Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — Page 2

TRAVELING SHOE SHOP FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY

"Taking shoes to the cobbler ’ In the United States army. The doughboyswith arms full of shoes are about to deposit them In the traveling shoe shop for repair. Moved from post to post, this portable repair station keep* ' the shoes of the boys fit and strong and at a minimum cost

HAS BOOKS OF KING WILLIAMIV.

Navy Lists, With Comments on Superior Officers, in New York Library. WASHINGTON GREATEST MAN < King of England So Termed Him In a Speech Long After His Visit to New York—Eighteenth Century Slang. New York. —Under the title “A King’s Books,” attention Is Invited by the New York Public library to the very human personal comments and titles bestowed on his superior officers by a British prince, in annotations made by his own hand, during his service afloat in one of his majesty’s ships. In the Bulletin, recently published, are described some old volumes of British navy lists, once the property of William IV, “the sailor king." A number of the volumes have his autograph signature, “William HCnry,” on the title page, with his naval rank at that date, and the name of his ship. Such Is the case with the list of 1785, when, in addition to his name, he has signed himself “Lieutenant” of the “Hebe.” “The youpg prince had amused himself,” according to the Bulletin’s editor, by annoting certain volumes of the set, “which he seems to have had tn his cabin , . . and. if the. comment opposite the name of his grace the duke of Bolton, admiral of the White, looks suspiciously like the word *mad,’ it may be that the prince, even as a lieutenant, was in a position to know whereof he wrote. ... It was by no means the only comment at his disposal. The Right Hon. George Lord Viscount Mount Edgecumbe. admiral of the White. is tersely described as Mamned miser.’ This is in the list for 1786.” Eighteenth Century Slang. Reference is made to other expressions “mysterious today to every one excepting those familiar with sailors’ slang of the eighteenth century; others whose significance has no shade of doubt —the blunt language of the quar-ter-deck or the barracks." And there is at least one, which some “discreet hand,” his own, when he hnd succeeded to the throne, “had seen fit to cut out with a sharp penknife.” . “All are in keeping with the character of the man who, when he became king, over forty years later, was known for his good humor —but also

LARGEST MARINE BOILER OF ITS KIND

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for his seafaring manners," says the writer. In stressing his “bluff and hearty nature” the library publication cites the fact that, “at the most solemn moment In his life, as he acceded to_the throne, and spoke of his late sovereign and brother, George IV, with as much feeling as anyone not a trained actor could put into his voice for that monarch,” he “instantly added in his usual easy-going gruffness, as he affixed his first signature as king to some papers of state: “This Is a damned bad pen you Wive given me.” Of more vital Interest to New Yorkers is the prince’s connection with their own city of Manhattan. “As Prince William Henry the king stayed for some time in New York, with the British military and naval forces then (1782) occupying the city, contrary to the wishes of General Washington and the American army, encamped in Nejv Jersey. The prince had his quarters in Hanover square, and skated, according to tradition, on the Collect pond. Colonel Ogden of the First Jersey regiment formed an elaborate and welf-matured plan to capture the

PLAN TO LOWER COST OF MEAT

Federal Department of Justice Starts Campaign of Intensive Education. -— URGED TO BUY CHEAPER CUTS Forequarter Meat, Looked on With Indifference by the Majority of Housewives, Is High in Quality and Nutritive Value. Washington. — Farmers and stock raisers are indirectly interested in a nation-wide campaign which has just been undertaken by the department of justice to increase consumption of fore-quarter beef cuts. - -The-generni-canjp«rfgn is already under way. Intensive educational efforts began with the “Save-Money-on-Meat week” in Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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prince and his.admiral and take them into camp. General Washington approved the plan. Thought Washington Greatest Man. “Something seems to have affected the prince favorably toward this country and its first president He had, throughout life, an extraordinary weakness for making speeches, some of which were not remarkable for their tact. ... A happier example of his oratory was afforded when he was king and happened-to be entertaining a group of gentlemen which included the- American minister. He was 'seized with his fatal habit of making a speech,’ and said that It had always been with him a matter of serious regret that he had not been born a free. Independent American, so great was his respect for that nation. He said that die considered Washington the greatest-man that ever lived. “Coming as this did from the king of England, compliment could go no further.” „ The acquiring by the library of a set of “British Army Lists,” beginning with the year 1755 pnd ended with 1842, dates back to the Astor library and the time when Doctor Cogswell, its first librarian, was tn Europe “with his princely endowment in his pocket.” “These books,” says the Bulletin, “had been the property of William IV, king of Great Britain and Ireland, and of one or another of his sons, and they bear the bookplates of one or more of these personages.”

