Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1919 — Page 3

International Service and Opportunity of American Merchant Marine

mmyhunt marine to the far points the world. Our railroads must no< longer end at the ocean. We are building an American merchant fleet of tweiitv-five million tons —three thousand ships. We are backing modern ships with modem port facilities, establishing our bunkering stations all over the globe, and will operate with American railroad efficiency; We will carry American cargoes at rates corresponding to our railroad rates —the cheapest in the world. Fast American passenger and cargo liners will run regularly to every port in Latin America, the Orient, Africa, Australia. We must all take off'our coats and work to bring these American ships home to the people of every American interest and community. The manufacturer must think of customers in Latin America as being as accessible as those in the next state. The farmer must visualize ships carrying his wheat, cotton, breeding animals, dairy products and fruit to new world markets. The American boy must think of ships and foreign countries when he chooses a calling. British policy seeks to develop all the resources of the far-spread British empire. A world-wide inventory is being taken of the metals, the fibers, the crops and other resources of British colonies, so that John Bull may supply his own needs as far as possible and may increase the prosperity of Britons everywhere by developing their resources, broadening their trade and raising their incomes and living standards. Our task is to use American merchant ships, American dollars, American factories and American ability to help other nations in the same way. Since the Civil war we have learned what railroads, money and energy will do for undeveloped sections in our great West. After the world war we must learn what American ships and American money and American energy can do for the undeveloped sections of other nations such sections as the rich mineral country of the west coast of South America, the great, fertile Amazon basin, the growing nations of Australia and South Africa, so like our own in many ways. Our new merchant ships will take us into this great field of international service and international opportunity. It is time for Americana everywhere to think of world trade from this angle of raw materials.

Women War Workers Must Be Safeguarded During Reconstruction Period

Now that the soldiers are starting home from the front the first effort that should be made in the demobilization of the army of women who have been doing war work is to insure their return either to other work or to domestic life under favorable conditions. There should be no general throwing out of women from the work in which they have been en fe ' , ged, either in the munition or other factories or in the office work at the national capital and other centers. The same splendid military regulations governing the demobilization of the men in the army should govern the demobilization of the woman’s army. My opinion is that women who have gone into business, either for patriotic or economic reasons, will remain in industry of some kind. By this I do not mean they will, in retaining thefr position, exclude the men who have given up those positions for the service of the United States and who will return when peace is established. There will be no sex controversy. The readjustment will work gradually, and as for the women as a whole, there is no fear that they will eschew domestic life. , _ 1 . • The most important duty of women during this period is to help in every way and to watch and make sure that such legislation as will insure the protection of women, as the great foundation of humanity, is passed and properly administered.

War Has Taught Japanese to Develop Their Resources in All Directions

By ANDRE BELESSORT,

Japan is the only nation which has directly benefited by the present conflict. Before the war Japan was poor, but the war has enriched her far more than the victories of Port Arthur or of Mukden. Japan has learned to depend on herself. She has kicked away all her former props, with the result that the war has done more to develop her industries than ten years of effort would have accomplished.- Certain industries, such as the textile industries, or those of chemical products, and the manufacture of glassware and of European paper, have expanded tremendously in the last four years. - Japan has created that which it lacked, whilst that which it already possessed, is flyveioning to an extent which the benefits of a world peace would never have allowed it to hope for. In order to give an adequate idea of this progress, it is only necessary to glance at the statistics, which prove that the net. profits of the textile industries have increased by 5,330,000 yen since the beginning o f the war, while the profits of the chemical industries have increased by 1,133,500 yen. ■■■ - : Once started in this direction Japan resolved to acquire complete economic independence. This is prov.ed by - the fact that although before the war Japan was behind Germany in the manufacture: of artificial dyes and many other chemical products, she has now taken these industries completely in hand, and two companies have been formed with the approbation and direct aid of the Japanese government, so as definitely to check any attempt Germany may eventually make to resume* her supremacy in thear 'dirmiofisr n,-„,

By EDWARD N. HURLEY

Our merchant marine of today and tomorrow will carry a message of good jvill to the nations of the world. Millions of cruelly starved folk face westward from every shore with mouths open to the promise of Ameriica. fed, and clothed, and also supplied with other necessities of life. Highway transport" facilities are at the farmer’s gate, and “at «. ry farmer’s gate” must immediately suggest the initial phase of overseas distribution. The> highways transpc service is the first step in the great system of transportation to the sea and then on the

By MRS. ROSALIE LOEW WHITNEY

Professor in Pans Lycee

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INi>.

