Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1918 — Page 3

St. Bernard Dogs Economy Victims

Kilted to Save Meat ' * Suddlv " /-/.S' ■ •" • ■ ■ Bread Shortaae Affects the French M 8 11 Th An OtherIn Belgium. Parts.—All but six of the famous St. Bernard dogs kept by the monks of that ancient monastery in the Alps have -been killed. Shortage of meat caused by the war led to this.massacre. -- -V . ' T_The St. Bernard pass is of historical renown. It connects the valleys of the Rhone and the Dora Baltea. It was traversed by Roman Regions thousands of years ago. In medieval times the pass served the armies of conq”<>, ors and the bands of mercenaries. i,apcleon crossed the Alps at this point in 1800. . A. The great monastery was built',in the middle of the sixteenth century. *t was/maintained for the relief of travelers who were surprised by snowstorms while crossing the pass. The f?t; Bernard dogs were used to find the frozen victims of the storms in the snowdrifts, They were specially trained for this work of relief and carried the first aid to the InjurefPjn a little basket attached. # to their collars. These uogs rescued thousands of human beings, many of whom were of historic prominence. And for the first time in the history of this famous monastery the dogs had to be slaughtered for want of food. Human Food First Interest. At other times a report of this sort would create profound Interest in .Paris, but at present the human race is thinking of its own rfecesslties and cares less about dog heroes living more than 8,100 feet above the surface of the sea. Today the people of France are restricted in the Consumption of meat, bread or any other article of food in the making of which dough or flour is used, and sugar. There are three meatless days and to prevent anyone buying meat in advance the rule restricts purchaser to 200 grams of meat on a day preceding a meatless day. The sale of meat is prohibited Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. In hotels and restaurants no guest is entitled to more than 100 grams of meat as part of a meal Tuesdays. This restriction is aimed at hoarding. Even . slaughter houses are entirely closed the meatless days. Thus the attempt -Is made to prevent as far as possible any violation of the rule. Of course any attempt at enforcing

M’CORMACK SINGS FOR SICK SOLDIERS

John McCormack, famous Irish -tenor, sang for the 200 convalescing soldiers from Base Hospital No. 1 on a trip up Long Island sound on the steam yacht Surf. The men were transported to the ship by the women’s motor corps under command of Maj. Helen Bastedo. The photograph shows McCormack on the deck singing to a very attentive audience.

DROP FAGS TO YANKS

New York.—Showers of Cigarettes fell from the skies on the American fighters driving the Germans out of the St Mihiel salient. This fact? was announced in a cablegram received by William J. Mulligan, chairman of the Knights of Columbus committee on war activities, at the United War Work'Campaign headquarters. From American' airplanes 20,000 packages of cigarettes were dropped into the hands of infantrymen and artillerymen pressing forward in their victorious squeeze which dislodged the enemy from »the stronghold they had held for mojre than three years. Each package was stamped “Compliments of the Knights of Columbus.” At the same time, cable dispatches announce, Y. M. C. A. workers on foot moved dmong the soldiers, handing out chocolates and cigarettes. The airplane service for distributing cigarettes to the soldiers, while the battle was in progress and the ordi-

much less meat. England had three meatless/Jays a week, applied to.re#-; jtaurants.and similar dining rooms, beSTS tain amount of meat, which he may buy four specified days in the week. Englishmen are consuming about double the amount of meat eaten by the same number of Frenchmen at present. - French .frugality In meat is thef more remarkable as it is accompanied by a similar and much more drastic restriction in the consumption of hreaC “A Frenchman,” according to a peace-time wit, “is a gentleman who, wears a decoration and orders an ex-

BRITISH PLANE HITS HUN BOAT

Story of an Attack by Flyers on German Destroyer Fleet. ATTEMPTTO ESCAPE DANGER Enemy Ship Becomes a Twisted and Dirty Wreck After Bomb From Above Strikes It—AU In • the Day's Work. London.—To the observer in the rear cbckplt of the fast British bombing machine the scene hardly appeared to change from minute to minute. The engine roared, the sunlight came slanting in onto his knees,, a biting wind beat on his face, and below was the slightly hazy surface of the sea, while to the right lay the dim line of the Belgian coast, which swept away to the wider silver reaches pf the Scheldt estuary. Ahead of him two; British machines flew in the same direction, with their propellers seeming to revolve lazily, as they always do When seen from another machine. The, observer continually scanned the air above and below the machine, and examined every now and then the surface of the sea. Suddenly the front machine turned to the right and began to fly toward

