Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1919 — Page 3

The World’s Next Step

NO. S Leaffue of N*tl<ni» Concerted WerM Move

' By CLARENCE L. SPEND (Written for and Approved by the Tlllnoto Branch of League to Enforce Peace.) Great steps in the world's progress have been made before. There eame the awakening of the nations from the bigotry and Intolerance of the dark ages; the rise of the spirit of democracy; the revolt against human slavery and serfdom; the general antipathy toward exploitation of one class by another. But all of these steps in human progress had small beginnings. They would originate, community of one nation, spread from there over the whole country, cross borders with much. difficulty, and finally sweep over the greater part of the civilized world. Now, however, for the first time in history, we find in the organization of a league of nations what may be considered as the civilized world prepared to take a step forward in unison. This being so, isn’t it reasonable to expect that the- league of nations idea will succeed more quickly than other progressive ideas which have preceded it? Democracy, as the modern world understands it, may be considered to date from our own revolution and the French revolution, though the seeds were planted long before then. The powerful of the earth were against it Organized governments fought it. Armies and navies were used to put it down. Just a century ago, when Napoleon was overthrown and the ancient dynasties were being put back on their thrones, it might have seemed that democracy was doomed to failure. . Yet we see today democracy triuin-

phant. There scarcely remains an important government on earth in which the people do not have the final say as to its policies. If democracy could triumph over such great obstacles, is there any reason to believe that a league of nations, with all the world for it, will fail? The league is the natural outgrowth of democracy. It does not seek to overturn existing Institutions. It does not threaten national governments or national Ideals. It starts with everything In its favor. The world’s most powerful military nation has just tried to conquer and despoil its neighbors and failed because it found the sentiment of mankind against it England, France, Italy and the United States have just finished expending life and treasure ,ln hitherto unheard-of quantities in a war which they did not seek and did not want ’ — One nation has learned that it cannot combat an outraged world, and the others have learned that they cannot keep out of a modern war just because they want to. They all know now that war spreads like wildfire after it starts, involving the innocent and the guilty alike in its misery. They all realize that the only way to prevent war In the future is to act In concert That is why they are now forming the league of nations. For this reason it does not appear that the authority of the* league of nations, once it is established, is likely to be seriously challenged in the near future. The world Is too busy binding up its wounds right now for any nation to dare to risk everything in another general war. The task of reconstruction Is too great. Therefore It would seem that the league starts with every prospect of being given an opportunity to have a fair trial. Its constitution as now drawn is of course far from perfect. It is the result of compromise and

of differing opinions. But all nations are agreed upon the Idea of Its desirability and Its main purpose to prevent war. The constitution Of the league Is not rigid. Provision Is made for changes as they may be found to be necessary. As time goes on undoubtedly there will be changes. There have been changes In our own Constitution and there will be more. It Is not fair t<T assume, either, that the millennium has arrived just because a league of nations Is coming into being. There probably will be for ages to come Injustice In the world, but It Is Certain that there will be less and less of It as time goes on, and it is reasonable to suppose that a world league founded upon the Idea of justice will be able to make further progress than Individual nations with hostile interests and unreasoning prejudices. There Is much room for division of opinion as to details of the league. But for that matter there is great division of opinion as to the conduct of internal affairs of this or any other country. Every four years we are thrown into a ferment by an election In whicir one great party bitterly opposes the other. But neither Democrat nor Republican would favor overturning, our form of government simply because he cannot dictate Its immediate policies.

Neither should we wfeb to prevent the formation of a league of nations simply because Its constitution contains some few provisions with which we are not fully In accord. Having done our best to have our ideas incorporated, we can and we should accept it as it comes from the com* mission of Hie entente powers, and should assume that it will be gradually Improved In the light of experience. Further information repardlnfl league of nations, Including- pamphlets, may be obtained at the office of the Illinois i —to enforce Fosfoe, 342 Mona*, peek block. CMcage, IIL '

WRONG IDEA OF GREATNESS

By Ns Means Always Achieved by Those Who Have Made a lie Noise In the World. We make bold to say that thereto a general misconception in the minds of people throughout the world as to what really constitutes a great life. Unless a man or a woman has been in the public view with whatever service was rendered, unless bls or her picture has been in newspapers and books, unless, in short, they have “made a noise,” we do not consider that the Ilves they led were great lives. This is not only a harmful misconception; it is a mistake and’fts consequences are, from a moral point of view, extremely vicious. Suppose you aye walking in the fields or in the forests and you come across a strange kind of bug or insect You are curious to know what it is. Well, you can secure a book tn almost any public library that will tell you just what you want to know. That book was written and compiled by some man who did nothing bls whole life long but study bugs, cataloguing them, learning their tribe and origin and the habits of their existence. " Other men have spent their lives in equally humblo capacities, but adding always to the world’s sum of knowledge. The drug that soothes your pain, the spectacles by which you renew your worn-out eyes, the fire you. cook with and that warms you—these and millions other of your blessings and delights were wormed out of nature’s Sebret storehouses for you by patient students whose names you do not know. These are the great lives. These are tiie lives that have blessed the lives of all who followed after them. And the men and women who led «ch lives were groat people though they Went down to their graves unhonored and unsung.

