The Citizen, 1917-08-16

Germans Using Bodies of Slain to Get Animal fat Own The London Times published a few days ago the story that the German dead are shipped bound in bundles of four with iron wire hauled to waiting railroad trains and shipped to a reducing plant where the fats and oils are recov recovered - ered recovered for chemical uses including the making of explosives The bones are ground into fertilizer and pig feed To many persons the tale was incredible a mere column of horror to entertain the idle read reader - er reader or vent British spleen against the Germans The Times now cotnes forward with a more detailed story of the intensive treatment of the German solider to the end that Empire may profit by using him after he is killed as while he is alive In sub substantiation - stantiation substantiation German papers are quo quoted - ted quoted and the story as it now ap appears - pears appears seems as well authenciated as any chronicle of alleged facts could be If it is still incredible it is only because the minds of many persons cannot adjust themselves to the reception of the story that a civilized people would treat the corpses of gallant soldiers as a mere commodity to be employed as a measure of national economy American consuls formerly in Germany are quoted by the Times as saying that the Germans have been for some time making nitro glycerine and obtaining the essen tials of other explosives from the corpses of soldiers killed in battle The German censors now are per mitting their press to report the rendering of the corpses as an ex ex-tentof - tentof ex-tentof high efficiency of Germany the Times says Belgian newspa newspapers - pers newspapers have printed the news that the trains laden with bundles of corps corpses - es corpses are dispatched to Gerolstein each car labeled "D A V G" meaning 'Deutschetn Abfalls Veiw Veiw-erttunggesellschaft' - erttunggesellschaft' Veiw-erttunggesellschaft' which transla translated - ted translated is "The German Offal Utiliza Utilization - tion Utilization Company Limited" The factory is situated 1000 yards from a railroad which connects St Vith near the Belgian frontier with Gerostein The site of the plant is in a forest in the little frequen frequented - ted frequented district of Eifel southwest of Coblentz A spur leads to the fac factory - tory factory which is surrounded by charged wires and operated by workers who are not permitted to leave the place The following account of the re reception - ception reception and treatment of the Ind Indies - ies Indies follows: "The factory deals especially with the dead from fhe western front If the results are as good as the company hopes another will be established on the eastern front "The trains arrive full of bodies which are unloaded by the workers who live at the works The men wear oil skin overalls and masks with mica eyepieces and are equip equipped - ped equipped with long hooked poles They quash the bundles of bodies to an endless chain which picks them up by means of hooks at intervals of two feet The bodies are trans transported - ported transported on an endless chain into a long narrow compartment where they pass through a bath that dis disinfects - infects disinfects them They go through a drying chamber and are automat automatically - ically automatically carried to a great cauldron into which they are dropped by an apparatus which detaches them from the chain "They remain six to eight hours in the cauldron where they are treated by steam which breaks them while they are slowly stirred by the machinery The fats are

