Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Page 1

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

THE BALANCE SHEET.

[New York Tribune.] On the debit side: Killed, 70,000,000. - Crippled, 20,000,000. Homes destroyed, 1,000,000. Money loss, $120,000,000,000. Anarchic conditions over one-half-of Europe and with difficulty kept out of the remainder. A social quackery which plies its trade' among peoples confused by losses that are reparable only by industry and thrift. On the credit side: A demonstration that liberty is so ,prized that to save it no sacrifice is too great. New proof that man is a moral being and reacts to moral ideals. A greater sense of fraternity among brothers of the soul who fought together. A chance that the lessons of the war will so sink in that hereafter gigantic evil would be stopped before it gets afoot. • A generation capable of performing the prodigies marking this one may claim it is master of its fate, ahd foresee, not far distant, the day when the mark of the Beast will be gone, but forever remaining, the glorious memory that he was successfully resisted.

CONCERT PROGRAM, JULY 23.

March —Olevind. .H. A. Vandercook Fox Trot—JerryBilly Baskette Overture —Valmond. .0. J. Rockwell Waltz —Beautiful 0hi0... Mary Earl March —New York Hippodrome. . Sousa Overture —Hearts of Gold . \ .... .Geo. D. Barnard Fox Trot—-By the Camp Fire. Percy Wenrick March —Feiicitas .R. B. Hall

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. July 22 .....95 58 July 23 .93 - 54

Miss Gladys Day has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Oscar Wiliilamson, of Chicago.

PRINCESS T HEATRE —TONIGHT— Pauline Frederick “Out of the Shadows” What man —particularly a young man—can resist the entreaties of a beautiful woman who seems to love him, to tell her a dangerous secret? It’s hard not to confide in her, and that i 8 just the reason why some of the world’s most successful spies and detectives have been women! t . TOM MIX iOMEDY

THURSDAY, JULY 24, EXTRA BIG SPECIAL “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” “Thus in my youth, my helplessness, my z 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 Chine’s Novel. No doubt every woman has read this novel and' should see the picture. Admission 25c, plus war tax.

The Evening Republican.

GAYETY DANCE NIGHT IS CHANGED.

The management of the Gayety announces that in the future the regular weekly dances will bp held on Tuesday evening instead of Wednesday. Good music and an excellent floor.

A straw stack on the Albert Toben farm, five miles southeast of this city, was burned. Ito the ground Monday afternoon. The fire caught from la threshing engine. Quick work by all hands present saved the separator, which was pulled out .of danger and was but slightly scorched and none of the grain was bumed. Wednesday morning about 1 o’clock fire destroyed the large barn on the Joseph Eichelburger farm,, I west of Francesville, 'Occupied by ’ Charles Brusnahan, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan, of Parr. 'Fortunately there were no horses ih the barn. Mr. Bursnahan’s harnetes, about 150 bushels of oalts,. and some corn are among the valuable articles which were destroyed. He carried insurance with the Farmers’ ■ Mutual company. We do not know I whether Mr. Eichelburger had the barn insured.

NOTICE. We twill continue repairing automobiles under the big tent just east of (the old garage. After the new garage is up, our /tent will be for rent for the use of [public sales and other public meetI ings.—Kuboske & Walter. ■ Mrs. Woodhull I. Spitler and Miss Glenn Day went to Chicago this forenoon.

FRIDAY, JULY 25, Pauline Frederick —in—- " Paid tn Full" - ■ ■ . . ■ ' ' Smiling Bill Parson’s Comedy SATURDAY, JULY 26, Baby Marie Osborne In One of Her Latest Pictures. , Mack Bennett Comedy “The Little Widow”

TWO FIRES ARE REPORTED.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. All games postponed, rain. American League. » Detroit, 2; Boston, 1. New York, 6; Chicago, 1. St. Louis, 5 ; Washington, 0. Cleveland, 4; Philadelphia, 3.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1919.

COL HEALEY SEES RUINS

WRITES INTERESTINGLY, TELLING OF VISITS TO CITIES DESTROYED BY HUNS.

