Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1918 — Page 2

Peace and Tranquillity Now Prevails Between Mine Owners and Employees

By JOHN P. WHITE.

holidays and Sundays in order to relieve the situation. If an adequate car supply can be regularly maintained in the principal coal-producing districts of the country by the railroads, there will be no need for alarm about shortage of fuel, because we have an abundance of coal and a great army of the best coal miners in the world. The individual output of the American miner is more than that of the coal miner of any other country. "We have some of the best coal deposits in the world and the physical conditions are adapted for large production. Our mines are modem and .r well equipped and capable of producing enormous tonnage. If the operators, the miners and the railroads co-operate, an abundance of coal for all needs, domestic and otherwise, will be supplied. My knowledge of the miner leads me to believe that he is willing and anxious to enter upon team work in this matter with his employer, the government and all concerned, if given the proper opportunity; and it is only by this method that maximum results can be obtained. The miner has always been a man who loved his independence, and he can be relied upon to contribute his full effort when approached in the proper spirit. In other words, he will co-operate, but cannot be driven. It is in this spirit of co-operation the success of the mining industry, as well as of all other industries, lies. Therefore the coal operator who desires to obtain the best results from his men should approach them in this spirit and the response will be wonderful. Controversies which in the past have been instrumental in promoting friction and increasing labor troubles, and which often resulted in strikes or lockouts, will become things of the past.

Workingman Now Fighting That Democracy, Liberty and Justice Shall Not Perish

By GEORGE W. PERKINS.

For years before this war broke out the dream of sentimental internationalists of the world had been to prevent international strife by general strikes in case of wars of congest. At a meeting several years ago of the miners’ representatives from many lands an English delegate pro- . posed a resolution providing that in the event of a war of aggression the miners of both countries involved should refuse to dig coal. The German delegation said that if such a resolution was ever introduced they would have to withdraw, for if they even sat in a meeting in which such a resolution was discussed they would be tried and executed for treason. The same thing has happened on other occasions. The German delegations always knew they would have to refuse to have anything to do with any proposal to interfere with their government’s plans for world conquest or face a firing squad. My personal experience while studying the labor movement in Germany was such as to make me more than ever and absolutely and unqualifiedly back of our government in this war. I found absolutely no democracy in the German labor movement- No meeting of workingmen could be held in Germany without government police supervision. No one could speak in a foreign tongue at any labor meeting without first submitting his speech to the autocratic government, having it censored and being given a permit to make the address. For years in Germany formation of labor unions was absolutely prohibited. Workers had to meet secretly and in imminent peril of arrest. When the German government finally saw the workers could not be intimidated in this way, it grudgingly granted permission to organize, but under so many restrictions that any true expression of labor’s aims and desires was impossible. Our forbears disputed the demands of kings and potentates. Rebelling against religious intolerance and social injustice, they started our first great war. It was successful. The second great crisis of our nation brought on the war for the elimination of human slavery. It, too, was successful. Now we are at an even greater crisis. We are fighting that democracy, liberty and justice shall not perish from the earth. Again we must and we will be successful. - ... „ The time for argument is past. The pacifist’s cowardly pleas are dead. You must now either be pro-American or pro-German; pro-democ-racy or pro-autocracy.. There can be no falling back, no wavering. All of us must be heart and soul for democracy and victory or for autocracy, militarism and slavish subjection.

Payment of Indemnity to Germany Will Make Liberty Loans Look Sick

There is many a man now in America who talked against preparedness for years that wishes he had bit his tongue out. But let us think of the present and the future rather than of the past. It is true that “of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.” But that will only help us now if we use jit as a lesson to teach us something for the future. If we win this war it will cost us a lot, because we are not seeking and probably never will seek indemnity from the Germans, and if they lose they will have nothing to pay indemnity .with, even if we did demand it. If Germany wins—France will pay half or more of her territory — will pay with the loss of her fleet and jialf or more of her army— America will pay the money indemnity to make Germany whole for all ithe losses she has suffered. That indemnity will make the Liberty, loans .of twenty or thirty billions, as they may eventually be, look sick.

