Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Page 1

No. 98. '

This is The Week To Buy Victory Bonds W. J. WRIGHT

1919 PASTURE for HORSES, STEERS, COWS IN Newton an j Jasper Co. Vicinity of FAIR OAKS Ready to receive the stock May Ist end will keep to Nov. Ist. .All stock must be branded. Arrangements can be made now. * SEE JAMES E. WALTER Rensselter, Indiana Manager J. J. Lawler Ranches Phone 337

BLUE JACKET BAND Of 25 pieces from Great Lakes Naval Training Station will be in Rensselaer, Thursday, May 1, from 10:36 a.m., to 1:57 p.m. Speakers will accompany the band and will deliver addresses, as follows: Overseas Front Line Trenches, Dr. Owen D. O'Dell; Mexican Border Service, Dr. L. A. Harriman; Overseas Red Cross Service, Dr. Tow White. If weather is favroaible the band concert and speaking will be held on northside of court house. Come and hear them. Liberty Loan Coimnittee. Wilbur, D'Alene is the latest famous automobile race driver to send in his entry blank to the Speedway officials at Indianapolis for the Memorial day classic. D’Alene finished second to Resta in the race in 1916 and is considered one of the top notch race pilots of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Vem Hopkins and children, of Kouts, visited his patents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins, of Scott street Saturday.

PRINCESS THEATRE ■■ - ■ - * -- - - TONIGHT Fred Stone * ■ v ■ j ■ - i in "THE GOAT" . 1 MONDAY—CONSTANCE TALMADGE ) • • „ V, „ * in . “EXPERIMENTAL , ‘ MARRIAGE” , l V HEARST - UNIVERSAL * Current Event* of°ell over the World. TUESDAY— Monroe Salisbury 'h . i • —la—- . r. '• - A. , ' .«•_ , ‘The Devills Mateesf

THE Evening Republican.

ALL YANKS OUT OF FRANCE AUGUST 1 London,- April 23.—A1l France will be cleared of American troops by August, the Pall Mall Gazette learns. Certain units of the American army of occupation (third army) may remain in the Rhine zone after peace is signed. American general headquarters now in France, 'will soon be moved to Antwerp, the big Belgian port, to relieve the burdened French railways and hasten French reconstruction. TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperate?* for the twenty-four hours ending at 7:00 a. m. on the date indicated: Vfr Wr. April 25 67 24 April 26 .............. .47 27 WEATHER Fair tonight with heavy frost. Sunday fair and warmer. The Dorcas class of the M. E. Sunday school will give a box social Wednesday evening, April 30th, in the church. A program will be given.

GAS 24c Standard and Indian Main Garage THE BEST IN RENSSELAER Phone 206

Newman T. Miller* attorney state fire marshal, was in Rensselaer today. Mr. Miller was a member - of the state legislature in 1915 and 1917 and is a very close friend of W. L. Wood. COME EARLY Our stock of budding plants will be here about May first. Will have many kinds and quality goods. Vegetable plants, many kinds, ready now. Garden huckleberry plants for everybody. KING FLORAL CO., Phone 216 Green.

/ RENSSELAER. INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1919.

Matinee Musicale Program t■ ■ : APRIL 27, 1919. * To be given Sunday afternoon at § o’clock at the Methodsit church. The public is most cordially invited. ' ' -v A n si Piano—Spring Song and Serenade, Liebfing. . Miss Linnie Bird Raines Coice (a)—The Danderlion Mary Turner Salter (,b)_’Twas April, Nevin :. . .... • Mrs- Hex Warner Voice —Blossom Time, Oley Speaks Miss Wilda Littlefield Voice (a) —Tn the Deep o’ the Daisies . ........ ■■. ■ ■«■.. flawlsy (,b) —A Morning in'Spring, Matthews Miss Marjorie Loughridge Piano (a) —Badinage . Victor Herbert (b)—The Last Smile, Wollenhaupt Mrs. Trevor Eger Voice—Sunset, Dudley Buck • • .Mrs. G. A. Williaips Quartet —Sleep, Little Bov of Mine Denee Mrs. Loren Sage, Mrs. Kenneth Allman Miss Maude Daugherty, Miss Catherine Watson Voice (a) —Wind and Lyre J. H. Rogers (,b) —June Time, Oley Speaks Mrs. Kenneth Allman (b——Summer, Stebbins . Mrs. M. D. Gwm

THEY GO SHINELESS IN DELPHI ON SUNDAYS

Easter Sunday goes on record in Delphi as the first “shineless Sunday and also puts that city on the map as the only one in the state where bootblacks are not allowed to operate on Sunday, no matter how hard it rains. As a result of this 'measure many devout citizens were forced into a choice of wearing muddy boots or doing their shine act themselves. It is said the could not legally enforced ahd it is thought it will not last long.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

* W. T. BA'RBRE, Minister. The First Christian church has a very important service for next Sunday morning. It will be the reception of new members. During the eight days of meetings there were sixty members. During the eight days of meetings there were sixty-three came forward. Others are expected to come Sunday morning and evening. A large attendance of the members is expected at these services. The public is invited. The Sunday services will be as follows: Bible school 9:30 a.m.; Morning worship, 10:45 a.m; The pastor will address his message especially to the new members. Evening service 8 o’clock. Subject of the sermon, “Our Great Salvation.” The choir will furnish special music at each of these services.

