Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1918 — Page 2

Many Forms of Vacation Service Open for Teacher Both in City and Country

By PHILANDER P. CLAXTON,

ticularly in the smaller communities, that is unsurpassed for direct national service. • It is from the point of view of possibilities in the home community, then, that I urge teachers to face the summer vacation.,For many patriotic ’teachers it need not be so much a change of scene as a change of activity. The suburban teacher who has been doing her work under the formal conditions that still prevail in too many schools can work her own garden or help work someone rise’s.' Better still, she can help her boys and girls in their home gardens, as a hundred thousand or more patriotic teachers are doing in the United States school garden army organized under the department of the' interior. It will help the food situation and the teacher who does this work will be a better teacher for her contact with thb soil. For the teacher who wants to do Bed Cross work there is the field of junior membership that has been opened up. Here, too, the teacher can not only help her children produce things for the soldiers but she will be getting something that will make her fundamental work of teaching better and she will be giving an example of the school’s influence in the community that will be valuable in the many more emergencies of the coming months and years. Many teachers will wish to go away for a rest and change, for a part of the summer at least. It is hard to think of a better rest and change for such teachers, if they must leave the community, than to go to some good summer school and learn how to do better the thing they are doing.

Women Are Now Enjoying the Greatest Opportunity in History of Business

By JAMES O. CRAIG,

The rapid adaptation of women to business, made necessary by the government’s “work-or-fight” order, is the source of real encouragement to Chicago employers. After a period of gloom directly following the issuance of the order employers have come to the realization that men are no longer indispensable. Nor is the woman for stenographic, clerical and so-called “minor” office duties alone. The woman executive has come into her own. Our women’s department within the last few weeks has placed a large number of high-grade women in executive and semi-executive positions, and the women placed are responding to the satisfaction of the employers. Moreover, women are succeeding in traveling sales work to a far greater extent than ever expected. This branch of the distribution force was hit unusually hard by the draft and enlistment of traveling salesmen, and for a time, until' the experimenting with women began to produce worth-while results, the outlook was seripus for a number of firms who get their goods before buyers through personal solicitation. The success of traveling saleswomen is perhaps the most encouraging result of the present readjustment. The inexperienced woman is enjoying the greatest opportunity in the history of business. More unskilled beginners have entered the Chicago business field in the past month or so than in any years of our business history. Employers report entire satisfaction with the use of this class of office help. ■ m The novelty of the new. situation is gradually wearing away. Travelers no longer express surprise when, upon registering at a hotel, they are confronted by a woman desk clerk, nor are women elevator operators an unusual sight; several Chicago hotels have in successful operation these innovations. , The demand for high-grade men is as heavy as ever, bookkeepers and other forms of higher office force being in especial demand. Manufacturing concerns are badly in need of various classes of technical men and unskilled help. At present business is in the midst of its readjustment and the situation will remain unsettled until some time after the “work-or-fight” order is in effect.

People of Germany Prove Themselves in Wrong by Treacherous Actions

By PAUL WEST,

Who cheered and held school festivalsrasd > struck medals when our women and children sank with the Lusitahia? >The German people, the women and children of Germany. 1 Who have spit on our prisoners when have been carried wounded through German towns? The women and children. Who have sent the soldiers of Germany into battle full of hatred for us? The womanhood of Germany. Who have tampered with airplanes made in this country so that scores of young American boys have been killed by the machines breaking? Kind-faced German mechanics in the American factories. We must not take it out in angry grimaces, in tearing up all the German-music on our pianos or in refusing to deal with German grocers. We must send the hate along over the sea as we send our soldiers. We must fill them with it, must send them into battle backed by- the feeling that we are behind every bayonet thrust of theirs and that we want them to do to the Germans what the Germans have done to our allies and to our defenseless ones wherever they could find them. We know we’re right. We know Germany is wrong. We know Germany is a liar, a foul fighter, a nation whose population and people hate IM implacably and are fighting the better because of that hate. AU right; let us hate back.

