Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1919 — Page 3

Industry Rose to Needs of War

Great Britain Becomes CompleteProducts. NOW MEETS ALL DEMANDS (Before the War Germany Had Control of Much Raw Material That Was Vital—FlndFwajT to Sup. ply Potash. London. —A remarkable story of liow British industries formerly dependent for their life blood on Germany have under the stress of war’s demands arisen to a state of complete Independence was told by Mr. Kelloway, parliamentary secretary to the . British ministry of munitions, at a recent meeting of the industrial reconstruction council. Britain la now first In the world in almost every sphere of (Industrial effort, he said. Beginning with raw materials, Mr. Kelloway showed that mica, absolutely essential to the electrical industry, •was so controlled by Germany, although half the world’s supply came from India, that when the war began the world’s market was on the point of being transferred from London to Hamburg. But Indian mica now can be exported only to London, and the British- electrlcat Industry has taken the place Germany once held and is now the first in the world. Before the war the British empire

produced 40 per cent of the wolfram ore from which tungsten (essential for ' high speed steel and in metallic filaments) is made, but so successfully had Germany captured the trade that no British manufacturer was able to establish the. industry in this country. To this position Germany owed her great superiority in munitions production in "the earlier stages of the war. All that has been changed. Britain is now able to produce air the high speed eteel she needs and to export at a reasonable price to her allies. Controlled Australian Zinc. Australia has practically unlimited supplies of zinc ore, but Germany obitained control of them, and 77 per cent of British pre-war supplies came from Germany, Belgium and Holland, Germany being Britain’s largest supplier. •But now Australia’s output has been diverted, permanently, he hoped, to Great Britain.

Great Britain used to depend entirely on Germany for potash, essential for fertilizers, dyes, drugs and glass production. The war revealed that 50,000 tons of potash was going to waste here every year in the dust or fumes from blast furnace gases. That is now being collected. Germany had relied on her practical monopoly in Europe of naturar deposits of potash to enable her to bargain for the recovery of her world markets. She will disappointed. British enterprise and judicious government assistance have taken that power from her. Machine tool production looked like ■an almost insoluble problem at the beginning of the war, but so greatly has production increased that before long the power of the engine will be the same as its weight in pounds, i. e., one pound per horse-power. The British position in 1914 in regard to the production of magnetos was very grave, but, thanks to a display of "grit in the face of almost insuperable difficulties, of resource and of patriotism as fine in its way as that shown by her fighting forces, the British ifiagneto position has been established and made unassailable. The war was nearly lost because the British were almost entirely dependent on Germany and Austria for scientific and optical glass, essential to success. ' It is humiliating, Mr. Kelloway continued, but it is the fact that at the Outbreak of war a considerable part of our artillery was equipped with gun Bights exclusively manufactured in Germany. Two British firms started making sights, but the position was (exceedingly serious when the ministry Jof munitions was formed. Recently (these two firms were producing 250 a (week. The sight is a beautiful and

ON ONE OF OUR DREADNAUGHTS

Interesting view on board tbe American .dreadnaaght Pennsylmnla.

delicate piece of work, and its production in such numbers and In a perfec--tioa--whieh Germany never -exceeded- Isa triumph for British skill. Before,the war the British optical and scientific instrument industry had degenerated into a collection of middlemen who mainly sold Instruments completely manufactured in foreign countries. All that has been swept away by the bitter necessities of war. and Britain is now self-supporting. Her dependence on Germany and Austria for the glass for her miners’ safety lamps very nearly landed her in disaster. The position was so serious that the home office had to relax the conditions as to the quality and dimensions of lamps. Now Great Britain is producing sufficient supplies of the right quality. Before the war three out of every four electric light bulbs in use in Great Britain came from Germany or Austria. She is now manufacturing sufficient to meet her essential needs.

BRITAIN HAS 23,300 PLANES

Started in the War With Only 210 Machines —Pre-eminent at Its Close. London. —Great Britain was preeminent in the air at the close of the war. when the British air force was the largest in tharworld, according to a report made - public recently. It fought on more fronts than „the air service of any other nation, and its successes were proportionately greater, it is said. In August, 1914, the British naval and military air services together mustered only 285 officers and 1,853 men of other ranks. In November, 1918. there were 30,000 officers and 264,000 men. At the outbreak of the war Great Britain had 166 airplanes, 45 seaplanes and 7 airships, while at the close of hostilities she had 21,000 airplanes, 1,300 seaplanes and 103 airships. Besides this there were 25,000 airplanes and seaplanes being built and 55.000 airplane engines under contract. The women’s royal air force, which was not in existence in 1914, numbered at the close of hostilities 23,500.