After celebrating for a while the aunouncetueot that the armistice had been signed this American army looked one# more upon the serious side of the great war, and with the same firm step but with lighter hearts started on the march for occupied territory In Germany., • ■

YANK GUNNERY AMAZES BOCHE

Captured Hun Says He Never Saw Such a Perfect Barrage. IRISHMEN SAVED THE DAY Famous New York Infantry Regiment Did Great Work at Took Terrible Toll of Death From Enemy.

New York. —Over the rail of the hospital transport Sierra as it came in one day recently leaned Roy Davis of Chicago. He was a soldier of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth artillery, formerly the First Illinois, In command of H. J. RetHy.~ He yelled down to those on the police boat: ‘.‘Tell the people of New York the old Sixty-ninth (a famous Irish infantry regiment In the New York National Guard, now the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth, a part of the Rainbow division) saved the day at the Champagne. The people of France are wildly enthusiastic over the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth, and, believe me, they have reason to be. “We followed the Sixty-nlnih up at the battle of Champagne, laying down their barrage for them. It got hot as hell behind those boys and then hotter and it was just as bad In front. The Poilus started to go back and yelled to the One Hundred and Sixtyfifth to turn and follow them. “ 'To hell with that!’ yelled back the Sixty-niuth. ‘We’regoing right on.’ And, believe me, they went right on and saved the day. Exacted Terrible Cost. “The gray-green uniforms strewed the ground in front of the Irish positions. One walked on a carpet of dead bodies after the attack was hurled back. The Sixty-ninth was cut up, but they exacted terrible cost from the Boche.” It was of the One Hundred and For-ty-ninth field artillery that a captured German said: • “Let mb see those men wfid are be; hind those, guns. I never saw sqch a perfect barrage In all my life.” One es the most popular officers on

Two Senators Live in Same Street in Topeka

Topeka, Kan. —Topeka claims to be the only city in the country which boasts of two United States senators living, in the same street. They are Senator Charles G. Curtis, now representing the state, and Senatorelect. Arthur Capper.

$75 BY AIR TO PARIS

Tickets for Trip Now on Sale in ■ London. < Use Bombing Machines for Passengers Until New Designs Are > Produced. ’ : • ’■ . • London. —Ticket” are now being sold at >75 dach. for jonrney-by-airplape to Paris, passenger service starting as soon as circumstances permit. The journey by air will be done in two and one-half hours, the distance being 240 miles. Holt Thomas, of the Aircraft Manufacturing company, is backing the enterprise, which Is expected to And favor among tourists and business people. During the war many public officials have' flown froth London to Paris; Bonar Law prefers to go that way/ Allowing a half hour either end of the journey to get to and from the airdromes^jJje fniije JtiUJuey wiU

YANKEE TROOPS MARCHING INTO GERMANY

the transport was the Rev. Ray F. Jenney, the fighting chaplain of Decatur, 111., who had four wound stripes on his sleeve. When all the officers of a company in his regiment had been shot down in the big, drive at SEW hiel he led the men on and brought back a trophy in the shape of a silvermounted Luger pistol that he toqk from a German commander when his company smashed up a machine gun. Bear Distinguishes Himself. Among those wearing the Croix de Guerre was Lieut. J. Sanford Bear of Illinois of the Thirty-ninth infantryHe is twenty-two years old. On July 27 he distinguished himself in a novel manner. It was before Chateau-Thler-ry and a group of officers in French uniforms on the opposite bank of the Vesle were believed to be Germans in disguise. It was to find out if the officers who pretended to be French were really so that Lieut. Bear volunteered to swim the Vesle and make

