Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — Page 8

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JUNIOR RED GROSS WORKING AT HOME

Production of Sound American Citizenship the First Aim, Says Dr. Farrand. _______ On . the badge of every member of the Junior Red Cross are the words ”1 Serve/’ That tells the story of the school children’s branch of the American Red Cross and Its efforts to bring happiness to children throughout the world. , Realizing that the time never was so propitious as right now for teaching the highest Ideals of citizenship, the entire present program of the Junior Red Cross has been framed under the very inclusive phrase, “Training for Citizenship Through Service” for others. Since the Junior Red Cross- Is the agency through which the American Red Cross reaches the schoolboys and the schoolgirls, all its activities are designed to come within the regular school program, and without creating new courses or increasing the number of studies to lend its aid in vitaliz” ing the work of the schools. v \ “The thing that is needed,” says Dr.

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• — — • . .-J* - Livingston Farrand, Chairman of the American Red Cross Central Committee7"“ls not a perpetnation of the Junior Red Cross, but the graining and breeding of sound American citizenship inspired by the true, fundamental ideals of sound democracy. One of the great conceptions in making the Red Cross a contributor to better citizenship in our American democracy is the realization that after all the sole hope of any nation is with the children of the coiietry.” The plan of organization of the Junior Red Cross makes the school —public, parochial and private —the unit, not the Individual pupils. Mutual service, helpful community work such as clean-up campaigns, cate of the sick, promotion of health regulations, participation In civic and patriotic movements —all these creative agencies designed to translate into life and action the regular school program are parts of the machinery which the Junior Red Gross places at the disposal of the school authorities. Graded study courses giving practical methods of civic training, supplemented,by pamphlets and helpful suggestions, are supplied to the local schools by the Junior Red Cross. An elaborate plan for promoting an Interchange of correspondence between children in different sections of the United States as well as with children in foreign lands is being devised and will take a prominent place in the established classroom program. In promoting the general cause of child welfare, Red Cross courses In home hygiene and care of the sick, first aid, and dieting may be established Id all Junior Red Cross Auxiliaries, , The ideals and the objective of the Junior Red Cross are embodied in the pledge of service which the pupil takes when he signs the membership roll and pins on his coat the Junior’s badge. The pledge which binds together service and citizenship reads: “We will seek in all ways to live up to the Ideals of'the Junior Red Cross and devote ourselves to its service. “We .will strive never to bring discredit to this, our country, by any unworthy act. “We will revere and obey our country’s laws and do our best to inspire a like reverence and obedience in those about us. “We will endeavor in all these ways, as good citizens, to transmit America greater, better and more beautiful than she was transmitted to us.” At the-foundation of this school program of the Junior Red Cross is a great love for America’s children.

