Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1919 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

No. 229.

The ' ' rHoover Electric Suction Sweeper IT BEAT - AS IT SWEEPSAS IT CLEANS— W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer Indiana

EXPERT PLUMBER We Have the services of an expert plumber to do repair work in Rensselaer. Work done at once. Call phone 204. Watson Plumbing Co.

MANY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY OFFERED. Eleanor Stevens Peckham, noted teacher of music, of Boston, Mass., is meeting with a liberal response from those of this city desirous of furthering their education in music. Mrs. Peckham for many years has been regarded as one of the foremost teachers in the country, and all music student should avail themselves of this excellent opportunity. Mrs. Peckham’s stay in the city will be limited, and all desiring to take lessons should see her at the Methodist church (between the hours of 10 and 12 in the morning and 3 and 4 in the afternoon.—Advt.

CHRIS MORGENEGG DIES IN COLORADO.

A telegram was received here this Monday forenoon from Payton, Morgenegg. * The cause ofTtUTdeath' was paralysis. Mr. Morgenegg left here some few weeks ago and went west for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Burlie Herrod. The body will be brought here for burial. Chris Morgenegg, the deceased’s son, of Bristol, 111., arrived here this afternoon.

Mrs. Ray McDonald and Ida Reynolds, of Monticello, who had been visiting with the former's, uncle, Daniel Robinson, and family, of Hammond, returned here today for a short visit with Mrs. Van Wood. (They continued this afternoon to t heir homes.

PRINCESS THEATRE Matinee —2:15. Night—7:ls. —TONIGHT— Dorothy Phillips —in—- “ Talk of the Town” Also Alice Howell Comedy

TUESDAY Ethel Clayton “Pettigrew's - - - Girl" WEDNESDAY Mabel Normand “Peck's” Bad Girl" Also -Smiling Bill Parson ' “Bill’s Fortune" FRIDAY Dorothy Gish “Peppy Polly" Correis Events end 1-Reel Comedy

ATTENDING TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE.

The Rev. J. Budman Fleming left 1 Sunday evening for Des Moines, lowa, where he will be Governor Goodrich’s representative from Jasper county to the middle west tuberculosis conference. Representatives from ten of the middle , western states will he in conference during the first half of the week. The purposes of this meeting is to plan more effective methods to combat the white plague.

THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair and cooler tonight. Tuesday, fair. WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fa*r weather, preceded by showers Monday; temperature above normal Monday and Tuesday; nearly normal temperature thereafter.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Abraham Leopold to James Augusta Shelly, Sept. 3, It. 11, blk. 7, Rensselaer, Leopold’s Add., $250. Ella M. Stoudt to John Fenwick et ux, Sept. 13, It. 3, blk. 3, Rensselaer, Benjamin’s Add., $1,700. Washington Cook et ux to Gifford Marrs, Sept. 6, pt. sw 39-29-5, Hanging Grove township, sllO.

MONDAY PRODUCE MARKET.

Cream* 56c. Eggs, 41c. -Springs, 20c. Cocks, 13c. Ducks, 16c. Geese, 12 c.

Prosecutor J. C. Murphy, of Morocco, was in Rensselaer today. Mrs. Lottie George and Lizzie Eger are spending a few days with Mrs. H. W. Beam in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lefler and Ethel Noland, of Lee, were in Rensselaer today. Mrs. Lefler reports that they had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Jean Tyner, formerly of this city, but who on Tuesday will move to Lafayette.

THURSDAY If you have seen these they are worth seeing again Douglas Fairbanks “Wild andWooly” A Western comedyabubbling over with hearty laughs punctuated by typical Fairbanks thrills. Fatty Arbuckle “A Reckless Romeo" r SATURDAY * Jack Pickford “Bill Apperson's Boy" Smiling Bill Parsons Comedy “Bill's Fortune"

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1919.

