Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — Page 1

No. 171.

Reed and Fiber Rockers ___________ We have just received a shipment sixty rockers in Reed and Fiber with tapestry upholstery. These are the rockers we have been waiting for since February. W I. WRIGHT.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Boston, 7; St. Louis, 6. (15 innings.) Other postponed, rain. American League. Detroit, 6; Boston, 2. Cleveland, 7; Philadelphia, 1. St. Louis, 5; Washington, 4. Chicago, 7-5; New York, 6-4.

Elizabeth and Luevella Gates returned to their home today at Hammond after a visit here with relatives.

YOU’VE GOT TO TRY IT TOO GOOD TO MISS ——H—— Take a sack of Occident Flour home with you—-use as much as you wish and if you don’t think its the BEST Flour you ever used bring back the SACK and get your money. Rowles & Parker

PRINCESS T HEATRE —TONIGHT—TUESDAY, JULY 22, Wallace Reid “Alias Mike Moran” Every girl who is “waiting” should see this picture. See what the memory of a girl he’d only met, twice made of a man. The boy here started “yellow, but he ended one of the boys who • < helped put victory across. Just the kind of a hero your ’sweetheart is. “See for yourself.” Wallace Reid never did anything finer than thls P fORD EDUCATIONAL WEEKLY

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, Pauline Frederick —in—- " Out of the Shadows” What man—particularly a young wwww--can resist the entreaties of a beautiful woman who seems to love him, her a dangerous secret? It’s hard not to confide in her, and iftet is just the reason why some of the world’s most successful spies and detectives have been women! TOM MIX COMEDY

The Evening Republican.

OLD RESIDENT OF MONON DIES.

Daniel Gordan, of Monon, died Monday and will ibe buried Wednesday afternoon. He was a farmer, about eighty years of age. He was a brother-in-law of John Gray, of , this city.

CONCERT PROGRAM, JULY 23.

March —01evine..H. A. Vandercook Fox Trot—Jerry Billy Baskette Overture —Valmond. .C. J. Rockwell Waltz—Beautiful Ohio.. . Mary Earl March—New York Hippodrome. . Sousa Overture —Hearts of Gold Geo. D. Barnard Fox Trot—By the Camp Fire Percy Wenrick March —Felicitas R- B. Hall

GORDON PLAYERS PLEASE LARGE AUDIENCE.

The Gordon Players, gave their first performance in this city Monday night. The large tent on South Van Rensselaer street’ was well filled. The play, “Give the Ladies a Chance,” a four-act comedy, made a decided hit with the audience. The company came to this city with splendid recommendation. Some years ago they appeared at the Ellis opera house and at that time their work was very high class. They have been showing in Remington a . number of years and always draw large crowds. They had excellent success at Francesville last week. They will be in Rensselaer throughout the week and will undoubtedly enjoy a very large patronage. _ Tonight they will present “GOOD-FOR-NOTHING HUSBAND,” a comedy. W. L. Bott, the obliging telephone proprietor, left a fine basket of Pulaski county apples at our door today, for which he has our very sincere thanks. Apple pie and apple cobbler are mighty fine. Pulaski county apples raised in an orchard -owned by a Jasper county man and cooked by a Rensselaer woman make a combination which cannot be beaten.

THURSDAY, JULY 24, EXTRA BIG SPECIAL "The Woman Thou Gavest Me” “Thus in my youth, my helplessness, my ignorance and my inexperience, I was married to the man who had been found and courted me. Love had not spoken to me, sex was still asleep in me, and my marriage was arranged before my deeper nature knew what was being done.”—From Hall Caine’s Novel. No doubt every woman has read this novel and should see ‘the picture. Admission 25c, plus war tax.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919.

COL G. H. HEALEY URGES TRAINING

FORMER RENSSELAER EDITOR ALSO ASKS U. S. TO ACCEPT LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Washington, D. C., July 19. —Col. George H. Healey, United States infantry, of Rensselaer, Ind., in writing from France, urges that America adopt universal military training and also accept a league of nations of some kind, “to prevent such a disaster in the future.” He wrote just after he had made a tour over much of the devastated regions of France. Col. Healey, before responding to a call of his country, was a republican newspaper publisher at Rensselaer, and is well known in republican state politics and national guard circles. His address is American Expeditionary Force, A. P. O. 762. I “It seems to me that two important questions confront us nationally,” writes Col. Healey. “One is to support a league of nations that does not hamper us too much in the exdrcise of pur own development or impose on us too much the solution of questions largely European.” “The other,” he continues, “is the determination of what our military force shall be and how the greatest good shall come to the greatest number by making our training as nearly universal as possible without involving too great a cost or taking too i much time from preparation for or ! engagement in civil pursuits. We must understand now that it is not safe to disarm the nations at this time.” , A Col. Healey wrote from the D Auvours rifle range at LeMans, France, upon his return from the Hindenburg Hne and Rheims, Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo, Menton and along the Riviera. Everywhere were ruins and devastation. Future Mu»t Be Protected.

