Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1918 — Page 3

ALLEGED LABOR SHORTGE LAID TO DRAFT EVASION

To the Editor of The Star: Here is a paragraph from an editorial in the Country Gentleman: We gather. that if the farmer is willing to pay the shirk-work labor of the cities from SSO to S7O a month to kill his horses and min his machinery his labor problems are solved. He can then discount as tommyrot the alleged shortage of help on the farm. He may consider it all a myth that 1,000,000 farm boys have gone to war: that potatoes rotted in the ground last winter for lack of labor to dig them. I read some five or six farm papers and they all have the same song about farm labor, but they always begin on the city labor that is willing to help by a thorough cussing out. They are told that they are a worthless, lazy lot and not wanted. Of course that makes the city man feel fine and do a big day’s work. Then the farmer makes another roar about the scarcity of farm labor, but if you travel through the farming country as I have you will soon find the true reason for this talk about the scarcity of farm labor—and that is the draft. I know it to be a fact that farmers with sons of draft age have refused to hire men and then make affidavits that they can not run their farms without the help of their sons, and in this town of about 7,000 people there are at least 150 experienced farmers and farm hands, but if they hired their help that would remove the only excuse their sons have for evading the draft; so there you are. This talk to me, sounds like it was made in Germany. B. F. SMITH. Seymour, Ind.—lndianapolis Star.

WAR MOTHERS BENEFIT.

Hon. Edward Barrett, state geologist of Indiana, will give his lecture and picture show on the beauty spots of Indiana at the Gaiety, May 16. Tickets 25e. Come everybody and help tins Worthy cause. \ ■.

If you want quick results advertise in the Republican classified column. "ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL” The Way Some People Figure The Fertility Problem ▲ certain North Dakota farmer had, besides other crops, 200 acres in wheat about ready for cutting. After admiring it sufficiently and learning that it would run about 20 bushels to the acre, a city visitor innocently asked, “How much profit will there be in that crop?’ » •‘lt will sell for close to six thousand dollars,” replied the farmer. “The cost for plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing and hauling to the elevator ■will be something between four and five dollars an acre, say five dollars. There will be nearly five thousand dollars profit in it for me. That is what I call real independence.” That man is losing out because he Is not figuring fertility in the cost of production. Fertility is the farmer’s capital, and he cannot draw on it indefinitely without replacing it. Cost of Fertility First Consideration That twenty-bushel crop on the Dakota farmer’s 200 acres yielded a total of 4,000 bushels. Experiments show us that the fertility extracted by that 4,000-bushel crop was as follows: Nitrogen 5,680 pounds; phosphorus 960 pounds; and potassium 1,040 pounds. At present prices, that nitrogen would be valued at SBSO, phosphorus S2B, and potassium $62, giving a total of $940 worth of plant food used by that one crop—not taken into consideration by the farmer. «This kind of figuring perhaps goes on right in our own community. The lobs of fertility is so gradual and its reduction so subtle as not to be noticed for years. But once in a while now we notice that the crops do not mature as rapidly as formerly. They linger-r the soil’s vigor of years ago is not there. Silos are called upon to save immature corn, and so is the method of “ hogging down.” We are urged to speed up production. With more efficient tools, better seeds. • and a greater demand for food, still more of the farmer’s capital will be taken out without being replaced. How is it to be maintained? The use of legumes, good rotations, commercial fertilizers, etc., can, of course, be employed, but what about the barnyard manure?

Evmy Bit of Manure Should Be on the Field* Do we realize that it has a crop increasing value of 85.50 a ton now? Most farmers do recognize its increased value due to increased price of crops, but there are spill many farms where we can see the cattle standing knee deep in fertility that should be incorporated in the soil. The rains are carrying away rich brown streams of nitrogen, potash, and phosphorus that the crops are hungry for and that other farmers are paying good prices for in the form of commercial fertilizers. Nitrogen gas is steaming up and float* Ing away with dollars and dollars worth of ic&f Mid stalk building material. Spreader Mort Important Tool on Farm There Is one thing that will Correct this waste better than most anything else. It is the use of a spreader. The investment is a good one, for the spreader should pay for itself on fifteen acres or less the first season by the crop increases it produces even over the best of hand spreading. But while the investment is a remarkably fine one, the fact that the farmer has money tied up in the machine will -make him use it of tener, and frequent Mmreadinsr is lust what is needed, spread on the soil, the manure either dries out and stops fermenting, or losing ammonia, or else the plant food is washed into thejmil toythe-rains. The spreader saves sojnacfTtime arid labor that the wortrt&n be done often. The job becomes a light chore instead of a heavy, disagreeable task. And my, what fine even work some of those new wide-spread spreaders do! Figure on Fertiliy Lrt us not let rising prices fool us. Thejertllity bill basto oe paid some

