Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Dominick Simply Could Not Give Up Uniform gT. LOUIS. —If Provost Marshal Crowder had visited the children’s court the w other day when Dominick Galeno was called to the bar of justice to answer to a charge of masquerading in khaki the draft age might shortly be dropped

to fifteen. Dominick is fifteen, and his age and his long legs, that lift him just 6 feet 8 inches above the ground, have got him into trouble. Dominick lives at 467 Harman street with his parents and three small sisters. For a long time he has felt out of place everywhere. His legs were so elpngatdd that he had to fold them over the top of the desk in school, where he was the butt of ridicule by older and smaller boys. This

goading became so pronounced that Dominick’s withdrew him from' school two years ago and placed him in business. When war came Dominick informed his parents he would enlist. They would not hear of it. So last July, after taking an active, part in the celebration of the Fourth, Dominick enlisted in the state guard. He said he was eighteen. and might safely have said twenty-eight. For a while he only did duty at the armory, drilling and the routine work of the rookie. Toward the latter part of the month he was ordered to do guard duty upstate. He was given real cartridges. Two days passed watching for German agents; then he was called Into the tent of his captain and informed that he was discharged. He went home to learn that his parents had had him removed from the service. Then Dominick was arrested for parading in the uniform. Magistrate Reynolds heard the case and held the boy for trial at special sessions. No proof of the boy’s age was before the court. Later, at special sessiofis, his age was determined and the case was transferred to the children’s court. Justice Wilkin seemed inclined to deal severely with the boy. He said: “If I find that this boy deliberately paraded about in uniform I shall send him to the house of refuge. I am a stickler for respect for the uniform and this boy showed no respect when he refused to return the uniform to the state and continued to wear it without the right.” • ./

Storm Brought to Mind the Pranks of Halloween MINNEAPOLIS. —Weary from work and the severe mental strain brought on by the tornado at Tyler, rescuers were forced time and again to stop as they smiled grimly at some of the frolics of the storm. The sight of chickens

whisked along the street at a rapid rate and stopped when it swerved into a building. Later it was buried in the ruins of the structure. Clothing and furniture were driven in every direction. A few telephone poles just outside the storm area collected material like a magnet. The entire east wall of the handsome home of M. Glammerstad, cashier of the First National bank, was sliced off, exposing the living room, dining room and bedroom furniture and the bathroom. The occupants escaped injury from flying, debris by falling on the floor. From some other home a coal scuttle came flying into the parlor and dropped on top of the piano. Mr. Glammerstad’s automobile, standing in the yard, was hurled a block down the street and wrecked. A large tree standing two feet from a pump was snapped off near the ground and then torn to pieces, while the pump was unharmed. Clothes from the closets were picked up by the gale and exchanged for sticks of wood and picture frames from the neighbors’ hoipes.

Fritz Surely Picked Out a Good Old Irish Name CHICAGO.— To wear a German monaker these days is not likely to help business. That’s why a newsie named Fritz Schultze changed his to Larry Mulligan. He declared that Schultze was a hoodoo to him, so be decided to

become Irish. ’ “No, I didn’t consult no courts about changing my nauie,” he said when asked about the matter. “I just changed it and let it got at that. That’s all the courts would have done and it would have cost me a lot of money. I’m leery of them legal birds. I settled the matter out of court and now I’m Larry Mulligan. I give the thing a thought before I took the name, though. I talked the matter over with a couple of pals and they handed me a lot es bum advice. They

says I might as well make a regularijob out of it and take a good name while I’m about it. * “One of them says I ought to call myself Jack Dalton or Hal Chase, or something‘with a punch in it. Well, I figures that it’s the good old Irish name that gets a bloke furthest in this newsboy game, so I took the Irishest name I could think of. I considered Clancy and Murphy and McGowan, but I figured the name with a punch was Mulligan. And when you introduce the name of Mulligan with Larry—oh, boy I “Yer see, I was all out of luck with the Fritz Schultze stuff taggin’ around after me. I was doin’ business downtown until my associates gave me the gate. Guess they thought I was a Boche or something like that. Anyway, I decided to change my name and locality and here I am uptown to start a new life.” “Larry Mulligan" is a typical West side boy of sixteen. He was born in that section and so was his father. ' * •

Don’t Mention Holdup Men to Officer Blackwell BROOKLYN. —Policeman George Blackwell, sauntering along Flatbush avenue, beheld a crowd running and heard such shouts as: “They’re holdup men!” “One’s got a gun and the other a knife.” Policeman Blackwell, being