ENTHUSIASTIC SUFFRAGES

JASPER COUNTY WOMEN ARE ANXIOUS TO BECOME VOTERS. The women of -Rensselaer and vicinity crowded the court room in this city Saturday evening to hear the address of Mrs. Olive Lewis, of Indianapolis, the state organizer of the Women’s Franchise League. Mrs. Lewis was delighted with the response from the women of this community and said that the organization htfre promised to be one of the very best in the state. She made a very interesting address and a very reasonable plea for ’fee" cause she representedMrs. A. H. Hopkins presided at the meeting, introduced the speaker of the. evening and named the following nominating committee: Mesdames Ora T. Ross, J. D. Allman, A. P. Burton, J. J. Hunt and C. W. Hanley. This committee reported the names of the following for the offices indicated: President, Mrs, Cope J, Hanley. ig+ 1 virp-prpgidentr Mrs. Jesse Nichols. ——- 2nd vice-president, Mrs. John I. Gwin. 3rd vice-president, Miss Nelle Meyers. Secretary, Miss Maude Daugherty. Treasurer, Mrs. Fred A. Phillips. The report of this committee was unanimously adopted. The qrganization starts off with more than two hundred .members. Men are admitted as members and there were a number in attendance at the meeting. The greatest work at present for the organization is the ratification of the national women’s suffrage amendment. The governor is to 'be urged to call a special session of the Indiana legislature and that body is sure to ratify the suffrage amendment. Thus far sixteen states have ratified the amendment and two states have defeated ratification. Mrs. Ora T. Ross, of this city, has been appointed president of the Jasper county organization. -d

CONGRESS BECOMING TIRED OF INVESTIGATING.

It is interesting to hear the discussions in congress as to the causes that have brought about the high cost of living. The reasons given range all the way from the failure to ratify the peace treaty, as claimed by the supporters of the administration, down through the inflation of the currency; the government price-fixing of wheat; failure to f'x prices of fuel and clothing; lack of laws to empty the cold storage houses of meat, eggs and ’owl, and so on. So much criticism las been flowing into congress as to its failure to adjust conditions more quickly to the public’s liking, that nany members are beginning to beieve thaat congress is not so much to blame for inaCM3S= AjV senthnent is growing in congress that what is bothering the people in many, sections, especially in large cities, more than anything else, is the cost of high -living, rather than the high cost of living. The claim is made that too much money is being spent for luxuries, motor cars for pleasure riding, unnecessary prices for wearing apparel when raiment of more moderate cost would suit just as well, etc. Circumstances are related in discussions in great number. One senator told of his personal observations in his honU city of a workingman receiving a big wage, whoj upon asking for shirts in a store, was shown one for $2. It was not good enough. Then a $6 garment was submitted, but nothing doing. Finally he was shown a $lO shirt and bought three. The senator told of paying $6 for a pair of shoes he was wearing, but that a man in his employ* getting much less money than the senator, bought a pair 'of shoes for $12.50. Interest is lagging in both houses in creating measures to reduce living costs, partly because other business is pressing, and again because of apparent indifference. A special senate committee was appointed to investigate the cost of living conditions in Washington, and dates were set for citizens to attend the hearings, but few appeared, and the committee disbanded. Congress is evidently about to act upon the idea that it cannot do much for the public interest unless the public wants : tA fin something for itself.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the twenty-four hours ending at 7a. m. on.the date Indicated: Max. Min. September 19 -62 60 September 20 75 59 September 21 70 55 September 22 73 66

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WILSON VS. WILSON

Wilson's changing attitude toward the great war is shown iby the following extracts from his utter-t ances: Jan. 8, 1919—“D0 you not think it is likely that the world will some day turn to America and say: ‘You were r*ght and we were wrong. You kept your heads and we lost ours.’ ” But on April 1, 1917, lie said: “It is a war against all nations. The challenge is to all mankind^’ Oct, 5, 1919, the president said: “The singularity of the present war is that its origin and Object have never been disclosed. They have obscure European roots which we do not know how to trace. It will take the long inquiry of history to explain this war.” He had changed his mind when on Nov. 13, 1917 he said: “It is very desirable that we. should remind ourselves just how this war came about and what it is for. The war was started by Germany. I am willing to let the statement I have just made await the verdict of history.” ‘May 27, 1916, Mr. Wilson said: “We are quite aware that we are in no sense and degree parties to the present quarrel.” But he had again changed his mind April 6, 1918, when he said: “Everything that America has lived for and grown great to vindicate and bring to a glorious realization will have fallen into utter ruin and the gates oL mercy once more shut pitilessly on mankind.” Jan. 27, 1915, Wilson’s cablegram to his imperial majesty, Emperor William: “In behalf nf the government and the people of the United I have the pleasure to extend to your majesty cordial felicitations on this the anniversary of your birth, as well as my own good wishes for your welfare.” But on Dec. 4, 1917, he said: “This intolerable thing of which the masters of Germany have shown us the ugly face, this menace of combined intrigue and force, which we now see clearly as the German power, must be crushed.”