nary foot or motor methods of reaching the men in the frdht lines were unavailable, was established by Martin V. Merle of San Francisco, a K. of C. secretary, with the co-operation qt an American airplane unit. After the fight, soldiers related how pleasantly surprised they had been when cigarettes dropped from on high. They declared no service in their behalf ever had pleased them as much as this ultra modern delivery of “smokes.” The Y. M. C. A. workers won new friends at St. Mihiel. One Red Triangle man, with a huge pack on his back, moved forward- with a certain unit, distributing chocolates and cigarettes to each soldier. Salvation Army workers also were busy with their doughnuts and coffee throughout the St. Mihiel drive. - _ • Sliding racks for silverware instead of shelves feature the bottom of a rvW sideboard. : * -

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IS3 bB£ a F£FHxt“ ibtw^J-oMstS 1 for 5,000 find floats Tot 500 irdncs. Swiss Regulations Strict. At Vai de Travers, Switzerland, two butchers were found guilty of hfivteg latlng the price of calves. The butchers were fined 1,500 francs each, and vi)l have to pay the cost of the trial, .while 15 farmers, to whom /he butehers'hnd paid more than the maximum price allowed, were acquitted by the In the course of proceedings in the court It was shown that an army officer of the commissary department in buying cattle for the army had also, raid more than the maximum price ‘ permitted. Now the state’s attorney is going to prosecute the army officer for the same offense for which the two butchers were found, guilty. In JVlenna meat rations for hotels, dining rooms and boarding houses were cut 20 per,cent, beginning July 1. Even meat supplies for hospitals were reduced 10 per cent This caused increased prices.

the coast. Its occupants had evidently seen* something of importance. Looking below, the observer of the back machine saw a few miles from the Zeebrugge mole six little shapes which .seemed stationary on the gray sea. German Destroyers. They were German destroyers which were in reality steaming at top speed toward the coast. Gradually the airplanes drew nearer and nearer and soon were but a few miles from the land. Near the front machine appeared a small black ball of smoke.' Another appeared, and another, and the observer could hear the sharp craek of the bursting A moment later the second machine entered the zone of bursting shells, some leaving white smoke, and others leaving black or evil-looking yellow vapor. Along the coast line he could see the little, red flashes of the anti-aircraft batteries. Now, however, they were almost over the destroyers, which were beginning to zigzag as the danger of the coming attack was realized. The observer saw six black cylinders drop spinning from the front machine, ' and then, with his two reins round the pilot’s arms 'in front, he steered the machine to the right and left as he watched the destroyer through the wires and baix of his bomb sight. Even as he was directing the machine he saw the great white clouds of steam, smoke and water leap up from the sea near the destroyer.

The second destroyer; which was now steering an almost direct course, appeared below his range bars. He -turned the pilot slightly to the right in order that he might allow for the speed of the boat, and slowly-pushed over his bomb levers, one by one. Below tite wings he had a momentary glimpse of the yellow, fish-like bombs rushing downward. He shouted to the pilot, and they turned quickly away from the Inferno of shells which were bursting all around them. Scores Direct Hit. The observer stood up and watched intently what was going on below. Near the destroyers appeared the white smoke and spray of a bomb. Another followed, and another. Then on one of the destroyers a great red flash appeared and the center of the boat was-left clouded in smoke. He had scored one direct hit. He shouted excitedly to the pilot as one of the destroyers dropped out of line and made swiftly for its mortally wounded consort. The British airplanes returned ana reported what had happened. A patrol returning a few hours later stated that they had" seen five German destroyers returning toward Ostend. By then the sixth, torn and shattered, lay with many another twisted and rusty companion, under the sea.

COULD NOT READ, BUT HE’S THERE WITH RIFLE

’ Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala. —A recruit-to Captain Winston’s company was ordered to shoot at a certain target, the number being given. “I kain’t read, Cap’n,” said the Tennesseean. The target was shown him and when he had finished, his tally was 48 hits out of a possible 50. The officers say that these mountaineers seldom go under 40 hits out of 50 shots.