Former President United Mine Worker* of America

At no time in the history of the coal mining industry has there been such peace and tranquillity as now prevails between employers and employees. There are 700,000 men employed in and around the coal mines of this country. If they could be kept steadily employed the year around we would hear very little complaint about coal famine. But this seems to be a physical impossibility and we must deal with the situation as it presents itself. s, During last winter’s severe fuel shortage the miners in many localities in this country worked on

President of Cigannaken* International Union

By C. F. JONES

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

HERE IS A REAL FLYING FISH OF THE AIR

This Nieuport airplane can rightly be called “the flying fish,” judging from the manner in which it is decorated. Its American pilot is standing alongside of his machine, somewhere in France.

PESSIMIST IN PARIS IS ‘SIREN’

Gloomy Ones Are Named for the Unwelcome Air Raid Signal. OPTIMIST IS A “BERLOQUE” People Have Joyous Time While Walting In Subway Stations—Crap Game Holds Interest of the Crowd.

Paris. —Two more words have been added to that very growing dictionary of war words. In Paris these two Words have achieved a new significance. Pessimists are now known as “sirens” and optimists are “berloques.” The significance is . self-explanatory to those who have experienced an air raid in Paris. Many dread the screeching, weird, bansheelike wail of the alarm giving siren more than the actual danger from the raiders, while the “berloque,” that lively little bugle call telling that all danger is past and that one may rest safely in one’s bed. is indeed a friend welcome as any optimist.

A Paris bookkeeper who suddenly left the city when the raids over the capital became too frequent and went to Nantes has been sued by his employer for S6O damage for leaving without notice. The case, not the only one of its kind in the French courts today, is attracting attention. The bookkeeper’s explanation was that his nerves were upset by the bombs and shells and that he thought himself justified in getting out of danger. The court held that a bombardment by airplanes and long-range guns could not be considered a sufficient reason for the breach of contract and gave judgment for the amount named.

The darkened streets of Paris have caused many persons to roam around town after returning from the theater or a visit because of the difficulty in finding the streets find house numbers. An attempt to Improve this condition is to be made soon by placing luminous numbers traced in little buttonlike mirrors which reflect and magnify the smallest glimmer of light on the houses of the city. One would think upon descending to one of the large and centrally located underground railway stations which are used as shelters that a soiree was in progress instead of an air raid. This is what the correspondent saw one evening during a raid when he was obliged to seek cover in one of the subway stations: In one corner a violin, accompanied by two guitars, was doling out a tune to which a “squadron” of youthful aviators were waltzing around, their partners beihg a group of pretty danseuses who had hurriedly left a neighboring

DIES LIKE A COWARD

Ex-Czar Wilts at Death; Propped to Post Collapses When He Faces the Flrinfl Squad—German Paper Gives Account o' Execution.

Amsterdam.—With two hours given In which to prepare for the end, Nicholas Romanoff, former. Russian emperor, was taken out by his executioners in a state of such collapse that it was necessary to prop him against a post, says the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, which claims to have received from a high Russian personage an account of the emperor’s last hours. Nicholas was aw’akened at five o’clock on the morning of' the day of his execution by a patrol of a noncommissioned officer and six men. He was told to dress and was then taken to a room where the decision. of the soviet council was communicated to

theater wearing their costumes, makeup and all. In another corner a group of Poilus, loaded down with their trench equipment, having been caught in the underground while on their way to the railroad depot and to the front, were singing “Madelon,” their “Tipperary,” in rather discordant tones. But It was singing just tfye same. Crap Game Holds Crowd.

An unusual feature of this particular “soiree” was a genuine all-Ameri-can crap game—not for keeps. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that half of the crowd In the station had edged around the half dozen spare American doughboys—three of whom were gentlemen of color —to witness this contest in bone throwing. The colored gentlemen handled their dice with a deftness that was delightfully reminiscent of “somewhere In Harlem,” to say nothing of their proficiency in the vocabulary of the game, which Parisians have since learned is a very essential adjunct to any skill at It.