WOMAN BOSSES MINE

Heads Corporation Controlled Entirely by Her Sex. Operates Garnet Mine In" Alaska and Lead, Zinc and Silver Minea in Arizona. New York. —From the far West there now comes tp us the lady miner, Miss Anna Durkee, organizer and controlling element of a $1,000,000 corporation run entirely by women. Miss Durkee operates a garnet mine in southern Alaska and lead, zinc and silver mines in Arizona. She is the largest indivld&hl mine owner in the Oatman district of Arizona, and the most widely known woman in the mining world! It was while she was in Alaska seven years ago, investigating a proposition tn copper,-that Miss Durkee first became interested in a garnet mine, was given an option on it and finally took it over in the name of a corporation which had a board of 15 women directors. * ' ' At the beginning the mine did not seem to amount to a great deal, but as Miss Durkee began to develop the first claim with which the corporation started, veins were discovered opening out ihevery direction, and as the work continued the. amazing fact dawned that the entire mountain was a gigantic mine of the beautiful crystals, with ledges of garnets extending from the sea level to a distance of 3,600 feet up the mountain side. But the'greatest value of the deposit consists in a by-product of garnet waste, discovered by Miss Durkee, who passed two years in a chemical laboratory working it out. 'She had

.require but three-and one-half hours. Until new’ designs are produced bombing machines which can carry a load of 3,250 pounds, travel 128 miles an hour and climb 5,000 feet in five minutes win be "used. Experiments have shown tliat by covering the fuselage with glass passengers can converse readily, the roar of the engines being minimized. Thomas hopes to reduce the one-way fare to $25 within a few months. . . J. J ■ .J,.......

" •Cartersville, Ga. —Vast deposits at high potash slates in this district and high potash schist in Pickens county have just been located. This newfound supply of potash, it is said, will make Georgia and nearby territory independent'of, the jest of th'e World in the matter of fertilizer manufacture, now In * such a precarious condition because of the failing supply of potash.

Find Potash in Georgia.

Almost Entire Family 4 Wiped Out by War

Leavenworth, Kan. Almost the entire family of Sergt. William C. Baldwin, Company C. of the Soldiers’ home near here, has been offered up on the altar of America. Recently a letter was received by him stating that his third son had died from pneuiqonia at Camp Funston. Two other sons died In action In France. ~ Two daughters are now overseas, serving as Red Cross nurses. One of them has been wounded by a bomb.

close observation on the other shore. Whether they were friends or foes Bear was exposed to the machine-gun fire of the enemy while swimming, but he carried through his mission successfully, found that the French uniforms were but disguises, and so permitted the fire from the American Ade to be centered upon the enemy positions. For this he won the cross.

observed that garnets when milled did not fuse with iron or brass, and following this up, she discovered a new use for the waste garnet, of which there were hundreds of thousands of tons. ‘Ground to a certain mesh and put through a secret process the waste garnet makes a separating powder valuable in foundry work,” she stated. The garnets of Miss Durkee’s mine are of the finest variety, almandines. Because of their beauty and hardness, geologists have given them the name of “precious garnets.”

WELL-KNOWN BUFFET CLOSES

Famous Place in Boston Frequented by Men of Affairs to .Go Out of Existence. Boston.—“ Fennel’s Elace,” Boston’s famous buffet bar, where men of af-fairs-long have met to have a friendly “nip,” will pass into history In May, because of wartime prohibition. Tucked away in a quiet spot close to busy Devonshire street, “Fennel’s” I has stood for 40. years, presided over ■by John Fennel. The lease expires in May and Mr. Fennel has decided to close up. “Combination” ig,,the popular drink at “Fennel’s.” It consists of whisky with a “chaser” of ale. Famous personages visiting the city were always taken to “Fennel’s”—to try the “combination.” Mr. Fennel is said to be the country’s most famous purveyor of wines. He has traveled over Europe all his life collecting- choice wines. He has paid as high as $125 for small bottles put up in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

WAR IS GOOD HAIR TONIC

Yankee Goes to France With Billiard Ball Head and Now Has Fine Crop. Sharon, Pa.—The crash of cannon, shriek of high explosive shells and the bursting of shrapnel is the best hair thnle ever concocted, according to Private Harry Vance, a Farrell boy now in France. Vaiice tells of an American soldier who landed in France with a head as free of hair as a billiard ball. After a short time in the front lines, where he engaged In a npmj>er of sharp battles, his hair started to grow and today he has a fine crop.

Man Who Never Worries.

