Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1918 — Page 3

FEEDING REFUGEES ON FRENCH TRAIN

American Red Cross in Paris Quickly Answers Emergency Call. £ / HOMELESS LftUGH MID JOKE No Bitterness*, No Complaint, No Deopair Among People, Many of Whom Were Refugees for Second and Third Time.

Paris. —“A thousand refugees from the east of Amiens will pass through Adheres at seven o’clock tonight. They will not have had any supper, some of them may not have had any lunch. There is no food there and no facilities for feeding them. Can you help us?” That was the telephone message, from the French tainlster of the., interior which came to the American Red Cross at noon one day during the •German drive on Amiens, and the answer was “Yes. Emergency messages are no surprise to us these days.” The food was ordered out of the •warehouses and a score of volunteers rounded up. They started at six o’clock the same ■evening.. One five-ton truck, loaded with tinned beef and condensed milk, figs, prunes, chocolate and heaps of huge loaves of war bread; two carloads of midnight volunteers, stenographers, bureau chiefs, drivers and canteen workers set out on their way to bring help to the homeless refugees. They rolled out through the residential district of Paris, out past the fortifications, bumped through grimy factory suburbs and on into the open country where the level plains stretch off into infinite distance, broken only by interminable rows of slim poplars. Then suddenly without warning, there emerged from the forest into a black smudge of railway tracks, cinders, flat-cars, passenger cars, sheds, platforms, warehouses, cranes — Acheres. It was the junction point, -where the thousands of refugees were to stop for half an hour. Saluted With One Arm. Lieutenant M met us there, saluted stiffly with his one arm, and did the honors of the station. A group of weary, muddy “permissionaires,” most of them over forty, just back from the Champagne front, were routed out

CAMOUFLAGED BIG GUN

Mounted on a specially constructed railroad carriage this big. French 400 millimeter gun is ready to bang away at the German forces. It Is exceedingly well camouflaged to prevent detection by Boche aerial observers. Guns this size did good work by mowing down at long range the close-packed masses of Germans as they advanced In the latest offensive.

SOLDIER SAVES KING

Serbian Lieutenant Tells Stirring Story of War. « V Out of WJwle Army He Was Selected i.-. to Command Bodyguard of Monarch. Bangor, Me. —Among soldiers recently from European battlefields who passed through here was the officer who was selected to command the guard detailed to escort King Peter of Serbia to a place of safety when the Austrian bombardment made It necessary for the monarch to quit the royal palace in Belgrade. This officer is Lieut. Pavle Yovanovltch, a man of stately figure and courtly manner, who wears upon his tunic the Insignia of the Order of the White Eagle, which Is equivalent to the British Distinguished Service Order, and Order of the White Star, which corresponds to

to help us establish our tables on the cinders between the tracks, and pile the food where it could conveniently be passed into, the train. They unloaded bread, scraped cheese, opened tins of “bully beef,” knocked the tops off the boxes of figs and prunes and made plans to feed a thousand people in half ah hour. But somewhere off in the silent country the train, packed full of exiles, was standing on a side track. It was after two in the morning when the long train with its 28 carriages filled with refugees came into Acheres. A few windows were opened; tired faces looked out and voices asked, uninterestedly, “Where are we?” and were surprised to be told that they were near Parts. The train was on its way. they said to Tulle in the Correze department, in the. south of France. “Will they treat us well there?" an old woman asked and they, fa the full-. ness of their ignorance, not daring to say otherwise, answered “Yes.” It was a short half hour. They carried them bread, they filled the old woman’s apron with figs and prunes, they gave milk to the children, meat to the old men, cheese to everybody. They absorbed cakes of sweet chocolate in a rapid and mysterious manner. Some of them were the much bepetticoated women of Picardy and