Spartacus Hero of German Reds

Leader qj Revolt by Slaves Is Honored by Liebknecht Followers. DEFIED ROMANS FOR YEARS Slaves, Under Leadership of Man Chosen as Godfather of German Revolution, Captured Most of Southern Italy. New York.— Perhaps it’s just as well to call them Sparts. Just when we were learning to say and were learning to give it about as universal an application as we used to give to camouflage before that sorely tried word was officially entombed by the Society for the Decent Burial of Hackneyed Words, along came these Germans, with their Schrecklichkeit and head -cheese, and sprung Spartacus on US; That &a's right in line with their other unfair tactics, gas," flame throwers and gingerbread saloon-fronts. But n«w that we have Spartacus with us, what are we going to do about it? “The Spartacus group” was the name the German ultra radicals adopted when they first hung out their shingle in the blood-letting business. But that sort of name never would do. So, we have the papers, in their extremity, alluding to them variously as Spartacldes, Spartacans, Spartacites and Spartacl. Objection is made to the first-mentioned designation be-

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FIND BIG HUN WAR STORES

Immense Amount of Material Aban* doned by Germans in Region of Coblenz. Coblenz. —Thirty-five million rounds of small-arm ammunition were among the material abandoned by the Gerroans in th& regioa of Coblgnz ; These were recently discovered by the Amer leans during an exploration of the underground storehouses and tunnels where the German munitions were kept. Five million rounds of this ammunition had been captured" from the French. The other 30,000,000 rounds were manufactured -by the Germans, who took captured' British shells and; loaded them with German powder and bullets taken from the French. Most of these cartridges were boxed and addressed, in readiness for shipment to various units in Turkey. Thirty-six thousand rifles captured from the British and found stored in Coblenz have been turned over to their original owners, while 10,000 French rifles have been returned to the French.- ——- —

“BABES IN THE WOOD”

The twin Misses P. and O. Jerrold, daughters of the author of “Babes In the Wood,” were among the many noted English women who took off their coats and pitched In. The photo shows the two girls resting on a tree they had just felled.

cause it is very close to homocide, suicide, regicide, fratracide, insecticide and such like occupations. There not lacking a considerable party which claims spartaclsm is all of that and more. But, the endfng-“<Me,” from caedo, to kill, always kills whatever it is added to. Kjftls what it goes after, as it were. A liomocide is a mankilier, a suicide is 4 a selfkiller, and an insecticide is an insect killer. So a Spartaeide would be a Spartaeuskiller. And that isn’t what we want to say at all. And Nqt Qnly Thgit— In the Same Way £ Spaftacusser might be accused of heaping profane invective upon a Spartacus and all his works, and a Spartacan might be suspected of being a mere subterfuge for tying a can on one end of Spartacus, and you can see very easily how a Spartacrat might be mixed up with an aristocrat. Maybe it’s just as well to call them Sparts, or just -sparts, aud thereby avoid complications. The sparts take their name from a certain Mr. Spartacus, whose initials have been lost somewhere in the shuffle. started life as a modest shepherd Tn Tnrace, perhaps somewhere in what was recently European Turkey# during the century just preceding the birth of Christ. Thftik of going back that far for noinebddy to name your political party after! The young Mr. Spartacus, tiring of keeping the night watcheu over his sheep became a robber chief, the chroniclers say. They do not specify whether he stuck up banks or picked pockets. Anyway, he was a robber.

A Homan army, in the course of one of its boundary rectifying expeditions, happened upon Spartacus and took him to Rome, The sport fans decided to match him against a Jhuchtouted gladiator recently imported from Asia, and for that purpose put him in a training camp for gladiators. He escaped as soon as he had learned the fundamentals of gladiating. and Issued a declaration of asserting that all slaves were thenceforth free. " Whereupon every gentleman’s slaver began to put on airs, refused to pull the corks or polish the car any more, and, in short started, a revolt. - Held Out for Three Years. Under leadership of Spartacus, the slaves capturg'd most of southern Italy* add held out for nearly ihroe years against the best forces the Roman government c>*uld send against them. But at last they were beaten by an army under Lueullus, Just as they were about seize all the"“shipping board’s ships and dash back to Thrace. Spartacus died with his men, leading a charge. ‘ Su<;h was the gentleman whom the German radicals have chosen as godfather of the revolution tiebknechterines, Uebneckkers, Liebnecktigbts, Liebnecktairs, Liebnecratg or something like that would have sounded so much better!

BIG JIM VAUGHN WAS FIRST PITCHER IN EFFECTIVENESS IN NATIONAL LEAGUE

GEORGE TYLER JIM VAUGHN

Big Jim Vaughn of the champion Cubs was the first pitcher in the Na* tional league in effectiveness last year, according to official figures. Not only did the Cubs have hut they had three of the first four men in the league, George Tyler landing second honors, while Phil Douglas was fourth, Cooper of Pittsburgh being third. Vaughn allowed 1.74 runs per nine Innings during the season, while Tyler allowed 2.01, and Douglas 2.12. In games won and lost Vaughn was credited with winning 22 and-charged with the loss of 10. Tyler’s figures were 10 and 9, while Douglas, after a late start, won 10 and lost 9. Vaughir, with a total of 148, led the league in strikeouts.