“Well,” soliloquized the officer, “duty is duty.” So, unllmberlng bls gun. the officer crawled through. , Shivering and qtiaking in a far comer of the cellar were the fugitives, the holdup men, Emanuel Enos, eleven, of 515 Clinton street; Ray Cadarr, eleven, Of Forty-second street, and Henry Coyle, eleven, of 354 Smith street. After the cars began to run again on Flatbush avenue the policeman learned that with the aid of a potato knife and a cap. pistol the three boys had held up Henry Engvaldsen, nine, of 218 East Forty-second street, on Church avenue, near Fortieth street and taken a quarter from him. Then, re-enforced by friends, the victim of the hold-up chased them all the way to the hole into which the boys ran like cotton-tails pursued by houn’ dogs. Justice Wilkin, successfully maintaining his gravity, heard the story in the ehlldreu’s court and paroled the “holdup men” for sentence.

running around without feathers was common. Rats and mice left their hiding places. One went through a small blaze and was singed through to the skin. Trees in the devastated area were stripped of branches two or three inches in diameter. The trees that were not uprooted became Christmas trees. With more than 50 automobiles blown in here and there, tires, hoods, seats, robes, wheels and even steering gears flew high and landed in the branches. One car was

blessed with long legs, soon caught up with the pursuing throng and was informed that th’(j “holdup, men” had sought asylumiS in the cellar of an abandoned carpenter shop at Flatbushavenue and Chester street. The mouth of a hole under the foundation, through which the crowd said the fugitives had entered the cellar, yawned ominously. “Come out!” ordered the policeman. * No answer was made.

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Rise of Czecho-Slovaks Romance of war

Recognition as An Independent Nation BringsNewStrength to Remarkable Fighting Forced >

r*— —-i HERE has been no more romantic episode in the present war than the role played therein by the Czecho-Slovak troops who Hare now endeavoring to hold the fort in Siberia for the cause of the entente and civilization against the forces of bolshevik anarchy united to German barbarism. Compelled to fight for their Austrian and. s Hungarian oppressors against their Moscovite kinsmen, they took every opportunity of surrendering and of deserting in the early stages of the Struggle, especially in the battles that raged in Galicia. Welcomed with open arms by the Russians, scores of thousands of them volunteered to serve under the czar’s flag against the nations by whom they had been subjected to intolerable tyranny, writes F. CunliffeOwen in New York Sun. The Czecho-Slovaks fought hard and well to the very last for the cause of the entente, and when the bolshevik! betrayed Russia and her allies by concluding a dishonorable and utterly contemptible peace at Brest-Lltovsk they withdrew into the interior and awaited events. Latst spring they decided that they could best help the members of their race in the dual empire by making their w r ay across Siberia to America and thence to the French front.

<They made their way into Siberia, helped everywhere by the respectable inhabitants, who were wearied to death of the bolshevik! and of their ansi chical and terrorist activities. They did not, however form one large body. They were too numerous for that. As a unit their march eastward would have offered too many difficulties in the way of food and transport. They separated into several well disciplined armies. An advance guard even managed to reach Vladivostok and then got into touch once more with the outer world, and especially with the recognized leaders of Czecho-Slovak nationalism, foremost among whom is Dr. Thomas Masaryk, the eminent scholar and statesman, who lay long at Prague under sentence of death and who is now- in America.

Recognized as a Nation. . At Vladivostok the commanding officers of tile Czecho-Slovak vanguard learned that their people had been recognized as' an independent nation by the powers of the entente and that the latter had pledged themselves to the emancipation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia from the despotic rille of Austria-Hungary and to their formation into a sovereign state. They also were apprised that Doctor Masaryk had been elected by the Czecho-Slovak leaders as their president and chief and had been accepted as such by the governments of the entente. It was brought home to them Uiat they had been raised to the status of allies of France, Of the United States, of Great tliat their military services would be more useful to us in Siberia and iq Russia than on the French front. And they were Instructed to turn back to

“Parsec” Is a Long, Long Way.

