An effort will be made to have a good speaker to talk on the Sunday school work.

CHILD’S WELFARE MEETING AT LIBRARY AUDITORIUM

The first of a series of Child Welfare meetings planned by the child welfare committee of the council of 'defense will be held in the library auditorium Thursday afternoon, June 13th, at 2:30. Two splendid speakers have been secured, Mrs. Sewell, of Purdue, and Amos Butler, of Indianapolis, chairman of the state board of charities. Also a local physician will explain what the war will mean to the children of this community. Every person in the county, especially the parents, should attend this meeting and learn of the means being employed by the government to save the children of our country in these times when war is drawing nearer and mearer our very door.

RENSSELAER PEOPLE VISIT THE HASCALLS

The following people were Sunday guests of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hascall in their country home near Winamac, Pulaski county:— Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kannal end two daughters, William Hoover, Attorney and Mrs. J. A. Dunlap and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Gwin and Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin. Mrs. Gwin remained for an extended visit in the Hascall home. Mr. Hascall accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Kannal to Rensselaer.

Sit down and think it over and you will discover that if you had kept your mouth shut all day yesterday the world would be just as well off today. Why does a well-built girl who is wearing a knee-length skirt worry because she has a pimple on her face? The men are not going to notice the pimple. BILLY FRYE For all train and city call*. Also Auto Livery CITY TRANSFER CO. W. U FRYB, Prop. Phones 107 and 369.

RENSSELAERREMINGTON BUS UNS SCHSDULB S Tripe Pally Lums Iwlm ...... 7;48 a. as. Airive Remington ...... 8:80 a. m. Leave Remington •• nH 9:10 a.m. MLxttow Bonito 9:68 a. m. Leave ReuMelaar 4:00 > m. Antra Remfagtoa 4:45 p. m. Leave Remington ...... 5:15 p. m. Arrive Benaeelaee 6:00 a. m. HMm Ul-W. W cameleer, lad.

The Call From No Man’s Land

The Spending of Your Hundred Million Dollars

Busiest Budget in AU the World Is a Red Cross War Fund—Every Dollar Spent Alleviates Misery.

Last summer the public subscribed a hundred mllUon dollars to the Red Cross. M the latest statement over eighty-five millions of It had been appropriated. Where has/trigone ? you ask. Fer many mohthi the world has been spending over a hundred mil Hon dollars a day for the destruction of life, limb and means of subsistence. Call up what you have read about the war’s devastation. The American Red Cross’ enormous job is to do whatever It can to alleviate that —not after the war, not after governments have deuterated and resolved; but right now, at the minute, on the spot It's amazing that It has done m much with so little money. Last antumn the Italian army fell back precipitately. On your war map that meant rubbing out one Une and drawing another half an inch further! south. Over there in Italy it meant ] thousandsof poor families fleeing from] their homes. Major Murphy, Red Crow Commissioner la Europe, rushed to the scene and wired: “Indescribably pathetic conditions exist, involving separation of mothers and children, cold, hunger, disease, death.” In November and December the American Bed Creas appropriated three million dollars tor relief there —a large sum, yet small In comparison with the need. Condensed Milk for Children. Soldiers are only a part of the Red Cross’ work —probably the smaller part Every Instant, somewhere tn the vast flood of destruction, a band' reaches Bp in appeal. It Is pretty apt to be a child’s hand or a woman’s. When the. Red Crops commission reached Petrograd it asked the gov“What is the m« urgent

THE REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

“A Great Net of Mercy drawn through an Ocean of Unspeakable Pain

The American Red Cross

By WILL PAYNE

thing?” The government replied: “We must get condensed tank for the little children here.” The commission got the milk. At one spot in France farm work was stopped by lack of horses. That meant more hunger. The Red Cross got In a big tractor and set it to plowing for the community. There are a million needs. Cold, wet and the deadly physical strain of the trenches Wndermlne men’s constitutions. A frightful scourge of tuberculosis has developed In France. The Red Cfoss has built sanatoria, provided over a thousand beds and nurses. Thirty Millions for France. I have here a big sheaf of sheets filled with figures. One Item Is thirteen million and odd dollars —the amount which, up to that time, had gone to the local chapters'Of the Red Cross in the United States for local relief. Twentyfive per cent of *the money subscribed through the chapters eventually goes that why. Over thirty minions have been appropriated for work in France. Here is a million and a quarter —in round numbers — tor military- hospitals and dispensaries; over a million and a half for canteen service, whole French and American soldiers, relieved from the trenches, can get good food, a cot, a bath, and have their clothes disinfected —and so go on for their brief holiday clean, rested, nourished. There are over three millions for hospital supply service; half a million for rest stations for American troops. AM of refugees —eleven thousand families—accounts for nearly three million dollars; carte and prevention of tuberculosis takes over two millions; care of hapless children over a million ; rellet work in six devastated dis-

