Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 December 1920 — Page 4

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THE GREENCASTLE HERALD

VIENNA DEATH RATE BECOMES APPALLING

A. COOK, Prop. & Mgr. Doors Open 6:30 Two Shows Show Starts 7:00 Program Subject To Change Without Notice Edward*Dobal Presents Miss Jose Collins In The Six Part Photo Play " Where Is My Husband’ A Pioneer Special Picture

Warner Bros. Presents Selig’s Sensational Animal Serial “The Lost City” of the African Jungles With Jaunita Hansen Episode No. 3. ‘The Flaming 1 ower”

Condition of Children Even More Harrowing, Declares Authority on City’s Desperate Plight.

Rive yenrs of famine have resulted Id greatly Increase*) mortality and morbidity In Vienna wtilcb before the j war was counted us one of the healthiest cities In Europe. Figures prepared by Dr. Oustavo Jlohn, head of the Vienna Health Department, show that In 1913 Uie death rate was 16.3 iter thousand. In 1918 the rate was 22.5 per thousand, au increase of more than 47 per cent. Professor Hans Spel of the Uni-

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Good Tilings to Eat For Christmas Specials for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

Pure Cane Sugar 25 lbs $2.25 Ercsh Country Eggs, per doz. .. (12c i-aney Grimes Golden up’.es per lb 10c Fancy oranges, per d 40c Fancy Grape Fruit, each 10c Fancy Cranberries per qt 16c No. d ca n sliced Pineapple 40c No. 2 can sliced Pineapple 32c N' >. 2 can Red Pitted cherries .... 30c No. 2 can Black Raspberries .... 30c N'o. 3 Fancy tablep caches 30c No. 3 cans Apricots 23c 40 oz Ptir e Strawberry Preserves 1.25 16 oz. Pure Raspberry Preserves. . 43 16 oz. ja" pure Blackberry preserves 16 oz jar pure Pineaple preserves, 46c 38 oz. jar pure Apple butter .... 50c None Such Mince meat 2 boxes ..35c Red Crown Mince Meat 2 boxes . ,35c Dromedary Cocoanut, 2 boxes ... 35c Jello, any flavor, 2 for 25c Armour Very best salad riiessing 8 °z- jar 25c Gree n Olives 18 oz jar 60c large Frgli.sh'Walnuts, per lb ..32c Small English Walnuts, per !b. ..28c Mixed Nuts, per lb 28c Jumbo peanuts per lbs 15c We have „weet Pickles, Dill Pickles am 1 Large Sour Jumbo Pickles.. , We will have oysters Thursday an,) Friday. Swift’ Lily Oleomargarine per lb 26c Pure Lard, per lb. 20c I ard Compound, per lb 15c Crisco, per lb 28c Snow Drift per lb 26c Farmer’s Pride Coffee, per lb ..25c Bulk Coffee 2 lbs .. 25c Navy Beans 6 lbs 25c Pet Milk Tall Cans 15 C Carnation Milk. Tall cans 16e Va n Camn Milk tall cans 15c Carolene Milk, tall cans 12c Tal Cans Samon. 16 07 2 for .... 25c Fat cans Salmon, 8 oz 2 for .... 20c Extra Good Brooms flO’

verslty of Vienna, says that ‘'eyen more terrible than the mortality statistics are those referring to the condition of children and their mothers. Owing to under nourishment few mothers can nurse their babies, and the milk shortage affects not only Infants, but all children In spite of al that has been done to help. At Professor Clemens Plrquet’s clinic In the university some 54,849 children were examined In 1918. Only 4,637 of these or about one-thirteenth were passed as skin good, fat good , 23,60!) were pale and thin, or very pale and very thin. “The health of these children shows most disquieting features. Skin disease, rachitis and Barlow's disease are rife. •^The chief medical officer of Vienna asks, ‘What Is going to happen to these

under-fed children. In whose bodies the I goods, has expended upon himself, germ of tuberculosis Is latent, when scarcely* more than the poor man. they reach the twenties, at which lime j The millionaire Is forced to content

Nature s Gifts Are PrOe.

