Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1919 — Page 2

MAKING AN AIR TRIP AROUND THE EDGE OF THE U. S.

. . .... Mineote. L. 1- o» « trip around the edge of the United SWp/ ....d tour men reini-rise the-erewr They will cuulinue to rhe racific coast and return via southern California,

Hell-For-Certain Boasts War Hero

Boy From Mountains of Kentucky Rivals Deeds of Sergeant York. VOUCHED FOR BY PERSHING Cleaned Out Three Machine Gun Nests Which Were Hotding Up t-ine, Kills 24 Germans and Cap* : - tures Six Guns. Lexington. Ky.—-Hell-for-Certain, In Leslie county. Kmitucky, is nnwlaying; its claim to fame on exploits of Sergt. Willie Sandlin. The citizens of Hell-for-Gerta in have read with.jjri<le -the official army citation of heroic deedtrof the boy who reared on their creek »nd was their neighbor until he joined the army IqMftS. ? . - The exploits of this mountain boy ire vouched for by General Pershing himself, who plum'd the Congressional Medal of Honor on his breast. The official citation of the war department is as follows: "Sergt. Willie Sandlin, Serial No. 2078103. Company A, One Hundred and —thirty-second infantry; "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy at Bois de Forges, France, September 26, 1918. “Sergeant Sandlin showed consplcuimjs gallantry in action at Bois de Forges, France. September 26. by advancing alone directly on a machine gun nest which was holding up the line with its fire. He killed the erew with a grenade-awl-vnnbltsl t> |fl llnt> to wfc rance. Later in the day Sergeant " Sandlin attacked alone and put out of action two other machine gun nests, setting a splendid example of bravery and coolness to his men.” Given Other Honors. Sergeant Sandlin enlisted in Jackson, Breathitt county, April 16, 1913. and served out his term of enlistment, being in Nogales, Ariz.. when discharged. On the following day he reenlisted. discharge he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the French Croix de Guerre and Medal Militaire for heroic action September 24. The discharge is dated 1919, Camp <lrani—lLL On September 26 his division, the Prairie, was advancing through the Argonne forest, fighting its way step by step. Sandlin was in command of a platoon of 57 men when the advancestarted. The line had been fighting for hours, advancing slowly, when they were suddenly held up I y a machine gun nest about 150 yardx—in —front; —Sandlin charged up the slope at the machine gun nest, with—bullets from the machine guns and automatic pistols of the Germans whistling by him. He was 100 yards in front of his men-, when he stopped and threw a grenade at the nest. This fell short and he ran for-

Faces Peril at Sea

iVife of .Son of Ex-President Hayes Tells Experiences. Shipwreck, Storm, Maddened Lions, and Tigers Among Her Adventures. » New York.— Shipwreck, storm anj "peril from" Hons and that were driven insane with fear were among the adventures recounted by Maud A. Hayes, yvife of Scott Hayes, son of former President Butherford B. Hayes, who arrived here with her husbami fX a trip to South America. s Mrs. Bayes sailed from New York thaXhilenn mari. On June 8 in a calm sea the Limari went aground off Santa Rose, on the north shore of Peru. Passengers and crew took to the boats and a few hours later encountered a violent stor® which Mr*. Hayes said lashed the

ward and threw two more grenades into the midst of the Germans. He then charged the nest with his bayonet and found five dead men and three men still living. These he bayonet t»*<l. When the line advanced and came up with him he rejoined his platoon and borrowed four more grenades. The line then advanced again, going up the slope of the hill with very little proteet ion fioni the trees. At the crpst of the hill another machine gun nest halted! lie line, but Sandlin kept right on going, When he was- within.2o yards of the machine gun nest he threw two grenatjes, both making clean hits, and, again charged with his bayonet. This time he found four dead and three wounded Germans, and he bayonetted the -latter. Two machine guns were captured. Destroys Third Nest. After the line had again come up with him they advanced over the crest of the hill umd down the other slope toward the Heuse river. When they had proceeded about 500 yards another nest stopped the line, which was advancing down the slope toward the river. But it did not stop Sandlin; he kept right on under fire from the machine guns and the pistols of the Germans and threw three grenades into the nest, killing eight men.

Gets Jobs for Many

Statistics Show Uncle Sam’s Rrcnrd Employment Agnnt During 18 Months’ Period 10,000 Persons Were Placed Working Day. Washington. —The record of Uncle Sam as employment agent is given in statistics made public by the department of labor, which cover the period ‘ from January, 1918, when the United States employment service was organized, to June 30. 1919. the end of the government’s fiscal year. . Ten thousand persons Were placed in jobs of all kinds each working day for the IS months’ period, according to the without costing them or their I employers a cent and at a cost to the whole country of but $1.34 per placement. The saving in fees to the men and women directed to employment by -Uncle Sam in co-operation with states and municipalities, is estimated at not less than $10,000,000. From January 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, 7:108,655 workers of all kinds u ere reg is ter ed by the United States employment service for employment. ! Of the total, 6,446.294 were referred to positions and 4.955,159 were reported placed. A worker is reported as placed only after the service has received assurance, oral or, written, from either worker or employer of placement.

