Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — Page 1

No. 254.

Buy Linoleum Now Linoleum should be put* down before cold weather. We have one roll that we will cut to any size for stove patterns. The price on all linoleums will have to advance in a short time. W. J. WRIGHT

XMAS PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS

Each American soldier abroad will be given one Christmas parcel label which he will send home to the person probably planning to send him a gift , Those who receive these labels will J take them to the local Red Cross chapter or branch, and ask for a carton. The cartons should be filled with articles not forbidden and returned to the Red Cross to be inspected, weighed and wrapped. Remember— Keep the weight of the package under three pounds. Send nothing liquid; pack nothing in glass. Do not places notes or messages in cartons. The sender pays the postage. The soldier gets only one labeldo not lose it. It cannot, be duplicated. The cartons are 3x4x9 inches. A large khaki handkerchief may be used to wrap the gifts.

TUESDAY’S WEATHER. Fair and slightly wanner tonight Wednesday fair. Temperature, maximum 62, minimum 44.

Mrs. W. L. Bott went to Lafayette today. v Misses Myra and Mary Messman, of Chicago, came today for a visit with their father, Herman Messman, and other relatives here. Developing, printing and enlarging. Twenty-four hour service. Larsh & Hopkins. Mrs. E. D. Rhoades is with. her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Radcliff, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Radcliff is quite sick with influenza. * » Saturday will be a big day at Parr. You can buy 140 shoats, 60 calves, 12 sows with pigs at sides at your own price. Harry English, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English, is a member of the Students’ Army Training Corps at .the Medical Department of Indiana university at Indianapolis.

The Evening Republican.

Princess Lunch EVERYTHING THAT'S GOOD TO EAT OYSTERS Served any style and for sale in bulk Shell Oyster Crackers for Sale SPECIAL DINNERS Every Day Ice Cream Candies Cigars Tobaccos Cigarettes 6:30 a. m., tin midnight ?

SUDDEN DEATH IN BARKLEY

MRS. EDWARD RITTER DIES VERY SUDDENLY OF HEART FAILURE. Death came very suddenly to the home of Edward Ritter, of Barkley township. He and his wife had retired at the usual time and she seemed to be in her usual good health. About 11-o’clock Monday night he was aroused by his wife asking him to send for him at once. Mr. Ritter went to the phone but before he could get word to anyone his wife had passed away. Mrs. Ritter was a very heavy woman. The cause of her death -seemed to be heart failure. She ia the mother of ten living children and. must have been about sixty years of age. Funeral service had not been arranged when we went to press.

• Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dickison went to Rockford, HL, today. W» must close out our big stock of general merchandise. Sale is now on and you have the opportunity to buy staple goods at greatly reduced prices. .All must go, including fixtures. Sale closes Saturday evening, November 2. Wallace & Baugh, Parr, Ind.

Herman Messman was called to Warsaw today on account of the serious illness with influenza of his son, Clarence, at the base hospital at Winona. Clarence entered the service with the selectmen of Newton county. Henry Wilson and family, who formerly lived in Union township- but for ten years have been in the West, the last five years having lived near Lisbon, N. D., have returned to this county. Mrs. Wikon is a daughter of Mrs. Ransom Elijah, of near Mt. Afr.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1915-

WILSON SEEKS TO BE DICTATOR

WANTS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS HE CAN MOULD “ABSOLUTELY TO HIS WILL.”

