Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — Page 2

BAGDAD ASTONISHED BY FIRE ENGINE

The natives of Bagdad, which some time ago was wrested from the Turks by the British forces, are roused out of their morning’s sleep by the clanging of a London fire engine, and view the machine with astonishment.

YANK AVIATORS WINNING FAME

Progress So Rapidly in Italian Camps They Amaze Instructors. MANY GUARD ITALY’S COASTS Their Watchful Eagerness Is of Great Help in Spotting Sneaky Submarines—All Are Anxious for Action. American Navy Aviation Camp, Somewhere in Italy.—Back there at home you have all heard by this time of the thrilling exploits of American aviators on the Piave river—the army aviators who dropped their bombs on the frail Austrian pontoon bridges and helped turn the enemy invasion into a disastrous retreat It is now permitted to announce that American naval aviators are also aiding the Italian defense. For more than three months now these bronzed boys of ours, skimming the air in their flying boats, have kept their constant vigil of coast patrol along the Italian seashore, watching for the stealthy moving blur beneath the waves that means one of ;the foe’s submarines, scanning the horizon for the specks which might be overbold Austrian destroyers, or rising beyond the clouds that screen the enemy’s seaplanes.

As a matter of fact, American naval flyers are co-operating with the navies of all the great allies in Europe. Numberless “eyes” are required down the long coasts from the North sea to the Mediterranean, and the United States is furnishing its share as fast as possible. This work, of course, is all under Admiral' films, but there is special headquarters for American naval aviation, under Capt. EL L Cone, in Paris. This system of American co-opera-tion has been developing since last August, and naturally will extend in the future as our naval forces grow. In France naval aviators were the first to fly beneath our flag. But in Italy the effort of the American navy is comparatively new. The number of our men now there is a matter of military information —therefore a secret. But there are enough to have done plenty of useful work.

Our Flyers Relieve Italians. The work falls into two branches — i the taking over of the actual operaitlon of coastal air patrols from the 'ltalians and thus relieving Italian flyjers for other duties, and the training of our own men for further endeavor iln the same direction. Of course, the men who are actually operating above waters are finished aviators, most of whom learned the game in !the naval flying schools which have i sprung up since the war along our town Atlantic coast. But the chaps who ‘are gei.ing their instruction in Italy iare rapidly “catching on.” The American training school lies on the shores of a charming Italian lake circled by picturesque hills. Right rbeside it is another training camp for ( Italian naval flyers, and the candidates in both camps have developed a ready camaraderie. Our camp ends in

MARINE APPLICANT IS LED TO WRITE SONG

St. Louis.—Harold Holland of this city went down to marine recruiting headquarters here and applied for enlistment. He was accepted, but his draft board refused to release him. While at the recruiting station he was so impressed with the marines that he wrote words and music of a song entitled, “You Great Big Handsome Marine" The song has been printed and now is sung daily at the marine recruiting rajlies.

a little public square which, in honor of the Americans, npw boasts, a new name—the Piazza degil Stati Unit!. Here the two flags—the red, white and blue and the green, white and red —float all day together. At dawn and sunset they are raised and lowered side by side before uniformed squads representing each nation. It is a bit of symbolism that counts. Americans Make Swift Progress. The lot of splendid American boys at our camp, most of them fresh from college, are getting on in a way that is Inspiring. Many of them are already “solo flyers” and will soon be “turned out” equipped for active service. They are up at dawn, all of them, and more anxious about the weather than they used to be at home on the morning of the big intercollegiate football game. You see, every man is trying to squeeze in as many flying hours as the day will hold in order to pass quickly to his first “brevet.” Each is on tiptoes to “take a hop.” This is naval air slang for a trip in the air. Their talk is all a jargon of

British Navy Is Bigger Than Ever

Has Grown 160 Per Cent Despite the Hun Submarine Warfare. LOSSES ARE FALLING BEHIND Official Figures Show Convoy System Is Beating U-Boats—New Tonnage Exceed Destruction by 100,000 Tons Monthly. London.— Upon the fourth anniversary of Great Britain’s entry into the war the secretary of the admiralty made public figures and facts which throw an encouraging light upon the naval situation of the allies. The British navy, apart from the American forces which now form a( integral part of its fighting strength consists at the present time of warships and auxiliary craft whose total displacement reaches 6,500,000 tons, against 2,500,000 in August, 1914. During that period about three-quarters of a million tons have been lost, but at the present day the growth of the fleet shows an increase of 160 per cent. Similarly with the personnel. The original 146,000 officers and men have grown to 394,000.

