Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Page 2

EDISON’S VOICE IN RECORDS

Inventor of Phonograph, for the Flret Time, Make* Short SpeechWhleh Will Be Preserved, Thoma* A. Edison, who invented the phonograph 42 years ago, hits for the first time consented to hHv<> tits own voice recorded on a phonograph record. The reproduction, which Is on the back of a record containing the national anthems of our allies, was heard recently for the first time In the Edison laboratory at Orange. N. J. Mr.'Edison celebrated hl* 72nd birthday on February ill. The talk, which I* Mr. Edison’* first comment about the war since America entered the fight, fcrtlows: •Our boys made good in France. The word •American’ has a new meaning In Europe. Our soldiers have made It mean courage, generosity, self roatralnt and modesty. We are-proud of the North American* who risked their lives for the liberty of the world, but we must not forget, and we must not permit demagogues to belittle the part played by our gallant allies. Their casualty lists tell the story. “However proud we may be of our own achievements, let ns remember always that the war could not have been won if the Belgians. British. French and Italians had not fought like bulldogs In the face of overwhelming odds. The great war will live vividly in the minds of Americans, for the next 100 years. I hope that when we do reverence to the, memory of our brave boys who fell in France we shall not forget their brothers in arms who wore the uniforms of our allies. “I believe that the national airs of France. Great Britain. Italy and Belglum should for all time to come be as familiar to us as ,our own ‘StarBpangled Banner.”*

BRIDAL FLOWERS HERE AGAIN

That Orange Blossom* Acs W» ths Market Is a Sure Harbinger of World Peace. One Interesting sign of the coming of peace ha* been the reappearance of real orange blossoms at weddings. During the war they were difficult to obtain, owing to the fact that they come aa a rale from France. Nearly alt the orange flowers which are used at smart marriages In London and Pari* are grown In the sheltered valleys of the Alps Maritime* behind the Riviera. Here there are orchards of orange trees scattered over the sunny slope*, end the local peasantry devote most of their time to growing Jthe beautiful Bowers. No attempt is made to get the fnslt, peeing that the orange trees are solely cultivated for the sake of the glistening blooms. A large part of the floral crop finds It* way to the perfume factories of Gratae, but the choicest sprays are picked for the London and Paris markets. Orange flowers keep fresh for a considerable time, and they stand the Journey to England very well, arriving tn perfect condition. —London News.

Kangaroo Scored Knockout.

“Ned Kelly, the old buck kangaroo, has been baring a fight with the boss stag of the axis deer herd.” said Sergeant McGee of the San Francisco park police, “and it is the first time’ I ever heard of two herbivorous animals so widely different In species finding common ground for a quarrel. “As a matter of fact, it was the axis deer that started the trouble. He was trying to show off before the does and started butting at poor old Ned Kelly who was peacefully lolloping about with no thought for trouble. The first butt of the deer set Ned thinking, the second set him mad, the third —well, Ned Kelly Just turned about and gave the axis deer one wallop under the stomach with !t» tail. You could hear the smack five blocks away, and it simply knocked the deer flat. It dropped as If It had been shot while Ned Kelly Just hopped away as happy as a bird."

One Thing More.

A pretty girl fluttered over to a neighbor's house Sunday last to borrow some writing paper. She had an important letter to write and mall, and she was out of stationery. About half an hour later she returned for an envelope.-and a little later still came back for a stamp. “Well, I hope that’s all she wants to borrow today.” said the disgruntled neighbor woman as she slammed the door after the pretty girl. "She needs n little ‘spit’ to make the stamp adhere;” said the neighbor woman’s husband “and she’ll be over after that in a minute.” — Arkansas Thomas Cat (Hot Springs. Ark.).

insurance Against Tuberculosis.

Dr. P. J. Menard outlines in the Preese Medicale a plan for universal compulsory Insurance against tuberculocla, the funds from which would serve for the fight against tuberculoels. His scheme is something like compulsory social insurance against sickness, but the tax or insurance dues imposed would include all classes of society, not merely the wage earners. He protests that the fight against tuberculosis should nbt be left to charity or private initiative.

Unduly Apprehensive.

