Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1918 — Page 1

No. 233.

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VOLUNTEERS WANTED Eighteen volunteers of the class of 1917 and of Junes and August, 1918, for motor truck service, to be .inducted October 15. These men must have a grammar school education and must be physically fit for military service. Report at once. __ ' ' .. - JASPER COUNTY LOCAL CONSCRIPTION BOARD.

NOTICE TO THE public. On account of the prevalence of Epidemic Influenza (Spanish influnza) throughout the country, a large umber of hospitals are under quarntine. The Wesley hospital, of Chiigo, is now under strict quarantine ith a large number of cases, many ot expected to live. Therefore, on ccount of the many surgical and ob.etrical cases in the Jasper county ospital it will be impossible to adit any cases of this disease. The ablic is hereby notified to arrange to ire for all such cases outside of the ospital. F. H. HEMPHILL, County Health Commissioner. The Farmers (Grain company is inning a large Liberty Loan adversement in this issue. Read it and ;L

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WAR EXHIBITION TRAIN WILL BE HERE MONDAY

Definite word has been received here that the War Exhibition train will arrive at 7:30 a. m. Monday, October 7. This certainty be a delightful treat for the people of this vicinity and undoubtedly be enjoyed by a large number of people.

Mrs. Clark Price, of Wichita, Kansas, was the guest from Thursday evening until‘this Friday forenoon of her sister-in-law, Miss Nettie Price, of this city. Mrs. Price was returning from Aurora, New York, where she had accompanied her daughter, who \entered Wells college. Mr. Price is on the Kansas conscription board but will spend the wjnter in Topeka, as he is a hold-over senator in that state.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918.

PUBLIC OPINION MAKES DEMAND

NAMES dF LIBERTY LOAN SLACKERS SHOULD BE PUBLISHED. •

Jasper county is going to raise its Liberty Loan quota and do it quickly. The period for volunteering subscriptions is passing rapidly. Now the committe proposes to take more strenuous measures. '

Every person is going to be required to do their part in proportion to their financial ability. Regrettable as it may be, the fact remains that a great many persons of means have not yet responded voluntarily. But they are not going to escape. Within the next few days each township will be organized for an intensive personal campaign and a house-to-house canvass will be made. The committee is going to get the money or a reason. And the names of those who are able and refuse to subscribe may be published in order that their neighbors may know who the slackers are. This may appear to be a drastic course to pursue, but it seems that it is necessary. > The basis for raising the Jasper county quota is equitable and just to all, and everyone must do his part. The day when the burden can be shoved onto some other shoulders has passed here. Our military success is as vital to one individual as it is to another. Every soldier is compelled to do his duty and every civilian is going to be compelled to do his duty. If you have property the mere fact that you have no ready money in the bank will not be accepted as an excuse. ' Use your credit. That is the only thing that credit is good for, to tide you over an emergency. / Credit, that won’t work for Uncle Sam in a time like this is the dirtiest kind of a slacker. And you may find that the credit which is yours now will not be worth nearly so much when this Fighting Liberty Loan campaign is closed, if you have not done your part. You may find that a considerable part of your moral rating has disappeared along with your chance to prove your loyalty to your government in the time of stress. This is certainly the most important loan that has yet been asked; in all probability it is of more importance than any other that will be asked later. It looks as though victory was almost within our grasp and money is needed to carry our enterprise to sueC6SS» The individual who can and will not help in a financial way now is just as culpable as any deserter at the front. Don’t neglect your opportunity to align yourself with those who have volunteered in this campaign. They have done their part, they are wearing those little blue emblems of honor, their conscience is clear. Don’t put Jasper county in the slacker class by withholding the subscription which is already several days overdue.

PRICES OF ALL CLOTHING WILL BE CONTROLLED

Prices and distribution of practically all articles of wearing apparel are to be controlled by the war industries board. Regulations issued Wednesday prescribing certain fixed prices for shoes constituted only the first step in a general policy for price control of clothing. This was disclosed Thursday by Chairman Baruch, of the board, in an address at a special meeting of the National Retail Dealers’ association. Referring to the putting into effect of the agreement between the board and the shoe industry, Mr. Baruch said: “After that will have to come the regulation and distribution of most all of the things which you gentlemen have to deal with. I don’t want you to 1 say it can’t be done, because it must be done. It is unthinkable to think that the man with the longest pocketbook can get the things that he needs.” The association was called upon by Chairman Baruch to take the product of “the manufacturer, who, to some extent, has his prices regulatec and limited amounts allocated to ■him” with the determination to distribute it “in some way, seeing that, as far as possible, each individual gets his share and gets it at a price that is fair.” Though nq details of the plan to be followed ' in. controlling clothing prices has been announced by the board, it is believed that the genera policy adopted in fixing the prices 01' shoes will be followea. • Standarc. prices for standard grades of men’s and women’s suits, hats and other articles of clothing probably will be established by agreement with manufacturers and retailers.