U-Boats Losing Power. Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, speaking in the house of commons on March 5, 1918, was able to express the opinion that the British and American naval forces in the North sea, the north Atlantic and the English channel were sinking submarines as fast as they were built, and on July 30, says the statement, he made the welcome announcement that during the last three months of the first half of 1918 the world output of tonnage exceeded the world’s losses from all causes by no less than 100,000 tons a month. As to the 'means of defense against submarines, figures are now available which show that the convoy system has played a large part in overcoming the submarine menace to the ocean communications of the allies. Whereas in the period from April to June of last year, before the convoy system was established, British steamers sailing to and from the United Kingdom in the main oversea trades suffered losses through enemy action of 5.41 per cent of their total number. The figures since then have steadily diminished, until in the period from March to June of this year, during which 93.8 per cent of the ships were convoyed, the losses have dropped to 1.23 per

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. INH.

motors and planes, of “spirals,” *»r “peaking-her over,” or “straightening her out,” and it falls more familiarly from their lips than even the homegrown patter of the baseball fiend. The Instructors are all Americans and they are certainly on the job. This shows in the spirit of endeavor and swift progress among the men. Many of these students have seen service in France in other branches. Np wonder their hearts are now in this bigger opportunity. They are well cared for. They sleep in comfortable new barracks and have their meals at an officers’ club, though you often see a man with his coffee and bread clear down on the beach so he won’t miss the chance of a “hop.” Inside the barracks they have fixed it up as much like home as they could, with bits of pictures and mementos tacked up on the walls, and on days when the skies are tangled with storm the college flavor comes out more than ever. For then all the young heads are bent studiously over books, “cramming on N. and A.” —navigation 'and aviation.

WOULD SAVE IRISH FARMS

Reconstruction Committee Plans to Get Land Irito the Hands of Skilled Cultivators. Dublin.—lrish farmers have been startled by a proposal made by the reconstruction committee that the government purchase some of the Irish farms w’hich are not being cultivated and sell th&n to competent cultivators or employ- skillful and progressive farmers to cultivate them. Sit Horace Plunkett, a meinber of a subcommittee, has reported that some Irish farms are occupied by incompetent or Incapable men, who will not improve their methods under instructions or if punished by penalties. The land deteriorates and is wasted for several years, while the occupant grows poorer and poorer and generally is crushed by his creditors.

BROTHERS UNKNOWING, ON BOAT 9 MONTHS

Cumberland, Md. —Benjamin L. Martin, Jr., of the United States marine corps, and his brother, Edward V. Martin, water tender, both of the Arkansas, traveled on the ocean for nine months on the same ship, neither knowing that the other was aboard. The boys met recently when they were leaving at the same time for a furlough.

cent of the total number of sailings in these trades. Million Americans Abroad. American troops who reached Europe by July 27 of this year totaled well over 1,000,000. Nearly half of these were carried by American ships, and the United States furnished for them 40 ocean transports and 335 escorts of destroyers. The total tonnage of ships of all nationalities convoyed in all trades since the introduction of the convoy system is 61,691,000, of which 373,000, or approximately .61 per cent, ijas been lost while in convoy. Since August 4, 1914, the British navy has transported nearly 20,000,000 men to different destinations, 2,000,000 animals and 110,000,000 tons of naval and military stores. The men lost through enemy action during the transportation bear the proportion of 1 to every 6,000 carried.

SMOKES FOR WOUNDED

,J A few wounded American soldiers in a United States hospital in France are receiving their “smokes” from an American Red Cross worker. The soothing taste of tobacco helps the boys to forget their pain and all their troubles go up in smoke. Tobacco is the greatest essential for the comfort of our soldiers both onthe line and behind. From letters ’received from boys “over thete” it appears that the Yankee cannot smoke "the detestable stuff” that the French smoke and American tobacco received with ' open aims.