A “parsec” is a distance that' the most zealous pedestrian would hardly care to walk before breakfast In fact it doesn’t enter ipto the sphere of human operations at all, but it is a handy unit in astronomy. It is equal to 20,000,000,000,000 miles and is the distance traveled by light tn 3J years. A few of the nearest.stars are from one to five parsecs distant from us", but most of the stars that dot the sky are scores or hundreds of parsecs away.

re-enforce the comrades whom they had left behind them pending the arrival of troops of the entente. Several American regiments have already been disembarked at Vladivostok, as well as a large Italian contingent. French troops have been hurried thither from Tonkin and Indo-China and a large British force from India. The bulk, however, of the allied army which is to preserve Siberia, with all her boundlesk industrial and commercial possibilities and her * literally inexhaustible latent riches, for the Russian people from the encoriomiC and political despotism of Germany is being (urnlshed by Japan. Released Prisoners Oppose Them. The Czecho-Slovak forces have retained their arms. But they are handicapped by the lack of ammunition and above all by the absence of artillery, both light and heavy. They have against them not alone the bolshevik!, but also considerably more than 100,000 German and Austrian prisoners of war who after their capture were interned in Siberia, who were released under the terms of the bolshevik treaty of peace at Brest-Litovsk And who have been since then furnished by the bolshevik government and by the German military authorities with arms, munitions, artillery, supplies, money and even airplanes. They constitute a formidable enemy. Fortunately for our cause, the bulk of the people in Siberia are for us. The white population of Siberia is composed in the main part of a class immeasurably superior in intelligence, education, progressiveness and blood to the Moscovite mujiks, who form 95 per cent of the population of European Russia. We of the entente owe a debt of gratitude to these gallant Czecho-Slovaks who have remained to champion our cause in European and Asiatic Russia. Were It not for the fight which they have, put up In Siberia against Germany and the boisheviki the Teuton domination of that enormous territory, almost a continent in itself, would be well nigh complete and almost beyond reclamation.

If Germany had control of Siberia she could afford to surrender, not alone Belgium and the Invaded districts of France, but even all Alsace and" Lorraine, away back to the Rhine; to forego any idea of dominating Bulgaria and Turkey; in one’ word, to abandon well nigh all her most loudly proclaimed and most cherished ambition in other directions. Would Be Immune to Boycott. It would place within her reach all the raw materials she needed for her industries and all the markets that she required for ttjeir exploitation. It would- render of any economic boycott that we might organize against her after the war—that boycott which she dreads above all the other forces that we can bring to bear against her. It would restore to her a prosperity and an economic strength that would allow her to treat as of no importance her failure to obtain indemnities. It would culminate in her political and commercial mastery of China, with the latter’s busy population 0f.400 millions, and it would render her a standing menace to the island empire of Japan, to America’s rich dependencies in the Philippines, to France’s great colonies In Indo-Chlna and to the British empire of India. It would pave the

Gift Brought Punishment

A young woman employed in the office of* Kobe shipping house received from her millionaire employer a sum of money as a present on New Year’s day. The girt took her fat wad of notes home. She was promptly thrashed by her mother for stealing them and dragged to the office to apologize for ffib ' theft. Explanations were made, Wt when they got home she was admonished once more for not stating her .case more clearly.—Japan Chronicle ■ ' . ■ • »

way, Indeed, for Germany’s mastery of Asia, which would give her that world supremacy which is the goal of the kaiser. Repairing Great Wrong. s It must never be forgotten that in restoring sovereignty and Independence to the Czecho-Slovaks we are not creating anything new, but merely repairing a great wrong. Few nations have contributed more to the prosperity and to the progress of central Europe than Bohemia, whose people were in an advanced state of civilization when Germany was a region of bogs and of robber barons. '

Their university at Prague, founded in 1348, is the oldest seat of learning east of the Rhine, and it served as a model of most of the universities subsequently created on the continent. The Czechs are an ancient race. They were flourishing in Bohemia away back in the fifth century before Christ, and they have always been noted for their progressive spirit, for their longings in the direction of liberalism and democracy, and above all for their industrial and commercial enterprise, thanks to which they have been for the past 400 years the economic backbone of the Hapsburg monarchy. They were Independent, and therefore unfettered, until they foolishly elected Emperor Ferdinand of Austria as their ruler in 1520, not only because be was married to the daughter, and heiress of their last king of the dynasty of St. Wenceslaus, but also because he solemnly pledged himself to respect their national rights and liberties. Needless to add that Ferdinand I failed to keep his promises. This is a -peculiarity of the house of Hapsburg. When he found that his powers, which were absolute in Austria proper, were restricted in Bohemia he proceeded to abolish the latter’s national privileges one by one. Nearly a hundred years later the Czechs, led by their territorial aristocracy, organized a revolt against the despotism of the Austrian emperor, Ferdinand JI? who had shown himself far more dangerous and hostile to Bohemia as an ally than as an open enemy. The Czechs were defeated in the memorable battle of the White Mountain, which marked the end of the independence of Bohemia as a nation.

