Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — Page 1

No. 117.

CHICAGO TO HOLD DEFENSE MARCH

Council Sets Junt 10th As Date For Demonstration Showing Need of Greater Preparedness. Chicago is to be the scene of a great middle west preparedness demonstration and has set June 10th as the date for a mammoth parade, leaders in every phase of the city’s activities are said to favor the project and it is proposed to have a great parade illustrating the thorough Americanism of the city’s cosmopoliton citizenship. The following resolution was offered by Alderman Murray at the council meeting Monday night: Whereas, A demonstration in the interest of national preparedness is being considered by citizens of Chicago, and Whereas, The time is propitious for the expression of that devotion which we all feel for our country; therefore be it • Resolved by the city council of the city of Chicago, That we indorse this patriotic movement, and the mayor is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a committee of aldermen and city officials to participate in the plans for said demonstration, and to make the necessary arrangements for the representation of the various departments of the city~government. Two socialist councilmen opposed the resolution.

HUGHES MAY ACCEPT; HINT GIVEN BY TAFT

Ex-President Comes Out For Justice Following Talk—Politicians Have Become Excited. The Chicago Tribune prints a special from Washington to the effect that Ex-President Taft following a talk with Justice Hughes has come out for the latter for president and hints that Hughes will accept. The report that Mr. Hughes had admitted a willingness -to becomfe the republican candidate for president caused considerable excitement among republican politicians in the capital. It has generally been considered that if Mr. Hughes would accept the nomination he could get it and a recent canvass of the members of congress showed a large' per cent in favor of the ex-govemor of New York. The Chicago Tribune in an exhaustive discussion of the qualifications of the eastern candidates comes to the conclusion that Governor Whitman, of New,. York, possesses more of the qualifications now needed in a president than any of the other candidates, although admitting that the people generally favor Justice Hughes.

Notice to the Public. I wish to notify the public that I have quit papering.—Jay Zimmerman. We have that cultivator you want. HAMILTON & KELLNER.

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DELOS THOMPSON HAS ENTERED CHI RAGE

Lover of Good Cars and Lots of Speed Is Aspirant For Amateur Honors In Chicago. \ t Delos Thompson, known to be one of the best automobile drivers in this section of the state, has entered into the amateur automobile race which takes place Saturday in Chicago. No one ever suspicioned Delos of entering until his seen in Monday’s Chicago Tribune. Following i 3 the article, with the sub-head “Brakes Trouble Thompson”. “A new for amateur speed laurels, De Loss Thompson of Rensselaer, Ind., reported for practice for the first time. He has entered a Marmon, but did not have an opportunity to see what the car could do, as frozen brakes developed on his initial lap of the track.” Eleven aspirants were present for the trials yesterday. The race is for Che western interclub trophy and will be held at the Qhicago speedway. Most of the cars averaged .seventy miles an hour in the trials. Those who know Delos as a driver have confidence in him and hope that he will place well in the race.

Quarterly Conference of M. E. Church Well Attended.

The quarterly conference of Trinity Methodist church Monday evening was largely attended. The district superintendent of the Lafayette district, Rev. W. E. McKenzie, D. D., presided. The report of the pastor, Dr. Paul C. Curnick, showed the church to be in a most flourishing condition. During the year there have been about one hundred new members taken into the church. The congregations have been the largest in the hi story of the church. -J. J. Hunt reported for the Sunday school. C. Ross Dean for the Brotherhood. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill for the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, and Mrs. Wm. Frye for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. The Ladies’ Industrial Society made their report through Mrs. Hunt. The Epworth* League report showed the largest attendance of young people that the League has ever had. The quarterly conference was delighted with the administration of the new superintendent, Dr. McKenzie.

Boys, a Watch Free With every suit costing $5 or more at Hamill & Co’s. Going Up. But we’re still selling overalls at 75c and the best 50c work shirt in the world for 50c. Get Hamillized it pays big.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1916.