To Feed 65,000 Yanks.

Chicago.—Charles Weeghman. president of the Cuhs. has taken the job of feeding 05,000 soldiers daily for the government at the largest artillery •amp in the country, located at Smithtown, Ky, i' The Danish parliament has aliM women members.

HUN EVER ALERT WITH MANY LIES

A ■ . ’ *»-• 14 i Whistpennfl Propaganda. - T PROOF IS NEVER SUBMITTED I Centers Efforts on Religious, Racial, Agricultural, Commercial and Such Topics as Are Likely to W" Cause Friction. (Frrgj the Committee on Public Informaf tion, Washington, D. C.) By HARVEY O'HIGGINS. (This is the second of three articles by Mr. O’Higgins dealing with the propaganda of the enemy in our country.) In a previous article we have noted how the German agents in this country are using their “whispering propaganda” td set us against the French, the British and the Japanese by circulating among us all sorts of slanders and ill reports against these allies. In the campaign to promote domestic disunity tl\e pro-German rumor-monger has been even busier. He is working here exactly as he worked in Italy, upon religious prejudices. He has spread the report that the Masonic orders have protested to the government against the Knights of Columbus being permitted to build recreation huts in the camps No such protest was ever made. He has circulated stories that Catholic nuns were refused permission to do Red Cross work unless they wore Red Cross uniforms, and that Catholic soldiers —and’Jewish soldiers —were being discriminated against by Red Cross officials. All such .stories are outright inventions. At the same time he passes around every kind of rumor of Catholic disloyalty, such as tiie famous one that President Wilson’s secretary, a Cath'ollc, had been executed for treason. He has filled the malls with printed copies of an alleged “bloody oath of the Knights of Columbus,” giving it on the pretended authority of the Congressional Record. It was printed in the Record because it was read into a debate before the house- of representatives on an election protest, in order that it might be denounced as a forgery and a libel upon a Catholic candidate. A pro-German agent has been caught distributing copies of this "•‘bloody oath” in New Jersey and sent to prison for it. ' '

How the Kaiser Poses. In Spain and the Catholic countries of South America the kaiser poses as “the chafnpion of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria against Protestant *■ England, infidel France, and socialistic Italy, the enemy of the-Vatican.” He does not preserve that pose in Catholic Belgium or Catholic Poland. And in America the kaiserite uses •this very claim of the kaiser to arouse enmity against the Catholics, just as in Italy the German agent used it in an unsuccessful attempt to seduce the Italian Catholics, and now in America accuses the Italian Catholics of having succumbed to the seduction. As a matter of fact, the Catholic chaplains in the Italian army were among the first to. discover this propaganda among the soldiers, reported it to the officers, and combated it diligently. Various persons and publications that made a iivlng out of sectarian animosities before the war are unconsciously doing the work of the enemy by assisting the spread of anti-Cath-olic and anti-Protestnnt slanders. They can only be stopped by an appeal to public reprobation. They are representing the trouble in Ireland as purely a religious trouble, and the opposition to conscription in Quebec as the same sort of thing. Evem Rudyard Kipling Recently fell into the trap and denounced the pope and the kaiser and the neutrals in one breath. Such denunciations overlook, the fact that Cardinal Mercier, the Catholic prelate of Belgium, has been the most effective popular opponent of the kaiser that Europe has produced. This is a war of nations, not of creeds. Prussia Is as Protestant a nation as England is,, and Belgium and Poland as Catholic as Austria. Anyone who raises the religious question in America today is acting as a German agent, whether he knows it or not,' as truly as if he were blowing up munition plants. All loyal citizens should discourage him.