ANCIENT VESSELS OF JAPAN

Earliest Known Specimen of Japanese Craft Called “Morota-Bune" or “Many-Oared Ship of Kumano.” A historical study of ancient ships used by a seafaring people such as were the prehistoric dwellers along the shores of what is now the sea of Japan has been made by Shlnji Nishimura of the Society of Naval Architecture and the Tokyo Anthropological society, East and .West News states. He has devoted many years to the work, and although the printed is small. It is profoundly exhaustive. He starts with the earliest known specimen of Japanese called the “Morota-Bune” or “Many-Oared Ship of Kumano,” remains of which were dug up at an old village of that name to the south of Lake Naku-no-Uml in Idzumo province. It was “a place to which the Idzumo people had migrated from their native land; Where was that native land?” Mr. Nishimura traces direct descent, from the “Many-Oared Ship of Kumano” and the triangular craft of Korea, still used at Songyn. He says: “It may be asserted that the MorotaBune in Idzumo and' the triangular craft in Korea have diverged from the same stock, viz., the fishing boat of the Ainu. In my opinion, the Morata-Bune,; the fishing boat of the Ainu, and the triangular craft in Korea resemble one another In form; but the boat of the Ainu belongs to the northern group, while the rest belong to the western group. The triangular craft of the Koreans was modeled after the fashion of the ancient Manchurian type, while the Morota-Bune was fashioned after the Korean type. Even supposing they came from the same source, that source Is prehistoric; it must belong to a time when the ancestors of the Ainu were related with those of the Koreans, before they capae to Japan, from some place situated at the eastern extremity of Asia; let us say, for example, in a potamic region like the Amur. If this be so, the time antedates the history of the shipbuilding of our country.”

SOME OLD HEALTH FALLACIES

Surgeon Blames Women, Especially Mothers, for Keeping Infectious Diseases Going the Rounds. “If I were asked who keep infectious disease going my reply would be most emphatically women in general, but chiefly the mothers.” This hard saying came from a noted English surgeon who was addressing a gathering of women. The new idea of public health was his topic. Continuing, he "said: “One is horrified to observe the profound ignorance that prevails even among clever and cultivated people as regards the true nature and treatment of disease. For instance, you will find numerous persons of your acquaintance who still believe that rubbing the eyelids with a gold wedding ring will cure a stye, and that piercing the ears strengthens the vision; that lunatics are affected by the phases of the moon; that consumption is hereditary; that the application of red flannel (it must be red) cures sore throat, and that a raw beefsteak Is good for a black eye; that pricks from rusty nails cause lockjaw, and that the swallowing of grape stones sets up appendicitis, finally, that measles and other children’s diseases are inevitable and that the sooner one Is through with them* the better, and that, on that account, It Is both useless and unnecessary to enfleavor to segregate the other children when once a case occurs In a house.”

At the Tombs of the Kings.

A Syrian maid dipped her water jar into the muddy well in the corner of the great square where sleep the nobles and kings of Jerusalem. “The wen is swimming with dangerous microbes,” said a doctor who was touring the Holy Land. “We have drunk the water for years,” replied the maid pertly. i "Have any of your family died from typhoid?” went on the doctor, giving the girl a kindly smile. "Yes, two brothers and one sister, but many die of typhoid in the dty.” "As I suspected. Why not go to the river for water?” "The journey Is long and I have much service to perform at home.” “Then, you must bon the water before you use It for drinking.” The maid laughed. Whoever heard of boiling water before drinking It? She looked at the doctor and asked if be had had sunstroke. Then the doctor laughed, and replied that he was a doctor. At the mention of that word the girl bowed to the stranger and said that she would do as the doctor had told her. A doctor had once saved her father’s life.

Sorrow and Sympathy.

Adam Bede had not outlived Ms sop* row—-had not felt it slip from him as a temporary burden, and leave him the same man again. Do any of us? God forbid 1 It would be a poor result of ah our anguish and our wrestling it we won nothing but our old selves at the-end of it—if we could return to the same blind loves, the same half-confi-dent blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same fertile sense of that unknown to* ward Which we have sent forth ferepreamble cries in our Ibnrttnesu let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructible force, only changing its form, as forces'do and passing from pain into sympathy—the one poor mood which includes aR our best in right and our best lo Seorge Eliot.