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GERMANS ARE TIRED OF WAR

British Officer in Cologne Finds Only Professional Soldiers Anxious for It. CHANGES IN CITY ON RHINE People Submit Calmly to British Rule Street Car Officials Are Now Almost Servile—Business Picks Up. Cologne.—The British army appears to have acquired a strong grip on this section of occupied Germany, and the soldiers get along very well with the people. They mingle freely with them in the streets, restaurants and cases, and pick up colloquial phrases very readily. There has been very little friction between the Tommies and the inhabitants. All disputes between the army of occupation and the people of Cologne have been brought before a court of arbitration, and the Germans so far have not complained of any of ’the awards. There is more business in Cologne in commercial and trade circles than in the other large German cities, which is owing to the business transacted with England aud Holland. The Dutch merchants are sending all the.foodstuffs they can lay hands upon Into Germany, which keeps the prices very high in their own country and Is causing strong protests to be made by the working classes In Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other cities. The goods ate brought from Holland to Dusseldorf and Cologne by freight steamboats. There is considerable activity in the factories in Aachen, Dusseldorf and Cologne. The people in these centers are paying attention to their business and- are more optimistic in regard to the outlook than the Germans in Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfort. Fight All Gone. The British officers of senior rank with whom I have conversed here say that they do not believe there is any probability of the nation wanting to fight for many years to come. The Germans, apart from the officers and underofilcers of the old army, who have been trained to arms as a calling, will not go to war in a hurry because they have realized very clearly that it does not pay, and they do not wish their sons to be trained as soldiers as soon as they leave school and subjected to the tyranny of the drill sergeants. An English officer of high rank, who speaks German fluently and has traveled all over the country in the last year, said, in speaking on this subject: “At the present time Germany could put a well-equipped army of 600,000 officers and men into the field if they could be organized to fight together. The major part of this force is the army of the Baltic and the smaller bodies of troops who have not yet been disbanded. The ordinary German workman, so far as my knowledge goes, is fed up with war, and desires to live with his family and pursue his trade peacefully. “The French military authorities do not agree with this view in regard to the Germans and believe that they are secretly organizing to avenge their defeat. The officers, especially the Prussians of the old regime, would- no doubt like to do this, as fighting is their trade, but the rank and file would refuse to follow them into the field. “The Germans have plenty of airplanes, arms and ammunition. Out of 28,000 field guns they possessed when the armistice was signed they have destroyed only 2,000 so far. It is very difficult to get the German government to carry out the conditions of the peace treaty, which demand that these guns should be destroyed, and that the forts and strategic railways constructed in the course of the war should be demolished. The claim is put forth that all this work would occupy a long time and would be unproductive and expensive to the government, which has no funds to meet it. Personally, judging from the slow manner In which things have been done so far, I think it will be years before these conditions are fulfilled, if ever. “There Is one thing certain to any sane person who knows the conditions existing here at the present time: that is, if Germany is to pay the indemnity, or any portion of it, in the near future she must be supplied with raw materials to start the factories to work and with foodstuffs for the people. Officials Are Civil. “There is a good deal of talk among the better class in favor of a constitutional monarchy on similar lines to that of Great Britain, but that would be impossible so far as any of the German princes are concerned. They do not know the meaning of such a form of government and would immediately become (autocratic dictators directly any one of them ascended the throne. It took England nearly a hundred years to persuade the Hanoverian sovereigns that they were to be. seen and not heard, so far as the govefnment of the country was concerned, and it was not until Queen Victoria had commenced her long reign that this was accomplished finally by Lord Melbourne, who was prime minister.” I It was a strange sight to visitors in Cologne on Saturday, June 5, to see . the British troops with massed bands I parading the cathedral square in honor of King George’s birthday. The people

filled all the side streets and crowded the windows of the shops and houses which overlooked the scene. They behaved in an orderly manner, and the mounted German policemen who were on duty had no difficulty in keeping the big crowd back. Before the war Cologne was very prosperous and had a large garrison. There Is a great change in the bearing of the railway and street car officials toward the ordinary people. Theli smart uniforms and autocratic manners of fdrmer days have disappeared. They now’ slouch about in old armj uniforms minus the facing, and art civil to the public almost to the point of servility. There Is a little more meat in Co logne than in Berlin, which is due tc the supplies coming up the Rhine from Rotterdam for the British anny, and the bread is of a better quality. The Tommy gets his rations and his white bread dally and purchases his extra supplies from the canteen. With the low rate of exchange he has been living in clover onNils array pay, and the majority hope that the occupation will last for years. The greater number of these soldiers did not take part in the great war, but are older men who enlisted for three years’ service in the occupied territory after the armistice was signed.

Lovers Tie Feet; Plunge Into Sea

Hilo, Island of Hawaii. — Strapped together as they leaped iqto the sea to fulfill a double shicide pact, Uye Tafaburo, a Japanese of North Kohala, and Makino Kukuyama, wife of another Japanese, partly failed In their endeavor. Tafaburo w’as drowned but the woman' was pulled from the surf by W. Plnehaka, jailer of North Kohala. Plnehaka saw the pair, with ankles and bodies tied together, leap as one into the sea from the rocks below Hawd, on the North Kohala coast. He scrambled down to the water’s edge just as the tide washed the woman back to shore, the bonds that tied her to her companion having broken. . Later Tafaburo’s body was recovered by Hawaiian divers. The woman’s infant child, wrapped in her obi, or girdle, was found hanging on a tree not far from the spot where she had failed in her attempt at suicide.

KING VICTOR HOUSING POOR

Monarch Only Member of Roman Aristocracy to Respond to Appeal of Official.

Rome, Italy.—Commandatore Lusignoll, the new head of the housing commission, with a touching belief in the goodness of human nature, celebrated his appointment by sending an appeal to the aristocracy of Rome asking the members to allow any spare rooms in their splendid old palaces to be rented to some of the weary seekers after house room in the Eternal City. All began to make excuses except King Victor. He has already made ten new apartments for humble families in the large stables near the Qulrinal palace, which his father, King Humbert, kept full of horses, but which since the accession of the present monarch have always been more or less empty. At an expense of near $200,000 he plans to construct thirtynine more apartments.

