Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1918 — Page 3

Protect Your Family Ute Endowment ' . ' FT '.F ’ - ... ..-X Or monthly income policies that protects your family and yourself. Gary National Life Insurance j , J Co., Gary Theatre Bulldins Wilbur Wynant, Pres. Gary, Indiana. ' HARVEY DAVISSON general agent. A few small blocks of stock to be sold in Jasper county.—Ask Davisson. ~ ■ <■y ,v

c SHETLAND PONY SALE. 1 will sell in Rensselaer, at the hour of 2:00 p. m., on the publie square on SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918. at public auction to the highest bidder. 14 HEAD OF SHETLAND PONIES Consisting of 1 stallion, several mares, some of which are bred, 3 yearling colts and 1 last fall colt. Most of the older ponies are thoroughly broken. .ONE WORK HORSE, A MARE This stock must be sold and here is your opportunity to secure a pony for your boy or girl. •S. • TERMS—A credit of 8 months will be given, purchaser executing bankable note bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per cent interest will be charged. 2 per cent discount for cash. MRS. WALTER LYNGE. FRED PHILLIPS, Auctioneer.

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RENSSELAERREMINGTON BUS LINE SCHEDULE 2 Tripe Daily Loose Rensselaer ...... 7145 a. m. Arrive Remington ...... 8:80 a. *. Have Remington ...... 9:10 a. m. Arrive Bonne elarr 9:51 a. m. Leave Benieleer .i.r. 4:00 >. *> Arrive Remington ....*. 4:45 p. as. Leave Remington 5:15 >. as. Fare 1 JLO? Each May FRANK <L- KRKSLER. 1B1«W» Raamelaee* lad.

ITEMS OF NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS ■ ' ■ L'jv While Mrs. Annie Lietzan was shopping in Chicago after receiving a letter from Joseph Lietzan, her son, in France, telling what he was going to do when he came home, a telegram from the war department at Washington announcing his death in action arrived at her home in Hammond. f Experiments made by the government have just demonstrated that the 1 yucca plant, which grows abundantly in the desert districts of United States, can be used as a substitute for sisal, hemp or jute in tqe manufacture of Binder twine, cotton bagging and other fabrics and cord-1 age of prime necessity. ' I . -——— I The government has placed ' restriction on the use of petroleum and ; coal oil in the manufacture of road products, such as asphalt, road binders, road oils, tar binders or dressy ings. Hereafter the use of such materials will not be permitted in road work without a permit from the government. This information was received by William S. Moore, state I highway engineer. I Austrian enemy aliens, although not included in the regulation tarring German enemy aliens from .the water fronts, will be prohibited from traveling on excursion boats during i the summer season, as well .as from all passenger boats on the high sta* or great kikes.

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TAXES RAISED BY HARD TIMES

Burden Is Lightest in Communities Boasting Live and Thriving Towns. FARMER FEELS THE EFFECT Io Inclined, to Forget, at Time*, That Ho Is Most Vitally, Interested In Prosperity of Near-by ' Cities. ? (Copyright, IDIT, Western Newspaper Union.) Taxes are always heavy—to the man who has to pay them—but ip some communities are much .higher than in others. If you have ever stopped to Investigate the matter you have discovered that the lowest taxes are found In the most prosperous communities. And there’s a reason, .rtr x The prosperous community has the lowest taxes because there is a large amount of wealth In the community against which the taxes may be assessed. There are prosperous merchants with large stocks of goods upon which taxes are levied. Property values are high and there are thriving industries which pay a large, proportion of the taxes. The higher the property va|ues and the greater the wealth of the; commu- . nity the lower are the tax levies, for a lower tax on each hundred dollars of valuation is required to» produce the necessary revenue for the administration of the dty and county, governments. • ~ ! ,' 1J Other Taxes Are Raised. On ther other hand, take a dead town. Property values are low. Merchants’ stocks are small, and they have little .money in the bank. Industries which ordinarily pay a large part of the taxes of a community have closed down. There are vacant store buildings which were formerly filled with stocks of merchandise upon which the owners paid heavy taxes. Who pays the taxes that were once paid by the mecbants, the manufacturers, the . bankers and the men had large .holdings of high-priced property! The taxes to conduct the city and county governments, to malntaln the schools, to build and repair the roads must be collected'from someone. Who pays them? The man who owns bls little home or the .vacant lot or two. upon which he has. been planning. to build his home must pay double or triple, the amount which he paid in, the times when the town was prosperous, to make up for the taxes which are not paid now by the merchants, the bankers, the manufacturers and the big property owners who bore the heaviest burdens of taxation when times were good. The farmers in the country surrounding the town are also among the heaviest sufferers .from the ebbing of the town’s prosperity. A certain amount of money must, be raised by taxation to . provide for the expenses of the county, lioads must be built and kept in repair. Bridges must be .built and maintained. Salaries of county officers must be paid. County institutions for the care of the sick and the poor must be maintained. In counties which contain one or more thriving towns, a large proportion of ..the taxes for the county are paid by the towns. The greater the wealth of the towns higher the .property valuations, the lowerAhe tafUevy for the ten tire county .jYpen thejtax farmer to light