I have every admiration for the woman who offers herself for Red Cross nursing, for canteen service in France, for ambulance driving behind the lines, or for the countless-other war tasks that women are doing so cheerfully and so well. But this is only a part of our war work, after all. The woman teacher in America today need have no concern as to where her patriotic duty lies. Not only is her task of teaching boys and girls one of supreme national and even military importance, as France has shown, but her position as teacher gives her an opportunity for leadership, par-

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U-BOATS BALKED BY AIR FIGHTERS

Airplanes Are of Great Assistance in Finding Enemy Submarines. NECESSARY ALLY OF NAVY Great Britain Sees Need of Holding Command of Air as Well as of Sea—Aircraft Either Attack or Summon Patrols. London. —The measure of the success of the antisubmarine campaign is the safe crossing of the Atlantic by a million American troops. - There is very properly a good deal of official reticence regarding the methods by which submarines are destroyed, but it is an open secret that the royal air force has contributed largely toward the defeat of the Üboat campaign. Just as airplanes have become an essential auxiliary to the army, so aircraft have become an indispensable ally of the navy, making it clear that ascendancy in the air in future will be as vital to Britain as her present ascendancy at sea. Airships of two main types, the smaller known as the submarine scout and the larger as the coast patrol type, and seaplanes, are tjie chief instruments for dealing with submarines from the air. The first business of all aircraft or submarine offensive Is to find the submarine.

See Submerged Boats. From a certain height in the air, submerged U-boats are visible to observers and their position is communicated to the nearest naval patrol. The work of aircraft Is by no means confined to detecting the U-boats. They have means of immediately attacking their prey without waiting for the arrival of the naval patrol. There is the obvious means of dropping bombs, fully effective when the submarine is caught on or just below the surface. Modern antisubmarine aircraft are almost equally at the air or on the water. Should the U-boat dive through the water, its pursuer can dive through the air and release depth charges, which have a considerable range of action, and are much feared by U-boat commanders. In claiming for the R. A. F. a large share in winning the safe landing of America’s first million the reservation must be made that the range of aircraft from their bases Is limited, but their bases are not necessarily on land, and seaplanes and submarine scouts have accommodation on shipboard and are carried to the area of their deepsea patrols.

Where They Are Thickest Again, it is naturally in home waters and especially in the North sea that submarines are thickest, outward

CROWDED TRAFFIC NEAR BATTLE FRONT

Trains of French and British transports greeting each other on the western front in France. Traffic in the fighting zones is sometimes almosl: as crowded as in the great cities of the United States. All sorts of vehicles pass to and from the front, including gun carriages, supply wagons, motorambulances, automobiles, etc. The busy avenues of military travel have traffic guardians, like our own traffic policemen.

FEED FOE BY TUNNEL

Basle. —Hunger is the mother of inventions. German hunger invented a great smuggling device which did a booming business until discovered by customs officers. Some Germans, living in Baden, near the Swiss frontier, built a pipe line across the frontier. It ended in a house rented to a German family. What this family consumed in the line of food, clothing, shoes, soap and other necessaries was really astounding. However, these people bought things in the open market, which is still possible in Switzerland, paid cash, never grumbled, no matter how high the price and no questions were asked. One day recently two men were seen digging in the ground near the frontier. Customs officials became suspicious, and nosing around soon made a valuable discovery. The two men were engaged in repairing the pipe line, which had been used for smuggling. The machinery had become

bound from Germany, so that aircraft patrols are effective from home bases over the sea zone most frequented by U-boats. * Coast patrol airships accompany convoys through home waters, “spotting” submarines, to be dealt with either by themselves or by destroyers; and if the U-boat menace is not yet mastered, it is steadily and unmistakably being brought under control. Safe landing of a million Americans in France is a big fact, the significance of which can hardly be missed even in Germany, where, according to neutral witnesses, scepticism has been rapidly growing lately concerning the possibilities of the U-boat campaign.

Police Adopt Orphans.

