Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1918 — Page 3

“COME ON! YOU CAN’T SWAMP MEI”

WHAT UNCLE SAM DOES WITH MONEY

■low Funds-Raised by Sale of Liberty Loan Bonds Is Expended by Government. IIGURES ARE STAGGERING ■stimated Total of $24,000,000,000 I Will Be Spent This Year for Preparation and Maintenance of gB Our Fighting Forces. 11l Now that the people of the United are to be asked in the Fourth Loan drive, which opens Seplend the government at least twice |Ki much money as has been asked be|M>re, the treasury department realizes gfliat there is a natural curiosity on the of the public to know for what this money is being expended. The already spent on preparation the maintenance of the fighting ®S»rces staggers the imagination, and prospect is for an even larger ex■■nditure in the present fiscal year, |He total being estimated at $24,000,■H Figures received at Liberty Loan for the Seventh Reserve ■strict from the war department give ._■ idea of the vast sums which have gH?en expended and which will have to spent to win the war, and this information brings home to all Ameria concrete idea of how much it takes to wage a modern war ■d how our money is being-Used to victory. following figures are an answer ■ the query of the average Liberty ■nd buyer: “Just what will Uncle do with the money from my SSOO ■nd? A single bond does not go far to■rd meeting the expense of war, it is out, but when the bonds of ■lions of Americans are brought to- - ■her, the total of cash provided ■aches stupendous totals. the United States entered the in April, 1917, the war department raised, equipped, trained and, with help, sent across the sea upward ||9 a million and half of soldiers, and ■g practically as many more under at home. Of all this vast '4 ■nber of men sent abroad, the num- ■■* lost Id transit as a result of ■bout attacks up to September 1, H®.B, was less than 500. ■luring this same time 2,000,000 have been made, Inspected, as■nbled and Issued, and the weekly ■Kductiou is growing. MpThe total amount of money directly i||B)roprlated by congress for the ordprogram, for which authorizahas been -given to incur obliga- - - ■ns, amounts to approximately sl2,000,000. ■ Prorn the beginning of the war to ■e 30, 1918, the last day of the past year, contracts were placed by t , ■ ordnance department from appropriations and authorizations existing ■ tlnft time amounting to $4,300,000,- ■. It is now estimated that during present fiscal year ending June 80, the actual cash expenditures for ■nance will reach a total of $7,000,-

8.000. major items for which cash exwere made or for which ■tracts were placed up to June 30, ; « B B * were as follows: Bli»ry $1,050,001,000 ■omatic rifles 800.000,000 arms 100,000,000 gallery ammunition 1,900,000,000 arms ammunition , 340,000,000 arms, ammunition pracTa 80,000,000 HKSB-es and supplies (personal and organization! 230,000,000 OgHtored motor cars 100,000,000 MH i $4,100,000,000 principal items for which con■ss has made appropriations avail- ■ for the present fiscal year are as Ifißllery $1,280,000,000 IlllHomatic rifles 500,000,000 ■ll arms 200,000,000 •.■llery ammunition 2,650,000,000 ; ■ill arms ammunition 955,000,000 11 arm * ammunition prac- ...»*.>> 150,000.000 and supplies (pwwonal and organization, etc.) 445,000,000 motor cars 277,000,000 MM army purposes, contract ho rizailori .: .X 0,000,000 not definitely deslgBiw ' $7,017,000,00C Hn immense -v of railroads in ■nee. has been built, with new docks

and terminal warehouses at French ports, which used up the greater part of $375,000,000 expended during the year for military engineering operations. The American army is the best clothed and best fed army in the world, and the following illustrative figures of quartermaster purchases are interesting. For example, take six standard articles of food. Since the beginning of the war theredfave been bought for army use 625,461,392 pounds of flour at a cost of $43,375,445; 186,582,316 pounds of sugar at a cost of $14,452,512; 110,451,670 pounds of bacon at a cost of $43,000,000; 102,894,742 pounds of dry begns, costing $12,613,469 ; 72, 274,529 cans of tomatoes costing $9,278,121, and 38,421,256 pounds of rice at a cost of $2,775,000. These figures give one an idea of the size of Uncle Sam’s market basket and the huge cost of army maintenance. The clothing bill for the army from April 1, 1917, to August 1, 1918, follows and shows how great sums have been essential to keep our men comfortably clothed: Article. Quantity. Value. Shoes, marching ......11,933,000 865,488,480 Shoes, fields 15,343,000 71.651’810 Coats, cotton «... }S’S%'SS Coats, wool Breeches, cotton ......14,361,000 Breeches, wool 15,469,000 74,512,380 Shirts, cotton .... .... 4,098,000 4,098,000 Undershirts, c0tt0n....50,646,000 Undershirts, winter... .83,225,000 Shirts, flannel 21,889,000 Drawers, cotton JJ’SSHXa w’SS’Ana Drawers, winter Stockings, cotton 22,654,000 Stockings, wool, It. wt. 70,592,000 Stockings, wool, hvy..68,426,000 Hats, service Blankets, 8 1b514,184,00T ?!•?!!•?£! Blankets, 4 lbs 6,871,000 54.968,000