Mrs. I. M. Washburn accompanied her husband to Chicago today. She will return to her home here this evening and the doctor will leave Chicago during the night for Camp Dodge, lowa*’ f ’

ACT THREE OF MIGHTY DRAMA

FOCH WILL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY HUN ARMY AS • -IT RETREATS. A correspondent of an easterft metrqpoltan paper, who has written interestingly about the war, has the following to say about the present Situation:

The most interesting circumstance in the battle of France is the advance of the Belgians and the Second British army. It is interesting both in its present importance and the light it casts on the strategy of four years ago. Plumer and King Arthur are now doing what French And Foch strove to do in 1914. Four years ago Kluck made, good his ground at the Aisne and the front had been stabalized from Oise to the Swiss frontier. French moved his army up to a front from St. Omer to Bethume and began a turning movement around Lilld and attempted to drive the. Germans from this great city. In the course of this operation, Sir Douglas Haig reached Ypres and there joined Sir Henry Rawlinson’s 7th corps. At the close of the third week in October French attempted to push east from Ypres down to the Menin road and seize the crossing of the Lys. Here he encountered the first wave of Germans who had captured Antwerp. This was the begining of the first battle of Ypres. The allied offensive was turned into ah almost despairing defensive, while the British army stood and died holding the road to Calais, and the Belgans and French to the westward held the Eser canal line. After a month of desperate fighting the struggle was narrowly won by the allies. Again the tide has turned the British and French are doing What French attempted ‘to do in 1914 and Haig in 1917. A wedge is being driven behind the German positions o nthe Belgian coast and the allied movement is causing the Germans to evacuate Lille on the south and Ostend on the coast. Ypres has become a quiet sector and the Germans are on their way back to the Scheldt. And what is happening in Belgium is also happening in France. The German line which, with minor modification has endured for four years, is becoming a thing of the past, Cam>rai and St. Quentin have fallen; Lille will promptly be evacuated; Rheims, like Ypres and Verdun, will before many days be fhr behind the line. We may see a long struggle from one trench system to another, a reproduction on an enormous scale of the first battle of the Somme. But the Germans must retire between the Meuse and the Oise and particularly about Laon and in the St. Gobain region must retire with little delay and over a considerable distance. Foch’s stupendous three-act drama began July 18 when' he broke the German -offensive and seized the initiative. August 8 he began the drive that threw the Germans back to the Hindenburg line. The last act, which has been very successful, was to drive the Germans from the Hindenburg line. We are to see the pursuit of the Teutons retiring from the Hindenburg positions. On the character of theGerman retirement depends thf ultimate' outcome of the campaign of 1918. If the Germans retreat as they did from the Marne in July, and from the old Somme front in August, the campaign will end by the time they reach the next defense system behind the Scheldt and the Meuse, and the liberation of most of Belgium will have to be postponed until next

year. , C2' , But if the German morale breaks down, if there is a crumbling-of the resistance at any vital sector, then we may see a supreme disaster, the rout of the German army and a military decision this year. Of this last event there seems to me only the remotest chance. It is certain that the Germans must go to the frontier, but it is probable that they will be able to rally there, and-bad weather will interrupt operations for the year. Even if the liberation of northern France-be themaxmum profit of this campaign, it will endure as one of the most wonderful in human history. The German offensive has been broken, Germany’s conquered provinces and cities are slipping rapidly from her grasp. Allied troops in Belgium, in French Flanders, in Artois, in Champagne and in Lorraine are advancing in country which has been German for forty-seven long months. And all chance of a German return to the offensive is gone. ~ The march to Berlin has begun. St. Quentin, Cambrai and Lille the only the starting places, but after four years no one can fail to see that the grand march has started. If the road is long, the rate of our advance is increasing. One of the darkest nights in all human history is coming to a close. Victory is no longer even a matter of debate. From the North sea to the banks of the Moselle the final advance is going forward.

WEATHER FOR INDIANA.

Warmer tonight, with rain in early morning and Saturday; warmer Saturday. ,

Peter Felmy went to Fair Oaks this morning to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, Barney DeWitt.

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DR. WASHBURN OFF FOR CAMP DODGE

Dr. I. M. Washburn .left here to<ay for Camp Dodge, lowa. The Doctor has a commission as captain and will be assigned to special surgical work. Dr. Washburn was in active service during ethe Spanish-American war and his volunteer enlistment at this time is very commendable. He is the third physician to leave Rensselaer for war service. Dr. C. E. Johnson, who< is now in service in France,, and Dr. M. D. Gwin, who is at Fort’ Benjamin Harrison, are the other two.

