Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — Page 2

“PRESIDENTS SHEEP” ON THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS

The "president's sheAp” are a picturesque sight on the south lawn of the White House. The president tak«tng the sun” on the south porch frequently enjoys watching the gambols of the flock.

PAINTS VIENNA FORLORN CITY

Pojish Artist Tells of Misery, Especially Among Middle Classes. FOOD OUT OF THEIR REACH Workers Make Apparently Huge Amounts, but Are Obliged to Spend It All on Their LivingChildren Suffer Most. New York—Nicol Schatenstein, a Polish portrait painter, who has just arrived from Vienna, said that the reason why he left the Austrian capital to come to America was because of the misery he had witnessed for four years and his desire to join his family, who are American citizens. He expects to become an American citizen, too. “The worst sufferers In Vienna,” the painter said In an Interview, “are those of the middle class, because they cannot afford to pay the high prices demanded for food. The working man is well paid, but he has to spend It on food to keep himself and his famfly, Thousands of the children of the masses have been sent to Italy and Switzerland to be fed, but the unfortunate children of the iplddle class remain in Vienna to share the hunger of their parents. When I passed through Holland two weeks ago the working people there were giving one guilder, or 40 cents American money, for the starving children of Vienna. Pay Barber More Than Professor. “A barber’s assistant In Vienna,” Mr. Schatenstein continued, “receives 46,000 kroner a year (about $9,000 in prewar days), ahd has to spend it all to live in an ordinary way. Compare this with the 12,000 kroner paid so professors of the universities In Austria and the 5,000 to 8,000 kroner a year paid to schoolmasters and office cterkw — a city •where food is scarce and dearer than It is in New York? I had plenty of money, but did not have an egg once a month. Milk I never saw. Butter was rare and dear. Meat could be had in the restaurants in small portions and potatoes on rare occasions. Bread was scarce and so poor that only persons with the digestion of ostriches could eat IL I could never find out exactly what it was composed of except that there was scarcely any flour. Wood, ’ straw, rye and dried bushes were all chopped up fine and baked Into a hard cake to be sold as bread. “The poor could eat dog sausage, and the rich could buy horse sausage.

BOY SCULPTOR AND HIS LINCOLN BUST

Thomas McGlvnn. thirteen vears old, and the bust he has made of his father in ths character es Abraham Lincoln in John Drinkwater’s play. _

but I could never accustom myself to eat such food. Instead, I went hungry often wlth'money In my pocket “During oue of the hunger riots in the city last winter, I saw the mob knock a police officer off his horse and shoot the animal. Half an hour later the carcass had been cut up and carried off by the famine-stricken cttizens. — “One chief source of the misery in Vienna was the lack of coal, because the poor could have neither heat nor light The glassware, porcelain and leather factories were unable to keep going because there was no fuel to drive their machinery. Only the wealthy have a warm bath once a week and burn one electric light for five hours a day when there is enough coal to drive the dynamos in the power houses. Multi-millionaires told me that I was a fortunate man when I was leaving for America. “I was not In sympathy with Austria in the war, but I think that in the name of our common humanity something should be done for the starving men, women and children of Vienna, especially the middle classes, who are the greatest sufferers. “Just before I left the capital city the doctors in the hospitals went on strike because scrubwomen received higher pay than physicians, or surgeons. “The peasants in the country have

DOG SEEKS AID FOR DYING

Whines In Vain to Obtain Help for Mistress Who Dies Suddenly. Los Angeles.—Doughboy, a pedigreed bulldog, owned by T. C. Stevens of the bond firm of Stevens, Page & Sterling, was credited with an almost human attempt to summon help when Mrs. Stevens’ aunt, Mrs. C. F. Endly, died suddenly at San Diego. The dog, a thoroughbred In which the owner takes considerable pride, was left in Mrs. Endly's care by Mrs. Stevens. During the night Mr. Endly was awakened by Doughboy. The dog was whining and moaning with such persistency that Mr. Endly fearing his wife would be disturbed, went to the door and calling softly to the dog finally induced him to go into the other room. Doughboy exhibited a strange restlessness, resisting all efforts to quiet him. The rhan was puzzled. Only after a considerable time did he induce Doughboy to He down. Then Mr. Endly went to sleep. In the morning he found his wife’s

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food, but they will not send it to Vienna because they do not like a socialist form of government. Some of the best stores in Vienna keep open in the daytime and have fine artistic articles displayed In the windows, but If one enters to buy them the proprietor, or one of his clerks, says that they are not for sale. He will take orders for goods to be delivered when coal arrives and the factories start up again.”