“I hope they’ll make some exceptions Ip taxing luxuries.” remarked the plain person. “Are you expecting to be hit?” "I might be. One of the greatest luxuries ! know of is sitting around the house In my shirt sleeves and reading the paper." /

The World’s Next Step

- s ■ XaiX-r—-Wbw* la Our Duty to Ceanertton With ! th« League of Nattooat

By CL4RENCK..L. AFEED (Written for end Approy** by the - llliixA Branch of League to Enforce Piece.) *'What is my duty as an individual" in connection with the longue of Andons?" you may ask. “What have I got ti do with this big world question? Will any action os tny part have any influence on the forces that are now settling the destinies of the world?” Every citizen of the United States has a duty to perform now. in connection with the league of nations, just as urgent «s be had when we were at wan ■ You did not best t ate to do your part then just because you were only one of a hundred million and on the theory that any little saving or investing or working that you could do would have little effect toward defeating Germany, Every Individual citizen is represented in Washington by a senator. You may not know him; may never have seen him. Nevertheless he has some respect for your opinions; he wishes to win your vote once more. If he did not respect the opinions of his consTltuents he would be a queer person, lor he is sent to Washington ‘o carry out the wishes of the majority of the voters.

Now the United states senate is the body which has the power to ratify or reject treaties. The British premier has promised to submit the peace treaty to parliament for its approval, too; but he has just had an election and knows where parliament stands. When the representatives of all or ny>st of the other -nations sign the treaty of peace, that Is all that is necessary. It then becomes operative. - But America will not be at peace with Germany nor will it be a member of the league of nations until the senate has ratified the treaty. If the senate should refuse to ratify it, we would then be in the position of being at war when all the remainder of the world was at peace, and of being out side of a league of nations which embraced most of the other important countries. “Is 1t possible,” you may ask, “that the senate could fall to ratify a treaty and thus leave us out in the cold? Are we ready to stand alone in this federated world? Can we assume the role of China and build a wall of exclusiveness around us?” Looked at In that light it does not seem possible; yet when one listens to t!be speeches made daily in the senate ft does seem as though many senators are far from ready to vote for the treaty which contains a provision for a league of nations. They may believe that they are backed by the voters. It is our duty as voters to let them know whether they are carrying out our wishes or not. °

In this series of articles there has been no attempt to present an argutnent that the constitution of the league of nations as it stands is a perfect document There very likely is room for many improvements. If there were not, it would be an exception to every other constitution ever adopted. Conditions may arise a decade or century from now of which we can have no conception at this time, any more than the framers of the American Constitution could have foreseen the developments of today. But there can be no doubt that the world, as a whole, now disapproves of war and denies the necessity for war, and that the league of nations as now proposed is a sincere effort to do away With the danger of war. There is every reason to believe that it stands more than a fair chance of succeeding, while it is so drawn as to present few if any perils that we have not always had with us if it fails to succeed. The constitution of the league does not prevent the United States from doing anything it wants to do, for the reason that the United States has no designs on the property of its neighbors. It does not impose any new burdens upon us comparable with the war debt which has just been heaped on us through no fault or desire of our own. The league may call upon the United States to do its part in governing some of the portions of the globe until they are ready to govern themselves. This may entail some expense; some trouble, possibly some small loss of American lives, as in the case of the Philippines, but nothing in comparison to the losses.in men and money sustained in our participation in what was for us only the fag end of a great world war.

Every man must do his duty in his own community, if he expects good government- If he believes in the league of nations, it is his duty now to let his representatives in the senate , know it. If he does not. it likewise is his duty to make bis beliefs known. The plain people, the world over, are letting it be known that they are against international Most of them believe that the league of naHnn*ln now the one way to prevent It. If you so believe, you are not doing your duty, unless you let your senator know that you want the treaty ratified. Illinois senators are Medill McCormick, 111 West Washington street, Chicago, HL. and Lawrence Y. Sherman, Springfield. 111. Communications may be sent them at these addresses. Further Information regarding the league of nations, including pamphlets, may be obtained at the office of the ililnota state branch of the/League to Enforoo Peaoe, 342 Monadnock block, Chicago HL

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, ,IND.