EVERY LIFE A REASON FOR PURCHASING BONDS

Duty to Our Country Far Greater Than to Dearest Friends Ih Time of Need.

By LILLIAN GISH,

Famous Screen Actress. ' I know 500,000,000 reasons for buying a Liberty bond, and not one against a bond. Certainly every life in this country and in the lands of our allies offers a reason, for each one considers his or her l|fe and freedom worth any protection necessary, even to death. \ No matter how pressed for funds one would loan a dearest friend a few dollars in time of greatest need, knowing the money would be returned with interest. And how much greater is the duty to one’s country than to one’s dearest friend I. If you had been with me in London one afternoon, a “Four-Minute” man of a different breed than ours would have given you so many reasons to buy bonds you would never think of reasons, but just give, and give, and give. He was a Hun aviator and he was over London just four minutes. And he dropped bombs. One dropped on a public school! where little children were at their studies. It was a big school. Nearly all were killed or maimed. Their mothers came, when the alarm was spread. They fought with the police. Most of the mothers had husbands at war. Their faces and their outcries 1 Howjnuch those women had to give! A few Liberty bonds measure up pretty small compared with a little child, or a brother, or father, or husband, or sweetheart, or friend. In the past we have put our raw efforts in the mint of commerce, and got money; and now we put our money in the mint of patriotism and get Liberty bonds. In the prayer book of democracy today the fly-leaf should be a Liberty bond. Have you got yours?

How Farmers' Clubs Can Help.

Meetings of the Grange and Farmers’ clubs In rural communities should be utilized for the purpose of stirring up enthusiasm for the Liberty loan. The war which Is now being brought home to all of us in the daily casualty lists will be the chief topic of interest, and it will be an easy matter to turn the discussions to the necessity and duty of participating in the war work by buying 14berty Loan bonds.

A Double Saving.

Money invested in Liberty bonds not only insures quick assets when most needed with a good monetary return if held to maturity, but after the ' war the buying power will be greatly enhanced, making a double saving.

. THE BEMSSELAEB BEPUBMCAW, RENSSELAER, INDIANA,

THE “TEA PARTY” AND THE KAISER

By LOUIS ALBERT LAMB.

My grandsire painted red his hide In ancient Mohawk style, And crept down to the Mystic side To wait a little while. Then other Yanks in redskin guise Collected at the bay And took the tea ship by surprise And threw the tea away. Old George the Third was much averse • To freedom for the Yanks; His taxes were a deadly curse— He taxed and gave no thanks. But when the Mohawk Boston men Dumped all the tea to port King George began to think again And arm for warlike “sport.” He sent his Hessians over here To kill Cep. Barker’s boys. To burn the school and meeting house And other such annoys; But when they came to Bunker Hill That Jolly day in June And Warren met ’em with a will They piped another tune. The Yanks have got a job today That’s worthy of the race; The kaiser treads a rocky way And spars to save his face. > .• . - ‘ ; But all the Yanks have gone to France Bn route for old Berlin: If we buy Bonds- at every chance You bet the Yanks will win! Our grandsires dished King George’s will And salted all tils tea. Our boys will do the same for Bill, Kaiser of Germany I The only way- to push the work And make Berlin our own, Is this: Get busy, do not shirk But BUY THE “FIGHTING LOAN."