DEEDS RATHER THAN WORDS

Accomplishments, Even Though Great, Lose Much of .Their Merit When Made Subjects of Boast.

The habit of boasting Is not a sign of merit It is rather the reverse. A really brave man allows his deeds to speak for him, and they always will if they are groat and strong enough, remarks the Ohio State Journal. These are great days for boasting, for there is much to be proud of. We are proud of our country, of our sacrifices, of our privations, of our sorrows, but they are apt to lose their merit by our boasting about them. The testimony of a worthy deed is not expressed tn words but in a quiet and noble life. We hoard a man tell of a heroic deed in which he was the hero, but one wouldn’t know it from what he said, and yet somehow in his very tone and his praise for others one could easily see whoso was the honor of it There is one phase of boasting which is very distasteful, and that is the sort which makes ourselves the greatest people on earth. Of course we are, but wo don’t know it from what the boasters say; We only know it' by hearing of tiie acts of our heroes, who are apt not to mention it at aIL We learn of our own nobility by feeling it in our hearts and''not- b> ending it In the newspapers or hearing the orators tell it

Muskrats Prod let.

It is a strange fact that in November the muskrats begin to build their homes and gradually enlarge them by adding mdre material, says Edward F. Bigelow in Boys' Life. For thia reason it is said that, according to the height of the muskrat house, no Is to be the cold of the winter—that Is, the higher the house the colder the weather. This Is an error. It has been claimed by the old timers, and the error still la perpetuated, that the muskrats build their houses 20 inches higher and very much warmer for long winters than for short ones. There are many foolish sayings regarding the month as an Index to what the winter will be, the prediction extending on oven Into the following March. Scouts can do a good turn if they will prove, by their appreciation of the month, that It has been maligned by these predictions and traditions. The month Is charming and beautiful.

Evil in Small Talk.

There’s enough small talk with its vicious Insinuations In every Idle group to make candidates for the madhouse. * _ • What men say causes other men to think. What men think determines their conduct Given the suggestion that you are crasy the chances are that you will either resent it strenuously or begin to act a little queer. And then one of your professed friends will come along and confide to you that you are acting a little queer. It’s no wonder some folks go daffy. Little yarns without foundation keep stirring up things that even the angels could not keep straight. So the only remedy is to apply the censor. Let folks talk. Take out the good and let the res* go where It beliongs.

Half-Way Feint.

Justine lived next door to Betty. The two were constantly together. Occasionally their mothers thought It best to keep them apart for a while. One day Betty came In and said: "Mother, Justine can*t' come over. Oanl go over there?" “No, not today," her mother said. “Well, then, tfe will alt oh the fence and visit," said Betty. V