Col. Healey writes entertainingly of what he* witnessed in the devastated regions. His letter follows: * “I 'have just had my first jfjave since entering the, service on August 5, 1917, and I have spent in largely in Paris/ although I went one day to Rheims and the Hindenburg line and then spent several days at Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo, Menton and along the Riviera. “Rheims is reached in three hours jby train from Paris. It was a city of 110,000 people. One day is quite sufficient to visit it, although, if the 'battle fields beyond are to be seen one might profitably spend two or even three days there. I wandered about the city for some time. It is very sparsely populated now. I doubt if a thousand people are living there, for there is no place to live, save in a few places where temporary shelters have been constructed across the walls that occasionally stand as if in defiance of the shelling that leveled almost everything in that great city. I “Without a guide, I wandered about for some little time, now and then entering a building that had partially escaped destruction. I remember the first one I entered. I was rather surprised to see that it was from the front but little damaged and I entered the open door. I counted eleven distinct shell holes through the walls of the house. To appreciate just what the effect of these exploding shells is, the reader must understand that all buildings are of stone, the walls generally from fourteen to twenty-four inches thick. A shell would tear through the wall, making tholes that a barrel could easily be passed through. Sometimes the shells had exploded inside the " house and the wreckage was extensive, but no complete. The inner walls would bd struck and torn through, floors torn out, windows and doors broken, ceilings present yawning apertures and yet the house had withstood the shocks remarkably. I was interested parIticularly in one great hole in the 1 side of the house near the roof which made an opening three feet wide and probably four feet up and oown. The shell had entered with such penetration that the hole was made without shattering the wall beyond’the general outline of the opening. I could not determine where the shell could have come from, for the side walls of an adjoining house were higher than the opening, while the opposite wall of the room wasjfcot damaged. It was a three-storF house of some twelve or fourteen rooms, hardwood floors, fine decorations. The winding stairways were as strong as ever apparently and I went up them and into each room. “If some one were to sit in the center of each room and employ an army rifle for destruction, I do not think the walls could have presented a worse appearance after a hundred shots had been fired in each room and then a hand grenade exploded iff each room, and in addition these gjreat, 'gaping shell holes through the outer walls. A large iron safe was the only piece of furniture in the house, and it had been hit apparently directly and the shell had penetrated its outer walls. I looked at the outside of the house and saw the wounds of many smaller shells or possibly of breaking shrapnel. I looked at the great hole again and decided that .it must have been made by the discharge of a shell or some explosive from the inside of the house, and possibly it was the final treatment accorded when the boche withdrew after occupying the town for a week in September, 1914, now almost five years Damaged Beyond Repair. “A little later I visited the Circue, a steel-framed building where athletic events were held in the days before the war. This had been damaged beyond repair, the paintings, some sixteen panels each about twenty feet in width and inclosing the lower part of the glass dome, were battered and torn, while the windows were practically all shot out; the seats were' split and the supports were twisted and ripped. This buildiqg was well off to one edge of the city, and a little section there was not so'completely ruined. I went from it toward the cathedral and noted in the piles of debns along the streets, plaster, concrete, laths, tile, stone, logs, metal doors and windows, radiators, iron railings, heating stoves, cookstoves, plumbing fixtures, metal beds wrecked furniture, cooking utensils A monument that had been erectec at much cost occupied the center oi a circle where several streets con ) verged, and this had been struct 'many times, the sculptured figures 'broken, the whole monument dam aged as to be of no value what ever. I. “I then went block after blocl (where not a wall was standing, th ' debris bf roofs end floors and ceil ings and side walls all in a pulver ized heap, resting on the basemen