JACKSON HIGHWAY HITS RENSSELAER

Route From Chicago to New Orleans to Supplant Dixie Air Line—Big Doings This Summer. Organization Is Urged. First Week in August Will Be “Jackson Highway Good Roads Week'' and Every Citizen Along the Route Is Urged to Get Out and Work On ' The Roads and Get Them in the Best Possible Shape—E. P. Honan Receives Good Letter Whiah Republican Prints in Full. The Jackson Highway has been permanently located from Chicago to Nashville, * Tenn., and it passes through Rensselaer and there is no reason why it should not be more extensively traveled than the Dixie highway aboilt which so much was being said a year ago; D. M. Boyle, of Lafayette, the vice-president of the highway association for Indiana and a good roads advocate and a diligent worker, wrote the following interesting letter to Attorney Honan under date of May 15th. It should be read by every citizen and all should get the spirit and help with the work. The letter follows:

Lafayette, Ind., May 15, 1916. Hon. Edward P. Honan, Rensselaer, Ind. My Dear Sir:_ In order that you and your fellowofficers of the Chicago-Indianapolis Air Line Association and your citiezns may be fully advised as to what steps have been taken to place our line upon the route known as the “Jackson Highway,” I will write you at length, yet briefly as pcssible. Soon after the establishirg of the Dixie Route and the Ghattanooga, Tenn., meeting, in which you took part, a meeting of interested roadmen was held in Louisville, Ky. The Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, feeling an interest in the matter, sent a representative-in th e pprson of Mr> Marshall Haywood of this city, to that meeting. He returned with a report that it was the intention to establish a route of highway from Louisville, Ky., to New Orleans, La. It also developed that these southern states were favorably inclined to extend the line as far north as Chicago, and it was arranged to hold a meeting of all the states interested at Nashville, Tenn., on September 21, 1915, for the purpose of organization and the selection of a permanent route. At this meeting the Chicago-Indian-apolis Air Line route was represented by Mr. W. L. Brown, of Frankfort, County Commissioner T. J. Gwin and myself, of Lafayette. Indiana was further represented by a number of parties from Franklin, Columbus and Salem, who were interested in a route from Indianapolis to Louisville and known as the “Lakes and Gulf Line.” Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were there in great numbers. They came by excursion trains from every direction and the meeting was full of enthusiasm. An organization was perfected, officers elected and the Association named “The Jackson Highway Association.” Each division along the route was allowed to present their claims for a place upon this highway. Much of the same data was used in presenting the claims of the ChicagoIndianapolis Air Line, as your delegation presented at the Dixie meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn. By the unanimous vote of more than a thousand representatives, living along the lines from Chicago to New Orleans, the route we proposed for the Dixie people, a few weeks before, became a part of the Jackson Highway. The road south from Indianapolis to Louisville was accepted in like manner, and also the route from Louisville to Nashville, Tenn., so a permanent line was thus establishec

form Chicago to Nashville. At this point a number of proposed routes projected through the states named, all having their terminus in the city of New Orleans. It seemed fair to all the parties interested, that a Pathfinding committee, with the aid of a government engineer, should go over each of these different routes and report their findings to the officers and directors at a meeting to be held in Nashville the latter part of October. I attended this meeting, with other Indiana representatives, and listened fto the reports there made. It was plain that none of the routes proposed were' ready to be accepted as a part of thfe permanent Jackson highway. Many of their roads were unimproved: many of the streams were without bridges and occasionally a toll road was in the fray and the authorities had made no provision to make the * necessary .improvements. After due

consideration, the representatives of these contesting routes agreed to return home, make further improvements and provide for a second inspection by the Pathfinding committee and government engineer in October, 1916. Upon their report th“ permanent route south of Nashville to New Orleans will be made without further delay or contest. In the organization and election of officers, I was selected as vice-presi-dent for Indiana and has associated with me as directors, Mr. W. L. Brown, of Frankfort, one of the officers of our Air Line Association and Mr. W. H. Lincoln, of Columbus, and Mr. W. H. Crim, of Salem, Who were officers in the line south of Indianapolis, known as the Lakes and Gulf Line.

