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Thurcday, June 4, IQ& r v THE MeHEN&Y PLAHTOKALKB Z'A * * • * , ( " £SfcV}^£'?:HW .V v- -A:?: in lilt WORLD rfiCLIGIOn yu.ul.9e(D f bhurchmen are pointing. eut that while the "First Aid Text-Book" of the American Red Cross has soared to a circulation of 6,000,000 copies, making it one of the most widely used t books in American history, the American Bible Society alone reports that Its sale of Bibles, New Testaments and gospel portions has averaged more than 7,000,000 copies per year daring the past ten years. "And one must remember," says one commentator, "that it was the teachings of the Bible that inspired the formation of the Red Cross and every other humanitarian movement which tha modern world knows." ' . 1 Twice Told falt| Takea «f T< Five hundred cities and large towns, located in thirty-eight states, are reported now to be releasing children for week-day religious instruction in their churches. Plans are under way for released time for the same purpose m Alabama, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Wyoming. A gathering of 3,000 women of the )|fthodist church recently in Columbus, Ohio, under the presidency of Mrs. J.- D. Bragg, of St. Louis, Mo., began a movement to have women • • , represented at the peace conference • think that spun* u com that will make the terms at the close % SIXTY YEARS AGO J. I. Story and Thom«ft Knox are moving their barns, which have heretofore stood close to the street, setting them back, imp-moving not only their own premises but the whole street. The new members of the board of trustees were sworn in on Monday evening last, and the board was organized by electing Anthony Weber, president for the coming year. We learn that the new brickyard of which we spoke some weeks since is a fixed fact, and that work -will be commenced in a short time. The front of the postoffice and E. M. Owen & Son's warehouse have each leceived a new coat of paint, which is certainly an improvement and makes of the present war. They are urging other grpups of women to take similar action. '"If such representation is denied," they voted, "an advisory conference made up solely of women will be held simultaneously with and in the same city of the peace conference." They took this action on the grounds that former peace treaties have been "treaties bf revenge against the vanquished and of economic aggrandizement to the victors"; because "women are more concerned with human rights than with economic gain"; and because modern war enlists women in ane form or another of military, preparation and activity. "To safeguard America's children ill wartime, and so assure America's future, will require the combined efforts of all groups, both public and private, and the interest and participation of every citizen," said Miss Catherine Lenroot, secretaiy of the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, recently. "The tasks calls for the imagination, the rifi'V YEARS AGO E. M. Owen & Son are putting in a drive well at the public school grunds. A long needed improvement. Floods are raging all over the west and south, and thousands of acres of farming lands in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska are submerged. The mother of William Davis, who lives in the west part of town died on Wednesday and was buried from the Catholic church on Friday. We have not learned her age. Joe Blake's team got frightened while hitched in front of Heimer's 'saloon on Tursday last and made it lively around there for a few minutes. FORTY YEARS AGO Butter dropped from 27 cents to 22 cents Monday on the Elgih board of trade. John Heimer has placed a large new refrigerator in his saloon. Barbian Brothers' building on the _ corner of Elm and Green streets is consecrated purpose, and the co-op- being reshingled. erative effbrt of the great host of I A new floor has been laid in the people, men • and women, in the , depot. Thus we see our new depot go churches of America, and the special j glimmering for some time at least, effort of church women. In such ways i H. Wightman has moved into R. may the life of our beloyed country be Waits' cottage on Green street, reaonserved and strengthened, and made cently vacated by Mrs. Alexander, a more perfect instrument for bringing human society into harmony with ideals for which Christianity THIRTY YEARS AGO the Butter was declared firm af 96 dfenda." cents on the Elgin board of trade, Mondajr. v The charehe* of the Northern Bap* | Andrew Miller is again employed m tist convention, according to Secretary the McHenry brewery after being Stanley I. Stuber, ave just raised a away from the place for some time. "World Emergency Fund" of $600,- ( Math Bowers will hold a grand open- M0 in addition to their regular mis- ing at Anton Epgeln's old stand in sionary and educational budget of $2,- old town next Saturday evening. He 600,000. Of the special giving of the has engaged the Johnsburg brass denomination, $100,000 is for ministry band for the occasion. to men called to the colors; $160,000 j John R. Knox, the man who is sellfor war relief at home and abroad; ing the Ford, is now nicely located in $40,000 for ag«*d ministers and mis- his new garage on Pearl street, near aidnaries; $100,000 for special needs the river