GERMANS GRAB ALSACE PLANTS

Systematic Stripping of Industry Before the Day of Reckoning. INDIGNATIONJSWIDESPREAD Even Officials Responsible to Kaiser’s Government Forced by Public to Give Voice to Emphatic Protests. Amsterdam. —German carpetbaggers are overrunning Aisace to grab all property confiscated by the state under various pretexts. Indignation among the people Is widespread, and even officials responsible to the kaiser’s government are forced by public opinion to give voice to emphatic protests. Alsace is a great industrial center and one of its principal Industries is the manufacture of textiles. Most of the textile factories in Alsace were taken over by the state as a war measure. As some of the stockholders were Frenchmen, the mills, it was alleged, were partly enemy alien property. So the state took charge of the mills and prepared to liquidate them. This liquidation was carried out recently. Alsatian business men and capitalists had formed a corporation to buy the mills in an effort to keep them In Alsatian hands. Even city administrations, such as the municipality of Muhlhausen, where a number of factories are situated, bought stock in this corporation. The name of' the corporation Is the United Alsatian Textile Factories. Forbidden by Berlin. But it was decided in Berlin that the Alsatians should not be allowed to bdy what was practically their own. Another concern, called the Bleichroeder group, was more successful. Their bid for the property was accepted by the government, while the Alsatian offer was rejected. It was announced the Bleichroeder bld was preferred because It accepted state supervision as one of the conditions of the sale. Baron von Stein, undersecretary of state, in defending the government’s action before the main committee of the relchstag, said the Bleichroeder group had offered a million marks more than the Alsatian corporation. Besides, the Alsatians had refused to subscribe to the conditions, including state supervision of management. Consternation and indignation reigned at the meeting iff the city council of Muhlhausen when the gov-

the, Victoria Cross, besides several gold bars bestowed for service In the Balkan wars. Lieutenant Yovanovltch’s narrative of the country’s sufferings and despoilment at the hands of the Teutonic hordes Is dramatic and pitiful, a vivid word picture, In very good English, of the gallant fight of the Serbs against overwhelming "force. When it became evident that Belgrade must fall preparations were made for safe conduct of King Peter out of the city, and out of the whole Serbian army Lieutenant Yovanovltch was selected to command the body guard, which was of his own choosing—veterans with whom he had been associated In the Balkan campaigns. '' Austrian shells were crashing and thundering in the outskirts of beautiful, Belgrade as the guard of honor drew up at the palace gates, and already the enemy was posting machine guns on roofs within range of the palace. As the king was escorted from the palace to his carriage a hail of bullets swept the plaza, and several of the guard* were wounded, Including

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some were grizzled old farmers. Others were city folk, obviously not used to third class travel. There were famalies of three generations huddled together on their way—somewhere. Some clutched precious umbrellas, some carried bird cages, some alarm clocks. Some of them had dogs, some had cats. But the pathos of it all was not on the surface.* Some of them quietly told that they were refugees for the second and third time and laughed and joked when they woke up. There was no bitterness, no complaint, no despair. ... Bread Pile Fell Away. The huge pile of bread fell away, the fig boxes wer% emptied, the tins were all handed into the trains. The engine shrieked a shrill French whistle and the train pulled away. The rescuers were in the silence of the night. One of many thousands of refugees had had one dreary midnight meal far from home —one lonely meal out of hundreds, perhaps thousands, before them. A train load of wopnded from the front joggled in ten minutes later. The men nurses carried water through the carriages swiftly and silently. Then the Americans handed out the remnants of their stores of figs and the train slipped away again. Behind them could be heard the dull booming of the barrage guns about Paris, and the visitors knew that another air raid was on. They waited until the barrage stopped, then they headed back through the defenses of the capital. There was a faint light as they rode back through the forest. They could see clumps of yellow daffodils utterly oblivious of war.

ernment’s decision' was made known by Mayor Zopfel. He said not only had the offer of the Alsatian corporation, of which the city of Muhlhausen Itself was a component part, been rejected by the government, but he also had been Informed on good authority all the other Alsatian factories to be liquidated* would be sold to “old-Ger-beyond the Rhine; Ruthlessness Condemned. This attempt to Germanize Alsace by ruthless industrial methods was condemned by several members of the city council. Councillor Emmel denounced as a subterfuge the statement of Undersecretary vbn Stein, who had said the Bleichroeder offer had been accepted because it was the more favorable one. The speaker saw in the government’s action a systematic effort to take Alsatian property away from Alsatians. The Bleichroeder group, the successful bidder, is headed by the banking house, of Bleichroeder in Berlin. The original Bleichroeder was Prince Bismarck’s financial man and Ms heirs are still in control of the banking house. Old Bleichroeder was not very scrupulous in his financial methods, but this did not prevent Bismarck from conferring the title of nobility upon his moneymaker. This was one of the greatest jokes perpetrated by Bismarck. However, Baron Blelchroeder’s heirs are still barons and their Influence in the highest circles is still formidable. It seems they had little trouble in obtaining the Alsatian properties at favorable terms —favorable to themselves, for to them State supervision means supervision by friends.