Memphis, Tenn. —So far as is known the Memphis police force Is the only police organization in the United States that has adopted French orphans. Two little orphan French children, in far away, blood-soaked France, are being sustained by the police of this city. A third orphan will soon be adopted.

TRACES KIN IN ARMY

Red Cross Will Keep Relatives Informed. Bureau Will Get Information Regarding Men Wounded, Killed or Missing. Washington.—The American Red Cross, through Its bureau or communication, issued a request to the relatives of soldiers who are In the American expeditionary force, in which It asks these relatives to make inquiries regarding their kin who are in the army through the Red Cross bureau of communication in Washington instead of, as is the case in numerous Instances, of communicating with agencies pr individuals in Europe. The request was Issued in the name of Harvey D. Gibson, the American Red Cross commissioner in France. Mr. Gibson points out the fact that in a majority of cases such inquiries are merely turned over by the individual or agency to the Red Cross, which has charge of such communication with soldiers’ relatives,' and which., has developed special facilities for obtaining information about those reported killed, wounded, or missing, and those from whom letters have not been 1 received. Congestion of cables and a loss of time and energy are also occasioned by making the request other than through the Red Cross. It has been known that as many as four separate requests have been received

clogged and an opening had to be made to get at the seat of the trouble. The officials saw' an opening, had been "made into a spacious tunnel built of concrete. Inside the pipe were long wires. These wires were wound round spools at the end stations and could be pulled either way. Goods, such as meat, cheese, hams, shoes, clothing, etc., were tied to the wire and pulled across the border through the subterranean channel. The Swiss government is now after the smugglers. The flourishing “business” is killed. C '

Converted Blacksmith.

Knoxville, Tenn.— Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of his conversion, Rev. 'J. T. Sexton, formerly a blacksmith and one of the best-known men in East Tennessee, announced , that he has since converted 12,000 persons in 16 states. . 1

LADY WILLINGDON

The beautiful Lady Willlngdon, daughter of Lord Brassey, and wife of Lord Freeman Thomas Willlngdon, first baron of Ratton, who has been governor of Bombay since 1913 and Is first lord in waiting to his majesfy, George V. »

about the same men by different institutions. Edward M. Day, acting director of the bureau of communication, said: “The function of this bureau Is to give relatives all possible information which will lessen anxiety. Every inquiry is. handled with full realization that a prompt and full reply is of serious moment to the happiness, peace of mind, and not Infrequently tc the health of the By writing to the bureau, relatives frequently will get immediately information at hand and may be sure that search is started abroad as quickly as the case warrants.”

DRAFTEE GETS TIRED WAITING; JOINS POLES

Tarentum, Pa. —When the members of the draft board searched for Alexander- Czymon, who failed to show up for entrainment for Camp Lee, they discovered that he had got tired of waiting for the call to service and had joined a Polish regiment and is now believed to be on the western front.

RABBITS A PEST NO LONGER

Australia Finds the One-Time Curse Now a Profitable Source of Revenue.

Washington.—Rabbits, which were once the curse of Australia, as they have been to a lesser extent in thesouthwestern United States, now are providing a profitable source of revenue and at the same time helping to win the war by increasing the food supply. Official dispatches received here say the British board of trade has ordered 600,000 crates of skinned rabbits, which will require the killing of 21,600,000 rabbits, weighing 36,000,000 pounds after dressing. Previously the rabbits were shipped with the skins on, but inconvenience was experienced at hospitals in England in removing the fur. How to dispose of the skins is causing the Australians speculation. There is a ready market for them in this country, but tonnage is scarce.

Walks 145 Miles to Enlist.

Tulsa, Okla. —Chester Bunch, twenty, of Tonkawa, walked from his home to Tulsa, a distance of 145 miles, in order to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of a slight physical defect. The defect can be remedied by a slight operation. Bunch has a desire to become an aviator. He has gone to work In order to earn enough money to pay for the

PICRIC PLANT WILL STAY

$7,000,000 Establishment in Georgia Will Be Continued After the War. j Brunswick, Ga. —Announcement has been made by officials of the government that the $7,000,000 picric acid plant now being constructed In North Brunswick will be a permanent manufacturing plant after the war. In peace days the plant will make dyes, fertilizer and other by-products of picric add which the government is using during war times. The dyes, the process for which has already been perfected, will be equal'or superior to those made In Germany.