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BUYER PROTECTED BY ADVERTISING

Manufacturer Must Maintain? / Quality of Goods Bearing His Name. / • ' HIS REFUTATION AT STAKE Man Who Buys Standard Brand* From Local Merchants Knows That He Is Getting Full Value for His Money. (Copyright, 1817, Weatern Newspaper Union.) Time was when advertising did not occupy the place in the world of trade that it does today. It has not been so very many years ago that the people were suspicious of advertising. They were inclined to believe that the merchant was trying* to “fool” them with his advertising, that he exaggerated the value of the merchandise he advertised and took that method of trying to get them to buy goods that he could not sell by the-old established methods of merchandising. Those, days are gone. The public now realizes that it is the greatest beneficiary of advertising. Advertising has done more in a decade to establish certain standards in merchandise than could have been accomplished in a hundred years by any other agency. The manufacturer whe a few years ago merely made and sold clothes now makes and sells the Blank brand of clothes. The man who formerly just made hats now make* Blank’s hats. And so It Is with everything that one buys today. The manufacturer, by his advertising, has built up his business around a trade name and if he is to continue In business he must protect that trade name by maintaining such a high standard ol quality that people, when they buy hl* products will know just what they are getting. The consumer, when he goe* into a store today, does not buy merchandise blindly, with the HOPE that it will prove to be worth the money He buys standard goods that bear the trade-mark of the manufacturer anc that are backed by the reputation nol only of the merchant who sells them but the manufacturer who makes them This has been brought about by advertising. No Reputation to Protect All this applies to the retail merchants as a class but it does not ap ply to the mail order business. The man or woman who buys goods from a .catalogue houfje-ls not protected bj the manufacturing of the goods for the reason that most manufacturers who sell goods to the mall order houses do not place their names upon the goods and therefore have no reputation to protect. The great majority of articles listed and illustrated in the mail order catalogues are included in what is knowr among manufacturers as “stencil* stuff. These articles bear the name ol - the mail order house which sells them instead of that of the manufacture! who makes them. It can readily bt understood that any manufacturing concern which turns out goods that do not bear its name or trade-mark is likely to be a very unreliable institution. It is not building up any repu tatlon on the quality of its goods for its products have nothing to distinguish them from the products of any other concern. With no reputation to sustain and no chance of creating a general demand for its goods the only concern of a manufacturing Instltutlon of this kind Is to make stuff as cheaply as possible in order to obtain the largest possible profit on its products. “ 1

Same Price World Over. These facts are chiefly responsible! for the generally prevailing idea that the home merchants do not sell goods as cheaply as the mail order house. They do sell the same quality of goods that the mail order house sells as cheaply as the mall order house sells it but they cannot sell the standard, guaranteed products of responsible manufacturers at the same price at which the mall order house sells its nameless, unbranded merchandise. Standard goods bearing a registered trade-mark sell for the same price the world over and the manufacturer’s guarantee stands back of them when they are sold in the smallest village in the country just the same as when they are sold in the stores of the largest dries. . This is what the national advertising of the manufacturers has done for the consumers of the country. It has enabled them to go into their home stores and buy merchandise which they know from past experience -or from the reputation and guarantee of the manufacturer will give them satisfaction. They are hot buying blindly and hopefully when they buy from the merchants in their home towns. They are buying with the knowledge that they are getting their money’s worth. When they buy advertised brands they are getting double protection, that which is afforded by the responsibility of the' retail merchant and that which is given by the reputation and guarantee of the manufacturer. When they buy the unknown brands of goods that are offered by the mall order houses they are getting neither of protection.

There are about 22,000 deaf and dumb persons in the United Kingdom, between 8,000 and <OOO residing in London. ■—'■ww 1 1 Rwyi.urtw * rm.

