Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1919 — Page 1

No. 106.

We have received a shipment of fiber rugs in all sizes. These are the better grade of fiber and include blue, green tan and gray colors. We have these in small rugs to match the room size. —7—-“ 7 —— ; - a W. J. WRIGHT

Toledo Gets WillardDemsey Go, 12 Rds.

Tex Rickard, promoter of the Williard Demsey go billed for July 4, has selected Toledo for the scene of the milling. The bout is to be a twelve round affair. Demsey can only win the title by knocking the huge Kansan out, as it is to be a no decision fuss.

ANOTHER ADDED TO RENSSELAER’S FOUR-SCORE COLONY

Monday, May 5 witnessed the entry of another into the select circle of Rensselaer people who have tread life’s pathway for four-score years. Mrs. Maria McElfresh on that day reached her eightieth millestone and celebrated the occasion with a dinner party at the home on Franklin street, which was attended by sixteen relatives and friends. Mrs. McElfresh is one of Jasper county’s oldest continuous residents. She was born in the year 1840, in Kansas, coming to this county while still a young girl. Following her marriage, she resided on a farm near Rensselaer for fourteen years before coming to this city to make her home where she has since resided. Her many friends trust that she will be able to celebrate many more occasions similiar to that of yesterday.

“V” LOAN FACES FAILURE AS END NEARS; 60 PERCENT SHY

With but five days of the Victory Loan drive remaining it becomes more apparent that the drive faces failure. “Sixty per cent, shy,” was the word coming from national headquarters. The drive has lagged tremendously during the past few days. (The only encouraging feature of the present drive is that the percentage of the quota subscribed to date almost equals that of the corresponding day of the fourth drive.

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U. S. DEBT FOUR BILLIONS REPORT SHOWS

•Public debt of z the United States government was reported Saturday by the treasury as $24,824,345,000. (Most of this represents Liberty bonds of the first, second, third and fourth issues, but the Victory Liberty loan is not included to any great extent. The addition of Victory Loan bonds will be largely counterbalanced by redemption of outstanding certificates of indebtedness. No deduction is made for the $8,852,000,000 loaned to foreign governments. Consequently the. net debt would be approximately $16,000,000,000. The treasury plans to issue other bonds later this -year and next year to meet the fag ends of war expenses but in the aggregate these are not expected to amount to more than $5,000,000,000 so that the gross public debt of the United States is expected by treasury officials to be in the neighborhood of $30,000,000,000, when the period of war financing ends. ,The treasury now has a working balance of $1,052,000,000 of which $657,546,000 is on deposit with banks throughout the country on account of bills or certificates of indebtedness and Victory Liberty notes. The Treasury holds $2,568,592,000 in gold but a little more than half of this belongs to the gold settlement fend of the Federal reserve board. Silver, dollars in the treasury, which a little more than a year ago amounted to $490,000,000 has been reduced 'to $229„711,000 by melting down of approximately 1260,000,000 of silver dollar for exports of India.

Immense sums of money are being spent in I.W.W. propaganda. The 1.-W.W. members are of the “won’t work” class, so it is manifest that they are not providing the funs. There .is a barrel open somewhere, and it is certainly not an American barrel.

SMELLS OF SAUER KRAUT

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS NATIONAL Chicago 7; Cincinnati 6. Pittsburg 5; St. Louis 2. Other games secheduled. AMERICAN Washington 6; Philadelphia 6. New York s;,Boston 1. Other games secheduled.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 19t9.