Pup Delays Tube Train; Theater Patrons Storm

__ New _ YQrk. — Theater-£olng passengers on an express bound uptown in the Seventh avenue subway, fumed and fretted while the train ran at quarter-speed with frequent jerky stops. As the hour for curtains to rise on matinees came perilously near, a self-constituted committee called on the motorman for an explanation. He was peering anxiously out of his cab window at a bewildered brown-and-whlte terrier running between the rails. “The pup can’t run any faster,” the motorman explained, "and I ain't going to run over him. That stands if we don’t get to Times square till night”

At Times square the terrier still was ahead of the train but going at a greatly reduced pace. “I hope he’ll fall out when he sees daylight at One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street,” sighed the motorman.

lifeless body. Doctors were Immediately called. They pronounced It a case of heart failure and declared that Mrs. Endly had been dead several hours. ——

SCOTS SPURN SUNDAY WORK

Lord Leverhulme Finds Opposition to . Plan -for Great Fishing Project. London. —Lord Leverhulme has encountered the religious prejudices of the Scotchmen who live on the extensive property he has purchased in the Outer Hebrides and has suffered a rebuff. He had planned to make Stornoway, on the of Lewis, the headquarters of a huge fishing fleet that would sweep the seas for 500 miles around. The project Involved Sunday labor, and the islanders, who adhere to the strict and intense form of the Presbyterian faith, rejected it. Commenting on the incident, the periodical, Common Sense, says: “Lord Leverhulme Is a man of big ideas and new ideas, while the population over whom he has declared the rights of lairdship are folk of old and intense ideas. Hence the inevitable collision.” - —"T

FIRST CAPTURE BY YANKS

Two Michigan Men Lead In the Taking of German Prisoners in the War. Washington.—The first German prisoner taken by American forces was captured by Adam Blazlkowskl and John Cochanskl of Ironwood, Mich., Representative James of Michigan was informed by Adjutant General Harris. — The men were members of company C. Eighteenth infantry. The capture was made on the night of October 27-28, 1917, in the vicinity •of Bures, in the province of Meurthe and Moselle. The prisoner was a company mail carrier and was on his way back to his company when wounded and captured. Oldest Dog Registered. Sandusky. O.—The oldest dog in Erie county was registered for taxation here recently. It has just passed its nineteenth birthday and is the property of Et M. Andress of Vermilion. When he came to the Une In the application for registration referring to color, Andress wrote: “He was black but he now has so many gray hairs that be le an Iron gray In color.”

GLASS STEPS OUT, HOUSTON IN

David F. Houston, at right, receiving his commission as secretary of the treasury from Carter Glass, the retiring secretary.

$508,899 PROFIT IN “Y” HUTS

Adjustments Show This Gain and Wipe Out “Book Loss” of — $1,478,084, PUBLIC GIVES $161,722,649 Report Reveals Approximate Balance of $17,000,000 —Largest Sums Expended on American Fighters While Abroad. New York. —A financial statement of operations by the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. from the beginning of our participation In the war to January 1 last reveals that the canteens operated for soldiers and sailors returned a net profit of $508,899.79. A previous report in March, 1918, reported a loss on canteen service of $1,478,074.14. The United States carried Y. M. C. A. supplies free of charge on transports, and furnished rail transportation and motor supplies in France. The report also shows that $161,722,649.42 had been contributed by the public to Y. MCA. war work up to January 1. The report of William Sloane, chairman of the war work council, reveals an approximate balance of $17,000,000, the principal expenditures to the ends for which the money was given having been as follows: Itemized Expenditures. Spent on soldiers, sailors and marines in the United States, $38,809.50; abroad, $52,382,736.03; other expenses not itemized, $7,000,000. The fund of more than $161,000,000 was made up as follows: First Y, M. C. A. campaign. $5,113,666.98; second Y. M. C. A. campaign, $53,334,546.81; United War Work campaign up to January L, $100,759,731.17; other sources, $2,SJI 4 ZU-. - ' The balance of $17,000,000 revealed

Find Rare Variety of Sugar on Firs

Washington. — Discovery of the growth of sugar bn fir trees in British Columbia is announced in the American Forestry Magazine. The discovery resulted from investigations by Prof. John Davidson of the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. Specimens are said to have inthe presence of a large percentage of an extremely rare variety of sugar. Indians have made use of the sugar for many years, the article states.