On May 5, 1916, the president of the Association called a meeting if the officers and directors living in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennesse to meet in Louisville. There was a full attendance, besides many interested citizens from the southern states. We learned that all along the contesting lines south of Nashville, the people are exceedingly active in road improvement and the chances are, that the path finding committee on their second tour of inspection, will find a class of roads, the equal, if not superior, to many of the highways in our own state. At this meeting a generel discussion of the roads all the way from Chicago to Nashville' was taken up. It was agreed that the highway should be properly marked with the initial letters “J. H.,” meaning Jackson Highway, in the same way that our line is now marked with the “D. A.”, and in a very short time your county, as well as all other counties through which this highway passes, will receive a suitable stencil and such instructions as may be necessary to properly mark your part of the road. The officers of the Association strongly urged that all the counties along this line perfect their organizations, by electing a president, secretary, treasurer and three directors. Tippecanoe county has retained the same officers that were a part of the Air Line. We did this because they were alive to the situation and best prepared to do the work required. You will, I am sure, take up this matter of organization in your county and as early as possible advise me of

fleers. It was also proposed at this meeting that the first week in the month of August, 1916, be designated as “Jackson Highway Good Roads Week,” and it is hoped that in every county between Chicago and Nashville, one day during that week will be employed by the citizens generally,

without compensation, when they will turn out in great numbers with tools and teams to repair and improve this particular highway. You and your citizens will be interested in this and will help make it a banner day in your city and county. The officers of the association and some of the southern citizens most interested in this great highway, have heard much concerning our good roads in Indiana and especially the line from Chicago to Indianapolis. They have expressed a desire to make a trip through this state about June 20, 1916. The details have not been completed, but we are trying to arrange it so they may be able to stop over night in your city, meet your citizens and may be you would arrange an evening good roads meeting. It will be an inspiration to us to meet these men who represent the Jackson Highway in the southern states. They are so earnest, so unselfish and so full of the spirit of good roads, that they dream and lave visions of a great broad highway leading from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, located and improved by a patriotic people and later aided and maintained by the government under which we all live, traveled and enjoyed by people whom we have hitherto known only in part. This highway id now ours, without question or contest, and when these representatives come among us next month, you will assist in giving them the glad-hand, all the way along the line. The Lafayette chamber of commerce are enthusiastic over our success in becoming a part of this great system so easily, while Frankfort and Lebanon commercial bodies stand shoulder to shoulder in the matter. We know the vim of Spitler, Makeever, Rainier, the old Air Line officers, yourself and the fellows who furnished the band- that came out to meet us when a bunch of boosters invaded your county a year ago. The enthusiasm must be greater now. We are not so very much concerned as by what name the road shall -be known Jackson Highway sounds just as good

as Dixie, so long as it passes over our lands, the richest ever known, through towns and cities, the fairest and best that time can build. These -are-our lands, our towns andeities,and the opportunity is presented to link our energy and ambition wit.i out brothers of the south-land and help their vision to become reality* We want your advice and ’ co-opera-tion, in county organization, in mark-

ADE GIVES REASONS FOR RESIGNATION

Asserts Opposition to Purdue Faculty’s “Nagging” of Students Was Cause of Resignation. Brook, Ind., May 15.—George Ade, who has tendered his resignation to Governor Ralston as a member of the board of trustees of Purdue University, issued the following statement at his home here today: “I am not resigning at this time because of any recent complications or sudden disagreement with anything happening at Purdue. For a long time I have not been in full accord with the faculty’s general policy of repression and regulation in the_matter of student enterprises. “No doubt the faculty must exercise a pretty firm control of undergraduate activities, but I think this could be done without nagging the students into a sullen and resentful mood. I could write a book about eccentricities and irresponsibilities of college students, but I am still of the opinion that you can not teach a bird to fly by tying him to a limb. “It has seemed to me that the kind of control exercised at Purdue in recent years did not encourage the' boys to be self-reliant or cultivate a spirit of initiative. It was good training for subordinates, but not for executives. lam not maintaining that a faculty should take orders from the students, but I think there should be a sort of fellowship between the bodies, especially when it comes to getting out and making a fight for the reputation of the university. I believe that the tact and diplomacy nee. essary to secure a hearty and friendly co-operation between the faculty and students needs the inspiration of leadership as much as the iron hand of discipline;* “I was supposed to represent the alumni on the board. I w,as not sure that my private opinion would be approved by the alumni. I had no definite instructions from the association. My duties as trustee were largely perfunctory. I did not feel that I was wielding influence and so I was quite-content to let some other alumni step in and serve a term.”

