Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1918 — Page 3

MARSHALL NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY

REFERENCES TO NONPARTIJ SANSHIP IN KEYNOTE SPEECH. Washington, June 22.—Capitol Hill has had more amusement since the newspapers gave to the public a synopsis of the campaign-opening . speech of Vice President Marshall than it has had since the outbreak of the war. The Vice President is well liked, personally here, hut no one but hirdself takes him seriously. As a propagandist of nonpartisonship he is a standing joke even with Democrats in Congress. His nonpartisanship, like that of the President, extends only to the election of Democrats to office. As one Republican senator put it th me: “Wherever there has been an opening Mr. Wilson has gone out of his way to urge the election of Democrats to office, as he did in Indiana, New Jersey and Wisconsin. You will . notice he has lately urged the Democrats of Michigan to nominate Ford, no doubt hoping Ford might pull away some Republican votes. But it should not be forgotten that Mr. Ford long since ceased to pose as a Republican, and in the last campaign openly supported Wilson. He appointed to the Federal Trade Commission°Victor Murdock, under the pretense that Victor is a Republican, and by appointing him he had fulfilled the law which requires the com- , mission shall not have more than three members from any one party, but Mr. Murdock, like Mr. Ford, supported Mr. Wilson in 1916. “It is arrant nonsonse for either the President or the Vice President to set up as an apostle of nonpartisanship. Their . record is against them. Mr. Marshall stumped Wisconsin in favor of an out-and-out Democrat, against a loyal supporter of the war who happened to be a Republican.” I asked one of the House Democratic leaders what he thought of the keynote speech of the Vice President. “Oh,” he said, “when keynote sounders vfere made they skipped the Vice President. He will never set a river on fire, and is not more likely to make Republicans leave their party and vote for one of ours than he is to set fire to the river. It is one of the misfortunes of our party that at this time so many of our campaign orators feel it incumbent on them to talk nonpartisanship in one breath and in the next to charge that every man who does not in all things agree with the President is an unamerican American; is, in sort, an enemy of the country. The record shows that every movement to strengthen our navy and army, to put every necessary power in the hands of the President; in fact every measure to support the war not only received the cordial support of the Republicans in Congress, but the cordial indorsement of that party throughout the country, and it is wropg to Undertake to stir up strife at this time just to bolster up some man’s political aspirations. In this the Vice President, I am sorry to say, has been among the chief of sinners.” “How about his plaintive wail to ‘Stand by the Commander in chief?’ ” I asked. “Oh, that phrase is being badly overworked just now. The constitution says the President shall be commander in chief of the army and the navy. That is, he can appoint officers and in a general way direct them, but he is not, and never has been, the active commander in chief during a war. But the use of this phrase at this time arises from a confusion of ideas in the minds of many people, especially those who claim to be campaign orators. He is the commander in chief of the army, but not of the civil government. There he is only, according to the constitution, the executive of our will, administering the government and executing the laws as we make them. “But even as commander in chief of the army, no man is bound to say all that he does is wise or the best. We are still permitted to have our own views. We may, and can, stand by the war and yet condemn a thousands movements and actions of those having direct control over the movement of the armies. The people may differ with us as to what is best in the way of raising and equiping armies or of replenishing the treasury without forfeiting their right to be called true and loyal citizens. “We have an illustration, a very marked illustration, of how things go wrong when the people blindly trust. By the press reports we are assured that the government has been robbed , of millions and millions in the loose method of contracting for and purchasing of supplies, and other needs of the government. These things would not have been possible had Congress assumed an oversight of the war expenses. After all, Democrats will ask and will receive the votes of the rank and file of the party, as the Republicans will of their party, and all this is perfectly right and proper. Parties we have and ought to have. A government without parties is and must be autocratic. Then, if we have parties the people will divide, and all the wailing and crying for nonpartisonship is arrant nonsense.” He further said that he was a candidate for renomination, expected to be nominated, and would make his canvass as a Democrat who had endeavored to do his duty to the country, and would have no complaints to make against his ’Republican opponent if he should rap as a Republican and ask support because he believes Republican ideas and policies are best for the country at large. It may be said that members of Congress are not surprised at the recent developments as to graft of huge dimensions in contracts for the government, for, as some of them