HUGE ORGAN WILL FURNISH MUSIC FOR METHODIST CENTENARY CELEBRATION

SHIMMERING, j pulsating strings; liquid, sparkling flutes; broad, dignlfied diapason*. militant, exultant trumpets and reeds from the plaintive vcfx human*; the conteijiplative orchestral oboe; the ni.t.iu French horri and the quaint to the massive, compelling sonorousness of the great 32-foot bombardo and its accompanying battery of brilliant tubas, comprise the tour divisions of the huge organ which being installed in the Coliseum at the exposition grounds for the Methodist Centenarv celebration to be h<l<t in Columbus, June .20 to July .13. The’ of gab Is being I>ui It uad or the direct supervision of W. J. Kraft, director of music at Columbia university. by Moller of Hagerstown, Md. It ’’ coat about SSO,O<W. instrument compares favorably, with the largest organs now in use,” said Professor Kraft. "It ismuch larger than the municipal organ at Portland, Met The organ has 98 stops, having as subdivision great, swell, choir, solo and echo. It will have the divisions of woodwind, -brass, strings, harp and chimes; It is my purpose t<s invite some d’s the leading - organists of the world to Come to the celebration and give recitals.” Mr Moller, builder of the organ, said: “I know of no organ in the country which has the power or so many modern appliances us that beifig built for the Centenary celebration. It will probably hold the record for being the largest organ used for any reiigio-HS gathering.” —— There are three -Separate blowing plants, requiring 25 horse-power, with centrifugal electric blowers and generators. The console is movable, being connected with the organ by a flexible cable, located immediately in front of the stage at the west end of the auditorium. The organ covers a floor space of 900 square feet and weighs approximately eight tons. The blowers furnich tJJitO cubic feet of air per minut*. Twenty-one miles of wire have been installed. The pipes range from three-quarters of an inch in length to 32 feet. I* planning the accompaniment for congregational singing... Jn an auditorium seating 10.000 people, the committee in charge of the preparatory

NEGROES WILL TAKE PROMINENT PART IN METHODIST CENTENARY CELEBRATION

rHE Methodist Centenary celebration. which will be held la Cohiiabus. 0., June 2t5 to Inly 18, Will for a* time e*tab!lsh recogaiti** R>r the Mgro on the international church map by tnmsterHag him feoaa his traditional racial role at recipient to Burt of * potent contributor to the world’* religion* uplift. "The very fact that aS MothodMsm I* celebrating the one hwadredth *h atvezsary of the birth of missions is a tribute to the zeal and the consecration at its negro membership examplified in the person of John Stew art. a negro member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who started at Upper Sandusky, 0.. the first honu

SCENE OF A VILLAGE IN AFRICA. One of the Many Features of the African Exhibit at the Centenary Celebration.

■ • , ' t 4J missionary work ever done in our country,” said Dr. E. L. Gilliam, pastor of the St. Paul’s A. M. E church of Columbae and . hairman of the Af-' rican Co* to a ary bureau, ia a recent taker view. hesoa« negroes of prominence who wtN bo ip (Jotnenbue to take part in Mm Oeatoaary proceedings are Bishop Alexander Camphor M Monrovia, Africa; Bioko? Issah Soott of NashriMe, Toe*.; Dr W. A. C. Hughes. MM saeretasy of toe Beard of Home Mteetomo; o*a. S’. M. Delaney of the rp-M-r-rt* l M*y«viW* district and A M. Jones, deM secretaries .of the BoaW of Suadey Behools; Dr. W, S' SborrtH, WM secretary of toe Board of Foreign Missions; Dr. J. H. G. cogrias, Boid secretary of the Board of : Dr. I. G. Fenn, correipns fiesta secretary of the Freedman’s Aid Society: Bishop O. A. Carter;, pro- ■-■■■■■ ■ - ■ " -

fc.ei T.awii An —f ChahnerS banged the offerings of the local .high school slab artists at that place Friday afternoon, piling up ten runs while four of the Red and Black reached the terminal.

work saw that an orchestra would be ineffective, and that nothing would be. so peculiarly In keeping with the religious motive underlying the whole movement as the resonance power, beauty and spiritual .uplift which t would result from the use of an organ. This organ will furnish accompaniment of great mixed choruses rang-

WILLIAM A. KRAFT

Of Columbia University, Who Has Charge of Ail Music at the Centenary Celebration. ing from 500 to 1,500 voices, which will have part in the Centenary Celeofatibh. The work of installing its mechanism already is started and the I erm - of the contract call for completion by. May 1. Professor Kraft has invited some of the leading organists of t-he United Stated to display their skill on this organ during the progress of th* Centenary.

siding over the A. M. B. church of Tennessee; Dr. E. W. 9 Hammoad, editor of church literature, Rushville, Ind.; Dr. J.-W. Robinson; Dr. G. R. Bryant and Dr. E. M. CarroH of Chicago; Dr. R. E. Jone*, *dit*r of the Southwestern Christian Advocate; Dr. W. M. Brooks of Naw York; number of college presidents and district superintendents as well as a host of well educated, intelligent men and women, lay representatives bf the varied fields of. African Methodist church activities. Columbus boasts of eight African Methodist churches, * new Y. M. C. A. building, valued at $100,000; two community social center houses, one

on the tax’ duplicate for $25 00d, the other for $20,000; a Y. W. C. A. war community center, a theater and a meVfe house and two good hotels. A thoroughly organised African Centenary eommittee is actively engaged in perfecting plans for the participation of nearly 2.PP9 negroes in various forms of the celebration activities. This committee iacludoe district superintendente and toe pastor# and lay members of the Coiusa=hWtsfcWMhe«r; who have charge of the enlistment of Africans for pageant and musical service and securing of accommodations for too Centenary visitors. Already a chores of Hd colored singers, two estoesd beads, emo of men. toe other at women, and college quartettes are pledged and ta trntaiag. la addMea Wt negroes wMI take part m the pggeanta sad* assist ia the demoastration exhibits.