Epworth League Convention To Be Held Here Tonight.

The Epworth League will hold a sub-district convention tonight at the Methodist church. Delegates are expected from Lowell, Medaryville, Frrancesville, Fair Oaks, Roselawn and other churches. An Epworth League supper will be served at 6:30. The evening program at 7:30 will be open to everybody. Rev. W. E. McKenzie, D. D., of Lafayette, Rev. W. B. Warriner, of Remington, and others will speak. Sport shirts, panama hats, oxfords in late New York styles, at Hamill’s.

ing the highway, in celebrating good roads week, in maintenance and repair so that the Jackson Highway may be thoroughly established for all time to come. With kindest regards and best wishes for success, I am, Yours sincerely, D. M. BQYLE, Vice President for Jackson Highway of Indiana.

TONIGHT i 7:45 p. m. TURNER EXHIBITION j St. Joseph’s College i Alumni Hall i Gymnastics on the Horizontal Bar, j Parallels, Horse, Etc., Ground Tumbling, Building of Hunan Pyramids, Gown Stunts, etc. Admission 25 Cents. ' ",

DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MEX. WRECK TRAIN

Bandits Just Across Border Get Big Loot When They Steal U. S. and Carranza Gold. Eagle Pass, Texas, May 15.—Twen-ty-four persons were killed, it was stated by authorities in Piedraa Negras, opposite "here, tonight, in the derailment by bandits of a through passenger train from Mexico City to Laredo, Friday, between Queretaro and Empalme Gonzales. Many persons escaped from the train and walked back to Empalme Gonzales, 9 miles distant, in their bare feet, where a relief train was made up. Many thousands of dollars in new Carranza currency was said to have been taken by the bandits. In the train was the private car of Charles A. Douglas, Carranza representative at Washington. His car ws not*molested. The bandits entered the second class car in front and worked their wajgjtoward the rear, robbing all passeppers. Among the passengers reported robbed were two army paymasters, who lost the funds they were carrying, one $20,000 and the other $16,000, in the new Garrauza currency. A paymaster of the El Oro Mining company lost $35,000 in the new Carranza currency and an American named B 1 lost $3,000 in gold. The express car is said to have contained 1,000,000 pesos in the new currency, but owing either to the desire of the bandits to get away hurriedly or from ignorance of the contents of the car, it was not broken open, although it left the track and rolled down the embankment.

Rat Hides in Girl’s Skirt; Men Look Out Windows.

Green Bay, Wis., May 14. —A rat in a Depere inter urban car caused a panic among the passengers. The passengers had boarded the car at Green Bay, when the rat ran down the aisle. Women screamed and climbed onto the seats, but the rat immediately followed suit and took refuge in the folds of a skirt of a young woman passenger. The girl screamed and grabbed at the rat. At this juncture a gallant escort came to her rescue, took hold of the rat, which was folded in the skirt, and pounded it upon the seat until it was dead. The young lady was compelled to unfasten her skirt and shake it before she could get the rat out of its folds. Of course, the men all looked out of the windows during the entire episode.

Nelson, the Hatter. Nelson, the hatter, has pleased the hundreds who have had their hats cleaned and reblocked and will remain another week. Look up your old hats, panama or felt, and take them to him at McKay’s laundry. From $1 to $1.50 will make your old hat look like new and save you from $3 to $lO. Do it today. ¥ Boys’ Don’t Wear Patches When you can buy a suit with two pair pants for $3.75, at Hamill & Co’s.

If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg do It- Phone 621

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