Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Chicagoans Enjoy the Dunes Under Disadvantages GARY. IND. —This part of the country hopes to make a national park out of the dunes. In the meantime Chicagoans by the trainload come out to rhe dnnes Sundays and holidays. Sunday the South Shore interurban that connects with the Illinois Central at - —— -

Kensington, a two-coach train was crammed with tired humanity. There were loud and angry cries for more coaches. At Gary a car was put on the end. It was soon filled. A coach „ was .switched on the front end, hut before anyone could get into it the train started. . W. W. Tenney, 6606 Kimhark avenue. seeking seats for his wife and children, was about to step into the

first car when he found the way . blocked. The conductor stood in the doorway. He had orders, he said, to keep the car locked. “How stupid.- said Tenney. “There’s no reason why some of these people shouMn’t ret in that empty coach and we're going in." The conductor, It is said, picked up an iron bar and waved it threateningly. Tenny grabbed Ids wrist, ami then began a battle, while the train tore on its way. Tenney had one foot on the sill of the second coach door, the other on the sill of the first coach door —standing over the couplings. The coach load back of him writhed in excitement and urged him on. \VoYtten were fainting, men were swearing. trying to get past Tenney to reach the conductor, but the battle continued until the train pulled into East Chicago. Then the men from the second coach ran up the stairs, of the front car, poured in, overwhelmed the conductor, took possession, and the train went on its way. " ' ~ t Among passengers on the train were Prof. "Wellington Jones of the I nl▼ersity of Chicago and 10 university students, Jens Jensen, president of Friends of Our Native Landscape, and George E. Hooker of the City club. Indiana, Illinois and Michigan are trying to raise $2,500,000 by subscription to buy the dunes lor a national park.

This Gob Took Good Advice When He Ran Across It OAK PARK. ILL.—Joseph Fitzmorris, 1133 Oak Park avenue, paid a visit to Chicago the other night. He and two companions were in a Wabash avenue case. X slim, good-looking young gob entered. Quietly he asked each person at the bar to buy a copy of the

the scene. The gob walked up to him and asked in a very mild tone of voice: “What wnrid you do about it if you were I?” - --- --- “If this were any other place but mine I'd advise you to knock the tar out of that lout," said Kuntz. “That's a good idea.” said the gob. "I'll knock the tar out of all three of them. They’ll be coming out—some time. I've got all.night.” In the course of events the three men left the bar. A minute later patrons of the case heard a wild commotion outside. They rushed to the street. The gob was having a party. The man who bad tom up his credentials was lying in the gutter. The gob's fist was at that, moment coming into contact with the nose of one of the other members of the party. Before the police had been summoned the third man was nursing a very black eye. It was a most complete job. The gob walked away. When the police arrived the only member of the trio left was Fitzmorris, who was sorry now that he had torn up those credentials. His two companions had departed. Picture of a Little Welshman, Mender of Shoes COLORADO SPRINGS. —Down here in Colonulo Springs there lives a Welshman named Bob Price. Stolid, round faced, bald of pate and slow of speech, .Bob hasn’t much to commend him to public attention except his capa-

bllities as a first-class waiter in a firstclass case much frequented by tourists. But at home Bob is a different fellow. And high over the mantel in Bob’s “holy of holies’ is posted his chief keepsake, a somewhat faded but recognizable photograph of a grizzled, wrinkled, kindly faced man, autographed with a scrawling, slipshod signature that is as unreadable as it Is forceful.

Thirty-five years- ago Price was r . living at Criccieth, Wales. Every day he was engaged in hauling limestone. On every trip he would pass the humble workshop of a little cobbler, who never was too busy for a little chat with the limestone movers. Bob and he became great friends. |lis little shop became the meeting place for the village loafers and here the little cobbler, dreamy, thoughtful, philosophic, would expound his ideas and Ideals of government. ' A few years later B<4) came to America to make his fortune He paid little attention to the political kaleidoscope in England until a new figure thrust itself into the affairs of stkte, took a post in the first war cabinet and later became premier of the nation. That man was the cobbler of Criccieth—David Lloyd George. And Bob Price can recall every lineament of his features, every characteristic gesture, every odditj of manner and speech of the shoemaker of his youth, now the most potent personality in England. And Coat is why the picture hangs over the mantel in the Price home:

He Was From Missouri When It Came to Fighting SPRINGFIELD, MO.—Frank W Allee, son of a Missouri legislator, wanted to get into the war. He was only sixteen, but With his father's consent he enlilted in the naty February 28, 1917. He was assigned to the battleship South Carolina as a bugler. Frank