Government Officals Deny Only Part Of Results Yet Announced Orange N J Aug- 12 - Here is the wonderful war mystery! More thrilling than trench cap capture! - ture! capture! More important than wheat! More romantic" than air duels! More engrossing than these and all the rest because it is still a mys mystery - tery mystery What is the mysterious secret invention Edison America's Wiz Wizard - ard Wizard has perfected to destroy the IJ - boats? This is the big ques question - tion question mark of the entire world war Here are the facts: First - Almost a year ago it was widely announced that America's electric genius had a marvelous scheme b y which electric rays would set off explosives at great distance Second - Several months ago a prominent member of the Naval Consulting Board of Experts an announced - nounced announced American inventive genius was about to turn against German -ya mysterious destructive agent that woald rid the sea of U-boats Third - July 14 Edison himself in one of his rare statements issu issued - ed issued to his subordinates said crypit crypit-cally: - cally: crypit-cally: "We now have all the re bellious elements under control Today will be rememdered as the time when we rdmoved the last jinx from the record" Fourth - July 20 the Navy De Department - partment Department permitted the announce ment that a device to detect a U U-boat - boat U-boat ten miles away was nearly perfected Fifth - A high Government of official - ficial official said only a few days ago that Edison had just completed a task that would make him the greatest man in the world Sixth - The Westinghouse Com Company - pany Company leading makers of electric appliances is enlisiting 1000 men willing to be absolutely locked in from the outside world holding no communication with it for ten months making "war munitions Seventh - Edison white'haired had been working for months six sixteen - teen sixteen eighteen twenty hours a day in a veritable frenzied debauch of sleepless nights and days ou the submarine problem before he made his electrifying announcement Eighth - No Goverumeut official will say a word Now - what is the conclusion? First - Was the announcement of the new rays of remarkable pow power - er power somebody's dream? Second - Was the Naval Consult Consulting - ing Consulting Board expert either a liar or a maniac? The board is not made up of that kind of men Further Further-more - more Further-more his statement was not de denied - nied denied Third - Did Edison boast widely when he had solved the last war puzzle? Well - you can number 100 mag magical - ical magical inventions from Edison's brain Can you number one boast? Fourth - Was the Navy Depat t t-meut - meut t-meut talking through its hat when it said U-boats were unmasked ten miles away? Fifth - Is the high Government official who said Edison had finish finished - ed finished a job that would "make him the world's greatest man" crazy? Sixth - Is the Westinghouse Company turning itself into a pris prison - on prison because it believes that will at attract - tract attract labor in these times of labor shortage? Seventh - Why doesn't some high official put these speculations to rest by an official denial of them all? Isn't it plain that instead of more than the facts 'being revealed there exist thore fact? than have

His wife Told Him But He Heeded Not LBy Ada Patterson A Priest was complaining in the courts that he was swindled at cards and that his wife told him they were marked Why a priest should gamble is beside the mark at this moment The fact to which I want to call your attention is that his wife told him the cards were marked It is the way of women to dis discover - cover discover that the cards in a man's life games are marked and to tell him about it This priest doesn't tell all the truth I'll warrant that if he did he would say: "Mrs Priest kept me awake nights telling me to avoid those fellows they were no good and would get me into trou trouble - ble trouble I wish I'd listened to her" The old old story! As old as girls hearkening to the dulcet tones of the deceiver! Many men would be outside of jail instead of inside it if they had "listened to their wives" In an interview with a man who has one of the dominant minds of this Nation I asked: "When you are in dobt what to do what course do you take?" His answer was prompt and brief: "What my wife tells me to" It is the mother element in a woman's love that makes her a good guide The woman who loves a man cares more about his well being than anything else un unless - less unless children complicate the situa situation - tion situation by dividing that care in some cases by absorbing it She may be trusted to guide him safely through treacherous waters of circum circumstances - stances circumstances If she hasn't brain enough to cope with the situation she has a strange uncanny insight which is like the widejspreading whiskers of a cat that warn it in the dark passage too uarrow for his body to follow "I wish I had listened to my wife!" The wail in bass and tenor voices is as common as "If I'd only thought" in lighter ones A mau will do well to listen to his wife upon two subjects They are men and money If a woman says to her husband "My dear I don't like that man I wish you wouldn't bring him to the house again" he would better do as she says She may be able to tell him why she would be able to prefer the visitor's ab ab-sense - sense ab-sense to his presence Or she may not be able to tell It may be that the man's mov moving - ing moving eye and exaggerated compli compliments - ments compliments have startled her as a deer is startled in the forest by the break breaking - ing breaking of a twig The deers senses of danger is keen So is a woman's Not so a mau's The divorce courts reek with instances of a husband who trusted his friend too i much Or the man may have shif shifty - ty shifty eyes or the eyes may be too close together The woram ap apprehends - prehends apprehends danger to her spouse from that man "Be careful dear He's tricky" she may say If she does her husband will spare hitn hitn-'self - 'self hitn-'self painful encounters with the man's business methods A woman's sense of personality is acute Her feelings of danger in a business matter is nearly al- - 1 ways trustworthy In at least half 1 the homes in the Uuited States the