FARMERS AT START OF TWO VITAL CAMPAIGNS

Tillers es the Soil Must Prepare for Next Year's Harvest and New “Fighting Loan.” Farmers of the United Skates, whose work the last twelve months in fortifying the food lines of the allies has been of such supreme Importance, are now at the start of two vital campaigns—preparing for the 1919 wheat harvest and for the “Fighting Loan.” The wheat harvest of 1919 will be the Liberty Wheat Harvest and the government has asked again for the cooperation and support of the wheat producers to sow 47,500,000 or more acres of winter wheat this fall to guarantee against possible partial crop failure next year. Uncle Sam knows from past performance that the American farmer again will “come across” at the call. The pnlted States grain grower now realizes fully that he is the main line of defense in the allied food army, and he is proud of his position and of his achievements. Without the essential food reserve* there will never be a grand smash that will overwhelm the destroyers of the world's peace, but with the American farmer holding the line, the food reserves will be on call, and the grand smash will come as surely a* th* American nation is In the war. Coincident with the beginning of the campaign for the Liberty Wheat Harvest will be the inauguration of the campaign for the Fourth Liberty Loan —the “Fighting Loan.” Both of these rampsigns are vitally important. Both will be backed to the limit by the farmer. Both will bear positive witness to the enemy of the solidarity and singleness of purpose of this country; both will heighten the morale of the allied peoples and give a conquering spirit of confidence to the allied armies; amF'both will enable Uncle Ram to thfyw the whole weight of his mighty resources against the cracking German line, so that the harvesting of thei Liberty Wheat Crop may indeed be a harvest of freedom, the Hun overthrown, justice and right triumphant, and the world at peace.

WHAT LIBERTY BONDS CAN DO

One flfty-dollar Liberty Bond will pay the United States war bill for 1-10 of a second, ,or buy 1,000 cartridges, or 100 hand grenades, or 104 rifle grenades, or 87 first aid packets and cases, or 10 bayonets and scabbards, or kits for a platoon, or knives, forks and spoons for a company, or four gas masks. It will feed one soldier for four months, or will feed 100 sailors for a day, or provide life preservers for 10 men or hammocks for 10 sailors, or windproof suits for 10 naval lookouts, or save 1,000 men from smallpox by paying for vaccine, or save 666 men from typhoid fever by paying for their inocculatlon, or save 139 wounded men from lockjaw by providing antitoxin, or buy 1,000 yards of adhesive tape, or bandage 160 wounds. A one hundred dollar bond will buy eight 75m. field gun shells, or three rifles and their bayonets, or 5 incendiary airplane bombs, or T. N. T. for the bursting charge of a 14-lnch shell. It will clothe a soldier for overseas service, or clothe a sailor. It will feedfl company of infantry for a day. For the medical department It will provide: 25 pounds of ether for anaesthesia, or 145 hot-water tags, or 2,000 surgical needles.

PRODUCTION NOW BIG FOOD PROBLEM

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

With the growing shortage of farm labor, the food problem resolves itself largely into one of maintaining maximum production. The Federal Food Administration is committed to the support of the program of the United States department of agriculture which is asking Indiana farmers to Increase their wheat acreage for 1919 17 per cent, and &t the same time continue the intensive effort to increase production per acre. The harvest of the corn crop is one of the present Issues before the agricultural community, and every patriotic Hoosier available will make it his business to contribute his part. His part means his work, not just his sympathy. The salvation of the unprecedented yield of tomatoes has become as important a task in Indiana as the purchase of thrift stamps and liberty bonds. It ranks with a prompt registration and report under the selective conscription law. The tomatoes are absolutely necessary to the success of the crusade for freedom and democracy and except that every man, .woman and child in Indiana realize that it is a part of his business, where the opportunity affords, to help pick, peel and pack the tomatoes, his patriotism will not assay 100 per cent when the test comes. The federal government has requisitioned one-third of the Indiana tomato pack, in a realization of the importance of canned tomatoes in the soldiers’ rations. The United States Boys* Working Reserve in Indiana, is one of the dependable supports of the farm labor line. There are, In the state, thousands of boys who have pledged themselves to assist in the patriotic work of tilling the soil. During the planting season, since school dismissed In the spring, they have demonstrated their usefulness, their ability and their right to claim succession to their elders who have left the farm for the training camp. The boys jielped save the sugar beets in northern Indiana and southern Michigan; they plowed corn, shocked wheat and oats and have, in large measure, relieved* their elders of the responsibility for doing farm chores, which added to the time every man might spend engaged in the heavier work of crop production. Indiana farmers in many counties already have been educated to look to the Boys’ Reserve for emergency help. They have done so profitably, satisfactorily and successfully. In other counties business men have banded together in a mutual agreement to close their stores, where

ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS

COWS WILL WIN THE WAR.