ERECTS GARAGE—FORGETS TO BUY THE MACHINE

The last thing in absendmindedness has come to light, and it occurred right here in Rensselaer. The one guilty of the mental 'lapse is none other than Van Wood, the Vine street barber and north end mayor, who, after erecting a cute little garage at his home, discovered that he had no automobile to put in it He’s in a quandry now. Having expended considerable money in an automobile kennel he now finds it utterly worthless unless he can discover some use for it, and of what use is a garage unless one can use it to hide an automobile? To quit now means that the money used in the erection of the garage is lost, and the only possible chance he has of getting even is to ibuy a car. He has decided upon the latter course, and is being besieged with automobile dealers, each and every one driving him almost to madness with their chatter on the* superior merits of their car. 7 7 “Haven’t decided upon what kind of a car I shall buy,” said Mr. Wood, in discussing his trouble with-a Republican reporter. “It may be a -Franklin, Pierce Arrow ,Locomobile or an Oakland; it may be a Buick, Maxwell, Cadillac or a Nash; it may be an Overland, Dort or a Haynes. And then it may be only a Ford. Anyway, I have a garage that will compare favorably with any of them. Cute little thing, too, 9x14, and if it isn’t large enough I can cut one end of the garage out and fool the carpenters.” Here's your chance, automobile dealers.

floors and forming a mass several feet high. I saw places where owners had apparently been digging about radiators or for admission to closets or basements as though to recover some treasure that had been left in the haste of departure. At on eplace a passageway had been made to a basement or wine cellar, but the Frenchman had met disappointment, for ‘his wine had been taken and 'maledictions Were being pronounced against the 'boche invaders. Between five-story walls everything from roof to lowest floor had caved into the basement. Imagine a city like Evansville or Terre Haute or Fort Wayne being torn into shreds by such terrible shelling and not a house left habitable. I find no pictures to do it justice and words can not tell the thoroughness or the vastness of the (wreckage. “The Rheims cathedral attracts already many visitors to that wrecked city and the French tourists are visiting it, although the scheduled trips under guides are just starting. I approached the cathedral from, one side, and as I was doing so I thought that it was not greatly damaged; and, indeed, the photographs do not show the extent of the damage. A closer observation, however, shows that while the high walls and the higher towers had withstood the bombardment so far as a total collapse was concerned, they had been terribly damaged by Ithe direct hits and the exploding shells. The building is so large that complete wreckage by shelling would be almost impossible, but the towers are ‘partially wrecked, great columns being entirely shot away. The art windows are shattered, the hundreds of carved figures that adorned the front and the sides are battered, heads off, limbs off and many are stripped from head to foot of layers of stone, an irregular outer layer ,has fallen from the figures. I have no doubt that the cathedral has been struck thousands of times by direct hits and shell fragments. To repair a building so damaged seems entirely out of the question. Already there are many souvenir venders about the cathedral, but after looking for a time at the wrecked edifice and comparing your impression with that conveyed by the photographs one realizes that pictures do not convey an adequate idea of the damage. “Near the cathedral is the Palace of Justice, la massive building that has also suffered extensively. Just across a narrow street from the cathedral was a block of business buildings that had completely fallen, showing that their less massive

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SAYS EX-KAISER BEARS TROUBLE LIKE CHRISTIAN.

Berlin, July 22.—An intimate view of the former German emperor is given by Frederick von Berg, who wa schief of the former emperor’s civil cabinet, writing in the Aufrechte. Herr von Berg was at Amerongen when the German national assembly accepted the peace treaty. “It was a terribly melancholy and moving meeting,” he wrote, “and yet it was a great joy to see the kaiser was not a broken man. It is true his features have become sharp •but he bears his lot like a real Christian, quietly and with dignity, the fatherland's fate weighing more heavily upon him than does his own. Hours of bitterness come also, but they are overcome in calm, quiet discussion and good feeling and ever the quiet cheerfulness of an earnest man constantly reappears. “Not one complaint was uttered when it became known the ignominous extradition clauses were accepted. There were only quiet words of comfort for the empress, that wonderful, unselfish woman, who also bears her suffering like a crown and whose shaken health threatens to collapse under this fresh blow.”

