Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1919 — Page 3

Inspection of Chinese Boy Scouts

The Chinese Boy Scouts of Troop 150, New York, were presented with a loving cup by the Chinese republic. Photo shows Chinese Consul General Chllien inspecting the scouts in front of the headquarters, 200 Fifth avenue.

Developing Men

Co-Operation is the Key to. Success

*“WtT do not pick our men, we develop them,” says a successful manufacturer. “Or, rather, we help them to develop themselves. Not one of our men can be fired outright. No forteman or department head can dismiss an employee. Good cause has to be shown.” Developing men is a very good rule, as many can tell, but a good rule for making rabbit pie begins: First catch the rabbit. The developer of men must be the comrade of his men, not the autocrat. If he is supercilious the penalty will be failure. He must have at least a fair general knowledge of how to do the work he wants done. His is rare ability, founded upon rare temperament. He is the dynamo which runs any successful enterprise. The French say “cherchez la femme” when a crimes has been committed. The formula is “cherchez, I’homme” when anyone wishes to account for the success of a great industrial eriterprlse. The man at the bottom of its success is one who knows how to get the best work out of an army of employees. A successful general is the officer whose men swear by him; not the fussy martinet whose men swear, secretly, at him.

Forests Draw Water From Soil, Then Send It Forth Into the Air From Leaves

“It has been 'estimated that 500 beech trees during a single season of foliage evaporate about 20,000 barrels of water,” said Dr. John M. Coulter, professor of botany at the University of Chicago, in a recent article. “This indicates one of the important missions of the forests, namely, to draw water from the soil and send it forth into the air from the leaves as water vapor. From the foregoing figures one can compute what immense quantities of forest vapor are poured Into the air in thickly wooded districts, keeping it moist and favorable for vegetation. “Another mission of the forests is to conserve rainfall, the soil developed by a forest being wonderfully retentive of water, acting as a huge sponge which absorbs and holds the rainfall and doles it out gradually. This fact is especially realized when forests are removed, for then the rainfall runs off the surface and floods the streams without supplying its full quota of water for vegetation. The devastating floods in China are caused largely by the destruction of their forests and forest planting and conservation is one of the greatest needs of that country. ,

WORDS OF WISE MEN

A black hen will lay a white egg. , All blood is ancient - A blot is not a blot unless it be hit. A blow with a reed makes a noise, but hurts not. Blow first and sip afterward. It is not allowed in war to blunder twice.—Latin Proverb. L It is only the first bottle that is dear. —French Proverb. , Blame is the lazy man’s wages.—Danish Proverb.

Mother’s Cook Book

We call him strong who stands unmoved— Calm as some tempest-beaten rock— When some great trouble hurls its shock; We say of him “His strength Is proved;” But when the spent storm folds Its wings, How bears he then life’s little things? < Candies for the Kiddies. During the hot weather one may prepare in the home or at the lake or in the country without heat these delicate candies. The secret of making uncooked candies Is to use the finest confectioner’s sugar, so fine that when rubbed between the fingers no grain is left. Foundation Cream. Break the white of an egg Into a bowl and mix with an equal amount of liquid, water fruit juice, coffee or milk or cream may be used. Into this stir one pound of confectioner’s sugar, adding it gradually until thick enough to mold with the fingers. From this foundation one may enlarge, so that an endless variety may be made. Lemon Creams. Grate the rind of a lemon into a bowl, add the strained lemon juice, a pinch of tartaric acid and enough confectioner’s sugar to mold into balls, then press into flat cakes and let stand in a cold place 24 hours. Orange may be used in place of lemon, making another flavor. Neapolitan Creams. Dust a board with confectioner’s sugar ahd place on it some of the foundation cream, flavor with vanilla, kneading it well. Divide into five portions; leave one white, color the remaining portions with chocolate, yellow, pink and green. Roll out each portion In the same shape, place one on top of another, pass a rolling-pin lightly over to make the layers adhere, cut In squares or slices, wrap in wax paper and put in a cold place to become firm. Walnut Delights. Use the foundation cream made with coffee, roll into balls and press a half walnut meat on each side. Dip in beaten egg white and roll in colored sugar. Peppermint Creams. Use the foundation cream flavored with peppermint. For Wintergreen flavor with Wintergreen and color green; for cinnamon color pink. Cherry Creams. Slit glace cherries in halves lengthwise, mold cream flavored with almond into balls and press a half cherry on each side. To form the stalk of the cherry use strips of angelica or the stem of the fresh fruit. Candied pineapple, ginger, dates, figs and prunes all make a most delicious' candy when used in combination with the cream. "KcXjLuc

Ants Powerful Enough to Eat Into Hardest Woods

Everyone has observed trees that have been hollowed out by ants, and it is apparent that their biting powers are equal to working in the hardest woods. In tunneling, ants are expert, and authentic casefc are known of their tunneling under ditches and streams. Indeed, a South American ant is said to have excavated a tunnel under the bed of Parahyba river at a place where it la as broad as the Thames at London bridge. , ■ .

