Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — Page 2

Europe Is Not Wrecked and Ruined by the Greatest War of History

fig mecbaniftri napnciriuTor productimi. Fuglan-Ts greatest loss »« that of merchant ships,-while her power io replace those ships is so much increased that the loss will soon be more than made good. • f j n France there is an ugTy streak of devastation running from Flanders to Verdun. Thousands have lost thgrr-prkete-fortunes. desolation is not the ruin of France.; nor will it even beaT heavily upon the task of French reconstruction during the critical years, because full restitution will be made bv German money and German labor,. France exhibits the same attributes of increased producing efficiency that are shown in Great Britain and-the United States. is well off. except in the case of her merchant marine. Her industrial plants are intact, and the peace conference has conferred upon her a unique advantage in the power to man them by abolishing the military establishment in that country. What the world produces in food it consumes every year, no matter whether there is peace or war. There is a hard pinch in some places at preaent, but the crops now being harvested will take us over the peak of privation. The world will need five years to rest and recuperate and ten more before another great conflict -can be staged: Fndurrng peace will remain g phantom until the instruments for making war are taken away from separate governments and intrusted entirely to a society of nations.

Single Air Control Is Necessary for Army, Navy and Postal Service

By HARRY S. NEW,

I believe that the,avvation question is of sufficient importance to the country to call for the creation of a single department of the government to look after it to the exclusion of everything else. Great Britain was forced to the adoption of this eighteen months or more ago, and so was France. The United States should do likewise, and sooner or later she must do it. It is merely a question of whether she will do it now and take ad\antage of the present opportunity to get ahead or whether she will wait until forced to do what other nations have done and then attempt to come from behind with the same old American disregard of expense and lack of appreciation of the wisdom of preparedness. I know that there is opposition to the separate department plan on the part of the navy. There is also opposition in certain army quarters, turt this is the result of selfishness and a disregard of the interests of aeronautics in its broad and general sense. The navy is concededly competent to look after its own aeronautical needs. So likewise is the army. But neither of them can go beyond their own service. The attempt to create such a department may be successfully resisted for a time —although I honestly believe that congress will he wise enough to discount bureau jealousies and do the obviously sensible thing at this gassion—but whether it does or not it cannot be long deferred. ' " No man knows what is to be the future of aeronautics.' The marvelous development of the'science can be best appreciated when we stop to think that the first man to fly, Orville Wright, is today but forty-eight * y—rs old, I , Shall America realize all this and shape her aims accordingly in time to keep abreast of other nations, or shall we be permitted to bring up the ■traggling rear of a rabidly moving procession? That is the question to-he imawered-by-ooßgress and the peepie.

We Need an Annual Supplement to the Decalogue in These Latter Days

The sinister opportunities presented in this webbed social life have —been seized unhesitatingly, because such treasons have not vet become nrffe_ mous. The man who nicks pockets with a railroad rebate, murders with an adulterant instead of a bludgeon, burglarizes with a rakeofi of a jimmy, cheats with a company prospectus instead of a deckrnTcards, or scuttles his town instead of his ship, doesn t feel on his brow the brand of a malefactor. The shedaer of blood, the oppressor of the widow and the fatherless, long ago became odious, but latter-day treacheries fly ho ■gull and crossbones at the masthead. Our social organization has developed to a stage where the old rightenosness is iiut'ciio'ugh. We need an annual supplement to the Ottalogue. The growth of credit institutions, the spread of fiduciary relations, the enmeshing of industry in law, the interlacing of government and business, the multiplication of boards of inspectors —beneficent as they all are, they invite to sin. What gateways they open to greed! What fresh para•ites they let in on ns! How idle in our new situation to intone the old litanies! .. <pjj e reality of this close-knit life is not to be seen and touched;!! must be thought. The sins it opens the door to are' to be discerned by fitting the brows rather than i)v opening the eves. It takes Imagination to see that bogus medical diploma, lying ad\ertisement, and fake testimonial are death-dealing instruments. It takes imagination to see that savings-bank wrecker, Joan shark and investmenl swindler- in taking livelihoods take lives. 1 It takes imagination to see that the business of debauching voters, fixing juries, seducing lawmakers and corrupting public servants tike ■awing through the props of a crowded grandstand. Whether we like it or not we are in the organic phase, and the thickening perils that beset oul Mih can be beheld only by the mind’s eye.. J iii ' . . • •• A :