Ing like that In the navy. So’one day he bought a civilian suit and in due course of time was listed as a deserter. v . . About this time a well-built, tanned, wiry chap answering to the name of Jack Anderson, enlisted In the Six Hundred ;and Second engineers in Boston. Three weeks later he was In Brest, an.d then, as the Yanks went fin-ward, he was in Chateau Thierry, in St. Mihlel, in the Argonne woods, fighting every day. Across the front he went, after the armistice, and into Qohlenz. He had been in the thickest of the fighting. And he was satisfied. Jack Anderson was mustered out April 3. Then he was Frank W. Allee, deserter from the U. & navy. He went home to his parents and then with Ms arihy discharge papers he surrendered to Provost Marshal Lieutenant R. G MacDuffle. He is now a prisoner at large, awaiting the decision of the navy jpffrials gt Washington on his case.

Great Lakes Recruit for the benefit of the Navy Relief society. He approached the Fitzmorris party. “You gobs are nuisances,” said one of the men. “Have you got any credentials to sell that magazine? Bet you're a faker.” The gob produced his credentials. The man read them over, then deliberately tore them iato pieces. At one end of the room John Kuntz, one of the proprietors,, had been watching

Was happy because he wanted action and he was sure he was going to get action. But there was no action for Frank. The ship was in its war paint, but it lay off Philadelphia awaiting orders while thousands of lads in olive drab were crossing the sea. Sixteen months he stood it, and he dreamed now of trenches, of midnight raiding parties, of airplanes. and heavy tanks rumbling over Nd Mans Land. Noth-

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

The city of Venice, Cal., has established an aerial police force, Otto Meyerhoffer, a well-known aviator, being the first air policeman appointed. He is shown here, in leather coat, standing by his machine.

System Used In Sinking U-Boats

Navy Officer Reveals How Depth Bombs Are Directed to Their Mark. .... WAR SECRETS OUT AT LAST Tactics Worked Out at the Direction of Admiral Sims —Vessels- Change Course at Regular Timed Intervals. Newport, R. I.—With the assembling of the largest class in the history of the war college, which when it Is fairly under way will number 60 officers of high rank in the navy, there has been brought to Newport many participants in the world war. Many of these officials 'feel perfectly at home In Newport, having at various times been connected with the naval station here. Capt. William W. Phelps, who is now on the staff of Rear Admiral Sims at the college, has lived In Newport twice. Captajn Phelps’ last command- was one of the largest ships in the navy, the transport Leviathan, and in this connection he spoke interestingly of the transportation of the thousands of our troops from New York to Brest. Although strict censorship prevailed during the war relative to this hazardous service, it is now permissible to speak of the work of these transports. Navigating to Avoid U-Boats. Here are a few facts Captain Phelps related: During a voyage the Leviathan’s course would be changed at regular intervals, from port to starboard, making a wide zigzag. In daylight she would steam at 22 knots. Off the bow on each side, and likewise off the stern, would be destroyers, making four close to tlie Mg ship. These destroyers also at timed intervals would zigzag, but in shorter turns, first towards the ship, and -then away from It. Then guns were trained, and depth bombs were ready to go down the slide. Steaming at 30 knots, just ahead of the transport, would be another destroyer, making sharp zigzag directly across her path. Her speed would be so great that she would have to slow down to use her deck guns, as volumes of water would come over her prow. In the distance would be still another destroyer, five miles ahead, also running on time and acting as a scout, or like the pickets in the army. All zigzags were made according to exact time, so as to eliminate any chance for collision. Captain Phelps said that at night, running at high speed without lights, the timing made the trips possible without collision. The most dreaded hours were the long twilights in the north steamship lane, which sometimes lasted until ten o’clock, and frequently for hours afterwards the northern lights would make It possible for the dreaded submarines to see the big transport without themselves being discernible.

WILL BOOST FARMING

Railroad Administration Announces Program of Activities. Will Collect and Furnish Free Information About Agricultural Opportunities in Different States. Washington.—r-J. L. Edwards, manager agricultural section. United States railroad administration, ' has announced the following program of activities for agricultural development for the railroads under federal control, during the reconstruction period: To collect the latest Information about opportunities for farming, stock raising, dairying, fruit growing, etc., in the several states having undeveloped resources and "furnish It free to those who wish to engage in such pursuits, special attention to be given to discharged soldiers and sailors. To co-operate with county farm

AERIAL POLICE FORCE IN CALIFORNIA

Captain Phelps has the distinction of making the fastest round trip on record when, with the transport Great Northern last July,' he went from Sandy Hook to Brest, unloaded his troops and returned to New York in 14 days, 4% hours. The sea was favorable for this record, which- has only been exceeded at any time but once, when In December, 1913, on a special Christmas trip, the Mauretania made the same transatlantic voyage in just 14 days. When the trips across the Atlantic with the big troop ships began there were many tactics worked out, emanating from Vice Admiral Sims. One of