Every farmer who raises beef animals has to produce fore-quarters as well as hind-quarters, and he has to put the same high-priced feed Into both. But city housewives more than ever before have been largely confining their purchases to porterhouse, sirloin and club steaks. If they do buy forequarter meat, it is sure to be prime ribs. The uneven demand makes these cuts higher in price, but no matter how high they may go there Is no corresponding benefit to the producer, for he cannot confine his production to porterhouse and sirloins. He must make chucks, plate and clod, to which a majority of the housewives are indifferent. The department of justice is trying to interest consumers in these palatable, wholesome cuts of the forequarter and thus bring about a more even consumptive demand. The result will be a more even scale of prices and better prices on the whole to the consumers ail along the line, while live stock prices will not be affected. If the department succeeds the producer will have a market among housewives for all his beef. Of course, the department Is not directly concerned with any plan to Increase beef consumption, for it will have achieved Its aim if the distribution of meat is made economical and if consumers are made to see how they can help themselves by studying the different cuts of a beef carcass. The fact that makes the Campaign possible, however, is that beef should actually be an Inexpensive food; and as an inexpensive food its use would be greatly Increased if an economic demand is developed. Consumers will learn how to get more good beef for less money than before, and the volume of beef consumption will be increased as a direct result. Will Halp Meat Industry. This Is an advantage to the consumer, but hardly less of an advantage to the producer. For a great many years there have been efforts to increase economy of production, but economy of consumption has been neglected. The quality of chucks, clods and other forequarter cuts is' so high and their nutritive value so great, that the economy preached by the department of justice is entirely sound and bids fair to be a permanent and growing thing. Between forequarter and hindquarter cuts there has never perhaps been so large a spread as now. A decrease tn this spread will be of enormous benefit to the whole meat Industry. "A Frenchman at Madrid looped the loop in his plane 624 times ln‘ a flight of 2 hours 49 minutes and » seconds.

MANY ILL WITH DEADLY TYPHUS

Two Million Cases in Russia— Conditions in Poland Appalling. U. S. REIIEF BOARD SWAMPED Several of Ite Officers and Men Have Died, Among Them One In Charge at Tarnopol—Shortage of Supplies. Warsaw. —General Petlura’s Ukrainian government, which, .despite its amazing weakness, remains the nearest approach to organized authority that exists between the East -Galician frontier and the Dnieper, has sent its minister of public works, Mr. Bezalko, to Warsaw to'appeal for assistance in fighting the incredible typhus conditions in the Petlura country. He reports that 10,000 men, the remnants of Petlura’s Ukrainian force, have been stricken with the disease and that the 80,000 men of the East Galieian army, commanded by Pavlenko, who from time to time have co-operated wjth Petlura, are in an almost equally bad plight. About half the cases have proved fatal. Hands Are Occupied.

It Is virtually certain that'the Poles will not be able to give assistance to the Ukrainians because their hands are more than occupied in combating the spread of the disease in Poland. There is some typhus in Warsaw 5,000 cases perhaps; Dvinsk, recently captured from the bolshevikl, is in an appalling condition; the epidemic has swept in virulent form as far west as Cracow, where the normal activities are half paralyzed; in most of the villages on the eastern frontiers more than half the inhabitants are sick and there is a disturbing amount of typhus in the army. Where 20 fumigating machines are needed, the Poles have one; where a gallon of carbolic acid is required they have a gill. The American typhus commission, which, with 5,000 men and 750 officers, came here last summer to prepare to combat the disease this winter, has been overwhelmed; even the vast supplies the commission brought have proved insufficient. Several officers and men of the commission have died. Including a colonel who was in charge of the work at Tarnopol. So there is small prospect that Petlura can find any help here. „ Reliable reports Indicate that soviet Russia is being devastated by the disease. In the recent exchange of prisoners between the Poles and the bolshevikl, there arrived here a Doctor Czechowltz, who over a year ago was impressed into the bolshevik service as a sanitary expert and assigned to the work of dealing with typhus. He says that in March of last year there were 1,340,000 known cases of typhus in bolshevik Russia and that conditions this year are worse than last "year. He estimates that there are now at least 2,000,000 cases In Russia. The soviet government has almost no facilities for controlling the disease and comparatively few physicians are

FOR SALVAGING OF SUNKEN VESSELS

This floating dry dock of immense proportions has been launched In Germany for salvaging Sunken vessels. The dock Is towed into Position directly over the vessel to be salved, and by means of pontoons the ship is raised. - c

WANT MORE BIRTHS

France Is Stirred to Urge Larger Families. Government Names Board to Warn Nation of Danger of . 'Dying Out. Paris.—France is at last arousing itself to the danger of dying out. The privately conducted, uphill fight for a higher birthrate has been taken over by the government through the creation of a higher council of natality. This council of 30, appointed by j T, Breton, minister of hygiene, was asked to act immediately. * Mr. Bretofi, father of five children, Is known as a strong friend of large families. Three others of the new cabinet are advocates of measures to increSse the French birthrate. . War cost France, roughly 1.500,000 •Ives. A low birth rate, during the war

Assert Ancient Tribes Did Much Irrigating

Albuquerque, N. M. —That prehistoric peoples of New Mexico did a good deal of irrigating is indicated by the remains of canals and ditches found in the state, as well as in "other parts of the Southwest, according to H. F. Robinson, head of the Indian irrigation bureau here. ~ - ■ The remains of 217 miles of ditches built by the Pueblo Indians alone are to be found, and there are evidences of elaborate water systems at the Salt River valley in 'Arizona. These ditches were all dug by hand, according to Mr. Robinson, and clay banks and beds were constructed where the way lay oyer a sandy plain, while the method of blasting through rocks was to heat the rocks, crack them with large stones and remove them from the way.