'have said, it could hardly he other- ■ wise because of the lack of* business j methods and the absence z of any | seeming of business ability in hun- . dreds of those engaged in making contracts for the government and in buying supplies. A member of the House committee on military affairs said to me: “The placing of contracts or the buying of supplies amounting to millions of dollars was frequently placed in the hands of men who had never displayed any marked business ability or even superficial knowledge of the market value of the articles they were, purchasing. Take the one instance of the Bureau of Public Informations, of which George Creel in the manager. He asked for more than $2,000,000, and we have given him $1,250,000. He is to disburse this large sum at his own sweet will, yet in all his life he has never • displayed any capacity for handling sums of even ordinary dimensions. We would be foolish to expect anything else than that a large portion of this money will be wasted. So it goes in almost all departments, and especially in the outside ’ bureaus. In the shipyards thousands of workingmen are getting from $8 to $lO a day who six months ago would have jumped at the opportunity to work for less than half that amount. Here in this city young girls, without experience, are receiving form SIOO to $l5O a month as stenographers and typewriters. The cost-plus plan of making contracts is costing the people many millions. It was never heard of under any other administration.” The attitude of the administration toward Gen. Leonard Wood is still the subject of much conversation inside and outside of Congress. The administration has assigned no reason for this treatment, and has left the door open for the people to find a reason, and they are not slow in doing so, and the reasons they assign are not at all complimentary to the administration. It is a known fact that Gen. Wood was a firm and persistent advocate of preparedness, and gave an illustration of the good of preparedness by conducting a camp of instruction. Preparedness was one of the things the administration fought tooth-and-nail. Another reason is given that has its basis in politics. Two years ago, Gen. Wood was frequently mentioned as a possible candidate of the Republicans for President. To send him to France and there permit him to win fame would almost assuredly make him the Republican candidate in 1920 and political history tells that a military candidate has never been defeated in this country.

FARE FOR G. A. R. GATHERING IN OREGON ANNOUNCED

Official announcement of the railroau iare to the Grand Army Encampment to be held at Portland, Ore., during the week beginning August 18, was made Tuesday by Robert W. Mcßride, of Indianapolis, adjutant general of the national organization of the Grand ,Army of the Republic. The, announcement follows: “The rate allowed is one cent per mile for the round trip. This rate is open to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman’s Relief Corps, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Veterans, Daughters of Veterans, Sons of Veterans’ Auxiliary, and National Association of .Army Nurses of the Civil War. Also to members of the families of any of those organizations. Purchasers of tickets can have a choice of routes both going and coming; can go by one route and return by another; with unlimited stopover privileges west of St. Paul, Minn. The tickets will probably be on sale about August 1 (the precise date has not yet been fixed) and they will be good for sixty days from the date of sale. “In addition to the foregoing there is a war tax of 8 per cent on the face of the ticket. Pullman rates are at this time sl3, to which should be added 10 per cent, making $14.30 from Chicago to Portland. It is possible that the recent order permitting an increase of fares may somewhat affect the Pullman rates, but as to this I am not as yet informed. In order to purchase tickets those entitled thereto must present to the railroad ticket a certificate, forms for which are being prepared and will be sent to local organizations for issue.” It is 2,250 miles from Rensselaer to Portland and the fare therefore for one way would be $22.50 plus 8 per cent war tax.

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BLACK FELLOW IS MASTER TRACKER

I AUSTRALIAN NATIVE TYPICAL BLOODHOUND WHILE ON SCENT OF CRIMINAL. X. Recognizes Friend or Enemy Readily Merely by His Footprints. The art of the professional tracker ; is a fascinating thing to watch. The old-time western plainsman could trail a deer for two days through the forest, the modern White Mountain Apache of Arizona will follow a moccasined man over broken, jagged lava Country, there are said to be tribes in . the interior of. Brazil who can track for short distances by scenL But the king and past master of all trackers, the man who can make an Apache look like an apprentice boy scout, is the black fellow of Australia. He will perform feats of tracking that are almost ta I S 1 1 oeyona dviicl. The native Australian peoples are ranked low in the scale of humanity, and it may be because they are the most primitive of all races that they keep an almost animal delicacy of perception. But they add to it a very fine reasoning power in the things of the bush, and by combining the two qualities, they can tell not only where the man or the animal they track is go ing, but even what he is doing on th> way. The most spectacular exploits of tku trackers have been accomplished in the pursuit of criminals, on whase trail they are more deadly than bloodhounds. The Australian mounted policeman takes a black tracker along when he follows a criminal into desert or bush, and that settles it. The tracker will stay on the trail until the end of it is reached. It may take a day, or a week, or month —in one instance ■it took ten weeks —but the blackfellow never loses the trail for long. He will trail across rocks, across windblown sand, through a tangle of other footprints, he will pick up the trail again and if the quarry takes to the water, and he will report accurately the condition of the man pursued, whether he is strong, or weakening. So expert do these natives become in tracking that they can recognize a friend or an enemy as readily by his footprints as by his face. Personal Identification of a footprint by an expert black tracker is accepted as good evidence in a court of law. Such a tracker can even recognize the hoof mark of almost every horse that is known to him.