ENTHUSIASTIC ROAD MEETING

PROMINENT CITIZENS HEAR DIRECTOR WRIGHT OF STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. ' There were a large number of the influential men of the county present Monday evening at the meeting held in the court house room in this city to hear L. H. Wright, the director of the state highway commission, discuss the new state highway law and its operation. Among those present were a number of influential men from Remington and Carpenter township. Representative W. L, Wood presided at the meeting and introduced the speaker of the evening, Director L. *H. Wright, of Indianapolis. The address of the director was an explanation of the four laws passed by the 1919 Indiana legislature. —These laws were: —_ 1. The state highway commission. 2. County Unit law. 3. Tax law. 4. Beardsley law. Director Wright said that the state* highway law passed by the 1917 legislature and which was later held as constitutional by the supreme court of the state was passed in order that Indiana might receive federal aid in the construction of a system of highways. Indiana had been slow to accept federal aid in the construction of highways. He regarded the 1919 highway laws much better than the 1917 act. Both laws provided for the dividing the county into four districts with a commission in each district. This commission selects a director, and Mr.* Wright who served under the old law has been selected to serve under the 1919 act. The director selects three heads to take care of the different phases’of the work. These phases are construction, maintainence and auditing. Under the 1917 act but eight hundred miles of road were contemplated. The 1919 act contemplates the construction of about three thousand, five hundred miles, which must connect all county seats and also all cities of over five thousand poplation. This system must be laid out by April 1, 1920 and after the road have been designated they at once become a part of the state highway system and are to be maintained by the Indiana has about 63,000 miles of roads, while the state will take over but five per cent, of these roads, yet these being the main traveled roads, the per cent, of up keep taken off of the local corporation will amount ,to something like a reduction of from 25 to 50 per cent.

Director Wright is of the opinion that this system of 3,500 miles can be constructed in eight years. An attempt will be made to build one hundred miles this yepr, after this year he thinks siat as much as four hundred miles can be constructed per year. , It is his idea that the roads in the worst condition should’ be built first. IThe following means for the raising of funds for the state’s part of this work is as follows: 1. Inheritance tax, which it is estimated will amount to $500,000. 2. Automobile license tax, which in 1920 and thereafter will amount to about $2,500,000. 3. A direct state tax of 10 cents, which under the new appraisement will amount to about $6,000,000 per year. The director discussed the kind of roads to be constructed. He did not express a preference. They are brick, concrete and asphaltum. Conthe material to be selected. Director Wright discussed the County, Unit Law passed by the 1919 legislature. It was the original purpose t<s bf that law to do away with township roads. He says that it was unfortunate that one or two amendments had failed to be made to this law but that it has been straightened out and would result in the building of many miles of road that could not be built without the law and he thought that better roads would be built under this law. He urged the people of the county to get together and plan the improvement of those roads which are most needed at the present time. The roads constructed under the County Unit Law will have more efficient supervision and will therefore be better roads. There are’ three checks on the ov-er-taxing for road construction under the county unit law. The county commissioners, the county council and the state tax commision. Under the new tax law the state tax commission must pass upon all municipal bonds issued. The road constructed under the County Unit Law cannot create a bonded indebtness to exceed two per cent, of the taxable property of the county. 7 Under the Beardsley law all read 4 tax mustTbe paid in cash. Under old law this tax could be-worked out on the roads. / Director Wright answered a number of very important questions which developed the fact that’ if Jasper I county is to get a state highway from the south to the north . boundaries the people of the county must get • busy and co-operate with Crown Point, otherwise there is danger that a route west of us may be selected. The route through this county has an advantage which Director Wright ( Considered as very important, and 'that is the item of* distance. An In-

IRISH CATHOLIC LAUDS WAR "Y"