Aggravating Our Race Problems. Among the negroes the German propagandist first began work in the South and failed. He has been more successful in the middle West, where the presence of a large loyal German population gives him better cover. He is promising the negroes that the kaiser will give them social equality with the whites. An agent, recently captured in New York, was offering the negroes a “Black republic” under German protection, and he was denounced to the authorities by the negroes themselves. Another was spreading reports of discriminations against negro soldiers in the camps, reporting that th* negroes were being trained as “shock troops” to be sacrificed in the front lines, andeven circulating a story that the German nfllltary authorities had ordered all negro prisoners killed. Thus far this sort bf German effort to aggravate a race problem has been an absurd failure. Its only danger Is that Jt may lead to charges of disloyalty against our colored citizens and a suspicion of them which is not justified. To allow the German intrigue to arouse a prejudice against the negro would aid the enemy as much as if he succeeded in organizing the negro in

It is not true that there has been an attempt' “to regulate the prices of gie agencies to buy food supplies in America. Their purchases of American wneat were mnncieni to control of its wheat and leave our poorer cago was agreed upon by an independent commission, appointed by President Wilson, upon which commission the farming community was represented by six members out of eleven. In some Instances the food administration has intervened, nt the request of the producers, to obtain a settlement tn a local dispute about the price of milk. , In the case bf pork products the food administration, on the recommendation of the producers, undertook'®} use the purchases of the allied governments for the purpose of maintaining a minimum price for live hogs in Chicago. Beyond this invited assistance in the case of milk and pork, and the regulation of the price of wheat, the food administration has not interfered with the price of farm products, except tn so far. as the control of sugar prices has affected the price of sugar beets. The Truth About Profiteering. Those measures of food control have been directed more against the middleman than the producer. While fixing for the farmer an arbitrated price for his wheat, they have established a system of licensing, by which millers, bakers, grocers and wholesale and retail dealers have been prevented from profiteering on the farmer’s dollar. The fuel administration has fixed the price of coal, because the miner would not Work for reasonable wages as long as the mine owner was making an unreasonable gain. Profiteering In army and navy contracts and in shipbuilding has been stopped by the power obtained from congress to fix the price at cost plus a reasonable prqfit; and the Increase, in cost has gone to the workman, riot to his employer. All profiteering has not yet been ended. ■The way to end It has not been found in any country. But the tax on excess profits and on swollen incomes confiscates the illicit harvest and pours it into the country’s war chest. The grievances that remain are not class grievances. They are chiefly the inevitable common hardships due to a war that has drawn millions of productive workers into the world’s armies and increased the cost of the necessaries of life by decreasing the available supply. In that hardship the farmers share, as we all share. Kalserites on Both Sides.

Along with this campaign to set the farmer against the government’s war measures there has been proceeding a twin fiampaign to arouse feeling against him by accusing his westerq farmers’ leagues of disloyalty. That is equally a work in aid of the enemy. The western farmers have contributed their quotas to enlistments and to the drafts as loyally, as' any citizens. They have subscribed to the Liberty loans and contributed to the war relief work with unfailing patriotism. Thtey have had their quarrels with the men whom they suspected of exploiting them, just as labor has had its quarrels with its employers,. But it is an economic quarrel, and as long as it is conducted without Interfering with the nation’s war work the charge pf disloyalty i.s itself traitorous. In all these disputes it is certain that enemy agents will be found on both sides. , They at once preach violence among the L W. W.’s, and 1 ead mobs to attack workmen accused of being I. W. W.’s. They play the same game in every quarrel with which they can hope to diride the country. Beware, Mr. Citizen, of any attempt to make you believe that any class of American citizens, as a class, are disloyal. It is a German lie.

The Parson.

At an Ashland avenue home they have the fashion of giving names to chickens and other creatures about the place. Some days ago the mother bought a fine black rooster in market “We’ll name him ‘the Parson,’” said the mother. A few days later the new preacher and his wife were invited to dinner. They were in the parlor awaiting the event Margaret age six, came hurriedly into the next room. There the mother admonished her to be on her good behavior, “for today,” said mother, “we have the parson for dinner.” “No, no, mamma,” said Margaret “Don’t you know we killed and ate the Parson three days ago.” This cannibalistic statement, overheard in the parlor, created some disquiet until mamma made an explanation.—lndianapolis News. a

Knights of Health.

Throughout the United States half a millldh children are at present enrolled in an enterprise which blds fair to achieve decidedly Important ends. It is a crusade against dirt and disease. Half a million children between the ages of five and sixteen are enrolled under a banner bearing a Crusader’s cross, and have pledged themselves to undertake a round of hygienic duties for one year and to do what they can to improve tie health conditions of their homes £nd communities. There is health an l mental discipline in regular duties of this sort-

THE "HE-PERSON”

By MILDRED E. SWENSON.