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ALWAYS HAS HOPE

Prospector for Gold One of For- ’ tunate Men. With Belief in One's Luck to Be “Just Ahead” the Buffets of Fate Are Things at Which to Laugh. The typical prospector for gold, still met with in the far hills and deserts, may well be taken by all men as an example and an inspiration as far as the blessings of staying hopes are concerned, says the Los Angeles Times. “Hope. deferred maketh the heart sick,” says the proverb. But it is not a good proverb. No matter how long deferred a hope may be ft Ahobld never be abandoned. It should never be anything but an inspiration and an incitement. *' Take this nomadic tribe of prospectors, for Instance. The typical prospector is a man who has spent perhaps the most of his life pursuing a hope that has never been realized. Yet we never find them discouraged. We never know them to end their days in despair. No matter how many their years of failure may be they vArlll tell you that just beyond the next chain of hills or In the heart of a still unexplored desert the treasures they seek are surely awaiting them. A most sincere and persistent man Is the prospector. He believes in his quest and respects it. The little or the much that he wins by spasmodic toil he invests in his dreams. He braves the solitudes and the lonely wastes of the world to reach the goal for which he strives. Hunger, thirst and other hardships and sufferings he endures with a willing heart. And he never despairs. That’s the glory of the prospector—he never despairs. The average man, hedged in by the traditions of towns and cities or settled in the humdrum of the country, looks upon the prospector as a queer and somewhat demented individual. We laugh at this strange fellow who is pictured to us as plodding along in the wildernesses and the sandy desolations with his pack and his burro, following the will-o’-the-wisps of fortune. But the prospector is only doing in his way what we are doing in ours. We are following each our own dream as the prospector is following his. The only difference is that we proceed in safety and without adventure. Otherwise we are the same as the wanderer of the desert and the hills. And also we are soon discouraged and we are easy prey to defeat, while it is death alone that can defeat the prospector. It seems to us that of all the misfortunes there are in life—and heaven knows there are many—the misfortune of hopelessness is the worst. “Only for hope the heart would die/' said a poet It was a true thtng to say. And about this wonderful thing of hope there is another way to look at it and that Is that we should always have at least one hope ahead. That Is to say, we should always have something that we look forward to. Then, if what we have in hand fails us, tiie other thing that we look forward to will stay us. Hope is something to be busy with. It is something of which We should accumulate a store. Always have plenty of hopes and have them so that they will reach out and last away into the years of the future. There 18 really something mysterious about a hope. If you will cherish It faithfully and keep it waftn in your heart you will be almost sure to sometime realize it. It is said that we are what we believe ourselves to be. But perhaps we might better say that we are what our hopes are. Since then a long-cherished hope is most likely to be realized, surely it were foolish of us to harbor hopes that will not bring.us comfort and joy. Hope for the best there is—not great riches, not any material possession, but peace for the heart and a serenepath for the white years of old age.

Cotton Growing In China.

Now that China has decided what kind of cotton seed does best In that country, and is distributing It by the ton to farmers, cotton growing starts on a new geographical development. The time may yet come when the Chinese laundryman, far from home, will croon over his collars that he Is "still longing for the old plantation.” Work done during several years In four experiment stations indicates that' out of forty varieties of seed the kind known as “Trice” is best suited for Chinese cultivation. It appears that "Trice” yields 141 cattles to the moe, which Is the Chinese way of saying something more than 141 pounds per one-sixth of an acre, for the catty weighs about one-third more than the English pound. The Chinese pound, for that matter is called “kin,” but for some reason foreigners prefer to call it a "catty.”

67,948 Animals Sent Overseas.

In a statement made by the war department it appears that since the United States entered the war and to January 11. 1919, this governmenf shipped overseas -from this country 67,948 animals, which included 5,489 cavalry horses, 33.396 draft horses, 28,088 draft mules, and 975 pack mules. The total number of animals lost en route overseas so far reported m 600 ’'horses and mules, or less than 1 per cent of the total number of animals shipped.

1913 PURSE WINNER AGAIN IN GREAT RACE

JULES GOUX

Jules Goux, winner of the 1913 500mile race at Indianapolis, who will drive a Peugeot car, famous on two continents in the Liberty Sweepstakes - for $50,000 on May 31 at Indianapolis. Goux will sail from France the middle of April and go to Indianapolis on arrival to get the Peugeot that the late John Aitken drove to second place in the last championship series, in 1916. This car incidentally is the one that th; late Georges Bolllot drove in 1914 in the French Grand Prix and with which he gave the German Lautenschlager the battle of his career. Goux is not only going to drive in the Tace, but is also anxious to become the French representative of a line of American-made passenger cars,-trucks, tractors and sewing machines before he returns to his home in Paris.

EVERY CITIZEN AN AMERICAN

* Women's Foreign Language Division of Victory Liberty Loan Committoe Hae Active Organization. “Every citizen an American. Every American a government stockholder. Bolshevik doctrines will not flourish in °the minds and hearts of those who have a proprietary interest in their government.” That is the threefold object of the newly organized woman’s foreign-lan-guage division of the Victory Liberty loan, according to Mrs. Edward Bemis, director for the Seventh federal reserve district. Tn reply to a question, Mrs. Bemis said: “Our foreign-born women have often had reason in the past to think we cared little for them, but now since their sons and brothers and husbands have fought side by side with ours the differences have fallen away. We are all women of one country, working to one end —a united America.” Mrs. Bemis believes there need be no lack of ccßoperation between the native and foreign«bom inhabitants of America. She is inclined to place a large part of the responsibility for a lack the countless native Americans who stand in need of re-Americanizing. War work has shown that much of the renewed patriotism on the part of descendants of the older generations of Americans may well be learned from our patriotic foreign born. The Council of Foreign-Language Women has been presenting “Gifts of the Nations” to the pdople of Chicago since the Third Liberty loan campaign. After a program attended by fifteen nationalities, the majority being Americans, one foreign-born woman said: “This is the first time since I came to America that I have been asked to du anything with the American people.” Said another woman : “I always could speak enough English to get things at the store, but never before did American ladles want to talk with me. Now I shall get books and learn to speak English like the rest of them.” “Many do not realize that the heritages of many of our foreign nationalities may well be emulated by our far newer civilization,” said Mrs. Bemis. “There is an innate courtesy in some of these older countries, and they have a patriotism engendered by years of seeking the liberty found in America.