By OSCAR T. CROSBY,

Europe has not been -crushed by the war and her outlook is not a desolate one. When a Continent or a country is ruined you do not-have to call witnesses to prove it. In the United States the war roused latent human forces which had been neglected and presented to uy at the-cnnclnsicm of=tbr wrar an 'mchi'trral and agricultural equipment far superior to the one we possggsed lief ore. . _ • - In Europe the war’s effect upon real wealth and oftheprincrpal has vastly increased

By EDWARD A. ROSS,

Interallied Council

', U. S. Senator from Indiana

in “Sin and Society"

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Good things go as eusily as bad things come. , It’s one thing to talk and another to say something. A coincidence —is the antiquated plea of the Plagiarist. * __ *' • Gossip is the cartridge fired from the gun of idle curiosity. The doctor who gets out of patients Is apt to lose his temper. . . J r— —Tr-r —;t-"“r— * ~ — ~ 'l'lio good die young -fted- rite—otherkind when they can’t help it. The wise man knows enough to conceal what he doesn’t know. ” Aienlmay suffer told privations, but - women always tell them. "Many so-called fireproof buildings have furnished indisputable proof of a fire. Nothin?- pleases some—uxtux—morethan to' hear disagreeable things about some one they have wronged. The child of today is the critic of tomorrow, hut unfortunately parents never realize the fact tintil tomorrow. —Chicago News.

FLASHLIGHTS

Anything that is worth having Is worth saving up for. Kings have begun to discpver that they can do_a lot of wrongii Unless your hard luck story is entertaining don’t tell it. 3C There’s no such thing as freedom for the chap who is always in debt. , Some men insist on taking postgraduate courses in the school of experience--- -----7 T? ’ —— Sometimes ft's a whole lot easier to walk right up and meet trouble than it is to try to dpdge it. Very often a big bank account is reared at the expense of a lot of kindly deeds left undone. The reason women aren’t more sensible than they are is because men don't like them that way^ — The trouble with most of us is that we’re too often mistaking a little Inconvenience for real trouble. The chief trouble with clever men hi that too many of them think they are clever enough to get along without work. Clothes don’t make the man, but that’s no excuse for going to work in a collar that looks as though the .dog had-chewed it.

YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THIS —

That the spice of life is usually found in family jars. That the man who pins his faith on a WCTmTrn"~dcstTTes~ l.u get stuckr That the man of loose habits usually turns in at home in a tight state. That many a man’s train of thought has been wrecked by defective matrimonial ties. * That when a woman begins to tell her age it is a sure sign that age is beginning to tell on her. That no man who is not certain of being able to pay the charges should express iris love for a woman. That you shouldn’t aspire to the title of “head of the family” if you are not willing to foot the bills. That short skirts may conserve valuable cloth, hut they also furnish material for gossip about exposed family skeletons. That the life of any married woman will prove n sweet song if her husband is able and willing to furnish the “notes.”— Benjamin Arstein in Cartoons. '

FARM JOURNAL SAYS:

The time to put out a fire is before It begins. It is easier to reform spoiled children than spoiled parents. —Most of the good president!al pimbe” is grown in the country. We feel better in clear weather If our consciences are also clear. If it is the Father of Waters why don’t we call it the Mr. Sippi? Another advantage possessed by the tractor isthat It does not need a fly net. The man who is always asking for more.work seldom has to beg for more pay. If you find it hard tef incorporate your Weals in your deals, drop yotlr deals. * \ dren wearing all the good clothes in ft* family.