The Egyptian king, who swollen v.lih grandeur, ordered a colossal stairway built In ids new palace, discovered, to nis chagrin, when It was completed, that he reo.ulred a ladder to enable him to ascend from one stop to another. He hnd neglected to objerve that the legs of a king are as short as the legs of a beggar. Aggrandize as we may, the limits of our senses check us miserably at every movement. We may be wealthy and call ourselves proprietors. Houses and pictures may entranre us and, after enjoying them for a season, we are carried out of our own door, never again to enter It. Proprietors we were, perhaps of farms and castles, of estates and stocks, hut now we are nothing more than the least of the sons of men. The artist who visits our gallery while we live and own It, no doubt, enjoys It more than we. We are sufficiently rich to dine every hour of the day, but we must eat sparingly, to enjoy dining once a day. Our cellars may be filled with exquisite wine, but one bottle Is all we can drink. We make feasts and call in our professed friends, perhaps only parasites who will live upon our substance and, Instead of gratitude, will return us envy as our reward. A score of horses may be in our stables, yet we can mount but one at a time. To be truly rich, a man should have capacity to enjoy all he can afford; Increased vigor, and sensibility to return all the love which he is able to propitiate with gifts. At the close of his earthly career, the man who Is rich, only In this world s

It becomes active?’"

To combat these conditions the American Relief Administration of which Herbert Hoover Is chairman fed Inst winter In the city of Vienna some 300,000 of the destitute and undernourished children, supplyit-f. them with a substantial meal of American food, served In a number of large kitchens opened for that purpose. The conditions In Vienna are more nr less typical of those In Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern | Europe. Last year the Relief Admin- I Is!ration was able to reach some 3,500,- ! 000 under-nourished children and this t winter the program calls for the feeding of a like numler, hut eight of the great charitable organizations of America have united under the name of the European Relief Council, of which Mi. Hoover Is the chairman. The child feeding task will be carried on not only by the American Relief Administration but by the American Red Cross, the American Friends' Service

Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint | roera, such ns Homer sung or Byron Distribution Committee, the Federal | composed. At the end of their Council of the Churches of Christ In 1 earihly existence, the rich and the America, the Knights of Columbus, tl/* j poor are both alike. The only dlfY. M. C. A. anil Y. . C. A. An ap- 1 torciice Is found In the habiliments |,eal for $33,000,000 lias heer^nade and of , hn Rrave Man ls but „ handful

the organizations named have Joined !

In raising the sum.

himself wih the same skjv and to breathe the same air as the poorest clerk In his employ. He cannot or<ior.a private sunset nor add one star to the magnificence of night. The same atmosphere swells all lungs; each one possesses really, only his own thoughts and h!s own senses. Soul and body are the only real possessions oj any man. All, that Is intrinsically valuable in this life, is to be had without, cost; yea even eternal life may be obtained "witUeut money and without price.” Genius, beauty and love are not bought and sold. We may buy a costly bracelet, but not a well turned wrist upon which to wear it; we may pirchare a pearl necklace but not a pretty netlc with which it shall vie. Tne richest banker on earth would offer. In vain, his fortune In exchange for the ability to write a

LAUGHTER OF CHILD

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clay which rapidly turns back | again for the activities of the I pelled, nightly, to relapso into the ' oblivion of sleep to gain strength

IN POLAND again for the activities of the

coming day. Thus we see that man Is proprietor only of the breath which traverses his lips, and of the Idea as It flits across his mind; and even the idea may have originated with an ither.—York. Pa. Gazette.

"In all the time I was In Poland, 1

scarcely once saw a child laugh,’’ declare*! Dr Harry Plot/., discoverer of the typhus haccllus. In a report to (he European Relief Council on medical conditions among the Jewish population of Poland, based on his recent investigations there for the Jewish

Joint Distribution Committee. "The most deplorable sight of all

the miseries in Poland Is the oondl- | tlon of the children,” Dr. Plots said, j “Infant mortality Is exceedingly highj <r 11 because of under-nourishment and the | high pen-entuge of contagious diseases. In large part mothers must resort to artificial feeding as they are unable to nurse their children. In many cities I saw underfed children, suffering with diseases, wandering about the streets with no place to go, begging for bread."