GASMASK SQUAD FINDS LEAK IN AMMONIA PIPE

Cincinnati.—The first run made by the “gas mask squad” of the local fire department wad in response to an explosion in an ice plant. The firemen used their gas masks in locating a leak in an ammonia pipe. Not only had the fumes filled the plant, making it impossible for anyone to stay in the building without a gas mask, but patrons in a drug store across the street had to get out into the open air.

The tanning of ostrich skins Is one of the new South Afrfican industries.

Lieutenant Yoyanovltch, but the king escaped injury. When the party had reached a place of safety the king sent for the lieutenant, whu came, but fell, faint from the loss of blood, at the monarch’s feet Then and there did King Peter bestow the orders that the veteran wears so proudly upon his breast Lieutenant Yovanovltch will return to the battlefields.

Girls to Do Farm Work.

Los Angeles, Cal. —An army of 1,935 high-school girls of this city have volunteered to harvest crops and will be ready for call by the Woman’s Land Army of America after June, 21, when the local schools close. By that time the high-school farmerettes expect to have at least 3,000 in their ranks.

Could Not Speak Khaki.

Greensburg, Pa.—"Khaki:’ proved too much for the crack spellers in Smithton school. Forty-nine of fifty words were spelled correctly by the whole class, but everyone misspelled the name of the doughboy’s anilenii

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ON THE FUNNY SIDE

COURTING TROUBLE. It was a red-letter day for Pat Finnegan. For the first time he was a member of a jury. Dressed in his best suit he was about to depart for the courthouse when his wife asked him where he was going. "Shure, an* it’s to eoort Oi'm going,” replied Pat The next day the same thing happened. However, on the third morning things came to a climax. Mrs. Finnegan again asked the question. “Shure, it’s to eoort Oi’m going,” said Pat. Mrs. Finnegan took the rolling pin and got in Pat’s way. “Now, Pat,” she replied, “take off them good clothes; yer not going to eoort. If there’s any coortin’ to be done, ye’ll do it here, an’ do it with me!”

Had Her Way. Patience—So Peggy’s engaged to Paul at last? Patrice —Sure. She’s landed him. “You know she always would.have her own way.” “But will she now?” “Of course, shb will. He asked het to name the day, and she wouldn’t do it. She insisted that the ceremony should be performed at night.” A HINT.

Father —Agnes, is that young man still there? Daughter—Yes, papa. Father —Then ask him to bring in the morning paper before he goes, will you, dear? Exactly. By subterfuge he got away From cops on the qul vive, And so became, as one might say, A subterfugitlve. Too Busy Knitting. “I proposed to Miss Peacher last night.” “Did she accept you?” “She said, ‘Yes,’ in an absent-minded way, but I’m afraid that ion’t final.” “Why'not?” “She was knitting at the time. I don’t' believe she understood what I asked her.” Nowadays. Beggar —Could you spare a hungry man a nickel? Cholly—Yes, If you’ll tell me where a man can buy anything to eat with a nickel. Rustic Plutocracy. "Thousands of dollars pass through a bank teller’s hands daily.” “That’s nothing. Think of what passes through a farmer’s hands who milks twenty cows.” In These Days. "It’s as useless as the fifth wheel to a wagon." “That adage Is out of date. All automobiles carry extra tires.” Not Always. “Talk is cheap.” "Not when you tell a policeman your opinion of him, and have to pay $lO and costs.”

Natural Inquiry. Father of Family —The new ship, I understand, beat her record. Small Boy—l say, Pop, did she do If with her spanker? A Sleepy Humorist. Mrs. Tlmmld—John, wake up! There’s a man downstairs; I’m sure I heard a noise that sounded like . a yawn. Husband—Oh. go to steep. What you heard was probably the rubber plant stretching itself.” Just Reward. f Weary Willie —Data the worst pie I ever tasted. Mrs. Jones—Walt Just a minute and m give you a dollar. That pie was baked i»y my husband’s mother.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