MARINE SAYS HE’S ONE WHO _ FOUND BALM IN WORK r .WT THE FRONT. The following communications from a writer who describes himself as an Irish Catholic appeared in the Stars and Stripes, the official A. E. F. newspaper, published in Paris: “To the Editor of the Stars and Stripes: “I am not the guy who really won the war, nor did I see all the fronts, but there are a lot of other birds in this outfit who did’nt get as far toward Berlin as yours truly. Having introduced myself to my enthusiastic readers, stand back and allow me to begin. “My subject tonight will be a few words about the Y. M. C. A. Some of the lads don’t seem to like it, and have started to make the crowd back home thing it’s a false alarm. Now, Ed, you know that it’s an easy thing to scatter the vitriol here and there, and there is a certain class of young volunteers who would rather do it than eat. I’m ’ one of those people, who like to crab a little myself. It’s a habit I learned around the scuttle (ask the gob what I mean), but these vitriol boys are on the wrong track this time. They are citing isolated cases that have happened during this year and a half, and making a mountain out of a mole-hil. This puts the entire Y.M.C.A. on the witness stand in self-defense, and that is a thing that should not be. Let’s drop off a few points, jibe, and look around. What do we see, mate? “We see hundreds of men who could have kept the home fires burning in the U.S.A, and earned a good wage along with the slackers and the genuine nondrafted men at any number of good paying positions. What did they do? They came to France and kept on the job morning, noon and night every day of the week. They kidded the brawny fighters in the SOS with movies, candies, cigarettes and decent words. After you have done that about 6,000 hours, more or less, you begin to get sick of it. Back in the SOS the transportation was available and the supplies came into the canteens. But up at the front when you were lucky to get clothes and chow, it was a pretty tough proposition and whatever did come up to the Y.M.O.A. was nabbed by the guys on the special details and various trains back with division. Some of it did get up to the front, but not enough to create a panic. But that wasn’t the fault of the Y.M.C.A., it was the inevitable result of a constant .forward movement in open warfare. I suppose some of our heroes wanted to get hot chocolate dropped on advanced outposts by airplanes. It’s too bad about those kids. (“Since I’ve been up with machine guns I’ve never seen anything of this chocolate ration that the Q.M. corps serves out troops, and I don’t expect to do so either. Nor do I feel any anguish because the Y.M.C.A. didn’t feed me in a fox-hole, especially when I know who had the monopoly on available transportation. “There was a lad named Wilbur who was the secretary assigned to our battalion. He had been turned down for the army because he had one eye. So he sought the lucrative and luxurious life of the Y.M.C.A., thus hoping to be es some service to his country. Whe,n he found that it was impossible to drag chocolate bars and cigars over the tep with machine guns, he gave first aid to the the time of his young life, and no wounded under shell fire. He had one had anything on Wilbur when it came to courage. The boche winged him up at Blanc Mont in Champagne, and he got a blightly. There were lots of Wilburs in the Y.M.C.A. if you start investigating. I hate to see a lot of crabs ignoring them, too. “When we started on our marathon via France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, we were lucky to have our emergency rations keep up with us. Then we settled in various castles on the Rhine, and the crabs began to scream for the Y.M. C.A. ‘Where was it? Ask the army about that—ask why the trainloads of stores were sidetracked so that more important things could come up. But now our soldier boys are getting enough candy to make each and every one sick and enough cigarettes to totallywlestroy thte lungs. “I have purposely failed to touch upon the work ] of. the women in the Y.M.C.A., because I couldn’t ade-

dianapolis to Chicago road constructed would be several miles shorter if it passes through this county than if it were built on roads west of this county; A committee to look after this and other highway interests of the county was appointed and they should have the hearty co-operation of every progressive citizen of the county The laws may not be perfect but they have been written and the proposition now is to get the greatest amount of-benefit from them. There should be no division of any kind or sort. Let everybody boost and get back of this committee an J pull together and pull hard and pull now. The committee* selected are the following men who represent the difthey are not providing the funds. There Washburn, H. W. Marble, C. W. Hanley, Ed. Nesbitt, F. E. Babcock, C. G. Spitler and J. S. L. Gray.

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BAKER REPORTS OVERSEAS CAMPS “SIMPLY IDEAL”

New York, May s.—The one million man of the American expeditionary force will embark for home next week, Secretary of War Baker said today on his arrival here from France aboard the transport George Washington. The homeward movement of troops, Mr. Baker said, is progressing in a most satisfactory manner, and he added that the 300,000 a month mark would be reached in June. Secretary Baker left here April 7, accompanied by Warren Pershing, Gen. Pershing’s only son. He visited various points in France, where American troops were quartered, going also to the Gennan line where he reviewed the third army. Speaking briefly of his visit, Secretary Baker said: “The American army abroad is in splendid condition.' The third army, which I inspected on the German frontier is beyond doubt the best equipped army in the world. It is everything that an army should be, in all its departments. “The men are anxious to get home, and we are moving them as rapidly as possible. I expect to see the 300,000 a month mark reached in June and . the one millionth man will embark for home next week.” Secretary Baker said he visited but one camp—that at Brest. “Its condition is simply ideal,” he asserted, “and you can get the same expresion from any doughboy on this ship. I did not see any of the others, but am informed that the same good condition prevails at all.”

PYTHIAN MEETING

All local and sojourning brothers of the order of Knights of Pythias are urged to spend an enjoyable evening at the Pythian hall next Friday evening May 9. Bring a neighbor or friend. Rev. Wm. T. Barbre will give an address on Pythianism. You will be treated to cigars and apples, and assured of a general enjoyable evening. Your presence will add that much more life and pleasure to the occasion. Come! —COMMITTEE.

