Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — Page 3

WORKERS’ DORMITORIES ON WASHINGTON’S PLAZA

Wartime necessities in Washington have baited the plaza development by which the space between the Union sta«on " n dTe'Z i., to have beS converted toto . beaadfa. part.. D.*nMorle s built on the entire space. It is one of many housing projects under way to relieve an almost unbelievable congestion.

PRICES OF WHAT THE FARMER BUYS AND SELLS COMPARED

From the Committee on Public Information. Wholesale Prices of Selected Articles, 1914, and June, 1918, With Per Cent of increase.

average price Price in Per cent of Commodity. Unit 1n 1914 - June 1918 - increase. Food. $ .0816 $ .0841 3.1 Coffee, pound*...... • 4.7294 10.1625 114.9 ; Flour, wheat, barrel... .0471 .0731 55.2 Sugar, granulated, p0und............. 6,6250 13.0000 96.2 Herring, pickled, barrel 4171 - 6 ® oo 44,8 Molasses, New Orleans, gallon Boots and Shoes- 1.0710 1.700 59.7 . Youths’, gun metal, pair 2.1208 Men’s, gun metal, pair 2.2746 4.1500 82.4 Women’s, gun metal, pair... Clothes and Clothing— -1400 4000 185.7 Denims, yard 8467 1.8500 118.5 Hosiery, men’s cotton, dozen pair 0848 .2500 Shirtings, bleached Lonsdale, yard 1.0781 3.1500 192.2 ! Sbitings, serge 11 oz., yard 4.2500 13.5000 217.6 Men’s cotton shirts and drawers, dozen.. .1862 .5145 176.8 Women’s dress goods, cotton warp, yard.. 1.0157 2.6560 160.6 Blankets, all wool, pound Fuel and Lighting— 120 a iron 41.? ■ Petroleum, refined, gallon ..... • , g ' 42TO 20.9 , Coal, anthracite, chestnut, ton I Coal, bituminous, Norfolk, ton • ’ 2400 gg 4 i Gasoline, gallon .\. •••• Lumber'and Building Materials— 15300 2.5920 544 Cement, barrel ..♦.•••••• -kaa aooooo 40.3 j Lumber, pine, yellow flooring, M *2.7500 Window glass, 50 sq. feet ™ ™ U 4.4 Nails, wire, keg . ■ Other Commodities- .8400 ' gl 3 Plates, white, d0zen...... • 3100 158.4 Tumblers, dozen ■ 10800 89.4 Cups and saucers, d0zen...,.-. ■ UOO(X) 106.5 Cutlery, gross • .7457' 58.7 - Tobacco, plug, p0und.......... 5.4500 52.8 Soap, box 3C.4375 ' 53.5000 75.8 Cottonseed meal, ton ..

That the price of wheat, despite the control exercised by the food administration, shows a greater per cent of advance than the prices of many other commodities bought and sold by the farmer is Indicated, by facts made public by the department of labor and by the department of agriculture. This condition was exemplified vividly when the changes In the price of products bought by farmers were traced. The price of wheat by July 1, 1918, had increased 164 per cent over the price for July 1, 1914. In other words the price on July 1 last was nearly two and two-thirds times that of four years previous. Farm machinery, it was seen, had increased very much less during the years of war. Figures based on representative reports from county agents to the farm management bureau of the department of-ag-riculture revealed percentages of advance ranging from 44 to 98. Plows had enhanced in price 85 per cent. Disk drills Increased in cost 71 per cent. The increment in cost for cultivators was 77, while that for springtooth harrows was 81 per cent. Building materials, according to the wholesale figures assembled by the

FIRST TO ENTER ST. MIHIEL

Corporal Herman Boer was the first American to enter St. Mlhlel. Corporal Boer was formerly an engineer at the St Francis hospital In San Francisco. He is a native of Germany and came to San Francisco from that country 15 years ago.- He became a citizen and was well past the draft age when the war-broke out He.enlisted and was sent over with the first American volunteer forces to go •broad.