The following article is quoted from the Red Cross organ, “A. R. C. Rays.” published at Denver. Among the tilings we can do is to follow its advice. “The following statement is authorized by the War Department: “Recent reports from commanding generals of certain army divisions indicate that one of the fruitful causes of soldiers absenting themselves without leave is the discouraging letter from home. Such letters frequently give alarming and exaggerated reports of conditions surrounding the soldier’s family, that some member is. desperately ill, that all are starving or that they are being in some way harassed. In instances such letters have so preyed upon the minds of soldiers that they have absented themselves without leave to go home, only to find that conditions had been grossly exaggerated. “Meanwhile the soldier has been absent without leave —a serious military offense. His problem then became one of facing the penalty or getting deeper in trouble by deserting. Sometimes a man’s pride or fear has led him to desert. “Every soldier wants to receive letters from home. They should be frequent, cheerful, hopeful and appreciative of the 'sacrifice that he is making for his country. They should be full of family incidents and cheerful home gossip. They should protect him from the trifling alarms and the small annoyances of everyday life. They should encourage him by glv-

And Now It’s Coats and Breeches.

So fast our women are putting themselves into' service suits and service garments that we have already come to the place where this new order of things in apparel is taken as a matter of course. Arrives a new outfit over the animated horizon of original things, and we discuss its points of advantage over other outfits —its trimness, its strength, its fitness for the purpose it is to fulfill or the emergency it meets —we have ceased to speak of it as a new departure ; the novelty has passed and the service suit is established. There is nothing simple and easily disposed of about' the designing of these practical new clothes. They must be convenient, comfortable, durable and shapely. Specialists are giving them weeks of thought Their last efforts proclaim that they have done wonders, for now we have the new coat and breeches suit as trim as a riding habit and as efficient as a soldier’s uniform. In fact the breeches are cut on lines much like those of the boys In khaki—except that they are cut In one with the

Suits of Georgette.

The word “suit” recalls to many minds the talleuts of serge, tricotine, gabardine and the various heavy silks in dress and sport weaves. Any material so sheer as georgette does not ieem feasible for such a garment, but a stunning example on tailored lines created of the heaviest quality of cream georgette allows this fabric to enter the lists as a fitting medium for suits, says the Dry Goods Economist. The finger-tip length coat Is elaborate_ly embroidered in navy silk. A few broad plaits give the necessary fullness in a skirt of this material, and they nicely correspond to those in the back of the coat that is belted at the normal waistline.

ing full confidence that his family and his friends stand behind him in the great enterprise he has undertaken. ' U A division Inspector submitted the following fa this connection: "♦While stationed at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, last year. I was a member of a general court-martial that tried approximately 100 enlisted men for desertion from national guard regiments stationed on the border. I believe I am safe in saying that at least 90 per cent of them gave as their reason for desertion the fact that they had received letters from home to the effect that a wife, sister dr mother was either dying, very ill, or in destitute circumstances, and begged the man to come home at once. Many of the men admitted that when they arrived home they found that the writer of the letter had exaggerated conditions.’ “Many young soldiers, fresh from home, suffer from homesickness, no matter how army officers may try to make their surroundings pleasant and comfortable and provide proper amusements. Extraordinary measures have been taken by the War Department during the past year to keep the young soldier actively engaged while in camp with sports, amusements apd comforts that a wholesome psychology might be sustained. Still, a type of soldier will yearn for home and fall into a brooding mood. It is obvious how harmful to him and to the service a discontented letter from home might be.”

leggings which extend to the ankle* and lace up. The coat Is cut on good lines, has a long skirt part, sets easily and Is provided with a belt and four capacious and practical patch pockets. Finally, a hat to match has a collapsible crown —and brim wide enough to shade the eyes. Dan you Imagine anything more comfortable and pleasing than this outfit? Two views of it are given In the picture, a photograph and a small drawing. On the farm, In the saddle, camping out, going fishing, driving a car, isn’t It just the ideal garb for service? The blouse under the coat may be light or heavy as occasion requires. At the left of the picture there is a sketch of a pair of overettes for garden or house work —o» other service. But they deserve more than mere mention and will be shown — together with another service suit — In a photograph at some other time.

Footing Is Popular.

Footing fits in so well with the very simple fashions of the season that it is no wonder this dainty trimming la In high favor this year, A lovely little frock recently over from Paris 1* paade of fine white silk net in a design of artful simplicity. The gathered skirt is tucked in two-inch tucks set six Inches apart and on the edge of each tuck is a two-inch band of black net footing. The sleeves (just to the elbow) are edged with black footing and so is a deep, demure fichu, drawn down over the shoulders into the sash. And the sash? It is of del blue faille silk, with four bands of footing on each sash end.