“FEW ACRES OF SNOW’’ IS NOW GREAT NATION.

French King’s Estimate of Canada Was Contemptuous. It is now more than a century and a half since Louis XV of France signed over to Great Britain the Dominion of Canada with the light remark: “Oh, well; it’s only a few acres of snow.” One cannot help wondering what his thoughts would have been could he have had a vision of the Canada of today and the part she is playing as an alley of his countrymen of the twentieth century. Out of a population of some seven and a half millions Canada has given 440,000 fighting men to the war. At the end of last year war orders totalling $1,095,000,000*had been placed with her, while this year’s munitions orders are pxpected to exceed $700,000,000—0r about SIOO for every man, woman and child. At the beginning of this year 630 factories were working on munition contracts, the country’s output being now more than that of any European nation except Germany before the war. Wooden ships, steel ships and submarines are being turned out, and on this account and that the imperial munitions' board is spending annually more than two and a- half times as much as the federal government Spends in a normal year. Anxious European allies await the grain and flour of the Canadian prairies as eagerly as ever the populace of ancient Rome looked for the corn ships from Sicily and Egypt. And if the province of Alberta alone were cultivated on the same intensive scale prevailing in pre-war Belgium it would support an agricultural population of fifty million —or half the entire population of the United States.—From “Canada's Troubles and Triumphs,” by Harry C. Douglas, in the American Review of Reviews.

How Machinery Breathes.

An English writer on engineering übjects, Mervyn O’Gorman, calls atention to the fact that a piece of maihinery, such as an automobile, laid wide after being used, is in danger of internal rusting through a kind of respiration which affects cylinders, gear boxes, clutch chambers, interspaces in ball bearings, and so forth. Every enclosed air space "breathes” by drawing in air when a fall of tem reratnre contracts its walls, and ex pelling it when the walls expand through heat. The moisture introduced with the air is deposited in the cavities, and may produce serious damage through rust The popular belief that oil will protect the inaccessible parts of unused machinery is fallacious. since nearly all oils take up about 3 per cent of water in solution.

A cork soaked in oil makes a good substitute for a glass stopper.

HOW GOLD LEAF IS MADE.

Oast In Ingots and Flattened, Cut In Pieces and Beaten. Gold leaf, of which such large quantities are used by picture-frame ma* kers as well aa by other trades, la made as follows: An alloy of the desired color havtn* been formed, the gold la melted in a crucible at a temperature well above the fusion point It is then cast into an Ingot and flattened by rolling between a pair of powerful steel rollers into a ribbon one and one-half inches wide and ten feet in length to the ounce. After being flattened It is annealed and cut into pieces of about six and one-half grains each, and placed between the leaves of a “cutch”, which te about half an inch thick and three and a half inches square, containing gbout 180 leaves of tough paper manufhctured for the purpose. This is beaten on for about twenty minutes with a seventeen pound hammer by which the gold is spread to the size of the “cutch.” Each leaf is then taken out and cut in four pieces. These are put between the leaves of a “shoder” four and a half inches square and three-quarters of an inch thick, containing about 720 skins which have been worn out in the “mold” or finishing process. The “shoder" requires about two hours beating with a nine-pound hammer. Each leaf is again cut in four pieces and placed between the leaves of a mold, composed of about 850 of the finest gold-beater’s skins, five inches square and thee-quarters of an inch thick, the contents of one “shoder" filling three molds. The material has now reached the last and most difficult stage of the process. During the first hour the hammer is allowed to fall principally on the center of the mold. This causes gaping cracks upon the edges of the leaves, the sides of which rapidly coalesce without leaving any trace of the union after being beaten upon. At the second hour, when the gold Is about the one hundred and fifty thousandth part of an inch in thickness, it for the first time permits the transmission of light If the gold is pure, or but slightly alloyed, green rays pass through; when highly alloyed with silver, violet rays appear. As a rule, about four hours’ beating with a seven-pound hammer is required. A single ounce of gold will at this stage trim to about 1,200 leaves three and a quarter Inches square. The finished leaves are taken out of the mold and the rough edges trimmed off by slips of rattan fixed in parallel grooves of an Instrument called a wagon, the leaf being laid upon a leather cushion for that purpose. The leaves are placed in books capable of holding twenty-five leaves each which have been rubbed over with red ocher to prevent the gold from clinging to the paper. The fine gold beaters’ skin is the outer coat of the caecum or blind gut of the ox, specially prepared.—Painter and Decorator.