bridge. of foreign mission stations because' of the war; $100,000 for emergencies on the west coast, in Alaska, and in the defense areas of the U. S.; and $100,(KH) for Baptist schools and colleges. in appeal to ministers throughout United States ot prepare them- TWENTY YEARS AGO The stretch of walk on the east side of Green street, across from the village hall, which was damaged during the repairing of the water mains last fall, has been reconstructed. I Hundreds of automobiles passed selves to give wise pastoral counsel- •Plough the village over the weekend liny to people who have problems a • w ® not stop, it is sate brought on by the war, is made by to /hat ^everal hundred dollars Dr. Seward Hiltner of the Federal were left m the village by the travel- Council of Churches of Christ of ers from Saturday until Tuesday eve- Afnerica. He suggests that this coun- n,"Kselling should be 'based on the best McHenry band made its first knowledge of psychology as well as *; appeal ance of the season on Christian insight and -understanding." , Tuesday afternoon at the head of the According to Dr. Hiltner, -There is Memorial Day parade. Although a much in the resources of Christianity num^er pieces were missing, the which can be said to the mother who organization made a very fine imia worried about her son 'west of San pression. Frar cisco' ... and for this, training Even w,th the speediest of action in p»i£toral psychology is needed." He on 'he part of attorneys and the sagjfPts that the laity make it pbs- courts, it now looks as if the complesiblt lor ministers to secure the de- tion of the proposed community high .rffed education in this field. ' •cho°1 building for this year ii Bt- •terly out of the question. ' %>irector Elbert M. Conover, of the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture, New York City, warns that many churches are developing hazards by permitting basements and empty rooms to be used for the storing of old newspapers and old salvaged materials. "Church boards of trustees should watch for fire hazards and consult with local fire deportment officials for protection of property," says Mr. Conover. "Basement and upper rooms--in which costumes, old lesson materials, womout books defense and preparedness pro- {. " Army 'Hptai eats' Conversion of permanent tent conduction to "hutments," to provide •Bore adequate protection for trqops, has been undertaken in 24 U. S. army camps. The tent camps to be transformed --at an estimated cost of about $2>,000.000 -- accommodate several hundred thousand troops. Six are Ipcated in the West coast area; 11 IB the Southeast area and seven in tbe Southwest area oi the United States. The term "hutment" is used to designate a solid sheathed roof with a two-by-four bracing placed over tile standard tent frame. Two sections of the screen wire are replaced by plastic screen which is weatherproof, but which admits sunlight. Over the other sections of screen wfre, hinged plywood shutters are installed. Nation of Card Players Uncle Sam spends more of his fire ' free time playing cards than in any other form of recreation except reading, listening to the radio and going to the movies. Now and then, of course, he sits down to the table with the idea of making a little money--but most of the time he plays for fun and as a relief from the economic, political, social and military troubles that beset him. tiJlud Ijou Buy. HjUU WAR BONUS Navy Cruisers are built in two classes, light and heavy, the latter displacing about 10,000 tons. Our navy has about an equal number of light and heavy Cruisers, the 10,000 ton Cruiser costing approximately $20,060,000. Many Cruisers are under construction and many more are needed. -- . High Floor Gtofs An excellent finish for a wooden surface where alcohol may be spilled can be obtained by rubbing in linseed oil to which about "25 per cent of strong white vinegar has been added. This will require continuous application until a high gl*w ( finnrlf 9*9 <***• is achieved. . j 'ft Ttmmn iin To pay for these speedy and powerful ships with their heavy guns and armament we must buy War Bonds. Citizens of a large town or a given community, working in unity, could buy one of these ships for the Navy if they put at least ten percent of their income in War Gets Burglar's Shoes, But Burglar Escapes CHEEKTOWAGA, N. Y.-Restaurant Proprietor Anthony Mleczak, 51, noting a burglar emerging from a poolroom, < let fly with a shoestring tackle and wound up with the burglar's shoes in his hands. The burglar continued down the street with his loot of $15 in cash and $29 worth of cigarettes. Cat's Cornea Used To Restore Sight Klexicah Surgeon Reports en Three Operat'ons. LOUISVILLE, KY. -- Transplanting of the cornea of a c'at's eye to a human being to restore partial vision was described recently before the Pan-American Homeopathic congress. The operation, declared to be on^ of the newest in surgery, was reported by Dr. Mario Escobar of Mexico City through a motion picture film and a description by Dr. Angel Camargo, also of Mexico City, feecause of illness, Dr. Escobar was not present to deliver his address. Only three persons have received the cat eye transplants, Dr. Camargo declared, but all three, formerly completely blind, have had their vision partly restored. One young woman who before the operation could not distinguish even shadows, can now identify her friends at close range and differentiate colors, he declared. All thfc-ee persons suffered from staphlomatous infection of the cornea, a condition in which the "window" \ or primary seeing part of the eye at the front of the eyeball becomes thickened and clouded, a condition similar to cataracts. The operation, which sounds simple but isn't, consists of opening the human eye with a double knife and removing part of the cornea. Then a slightly larger bit of cornea fiom a live cat on another operating table is removed, fitted into the human eye and sewn into place with extremely precise stitches. That Monster Is Seen Once More on Loch Ness LONDON.