bureau of labor statistics, have advanced much less than the prices of wheat during the war period. The average price for 1914, when compared with that of June, 1918, demonstrated a rise of 40 per cent for yellow pine flooring. Wire nails increased 114 per cent. The cost of food generally was augmented very much less than wheat. Coffee increased only 3 per cent, showing the smallest change In price of all articles tabulated. Granulated sugar, in contrast, went up 55 per cent. Flour Increased 115 per cent. Pickled herring showed it rise of 96 per cent. Molasses was 45 per cent higher. Only certain articles of clothing increased more rapidly than wheat. Both wool and Cotton goods advanced greatly. Shoes were more nearly stable in price. Women’s gun metal shoes increased in cost 82 per cent; men’s, 87; and youth’s, GO. But men’s cotton socks advanced 110 per cent. ■ Refined petroleum cost 42 per cent more. Gasoline registered 66 per cent. White household plates went up 81 per cent while cups and saucers increased 89 per cent Cutlery showed, a sharper rise with 107 per cent. Soap revealed a 53 per cent increase. J •'■ Weighted averages based on prices assembled from a list of ab(\ut 7,000 county buyers show that on July 1, 1914, the price of wheat as sdld by the farmer had increased .164 per cent over the price for the same day of 1918. Corn, according to the data supplied by the same county crop reporters, increased within the same period 104 per cent in price. Oats showed 197; hay, 42; and cotton, 131. Hogfl advanced 107; beef cattle, 65; and lambs, 132 per cent within the four years. z The tables showing the detailed price variations of what the farmer buys and of what he sella are as follows:

What the Farmer Selle—Average Prices Received by Producers of United States for Selected Articles. (dompiled from data published in Monthly Crop Report of Department of Agri-, culture, July, 1918, pp. 82 and 88.) July 1— ■ Pct of inCommodity. 1914 1918 crease. Wheat bu. ...»80.769 82.032 1M.2 Corn, bu 755 1.837 103.8 Oats, bu. .388 .783 196.8 Hay. ton 11.290 16.07 42.3 Cotton, pound 124 .286 130-6 July 15— Hogs. 100 1b«...87.43 ' 815.37 106.9 Beef cattle, 100 1b5.... 6.32 10.40 64.6 Lambs, 100 1b5,6.47 14.98 131.5 What the Fanner Buys—Per Cent of Increase in Retail Prices of Farm Machinery in 1918, as Compared With 1914. (Based on 100 representative reports from county agent* to the Farm Management

THE EVENING REPTRI ICAN.. RENSSELAER INU

"GODMOTHER OF YANKS”

This is Mme. Marguerite Wrist, who is seventy-eight years old and of French birth. This old lady has nicknamed herself the “Godmother of all American Soldiers” and has assumed a motherly attitude toward all Yankee boys,' whom she loves almost as dearly as her fallen sons of France.

Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture. Nearly all states are represented by at least one report.) Pct. of increase 1913 Name of Article. over 1914. Binder, grain 70.8 Cultivators, walking 76.9 Drills,- disk ....... 71.1 Harrows, spring tooth 80.5 Plows, walking 84.9

NEW WAR FOOD FOR GERMANY

“Lupine Bread” to Be Next Substitute Kaiser's Slaves Must . Swallow. Amsterdam.—Germany Is threatened with a new war food called lupine bread. To work a process for converting the lupine, a leguminous, plant, into food for men and beast, on a large scale, a company has been formed -at Chemnitz, Saxony, with a capital of 3,000,000 marks. / ' The lupine was held In no particular esteem until about fifty years ago, when a German chemist discovered A process by which the bitter taste of the plant was eliminated and the vegetable fdt and albumen which it contains were made serviceable for human consumption. Now a German food expert has taken up and perfected the old recipe. It is said that lupine meal makes quite a palatable and “bread,” ’ while the refuse Is excelltent food for cattle. The German government, it is announced, Is about to take the lupine cultivation under Its official wing.

HELLO GIRLS RISE IN ANGER

Topping Bit of Propaganda on Part of London Company Is Resented. A:./ j London.—“ Hello” girls are hot “hello” girls for the primary purpose of matrimony. Eight hundred .of them have said as much, in capital letters and italics in a manifesto presented to the powers who rule the jJhone company. A “perfectly topping” bit of official propaganda by which it was hoped to recruit more girls for phone service by insinuating that the matrimonial prospects were a bit more numerous In the “hello” girl business than any other, started all the trouble. Did the present already employed “hello girls” appreciate this slur upon their means of livelihood? They did not Not one of the dauntless eight hundred, and they voiced their dissatisfaction in tones which probably resulted in a transfer-in the advertising department The man who wrote the matrimonial prospects “ad” for employment purpose* has not yet been found.

The Wreck of Faith

By REV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D.