DEPOT RESTAURANT CHANGES HANDS

Harry Gallagher has purchased the >epot restaurant of T. G. Wynegar, and is taking-possession today. Mr. Wynegar is moving into the Leopold louse on South Front street.

DIES OF PNEUMONIA.

Mrs. John Burris died at the hospital in this city Thursday night. She had beeh sick but a few days. She was the daughter of Mrs. Daniel Coleman, and had before her marriage to Mt. Burris, been the wife of Percy Coon, from whom she was di“vorced. Her maiden name was Cora Waling. She was twenty-four yean of age. Funeral services will be held at the late home on McKinley avenue Saturday, Oct. 5, at 10 a. m., and will be in charge of Rev. E. W. Strecker. Interment will be in Weston cemetery.

HAVE YOU BOUGHT BONDS?

Prosperity and the finest weather should give the substance and the disposition to all to buy bonds to the extent your credit will permit. When you have put all the available money you have into bonds and then have borrowed every dollar your credit will permit then you have done your share. Just think, the temperature Thursday was maximum 70 and minimum 44. This is ideal. How’s your patriotism?

Joseph R. Kight, of Thayer.'was in Renseslaer today looking after some ditch business. Born, this Friday morning, October 4, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Polly Weiss, of Remington. Mrs. Charles V. May went to Lafayette this morning, having beeni called there by a telegram received! announcing the death of her cousin, 1 Mrs. Hillhouse. *

“O. K.—U.S”

BY GEORGE H. HEALEY.

Colonel ISlst Infantry. 1 A blue tag attached to a small cable in the passenger carriage of a DeHaviland aeroplane attracted my attention today as I was enfiight to Seagirt, N. J. I looked at it and saw in large Gothic letters: “O. K.——U. S.” I was some ten thousand feet in the air when the tag attracted my attention and I looked at it carefully and found that it was used by the inspector when he approved the quality and workmanship of part of the machine. It was my first long flight and while I was not in the least frightened, I thought What magic there was in the was to have the guarantee that everything was O. K. and I looked at the lightly constructed wings, the slender uprights, the thin strands of wire that held the parallel planes, the light panels of wood, the strong but small cables that made it possible for the pilot to guide the machine and I thought what magis there was in the letters: “O. K.—U. S." And I looked out over the city of New York and out into the harbor where I saw a convoy moving out to sea. I saw the winding streams,.the narrow roads, the cultivated fields, the skyscrapers of New York and the happy homes of millions of people in New York and New Jersey, and I thought of all that had been done to make human liberty possible, and I saw, as I closed my eyes for a moment, the cadaverous palm of Prussian ambition in the effort to destroy all that my eyes had beheld and I thought what a glorious thing it was that men have the courage to offer their lives that liberty may live and that those unable to fight have the moral courage to say: “Go to it boys, I’ll buy the bonds to back you up,” and I could see the whole thing guaranteed with those wonderful letters: “O. K.—U. S.” And I wondered if there was a single person in the United States who cared so little for human freedom that they would not sacrifice their life and all they had to make it permanent. And I thought of the millions of oppressed people who had come to America, lured by that magic promise that I realized there, ten thousand feet in the air, a greater meaning that I had ever known before to the guarantee of MY country. And on the very eve of my departure for the scene of the conflict twixt selfish amibition and world democracy I would make one plea to those who are remaining at home, and that would be to invest in Liberty bonds everydollarthey can, and thus stand shoulder to shoulder with those who are meeting the Hun -face to face, and with God's aid we will make the world appreciate, as all true Americans do, the security in those inspiring letters: “0., K.—U. S.”

MAJOR HERMAN B. TUTEUR TO RE-ENTER THE SERVICE

Herman Tuteur, of this city, has successfully passed the examination for the rank of. major and will be inducted into the service in a very short time. The following is a clipping in reference to the same taken from today’s Indianapolis Star: “Two Indianapolis men and four men from other cities in the state have been successful in passing the Federal army examination for commissions’, Adjt. Gen. Smith wm informed yesterday. The officers, all of whom are former Indiana National Guardsmen, and their rank follows: William H. Kershner, Indianapolis, major, inspector general department; Dr. John J. Boaz, major, medical corps; William O. Jerico, major, quartermaster corps; Herman B. Tuteur, Rensselaer, major, quartermaster corps; George L. Sharp, Fort Wayne, captain, quartermaster corps, and Dr. Ernest O. Asher, New Augusta, first lieutenant, medical corps. They are now subject to call to active service.

B. N. Fendig went to Lafayette Thursday evening to buy some shoes from his traveler.

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