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Philadelphia U. S. Mint Has Complete Series of Nearly All Coins Issued in World.

In the collection at the Philadelphia mint (one of the finest in existence) there are fairly complete series of nearly all the coins ever issued in the world. Coined pioney was In circulation in Asia and Europe as early as 700 B. C. But the ancients did not put dates on their coins, and so it was not always easy to fix the exact periods of theli issue. They were, of course, not struck with dies, ‘ but merely cast in molds, so that they had not the smooth symmetry of modern coins. Nevertheless some of them possessed a very high artistic merit. Even nowadays people bury money In ancient times, when a man’s pos sessions were far less safe, the pfac tice was much more common. Largelj owing to it is the fact that such great numbers of early coins (mostly discovered by accident) exist today in collections. There is, Indeed, hardly an ancient coinage of which specimens are not extant. Many of them have been de rived from the hidden hoards of sacerdotal establishments. The earliest known bronze coins oi the Romans date back to 335 B. C. They issued silver coins less than a century later. But doubtless- the gold and silver money of other countries was largely used by the ancient Romans, introduced among them through the aggressive commerce of Greek and Asiatic states. - There was no lack of the precious metals In those days. Dr. T. L. Comparette, numismatist of the Philadelphia mint (from whom tjie above statements are quoted), says that in ancient times the supply of gold and silver was as great in proportion tc the population using money coined of those metals as it is today.

Cubs’ Shortstop Star Is Hailed as the Greatest Infielder of the Future

Charley Hollocher, the youthful shortstop star of the Cubs, is off to a brilliant start, and everywhere is hailed as the great infielder of the future. Hollocher today ranks among the highest stars of the pastime, and

Charley Hollocher.

the current season should be a banner year for him. Hollocher’s all-round playing in the opening game of the Giant series at the Polo ground showed him to be at his best. His home run into the right field stand in the first inning put the Cubs In the lead, and his skillful defensive play subsequently helped to thwart the Gotham assault.

A REMINDER

Walk humbly, O America, to the crowning of peace— With meek heart and reverence to the meeting of our peers; Forget not, America, the weary months of ” silence. The black high pride of three long years. Remember, O America, the dead who lie in Flanders, . The wounded and the slain of our great allies; Remember, too, the sacrifice of the women and children, The months we lay in darkness, unseeing with our eyes. Make no demands, America, of the men who fought before us. Be not domineering o’er the men who suffered most; < We have not known the whole white flame of sacrifice. If we have saved democracy, let not that be our boast Walk humbly, O America, to the crowning of peace— With meek heart and reverence to the - meeting of our peers; Forget not, O America, the weary months of silence. The black high pride of three long years. —Katherine K. Johnson in Life.

When the Gas Escapes.

Should a' leakage of gas be noticed at a time when it is impossible to get a plumber, some moistened soap should be applied round the place where the escape has been located. This method of stopping a leak is only a temporary one. .