(Copyright, 1»18. by. McClure Newspaper - , Syndicate.) it’s Donr” •Bab the nhone After a ■ound her friend, about the room. . rest a minute.” way?” She drew Bab to the sofa. it’s this wav” exTilalnetl Bab. “Doug is coming up tonight, and he’s going to bring a nice young man. “His name is Ray Stanley, and he was a friend of Doug’s in college. He’s leaving with Doug for camp in ft few days, and Doug sny« that they .want to make the-most of the short time they have left.” “But where do I come in?” asked Ann, for she was Bab’s guest. “Where?” repeated Bdb. “Why, you big silly! With Ray, of course.” But Ann thought otherwise. “Well. I guess I don’t come in with any old Ray or anyone else for that matter. You might have asked my permission before trying to put me off on any old ‘he-person,’ so there!” And Ann, with her head high in the air, ran out of the room. “Well, of i all the—” started Bab, then stopped. What was the matter with Ann, anyway? She absolutely refused to meet those "he-persons,” as she persisted in calling the opposite sex, and all of Bab’s efforts to that end had been failures. Ann was fond of Doug, in a way—because he was engaged to Bab —but any other male was much more at home away from her. Suddenly Bab jumped up, as if inspired, and going over to the phone again called Doug’s number. They chatted for a few moments, with a few eagerly suppressed "Yes’s?* “Oh, do’s,” and “That will be fine’s” on Bab’s part. Then she went out to join her friend, who was seated in the hammock. She had just gotten comfortably seated when the phone rang again. “Oh, heavens!” exclaimed Bab; “there’s that old phone again. I do wish people would let me stay quiet for a few minutes once in a while.” “I’ll answer It Bab,” said Ann, obligingly. “It’s probably one of the Bond girls to remind us that we are to play tennis with them tomorrow.” And she went into the house. A few minutes later she came out flushed and nngry. “Of all the nerve I ever heard of!” she exclaimed, “that’s positively the limit.” “Why, Ann.” said Bab, looking up in a surprised way. “What’s the trouble?” “Trouble? Trouble’s no name for’t. That Stanley fellow called up and asked for me, and then informed me that he was coming over to see me tonight! Think of that for nerve. Why, I never even met him.” “But, of course, you didn’t refuse?” asked Bab, sweetly. “Refuse? I certainly did! And then he said he didn’t care, he was coming anyway. Oh, .1 suppose I’ll have to see him, but I won’t talk to him. you may be sure of that.” “I don’t see the necessity of you’re even meeting him, Ann, If you don’t care to,” said Bab, gently. “You told hjm you didn’t want to, so if he comes and doesn’t see you. It’s his own fault.” “Well, if you think it wiirtfe all right,” said Ann. “I’d rather—n-o-t!” This last was said slowly and as if she didn’t know whether she really meant it or not. The subject seemed to be settled, but just after dinner, as Bab was dressing flor the evening—for she Intended to entertain Doug, anyway—Ann came into her room, and said, apologetically: “Don’t you think, Bab, that I might see that Stahley person tonight?” and she hesitated. "He’s going away to camp, and —” Bab bugged her. “Of course. It will be all right.”' she said, "and you’re a dear to do it. I know you don’t like boys, so It’s all the nicer of you to entertain this one, but remember It’s only for one night, and you needn’t see him again if you don’t want to. Doug will be so pleased!” Ann smiled as she started to dress. “Yes, it’s only for one night, and—• he did have a sort of niee voice,” and she added as an afterthought: “For s ‘he person.’ ” So when the boys came they found two radiant girls waiting for them. Ray seemed to think that Ann was pretty nice for a man-hater, too. As for Ann —well, she sufficiently forgot her hatred of “he-persons” enough to promise Ray that she would write to him when he left a few days later. But the queer part of it was that she never discovered that it was at Bab’s prompting that the “he-person” had called her up!

Happiness Through Kindness.

Life for some is a hard and weary journey. From the cradle to the grave many must grapple with overwhelming odds. Those of us blessed with health and vigor should occasionally think about this truth, and if we know that it lies within our power to make lighter such a person’s burden we certainly should do so, and we would realize a deep happiness through our little act of kindness. Whatever efforts we make to give somebody else happiness and good cheer will come back io us in boomerang fashion a hundred fold. — New York Evening Telegram.