structure could not withstand the shelling like the stronger walls of the great church. I observed that piled in the debris of one of the buildings was a printing press, and I decided to make a closer inspection and this disclosed eight presses, three jobbers and five cylinders, all pitched into the wreckage of stone and piaster and tile and slivered timbers. It was September 3, 1914, that the Germans entered Rheims, and since the wreckage occurred mostly prior to their entry or upon their departure a week later, and as these presses had remained exposed to the weather since then, their condition can well be imagined. Not alone from the rust had they suffered, but many parts had been broken and twisted by the explosions. Apparently less heavy machinery had been moved before the 'building had been, wrecked, for I searched “ everywhere for type or any printing material, but found none. \ t Weary of Seeing Ruins. “One soon •becomes weary of seeing the ruins, all generally similar, except for the evidence now and then of special destruction or of a partially escaped building. “The Y. M. C. A. and the K. of C. each supply trucks for the benefit of military tourists, and I secured transport on one of the latter to the Hindenburg line, to which the invaders withdrew on September 9, 1914, and where they remained until driven out in the allied offensive that brought the war to a dose. One travels a winding street to Ithe north and. passes again through block after block of ruins, until the very edge of the city, where there were a few more widely separated buildings. These had ajso been ' wrecked, proving the systematic destruction carried on by the Huns. “The portion of the Hindenburg 1 line easiest to reach from Rheims is where it crossed the main road some I six kilometers away. The road is a splendid macadam highway, hned on each side < with beech -trees of equal size and equally spaced beitrween, but only a short distance from the city the trees begin to show the damage wrought by the shells.” ? c ■ ■

Advertise tn Th* RspabUcsn.

GAS MASKS BEING PUT TO NEW USE.

Gas masks are in great demand for threshing and shipping the wheat infected with Australian “take-all.” , All the grain is so saturated with formaldehyde that the workers can not stand the fumes. It is being shipped to the United State Grain corporation at New York, where all grain from infected districts in Indiana and Illinois is being held pending investigation.

GORDON PLAYERS CONTINUE TO PLEASE SHOW FOLLOWERS.

The Gordon Players, .who opened a week's engagement here Monday evening, continue to please the show loving public as was evidenced last evening when another capacity crowd greeted their production, "A Good-for-Nothing Husband,” a sure sign that the opening night’s play met the approval of the critical public. Their plays, based on good, clean plots and interspersed with clever comedy, have pleased far more than those of any other company that has ever visited the city. The work of each member of the company is of high quality and the various roles they are called upon to fill during the week are performed in a master iy manner. The Gordon Players have an envious reputation of many years* standing and for this reason they have never found it nceessary to seek new fields year by year. Tonight’s production will be “The Woman He Married,” and is said to be one of the best sketches shown by the company. Advt.

RENSSELAER GIRL SEES CHICAGO DISASTER.

Miss Gladys Reeve, who works in the Continental and Commercial National bank, was an eye witness of the crashing of the 'big dirigible into the Illinois Trust and Savings bank Monday afternoon. She and those with her thought that a large bomb had been dropped upon the city.

AMONG THE WHISPERING PINES.

Caro, Mich., July 20, 1919. Rensselaer Republican: I receive my paper every day, for which lam very grateful. lam up here on Saginaw Bay, among the whispering pines. The weather is ideal. Am sending a little clipping from the Caro Advertiser. The following is the clipping: Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Wilsey gave a dinner party Tuesday evening from 4 to 6, in compliment of Mrs. Wilsey’s brother, Frank Hatch, of Detroit, and. Mrs. Wiliam Beam, of Rensselaer, Ind. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. A. T. White, Miss Marie White, Mr. nad Mrs. T." K. s Arnold, Frank Hatch and Mrs. William Beam. Years ago the last named guests were school fellows at Caro high and this renewal of olden friendships gave them much pleasure. Very truly yours, MRS, BEAM.

THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST.

Mr. Ford says all. history is bunk. The Ford peace argosy is now history and those who called it bunk when they first heard of it are vindicated at last. —Kansas City Star.

WEDNESDAY’S GRAIN MARKET.

Oa|ts, 73c.‘ Corn, $1.85. Rye, $1.48. ■ Wheat* No. 1, $2.11. No. 2, $2.08. No. 3, $2.04.

AT THE STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES -TONIGHT- ~ Bessie Barriscale —in “The Angel Child” THURSDAY Jack Richardson “Desert Law” Also * Keystone Comedy “His Punctured Reputation” “FRIDAY 7 Nell Shipman “BareefSon of Kazan” - ■ ■ t. SATURDAY Shirley Mason Also First Episode of “The Lightning naiuvi Starring Pearl White

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