SUNDAY DONI’S

Don’t stay away from church be cause company came; bring them. ■MB Don't let the Sunday paper keep you; we have something better. Don’t stay ajvay because It rains. ■That would npt keep you .from business. Don’t stay away because you won’t be' missed in the crowd. God misses you. Don’t stay away because jt isn’t your denomination; the same excuse would keep you out of heaven. Don’t stay away because you have no Influence; the churchgoer preaches a sermon as long as the way thither. Don’t stay away because you know more than the preacher; God may have something to say to you worth hearing. mm . G Don’t stay away because the church does not need you; never did the church need more and better men and women. Don’t stay away because the church is imperfect; should you find and join the perfect church, its perfection would cease. Don’t stay away because you do not need the church; ’tisn’t so. If you must look at the dirt six days, take one to examine the clouds. —Christian Age.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Constant companionship wears on friendship. When a woman argues with a man she is outspoken and he is out-talked. Sometimes a man’s happiness depends on the size of the bottle he has just emptied. That man who says he never makes a mistake probably doesn’t know one when he sees it. An appropriate present for a girl Is anything she can wear; for a boy, anything he can eat. A boy’s idea of true happiness is to be able to produce the biggest noise on the Fourth of July. A man wastes more time during six months of courtship than he does all the rest of his life waiting for street cars. It is reported that the cost of keeping an elephant Is about $1.50 a day. The cost of seeing the’ elephant sometimes runs up into thousands. — Chicago News.

FROM COMMERCE REPORTS

For this year the crop forecast in Norway is distinctly favorable. Persia is a possible source of greater quantities of sugar than heretofore. Argentina’s corn crop is estimated at 4,335,000 tons, of which 2,500,000 tons can be exported. J Norway’s spring herring catch was not quite equal to last year’s either in quantity or value. Bean cake, produced In large quantities in south Manchuria, can be used as food, although heretofore considered as good for little else than fertilizer. For ten years after the close of the war the Importation of dyestuffs into Great Britain will be under goverfiment control in order that the new British dye industry may be maintained.

WORDS OF WISE MEN

Character, good or bad, has a tendency to perpetuate itself. —Hodge. Words are not essential to the existence of thought—only to its expression.—Dugald Stewart. The only way in which to fit a people for self-government is to Intrust them with self-goverhment.—Macau-lay. We love flattery, even when we see through it, and are not deceived by it, for it shows that we are of Importance enough to be courted. —Emerson. Man’s actions here are of infinite moment to him, and never die or end at all. Man, with his little life, reaches upward high as heavendownward low as hell; and id his threescore years of time holds an eternity fearfully and wonderfully hidden. —Carlyle. —Chicago Evening Post.

QUAKER PHILOSOPHY

Silence is golden, but money talks, even in a quiet little game. Quality,counts. The less some people have to say, the more they say it You never can tell. Many a fellow with narrow shoulders feels quite chesty. Some girls are satisfied to be perfectly natural, others try to improve on nature. ’ - k

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service, United States Department of MAKING THE MOST OF VEGETABLES.

Some of the Good Things From the Garden Plot.

STRAIGHT FROM GARDEN TO COOK

Fresh Products and Proper Cooking Mean Everything to Modern Housewife. HINTS FROM FOOD LEAFLET Every Cook Can Do Much to Make Vegetables Appetizing and Attractive by Proper Cooking—Overcooking Is Bad. Sweet juicy beets, corn, lima beans, squash, summer cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, Brussels sprouts and spinach as well as cool green cucumbers, and juicy tomatoes —these are some of the good things that the late vegetable plot has to offer as a reward for the hours of work spent upon it earlier in the season. Who, that has the privilege of enjoying the vegetables at their best, fresh from the garden, will not say that the vegetable garden is worth the trouble it costs? No one not accustomed to fresh vegetables cooked within a few hours after they are gathered really knows how good vegetables can be.