CANARY’S FUNERAL COST $200

Five Mourners' Coaches and Band Follow Body of Little Songster at Newark, N. J. Newark, N. J. —The scriptural assurance that sparrows shall not fall unnoticed was given tangible application to a pet canary bird. Jimmie, the little songster, choked to death on a watermelon -seed, and so grief stricken was his owner, Emilio Russomanno, a sixty-flve-year-old cobbler, that friends contributed S2OO for a funeral, Including a hearse, five mourners’ coaches and a 15-plece band. “He sang, ah, so sweet, like Caruso!” sobbed the cobbler as, the little plushlined casket, six by twelve inches, was lowered into the grave. He plans to erect a monument later.

TOTAL OF SUICIDES GROWS

Save-a-Ltfe League Reports Big Increase in Cases of Self-Destruc-tion-for Blx Months. New York.—Suicide cases in the first six months of 1920 have shown an alarming Increase over those of the corresponding period last year, the Save a Life league reports, r in the first half of 1919 the league received reports of 2,062 suicides as compared with 2,771 for the first half of this year. The league aims to prevent suicide by offering advice and financial assistance to despondent persons. Of the total suicides reported this year 1,810 were males and 961 females. New York contributed 341. This year’s list includes 161 returned soldiers and 225 children.

Italian Aristocrats in Denim.

Rome. —A large number of aristocratic young men in Rome, Florence and other Italian cities, by agreement, are wearing a special costume this summer, made of denim, costing about $6 to SB.

STATE Report of the condition of THE STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER State Bank at Rensselaer, In the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on September 8, 1920. Condensed —4 RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts >371,806.66 Capital Stock 1 Overdrafts „ 774.21 Surplus 25,000.00 U. S. Bonds & Certificates 19,500.00 Undivided Profits 3,182.10 Other Bonds & Certificates 17,000.00 Discount, Interest and ExDue from Banks and Cash change, less Expense 3,6v9.04 on Hand <77,041.93 Deposits - 370,454 55 Banking House ; V 0,000.00 Payments on Bonds and Certificates 15,965.00 Reserved for Taxes ~ 2,911.58 >496,122.80 >496,122.80 FARM LOANS BONDS PURCHASED AND SOLD ' OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS JOHN EGER, President DELOS THOMPSON, Vice-Pres-JAMES H. CHAPMAN, Cashier GRANVILLE MOODY. LUCIUS STRONG

RED CROSS ACTIVE IN DISASTER RELIEF

When disaster hits a community—fire, floods earthquake, explosion, bad wreck or tornado —the American Red Cross can he depended upon to follow right at its heels with help for the stricken people. Red Cross relief is almost Immediately forthcoming—food, clothing, shelter and funds; doctors, nurses and special workers with long experience in handling similar trouble elsewhere. the last year, ending June 30, there was an average of four disasters a month In the United States. One hundred , and fifty communities in twenty-seven states suffered. The largest and most destructive of these were the tidal wave at Corpus Christi, Texas, and tornadoes in Mississippi, Louisiana. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, In these events of horror 850 persons were killed. 1,500 were injured, 13,(XX) were made homeless, about 30,000 families needed help, the property loss was nearly $100,000,000 and almost $1,000,000 in relief funds, not including emergency supplies was expended. To the sufferers from all disasters during the year, the American Red Cross sent $120,000 worth of supplies. 110 Red Cross nurses and seven special relief trains. To meet the needs of the stricken, the organization set up ten relief stations, operated thirty food canteens and as many emergency hospitals. One hundred and twenty-five Red Cross chapters gave disaster relief service. If disaster ever strikes this town or county, the citizens can be absolutely sure the Red Cross will be on hand to heln them in every way.

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YUUK HEU GKUn The American Red Cross, by Its Congressional charter, is officially designated: To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war, in accordance with the conventions of Geneva. To act in matters of voluntary relief and as a medium of 'communication between the American people and their Army and Navy. To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and to apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great calamities. To devise and carry on measures for preventing these causes of suffering. FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL November 11-25, 1920. MEMBERSHIP FEES: Annual > LOO Contributing 5-00 Life atf 00 Sustaining Patron 100.00 Send dues to your nearest local

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