Sunday School Convention The County Convention! of the Kentucky S S Association will be hetd Sept 9th at Oak Forest Church 6 miles from Scottsville on the Holland pike All the Sunday schools in the county are urged to send one or more representatives with report of your school that you may be able to help other schools and get help for your school We want to know your difficulties likewise your suc successes - cesses successes A representative of the state S S Association will be pres present - ent present and we want to have the great greatest - est greatest day the county has ever had in Sunday School work The program will begin at 10 o' o'clock - clock o'clock a in and continue till 3:30 p in including dinner on the ground Our evening session will be held it the first M E Church in Scotts Scottsville - ville Scottsville beginning at 7:45 p m A program will be prepared and subjects assigned later but all Sun Sunday - day Sunday School workers are invited to participate W N Cook Co Supt Miss Beulah Dalton Secty Watch the Waste Happy careless wasteful Amer Americans! - icans! Americans! Will the necessities of the great war make us realize the enor enormity - mity enormity of our sins against home econ economy? - omy? economy? The Department of Agriculture estimates that if each of our 20 20-000 - 000 20-000 000 families throws away an ordinary slice of bread daily the country's waste for 2 4 hours i 9 875000 pounds of flour or over a million 1 pound loaves At this rate we would destroy yearly 1- 500000 barrels of flour or enough for 365000000 loaves of bread It would take the yield of 470 470-000 - 000 470-000 good Western acres to provide for this great anuual crime If every family empties into the garbage pail an ounce of edible meat or fat daily it means that the nation suffers a loss of 1250000 pounds or 456000000 pounds for the year Many kitchens commit this daily waste Is yours one of them? MAYNARD Those on the sick list are: Isom Sparks Willie Farley and Mrs Mollie Sikes A Red Cross Chapter has been organized here with the following officers: D W Cliburn Chin Jeff Hurt Treas Mrs Nan Witt Sec and about 25 members Mr Buck Berry of Missouri has been spending the week with relatives here has gone to Glasgow where he will spend a few days with his sister Mrs John Witt The pupils and teacher of Hick Hickory - ory Hickory Grove went Friday for an ex excursion - cursion excursion to the Wild Cat Cave and out upon the great Wild Cat Moun Mountain - tain Mountain the highest mountain in Allen county aud report an enjoyable time Several from this place went to the Tabernacle meeting at Scotts Scottsville - ville Scottsville Sunday Mr and Mrs Geo Hood and Miss Georgia Atwood visited in the Bethlehem Community Saturday aud Sunday SUNFLOWER

Do You Owe Tour Friend Money? Some time ago you borrowed money from a friend of yoars You have not repaid it because you feel that he is not in need of money and - because you think he is a good friend of yours hence he is not at all worried about it You are wrong in this No matter how good a friead to you he expects you to be honest and pay what you have borrowed at the time you have agreed to do so When money and friendship are in the scales together money drops the balance A promise to a friend should be as inviolate as to a Shy lock If you have had hard luck atld it is impossible to make payment as agreed if the man is a real friend he will be linient with you But whether or not he would be merciful does not lessen your own obligation And if the frieud from whom you got a loan knows that you are spending money which by rights should go to him to liquidate your debt to him can you blame him if he feels and shows a coolness to you? No he is justified i n this for you are not proving yourself to be as good a friend to him as he was to you when he lent you the mon money - ey money Fay your friends what you owe them likewise your subsciption Another Score for an Allen County Boy The following cominnnicatio n was addressed to Mr Warner Mot Motley - ley Motley from his brother Arthur Mot ley who has boen in the service of Uncle Sam's army for fifteen years and has never returned ou a fur ough even since he enlisted: Ft Riley Kans Aug 12 Dear brother: - As I am leaving here for a few days' duty in Kansas City thougnt I would drop you a few lines Warner I mailed you one of my photos this morning and you will have to excuse me for having it made with my hat on as I had to have one made to send the War Department and they require it in full uniform so I had them all made alike I have just been promoted to Captain of Infantry which helps me some You will probably see the names in the papers of all men who were commissioned and also promoted at the end of the train training - ing training camp and I was one of the lucky ones I will be back here the 27th of August so do not write before then as I don't know just where I will stop while in Kansas City I am very busy getting ready to leave so I must close for this time Best regards to all As ever your brother ARTHUR MOTLEY Capt of Inf U S A 1 Subscribe for The Citizen