Tuberculosis has become prevalent

among the Jewish children, largely due to the overcrowded conditions In which they are forced to live, their lark of nourishing food and warm clothing, according to Dr. Plot*. Typhus, which killed thousands of Jews last winter In the worst epidemic Poland has ever seen will recur again, he said, as conditions are much worse

among the Jews than ever before. “Favus, o contagious skin disease,

is now rapidly spreading from child to child,” he continued. "In Vllna there are 11,000 cases among the Jewish children iilone. Smallpox, too. Is prevalent hroughout Poland and the I'kmlne and children, with widespread eruptions and temperature, have been seen running shout the streets. There are thousands of cases every year, which vaccination would

prevent, but there Is no vaccine.” Dr. Plotz told how In Lithuanian

villages lie found children, six and seven years old, unable to walk or j talk, the result of malnutrition. In regions where whole towns had,been destroyed during the war, lie found families crowded lu miserable dug

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The Greatest Gift.

Your Christmas gift to the European child relief collection may help in eaving a child's life and is earneetly solicited Send checks to the local committee of the Joint organizatlone or direct to European Relief Council, 42 Broadway, New York City.

Crders Over £1 Delivered—Phone Your Order Eaily

Davids Effective Way.

Go back to the days of the patriarchs and read the pathetic story of Jacob and Rachel and Leah and oth-

And, speaking of divorce,

some very eminent personages of theeq-periods did not await the action of the divorce couyts. When King David 'ell In love with Hathfheba, wife of Uriah the Hittlte, be caused General Joab to send Uriah to him. Then David made him ftunk; "And it came to pas* In the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and Kent It by the hand of Uriah, and he wrote in the letter, saving. Set ye Uriah In the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him that ho may be smitten and die!” And Uriah was smitten. It was not a nice way of divorcing Uriah and Bathsheba. hut It was v<yy effective; and It Is not even recorded that David had consulted Bathsheha

about the portormance.

Even the youthful reader of history knows not only of these accounts of Sacred Writ, but also of the divorces of kings and queens, sometimes by mutual agreement, sometimes by a-'t of Parliament; and

the kings and queens of modern times

who are kings and queens of money ordy have Joyously followed suit. What Is this lov^ which Names up Into a prodigious conflagration and then so soon btrus to ashes?

A Chance for Novelty,

It has oeen suggested that some time the truly versatile sporting writer will describe a baseball gams In English. He might establish a prt»cedent that would make him famous.—Sioux City Tribune. •

A Nelllston man, to whom a reia live let', a gum of money to purchase s stone to perpetuate said relative's memory, has bought hlmseif a diamond ring.—Genoa. N Y., Tribune.

WHICH HAS THE £fcT TER 1 t.V.H? George R. Sima, journalist and playwright, in his sixtieth year has aroused London by asserting fats belief that women have a better time In life than men. Woman, says M. Sims, though always asserting her strength, rarely fails to claim the privileges of her weakness. Her code of honor is more lax. She Is allowed, without question, to forget small debts. Becoming more serious, he says: Her home life Is a joy denied to the average man. There is not one man In a housand who finds in the domestic interior that Joy of possession which animates women from morning till night. Children are said to fill only the leisure of the most loving father, but to fill the life of the mother. Mr. Sims quotes approvingly Byron's: Men’s love is of man's life a thing

apart;