Secretary of Corre»pondenca Department, Moody Bibla Institute, Chicago

TEXL-When the eon of man cometh, ■hall he find faith on the earth T—Luke 18:8.,

These words have been Interpreted as meaning that when Jesus Christ re-

body of Christian truth given once for all in the first century, embracing the fundamentals of our Christian system —the infallibility of the Holy Scriptures, the deity of Christ, the lost state of man by nature, thp only hope of recovery by the atonement of Christ on the cross, etc. This may be considered from the standpoint of the church in its visible form or that of the individual, personal interest in the subject being emphasized with reference to the latter rather than with the former. The aspect of the former, because it determines the aspect of the latter, shall have fuller treatment Faith has had a varied experience. For some three centuries it was held with comparative fidelity. Then the clouds of paganism and lust for embracing Christianity as an element of political life began to gather. For some centuries there was great darkness. In the period of the Crusades there" were flickering lights. Then darkness came over Christian thought until the days of Huss in Bohemia and Wickliffe in England. Persecution in Bohemia and indifference in England soon brought another season of darkness, until in Germany, under Martin Luther, the light arole that has shone for four hundred years, and accounts for what we have of the true faith today. Is the faith of the church, as such, a wreck today? Do we find all sails set and drawing, bound confidently for a distant port? Or do we see that church hesitating,’staggering in the midst of changing teachings as to fundamentals like the ship with contrary winds and laboring hard to avoid the rocks on which it may be a total wreck? Is it not true that some denominations of Christians while Still clinging to orthodox creeds have abandoned those creeds in their teachings? Faithful men in some denominations are now crying to their brethren to suppress many of the church publications are distinctly infidel in their teachings. Is it not true that many hungry, souls go to church and come away hungry because they have not heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ? . How about the individual? Not long ago a young jpan, who was a graduate of one of America’s greatest universities and was finishing his second year in an orthodox theological seminary, said to the writer that he had lost his faith, had no confidence in the Bible, did not accept the deity of Jesus Christ, and was thoroughly unhappy. This is an extreme case, but the writer has had many young people of liberal education give substantially the same testimony. What is the somewhat remote reason for this situation as to religions teaching? We must go to the land of Martin Luther. The work of corrupting the Bible had progressed until nearly all German universities and theological schools had repudiated the faith of Luther, although clinging to his name. Learned men said certain results had been attained and these results discredited the Bible. With amazing rapidity this conclusion took hold in England and Scotland and our own country. Destructive biblical criticism and Darwinian evolution swept over nearly all our great universities and our Bible was in the scrap heap. Those of us who have watched the trend of German theological teaching have observed a tremendous advance since the days' of Schlelermacher, Baur and Hoffman to the days of Kuenen, Graf and Cornlll. It was bad enough with the former, worse with the latter and the final plunge was made by men like Neitszche, who utterly ignored the Bible and defied God himself. Is it any wonder that Germany is suffering today, and is it much less wonder that the Saxon world Is suffering likewise? When will men learn wisdota?

For the individual, especially respecting young people, the old-fash-loned religion must come back. The old religious home must be restored. How many professedly religious homes are religious wrecks! Back to God I Back to Jesus Christ! To thus get back we must get back to the Bible. Thank God it Is being published as never before and the demand for it is beyond the supply. Thank God for this fact as to the hunger of ’he people for truth. ; \' .-f

turns to this world that he will find no faith. They have been interpreted as being simply an Inquiry, because of the teachings of the Bible and present world cohdltlons as to faltir at that time, iln either case we have a wreck in view, whether real or Imaginary. Faith may be understood as the

PHANTOM CANON HIGH WAY

TIE Phaqtom Canyon highway between Cripple Creek and Canon City, Colo., is now open to travel, and as a result Colorado offers to the motorist another great circle trip through some cf America’s finest scenery. The highway was formally dedicated on August 30, when more than 500 motorists from Teller, Fremont, El Paso and other Colorado counties gathered at Glenbrook, a point midway between Cripple Creek and Canon City, and participated' in the ceremonies incident to the opening of this road. Phantom Canon highway is unique among the scenic roads of the Rocky mountains, and its story is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of road building in Colorado. In the early days of Cripple Creek, there was? built the Florence and Cripple Creek railroad, a narrow-gauge line, to carry the rich ores to the smelters and to bring the fniif, hay and other products of the fertile valleys to the mining camps high in the hills. As time went on the need for this road grew less and less, until finally it was abandoned and dismantled. But the need for communication between mining camp and agricultural valley con-

The Narrows.