Burden Faile on Farmer. _ JVfcen, the j»unty prosperous end wealthy! towns, the greater part of She Durden of County ./falls, jgxm the fanner. The, value of the farmer’s property does not fail in proportion.to tpb value of the property In the town and the higher tax levy that results from the lower property .yalues in bls taxes higher. The farmer forgets at times that he' is vitally Interested in the prosperity of rids town." He thinks that it' is up to the tewn .to tgke we qt itself and that It Is up to him tp take care of himself apd he overlooks that fact that the prosperity of the townmeana as touch to him as to those whot live In It The farmer whols lnclined to .overlook this fact has only to. .think otthe matter of taxes <md he is likely to change his point of jtAFJfy are one tiring that neither he nor anyone else can escape, and they pjgffio thing in which the farmer takes a yery lively interest How Earmer Can There is just ope way in which farmer .can best promote prosperity & the town near which he hve»hn& that is by spending bls money in that town instead (rs sending Lt away to the fardistant dty. Every time the farmer sends an order to a mail order house he helps to destroy the of hte own community and to boost his' own taxes. When he sends a dollar away from home he gets none of it back. When he spends a dollar at home, a part of that dollar comes back to him in some way. It helps the town where it is spent to provide a profitable market for his products and it helps the town pay a large part of his taxes. The farmer Is the ope man to the commuirity, above all others, who j should have no love for the mall order t houses for they are doing mo« to *44 to his troubles than ally othar one agency. _ - ■ -

EURDPE NEEDS FOOD

Mood AdmlntotrattoN Declare* It Is as , Absolute •Is to Waste Feed Feed Burope la stiH sending aa insistent anil tor mere food. We. must send tt It the war to to gs ea efficiently. If we estlt all we cannot ship it. and the feed admlnistrqtton has already tried to picture how much that wheat is Spaded by people who will starve At they de not get it, the feed administration states. “For the least Mt of heedloesnem on your part la food eonsorvattoa some otto somewhere inth* world must euffor privation,” aa official statement declares. “The food administration ha* mastered th* probloon of As*«*ca’* l*od i« such a way that every ounce es food conserved and kept la the currents of trade goes to an empty stomach in Barone. "It 1* an absolute sin to waste food. Food ha* become sacred. , "Feed faeane life; it means *omebody’s Me, and you cannot escape reeo waste of food among the allied nations.”

WAR BREAD COSTLY TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT

■very year the British government pays 1200,000,000 toward the cost of that nation's war bread. That is th* principal reason why English bread prices are tower today to the consumer than la America. Incidentally the British bread to much poorer than the American. Groat Britain has taken over all house grown grain, bought at an arbitrary price, aad bH imported wheat bought in markets of th* world at provaiHag prices. This to turned over to the stills by the government at a price that allow* the adulterated war bread loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents. The two pound loaf costs • cents, and the ea* pound loaf soil* for 5 cents. Ia mining, however, 14 per cent mor* lour to extracted from the wheat than la America. And there is a computoory adulteration of 20 per cent and an allowable adulteration es 00 **oempared with American bread, the British product is only about « per eeat pur* at Its best hi France, under conditions somewhat similar, but with a larger extractton, tii* four pound loaf sell* for It cents.

AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS

“We have already exported the whole es the surplus of the wheat harvest, over and above the normal demands of our own population. It is necessary, therefore, for the food admlnlstratton to restrict export of wheat M M to retain in th* United States sufficient supplies to carry 'our own people until the next harvest. "Therefore all exports of wheat from now forward ar* limited ontirly to volume of saving made by the AaeoriCan people in their consumption of wheat and wheat products. "We continued wheat shipments for December as for as our ■ituatioa allowed, but even with all th* conservation made we were still unable *• I#<d several hundred thousand:tona of food--stuffs urgently required by the allied qatlons juring the month of December HHRREIBT HOOVER.

WHEAT-CORN YEAST BREAD.