Pastor Is Freight Checker.

Seattle, Wash. —Rev. W. J. Howell, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Auburn, Wash., is a freight checker in the railroad yards there. “What’s the Idea?” members of his congregation asked him. “My conscience troubled me,” he replied. “I wasn’t doing enough war work."

JUSTA LITTLE SMILE

Cabbages and Wartime. Two smokers were standing on a city curb, away frbm the currents stirred by passersby. One was smoking a pipe. ’ The other threw a half-finished cigar into the street. ' ■• “That’s against the law,” said the pipe smoker. „ “Why, I threw it into the gutter," said the other. “But it’s against the law to throw away cabbage in wartimes.”

His Handicap.

“The north-bound train is forty minutes late, Mr. Sellers,” said the landlord of the Petunia tavern. “Why, confound it!” returned the impatient drummer. “Your porter said the station agent told him it was ten minutes late.” “Yes, but you know old Henry Is so deaf that he hears only about a quarter of what is said to him.”

A Parting Shot.

Mr. Will Makem had just popped the question to M 1& Elderlelgh, the lady of his choice. “I am sorry," she answered resolutely, “I cannot marry you. I’m sure you never saw any encouragement written on my face.” “Ah, true!” sighed the rejected one. “I suppose it w T as because of my inability to read between the lines.”

Horrible Accident.

Willie and his little sister were visiting at a mountain resort where It .was the custom to wax eloquently enthusiastic about “the view.” One day the little girl fell over the edge of the piazza, and Willie ran screaming to his mother: “Oh, mother! Come quick, won’t you? Bessie’s fallen into the view 1”

Irish Repartee.

Murphy—Aw, g’wan an’ talk to yersilf. O’Brien —If Oi did Oi’d be talkin’ to a 'sensible man, an’ hearln’ a sinsible man talk.

Almost Sure Sign of Rain.

When the smoke settles to the earth, take heed. Rain is almost always sure to follow within 24 hours. The settling of the smoke indicates that there is much moisture in the air.

Use for German Helmets.

“My boy has sent over a German helmet. What do you suppose I can do with it?” “Personally I’d use it for a garbage pail."

Cruel.

Rich Old Aunt—Robert, I am going to make my will.: I think I shall leave you—(pause). Nephew (eagerly)—Yes, aunt. Aunt—Before long.

Nothing Cheap About Him.

“You’re a low swindler.” The food pirate smiled. “Call me a swindler if you like,” he . said, “but leave off the 'low.’ My operations run into the millions.” .

When She Economizes

Mr. Myles—Does your wife economize in any direction? Mr. Styles—Oh, my, yes. “In what does she economize?” “In shoe leather. She always insists upon wearing shoes two sizes too small for her.”

On to Him.

“I can’t live properly on $75 a week,” complained the young man. “Yes, you can," said his guardian. “The real trouble Is you want to live improperly.”

Poor Outlook.

“Papa, did Jack .ask you for my hand?” “Yes; and I guess that’s about all of you he could. support. I found out that his salary would just about keep you in gloves.” 5 - ~‘

The Morning After.

Wife—Do you think it good taste for you to stay out to the hour you did last night? Hub—ls you refer, my dear, to this dark brown taste in my mouth, I confess that it’s anything but good.

Unusual.

“There was a sensational case of kidnaping on our block yesterday.” “You don’t say so! What was ItF “The baby In the third house who generally keeps everybody awake with its yells slept all night.”

Not Altogether Unusual.

“The amendment to tnls bill is getting more thought and discussion than the original document.” “Well,’’ inquired Senator Sorghum, “isn’t it much the same way with the Constitution of the United States?"