Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — Page 4

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

KAISER PLANS HIGH SEA offensive. Further evidence that Germany in its efforts to end the war Uns summer, is planning to support its land offensive by sending its high sea force against the combined British and American grand fleets, is in an official dispatch from TRANSPORT SUNK by German submarine. The British transport Ansonia owned by the Cunard Steamship company, has been torpedoed from the British coast, while on her way westward, according to private cable messages recevied in New York Tuesday night INDIANA SOLDIERS in today’s casualty list are as follows: Private Paul F. Cross, Shelbyville, killed in action; Private B. Hurst, Oldenburg, died of wounds; Private Phillip Peterson, Hammond, severely wounded. HARVEST WHEAT in Kansas. The wheat harvest in the southern counties in Kansas has started. The weather is perfect, help is plentiful and the yield surpasses all estimates. BIGGER POWDER plants start. New government powder plant at Charleston, West Virginia, has begun operation two months ahead of schedule. The Nashville, Tenn., plant started last week. The two plants cost $120,000,000 and -will give the government a powder production equal to the capacity of all other American plants combined.

IS IT FAIR?

Wednesday the postmaster handed us a long notice in reference to the appointment of letter carriers for this city, and we were notified that we were to make no charge. Shortly after receiving this notice a person in the employ of the county come to our office and handed us a notice in Which the voters of the county were urged to register, but, said that no money was to be paid for its publication. , • The revenue of all papers is raised by the money paid for subscriptions and advertisements. We want to ask in all fairness, is it right to ask publishers to make these donations? Would it not be as fair for the

government to require the postmaster to pay for the notice out of his fat salary and the county employee to pay for the notice he wants printed free, as to ask the printer to make the donation? Would it not be as fair to ask the merchant for free merchandise, the farmer for free produce or the lawyer for free legal advise? Does this disposition to beg represent the sentiment of the people? Is the government a pauper or the county a bankrupt. Do the people who ask for this free service render a like gratitous service to the county or the government? There is not one bit of difference between asking the editor for a cold cash donation or a free notice in reference to some business matter. Every paper in the country is giving gladly and freely much space to the war activities, especially those in which giving is an important-part. This will be gladly continued. But we believe that the service we are asked to render in the conduct of the national or county business is as important and should receive as«just remuneration as the person who is in the service of the government or the county or the one who sells these institutions materials. It costs money to run newspapers. More now than ever before. Editors are in many cases human beings, having members of their families who eat, wear clothes and have other expenses similar to those of the common herd. They have employees to pay. Every one on the Republican force has had his wages increased. Paper, ink and all other materials are higher. Postage, express and freight rates have been increased. The conditions have become so unfavorable that many papers have ceased to exist. The Republican will match the liberality of any institution or individual to the fullest extent of its ability; but we insist that the government and the county have the right and the people are willing for them to pay a reasonable price for-.ser-vices rendered, the same as is required of private individuals or business concerns. The placing of the nation or the county in the attitude of a pauper or a beggar is misrepresenting the people, the majority of whom are fair and square.

Mrs. Leota Garriott went to Monon this morning; Miss Jennie Chamberlain, of Mt. Ayr, went to Bloomington this morning to attend school. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Thomas and two children went to Attica today, to visit Mesdames C. H. Porter and J. W. Williams are spending the day in Chicago. Mort Murray and wife went to Gary today. Mort is employed at the steel mills. Mrs. A. C. Rosenbrook, who has been visiting relatives and friends, returned to her home in Madison, Wisconsin today. Dr. E. C. English and wife went to Chicago this morning. The doctor will attend a medical convention and Mrs. English will visit relatives. Roy Rowen, brother of Mrs. Carl Somers, who has been visiting here, will leave for Washington, D. C. tonight. Mr. Rowen is in the employ ofthe government Manley Priee has completed his year's work at Purdue University apd has had a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pohn Price, of Otterbein, came here today and wijl be employed in the Noweh reittarant during the vacation.

To Save the Wrecks of Humanity—To Fill the Hands Held Out to Us

A MOTHER’S PROMISE TO HER SON

My Dear One—l’m writing this very, very small and on the thinnest of paper, so that tightly folded it may slip into one of the olive drab pockets of your new uniform without encroaching for the tiniest part of an inch upon all the new things that you mast have there —the passports and identification slips and photograph, the knife and pen and writing pad, the lists and numbers and names and ciphers, the address book and the thin manual you have been studying so hard and the slim little Bible, for this letter is a part of your equipment, too, or at least I like to think that it is. I’m going to tell you In It just one or two of the things we’ve been trying not to say in these last days. You’ve said to yourself, haven’t you, that there were possibilities that I, thank God, hadn’t seemed to think of. You’ve marvelled gratefully, haven’t you, that I could say goodby with dry eyes and talk about what we should do when the war is over. My dear, there is nothing—nothing—that can happen to you that I haven’t foreseen in every detail since May, since the very beginning* of it all. I know that some of our men are not going to come back. I know —as I write this in the room you love —that your fin-' gers may fumble for this little piece of paper in some dreadful hour, a month or two months or six months from now, just to read it over once more for the last time, just to feel in your fingers out there in a shell lighted battlefield something that I have touched —for goodbye. And thinking of all this for almost a- year while you’ve been getting ready to go Tve been getting ready to

“A Great Net of Mercy dr awn through an Ocean of Unspeakable Pain

The American Red Cross

By KATHLEEN NORRIS

I stay. Just as you planned I planned, and I said to myself: “When the time comes for us to part I shall m&ke him a promise.” Dear one, this is my promise, and I make it for the term of your own —“for the duration of the present war." I promise you that while you are away, whether it is months or years, nothing except what I can give you and give all the others shall fill my life. I promise you that I shall devote myself, here in safety, to the work of making what you do easier and strbnger and safer for you. I promise you that I shall give—and give and give—for the Cause! Not the money I can spare, not the time I have left when everything else is <4one, but all the money, all the time, all the energy I have! Your whole life has been altered, has been set to sterner and graver music. So shall mine be. You will know self denial, privation and fatigue while the war lasts. So shall I know them. Even if black news comes, even if the blackest comes, I shall remember that against your brave heart this promise is resting, and I shall go on. And while there is one man among our million and among the millions of our allies who needs clothing and nursing and comforts and solace for your sake I shall not fall him. Perhaps in God's goodness this note will come safely back to me in the olive drab pocket, and we will smile over it together. But, remember, until that hour comes I shall be always busy filling my own small place in the great machine of mercy and as truly under the colors over here as you are over there. God bless you!