Mexicans Strip Hun

Villista Bandits Then Turn Him Loose on Range. a tang Winds Up Frolic by Making Things Lively for German Ranchman. Chihuahua City, Mex. —Sauz, a town on the Mexico Central railroad not far from this ci,ty, has been the scene of another adventure, this' time of a- German subject, if Germans are still subjects. Sauz already is notorious enough because in Spanish It is pronounced exactly like “souse.” The Villista bandits, Martin Lopez. Ramon Vega and Epifanio Holguin, were having a frolic in Sauz one day this week. Their trip primarily was to call on a German ranchman by the name of Neiman, who formerly was with the large German wholesale house of northern Mexico, Ketelsen & Degatau. . ' When the Messrs, Lopez, Vega and Holguin called at Neiman’s home the German apparently w’as not at home.

Who in America Has Found Lost Jawbone?

/ I ■ London. —Who has this jawbone? And whoever has it, what Is he. doing with it? , “JAWBONE INFORMATION wanted regarding whereabouts of human jawbone found in 1855 in coprolite pit at Foxhall, near Ipswich, Suffolk, and described by R. H. Collyer, M. D„ in Anthropological Review. 1867. Supposed to have been taken to America. —Reid Moir, Ipswich.” This advertisement is from the London Times. Manifestly the jawbone in question is that of a cave dweller or other primitive inhabitant of Britain, and therefore one of our ancestors. But who outside of a museum wants to collect his ancestors’ jawbones.

agents and other government and state authorities, and with newspapers, chambers of commerce, bankers, farmers, associations and other organizations, in looking after the interests of newcomers through the dife semination of information regarding methods of soil preparation, seeding, cultivation, etc., in order that they may be successful in the localities In which they have settled. To improve marketing conditions by the widest circulation of Information in* bulletin form about where and when farm products will be ready for sale, and where and when there will be need of such products, thus enabling the farmer to send his stuff to markets which are not glutted, and to obtain for It a price that will mean a profit on his investment, rather than a loss. e To conduct a campaign HK co-opera-tion with ‘government and state authorities with the view of increasing

these was depth bomb practice, just as the battleships have target practice. One of these explosives set off 800 yards from the big ship Leviathan was sufficiently powerful to shake and jar her, yet it must be remembered that the effect on a vessel on top of the water.is different from the effect upon <jne submerged. It lifts up the vessel on top, in much the way* a huge wave would, but it crushes the underseas craft with pressure. How do you make sure of getting asubmarlnewith a depth bomb? Captain Phelps was asked. Captain Phelps explained that a destroyer would steam at top speed in a circle around the spot in w’hlcb the U-boat was seen, and drop a bomb every few yards. The speed of the surface craft is so much greater than the other that when the circle is completed It is positive that one of the bombs did its work, for, whichever way the undersea craft turns, she cannot get out of the circle.

Lopez was chief of the band, a group of 20 horsemen with sugarloaf hats on their heads and glistening bands of cartridges over their shoulders and around their waists. It was the siesta hour. So he stationed his men to watch for the return of the German and lay down on the bed to sleep. Before dreaming of whatever a bandit dreams, Don Martin gave these orders: “My boys, find those two Mexicans who work on this ranch and shoot them at once. Only take them far enough away so that the shots will not wake me up. If you catch the German patron do not shoot him. Merely take everything he has; I mean everything, Including his socks, and then let him go. Bring me his clothes. He dresses well and w T e are about of a size. Ido not want to kill the German. • His race is very valiant. If you see any Chinese shoot them, though. The Chinese are cowardly, peaceful people.” But before the generalissimo dropped off to sleep he .felt the bed move under him. - Neiman, covered 1 with dust, appeared on his hands and knees. “Mi general,” he said, bowing. “Con su permlso.” Lopez called back his men and told, them to carry out his orders. Neimai» was stripped to the skin and “turned loose On the range.” It was a warm day. - .

Broke Wooden Leg.

Columbus, Ohio. —“I’ve broken my leg,” yelled Jasper Poltis, as he fell to the street. Two cops saw Poltls fall and heard his cries. They called the police ambulance and hustled him to his home. All the way the man with the broken leg talked with the officers. “Funny how a man with a broken leg can be so jolly,” remarked one of the cops. “It was my wooden leg,’’ said Poltis.

Walk Is Discouraged.