tricts, including care of five thousand families and sufficient reconstruction to make houses" habitable, required ever two millions. , Misery on an Unparalleled Scale. These are all largo items; but the Red Cross Is, grappling with human misery on an unparalleled scale —a world of it The item for relief of the blind amounts to four hundred thousand dollars. The dispensary service sends supplies to more than thirty-four hundred hospitals. The Red Cross receives and distributes more than two hundred tons of supplies dally at Paris For tixfe distribution and its other wwtk'ir rßiuJres a big transportation service of thdtoA and trucks. This transportation service has cost a million hM h half, and its operating expenses run to a million dollar* Ev«py dollar it spendb iheans mlbery alleviated. Its WOrtt is binding abroad for the United States the best good will in this world. It is building the best good win among ourselves. Whatever else the war may produce, we shall bo proud of our Red Croon

I weal to say to you toot so other eryotowtom tince the world beyaa bee ever done euc* yreet oonotonoMoe work with the efficiency. dtoyotoh and enderetonddM. often under edoerw oiroOMOstonoee, that has been dene by the Amerloon Rod Croat in France. General PertMng.

YOUR RED CROSS An Army Without a Gun

By MEREDITH NICHOLSON

THE Red Cross is the greatest instrument of mercy the world has ever seen. Noble as the service of mercy and helpfulness was in Civil War days, the Red Cross surpasses it immeasurably not only in the range and variety of its effort, but in efficiency and effectiveness. The Red Cross is, we may say, the arms of the mothers of the world reached out to their sons to bind up their wounds and comfort them. The Red Cross is an army without a gun that wages war only upon suffering and heartache. Where the flag of the stars goes there the banner of the Red Cross must fly beside it. We watch our boys go forth to war with a spirit of hopefulness because we know that this great agency of humanity presses close behind them; that its work is not incidental, but the intelligent directed effort of one of the most marvelous organizations ever contrived by American genius. We have all contributed to the Red Cross; we shall be called upon again to contribute to its funds, —again and perhaps again. And we will respond again and yet again! For this is a war for the defense of civilization, and we of great, free, splendid, glorious America, have every intention that it shall be fought with the army of the Red Cross solidly supporting our soldiers.

STRETCHING PARIS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF FRANCE

THE RED CROSS HAS HELPED WHERE GOVERNMENTS WERE HELPLESS.

The avalanche of refugees that swept Into Paris from the north of France had been the despair of the civil authorities. These homeless, stunned people were a new responsibility to be added to the thousands of wounded men that came steadily from the shambles of the west front Paris is an old city. It was not ready to take in its neighbors’ children. Its population was already a tight fit So It made the best of its poor by Offering up its garrets. Ndw building construction’seemed impossible. Men were scarce. The mechanic was either manning the trenches or fighting the fight in the war factories. Paris was distracted. It Is wonderful indeed how nobly Paris tried to meet this condition. And it is remarkable how Paris met it with the aid of our own Red Cross. Unhampered by red tape or precedent, our Red Cross put on overalls and jumper, carried the hod, became architect, engineer and contractor and went Into the building of homes. Here was S ctrtirch lot that lay vacant; here an unfinished hospital; there a worn out

THE RED CROSS MAN

By AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR.

Broken with pain and weariness And sapped with vile disease. Back to the land of ruined towns,* -7 Of murdered men and trees, Through Switzerland from Germany The trains of wreckage ran, — And on the French frontier they found A Red Cross Man. And when to what had once been home Those haggard exiles came, Young wheat was green above the scars Of steel and blood and flame Round new built houses where once more The work of life began. And still they found to welcome them A Red Cross Man. There the husband clasped again The wife he mourned as dead— The child was on its mother’s breast. The old weTe comforted. What wonder if they hope to find The Angel of God’s Plan ~. Who meets them at the heavenly gate A Red Cross Man!

Of the Vigilantes.

building, all of which in a fortnight were started on their way toward new apartments, rooms and sleeping wards. We here at home who associate the great Red Cross movement with bandages and white gowned nurses must lose this old illusion in the light of a thousand other works for humanity. In this case we see the Red Cross first as diplomats convincing the civil authorities of Paris as to their ability to remedy the situatioh, then as architects remodeling buildings, changing building plans, hiring labor gathered by themselves from the ex-sol- ' dlery and the older num, all the while working under every imaginable handicap, while Father Time cried, “Get it done, get it done.” So out of the garrets came these despairing people to find new hope in clean homes, to get new cheer out of sheer bodily comfort and fresh courage to again take up the great trust that France has kept so well—“to carry on.” It is not strange that our e French brothers believe In your own Red Cross just a little more than you do. But should this be?

Of the Vigilante*