1,794 U. S. Guns Made in 24 Hours

Total Rifle Production in This Country During the World War was 2,506,307

Machine guns and small arms produced by the millions, ammunition turned out by the billions of rounds and tanks built by thousands when the armistice ended hostilities, furnish the subject of chapters made public of the war department’s history of the “material” side of winning the war. The story of ma'chine gun production, about which such a hot controversy waged in congress as a result of the failure of the American army to adopt for standard general use the Lewis weapon used successfully abroad, is told as follows: Up to November .11 the production of Browning rifles was 52,238, a majority of which were in France. In addition 29,000 Chauchat guns had been purchased, so that enough light automatic rifles were on hand to supply 100 divisions or an army of 3,500,000 men. In the same time 41,804 heavy Brownings and enough Vickers guns had been produced to make with the Hotchkiss weapons purchased from the French a total of 54,627 of this type, or enough to equip 200 divisions, or an army of 7,000,000. “At the peak of our production,” the report says, “a total of 1,794 machine guns and automatic rifles of all types were produced within a period of 24 hours,” and the total production of machine guns in the United States between April 6. 1917, and November 11, 1918, was 185,039, as against 229,238 produced by the French and 181,404 by the British in the same period. ' , Only the loyal co-operation of the manufacturers w’ith.whom “competitive commercial advantages weighed not at all against the national need,” made possible this achievement, the report states. Other production struggles described in the chapters include items varying In size from trench knives to the 45-son Mark VIII tanks of British design of which 1,500 were being constructed in co-operation with the British and 1,450 additionally wholly by American enterprise. Only one of these had been delivered up to January T, 1919, but It is noted that the work on each program on component parts was 50 per cent complete when the armistice was signed. Orders for all but 100 of these tanks have been canceled. On November 11, 64 tanks of the French six-ton type had been delivered and by January 31 of this year 291. Of these six were shipped abroad. Orders for 1,000 Mark I light tanks were canceled, as were orders for 15,*015 three-ton tanks, 15 of which had been completed on Nnwmber.lL —— - The total rifle production in the United States from the beginning of the war up to November 9, 1918, was 2,506,307, of which a little more than 300,000 were Springfield rifles. ——. Considerable attention is devoted to the production of automatic pistols and revolvers for the troops. In the Colt .45, the standard army automatic developed as a result of Philippine experience by the army and which also was an Invention by Browning, the United States forces had a weapon which all Europe could not match for efficiency in action and which brought terror to the Germans when American troops reached the front. European countries failed to appreciate the value of a large caliber, hardhitting weapon of this? type and the chief use of pistols and revolvers in European armies had been as ornaments for -officers’ uniforms, it is said, rather than for active fighting. “The result of Europe’s neglect,” the report says, “was that the small caliber revolvers of the Germans and even of the French and English were toys in comparison to the big Golts that slapped the thighs of American doughboys.” The standard American army rifle ammunition proved its superiority in action, adding materially to the accuracy of American small arms fire. Extraordinary measures to produce cartridges in sufficient numbers are recounted in the report, and in the fall of 1918 the United States achieved an average monthly output of 284,852,735 rounds, against a British average of 259,769,000 and a French average of 139,845.000.

Pole Star, the One Which Seems to Keep Its Place Without Any Movement

Most people, if they know nothing else of astronomy, at any rate know the pole star, the one star which seems to keep its place in the heavens without movement of any kind, says a writer in the Rehoboth Sunday Herald. There are a great many, however, who do not know what a wonderful thing It Is. In the first place, it can be seen w’hen looked at through a good telescope to be two stars and not one. There is one fairly bright one, of what is known as the second magnitude, and another of the ninth magnitude close to it. But that is not all. The brighter of the two is really three stars revolving • round one another, or, rather, round their common center of gravity, like three children playing “ring a ring of roses.” This secret is revealed to us by wljat is perhaps the most astonishing of all scientific instruments, the spectroscope. It not only tells us -what the stars are made of, but whether they are moving toward us or away from us. When you stand facing the star you are always facing north. The reason that it does not appear to move as the others do is that it is nearly in line with the axis of thd earth, its distance from us is enormous. This can be judged from-the fact that although the earth in its journey around the sun is today about 190,000,000 miles from where it was six months ago, shat makes no appreciable difference to its distance from the pole star. It must therefore be many times 190,000,000 miles away.

Nation’s Public Debt Up to $25,921,151,270 in May

The nation’s public debt reached a new high mark of $25,921,151,2(0 at the end of May, an increase of $1,096,640,750 during the month, resulting from new issues of certificates of Indebtedness and payments on Victory loan subscriptions. Ordinary disbursements in May amounted to $907,492,920, only slightly less than the $1,068,203,020 In the same month last year.

SMART SAYINGS

If you see one young naan laughing at the ancient Jokes of another the other has a pretty sister. The average woman doesn’t believe in equality of the sexes; she thinks she Is a little more than equal. Some men are candidates for office because they can’t help it —and some because the people can’t help it. The young girl with her hair done up for the first tltae possesses more awe-inspiring dignity than a floor walker in a dry goods store. *

HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

The Pennsylvania experiment station recently conducted some tests on the fattening of cockerels for market. Two types of breeding and care were represented by the fowls selected, viz.: ordinary farm-raised and closely managed, egg-laying types. Various rations and methods of confinement were compared. The number of fowls forming the group representing a particular method was ten in each case. The results showed that farm-raised poultry of the Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red breeds may be fattened In crates or pens at a cost for food of 10 to 12 cents per pound of gain. No difference appeared in the gains from crate and pen-fed fowls, but with fowls of these kinds close confinement resulted in greater economy per pound of gain. Thin fowls made the cheapest gains. Fine-ground grain and fations rich in protein gave the better results. Milk was superior to meat scrap as a source of protein. In the case of the more active, egglaying breed, represented by Leghorn cockerels, fattening Was profitable with fowls weighing up to two and a half pounds, but not beyond that limit, at present food and poultry values. The cost of gain with this breed ranged from 3.25 to 12 cents per pound. With the lighter birds, regular growing rations were superior to special fattening mixtures, and close confinement was not as advantageous as conditions permitting some exercise.