NOTICE FROM CITY MARSHAL The city ordinances forbid the staking out of cows or other animals on the streets of Rensselaer. Please do not do so, as I will have to enforce the ordinance. ELLIS THOMAS, City Marshal. BANKS REPpRT $122,000 Chairman Charles G. Spitler reports the following subscriptions through the several banks names: Trust & Savings $ 40,000 First National 30,000 Remington State Bank .... 27,000 State Bank 25,000 This makes a total subscription of 122,000 of the $275,000 which is Jasper county’s quota. Twenty three counties in the state have raised their quota and are now white. J. C. Fry, of Sheldon, 111., drove to- Rensselaer in his automobile, today for a few days’ visit with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Morrell.

LUMBER We will duplicate any Aladdin House and 5 per cent better. This is no XYZ. J. C. GWIN & CO.

Rensselaer Christian Science Society OF RENSSELAER, INDIANA, announces A Free Lecture on Christian Science BY Rev. Andrew j/ Graham, C. 5.8., of Boston, Mass. ► A member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, Massachusetts. . > TO BE GIVEN AT THE •’ ' * . * • Church Edifice, Mon. evening Apr. 28, ’ 19 . 'A AT 8:00 O’CLOCK ' ' ■‘h ' : . and cordially invites yon and your friends to be present. ■ ■ *." ■ : • :•

ADVANCE STORY NO. 1

“The Heart of Humanity,” to be seen next week at the Princess theater, hinges on the gray background of the last* days of the conflict, a tender and appealing romance of loyal, love and unswerving devotion. The whole production, from beginning to end, is fraught with the spirit of those great days when an anxious world hung breathlessly upon word from the seething battle front in Flanders. It reflects the hush that fell upon civilization when the forces of humanity came to final grip with the ruthless night of autocracy, and it echoes the great cry of joy that sounded round the world when the Hun line crumbled before the Allied attack and fled backward toward the sheltering frontiers of Germany to sue for peace. Into the midst of these stirring scenes of immeasurable portent, there makes its way the gentle romance of Nanette, an American girl reared in the northwood pf Canada, and of her Canadian lover, John Patrica. Joined as war is begun, as war progresses they are separated—to meet again where the giant guns thunder their challenge on the fields of France. Thither John goes as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps and there Nanette,. hearking to the cries of the homeless and motherless children, follows in the garb of the Red Cross. There comes the last great Hun attack—the last terrifying drive toward Paris —when Chateau Thierry became another Verdun and the might of America, thrown into the balance, stayed the enemy, halted him and finally drove him back, until his retreat became a rout and he cried aloud for peace. Graphically, all the hopes, the prayers, the fears, the faith that stirred the heart of humanity in those days of vast import are reflected in the Allen Holubar romance of the war. In the confusion and chaos of attack and counter-attack, John and Nanette, servants of the great cause, drawn by their love, are once more brought together and the scenes shift from the fields of Flanders back to the Canadian lands of the whispering pines where the benediction of the world peace finds them reunited in their love. . , , The role of Nanette is played by Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell is seen as John Patricia and others in the large cast include such wellknown players as Walt Whitman, Robert Anderson, Frank Braiwood, George Hakathom, little Gloria Joy, Margaret Mann and Lloyd Hughes.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS

National Philadelphia 6; New York 3. Cincinnati 5; St. Louis 1. Pitssburg 6; Chicago 5. ,Boston-Brooklyn, cold. American St. Louis 7; Chicago 2. Detroit 4; Cleveland 2. New York-Boston, rain. Philadelphia-Washington, ram.

SATURDAY GRAIN MARKET STRONGER

Oats 67c Corn $1.56. Rye $1.60. Wheat $2.30.

THE man who has never thought much about his hats ought to try a Stetson this Spring. T f HE reason we sell so many bats is because we not only carry GOOD hats, but lots of them; all colors, shapes and prices. * 3(o U f4tc|6 _3( V3(_