Investigation of casualties following an air raid over the capital have proved to the authorities that the greatest number St casualties are not the result of injuries received from the bombs of the raiders, but of carelessness on the part of the victims. Parisians have become too accustomed to air raids. They stay out of doors to see the bursting of the shells from the antiaircraft guns and others leave their shelters and go home before the signal. As a result recently 23 persons were injured, some because they did not keep under' cover long enough, and others because they stood at their windows watching the bursting shells as if it were an exhibition of fireworks. The police have again warned the population. “The better, protection of the city,” says an order, “is no reason for neglecting the precautions dictated by common sense.”

SERVED AS GERMAN SPY, VINDICATES SELF

Atlanta, Ga. —Walter Wanderwel, a world-wide traveler arrested last year as a suspected German spy, having proven his innocence after five months’ imprisonment to the satisfaction of the courts, Is now making good in the eyes of the public, by serving the United States in the office of scoutmaster of troop 31, Boy Scouts of America. At a recent street corner meeting of the boy scouts, Wanderwel finished a short talk and collected over S2OO for the Thrift Stamp boy scout canvassers.

him. He was informed the execution would be carried out in two hours. The former emperor, it Is added, received the announcement of the sentence of death with great calmness, but when he returned to his bedroom he collapsed in a chair. After a few minutes he asked for a priest, with whom he was allowed to remain unattended. Subsequently he wrote several letters.

When the escort arrived to take him to the place of execution Nicholas attempted to rise from his chair, but was not able. The priest and a soldier were obliged to help him get to his feet. The condemned man descended the stairs with difficulty and once he fell down. 1 As he was unable to stand wifhout support when the place of execution was reached, he was propped against a post. He raised his hands and seenjed to be trying to speak, but the rifles spoke and he fell dead.

Has Given Good Service.

A bridge over the River Dee in England that was built in 1280 still is in use.

FOR ARMY SUPPLIES

Build Warehouses to Cost $218,000,000. Permanent Structures Are Being Established at CMcago and Other . Places.

Washington.—Warehouse construction, completed or m process of building, planned to. facilitate the speedy handling of materials at storage points for use of the army, Involves an expenditure of approximately $218,000,000, the war department announced. When completed the projects will provide about 33,800,000 square feet of warehouse space, additional wharves and piers and Improved harbor berths at various points. \ With - few exceptions, the war department announcement says, the projects are permanent structures of concrete, brick and steel. The building is being done under the supervision of the construction division of the army.

Warehouses have been completed at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Hoboken, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Port Newark, N. J.; Americus, Ga.; Chicago, Dayton, O.; Richmond, Va.; San Antonio, and Middletown, Pa. Construction is under way at New Orleans, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Newport News, Little Rock, Ark.; Schenectady, New Cumberland, Pa.; Columbus, ,O.; Charleston, S. C., and Norfolk, Va.

VILLA’S STEPSON JOINS UNITED STATES CAVALRY

Manchester, N. H. —William Ceraco, aged nineteen, who says he is a stepson of Villa, the notorious Mexican bandit, has enlisted in the United States cavalrv hete. Ceraco says that three years ago, during the bprder uprising, Villa shot his father and married his mother. Ceraco came north with the New Hampshire troop? when they returned from duty on the border. He says that he likes the United States so well that he has decided it is worth fighting for anywhere and was very anxious to know when he could get “over there.”

IN CHARGE OF Y. M. C. A. WORK

Dr. E. M. Wylie, who has arrived in England from the United States to take complete charge of the religious work of the Y. M. C. A. in Great Britain. The work that the Y. M. C. A. has done for American soldiers in England and France has received praise from all sides. It cannot be overstated that it is a stimulating and invaluable factor in the high morale of our. troops.