Miracles by Heroism of the Considerate Mothers

Medicine can to some extent prevent disease from attacking the child; medicine cannot perform miracles. It is a miracle if children brought up in foul and evil surroundings grow up healthy and wholesome men and women. The miracle, incidentally, Is usually accomplished not by doctors but by the self-sacrifice and heroism of the mother of the children, who too often loses her own health in the process.—London Times.

Black Walnut Used for Roadbed in Indiana City

Recently in an Indiana city engineers' were installing a concrete foundation along a main thoroughfare. In excavating they came upon, a corduroy road, buried several inches under the street surface. The road was constructed of black walnut and extended, they found later, for a distance of nearly a mile. The logs were in excellent condition.

Mosquitoes, but No Malaria.

In the Alps, the mosquito Anopheles, which causes malaria, is found plentifully up to heights of 5,600 feet, but malaria is never met With above 2,600 feet.

Blue sun Phenomenon Has Been Recorded Only Once; In August, 1883, in Java

The expression “once in a blue moon,” meaning that occurrences are so widely separated by time as to almost never recur, is not merely a figure of speech. It has a basis of astronomical fact. The phenomenon has been twice observed in both Italy and Austria and once in England. There is no available record of it having been noticed in America. A blue sun has been recorded only once. That was In August, 1883. in Java. A day or tw*o before there was a very violent eruption of a large volcano about a hundred miles from Batavia. The eruption ended with an explosion in which a range of mountains was destroyed, a vast cavity being left in its place, more than a thousand feet deep at one point. Billions of tons of rock, mud and dust were thrown high in the air and the sun was obscured over a large area. At Batavia the darkness became so deep that street lamps had to be lighted in the middle of the forenoon. That condition prevailed until toward sunset. Then the volcanic cloud began to clear away, leaving the sun visible. Instead, however, of it being red, as it usually is when viewed through a Smoke cloud, it appeared as a magnificent deep-blue disk, remaining that color until it sank below the horizon. The phenomenon was seen by everyone within 30 to 40 degrees of the equator.

Smiles for You

Just So.

they’ll have to throw at me.” Long Wait. “Did you ever order that taxi for me?” “Yes.” “Well, how long am I to wait for ItF “Some time, I fear. The man says he’ll send it when you pay your old bill." A Roast Would-Be Contrlb—Do you think the article would be-better If I boiled it down? Editor —No, I’m sure it wouldn’t; but I should try the action of heat on it in another way if I were you. A Weather-Beaten Bud. He—-She told me it was her first year out. She —Why, she’s been out four sea* sons. He —Well, I suppose she counts four seasons to the year. Evidently a Fraud.

“What’s become of your efficiency expert?” “I fired him.” “Why?” “It took him an hour to get lunch in a cafeteria.”

A Personal Matter. “The shade of Julius Caesar is pres ent and wishes to converse with you," announced the medium. “Nothing doing,” replied the client “I want to have a word with the late James J. Jones of Hickory Hollow.” “I don’t know any such person.” “Well, I do. He died last week ow ing me $40.”

Paris Sewers Have Total Length of 1,400 Kilometers

The Paris sewers have a total length of 1,400 kilometers, are traversed by a tram line, telephone and telegraph wires, pneumatic tubes by which special delivery letters are whiffed across the city and enough canals to rival Venice. There are no gondolas—the canals are not wide enough—but there are some fiat boats, and joy riding in a skiff would not be an impossibility.

Mend China and Glass

An excfellent way to mend china and glass is to melt alum in an old iron spoon over the fire and apply to the broken parts. When dry these articles can be washed in hot water and the cement will hold rigidly.—New York Evening Telegram.

Too Much High Thinking

We Americans were once so free and happy that our present condition is lamentable. What is the trouble? I believe it IS high thinking; failure to realize the Importance of , dieting for the mind.—E. W. Howe’s Monthly. •

Daily Thought

Wise men say nothing In dangerous times.—John Seldaa.

“I want you to speak for our canning campaign. We’re trying to encourage people to can vegetables.” “I can speak for that with all me heart,” declared Hamlet Fatt. “The more vegetables they can, the fewer