"Tis woman's whole existence. Thus, Mr. Sims argues, home, family and love are woman’s Joys us they never can be man's. "In friendebip the man has a pleasure that Is keener than woman's.” But woman in the home rules the man who in his business life rules other meu. "Whatever pleasure there is In absolute power, that pleasure is the woDtan's and not uiv man's.’’# Then "a woman's strength lies in her tears. A man's tears are his weakness." If a woniau smooths a pillow she Is rewarded with a smile. “If a man smoothed pillows all day long no one would dream of calling him a ministering angel.” Again. "Her father or husband pays her bills as well as his own." After declaring every new frock, hat, piece of Jewelry and parasol "is to a woman a new joy," Mr. Sims asks “What man ever went to bed happier because he had bought a new umbrella?" Woman’s Joy in and man's aversion to shopping are stated, and then Mr. Sims concludes: To try and make money is the ordinary man's tusk between hia J breakfast.and his dinner. To spend if is the ordinary woman’s occupa tlon during the same period. The making of money, which is man’s daily occupation is always associated with anxieties. The spending of money is only woman's change of pleasure from the pleasures of home and family. And yet, though It is a common thing to hear a woman say, “Oh, I wish I were a man!" how many of us have heard a mau exclaim, “Oh, how I wish I were a wo-

man!"

A PENALTY FOR VIRTUE. The case of a railroad wreck because a train was on time Is furnished by the West. Tile succession of events is indisputable, though their logical sequence may be questionable. Anyhow, the matter Illustrates the hazards of taking too much for graated. If this particular train had ever been on time before the track repairers who were to relay a section of track forgot when it was. Anyhow, when they wanted to relay the track, they presumed that the train would of course be late, and at the time when it was nominally due had quite a stretch of rails up with no signal out to stop the train. But the Daln promptly developed that quality which commuters have had occasion to notice. Kush at doublequick to the station to get there exactly at train time, and the train may loaf along ten or fifteen minutes after it Is due. But presume that jou will have those ten or fifteen minutes' leeway and von are likely to get to the station Just In time to the rear car disappear around the curve. So with this train. The track being torn up tu reliance on lu customary tardiness it boomed along right up to time and was diteb--d with the full quota of casualties. Opinions as to where the fault lay may vary. The l r aek repairers think that It was because the train was ou time. Othors may boll that the fault was in the hab'l o.‘ the train In being generally behind title. third view may put It trial It was the fault of the trurk gutig in concluding from precedents that the train could not be on time Figure it out us you choose, it remains unfortunate that so severe a penalty should be attached to Uie unusual virtue o.' a train being once up to the schedule.

W .STFKN l MVIIKSI MKH. Of -h.' six American universities that lately have hue the largest number of students, Harvard, Chicago, Michigan Illinois, Minnesota, aud the Northwestern, throe are la Illinois. Moreover, only one of the six Is In an Eastr-e. State Consequently wo have the claim that Illinois .„ right or the educational contcr of this coun. try." There Is sor te room for argument as to what an educational center Is. however. Tire facta, however, speak well for the belief of the Western people la higher education, for we muet remember that the proportion of Western students In the Eastora college, j Is lar

■< — " Pash. If there wr-r more push la the world there would be fewer hungry, half-clothed, homeless, suffering children; fewer broken-down dir,; - pated men and women; Icjs need of alms-houses, bouses of correction and homes lo.- the friendless. IT. h means a lift for a 'nelfch’ or .j trouble. Push means a lift for yourself out of the slough or despondency and shlftlcssness, out of trouble real and fancied. Push never hurts anybody. The harder the push the better, if !t Is given In the r.gl.t direction. Always push up hill, few people need a push (.own hill. Don't be af-aid of your muscles and sinews; they were given you to use. Don’t be afraid of your hands; they were meant for service. Don't be afraid of what your companion may say. Don't bo afraid of your conscience; It will never reproach you for a good deed —but push with all your heart, might and soul, whenever you see anything or anybody that will he better for a good long, strong, determined push. Push! It ts Just the word for the grand, clear morning of life; it is Just the word for strong arms and young hearts; It Is Just the word for the world that Is full of work as this is If anybody Is In trouble and you see it, don't stand back, push! If there Is anything good being done in any place where you happen to be! push!

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1920

Starting a Duck Plant.

A duck plant should bo li K 'at(vi a line of railroad in direct cunm'm cation with the city markets, and ^ To far from the station. Almost „„ location will do for the plant worn-out land, that can be had ckea ,

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