Col Pulliam Got Even With The Tiresome Speaker In a national campaign back in the years when the tariff was the text for all speakers an aged and tiresome talker was sent to Scotts Scotts-ville - ville Scotts-ville in Allen county to address the Democrats Being unknown to everybody a large crowd assem assembled - bled assembled to hear him and at one o'clock the speaker began his harangue He piled up figures mountain high to prove that the consumer paid the tax speaking all the while in a monotone and at the end of the first hour his audience had mel melted - ted melted perceptibly At the close of the second hour less than half dozen remained among the num number - ber number being Col Robert F Pulliam known to every man on Main St in Louisville thirty years ago As the sun reached its western slope aud was ready to disappear from view Col Pulliam the only auditor left arose and raising hi hand as an apology for interrupt interrupting - ing interrupting the speaker said: "My friend with a degree of patience that would have shamed Job I have listened to you f o three mortal hours aud regret that my humble home i s three miles from town which makes i t com pulsory that I start now in order to reach it by uightfall When you conclude close the door" - tin Old Song The following old hymn was handed to us by Capt Tol Moore The hymn was composed by Wash Mansfield when the call was made for volunteers to the old Mexican War: The Spring is up old winter is o'er The fields look green and gay Inviting and Honor calls us off Away my boys away! A soldier is a gentleman Aud honor is his life And he that wont stand to his post Will never stand by his wife In shady groves by rippling streams Each had stood firm and free We'll drive the cares of life away With songs of Liberty And when the war is over We will sit down at our ease We'll plow reap and mow And do just as we please Mrs Shaw Improving Mrs N Smith Shaw who has been very ill of typhoid fever and wife of County Supesintendent - elect is reported to be much im- proved and hope is held out for he speedy recovery

broken into stearine a form of tal tallow - low tallow and oils which require to be redistilled before they can be used Distillation is carried out by boil boiling - ing boiling the oil with carbonate of soda and some part of the by products resulting are used by the soap makers The refined oil is sent out in small sacks like those used for Petroleum and is yellowish brown "The fumes are exhausted from the building by electric fans and sucked through a great pipe to the northeastern corner where they are condensed and the refuse re resulting - sulting resulting is discharged into a sewer There is no high chimney as the boiler furnaces are supplied with air by electric fans "There is a laboratory and in charge of the work is a chief cliem -ist with two assistants and seventy-eight men All the employes are soldiers attached to the Eighth Army Corps There is a sanitor sanitor-ium - ium sanitor-ium near the works and under no pretext is a mau permitted to leave They are guarded as prisoners at this appalling work"

Expressions of Appreciation I wish to express my undying gratitude to my many friends who so loyally assisted me in securing my nomination for County Superin Superintendent - tendent Superintendent on August 4 I regret very much that I could not get to see each of you and talk with you personally but I hope we may become better acquainted and our friendship grow stronger during the next four years and that I may have the hearty cooperation and good will of every citizen of the county in the upbuilding of schools and the advancement of education Thanking you again for your support and assuring you that I shall spare no time nor effort in discharging my duty I am Respectfully yours N SMITH SHAW