PUNISH THIS GUILTY ONE

Chicago Tribune.—United States soldiers at S3O a month were employed to build roads in southern states. They worked akmgside Negro civillians who were paid $5 and $6 a day. They entered the army to be soldiers. They were willing to sacrifice everything for America. They endured the strictest training and discipline. They joined the army as fighting men. They were forced, under army displine to become road laborers. Who did this? Anw why does not the guilty one face the charges in a criminal court? Can the company commander of a unit from the University of Wisconsin he held responsible? No, he was under orders from the colonel. Can the colonel be held? Not so; his orders came from the division commander. Then the division commander? No, for he got his orders from Washington. Who in Washington sanctioned this gross mis-conduet? The trial seems to lead straight to the door of Secretary Baker. Surely it was his business to know if men of the U. S. army were being used foT other than military purposes. There is no doubt of the wrong done because Congress has ordered the soldier-laborers, paid on the basis of the wages paid to Negro laborers who worked with them. The Negroes were paid $5 and $6 a day. The soldiers who enlisted to fight in France got S3O a month. The Southern state will have to make up the diference. But even this does not come out of the state treasuries, but out of a federal road gift. But the point is'Congress has declared by its action that the charges of forcing soldiers to do road work are true. If true, then it follows inevitably that some one is guilty of the charge. It is not sufficient to pay the soldiers the difference between S3O a month and $6 or $6 a day and then let the affair drop. Paying the difference is only a confession of some one’s guilt and the technical compounding of a misdeed. Does Baker escape the indictment of forcing soldiers to grub as common laborers merely because Congress does an act of justice by paying them what any laborer would demand? Hasn’t the United States army had about odium enough heaped upon it by Baker? The soldiers did forced work as laborers; it has been admitted by Congress, they are to be paid; here is proof of iniquity The official responsible for such a gross mal-admin-istration should be fetched into court. We think there should be punishment meted out to the guilty one.

YOU CAN NEVER TELL

The extent of a man’s judgment, or how far a frog*will leap. A man’s judgment is just as good as his education. He may be a wir zard in his line *nd a failure in yours. Most men finished their education before motor cars became necessary. So the average man’s judgment on a car isn’t backed by information. He may own a car, but he may have fallen for the gift of gab or the pretty paint, or the commission off. People go to specialists. Whether they have pimples or car fever they go to the same one in position to hand out advice. What he says goes. In these days the demonstrator does nothing, the salesman knows nothing. They couldn’t change your mind if they did. ~ , . .. Shell Shock wouldn’t change it if you’re thinking of the Olds. It draws your attention, it stands judgment. Listen, we are facing a shortage in all desirable makes. Production can never fill the demand this y® a rDon’t put it off if you know what you want. Order it now I can show you the Hudson, the toe* or the

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THE NICE THINGS BABCOCK SAYS

“Notwithstanding the fact that the Rensselaer Republican attempted to queer the war train exhibit here, tnrough one of its chronic errors, by saying in its Tuesday issue that the train would not be here until the 25th, the public generally accepted the statement made by the Democrat, that the train would be here on Wednesday evening.” (This was published to show his brotherly love for the editor of the Republican. .We notice however, that Bab in his chronic harvest of news from the Republican sometimes makes an error). Read the following from Bab also. .“Please contrast the location and make-up of this committee. (He refers to the Welcome Home committee to go to Indianapolis to receive the Rainbow division) with that of Mayor Spitler’s All Republican, All from Rensselaer committee appoint- _ ed recently to represent Jasper County in a similar “welcome home” of an Indiana unit some weeks ago. On- _ ly one member of this entire committee had a son in the service, and most of the members were absolutely childless—-but every man Jack, was a Republican.” (This is also an explosion of love. It’s all right but like many other of Bab’s Statements, it is not true. Two members of tire committee had sons in the service and one had two sons. There were only four men appointed, the only Democrat named did not go. Others were asked but they did not care to go to the expense. If Bab insists in sharing in this honor he can still get in by coming across and paying to the committee a part of the large expense which they themselves were glad to expend for the boys. There were only four members of the committee which would have made it difficult to divide them among the thirteen townships). .- •Here is another exhibition of the venom spead by the pen of the furious Democrat editor. His paper like his mind is full of it. “Wood did not know a thing about how to proceed or else he deliberately misstated (a mild synonym for lied) the matter in securing names to this particular, petition.” Another mis-representation of Mr. Babcock’s in this same .issue is the one in the Lee and Burris accident dent account, where he intimates that the boys had been drinking. The writer called on Mr. Lee at his home and he informed us that neither one of them had drank a drop of intoxicants and that both were strictly sober. Mr. Lee was driving the car and connot account for the accident as the car did not rtin into the ditch but simply turned over. The physician who was called to attend the injured men .says there was no sign of liquor in any shape or manner and that he was positive that the men had not been drinking. "Both men were pretty badly injured and that should be sufficient without the further punishment be wrongfully accused of being drunk.

HAPPY THOUGHT

One year ago tomorrow will be the first anniversary of the big blow which came along and swept us from the home environs and into the" sea of militarism. And then the weeks which followed! Whew! it* makes us shudder still to think of those first weeks which followed our enforced plunge. Those rebuff, those curt replies, those cuts which chilled us to the bone, those tasks assigned to us which made us hang our head in humiliation. Gee! Clarence, it was awful, and how we all cordially hated the Kaiser foT taking us from our soft bed of happiness and sending us into grim, warfare, even though we were thousands of mrles frem active strife. What a nightmare it was! Then came a bright day in January and they told us that the war was over as far as we were concerned and that we might go home. Oh, what a happy moment that was! And now we’re awfully glad that it all happened in 1918 instead of 1919.

at the STAR THEATRE THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY Kitty Gordon IN MANDARIN’S GOLD ALSO 3RD. EPISODE OF “HANDS UP" MONDAY— Emily Stevens “Kildare Of Storms” “HEARTS OF LOVE” —STARRING — Edna Mayo

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