--In the rapidly diminishing memories of peacetime there lives the story of a monster. For quite a time, while war was little thought of, the Loch Ness Monster occupied many columns of front pages throughout England. Travelers saw it. Fishermen saw it. Innumerable people saw it--but no one could ever prove that such a monster really existed. Came the war, and little things like monsters went into oblivion. For nearly two years not one person professed to have seen it again. But apparently the monster has slid a long humped body into the world again -- under wartime conditions this time. J. MacFarIan-Barrow and three of his children were out in a yacht dinghy when the monster "broke surface" near Glendoe pier. They saw "a lpng snaky back, and IS to id feet of the body, shaped rather like an upturned boat," for something like 10 minutes. Said Miss MacFarlan-Barrow: "It raced up and down and across the loch as if it really was in high spirits. Occasionally it dived and reappeared with the agility of a giant seabird. X "It must have covered seMen miles during the display. Sojnetimes it moved so rapidly thar columns of water several feet high were thrown^up." Reuben James, Forgotten tAfHEN the radio flashed word * * recently that a ship of the United States navy had been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, it rescued from the obscurity which had engulfed it for more than a century the name of one of America's "forgotten heroes" and gave it world-wide fame. For the destroyer, which now rests on the bottom of the Atlantic with its crew of nearly 100 officers and men, victims of the modern "pirates," was named in honor of Reuben James, "common seaman," who.once distinguished himself by an act of gallantry and sett-sacrifice in a battle with the pirates of another era in the annals of the sea. That was away back in the *arly days of the republic when we were jt war with the Barbary pirates of the north coast of Africa who had been preying upon American commerce for years. On August 3, 1804, young Captain Stephen Decatur led his command of three gunboats into the harbor of Tripoli to attack some of the pirate ships which had taken refuge there. Out to meet him came six enemy boats, all of them manned and armed twice as heavily as the American craft. Undaunted by the odds against him, Dccatur urged his crews to grapple with the pirates and board their boats. The battle immediately %resolved itself into a desperate hand-to-hand Strug- CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed Most Newspaper Advertising The tobacco industry invests the most money in newspaper advertising with the automobile industry second. -v_ * > Not Ball Player Readers of the sport pages might think a sack man is a baseball player, but his real job is in a corn pcodU ucts plant. -»-i---~irn~i~ir,ii**^'iH-i'*vy-r*n--I--IT --i Jilted Suitor Murders Model and Ends His Life NEW YORK.--A lovers' quarrel was blamed for the deaths of Janet Wood, 23, pretty brunette clothing model, and Frederick Rabe, 34- year-old writer. Their bodies were found by Gusta Thorsteinsson, a clerk in the Icelandic consulate, when she returned to the upper East Side apartment she shared with Miss Wood. Listing the case as one of murdei and suicide, detectives said Rabe attempted a reconciliation with Mis>: Wood and that when he failed he shot her. then himself. Detectives said they learned from Miss Thorst-insson that her roommate had tool Rabe a week ago tha: she was "through with him." Miss Wood formerly lived in En' glewood, N. J. German Girl Weds Napf After His Death at Front BERLIN.--A German girl be came a widow without ever having been a wife, when she formally wed ded a dead man. The girl had been the fiance oi Sergt. Ottb Ernst Maiwald, a Ger man soldier in Africa. Last June Maiwald performed the so-called long-distance marriage service before the commander of his unit. By the time the marriage papers reached the girl in her home town of Ebersdorf, he had been killed in action. Nevertheless, she went before a registrar and signed the marriage papers Maiwald had signed, and under Nazi law became entitled to pension and other benefits of a widow of a aoidier )^». died in actiop. s i Beaben Jamas saves tha Ufa of Capt. Stephen Decatur. (Drawn tram tha flaw painting by Chappal.) t gle in which tha pikes, axes and cutlasses of tha Americans were pitted against the scimitars and daggers of the corsairs. Within a short time Decatur and the crew of the gunboat which he commanded personally had cleared the deck of