TKI REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Contributed by George Wright

WHEN A CUP OF COFFEE TASTES LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS

He Got His Cup and Then Went on—to Death. Through the establishment of the line of communication canteens tn France the American Red Cross is setting records in serving hot coffee, cocoa and sandwiches to the troops. One of these refreshment units made another new record recently, serving more than 50,000 meals in one week. At another a cup of coffee was served every ten seconds for a period of two consecutive hours. In a single week these Unes of communication canteens often serve 80,000 American and French soldiers. Soldiers In Box Care. Do our soldiers and their allies really want this form of Bed Cross service? A letter from a young American aviator, a 1917 graduate of Princeton University, is probably typical. It might be added that this man has since been reported killed after bringing dowp a German Taube. “A 50 mUe train ride over here," be said, “instead of taking a few hours may take days. When we stop at a Red Cross canteen you can bet that a cup of coffee tastes like a million dollars." It is not always possible for a regiment to provide sufficient food and hot coffee on these long journeys, where the men must often be packed standing into unheated box cars ordinarily used for carrying horses. So Imagine for yourself the warmth, the cheer, the comfort that piping hot coffee and good sandwiches bring to our boys after a night on such a journey! You can just bet that it stiffens a man's courage. Your Red Cross is handing out this renewed courage by the piping hot cupful.

THE RED CROSS SPIRIT SPEAKS

I kneel behind the soldiers’ trench I walk with shambles’ smear and stench The dead I mourn. I bear the stretcher and I bend O’er Sammy, Pierre and Jack and mend What shells have torn. 1 go wherever men may dare, 1 go wherever woman's, care And love can live. Wherever strength and skill can bring - Surcease to human suffering Or solace give. I am your pennies and your pounds; 1 am your bodies on their rounds Of pain afar; 1 am you, doing what you would If you were only where you could—u Your avatar. The cross which on my arm 1 wear, * The flag which o’er my breast I bear, Of what you’d sacrifice for him Who suffers on the hellish rim Of war’s red line.

Newest Devices of Surgery For Our Wounded Soldiers

Nitrous Oxide and Fluoroscope at Hand to Give American Wounded All Chance in World.

The best is none too good for the wounded American soldier. That is the Red Cross idea. The minute science finds an Improvement in surgery it is adopted in the Red Cross army hospitals, which are models of up-to-the-lnstant completeness. This'fact Js vividly emphasised In a recent news dispatch from Reginald Wright Kauffman, author of “The House of Bondage.’’ Kauffman had been allowed u accompany a badly wounded friend Into the operating room: - ‘Come on,’ said the Interne; ‘your friend's in there. He’s about played •ut; can’t stand chloroform or ether. Got to give him nitrous oxide.’ “I knew that tor a patient whose registance has been diminished the difference between the old anaesthetics and this new one is frequently the difference between life and death, but 1 elan knew that nitrous oxide Is not •a our army list and that no supplies existed a year ago in France. “ The Red Cross has put up a plant here,’ explained the interne. He opened a door. Bill, lay on the operating

THE EMBLEM OF HUMAN MERCY

The Red Cross is an emblem typifying human mercy and sympathy. Its mission to relieve phys-

In addition to serving our enlisted forces, ft is assisting in the work of civil relief among our allies whose soil is being devastated by the fighting. Thus the Red Cross is helping to interpret the constructive spirit ofour Republic which holds sacred human life and the ideals it seeks. As time goes on the scope of the work of the Red Cross in Europe will increase in order that the organization may meet the demands that will be made upon it It must receive the full and hearty support of the American people. It is only through such an agency that we can be assured relief and necessary ministration to our young men forming our military force. It is my sincere desire that adequate funds will be secured for the work of the Red Cross.

By JOHN H. FINLEY.

By SAMUEL GOMPERS

ical pain and minister to mind and body has given it a place deep in the hearts of all dur people. .For those whose dear ones are in places of great danger it is a comfort to know that the American Red Cross is performing more effective service on a larger scale than ever before.

table, and the surgeons were at work. “ They’re after . that abdominal around,’ the interne told me. They’re working with the fluoroscope.’ “Above Bill’s upturned feet and about a yard away stood an X ray apparatus. Its flesh piercing light fell on a disk of metal that an orderly'held over Bill’s bared waist. The violet rays passed through the disk and Into the patient’s abdominal cavity. The surgeon’s eyes followed them through the metal and into the flesh. His knife plying fingers worked under the disk and deep In the wounded man’s belly. He cut with that solid plate for a window. “ ‘He Can see what, he’s after before he gets started,’ my guide exulted, ‘and If he overlooks any shell fragments there Is a magnetic contrivance that sounds a basset when he gets near them.’ “It would be all right, they told me. Thanks to the fluoroscope ahd the nitrous oxide, a’ stay here under treatment and then a rest at one of the Red Cross convalescents’ camps by the seaside would ftt BUI for a return to the trenchea," >