When any one says that something will win the war, no difference what it is, ft is pretty apt to be true. About a hundred things will win the war. There’s cows. Did you know that the continued life of hundreds of thousands of children in the north of France and in Belgium have been absolutely dependent, for the last four years, on American condensed milk? And do you know that England and France have had to kill cattle right and left since the war started, because of the scarcity of feed? And those dairy cows which they have not killed they heva been forced to place on such Strict rations that the milk production of our allies is probably 50 per cent, less than normal. And that’s another reason for saving meat; the protection of dairy herds; what milk there is, for chHA Boston electric light company usee powerful magneto to shatter the filaments in defective incandescent lamps to prevent them finding their, way into serrico and causing dissatlstactlon.

Fan brakes, to displace the air beneath a car and that retard its motfcm and also to keep the hub brakes cool, have been fitted to some automobiles used on mountainous porticos of Switzerland. To enable a fisherman to get some rest, a bracket to be clamped to the side of a boat or gpy convenient ledge to hold his pole has been invented, a pfirtion of * also acting as a brake on the reeL la very ancient times Mecca was not only a busy trading place, through <hich caravans with rich cargoes were continually passing; H was also a home of music and poetry. Before there was an Arab school of muMe r monotonous but agreeable sound the camel driver's chant was ttb national song at Arabia. .

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard.

necessary to save the crops. “Shock troops” have * helped wherever they have; been formed, and thousands o dollars’ worth of grain and hay that might have been lost, have been saved to the nation’s supply through the willingness and organized readiness of volunteers. But for a successful program that will take care of the requirements over the possibly long period of-time during which the government must draw more and more heavily on the labor supply, it is essential thgt every producer look ahead. He must accept the untrained youth between fifteen and eighteen yean of age and teach him the rudiments of agricultural work. He must be patient and painstaking, and accept the boys as the aaly labor obtainable and realize that -tie can do his full duty to the fighters in France only by making the best of the situation at home and devoting himself wholeheartedly and without restraint to the task of producing food props. Arrangements are being made whereby school officials will permit boys of the Reserve to absent themselves from school to help in the corn harvest. Farmers, canners and others engaged in this important war duty who may be In need of help are urged to write to Isaac D. Straus, federal state director of the U. 8. Boys’ Working Reserve, 83 State House, Indianapolis, Ind., for direction's as to how to secure the assistance of the agency by means of which the federal government expects to maintain the production of food.

Indiana is allotted 12,276,000 pounds of sugar for September. This makes certain that there will be sufficient for all patriotic canners who are. willing to abide by the regulations and not abuse the canning privilege to secure more than their fair share of sugar for ordinary consumption. The food administration encourage* maximum canning with a minimum of sugar. M. Zendal, a Lafayette grocer, was closed for a week; A* C. Foerster, a Batesville grocer, was deprived of 1,000 pounds of sugar, and O. M. Jeffries, a Union City bottler, was permitted to pay S2OO to the local Red Cross, for violating the sugar regulations during the past weekIndiana Candy manufacturers have been asked to adopt a regulation similar to that agreed to by ,New York manufacturers -to limit candy sales to one pound per customer during the sugar shortage.

By Don Herold

dren; what meat there is, to bo shared liberally with our allies. No children must be left to starve for-want of milk, milk which is absolutely essential to their growth. Mr. Hoover saw Germany steal 900,000 cows from Belgium in three months. Germany has stolen cows from Serbia, France and Russia and other populations they have overrun. Now, while it is not absolutely true that cows will win the war, you could not expect much fighting from soldiers whose babies at home were dying of starvation. And the point W this is, that, while American children must still have plenty of milk, grown-up Americans should not waste a drop of it; and that, considering some of these facts, we must realize that our allies are up against 'an abnormal situation when it comes to meat —when it comes to cows. Yes, we mnst save meat. The rapid growth of vegetation tt polar regions, despite the brief sum mers, is attributed to the strength ci the electric currents in the atmosphere.