“We want to know our foreign-lan-guage neighbors for what they can teach us as much as for the service that we ourselves can render them. "Every member of each » mnunlty has an Interest In supporting our government’s financial program. We must bring the boys home; we must establish business for our returned sol-, dieys and we must help this country and Europe -to stand free and for peace. We women are as interested In this as men can possibly be.” The five states of the Seventh dis trict. Michigan, Illinois. Indiana, Wisconsin and lowa, will have a foreign language chairman for women. Each county where there are resident for elgn groups will have as county'chair man a woman who understands the Io cal needs of the various communifie> Group meetings are planned for each nationality wherever it exists in con siderable numbers. ; ' “Out of this work wilt come—if our hearts are in It—that united interest in the service of our country which we. call Americanisation.” f ...

WANTED HIS "MONEYS PACK”

German Drummer Balked When He Started to Cross Old Bridge at Troy, New York, Albany, N. T., has a historical museum that contains, among other treasure, a bass drum dating back to the great influx of German 4 immigrants which Allowed the revolution of 1848 In Germany, says Cartoons. This Instrument was owned by the first of the wandering "hungry five” bands which appeared in this country after Marx and Enfcels, the industrious collaborators, the communist manifesto. The bass drummer was called "Thick Head” Schults. According to a music teacher now living in Albany, who heard Schults perform in the 'Bos, he could play in three different rhythms at once without making the band mad. At Troy, ten miles up the Hudson river from Albany, was one of those long, old-fashioned Inclosed wooden bridges, unlighted within, like a tunnel. Looking through IL as one approached, one saw a tiny spot of light at the far end, as if gazing through a telescope wrong end to. One day the hungry brass band start ed across the bridge to play at a barn raising along the road westward. Schultz had paid the nickel toll when he happened to look through the long black space ahead. Then he balked. “I vant my moneys pack,” he insisted. “By tarn, dere is no use my try in’ to dake dis drum Vrough dot little hole.”

BRIGHT COLORS GIVE RELIEF

Simple Method by Which Desk Workere May Avoid Incalculable Injury to the Eyes. j __ The constant use of the eyes on white paper will in time weaken them and make It necessary to seek other employment, or resort to some remedy. Bookkeepers, proofreaders and those compelled to gaze for hours at a stretch on a white surface, should have a number of bright colors on their desk or near ait hand upon which the gaze should be allowed to rest at short periods when the mind is busy with some mental struggle. The bright colors will give a relief to the long, constant strain on the eye, and it will be astonishing to those who have never resorted to any such remedy to note the relief secured. Green should predominate. Yellow and red with shades of pink should be used. Bright-colored blotters and bright* tinted mottoes or picture cards with birds and flowers as well as scroll designs will produce the' most relief to weary eyes. Even a bouquet with green foliage combined with the flowers will give satisfactory results, but this is not as permanent as brightly colored prints that will not fade for a long time.

Advice With Exceptions.

"Take the first Job that offers. Do it with all your might Your , worth will soon be recognised by your em ployer, who will reward you with a "raise’ and with his daughter’s baud, and you'll live happily ever. after.” The returning soldier is already being fed upon this truistic advice which successful old age delights to hand out as ft were the sole “secret of success,” which it isn’t by a jugfol. The wise young man, accepting the good will of counsel, discounts in Ms planning three counter-possi-bilities : (1) that the first job offered may not be one for which the applicant is adapted; (2) that the employer may not .be the all-wise, sagacious, broad-minded person which the success books invariably post Mm as being; (8) that there either (a) may be no daughter or (b) she may prefer somebody else. With these and other similar qualifications the spirit of the work-hard-and-you’ll-prosper wheeze still stands as admirable.— Lowell Courier-Citizen.

How to Braze Metals.

Tn bracing brass, copper, wrought iron and steel, clean the metal thoroughly at and near the Joint to be brazed, by scraping or filing. Be sure to fit the edges closely together. If greater strength is required, lap the edges over each other about a quarter of an inch. A good plan is to rivet the edges together to hold them in place. Place brazing material along the Joint. Take finely powdered borax, wet. it wfth water mad place a little along the seam. Put the article over a charcoal fire, Joint down. Heat it .slowly and evenly, holding it about an inch above the charcoal. When the brazing material is all melted, rap the part with a hammer, to induce the material to flow all through the Joint. If the article is brass or copper, it should be plunged into cold water, and if steel or iron it Should be allowed to cool stowiy.