MOTHERS’ DAY, MAY 11

- •; ; -• Say it with flowers. Give flowers to the best woman' 1 in the world — mother. Place your order early. See J. H. Holden, phone 426.

NO "BEST” MONTH

Time of Birth Has Little to Do With Genius. Statistics Show That Nature Practically Plays No Favorites in Her Production of the Gifted Ones of the Earth. Astrologers believe that the planets “reigning” at the time of birth govern us throughout life, and that, from a literary point of view certain months are more favorable ‘than others in which to be born. Taking the hundred best British writers since the (lay of Chaucer, no less than forty-eight were born in the four months February, May, August and November. In February were born Charles Dickens, Pepys the diarist, and Thomas Moore, while of more modern date and fame are George Meredith, Israel Zangwill., Anthony Hope, Harrison Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins. Pope and Addison were both born in May, as also were Browning, Rossetti. Moore, Bulwer Lytton, Thomas Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir James M. Barrie. August seems to be the birthmonth of poets, for in that month were born Dryden, Herrick, Scott, Shelley, Southey and Tennyson. •Apparently November is an unlucky month for literary people, for among those who were born in November are Thomas Chatterton, who, in disappointment and poverty, committed suicide at eighteen; William Cowper, who suffered from melancholia and suicidal mania, and finally died insane j* Oliver Goldsmith, continually in prison for debt; John Bunyan, who spent 12 years in prison, thereby giving us “Pilgrim's Progress;” Swift, subject to fits of passion and ill-humor, died insane; Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from almost continual ill-health, and died at forty-four. So much for the “favored months.” Of the others, January saw the birth of Bobbie Burns, Byron and Lewis Carrol, author of “Alice in Wonderland,” who was also a famous mathematician. March was the birthiponth of Smollett and Steele, as also of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In April was born the greatest genius the English language has known, William Shakespeare, while among others born in this month were Wordsworth, Keble, Heber, Sgjpburne and Herbert. Charlotte Bronte and Anthony Trollope were also born in this month. . V'?. ■ June is not a very good month, Charles Reade and Charles Kingsley being the only two writers. July gave us Thackeray and George Bernard Shaw, and those interested in astrology may find a resemblance between the two satirists. September and October were both poor months, Mrs. Hernans and H. G. Wells being born in September and Coleridge, Keats and Sheridan in October. Finally Milton, Gray and Matthew Arnold were born in December, as were’ also Jane Austin and Carlyle. So there is hope for most people as far as birthmonths are concentred.

Reproducing the Talmud.

One of the circumstances due to the war is that Lt has been found necessary to reproduce the plates for printing the Hebrew Talmud, originally produced in the town of Wilna, Russia. When this city was captured by Germany the electrotypes of the Talmud, it is reported, were used for ammunition. To reset the work in Hebrew would take years with an ordinary outfit. It was found necessary that the plates should be made by photo-engrav-ing. and this work is how being done in Montreal under the auspices of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. The Talmud contains 9,000 pages, 8 by 14. and it is divided into IS volumes. The first volume is finished, and the second is in print now. It is estimated that it will take about two years before the work is completed.

Army Animals Bought Abroad.

Not al? of the animals used by the United States expeditionary forces in overseas service were taken from this country. More than twice as many were bought abroad. The total number of animals purchased overseas to January 11. 1919. is 152.336. Purchases of horses in. France amounted to 109.848; in Spain, 1,531; and in ’ Great Britain. 11.898. The value of purchases in France was $43,122,094; in Spain. $589,160; and Great Britain, $5,314,711, or a total value of $49,025.965 for 123,277 horses purchased overseas. The total number of mules purchased overseas amounted to 29,059, with a value of $11,115,847. There were 9.341 mules, valued at $2,895,928. purchased tn France; 12.941 mqjes, with a value of $5,619,156. purchased in Spain; and 6,777 mules, valued at $2,600,763. purchased' iu Great Britain.

Special Naval Uniforms.