RESULTS OF PRIMARY IN NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

White. Republican—Clerk, Grover V. Lowe; Treasurer, Edmund Steely; Recorder, George Gilbert; Sheriff, Harvey Brannon; Coroner, Morgan Hughes; Surveyor, .George Thomas; Assessor, WilHam Snider;’Commissioners, A. A. McLeon, John Matrix; County Councilman, Charles Holladay, S. M. Burns, J. D. Klepinger, R. C. Hornbeck, Levi* Soulibne, U. G. Devault, C. ,M. Merts. Democratic—Clerk, Benjamin Dickson; Treasurer, Frank McQuaig; Recorder, Rowland Benjamin; Sheriff, John A. Smith; Coroner, Alfred Coyner; Surveyor, Paul Warde; Assessor, Oliver Hanawalt; Commissioners, William North, John Fry; County Councilmen, J. C. Leeds, J, D. Foster, Patrick Hays, John H. Smith, R. A. Jewett, R. L. Smoker, Frank Conrad. P»»l»«lr» Republican—Clerk, G. H. Collins; Auditor, J. C. Horner; Treasurer, C. Backenkirker; Sheriff, E. J. Kopke; Coronor, R. J. Ives; Surveyor, R. E. Nutt; Assessor, D. R. Haschel; Commissioner, First District, Fred Kroft and Joseph McCornell ; County Councilmen, Luther Thompson; Third District, W. F. Badger. Democratic-—Clerk, J. C. Engle; Auditor, Peter Bryan; Treasurer, G. L. Louden; Sheriff, Verl Hathaway; Coronor, L. P. Collins; Surveyor, Simon Hickle; Assessor, J. E. Blew; Commissioners, Henry Reinholt, Louis Kroft; County Councilmen, Joe Reidlebach, Frank Long, J. E. Emmett, George Yount. Republican—Clerk, H. B. Wheaton; Treasurer, Ralph Bradford; Sheriff, Lew Barnes; Coronor, Dr. E. E. Evans; Surveyor, Ray Selley; Assessor; William Black; Commissioners, George Shaff, R. R. Clausen; County Councilmen, C. T. Bailey, H. M. Godfrey, J. A. Beattie, Joseph Hanley, Z. B.‘ Boyd, Z. A. Pattee. Democratic—Clerk, Chester Dunn; Treasurer, W. H. Walter, Sheriff, F. Strickland; Coronor, Alva Young; Surveyor, Peter Lyons; Assessor, Henry Kertman; Commissioners, J. H. Johnston, O. P. Worsley; County Councilmen, John Dorman, J. V. Stodola, J. Schillo, ,M. Kozrsky, J. M. Neil, E. Yates.

ATTENTION, WAR MOTHERS. To the War Mothers of Marion township, there will be a meeting at the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, May 11, at 2:00 o’clock, and you are urged to be present. Miss Faye Crooks, of Neodesha, Kansas, will render several vocal selections, and there will also be a reader and selections on the pipe organ by Mrs. M. D. Gwin.—Advt.

FOUR EXPRESS COMPANIES MERGED TILL WAR ENDS

Washington, May 9.—A merger of the Wells-Fargo, United States, American and Adams express companies, with a capitalization of $35,000,000, is to be sanctioned by the railroad administration for the period of war. The agreement gives the national railroad 50 per cent of the gross earnings and a share in the excess profits. Terms will be fixed on a sliding scale, so that the net revenue will be at least 5 per cent.

THE COMPLECTION Is Our Health Barometer A good complection can not be obtained when the liver, kidneys or bowels are inactive. Bilious or poisonous matter within the body causes the sallow, muddy or splotchy complection. Why drag around looking tired, old and dejected when Glando Tonic will put you right. It will remove the poisons and give you new life and strength. Glando Tonic acts directly on the liver, kidneys and small glands of the stomach and bowels. Its'great popularity is due to the wonderful cures which have been obtained through its use. Sold by druggists ,or may be secured by sending direct to The Gland-Aid Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. Price 50 cts.

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PUBLIC SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS I will sell at public sale at the Public Square on Saturday, May 11, at 3:30 p. m,. the following household goods: Washing Machine, Garden Tools, Glass Fruit Jars, Cupboard, Kitchen Utensils, Rockers, Couch, Stands, Chest of Drawers, Clothes Rack, 2 Iron Beds and Springs, 2 Wooden Beds and Springs, about 30 yards of Carpet and other articles. - ■ I ‘ Terms: Cash. W. J. WRIGHT Fred Phillips, Auctioneer.

ANNOUNCEMENT To the farmers of Jasper County: To the farmer* of Jasper County: We wish to announce that we have opened an up-to-date creamery in the Fendig building, across from the postoffice on Front street, and are prepared to handle your cream to the best advantage. Wo are equipped to manufacture the cream into butter and sell direct to the consumer, thereby eliminating the middleman, and making it possible for us pay you the highest marprice. We solicit your patronage, and assure you of the best service at all times. We offer 45 cents per pound for butter fat for the week ending May 11th, and request that you give us a trial. Rensselaer Creamery and Produce Co. i “Highest Prices.” “Boot Service.”

Protect Your Family Life Endowment Or monthly income policies that protects your family and yourself. Gary National Life Insurance Co., Gary Theatre Building Wilbur Wynant, Pres. Gary, Indiana. HARVEY DAVISSON GENERAL AGENT. A few small blocks of stock to be sold in Jasper county.—Ask Davisson.

Money to Loan We will be In RENSSELAER WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 And will be prepared to loan moneys on cattle, hogs, horses or farm implements. See us at Makeever office. WALLACE AND BAUGH ■' i' ! • ' ■. ' . Lafayette, Indiana.

ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

I can lean you aU the money you want on that fam. My rate is 5 per cent and jny limit fe 8109 per aoa.—P. D. Worn. Morocco, Ind.

BEAUTIFUL POTTED FLOWERS.

Have you seen those beautiful potted flowers of Holden’s Buy one today for mother. Your wife would appreciate them, too. John BL Balden, Florist.