waves to a height of 30 feet and tossed the lifeboats about like cockleshells. The refugees were finally rescued by the Peruvian ship Mantaro, but only to be confronted with a new peril. The Mantaro carried a traveling menagerie and the lions, tigers *and monkeys were driven frantic by the storm. The larger animals made desperate efforts to break from and their howls added to the terrors of the storm, while the monkeys actually did escape, and fled, chattering wildly, to all parts of the ship. Mrs. Hayes arrived here on the Santa Luise from Valparaiso Qapt. W. T. Crossely comrnander of the ship, said that 300 persons lost .44^4p l the port of Valparaiso July 18. The Santa Luise was taken 100 miles out to sea to weather the storm, which sent to the bottom about ten ships, including some interned German liners which bad remained in port. •

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Men’s Heads Bigger? Bosh! Say Scientists

Philadelphia.—“Pish ! Tush !” said psychologists and anatomist's of the University of Pennsylvania, commenting on the statement of hat manufacturers to the effect that men's heads were growing larger. “It’s all rot!" said Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, in charge of the physical work of the university. “The theory could not possibly be sus--tained by facts unless,” he add 7 ed, with a twinkle in his eye, “unless it is a reflection from Germany. They seem to be suffering from swelled heads just now." “The fact Is interesting if true.” said Dr. Lightner. Witmer, head of the department ofpsycholngy—of—the—university. “I can’t think of a reason in the world for the fact, if fact it is. I’m very much inclined todoubt the truth of the statement.”

the entire German crew, and capturing two more machine guns, Sandlin had thus far killed 24 men by himself while his companions were taking cover and captured six machine guns. -- Later in the day he was slightly wounded by shrapnel on his right hand and forehead. A small piece of shrapnel is still in his forehead just under the skin and the hand bears scars.

Placements were made of every kind of worker; front commoß-ftrtdrtOmesf ic laborersWo”high-salarled professional and technical workers. The recruiting and placing of farm labor has been one of the special features of the work of the federal employment service during the last year and a half. The common labor placements were but S 3 per cent of the total of slightly under 5,000,000 persons placed. The other 77 per cent consisted of skilled labor and other workers engaged In specific occupations. The total figures of the work of the United States employment service divide int_o_ two grounps: The “war period.” from January, 1918. to the end of November, 1918; and the “readjustment "period," from December,-1919,t0 the end of last June. The first period was primarily one of “man-finding;” the second one of “job-finding.” During the war period 3,432,997 persons were registered for employment and 3,444,093 referred to jobs, the great majority of them in war industry. Returns from the workers and employers show that 2,698,887 were placed. During the readjustment period the figures show that 3,432,997 persons were registered-far employment, 3,002,201 referred to jobs and 2,256,272 were reported placed. Included in the registrations w;ere 513,604: soldiers and sailors, of whom 314,137 were reported placed, but the returns on soldiers’ placements are incomplete.

MRS. WILLIAM E. APPLETON

C Underwood and Underwood.

"" XfrsL William E. Appleton, an American who has lived in London 11 years, has just returned there for a six weeks’ visit after 15 months In America. She says the English Succera hl industry during war has not threatened home life. . .

Aircraft \ to Search Out Forest Fires and Outlaw Cotton ~ Fields

EPORTS from Washington seem to indicate that th* air service is going to pieces rapidly from various causes and that September will practically see the last of It. This Is especially to be regretted in view 'of the recent numerous, extensive and disastrous forest fires In the Northwest. The lesson of these fires Is that the na-

tlonal forests and national parks must be patrolled by airplanes and protected by wireless telephone: Time Is a vital factor In fighting forest fires. They must bedetected -instantly —and combated promptly. Once a forest fire gains sufficient headway the flames convert each live pine Into a gas retort and the flaming gas, carried by the wind, jumps far ahead of the fire line, to start new fires. Also, a forest fire will run up a mountain slope with tremendous speed, creating its own draft as It goes.

Airplane service would Instantly detect a forest fire. It would reach the spot promptly, with smothering gas, firefighters, tools, provisions and materials. If the national forests and national parks are worth creating and administering, they are worth preserving. The ordinary forest fire is a calamity. The big one is a catastrophe. In a twinkling the growth of generations Is gone. Where a forest stood there is desolation which will last for many a year. The losses in money this season, saying nothing of the menace to human life, would pay for an extensive air service equipment. That there Is a distinct and Important place for aircraft In fire protection of timberlands has been regarded by the forestry officials for some time as beyond doubt. It was with this Idea in mind that arrangements were made to have army airplanes and captive balloons cover portions of the national forests of California, Arizona, New Mexico and other state? this summer. The patrolling was started early in June and has so quickly proved its worth, that It was proposed to extend the service to other points in the East, Including one near the White mountains in New Hampshire. No difficulty is experienced by the airmen in detecting fires In heavy timber from elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 feet. At present the forest service relies for the detection of fires partly on patrol. usually by men on horses, motor cycles, or railroad speeders, and partly on watchers stationed on lookout points. Aircraft have many poffits of obvious over this method. Lookouts in every broken country,