FOR SALE—Thousands of fine cabbage and tomato plants ready now. Other plants ready soon. John W. King, Phone 216 Green.

quately express the appreciation that we must all feel for their sacrifices and their infinite patience with us. They come from the best American womanhood, they are the finest type possible to obtain, and their refining influence among us has been evident in every camp that they have graced by their presence. They have been an inspiration to many of us, conscious or unconscious of that inspiration though we may be. “Just consider what they have given up at home to conie over with us and to slave for us, yes, slave for us. Do you think it easy to put up with our general indifference and constant demands and continual kicks and to smile and be pleasant and truly sympathetic? Well, it isn’t easy, and if wg try for a moment to put ourselves in their place and cater to the A.E.F., we shall get the point. “Ain’t it awful, Mabel, did you hear that the army is going to try three secretaries who stole money? We don’t call that salvaging, do we? No. we don’t. Three out of how many—l have not the figures at present—but I’ll bet my steel Stetson that the percentage is negligible. On the other hand, how many of our crusaders hove gotten the yellow ticket for the same thing, commissioned and otherwise? Oh, but now you are attacking our set, and that isn’t fair. “Well, here’s one old time-timer who got a square deal from the Y. M.C.A., and it’s an Irish Catholic who says so. Take a straw vote and see what the conservatives think about, it.” ’ ' “SILENT SUFFERER, U.S.M.C.

WOOD BOOM IS NATION WIDE

SENTIMENT IN HIS FAVOR FOR PRESIDENCY OVER. _ TIRE NATION. Washington, D. C., May s.—Gen. Leonard Wood has become the leading candidate for the republican nomination for president. Within the last fortnight a veritable wave of Wodd sentiment appears to have swept the republican states from coast to coast. The most significant feature of the manifestations is the fact that the general is being indorsed by conservative as well as progressive republicans. His candidacy is being promoted by no one faction, and the comment most frequently heard is that Gen. Wood is the most available candidate to unite both wings of the party and restore the harmony without which it went down to defeat in 1912 and 1916. Nor does the Wood candidacy appear to be the result of an organized boom. Wood sentiment is not being artificially promoted by any group. There is no Wood committee, no Wood headquarters. The sentiment favoring his nomination seems to be the spontaneous admiration for a strong leader. The republican old guard is not manifesting any enthusiasm, probably because the general is under no obligations to the old guard and becausehis boom is booming along without the assistance and consent of the old guard. “There is more sentiment of the kind that elects presidents surrounding Gen. Leonard Wood than any other who has been mentioned as a possible republican, nominee in 1920.” said Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, who has just returned to Washington after a month in. New England. “And the only question is whether this kind of sentiment which elects presidents can be transacted, in Gen. Wood’s case, into the kind that produces delegates and nominates presidents.” The senator said that he has no doubt that this political alchemy will take place in New Hahpshire, where Gen. Wood is a “favorite son,” having been born, the senator says, “in a tenement up over a grocery store in the village of Winchester, where his father was a country doctor.”

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Have added the Oakland with its highly perfected, long-stroke, valve in the head pressure oiled motor, here is probably the most miles per dollar automobile on the market. A car for the man who goes when and where business calls, in all weather on all roads. 2,100 pounds on four-inch tires, and over twenty miles to the gallon of gasoline. ’lt takes years to develop a durable car, and this one model has been in production long enough to have its bugs combed out. Well named, “The Sensible Six.” We have one to show you.

Tuesday Grain Market Lower.

Oats 65c. Corn, $1.55. Rye, $1.55. Wheat, $2.30.

K. OF P’S, ATTENTION »There will be work in the Page and Knight degrees at the lodge hall this Tuesday evening. AU are asked to be in attendance. J , Many from Rensselaer are visiting the scene of the Sunday storm. STAR THEATRE —— AT THE i ~ . • THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES TODAY “A GOOD LOSER” FEATURING Lee Hill Also 'a two reel KEYSTONE COMEDY "VILLA OF THE MOVIES” WEDNESDAY— Special Harold Lockwood —IN—"PALS FIRST” 6 PARTS r- 4 6 ‘ ■■ » THURSDAY—GLORIA SWANSON ALSO CHESTER CONKLIN IN A COMEDY

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