Always Oppressed by Teutons. From that time forth the Czecho-Slo-vaks have been a constant subject of oppression and tyranny of the governments of Vienna and of Pesth, encouraged and abetted by the Hohenzollern dynasty, which has ever seen* in Czecho-Slovak nationalism and economic importance an obstacle and abarrier to its openly avowed designs of extending its sovereignty from Berlin to the Mediterranean, at the head of the Adriatic. Well nigh every ruler of the dual empire has pledged himself at one period or another of his reign to restore to the Czechoslovaks their national Independence and their autonomy on the same footing as Hungary and to have himself crowned at Prague with the crown of St Wenceslaus and invested with the sceptre, the orb and the mantle of that famous ruler and patron saint, as king of Bohemia. In no case have these promises been kept, not even by the present Emperor Charles, who gave an undertaking of tills kind on his accession to the throne of the dual empire.

Latin Derivative.

Corporal is derived from the same Latin-word as captain, but with an admixture of the meaning and spelling of the English word corps.. Caporalls in medieval Latin meant- a. chief of commander; hence the French caporal.

Teach Children to Be Kind.

It has been truly said that any person who deliberately tortures a dumb animal would commit any crime not requiring courage. Teach children Miriness to animals. V A J?’'". ■ , • »

HOME TOWN HELPS

PLEA FOR VINES AND SHRUBS Undoubtedly Render Roads More Attractive and Also Tend to Keep Down the Dust _r " < Fortunately we have in this country examples of well-kept parkways and boulevards whieh border cultivated lands. Their ample parking is grown to grass and embellished with herbaceous flowers, shrubs, and trees. Yet the farm lands they border are neither overwhelmed by weeds nor devastated by insects and rodents. The question of roadsides propagating vast numbers of noxious weeds may be viewed in more than one light. For instance, the mowing of waysides for long series of years has not done away with' the need of cultivating crops; indeed it cannot, for cultivation is necessary for other reasons loosening, aeration an<f water conservation) than the destruction of weeds. Furthermore, the amount of cultivation customarily given crops is sufficient to control all the weeds the land will grow, and this number is generally present despite the razing of roadside growths. On the other hand, the lack of verdure and shade and the general dreariness of roadsides make it very desirable that a different treatment of these most extensive public parkings be adopted. Placing vines upon fences and planting numerous shrubs and shade trees along the way will not only render the roads more attractive but will tend to keep down the dust.—Exchange.

EFFECTIVE USE OF CONCRETE

Cincinnati Engineer* "Camouflaged" Water Tank* That Otherwise Would Have Been Blemish. The citizens as well as the engineers of Cincinnati, 0., were troubled at the * prospect of disfiguring a beautiful residential section of the city with five 100-foot water tanks, and many plans were presented for making them less unsightly. The one chosen for architectural effect was a shell of con-

Concrete Shells Which Camouflage Unsightly Tanks in Cincinnati.

crete which transformed the huge ugly towers into impressive monuments. The problem of form work for the construction of the shell wa* difficult. First the tanks were constructed in the usual manner, of steel, < and these were filled with water so' that they would be the same shape. It was feared that if concrete were poured while they were empty slight changes might take place when the tanks were filled, causing the concrete to crack. The forms for the first setting were placed on the foundation and braced to the ground. As each panel of the form wfijghs a ton it is readily seen that it was a difficult task to raise the huge weight These water towers have been designed so that they fit into the City Beautiful plan of Cincinnati. The top of the concrete structure has the ap-< pearance of the battlements of an old fort, and is really very effective.— Scientific American.

Rules for House Painting.

A widespread movement to preserve national and private property has aroused great' interest in the materials which will assist in such preservation. Paint is by far the most important, agency in the- protection of exterior, surfaces agalnstdeterloratlon through heat and moisture. Paint means color; and just as the degree H protection produced through paint varies accoi ding to the quality of that material Itself, so the effect of colors produced with paint depends greatly upon the character of the different hues in which the various kinds of are manufactured. Pure or bright colors have their place, while grayed neutral colors are often necessary to assist in producing the right appearance; but the intense or dull dead colors should always be avoided in exterior painting.— People’s Home Journal.

Getting Into Print.

“Of course Pm not seeking publicity, young man. I hate newspaper notoriety.” “Then, why did you grant me such a lengthy interview? I have notes enough for more than a columa” “Well —er—can’t you convey the impression to the public that I*consented to talk with the greatest reluctance?” •—Birmingham Age-Herald.