Dayton, O.—This city has been entertaining a naan who never wurrled about' “a single, solitary thing.” He is Ray D. Lfllibridge of New York. Umbridge says he never. worries because he lives every day by a “card , index .system.”*. His walking, sleep tng, eating and everything else he does governed by the: card index, and he IS probably the most systematic Sian

NO DISGRACE TO FEEL FEAR

One Result of. War Has Been Saner Idea of What Constitutes -- Real Bravery. •r, „ - '■— An English observer callp attention to the fact that our worldwar ha« destroyed the fear of being afraid. tiereTOlOre, tv -wwt u tiqufty, the one qualityinsisted oa in the soldier was that he should be fearless and the more, cahously so the better. The faintest tremor of timidity was a black mark against the most respondent knight as well as the lowliest. bowman or halbardier, and the schooling for war was an utter defiance of the personal risk. This theory held, as many will remember, even till the, period, of the Boer war, when the British suffered so severely In officers because it was held cowardly for a commander to seek cover. Sfen. then' as now, felt fear, for that Is one of dgsh’s attributes and, indeed, is one of -the most valuable of human possessions. since fear is our protection front dangers and harms innumerable. We fear wild beasts to avoid them, snakes ami spiders to .Increase ( our attention, storms and tempests that we may prepare means of escape from them. So it was only in battle P that chivalry insisted that man should be without fear, or pretend to be. With the coming of new warfare,' however, ail lands at once came to a more sane understanding and the old physical bravery has given place to moral resolution. The man who now enters the hell of shell fire, of hurled flames and deadly gases, no longer attempts to fool himself into the be-, lief that he Is not afraid.- He know* full well and only a stupid nature could avoid the knowledge that the human Is at the mercy of forces a million times beyond his own ability The old knight might really believe he was able to unhorse all the enemies that rode against him and therefore might conceivably be without fear, but how can a soldier feel that way when facing modern weapons of destruction? Therefore, it is no longer a disgrace to feel fear or to admit it; the only disgrace is to allow fear to prevent one doing his duty. How much liner fiber Is needed for this new defiance !

Need for More Consuls.

The chairman of the shipping board has called the attention of congress and the people to the need of enlarging our consular service abroad, In view of the fact that our great merchant marine will be released for use in foreign trade. Mr. Hurley tells us, observes the Independent (New York), that the United States will have 25.000,000 tons of merchant shipping by the end of 1920, and that as fast asr these ships can be freed from military work they will enter commerce. The present consulates would be entirely inadequate to handle thls.enlarged business. There are not enough of them, their staffs are too small and they are handicapped by inexperience with duties that will be demanded and by antiquated regulations. Even now the burden of work, especially in the way of inquiries to be answered, is overtaxing the undermanned and underpaid force. Mr. Hurley therefore pleads that immediate steps be taken to remedy the situation. “We need more consuls and larger consular staffs,’’ he tells us. “If we do not provide them today and prepare for the great growth in our merchant marine and trade after the war, I fear that we shall suffer a serious breakdown.”

You've Heard 'Em.

“Lookhere,” said the city editor to the cub reporter, “you should write everything as briefly as possible. Instead of saying ‘the middle-aged baldheaded performer in the hired aggregation of followers of Orpheus who nightly provide the harmony at one of our leading temples of mirth, seized his trombone firmly in his hands, placed his feverish lips to the mouthpiece and sounded thereon an unearthly tone like the wailing of a lost Soul on z the main street of Inferno’—now shorten that up.” 1 i So the reporter merely wrote: “The slip horn^ player in the orchestra blew a helva note.” 3

A Cattle Queen.

A cattle-shjpping season to the Eastern stockyards Is in full blast, and Mary Vail, Los Angeles heiress, said to be the richest maiden in California, is in these large sales and shipments, figuring as a notable cattle queen. Miss Vail is the daughter of the late Wal-_ ter Vail, who had over 300,000 head of steers and sheep on his famous ranches. Under the direction of Miss Vail and her mother the cattle domain left by the father and husband greatly increased in value. The meat barons are paying them $1,000,000 for steers and sheep this fall. —San Francisco bulletin.

Back in the Game.

•-•Another sign that the war te over.* “Yes.” “An old-fashioned stock promoter, wearing diamonds and flashy clothes, was in here the other day.” “WeH! Well!” •JEhjose chaps are crawling out at their dugouts again Birmingham Age-Herald. '. ♦

A Realization.

“How’s prohibition workin’. In Crimson Gulch T’ -v® “All right!” replied Three Finger Sam. “The boys aye beginnln’ to realise that a man’s conversation Is jes* at Interestin’ when he’s sober an’ a hei> more roUaWa.” 7