*"' • * i ■ • i fJ' • Wheat-corn bread is more nutrition* than bread baked w|tb wheat flour atone, Thousands pf American families foday are using this mixed flour breadL and in so doing are enabling AmS«to prpvlde more wheat flour for mo allies. flere’s a tested recipe for thio broad : Tyr one and a half cups of milk, water pr a mixture of tbp tw; qake compressed gMst, one and* a halTtoaspoons salt, wie tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon jtfJtat if dsrirod, one cup cornmeal caps yhsat four. sfffw* ,Bd W h*K CT ®e of water, the cornmeal, salt, sugar and fat (if cfant oulyto soften [the meal a little itinw jtHa' mp«i to cool to about the tetemntute of ft* room and add the jS’and /east mixed with the rest es fbe water. Khead thoroughly, ■aka to<* loaf, piece in pan of stand* aid rise, allow to rise until nearly an» tho pan and bake 46 or 09,mln•taa. ft O hardly practicable to use a greater percentage jrigornmeal than tkto oven in emornprieg, * or breed so ««»» baked «2L >— semji I* < MM& Ind MMrtu iMtn» ad gtroa above may be followed. It la possible to make a yeast raised eeea btaad without first cooking tho eernmeal* tn this case not moro than sm cupful of meal should bo used to four aupfofo of flour. In other fo> pwk thoteoed to mfamd end beknd

SINGING IS LOST ART TODAY

In This Age It la Largely Confined to the Professional Farmers, Sven In the Churches. » Singing, as far as most people a»S concerned, is a lost art Thousands afr tend operas, recitals and musical comedies, but as tor paging themstovss Informally at their work or play, they have forgotten how. In times pabt people of all ranks sang together as a matter of course. Sailors sang at their work; peasants, shepherds, cowboys, all had their favorite and appro* priate songs. The songs of children at games, the lullabies of mothers, are in the collected ballads and folklore of many peoples. “The pastimes and labors of the husbandman and the shepherd,” says Andrew Lang, according to the Indianapolis News, “were long ago a kind of natural opera. Each task had its own song; planting, seeding, harvesting, burial, an had fhelr appropriate ballads or dirges. “The whole soul of the peasant class breathes in its burdens as the great sea resounds In the shell mast up on the shore,” Nowadays the whirl of machinery makes all the noise. The workers in mills might find it unsatisfying to sing at their work, but it is doubtful if they would sing even if their voices could be heard, while singing in an office or Store would pretty surely be stopped by the “boss” or the police. Thousands congregate every night in the silence of moving picture theaters, and even In the churches where singing by the congregation used to be customary, the attendants now usually listen in silence to a paid singer. Singing in this age is largely confined to the professional performer.

WOMEN WEAVE STRAW HATS

All People of Island Depend Upon Earnings of Few Cents a Day Each for Their Living. Next to the transshipment activities of Mount Pleasant, the weaving of straw hats is the chief source of Income of the people, says Commerce Reports. The hats woven are of a cheap quality, the standard selling in 1910 for from gLSO to $1.43 per dozen. The straw for these hats is at present imported from Venezuela and Colombia, but the Dutch government is attempting to raise it In Dutch Guiana. The hats are woven by the women and children in their homes, and by moderate industry a woman can complete a hat in one day. All over the intend from early morning until after sunset the weaving goes on. {The Syrian purchasers, who collect the hats from house to house, pay about ten or eleven cents each. Although the straw for a hat costs the weaver from five to seven cents, and the amount realized from a day’s work*is very small, many of the people depend entirely upon their meager eafhlngs from this Industry. In the government school hat weav* -Ag is taught and some of the natives attain a high degree of skill, producing hats said to equal the best made In Colombia. The better grades do not enter into the export statistics of the colony, as they are bought by tourists; the quality of the standard hat does not improve.

Humoring People Isn’t Pleasant

"Humoring a man” sounds like a pleasant and comfortable thing, but when one links humoring with the' question of who makes the money, it | does not seem very flattering to the humorer or the humoree. And what a lamentable sight is that of the humoree, what deep Inequality it implies and what an absence of any real respect or understanding between two people in whose lives humoring to a part of the daily routine. When the one to be humored is a woman, it may mean that a man has been forced into the craven part of doing anything for the sake of peace. There are few concessions some men will not make to avoid a domestic storm. Some unfortunate men there are who even give up vital friendships, legitimate forms of recreation and even their own individualities in this unworthy causer— Woman’ Home Companion.

Putnam's Camp.

Ahont two and a half miles southeast of Bethel, Connecticut, by a road that winds through rolling farm country and then plunges into a succession of tight little wooded valleys, lies Putnam If emorial camp, better kpown as Putnam park. During the summer and fell this Is more or less a resort for folk from Danbury, Bethel and Hadding But In December it lies well nigh deserted and still as ft did when, in 1778, “Old»Put” selected it and two neighboring rites for a winter quarters of the weary right wing of the Continental army. Though this park wag begun In 1887 and practically complete by 1890, it Is much less generally known and visited than Valley Forge park, In Pennsylvania, which wan not begun until 1898.