Points From New Food Leaflet. Every cook, however, whether she starts with vegetables fresh from her garden or whether she buys the best she can procure on the market can do much to make her vegetables attractive and appetizing by proper cooking. The United States department of agriculture and the United States food administration in United States food leaflet No. 16 give the following pointers in regard to the cooking of vegetables : < * Vegetables just out of the garden taste best when simply cooked — steamed, boiled or baked —and served with a little salt, butter, milk or cream. Often a heavily seasoned sauce covers up the more desirable vegetable flavor. Overcooking of vegetables 'impairs their flavor. Very delicate flavors are destroyed, while vegetables with strong flavors, such as cabbage or onions, become disagreeably strong if cooked too long. Overcooking also destroys the attractive color of some vegetables. " Cook summer vegetables as soon after they are gathered as you can in order to preserve the flavor. If they, must be kept over, keep in the icebox or some other cool place. Let wilted vegetables soak in cold water to freshen them. If vegetables must stand after paring, covering with cold water will prevent wilting and discoloration.

Before cooking, put head vegetables and greens in cold water for an hbur, with one tablespoonful of vinegar to remove insects, then wash very carefully. Save Water for Soup Stock. Drain-all boiled vegetables as soon as tender —they become soggy if they are allowed to stand undrained after cooking. The water drained off may be saved for soup stock. Most vegetables should be cooked in a small amount of water, because a part of the mineral salts dissolves out into the water, and is lost if the water Is thrown away. Cook whole when possible. Tender spinach or lettuce leaves require no added water for cooking. If thoroughly washed, enough water will cling to the leaves to prevent their burning. / Delicately flavored vegetables should be steamed or cooked slowly in a small

amount of boiling water Until tender and the water boils away. Strong-flavored vegetables may be cooked uncovered in a large amount of rapidly boiling water, and the water changed several times during cooking. Starchy vegetables should be put on to cook in a sufficiently large amount of boiling water to cover them. Bbil gently, and keep kettle covered. The time required for cooking vegetables depends on the kind, size and age of the vegetable. You must use your judgment in deciding when they are done. • '

NEED OF VEGETABLES

Remember that vegetables are not only good to eat but gpod for you—make the most of the varieties that the summer brings. Leaf vegetables, lettuce, spinach and cabbage that are largely water are splendid food, for they furnish valuable minerals which your body needs as well as growth-promoting substances that help make children grow and keep adults healthy. Minerals in vegetables keep your blood as it ought to be and your whole body in good condition. Vegetables are better than medicine to prevent the common evil of constipation. * , Serve a quantity of vegetables and you will need less bread and meat in the 1 meals.

Apple Butter Saves Surplus.

Do not let the surplus apples go to waste, make them into apple butter. Summer apples make splendid apple butter, even without the use of boiled cider, which, however, is a desirable addition if it can be obtained. Pare, core and cut up the apples, add a little water and stew into apple sauce. Let this simmer gently at the back of the stove for several hours, stirring occasionally as needed to prevent sticking. When it is two-thirds done add one pound of white or brown sugar to each gallon. After cooking thick enough, stir in spices to taste. Pack in sterilized containers and cover with melted paraffin. If sweet cider is to be used boil it down to half .the original volume. By boiling it to a thick lump, less sugar is required. To each gallon of sweet cider use a gallon of pared, cored and sliced apples. Either add these to th? boiled cider and begin cooking, or stew them into apple sauce and add the sauce to the boiled cider. Cook gently but stir often for two hours, then add a half pound of sugar to each gallon of product, or use no sugar. Continue cooking and stirring until thick enough, stir in spices to taste, pack in sterilized containers and cover with melted paraffin.

Milk-Vegetable Soup.

Don’t throw away left-over skim milk, says the United States department of agriculture. It is a nutritious food and every drop of it should be used. One way to utilize it is to make milk-vegetable soups. ( > To each two cupfuls of milk use one tablespoonful of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, two-thfrds of a cupful of a thoroughly cooked vegetable, finely dropped, mashed or put through a sieve, and salt to taste. Thicken the milk with the flour as for milk gravy and add the other ingfedients. Practically any vegetable except tomatoes may be used with the other ingredients as stated. If tomatoes are used, a little soda should be added to them to prevent the milk from curdling. ' Milk is the most important food there is for growing children.