An Into oUwagon trucks of the A. E. P. in France discarded as unfit for further use and placed Tt^qmd^af^dn^c6mmlss^on7,, A minimum valueTs placed’ on the"stuff, and it is advertised for sale by the commission.

SCOTS DO HONOR TO YANKEE DEAD

Glasgow Islay Association Issues Photographic Album of Tuscania Graves. OFFERED TO NEXT OF KIN Labor of Love to Show Relatives How Last Resting Places of Heroes^ — Are Cared For—Otranto Graves on Same island. Glasgow, Scotland. —Next of kin of the United States soldiers who went down with the Tuscania may now secure the “Photographic Album of the American Soldiers’ Graves in Islay,” which has been forwarded for distribution to the American Red Cross, bureau of communications, Washington, D. C. This album is dedicated “to the memory of the brave men who perished through the torpedoing of the S. S. Tuscania on the sth of February, 1918—‘Their name liveth evermore’.” A statement by Dugald Clark, B. D„ honorary president, and other officers Of tfie Glasgow Islay association, thus In part explains the album: “Sympathetic hearts and loving bands were not wanting to pay due

Islay Monument.

honor to the gallant dead. Large crowds from all—parts- of "the island ter pay their tribute of* respect to the memory of the fallen; an<L after solemn services the bodies different and specially selected ceme-

TURKISH BATH WEAPON

Greeks “Parboiled” and Then Sent Out Into Cold. Charges of Frightful Atrocities by Turkish Officials Made by Doctor White. Charges that Turkish officials decimated the Greek population along the Black sea coast, 250,000 men. women and children living between Sinope and Ordou, without the shedding of blood but by “parboiling” the victims In Turkish baths and turning them half-clad out to die of pneumonia or other Ills in the snow of an Anatolian winter, are made in a letter from Dr. George E. White, representative of the American committee for relief in the near East. Sinope was the birthplace of the philosopher Diogenes, Doctor White re—no, and Ordou is Just beyond Cape

A. E. F. WAGON TRUCKS JUNKED IN FRANCE

teries at Port Charlotte, Kilnaughton, Kinabus and Killeyan. In numerous homes in America Tsiny will now ho a household w'ord and to many of our kinsmen across the seas it will be the scene of loving pilgrimages in the coming years. But there will be many who, though the name of Islay will Touch the deepest chords ill their hearts, will never be able to visit It and see the place where their beloved rest. It may afford them some comfort and satisfaction. jpoa,--sess photographs of the graves which will In some measure visualize to their minds the beautiful spots where their dear ones lie sleeping. With this end in view the Glasgow Islay association, composed of natives of Islay resident in the Second City of the Empire, prepares this album and we offer it now with every mark of profound sorrow and respectful sympathy for acceptance by the next of kin of the bereaved-whose-remains mingle with the dust of onr beloved island.” The frontispiece of the albunj Is a drawing in color of the monument, designed by Robert j. Walker of Glasgow, which the American Red Cross will erect at Mull, Islay. There are seven reproductions xrf photographs of the American graves in the four cemeteries. Numbered lists and diagrams make it easy to locate each of the 169 graves; 12, however, contain “unknown dead.” The burial plots .are in

Plot World Revolt

Documents Found in Germany Reveal Complete Plans. Secret Spartacan Circular Urges Agitation Among the Noske Home Guards. Berlin.—A complete - and carefully drawn plan to overthrow the present government and further world revolution is contained in a secret Spartaean circular to its agents and district chiefs. The document, which was secured by the “general bureau for the study of bolshevism,” begins by p regretting that the government signed the peace treaty, thereby delaying the inevitable crisis” The document speculates on various possible developments and then sets forth a concrete plan, the first step of which would be. to hasten an internal German crisis by tampering with the home guards of Gustav Noske, minister of defense, which are declared to hp less reliable than formerly, The circular urges Spartacan organizations to agitate among the soldiers hv iea flets ta nd verbally. The railroad men, the document