“Surely we Americans will want to do every reasonable thing to prevent such disaster in the future,” he continued. “I am sure that our country will support any measure that is planned to this end and that protects our own nationalism while stabilizing the nations of the world. I feel that European jealousies are not ended. I doubt if they ever will be, but a contract with the power of enforcement will be the most effective discipline that can be applied, and American citizens have a duty to the future as well as a feeling of satisfaction- at the service just rendered. It calls for the thought of every man, every woman, and the innovation of divine assistance that such- atrocities to humanity can not be repeated. “I wonder how any terms of peace could exact recompensating homage for the terrific disaster. Surely those responsible should feed on husks. Surely there should be expected from those responsible a spirit of contrition. Without it I find it difficult to feel confident of the future attitude.” AH Should Do Bit. In urging universal training—that every young man do his .bit— Col. Healey writes; “It is essential that we understand just how feeble was our military establishment when we entered the war. And, again, it is necessary to know that while our soldiers fought with wonderful courage and splendid results, that they did not alone win the war. On the contrary, -we. had 5,000,000 allies who had fought almost four years. We procured much of our fighting material from them, we were largely trained by them and we had them on both sides of us much of the time. But we put into the fight a dash characteristic of Americans that astounded the Germans. And they came to realize that America had the men, the spirit, the decision, and that this was more than they could endure. x x n u '“But we paid a great toll be-; cause of oiir lack •of preparation! and we paid a price that we will realize better when the figures are . all in and comparisons can be made as to the cost of getting up a hur- . ried army and of maintaining train- ■ ing during years of peace.- I can j see nothing but good resulting from j universal training. (Of course, w>ho have had the training will be excused.) The advantages of a free country are equally distributed. The responsibilities must be equally ( demanded. The benefits in im-j proved physical condition, better discipline, better knowledge of our. own defects, better education and our ability as a nation to better command the respect of the world suggest need of training by every, physically fit male of proper age. “I believe that every nation needs th a power to protect its institutions, just as every country needs laws | and the power to enforce them. Na-. Hons will continue to be sensitive , of these institutions and will re-1 sent infringement, but they can ' not protect them if they have been ! mollycoddled.” ’ County Clerk Jesse Nichols has r purchased from Isaac Tuteur a lot on the west side of South Weston street between Harrison and Rutsen and will erect a bungalow upon the same.

DECLARE COAL FAMINE IS NOT FAR OFF.

A coal shortage in the middle west is imminent, according to Carl Fletcher, of the Knox County Coal Operators’ association, and tors of Indiana are becoming alarmed over the situation. Mr. Fletcher Monday pointed out that statistics show that the mines of the state are operating on an average only about two and one-half days a week and that on account of the lack of market this year they will be able to operate only 180 days, compared with 211 'last year. Mr. Fletcher ascribes the lack of •market to the fact that domestic consumers still have supplies of coal from last winter, which was unusually mild. Other causes for the shortage this winter, he said, will be a shortage of cars and possible accidents which will lay the mines out of commission for days at a time.

FORMER EMPLOYEE COULDN’T STAND SCHOOL CONDITIONS.

Hammond Times — In regard to the investigation changes made public recently in this (paper about the Julia E. Work orphanage a<t Plymouth, Ind., many facts are coming to light showing that the school has anything but a desirable name. A. B. Morrison, 4425 Forsyth aveinue, alleges that Miss Tothe Flood, a relative of his wife, now in educational work in Chicago, was at one time a matron in the school and stayed there just a month because she could endure the conditions there no longer. Other complaints have come to The Times recently regarding the brutality at the school.

WAD AYA MEAN, "BLIMP?”

There are two kinds of aircraft, rigid and limp. A gas bag for altitude and an airplane fusilage for power is known as a class B dirigible. Popular slang proved its effiiciency when it put the two together for a brand new word and it stuck. Some day we will all see the country from above. I mean from a blimp. Just now I’d rather see the city from an Oakland. —Hugh Kirk.