Navigation.

Jh ship at sea is constantly changing tto position on the earth's surface, and it requires some skill to keep it in its prescribed path to Its destination. The oldest navigators were the Phrnirieas Theas hardy voyagers sailed from one sod of the Mediterranean sea to the other and out into the open Atlantic without compass or chart, guided by the san by day and by the Great Dtppgr at right. In those days the dipper was much nearer, fee pole than ft to now and Indicated fee true north tairig well. * \ -

“Davy Dear"

“David, I wish you’d do somettePO for me.” • 'W® '■ “I'm yours at ail times,* Louise, know teeL” "But this is different, David. YotfHf think it very silly and queer I kaXTOF.*” “Try me and see.” “It’s this way, David. When Iff® up in Wisconsin to visit Mark and Helen the first thing they do will be to—start on the same old theme. Why don’t I marry? It’s duty to myself and everybody else, and all that stuff. You know how they talk. The next thing they’ll do will post notices on all the rocks and tNgO that I’m there, and will all the attached male populace ptease edßl hoping, of course, that one of tbs UA-1 ter will Inadvertently catch my critical eye. They do it every year, and It’s beyond endurance.” David showed signs of mixed «ao*| ttons, chiefly indignation. “So here’s where you come IwJ Davy, dear,” she went on, “but It’s a little hard to explain. It’s this way. You see, if I were to convey the idea to them there was somebody at home here that I was engaged to then everybody would let me alone and m have a peaceful, delightful rest.” f “Louise!” “But it’s only pretend, David,” shag explained hastily. *Tm only borrowing you for the time being. It Isn’t a real engagement, you know, and it doesn’t bind anyone to anything. You don’t mind, do you?” “Oh, no! The only thing to—couldn’t you make it real just for a little while; then maybe I could ktas| you good-by,” wistfully. I “Oh, that would never do, David. If you’re going to do that, we mustn’t be engaged at aIL It really isn’t anything, you know—a contract in name only. As far as you are concerned, no one around here needs to know it, as you can still be nice to all the girls and have a good time.” “AD right, dear girl 1 If it will help you any, go ahead. But yon know how I love you, and how many times Tvs asked you to marry me.” “I wouldn’t think of such a thing, David,” ignoring his last words, “only I suspect that Mark and Helen have somebody picked out for me. I can always read between the lines, and Helen’s been talking a lot about an old college chum of Dick’s who is going to be near them this fan. He’s an artist or something. It’s fmmy how I run to artists, Isn’t It, DavidT* Hewas silent a minute. “Yes, but if this chap hasn’t any better luck with you than I’ve had, I can’t say that we are in a class to be Cnvled.” “You must run along now, Davy, dear. I’ve got to pack, tor I leave on an early train. Remember to write to me every day—at least send an envelope to carry out the bluff, won’t youF

“Certainly, Hl do what I can!” “You're an old darling, David. Ton always were a good sport, and the best friend Pve got I knew you’d take, ft in fee proper spirit Now run along.” . " . All the way up .the street Louise’s thoughts were busy. About Davidl It was rather a sensation to be engaged to someone, even If ft didn't j mean anything. Dear Davidl After all, what would she do without him? Probably, if ft hadn’t been for her music She would have married bins. But she had so implacably to put matrimony behind her that she had got out of the habit of thinking of men in the same minute wife sentiment. Besides—there was something about David! She frowned slightly. He was too submissive! Etow eerily be had agreed to her plans! If only bo would come after her, with a dubwhy, maybe—who can tell? She liked masterful men —or at least men who determined to gain their goal, and got there, no matter how. Why hadn’t he said, “Louise, look here, I won’t stand for this nonsense any longer, you’re going to marry me, and yon know It, and there’s no use refusing any longer, for Pve made up my mind!” One comfort, however—she wouldn't be bothered with other men all fall. . Dick's college chum had no terran for bar now. Two days later she was sitting alone on toe porch watching the moon come up. Mark and Helen had gone to a dance at the country club. Everything was very quiet and peaceful in the soft twilight, but Louise was feeling—shall we say it—lonely. There was a step almost inaudible, on toe soft pine needlee and a man emerged from foe shadows of the trees, “David!" cried Louise, springing up and holding out both hands impatiently. He grabbed them warmly as he came up and looked down earnestly into her eyes. “Don’t you think,” he begged, “that under the circumstances, I might ktas your “Please, David, you’ve said feat twice now, and its only pretend, you know.” ' “Well, little girl, you’re going to have some time of it carrying out your I bluff, Tm afraML rm fee college friend