St. Louis. —Edgar Halk doesn’t think he’ll ever be a highwayman. His first victim had only one dime. Halk gave it back. The victim gave the police Halk’s description. The arrest followed.

the live stock output, not only because it Is ff profitable feature of the farming business, but also for the purpose of building up the soil. f

Owns an Old Goose.

Hereford, Pa. —Peter A. Metz of near Creamery is the owner of a goose that is twenty-nine years old and has a record of laying eight eggs during the year. The last egg she laid 8% by 11% inches in circumference. The goose is in a state of mourning, for some time ago death robbed her of her life partner, “Pete," the gander. A dog snuffed out the life of “Pete.”

Thief Leaves Load Behind.

College View, Neb. —An attempt to lower the high cost of living was costly. Surprised- in the act of robbing a farmer’s hen roost, the thief fled, leaving his overcoat containing

Fine: $1 a Mile.

Dallas Tex. —"Thirty miles an hour, makes |3O fine," Judge Robertson declared, announcing Dallas speeders will be fined a dollar a mile in the futur*

Home Town Helps

JUDGE CITY BY ITS STREETS Importance of Well Laid Out and Properly Kept Thoroughfares Cannot Be Overestimated. Streets are the lines of expression on a city’s face. They are the ideographs of time, recording the thoughts, passions, impulses of the city-soul that dwells within. They are as surely the indices of a city’s character as the dines on a human face, a betrayal of whatever is ugly and sordid, an earnest of whatever is serene and gentle and strong. . “There are mean streets,” says Balzac, "and streets that are merely honest ; there are young streets about whose morality the public has not yet formed any opinion; there are murderous streets—streets older than the oldest hags; streets that We may esteem —clean streets, workaday streets and commercial streets. Some streets begin well and end badly.” In a city w’here the trees have been discarded to promote convenience and advantages of commercial thoroughfares there are just such streets w’hich distort and mar its beauty. It is a custom with us here in with the encroachment of business upon a residential district, tree-lined, shady and inviting, to Invade with vandalle hand and fell the trees. Flaunting signs may then be suspended over the pavement to* arrest the attention of the passerby; display windows may easier be viewed from either side of the thoroughfare. There is an irreverence in such practice; beauty and charm have been turned to the uses of barter and trade.

PLAY PARKS TO FOLLOW WAR

Splendid Idea Which Has Arisen In Canada Might Welf Be Emulated in This Country. Play parks for children, which will stand for all time as peace memorials, will be established in all the principal cities of Canada if plans of the Ottawa Horticultural society, supported by the Ottawa playgrounds association, are carried out. The purpose of the parks will be: “To help make impossible for coming generations the reality of another w T ar; to hold up for emulation for all time that spirit of unselfishness which stirred those of this generation and enabled them to secure for mankind the advantages of peace; and to encourage all those who enjoy the first fruits of peace to dedicate to the ideals of civilization a memorial which shall have the significance of a guaranty that life in the future shall have a fuller measure of joys and rewards.” The parks, according to plans, wdll enable children to enjoy summer and ■winter sports and recreations. They will be centers for holding annual peace celebrations. In them some memorial will be erected —a tablet, perhaps—on which will be recorded each year some of the dominant benefits peace has conferred Upon the world.

Architecture Important.

It is an asset to own a well-de-signed home —a house done by an artist who understands the essentials and principles of good design; there are only 'ioo few who know these principles and how to practice them. The first essential to inexpensive building is, simplicity of general composition, but to make it a success there must be splendid proportions <Jt every part in itself and its relation •with adjacent parts and the whole. The scale of the house must be just right, its character is as necessary as the character of the Individual. Good judgment is a rare talept and it must be exercised In the small i bouse just as much as in its more expensive, ornate and pretentious neighbor. To live in a home of architectural merit, however, simple it may be, Is a blessing and brings joy and life even though it may come to some almost unconsciously.

City Government Important.

City government touches the citizen in manifold ways and is of more vital importance to his interests, business and personal, than any other sphere of governmental activity with which he comes in contact. It collects more taxes from him and expends more money. Its problems are among the most complex with which public officials have to deal, and being largely of a business nature, every mistake which is made helps to raise the citizen’s taxes. If its problems are to be well solved, if the city is to be benefited by the successful achievement of other cities and profit by their failures, city officials must have access to all available information and data to be had upon these various problems and > subjects, •

Sees End of the Board Fence.

As wooden fences wear out Owners of property should not fail to replace them with wire. The price of wire has mounted along with other things, but boards have gone still higher. Lumber will, I believe, continue high. Hence the back yard board fence is, I believe, doomed, and it ought to be. It is hard to imagine anything more unsightly.— Building Inspector Osborne, Baltimore, |n the Baltimore Newa