Uniforms having distinctive insignia have been designed by the shipping “board for the young apprentices now in training at the various school ships. An embroidered anchor under the national shield, worked inS the cloth of the blouse pocket, and two hroad ’white stripes on collar and cuff, instead of three narrow ones, as worn by -the nary, will constitute the insignia Jby which one may discriminate between the men of the merchant marine and resembling those worn hgf the regular men of the navy. » -

BETTER THAN ANY MEDIUMS

Mince Pie That Brought Vleion of Home Caused Wounded Soldier to . Long for Life. Pie is not among the articles treated of In works on materia medica, but a recent incident shows that Jt may have therapeutic value. In a hospital lay an American sailor, for whom everything had been done by surgeons, doctors and nurses, and yet something was lacking. He was homesick; bls mind was ever away in a little Atlantic coast town.' One day, in the midst of his bodily pain and soul-suf-fering, there flashed upon him the object of his quest, and he murmured excitedly: "Oh, if I could only have a piece of mince pie.” It was not that he wanted to eat a piece of pie, for he was too ill for that. His hunger was for what the pie represented. An American nurse who heard the wish managed, with some difficulty, to find all the ingredients for a real New England pie. When she took it to him she put with it a bit of cheese, also hard to procure in these times, so that nothing would be lacking, and In the cheese she planted a miniature Stars and Stripes. The poor boy could eat neither the pie nor the cheese, but they contributed just the home touch needed to improve his condition. When the wife of the American consul general visited him later she remarked upon the improvement in his condition, and he said: “Two days ago I was in such misery that I could have welcomed death. Now I feel that America is not so far away as I thought and that I have got to hang on.”

GENERAL BELIEF IN HONESTY

Something Very Like the Mllennlum Seems to Be Near In Great British Metropolis. How is the sudden trust Londoners have come to exhibit for each other to be accounted for? There is an extreme shortage of copper coins for small change in London, and one man says of his experiences: “On several occasions lately uews vendors who have been unable to change silver have said to me, ‘Never nttnd, pay me the next time you are this way.’ Only one of them knew me as a regular customer, Even more unexpected credit than this was offered me at a railway booking office where I tendered a shilling for a two-penny fare. Tin short of coppers,’ said the girl booking clerk, ‘pay me tomorrow.’ *But I shall not be here tomorrow,’ I replied. ‘Then pay me the next time you are here, whenever it is,’ she said. ‘But supposing I forget,’ I expostulated. “Oh, I know that you will come and pay me some day, she answered. Tve never known people fail.’ ” Similar testimony is offered by others, who tell of copper credit .thrust upon them by strangers, and often very poor and humble strangers.—London Mall.

Clearing Up After War.

On the banks of the Thames, less than twenty miles from London, there is an American town of the mushroom kind such as you might find in a new California oil field. Its population consists of more than 200 white men and about 15# negroes. It covers twenty-five acres which nine months ago were fallow grass land. The business of the town is to receive, sort and store war material. There is a street of wooden huts, another of corrugated iron huts, huge iron store sheds a quarter of a mile long, office buildings, water supply and electric lights, the whole surrounded by a hedge, a few armed sentries and much mud. All day long the khaki-clad'negroes push and haul railway trucks full of war material. War material coming back from Russia is being stored at this camp, also the fittings of the dismantled hospitals which the American army established in England.

Warmth Increases Oil Flow.

An electrical method of carrying warmth to the bottom Of oil wells has been found in many cases greatly to increase the flow of oil. The heating process, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, decreases the viscidity Of the oil, usually occasioned by the admission of air to the well and the cooling of the rock bed. Minute crevices and capillary channels which afford easy passage to warm, thin oil become quite impassable if the oil gums. The electric heating method not only thins the oil but often generates gas whose pressure helps the of! to the surface. The system found military use in the abandoned oil fields of Roumania and Galicia.

What's in a Name?

Most readers are familiar with the story of the German bank in a United States,city which, finding its name unpopular, changed it to the "Sherman bank.” Here is another example on the same lines: A popular New York city German restaurant was called the Kloster Glocke (Cloister Bell), and its front was decorated with a large bell as a sign. The name has been changed to the "Liberty Bell,” and the bell of the old monastery now does duty as a replica of the one! which rang out independence to the colonies.

Doubts Mechanical Skill.

A “prominent business man” has offered $50,000 for the privilege of being carried as mechanic on the first transatlantic flight made in an airplane. If this offer is accepted, It 18 to be hoped that his mechanical . ability equals his enthusiasm. —Springfield Republican.