| Jason, which is still preserved in memory of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. The letter, written to Prof. J. PXenldes. secretary of the Greek relief committee here, described the new method of ridding the land of its inhabitants which,TtrlsT&id,~was7Bomewhat different from that employed by the Turks against the Armenians. The of the crimes laid to the Turks, according to Doctor White, were committed in the winters of 1916 and' 1917, when orders were issued for the deportation of- the Greeks along the Black sea coast. The people, he wrote, were crowded into the steam A>oms of the baths in Chorum , under the pqetense of “sanitary regulations,” and after being tortured for hours were tunped out of doors- Into show almost knee-deep, and without lodging or food. Their garments, which had been taken from them for fumigation, were lost, ruined or stolen. Most of the

"Hitch in Side” Was Nine Broken Ribs

St. Louis. —Thomas Morgan, 54, walked into the city dispensary and asked doctors to take a look at his side. “I’ve got a hitch there and it’s making me nervous,” he told the doctors. They found he had nine fractured ribs and internal hurts and ordered him sent to the hospital. “A wagon ran over me in East St. -Louis.” Morgan said, “but I 1 didn’t pay any attention to a little thing like that. Today my side got to hurting me considerable and I thought I ha<T' a little totjcfa of rheumatism that needed fixing up.”

beautiful order and the association is pledged to their upkeep. The monument at Mull will also serve as a memorial to the American soldiers who perished in the Otranto disaster and are buried at Kilchoman, Islay. The transport Otranto and the transport Kashmir, both carrying American troops to France, collided off Islay October 6, 1018, in a gale and thick weather. The Otranto drifted ashore and was wrecked with the loss of 366 American soldiers. This rocky island off the southwest coast of Scotland was thus the scene of -tire only considerable-disasters in the transportation of the millions of American soldiers to France. Its American graves make it sacred ground. The work of the Glasgow Islay association has been a labor of love.

says, can be counted as won for revolution. The postal workers depressed, "according to the""clrcuiar7 which goes on to say that the program with regard to the peasants is complete. The winning over of the peasants is declared to be important, for without their sympathy or with their enmity revolution would be difficult, if not im-i possible. • ___ I Delay in provoking the revolution is rather welcomed, “as it will enable further education of the proletariat;! but every moment and every situation "fffßSfhe”uHHzetFf dwaftf 'nie'BnaFiba!7 ir

Want Original Tune.

New Haven, Conn.—To obtain a new air for the Yale song “Bright College Years,” which is now sung to “The Wateh On the Rhine,” the class of 1899, through Murray Dodge, its secretary, has offered SI,OOO as a prize. The prudential committee of the corporation received the notice and selection of a tune is to rest with the alumni advisory board.

Must All Be Sick.

—New York. —Dr. Louis Weizmißer~of~ the Y. M. C. A. has discovered that .microbes caused ball players to “crab” at the umpire. Players, In good health, don’t kick, he claims.

victims, ill-clad and shivering, contracted tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases and “died In> swarms” on the way to exile, the letter de- t dared. Doctor White said that in the province of Basra, where there were more, than 29,000 village Greeks, now less than 13,000 survive and every Greek settlement lias been burned. The number of orphans, including some Armenian and Turkish children, in the entire district, it was said, aggregated 60,000. Since the armistice, the doo Tor wrote, many of the deportees have been returning to their ruined homes^

An Egg Oddity.

Pottsville, Pa. —The most curious egg ever seen in this section was exhibited by Deputy Clerk of the Court* Charles Hawk and Deputy Recorder Unger. It is six Inches in diameter and when opened was found to contain two yolks and two shells, a perfect egg being found within the outer shell. The egg was laid by a. Plymouth Rock hen, owned by William Baker, a farmer! near Tower City.