A Balloon Fish.

There lives in ths apper waters of the River Nile a queer fish called the fahak (Tetrodon fahaka), which has the power of inflating itself like a balloon by drawing in a large quantity of air. Usually ft swims In the manner of other fishes; but when danger threatens it rises quickly to the surface of the water and begins to pump air into an extension of the gulleL By this means the abdomen of the fish soon becomes so greatly distended that it exceeds the rest of the body in size. The fish loses its equilibrium, turns over and floats on its back, and at the same time the spines of the abdomen are erected. By this transformation the fahak is protected against the attacks of its enemies. If one of these seize it the aggressor is wounded by the spines and henceforth leaves the unpleasant creature alone. -If the Inflated fish is grasped by the human hand it endeavors to draw in still more air, as if it were well aware of the importance of this action to its safety. When , the danger Is past the aix escapes with a 'slight hissing noise and the fish gradually resumes its normal form.

Scientific Uses of Spider’s Threads.

The cultivation of certain species of spiders solely for the fine threads which they weave has an important bearing upon the work of the astronomer, says Harper’s Weekly. No substitute for the spider's thread has yet been found for bisecting the screw of the micrometer used for determining the positions and motions of the stars, not only because of the remarkable fineness of the threads but be cause of their durable qualities. The • threads of certain spiders raised for astronomical purposes withstand changes in temperature, so that often in measuring sun spots they are uninjured when the heat is so great that. the lenses of the micrometer eyepieces are cracked. These spider lines are only one-fifth to one-seventh of a thousandth of an inch In diameter, compared with which the threads of the aiilkworm are large and clumsy.

Rubbing It In.

"I often wonder what my ancestor Adam said when he first saw Eve,” said an Impecunious man to a friend. “Was he an ancestor of yours?" "Certainly." “Then I guess he asked her to lend him a dollar."

A Peace Appetite.

Mrs Jones —As a patriotic duty we should eat the perishable tMnge. Mrs. Nelson—Everything te perlAable when Jack site down at the tobto

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PAUL REES WRITES FROM JEFFERSON BARRACKS