By William Howard Taft. (By Courtesy of The Public Ledger) (Copyright, 1918, Public Ledger Co.) Philadelphia, Oct. 25.—The President, having put by, in grim times like these, the scruples of taste in his ap? peal to the American people for the return of a Democratic congress, of coarse invites a respectful consideration and discussion by every loyal American citizen of what he says. The appeal of the President is forcible but specious. The unified leadership he asks is autocratic power in fields in which the Constitution and principles of democracy require that be-should consult other representatives of the people than himself. In pursuit of his policies he consults neither his own party nor any other. He wishes a Democratic Senate, not because he would seek their assistance in the foreign policy to which by the fundamental law they are to advise and consent, but because he can mould them absolutely to his will without consulting them. He has visited his displeasure on every Democratic member of either house who has differed with him and called upon that member’s constituency to reject him. Is it necessary for the country s welfare that he should be absolutely ruler of this nation for the two years ensuing from March 4 next? That is the premise upon which the soundness of his appeal, in its ultimate analysis, must rest. Do we need during, the life of the next congress a dictator? One who knows the facts of this war, and our part in it, and who loves liberty and popular government, must answer no. 'The war is nearly won. It may take a year longer. We hope it will be less. The complex questions of the terms of peace are to be settled in the term of the ebngress now to be elected. The still more difficult questions of reconstruction after the war are to be met by that congress. Do the American people by their action in the next election vjjsh to make both the terms of peace and the reconstruction after the war depend on the uncontrolled will of Woodrow Wilson? That is the issue which he puts to them in his appeal. “Unless you give me uncontrolled power, you repudiate me and my leadership before the world.” Aut Caesar aut nullus. Never in the history of this couptry has the President had such vast and unlimited power as he has today. It has been often exercised through agencies selected by him. without great consideration of the individual. Far too many instances of partisanship in the selection of these agencies are known of all men to give point to the President’s disclaimer of thought of party in this appeal. The people have restrained protest against arbitrary exercise of power in their anxiety to win the war. The power which the President has was voted to him by the Republicans in both houses. They manifested no partisan desire to withhold it, in spite es the knowledge that it would tempt the use of for partisan purposes. The great measure for which the President can claim credit in this war are the two draft acts. The first he could not have secured but for Republican support. The second he aid not initiate until four months after Xie had first rejected it and until after Republicans and certain Democrats he had' proscribed for differing with him had forced it upon his reluctant attention. But for the Republican congressional support that he has had in this war he could not have conducted it to its present status. He charges Republican leaders with seeking to take the choice of policy and conduct of this war out of his Lands by putting it under instrumentalities of their own choosing. The difficulty with this statement as that it is not true. The mere mention of the name of Julius Kahn and his work in this congress answers every reflection the- President makes on the Republican minority. What the Republican leaders attempted to do was to furnish the President with an executive organization by which he might carry on the war more effectively. There was not the slightest suggestion that he was not to appoint those who were to exercise the powers under his supervision and direction. He did not wish to delegate power to his appointees sufficient, to enable them to achieve what had to be done and so objected. In the end he was driven to do in more awkward way that which months before the Republicans sought to give him effective machinery to do. Thus the War Council of Mr. Baker passed into innocuous desuetude, while Stettiinus and Goethals, first rejected, were given requisite power. Thus Denman was put forward, withdrawn, then another, then another and finally Schwab was given the unrestricted chance to push the making of ships. So with .aviation, a lamentable waste and failure came ‘first and then Ryan with requisite headship and authority is doing the job. ■_ * What was it that stimulated a reform of lamentable methods and delays in clothing, rifles, machine guns,

TUESDAY HOSPITAL NOTES.

Jessie Bell was taken to the hospital Monday evening. She has influenza. Mrs. Elza Swim entered the hospital Monday evening for medical attention. ' There are thirteen cases of influenza at the hospital. Three have a very high fever, but all seem to be getting along very well.

1 I 1 n i j ilii i i I 1 artillery and ammunition but investigations in the Senate Military Committee of Republicans and a few wilful but patriotic Democrats? The patriotism and usefulness of the Republicans as a minority 1 in winning this war stand out so clearly as compared with that of the leaders of the Democratic majority that the Republicans may well go to the people on the issue which the President raises. Nor is there any more'real weight in the President’s plea that an election of a Republican congress will injure the cause of the country in this war abroad as a vote of want of confidence in his prosecution of the war. The intelligence which he says the European peoples have, has enabled them to see that an election of a Republican congress will mean a more certain prosecution of this war to Un unconditional surrender than if the President shall secure a'house and senate who will only do his will and second his desires. The shiver which went through the hearts of the American people when the implied proposals of |he President’s first note for a negotiated peace were so quickly accepted by Germany was shared by all the brave but suffering peoples of our allies. For reasons apparent to all, the real expressions of feeling in respect to President Wilson’s utterances in England and France are restrained. But when the torrent of American public opinion compelled a gradual return toward a demand for unconditional surrender the joy of our allies was unrestrained. They know that a verdict at the election for a Republican house will end forever the dangers which seemed to face a negotiated peace. Instead of obstructing the President and our allies in winning this war and a dictated peace, nothing would so discourage the Germans and hearten our allies as the return of a Republican congress.,