the pyrate ship. But bad ' luck had overtaken the captain's younger brother,. James Decatur. The leader of the pirate boat t which he boarded had pretended to surrender, then had shot James Decatur through the heart. Seeing this, Captain Decatur* mad with rage, shouted to some of his men to come with him in pursuit of the murderer. Another officer and 10 men responded to his call and within a few minutes they overtook the enemy's ship. Led by Decatur, they sprang aboard and cut their way through the corsairs toward their leader. The captain, a giant of a man, swung savagely at th£ young Amer ican with a pike which he was using as a broadsword. Decatur, trying to cut the blade of the pike from the shaft, snapped his cutlass at the hilt. Dropping his useless weapon, he closed in, seized the pirate captain around the waist and back-heeled him for a heavy fall. As the two struggling men went down on deck, one of the pirates rushed forward and raised his scimitar to deal the American captain a death blow. But before the weapon could descend, Reuben James, although badly wounded, sprang for ward and threw himself across Decatur's shoulders. The keen blade of the long, curved sword slashed across James' head, inflicting a terrible wound. But he had saved his commander's life. James eventually recovered. Later when asked to name his own reward, he is said to have scratched his scarred and battered head and murmured bashfully: "If it's all the •same to you, Cap'n, let somebody else give out the hammicks. It's a business I don't like." And witl\ that classic remark Reuben James steps off the page of history, his name to be all but forgotten until 137 years later when a German torpedo sent his namesake to its watery grave. In a certain sense, Reuben James' heroic self-sacrifice was in vain. True he saved Stephen Decatur for even greater service to his country later But it is also true that he saved his commander's life only to have him lose it as a victim to the code duello which Decatur hated but which he was not brave enough to disobey. So in 1820 when his erstwhile friend, Commodore Jamef Barron, who believed that Decatui had slandered him, challenged him to a duel, Decatur met him on the "field of honor" and died dont the wound received there. Jesse Jones in a Difficult Po^tioa --Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones is being abused and blamed and criticised by inside New Dealers, by members of the congress, and by the press, for his failures to do this, or that, or something else. Yet it is" now reported he finds flocks of government planners coming around to him and his highly effective organization for help and advice in administering more and more war controls. Many of Jones' men with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation have had considerable experience in handling tough jobs. That there has been and still is considerable intrigue against Secretary Jones seems quite apparent. On Thursday, May 28, a government expert in rubber reclamation appeared before the committee on coinage, weights and measures of which I am a member and stated, in reference to a certain proposed rubber reclaiming plant, that his immediate superior officer had directed him to make an adverse report on the establishment of such plant because it was "loaded with dynamite" and that it was "back, ed by Jones." More Pay for Service Men -- The houst* by an overwhelming vote, recommitted the conference report to the conference committee of both houses. The coriferenees had accepted the senate version of the bill and fixed the base pay of the service men at $42.00 per month. The house still insists on the figure of $50.00 per month. If the senate will not recede and accept the house provision, a compromise may be effected. At any. rate the men are sure of a pay boost of at least $'21.00 per Ynonth. Wiretapping--Several months ago the house, by a close vote, defeated a bill to permit the admissibility in federal courts of evidence obtained by federal agents, through tapping of telephones or telegraph wires. Last week another bill, limited to war-time crimes such as treason, sabotage, sedition. etc., and with a clause limiting its operation six months after peace is declared, passed the house by a unanimous vote. I supported both of hese measures.. Perhaps it will be said that my long experience as a prosecutor has made me prejudiced but I believe the bill that was defeated was most preferable. It would have been permanent legislation and would have applied to other felonies particularly extortion and kidnapping. Capital Tourists Must Walk--By order of the Office of Defense Transportation, sight-seeing buses, ao familiar to Washington citizens, will cease to operate on May 31. Of course the order is universal and affects similar vehicles throughout the nation. Director Joseph B. Eastman estimated that the order would result in the saving of 100,000 pounds of crud? rubber per year. He stated that last year sightseeing and charter buses traveled 21,000,000 miles and used up 126,000 pounds of crude rubber. If youYe Vacationing this Year... come to I What Shrike fs A shrike is an insect-eating bird with a strong notched bill, found in southeastern United States. CEDE ,. 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