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OFFICIAL NATIONAL LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1919

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Lawn tennis and rowing will be the early sports to be revived in England. * * ■ * /. Ross Young, oneof tfie .SUO hitters in the senior league, struck out 49 times in the late campaign. * * * " -■ Bonuses promise to be fashionable in the majors again now that some salary cuts can be expected. •% *. * * / ■ The Red Soil got Ernie Shore and Babe Ruth together in 1914 from the Orioles. That was a high pair to get. • * * Only one no-hit game was pitched In the major league last season. Dutch Leonard turned the trick on the Tigers. . / V' * * • Ray Caldwell spent ten years in a New York uniform. He,won’t spend One in Red Sox clothes unless he be- ’* 0 ’ haves iiiuis-elf.

Duffy Lewis has been a star in every world's series in which he has played. Maybe he’ll get another ‘chance this year with the Yanks. * * • Eddie Foster can probably look for a salary increase this year. The little third baseman played the best game of his career last season. * • * The Dodgers will do their spring training in Richmond. The Nationals ran into a big snowstorm there on the way home last spring. ** * * There were two American league pitchers who batted in the .300 class last summer* They were G. E. Ruth of Boston and Urban Shocker of the St. Louis BrownS. * * • Donald Griffith, leading pitcher on the Macalester college varsity nine of 1918, has returned to that college after being mustered out of the United States marine corps. «. •* . . , The Chicago White Sox have signed John Most!] for 1919. Her is the recruit *who played second base fbr Chicago after E. T. Collins resigned to enlist in the marines last summer.

CHARLEY RADBOURNE USED TRICK PUTS

Bill Gieason of St Louis Browns in Reminiscent Mood. * y—djyai* ....... - Light Turned on Career of Pitch** 1 Who Won National League Pennant for Providence in 1884— Used a Balk Motion. Bill Gleason (Brother Bill), now a captain in the St. Louis fire depart* ment, once a member of the famous (fid Browns of the eighties under Charley Comiskey, was in a reminhr cent mood the other day and told some stories of the days when the monarch* of baseball—the old Browns—were beating ’em all. During the fanning bee he cast some lights on the career of Charley Radbourne, w’ho won the National league flag for Providence in 1884. “Providence in 1884 had a great team and one that was full OY triCks, and Radbourne pulled his share,” said Gleason. “Radbourne used a balk motion that was better than Ed Walsh’s, and you remember how the ‘Big Moose’ used to get away with it for Fielder Jones. If a hitter got on, Radbourne frequently caught him napping. He was almost as good as Matty Kilroy at picking ’em off the bags. “Irwin and Carroll were clever bunt* ers and kept the opposition guessing, although to bunt in those days was considered a “baby act.”— “Gilligan, after he would catch two strikes, would cover the plate from tihe umpire’s view by stooping almost over it. When the next ball came over whether it was a strike or not, he would snap the ball to the shortstop or second baseman. “The umpire generally sang out ‘Three strikes!’ just as Farrell was apparently putting the ball on the runner. That fellow was a wondet at bluffing a putout, and got credit sot lots of outs he never made. “Providence worked every angle and used their heads from the minute the batter came to the plate. He had to outguess Radbourne to get on, and then fight a battle with him if he took an inch off first. At second, if he tried to steal, it was almost a cinch he would be called out on account ot Farrell’s marvelous ability for faking the ‘touch.’ If he went to third, he had to cut around the third baseman and shortstop, who were always in bis way. “ITou sure earned a run when you got it off Radbourne.”

ROSEBUD COMING BACK

Old Rosebud is coming back, it is said. This' horse, which was perhaps the best gelding of his period, has been twice on the shelf. He was the best horse among the older division in 1917, and in 1919 fie will go to the races as a nine-year-old. There have been many other geldings of this age that have isuse gQQjI —notably BorrdtC*, which for Harry Payne Whitney, won the Brooklyn handicap and lowered the American record. Old Rosebud may be the same kind this year.

IS PLAYING GOLF AT NINETY

Dwight N. Clark It Dean of Golfer* at Pinehur*t—Plays Better Than Many Juniors. Dwight N. Clark of Woodbridge, Conn., dean of the golfing fraternity, Is putting in his eighteenth season at

Dwight N. Clark.

Pinehurst. Clark took up golf at the age of seventy-two, and is gpw in his ninetieth year. The veteran golfer limits his playing to nine-hole rounds, but it was only a few, years ago that he heat all records for steady play at Pinehurst by disposing of 1«* rounds of 18 boles each In exactly 10l consecutive week days.