available to care for the sick. In consequence the percentage of deaths is now enormous, Czechowitz says. Usually Follows War. Such an epidemic as the present one almost inevitably follows a period of war in central Europe. It is to be attributed to s Insufficient food supplies, weakening the resistance of the people, and to lack of clothing, frequently making cleanliness difficult even for the moderately well-to-do and impossible for the poor. A common assertion Is that typhus is as great a menace to social quiet as bolshevism. But competent observers here do not believe this. The people of this part of the world, they argue, have come through centuries to accept the peril of typhus as an unescapable concomitant of life. Certainly from Poles one hears little outcry at present conditions; it is only those who have known Western civilization who are shocked by the spread and virulence of the The Polish cabinet has reached no decision on the proposal to quarantine the country and It is hoped that suspension of the railroad service for

CHINESE SHOOT RUSS

Captives Are Shot to Death With Revolvers. First Make Victims Dig Graves, Then Execute Them for the Bolsheviki. Amsterdam.—The correspondent of the Handelsblad, who recently returned from a trip in soviet Russia, gives the following account of his investigations of the activities of the Chinese employed there by the bolsheviki as executioners.

years, cost France 2,272,735 loss of population. The statistics, made Into striking pictures to illustrate their effect on the nation, industry and war danger are being used in a vigorous campaign, 'by the national alliance, for the increase of the French population. This campaign is being conducted by letters to members of parliament, posters, r magazine, the Woman and the Child, and through the many socially and politically powerful persons interested in the movement The plainest sorts of truth are told the French about the decreasing birth yate. The national alliance and government officials hold that a family should have three or more children. To encourage such famflies, government allowances of 60 to 200 francs a year are granted for each child after the second, under thirteen years. » The alliance asks also for Igglstetlnn to provide for the construction of cheap attractive homes available only

“VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL.”

Photo taken in New York shows Sari, the “Virgin of Stamboul,* said to be the most beautiful girl tn Turkey, and heiress to $100,000,000, who was discovered in New York by Sheik Ben Mohammed, brother of the emir of Hedjaz, who sent him on the search. It Is said that the pretty Sari arrived here with an American army officer some months ago. The two worked their way from Marseilles. After a period the officer took to flight and she took to dishwashing, slater selling flowers on the city streets. However, all’s tvell now. She is staying at a leading hotel and won’t have to wash dishes any more. She will return home with the sheik. It is said her mother and father died of grief over her disappearance. Sari Is said to be affianced to the emir and upon return to Turkey will probably be placed under his jurisdiction.

two weeks, because of the coal crisis, may'have a favorable effect upon the typhus situation, which could never have attained the proportions It has if travel had been supervised and restricted a month ago.

Don't Dodge Dog Tax.

Falmouth. Ky.—This county boasts a 100 per cent dog tax record. There’s not a stray dog in the county and the 188 persons listed as delinquent came across quickly when. threatened With loss of their hounds.

“Such horrible stories were being told in Europe about these Chinese that I thought it worth my while to learn more about them. As a Joke, I asked everyone who opinion of the bolsheviki to show' me some ‘real man-killing Chinese,’ but I always was told they couldn’t produce any just now because they had all gone to the Deniklne front. “I was told the Chinese, if commanded by their own officers were excellent soldiers, but they ran like hares if their officers were killed. Executions are now very rare In Moscow, but, in August, when thousands of counter-revolutionaries were slaughtered, it was cabled out by the Chinese because the authorities feared the Russian soldiers would refuse to do the work. - “The Chinese-do this work indifferently—like they do all other work they are ordered to perform. They are blind, conscienceless tools In the hands of the men who feed them and pay them and who raised them from the position of coolies in which they came to Russia to the rank of soldier, of, the guards. “If the ‘boltsjak’ (his name for bolshevik) orders something, the Chinese does it, and he does it in his typically practical way. He first makes the victim dig his own grave and -then shoots him with his revolver. He is not cruel about It, Just practical. “When boltsjak says kill, then he kills with an unperturbed face. And when boltsjak says, ‘You may stop now,’ with the same cool face he lets his victim go.” - The correspondent after some weeks in Russia left when he was refused permission to make > investigations freely fig

to lafge families, . establishment of “supersaiarles” in industries to neads of such families, preference in government employment, the plural vote, giving the father as many votes as there are persons in the family, ami i eal war, on “birth control,” known here as Neo-Malthusianlsm.

ITALY MAKES OYSTERS SAFE

■ Removes impurities by Keeping Them In Sterilized Sea Water for es - . Week. Washington.—An Italian company has perfected a process for removing impurities from oysters, according to a report to the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. On being taken from beds along the Venetian eoast the oysters are shipped to Rome, the shells carefully washed and thrown into great tank's filled with sterilized sea water. The tanks are constantly replenished and the flowing water has been found to wash all Im.purities from the oysters wnicn. after a week’s “treatment are shipped to ■ ; • the retailers. A,