London Land Values

Sir Alfred Mond’s supposed predilection for the skyscraper raises the questiAtL. don-land- vaJuee? —-ff-sky-" scrapers were to rear their ungainly heights tn London as in New York it would not only, says the New York Evening Post, abolish the beauty of London, but would lncrease the price of land, especially in the heart of the city, by about 50 per cent It has been argued that where building* of 30

AN EYE in the AIR

by ROBERT M. MOULTON

cut up by deep canons or where mountain ridges obstruct the view, or in a flat country that affords no good points of vantage, are often unable to pick up fires quickly by the rising smoke, or to locate them accurately. For precise location the system in use depends on triangulation through reports telephoned from separate observation points. Airplanes, however, can Use wireless, or even the new wireless telephone, and they can locate fires by coordinates in the same way that gunfire in war is directed to a particular spot. —Experiments made In bombing fires to put them out show the possibilities in thls direction. Bombs charged with suitable chemicals for extingiushlng fires have been used with good results. At present the only observation balloon used in connection with forest fire patrolling is the one maintained at the Arcadia field, near Los Angeles. This balloon is sent aloft to a height of about 3,000 feet and remains there from 7 a. m. until 6 p. m. In case of fire a report from the balloon observer is telephoned to the army balloon school and transmitted to the forest service at Los Angeles. Another plan to be tested later in the summer is transporting fire fighters by dirigibles from which ladders can be lowered to the ground.

Outlaw Cotton Fields. The airplane to spy out hidden cotton fields has proved successful. It Is the result of an experiment carried out by the federal horticultural board of the department of agriculture. In southern Texas, where the devastating pink bollworm of cotton has been trying to invade the United States from Mexico, there are cotton-free zones, declared by law as barriers against the progress of the-worm. But a few misguided farmers feel that their rights have been infringed and have developed a tendency to become cutlaw cotton planters. Much of the country Is heavily timbered, roads are neither plentiful nor good In many places, and it has been possible for an outlaw planter to tuck away a few pcres of cotton in some nook of the -woods beyond probability of discovery by ordinary means, though the department of agriculture has been making diligent efforts to spot every stalk of cotton in the quarantined areas. Last year when workers of the federal horticultural board were on the ground, they tried out the alrplanp for scouting work. In this way Inspector Hensley of the board discovered seven outlaw cotton fields In the heavily wooded country along the Trinity river and around Galveston bay which had escaped discovery. —January of thlsyeafThe work of locating cotton fields in the observation

stories'bf more are erected people can well afford to pay more for the land values than when the buildings are of the ushal London business type of five or six stories. But can anybody 1mof 30’stories In London? It would dwarf St. Paul’s and rob the house of parliament and the Abbey of their distinction. Near the Bank of England land has been sold in recent years at £75-per -square font; or £3,250,000 per acre; in the Strand £l2 to £2O per square foot is near the figure, while further west, in Bond

zone by aerial patrol was officially inaugurated and has been In regular process ever since. Two flights were made later in January for the purpose of obtaining a panoramic view of the territory bordering the quarantine lines, to note the character and extent of any forests or wooded areas which might act as a natural barrier to the spread of the pink bollworm by flight of the moth, as well as to secure some idea of the value of aerial observations in connection with entomological scouting and mapping. • These flights were made at an altitude'Of from 1,500. to 2,000 feet. At this elevation on a clear day_jL_dife tinet vision could be had of the country over a range of 30 miles, and cultivated fields, buildings, shell roads, railway lines, creeks, and the character of wooded areas, whether pine or deciduous, could be easily distinguished. At the normal speed of the airplane—7s miles- an hour—the ground moves so. slowly that the observer has time to get a complete picture of the area and easily to distinguish cotton from corn fields. Inspector Hensley is enthusiastic In the belief that the airplane will tremendously facilitate all such scouting and. reconnaissance work, including mapping. Similar use can be made of it in other agricultural and forestry surveys, which are analogous to the mapping and survey 4ise made of it for war purposes. The tests made last year, followed by the more important and systematic utilization of this new means of survey and inspection carried out this year, marks probably the first use of the airplane In a practical way in agriculture, and may be the starting of an important use of this new means of transportation and observation for scouting and inspection purposes in other fields of research or control work.

Moorish and Arabic Rugs.

The art of rug weaving Is said to have been taught the Venetians by the Arab conquerors of Spain; Moorish rugs are still woven by the descendants of this race who live outside the Spanish border. Arabic rugs are woven in the simplest patterns, and in straight lines and very bright colors. The patterns often resemble those of the log cabin quilt of our grandmothers. While the figures in oriental rugs each have fheir own meaning, we must not forget that every cnW has Its own significance as well, which varies in different countries, just as/the figures do. In ancient Babylon—scarlet —was the synr=" TSTof fire, blpe of the air, and purple of water.

street, for example, £35 per square foot is the ruling price. The present value of the whole of the land in London is about 500 millions; add 50 per cent and the Jumpw by leaps and bounds.

A Plunger.

"Was that young Brown I saw striking you for ji loan L Why?-4-heard that only “recently he fell Into a fortune.” ‘♦That’s -so, but he fell into it hafd that he went right through it-” Boston Transcript.