Nerve Tonic Was Com Cure.

St. Louis, Mo. —Mistaking a bottle of “corn cure” for a nerve remedy. Miss Olga Pitt, nineteen, took a big dose. She was soon hurried to the City hospital in a serious condition.

BEE STINGS KILL QUICKLY

Aged Man Succumbs In Ten Minutes After Being Wounded in Wrist*. Philadelphia.—Ten minutes after he had been stung on both wrists by bees, Clarge L. Hume, slxty-slx years old, a resident of Santa Ana, Cal., died. I

The bees’ stings acted as a violent poison, physicians stated, probably because of Hume’s unusual physical condition. Hume was stung by the bees when he attempted to destroy a hive close to his home.

Physicians, when told of the peculiar case, stated that there was-a probability that the poison injected by the bees struck an artery and was immediately conveyed to the heart, causing death. It was also said that the bees* stings may have acted as a violent poison because of an unusual physical condition.

The physicians said that so sudden a death from bees* stings was very unusual.

ASKS THE SOLDIER!

How comes it — That, after you have been promoted you can’t get any chevrons for a. month and a half to show your pals who you are? That, oft the very night that you decide to skip mess and buy a feed of your own, the cook dishes out real steaks, fries, and apple pie? That, after you’ve paid 100 francs to a French dentist to go over your teeth, a regimental dentist arrives in the town who would do the Whole job for nothing?

That, just you’ve gone out and bought a pair of putts on your own, the supply sergeant takes it into his head to Issue better ones than those you purchased?

That, right after the distribution of cigarettes from the company fund, you get* slathers o’s ’em from home—whereas you hadn’t had a butt of any kind for a month before?

That, just after you’ve done your own laundry, at the expense of parboiled hands and a broken back, a payday comes along, bringing plenty of laundry money with it?

That, just after your barrage of letters to a girl back home has begun to take effect and her replies are becoming better and better with each succeeding mall, you suddenly discover that you don’t care about her at all? That, after you’ve taken one of those billet baths in a mess tin, you find out there are perfectly good shower baths only a quarter of a mile aw r ay, and that they were there all the time you were wrestling with the sponge?

PHILOSOPHICAL

Wise men make proverbs for fools to laugh at. It’s all up "with a drummer when he loses his grip. Nothing pleases an actor more than a lot of strenuous glad hands. Religion is a good thing that does not cut a wide swath in a horse trade. When speaking of amusement circles it is proper to include circus: rings. —■* You can please any man by calling him a gentleman even if he knows you do not mean it. Fruit is -considered wholesome, but a banana peel will upset most any man’s stomach. If a man refuses to set an example he is foolish if he expects the world to have a good opinion of him. Statistics show that the sooner »' man allows his wife to have the last word the sooner the controversy ends.

ABOUT PERSONS

Claud Hamilton of London demands execution of all pet dogs to conserve food. Houston Richards, nineteen, of Philadelphia, has married his twenty-two-year-old widowed stepmother. C. E. Elder, Methodist preacher of Trenton, N. J., in 19 years has officiated at 2,895 weddings. , Raymond Besselln and Ann Martha Washington were recently married in Omaha. Bride is kin to George. J. W. Sample, seventy-four, Alderson, W. Va.,. has taught public school at S4O a month for 52 years and demands a raise.

THEATER BROMIDES

Full house tonight. Oh, I forgot a. program. No, I didn’t smoke cloves. They say this is a good-show. Well, what do you think of it? Did you ever know a show to begin on time? Hl run out and smoke betweeii these acts. I don’t know who did write the play ; I never bother to look.

POPULAR SCIENCE

State war board of Minnesota forbids strikes or lockouts during the war. National Wool Growers’ association denies that there is a wool and that there will be an increase of shoddy in clothes. President Thomas of Middlebury' college says that the war will lead us to revise our catalogue of virtues, giving stronger emphasis to some elemental qualities of manhood and judging less strictly the omission of more cultivated graces.