It was early in the Christian era that the peach was introduced to southern Europe from the east. It did not reach Britain until the sixteenth century. Three thousand horsepower la produced by a turbine in Switzerland that received a stream of water only an inch and a half in diameter after a fall of more than 5,400 feet. Concrete is being used almost exelusively for the gate structures of irrigation canals in this country, displacing wood for the purpose, despite the greater cost of the concrete. To prevent the formation of wrinkles around the eyes a German has invented a resilient band to be worn around a person's bead, terminating in adhesive ends that drag the flesh back.

THE REPUBLICAN DECLARATION

In an eloquent and eharsctorietie address Mr. Will Haya, the dynamic chairman of the Republican national committee, delivered on Thursday at? Grand Rapids, he sounded again the keynote of the Republican policy. ' “The Republican party, he declared, “says to the BY THE WAJI. And in this declaration of purpose is included the slogan which the Democratic party seems to have adopted, ’Stand by the {Resident/ a duty which Republicans have assumed as g matter of course as toS aB that the great office implies, ft includes far more than this; it includes, Stand by every public of-, ficial, high or low, measured by the thoroughness with which that public official stands by the war; stand by the government; stand by this country; stand by our allies; stand by our soldiers in France; stand by every effort for war saving and giving in this country ; stand by the cause for which we fight; stand by ‘the irreducible minimum’ of peace terms so splendidly enunciated by Senator Lodge: stand by the war aims of this country to vindicate America’s rights, interests, and honor, to forever end the intolerable arrogance of that scientifically trained brutality, to forever end Prussianism in the world and the oppressionwhich it typifies, and make certaerforbVer the inablity of militarism, German or otherwise, again to disturb the peace of the world; stand against an inconclusive peace, and stand for a peace with victory. “All this we say—Stand by the war, and for this purpose we dedicate the last of our blood and our treasure.’’ Every Republican leader, every Republican newspaper, | every Republican voter will applaud that declaration and stand by it to the end. As Ha ? B in another passage says: “There is no geography, political or physical, in the patriotism of this country.” We. ctn confidently rely upon our brother Americans of the Democratic party membership. Each party has weaklings and false prophets, but they do pot represent the hundred millions of loyal Americans whose sons are fighting gloriously for the country’s name and the world’s cause, and z whose every effort is bent today upon the winning of victory. But Republicans are proud of the record of their leaders and of their representatives in congress, and in such part of the government activities as they have been permitted to direct and assist; And they justly resent the attempt of Democratic politicians to cast the shadow of disloyalty upon a party which was born to fight for true Americanism and for all its days as in the present crisis, has “kept step with the flag and marched to the music of the union which in every crisis has been the Mr. Hays has done well to challenge the insincerity of these tactics of unscrupulous polities and Republicans everywhere will welcome the issue and. so gladly to the people on the record of their party leaders. There has never been a time When Republican leadership in the nation has been more deserving of confidence or. more needed in the high councils* of the nation. There has never been a time when Republicans might uphold the mighty traditions of their party or stand more resolutely upon its principles in full faith that they will work beneficiently and potently for the well being of the people, the strong protection of American institutions, and the'furtherance of our national influence throughtout the world.

PRAISES WORK OF LIEUT. BEELER IN FRANCE

The Indianapolis News publishes a letter from LieutX/01. E. D. Clark, of that city, in which he makes the following mention of Lieutenant Beeler, who is now doing work in a hospital in France. Mrs. Beeler and children are now making their home in Rensselaer: “We had a high commission vimting us yesterday, and they expressed admiration for our equipment; and I will say that the equipment that they were particularly interested in was that which we brought over with us. Our X-ray apparatus is the envy of all the X-ray men who have visited us, and that gives me the opportunity to say a word of praise for Lieutenant Beeler. He hat developed into a wonder. He is one of the most valuable men I have. “The war news grows better and better. It doesn't matter how seriously wounded a man is. They wiU 'come back filled with the spirit of victory, and are wild to get back and help terminate this struggle. We have practically no quitters in our army. The thing that pleased me moat of all is the admiration the French and Americans have for each other. The French say the American troops are the best on the earth, and the Americans have the same thing to say of the French. That sort of spirit and co-operation is boufid to win. We have, of course, been exceedingly busy, and no doubt will continue to be until the end of the war. When you see accounts of these terrible battles, then you may know that 32 is going her limit We are all in hopes that we can return to. America before a great while. We are not expecting, however, to come before next year, but we sincerely hope that by next summer it will all be over, and we will be coming back to take up our farmer occupations. There is no truer Saying than "There is no place like home.' We all realize that morethan ever before.”

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