CONGRESSIONAL NAVAL INSPECTORS AT KEY WEST

The congressional board of naval inspectors at Key West just before embarking on the U. S. S. Dolphin to go to Jamaica and the Virgin islands on a general tour of inspection. Left to right: Senator Kenyon of Iowa; Congressman Garnett of Tennessee; Senator Edge of New York; Congressman Towner of Iowa; Rear Admiral J. K. U. a N! head of the commission; Congressmen Campbell of Kansas and Gay of Louisiana.

in the report is surplus, writing off more than $21,000,000 of "commftments already made for continuance of the work not only on behalf of the American army and navy at home and overseas, but also among the allied armies in the troubled areas of Europe and Asia.” Recommendations for continuance of work adopted at the last joint meeting of the executive and finance committees of the national war work council include the following: Recommendations Made. Continued support of such welfare work as the Young Men’s Christian association is now carrying on for enlisted men in the American army and navy in the United States and its possessions and overseas wherever American troops are still held. This recommendation Includes the maintenance of the permanent Young Men’s Christian association buildings for Ameri-

INDIAN’S CHARMS FAIL

Did Not Protect Him When He Blew Out Gas. Kayuse Chief on His Way to Washington Dies in Chicago Hotel. Chicago.—The tribe of Kayuse Indians on the reservation in Umatilla county, near Pendleton, Ore., are awaiting assurance from their chief, U. M. Sum Kim, that their lands will not be taken from them. They will learn that he died in a hotel at 603 Soutlr Wells street, asphyxiated by gas. It is believed that he blew out the flame. His charm of four snake heads failed to protect him. Chief Sum Kim was on his way to Washington to appear before the Indian board of commissioners to plead that his people be protected from a firm that is attempting to take parts of their land away through court proceedings for failure to pay an alleged debt, it is said. Adam Bird, owner of the hotel, detecting the odor of gas, traced it to the Indian’s room. The South Clark street police were summoned, but it was found he was dead. Tied to a string around his neck were four small chamois bags. Within them were the dried heads of four snakes. He had worn a sombrero, boots, yellow duck trousers and a black shirt. He carried four blankets. The body was taken to the Central undertaking rooms at 318 Federal street. Among the papers found were those of a law firm demanding that the chief appear before them and straighten out

can soldiers and sailors, also neeued additions thereto and new buildings for such purposes. Continuance of the support of the work now being carried on for the soldiers and sailors of our allies be- * yond the year 1920, should the seriously unsettled conditions occasioned by the war continue. Setting apart of a substantial portion of the surplus to be regarded as a reserve fund which might be used at any time for rendering Y. M. C. A. service in any grave national emergency. This reserve fund should certainly be held for these purposes for at least two years. Continuance of the educational program for ex-service men. We recommend also a study of the needs of the wounded ex-service men who are now having vocational training. Recommendation that the total amount that seems now to have accrued in the operattob of the canteen, approximately $500,000 (brought about by the government’s cancellation of the 'charges aggregating $2,500,000 and for which we had a reserve fund), to be used for the benefit of ex-service men, either through an appropriation direct to the American Legion or to the relief of incapacitated ex-service men, or to such other purposes for the benefit of exservice men as might be agreed upon between the officers of the national war work council and the officers of the American Legion.

Father May Swear When Hanging Paper

Moorhead, Minn.—When fa- ; ther lays the carpet on the stairs. has long been conceded as a time to throw the mantle of charity about certain sayings and doings of paterfamilias that normally would be beneath his dignity. Now comes a Moorhead judge who says that the law extends this leniency to such occasions as when father hangs the paper on the wall. So Mrs. Henry Buchholz of Sauk Center, Minn., was denied her bill for divorce. Judge Nye ruling that whatever Henry might do when exhausted from matching wallpaper patterns and when covered with paste and perspiration does not constitute ‘'cruel ( and Inhuman treatment,” especially when records prove him at all other times meek, faithful and provident/ 7-

a money matter, threatening court procedure if he failed to do so. The chief carried affidavits proving his side and a map and blue prints showing the land owned by the tribe. Traveling orders and appearance papers for a hearing before the commissioners were also found.

SCOFF AT ‘WHITE CANNIBALS’

Explorers Declare No Such Tribe as Reported Exists on Tiburon Island. Los Angeles, Cal. —Members of the mining expedition ..-Capt-—Harry—De-Windt, an English explorer, said he plans to lead to Tiburon island, in the Gulf of California, need not fear “white cannibals” reported there, according to Los Angeles residents who have visited the island. Persons returning from Tiburon, however, have given it an unpleasant reputation. They have reported that it is overrun with reptiles and that the few Indians living there, while not ac-tively.-hostile, are sullen and distrustful. Stories of a strange white tribe, using poisoned darts and an ancient blunderbuss to bag occasional visitors to provide native feasts, are scouted here. Some Los Angeles residents have reported having seen natives carrying modern firearms.

Laborers Buy $25 Shirts.

New York.—Louis B. Tim, silk shirt manufacturer, reports silk shirts selling at $25, “and the peculiar thing about it,” he said, “is that we sell more of these shirts to workingmen than we do to millionaires.”