tinned The county commissioner* of Teller anti Fremont counties were equal to the occasion; with the co-op-eration of the state highway commission they secured the right of way, and then they set about to convert it into a real highway. Built on Old Railroad Line. Probably $1,000,000 was the original cost of building this roadbed, miles of which were cut and blasted from solid granite. At an expense of $75,000, the road builders have made of it a firstclass motor highway, rebuilt and repaired bridges, widened the roadbed where necessary. and generally put the 37 miles in excellent condition. While the road Is almost a continuous curve, mile after mile, it is wide enough at most places for cars to pass, and ordinarily careful driving is all that is necessary. It is built on a 4% per cent grade. It is a wonderful ride from the world-famous Cripple Creek mining district through Phantom Canon to Canon City and Florence. For the first few miles out of Victor the road stays on the top of the ridge, with long-distance views of Pike’s Peak, the Sangre de Christo and other snowcapped mountain ranges. Then it loops its way down into the canyon. Granite Walls «nd Deep Cuts. Rugged granite walls stand like towers of many ancient ruins. The road winds along the base of these mighty cliffs, often through great cuts between high granite piles, occasionally crossing the ravine on a solid steel bridge, and even piercing the mountain sides through tunnels blackened in bygone days by the smoke of the locomotive that no longer sounds its shrill whistle to the echo of the narrow walls from which the canyon! took its name. After a serpentine descent of 20 miles the road comes out onto the broad plains and soon is making its way past great apple orchards and fertile fields to the twin cities of Florence and Canon City. Completion of this highway makes accessible from Colorado Springs, and

Twin Cuts, Phantom Canon Highway.

equally as well from Canon City, Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Florence or Manitou. a circle trip of 135 miles, unrivaled either in ruggedness of scenery or in variety of interest. This trip completely encircles Pikes Peak, snowcapped “Sentinel of the Rockies;” it traverses historic Ute pass; winds through-the world’s greatest gold-min-ing camp, and passes the dumps of the greatest producing mines at Cripple Creek, Victor and Goldfield; unfolds the grandeur and rugged majesty of Phantom Canon, unquestionably one cf Colorado’s finest gorges; connects with the far-famed Sky-Line drive and the road to the top of the Royal gorge at Canyon City; passes through the great orchard section, the oil fields and the cement districts, and winds back to Colorado Springs through pine forests and picturesque foothills country. Or the wider circle may well take in Pueblo, the “Pittsburgh of the West,” with its immense steel mills, and up the fertile Fountain valley to Colorado Springs.

USED ELECTRIC RAYS

Cleopatra's Court Physician Known to Have Prescribed Them for Medical Purposes. \ ' ■ ■■ ■ The electric ray is a species of flair found on the Pacific coast It ia known from central California southward to the Santa Barbara channel and Is very common In Monterey bay. • ' This fish is provided with an electric organ composed of hexagonal cells, reaching from the skin of the upper surface to that of the lower, and situated at each side of the head and gilt | chambers. The electricity discharged from this ray has the properties of othef electricity, such as rendering an iron bar magnetic, decomposing chemicals and producing a spark. Stories vary as to the volume of the discharge, but even a small ray is capable of inflicting considerable pain. After a few. discharges the fish becomes exhausted and must rest before its electric organs are again functional. It is of Interest to note that the first record we have of the application of electricity is of the time of Antony and Cleopatra, whose court physician recommended the electricity of an electric ray for medical purposes, especially for pains in the head. Later it was prescribed for the cure of gout.-—Amer-ican Angler.

Gas Gets the Rata.

An enemy whose activities do not figure In the official reports but against which allied soldiers wage daily warfare in the rat. Tens of thousands of rats, huge, sharp-fanged fighters, have dug themselves in among the billets and trenches in France and Flanders and they are a constant torment Thanks to modern medical science there has been little- or no disease communicated by the rodents. Rats multiply rapidly in the trenches and thrive well. They steal the soldier’s rations, disturb his rest and spitefully bite him when he offers resistance. The pest is Ipmted with ferrets, terriers, poison and traps and when particularly numerous given a gas attack. After the trenches are drenched with gas they are generally clear of rats for a long period.

Patriotic Honey Bees.

It Is stated as a curious fact that the honey bee is this season doing more than its usual share in providing a substitute for sugar. An East side resident of Rochester, N. Y., who has succeeded measurably In keeping bees without undue annoyance to his neighbors, reports that none of his colonies have swarmed thus far this season, and that they are producing honey in great abundance. This is cheerful news in view of the fact that the English ration of two pounds of sugar per month for each person is now to be .enforced in this country.

Disregarded.

Summer Boarder (slapping his cheek)-; - And you have a sign up. ‘No mosquitoes,’ * , Farmer —I know it, but the consarned critters pay no more ’tention to it than the gunners pay to the sign ‘No trespassing’—Boston Evening Transcript.