Wanted Four men to help wreck Kuboske & .Walter’s Garage. Call at once and arrange with foreman. KUBOSKE & WALTERS

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THAT yesterday a well dressed young lady ashed to see a nice tie for her sweetheart. HE suggested a bow tie. The lady laughingly thought a “Beau-tie” would be nice too. p. s. The above mentioned tie was nicely wrapped in a beautifuk gift box. No extra charge. j lIRIM kl

VERY, VERY FEW REMAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE.

Rensselaer’s colony of soldiers remaining overseas grows ever smaller and but a very, very fewremain on the other side of the Atlantic. The latest additions to the list of those from this -city who have returned from overseas are Lieut. Jay Nowels, Ross Benjamin and Edwin Robinson. Lieut. Nowels and Edwin Robinson are in eastern cantonments awaiting discharge and Ross Benjamin is expected to arrive in this country today or tomorrow, having left Brest on July 13 th. Among those remaining overseas are Colonel Healey, Scott Chestnut and Paul Worland. There may be more, but if so, The Republican is unable to recall theiy names.

MISS ALICE THOMAS MAKES HIT IN OPERA.

Miss Alice Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Thomas, of 424 North Littleton street, who left some time ago to join the Mascott Opera company, has advanced to the role of prima donna. It is French opera, and although Miss Thomas is only nineteen years of age, she is possessed of unusual talent. She took the plaice of Miss Gertrude Shannon, now appearing in New York. The above is taken from the Lafayette Journal. Miss Thomas is will known in this city, (having lived here with her parents a number of years.

ALL HOME PRINT TODAY. READ THE INSIDE PAGES.

FLAMING AIRSHIP FALLS IN LOOP

TEN PERSONS DIE WHEN HUGE DIRIGIBLE EXPLODES IN AIR IN CHICAGO. Chicago, July 21.—Ten persons were killed and twenty-five injured when a large dirigible baHoon on its test flight caught fire and fell 500 feet, crashing through the glass roof of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank, Jackson (boulevard and LaSalle street, at 5 o’clock this afternoon. Most of the dead were employes of the hank, trapped and burned to death in a fire caused 'by the explosion of the balloon’s gasoline tanks, as they hit the floor of the bank rotunda, where more than 200 bookkeepers and clerks, nearly all girls, were working. The balloon, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, of Akron, 0., had been flying above the city for several hours when the accident occurred. When approximately 500 feet above the bank a spurt of flame was seen to shoot from the top of the gas bag near the center of the aircraft. The crowds gathered on the streets to watch the flight saw the machine buckle and quiver as it started on its fatal plunge. Four of its occupants jumped and two landed safely in the streets as the blimp, a ball of flame, struck the roof of the 'bank with a crash audible throughout the down town district. There was nothing to warn the hundreds of employes of the institution of the coming tragedy. A shadow passed over the marble rotunda where 150 were busy, and a crash followed. The bank’s closing hour for patrons had passed, but the clerks were still at work" in various departments. It seemed, according to the survivors, that the entire bank was on fire. Breaking through the iron supports holding the glass overhead, the fusilage of the (balloon with two heavy rotary engines and several gasoline tanks smashed to the floor. Instantly the tanks exploded, scattering a wave of flaming gasoline over the workers for a radius of fifty feet. A panic ensued. There were only two exits through which they could leave the wire cage which surrounded the rotunda. Men and girls with clothing flaming fought their way through the exits. Girls on the second floor ran screaming to the window and several jumped to the street. In an instant the marble rotunda was cleared except for the dead, whose bodies were buried under the mass of debris, and the dying, who crawled away from the scorching fire, their clothes burning off. The intense heat made rescue work difficult until after the fire department arrived. It was thirty minutes before the bodies under the craft’s fusilage could be dragged out. They were burned beyond recognition. Meanwhile ambulances from every hospital and undertaking establishment near the center of the city came, and the police threw a cordon about the place. Dozens were found to have been more or less seriously cut by the shower, of glass which preceded the explosion. The cause of the fire which brought the flaming gas bag down is not definitely known. None of the crew could ascribe a definite reason.

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES - TONIGHTRoy Stewart "Boss ofLazy ‘Y’” ALSO A 2.REEL COMEDY "His Punctured Reputation” WEDNESDAY Bessie Barriscale "The Angel Child” THURSDAY jack Richardson "Desert Law” Also • Good Comedy I STARTING NEXT SATURDAY I Pearl White “The Lightning Rider” THE BEST SERIAL EVER SHOWN IN RENSSELAER.

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