Jefferson Barracks, Mo., June 9, 1918. Dear Father and Mother: —Hello how are you all by this time? lam well and hope you are the same. I am enjoying army life first rate and hope to continue to do so. lam now camping on the Mississippi river a few miles from St. Louis, Mo., but we are all to be shipped to some other camp this week, so can not give you any address, so you can , write to me yet but I can now have the pleasure of letting you know my I whereabouts and that lam O. K. I, am now a United States regular sol-1 dier and will serve in the Coast Artillery, (the big guns which will pave the way to Berlin). I feel proud to think that I am serving my country as a man should. I did not have to register. I had to pass some hard examinations, but I have passed them all as a sound man. I had to take three examinations all together before toeoming a Soldier. It took seven hoars for the last examination, so you may have some idea as to the strain one* goes through with on enlisting. Earl Smith is hers with me and I get to see him quite often. I don’t know if we will get to be together after we get in the regular camp or not. He is well. Mam, I know just about how you feel by me not coming home before enlisting but I could not get there, but for one night, so I would not come at all for that would have been worse to break away than to come home at all. After I have been in awhile I will try to get a furlough and cpme home to see you all before going to France. Please do not forget to write after I once get located and give you my address. Mam, I do not want you to worry over me at all for I can take care of myself and will always be a man. Did Forest come home? I will write to him as well as many others as soon as I get located. Has Uncle Sol’s tools got there yet? This is Sunday and I am now at the Y. M. C. A. writing this letter. The “Y” is certainly grand. If it were not for the Y. M. C. A., army life would be awful. If ever you want to help me at the front, just give to the Y. M. C. A. and I will get the full benefit of it. Everything is fSee. Shows, music, a place of recreation, writing material and many other amusement are free. Don’t allow anyone to run down the Y. M. C. A. work. Well I have not taken any training yet to learn how to get in/the mess hall, ha! ha!< We have plenty to eat and drink. This camp is awfully crowded here. They don’t do any training or drilling here. I will be glad when we get to a regular post where we can get regular work. I think all coast artillerymen will go to the eastern coast for training, but one cannot tell where he is going to be sent. The boys are all proud spirited and are all in for getting the Kaiser. I sent my suit case and such articles as I could not keep to you. You should have them by how. I left most all my things with Forest. He will get them to you I guess as soon as possible. Well how is Newland by this .time? I hope the crops, are looking well and that they mature. Ido not suppose I will get to help harvest any crops soon. Hello, Lester, how are you? I often think of you. How is Russell? Hello Thelma and Nellie how are you? You must all be sure and write to me as soon as you learn where to writ* to. Well I will close for this time hoping this will reach you in due time. Has cousin Bertha got there yet? Good bye, your son, CECIL R. REES. P.S. Don’t write to me until I get situated for good and get an address. I think I will leave here for somewhere about Wednesday. Don’t worry.

ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

I can loan you all the money you want on that farm. My rate is r ’ per cent and my limit i« SIOO per <rr « p p W»11> MtiT-n-.-n

Mrs. Alphus Prather went to Parr today. \. ._. .

NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ANY “BAD EGGS” NOW

i The recent order of the food administration, making it compulsory for all wholesale poultry dealers to candle eggs before their sale, will prove of benefit not only to the wholesaler but also to the retailer and to the consumer, according to local poultrymen. There was a time when both the merchant and the consumer were sorely tried with eggs that were “over the line,”/ figuratively speaking. So frequently did the buyer find that a part and sometimes no inconj siderable part, of the winter eggs, cold storage, and the summer eggs, supposedly fresh, were bad, that he began to believe that stale eggs were present in every dozen on the market. This not only producd a strained relation between buyer and seller, but it also tended toward a condir tion that was wasteful. Now ail this has been abolished. The egg, cold storage, and that sup- ; posedly 1 resh, has had its slate wiped 1 clean. No longer is there any excuse for the “bad egg.” For, with the slightest care in candling, the eggs may be separated, the spoiled from the good, and the former sent to the garbage can. In fact, one local poultryman says that now “there is no more excuse for the rotten egg than there is for the rotten apple.” Every egg is candled on receipt in the wholesale house, the farmer being paid only for those that are good, and when later the eggs are packed, the name of the candler is attached to the case. If one of the candled eggs proves bad then the candler has been a poor workman, and wholesale dealers aver that little leniency may be expected by the one at fault. One of the advantages of the candling system, it is pointed out, is that it will make it impossible for the consumer to demand of his grocer to make good eggs which possibly have been bad only in imagination. The grocer has suffered much loss in this way, it is said. Now there, is no guess work in the matter, and the seller may feel certain -that hie produce was good. On the other hand it also will prevent the retailer, were he so inclined, from selling stale eggs for fresh.

COAL ORDERS TO BE INSPECTED AND CHECKED

The Fuel Administration issues the following: “Fifteen million tons of coal must be saved this year in private residances, apartment houses, churches, schools and commercial buildings, other than factories, according to figures made public by the Bureau of Conservation, United States Fuel Administration. “The Fuel Administration is now issuing directions whereby state and county fuel administrators are given a program of action to check up every order for domestic coal and curtail orders for excessive tonnage. No order will be comletely filled until approved by the local coal authorities.” ... This plan has been in operation in Philadelphia for the last six months, under the direction of Francis A. Lewis and T. C. Mahady. Mr. Mahady, from the Washington headquarters, will make the work national. The inspection system exposes the consumer who deliberately misstated facts on his coal order.

Mrs. PearT Dunn, who lives near Remington, went to Kankakee, Hl. this morning. if ii ’ CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bean the Signature at /WwfißdSb