It Pays to Buy the Best But every housewife should remember that the best is not always the highest priced. Experience has taught me that you can’t always judge quality by the cost sign. That is particularly true of baking powder. Baking powder quality can be termined only by bake day results. The baking powder that serves you best —regardless of what you pay—is the beet to buy and use. I have made a close study and careful investigation of baking powder, because it is unquestionably one of the most important of baking ma« terials. It effects all ingredients employed with it. No woman, no matter >how careful her selection of flour, sugar, eggs, etc., can employ the limit of baking economy if she uses a poorly made, wasteful baking powder. Merit, not money, is the only safe basis upon which to estimate the worth of a baking powder. Fortunately the housewife no longer has to conduct costly experiments of her own to determine just which particular brand is the most efficient and economical. Experts like myself, make a business of testing baking powders and accurately arriving at their actual value. We make no_mi»take» in our decisions as our experiments are made along strictly scientific lines. Millions of women are now profiting by the aid offered by domestic scientists. I know this to be true —as choice is now centered on the brand of baking powder that I and other domestic scientists have found superior through both chemical and oven tests. It becoming more popular every day. Its tremendous sales increase was not influenced in the least by cost. It is a moderate priced baking powder. Costs considerably less than some other brands. Still it is preferred by women who could and would pay more were it possible to secure the desired quality. They docit buy this brand of baking powder because of a saving of cost —but because of its dtmomtraUd superiority. To them it means the greatest quality value—the greatest purity —and greatest certainty of results that can be had at any price. Decidedly the best, not because of moderate price, but because of its unimprovable merit In justice to those who read this article —that they may share in the savings and baking success assured by the biggest selling and recognized superior baking powder it is no more than fair that I give publicity to the brand preferred alike by experts and America s millions of housewives — Calumet Baking Peavdtr. Th. NOTE. —Miss Costello is already well known to most qf the of our city. She is of the Domestic Science Branch of the University of Chicago, a graduale of Lewis Institute, Supervisor of Domesttc Science in Public Schools, Special Lecturer on Domestic Arts and Economy, Special Lecturer to the Women's Clubs. . We are publishing a series of her most importaid artida.

TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

The Italian theater of war held the center of the stage today as far as large scale fighting is Along a front of at least twenty miles the Italian and British forces have thrown the Austrians out of strongly organised and stubbornly defended positions. The fighting was particularly fierce north of the bend of the Piave, near the great Montello Bulwark, where the Piave was crossed in the initial phase of the drive. Farther south British troops are now nearly five miles east of the Piave. New crossings were made by the Italians in Sunday’s attacks. Up to early today 9,000 prisoners, had been counted by the Italians. The British have taken 7,00 prisoners, making a total of 16,000. Nearly 100 guns also have been taken. On the west front four French armies are puslung hard after the Germans all the way between the Oise and the Aisne, in a concentric drive on Hirson and Mezieres. The enemy ‘is covering his retreat "by .a screen of machine gunners. At some points, however, the withdrawal is reported to be taking on the character of a flight. There is a lull on the British and Belgian fronts.

MOVED TO NEW QUARTERS.

We have moved our electrical supply store from the former Rhoades’ barber shop to new quarters at our garage and will carry a full supply of electrical equipment for automobiles and residences and will promptly attend to all orders for electrical wiring of any kind. •> We are the only fully equipped establishment of this kind in Jasper county, fully understand the electrical business and will guarantee satisfaction. We deliver goods promptly to any part of the oity, making two deliveries daily. Special attention will be given to magnetos, starting and lighting systems, also expert repairing of automobiles. Phope 579. K. T. RHOADES CO. GARAGE.

Mrs. Mell Laßue is spending the day in Lafayette. Mrs. F. P. Sutton and daughter, Alta, returned to their home at Lowell Monday after a visit with Mrs. William Wilcox.

*94 fl I 1’ 1 I li I ] Iff * High Quality in Men’s Suits -’S' S3O If you’re up on the textile and clothing markets you know that today S3O is a modest figure for quality clothes. The clothes we feature at this price conform to this store’s every conception of Quality. Fabrics, trimmings, workmanship, style—all corer ed* by as strong a warranty as those we sell at double their price. When you see the suits and*if you’ve an eye for the future you’ll know that you are getting yottr S3O worth in them. The price is as low as really good clothes can be sold for. t ■. Slightly Warmer.

Mrs. Chas. Porter went <0 Chicago today. Ergus Timmons and Frank Potts went to Chicago today. Dean Merica went to Lafayette toda yto receive a treatment for his rheumatism. - '

TOLD IN RENSSELAER. A Resident Known to all Our Road* er* Relate* an Experience. Readers of the Republican have been told agan and again of the merits of that reliable, time-proved kidney remedy—Doan’s Kidney .Pills. The experiences toid are not those of unknown persons, living far away. The cases are Rensselaer cases, told by Rensselaer people. C. B. Steward, insurance agent, S. Front and Main Sts., Rensselaer, says: “I had been subject to serious attacks of kidney disorder. My back for a long time was lame and sore and I was hardly ever free from backache. Whenever I feel any signs of that trouble now, or my kidneys don’t act right,. I get a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Long's Drug Store. They quickly fix me up all rgiht. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simly ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Steward had. Foster-Milburn The large stock of splendid goods of our big general store at Parr will be sold regardless of price. It wiH pay you to investigate.

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