The New Wonder Bug.

Queer, is it not that germs that cannot be seen. with the finest microscope, and cannot be measured with the finest measurement are so disposed? They Hve in street cars and nmnihmww- and not in steam cars of sidewalks. They thrive in barbershops and not in dentists’ offices. They Inhabit churches apd theaters alike, but not restaurants nor cafeterias. Queer, is ft not that these little bugs, so very little that they cannot be detected with the microscope, and that they can go through cement and evefi glased dishes, are yet so large that they can be held back by the thin mneh-tv of a handkerchief, or the thin ■HHT that goes into a mask?

WOMEN WILL RECEIVE MANY VICTORY LOAN MEDALS

As in Former Liberty Loans, Women Of District Will Do Great Work In “Carrying On” to Success the Victory Liberty Loan. Ten thousand medals made from captured German cannon are to be distributed to women Victory Loan workers throughout the states Of Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin at the close of the coming campaign. The United States treasury department has taken this means of showing its appreciation of the work done by thousands of volunteer workers in Liberty Loan drives. The medals are to be made from German cannon captured by American troops at Chateau Thierry. These cannon have been melted, and the metal rolled into sheets, from which the medals are made. This badge wilt be the first of its kind to be distributed in the United States since the war. It will be about the size of a half dollar, and will contain on one side a reproduction of the United States treasury building, with the words, “Victory Liberty Loan,” and on the other side the certification of the work done in the Victory Loan campaign with a blank space in which the name of the recipient will be engraved. Women all over the country have shouldered a large share of the work in preceding loan campaigns, and the roll of honor undoubtedly will be just as large in the coming Victory Loan. In the last drive more than 18,000,000 was subscribed in amounts of SI,OOO or less, much of which the women’s committees were responsible for. Victory Liberty Loan workers will include many prominent women from this as well as from other districts. Mrs. G. Edgar Allen of Detroit has been appointed state chairman for Michigan. Other state chairmen working under the "leadership of Miss Grace Dixon, woman’s director for the Seventh. Federal Reserve district are: Mrs. Howard T. Willson, chairman for Illinois; Mrs. James Mariner, Wisconsin; Mrs. F. H. McCulloch, Indiana, and Mrs. W. W. Marsh, lowa. These are only a few of the many women who will lay aside social and business responsibility for patriotic service during the Victory Liberty Loan campaign, and who will be among the thousands of recipients of the Victory Liberty Loan medals. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”

PIANO OR LIBERTY BONDS

Successful Business Woman < Bays She Cannot Buy Luxuries Until Victory Liberty Loan Is Triumphantly “Put Over.” “No, I haven’t bought my piano yet. I was just about to buy one when jthe first Liberty loan was announced, and make it. seem patriotic to spend for purely personal purposes the money that might also help the government I fe® just the same way about the second Liberty loan and the third and fourth, and of course I shan’t think of buying a piano now until the Victory loan has been triumphantly "put over.’ I couldn’t make it seem right” The speaker last year “wrote” over SIOO,OOO worth of life insurance business. This year she expects to attain a $200,000 total, having already $146,000 to her credit since last July, when the current “insurance club year” started. Oh, yes, she’s a real woman! Her name is Maud M. Freeman and she’s known to thousands of Chicago business men and women. She could have bought a piano several times over and still have done her duty by herself and her country in the way of buying Liberty bonds. But—her full duty, as this patriotic and successful citizen sees it, means helping on the work of the United States government in every possible way. She does her duty tn the way of War Savings stamps also, to say nothing of Thrift stamps. The latter she uses as tips when traveling, etc. Last

Christmas she used them, almost exclusively, for presents for children, young people, intimates. Next Christmas she plans to do the same,-while all through the year Thrift stamps will serve her, whenever possible, as “small change” or currency. ~ “No investment possibly could be so safe or so desirable as United States government securities," says the woman, generous income tax was paid cheerfully and without a murmur, because Tm so glad to have been able to earn so good an income.” HELP "FINISH THE JOB.* The money to be raised by the Victory Liberty loan already has been spent. It furnished the “punch” that won the war and saved the Uvea of 100000 of America’s bravest boys. It ts this übshed biood you are paying for when you subscribe to the Victory Liberty loan. , . The war is not over, and our duty to support our forces is not over until they are back home again. The Victory Liberty loan is to bring them back —to finish the Job. We are still the world’s Big Brother, stand back at the Victory toftAo . Lfw"-*