No change of heart has been found in the president’s utterance on July 23, 1915, when he said: “The government of the United States and the imperial German government are contending for the same great objects, having long stood together in urging the principles upon which the government of the United States now insists. They are iboth contending for the freedom of the seas.” On Oct. 1, 1916, while making his race for re-election under the famous banner, “He Kept Us Out of War,” Mr. Wilson said: “Some of the supporters of the Republican party, a very great body of the supporters of that party, outspokenly declare that they want war, so the certain prospect of the success of the Republican party is that we shall )e drawn into the embroilments of the European war.” « After he had won the election, on March 5, 1917, he said: “The war inevitably set its mark FROM THE FIRST alike upon our minds, our industries, our social actions. To be indifferent to it or independent of it was out of the question.” But when the republicans in congress and out of congress were dothe war President Wilson revealed his true self when on Oct. 24, 1918, he said: “If you have approved my leadership and wish me to continue to be your unembarrassed spokesman at home snd abroad, I earnestly beg that you will express yourself unmistakably to that effect by re;urning a democratic majority in >oth the senate and the house of representatives. ’ ’ His famous expression “that the world must be made safe for democracy,” is now thought by many to have meant that the world must be made safe for the Democratic

frUUSTOMER ASKED=BT """~ ‘ ■■ 1 • What is a bogus Ford Part—and wo told him-A bogus Ford part is a piece made to replace worn Ford parts that are made by factories other than the Ford Factory and sold to the public by unscrupulous dealers—because of a larger profit to themselves. It has been proven by test that Bogus Parts are of an inferior quality. * Insist on genuine parts only. f » ; ■ '.| V ‘ Central Garage Co. Phone Three-one-Nine

m m Last week we received an offer from A manufacturer that he would . give us $3.50 profit t On every suit ordered from him if we would not take ” 0.0- „ . «> them. We refußefe==E^ the offer

MONDAY GRAIN MARKET.

Oats, 62c. Corn, $1.32. Rye, $1.25. Wheat, No. 1, $2.11; other grades lower.

WHO RAISED THE PRICE OF CARS?

The H. C. L. was “made in Germany,” but Rensselaer people have done more than Germany to put up the price of automobiles and they are still raising it. And I’m for ’em. The following profiteers have recently raised the price of new cars: Dr. A. G. Catt, Ben B. Miller, Miss Mary Burns, Mrs. George Stoudt, Roscoe Halstead, x Ralph O’Riley, C. Pancoast, Harry Brooks and Sam Karnowsky. I say profiteers because anybody profits by •buying of us. Our cars are better than your money—and worry you less. —Hugh Kirk.

party. . . His expressed high ideal for “open covenants openly made when put in actual practice proved to be secret agreements made behind locked doors with cables and telegraph lines confiscated by Hie government for the purpose of depriving the people of a knowledge of the doings of their representatives in matters of so grave importance that thousands had died upon the field of battle for the principles which should have been written nto the covenant.

CITY SCHOOLS WANT MORE REVENUE.

_ A. H. Hopkins, a member of the Rensselaer school board, went to Indianapolis Sunday evening and «n Monday was before the state tax commission and asked to have a tax levy large enough to raise a greater amount of revenue for the coming year. Mr. Hopkins reports that much more money will be needed Ibis year and that they did not have sufficient funds- last year. It seems that the board should have met the "requirements of the law and made public the fact that additional funds were needed so that the tax payers might have had some knowledge of the amount of tax that they would be required to pay. The valuation of the city has been greatly increased, but the board is asking for a levy not much lower than last year. Schools are of the first import- ‘ ance and they should be properly financed. People are willing to nay a tax sufficient to have the best schools possible. This year the board has done some very creditable work in having all the rooms redecorated and the seats revarnished. There has been some comment that the schools are not as progressive as they should be, but in the main we believe that the schools are doing good work. A levy sufficient Urn but the taxes should not be unreasonably increased. ' ‘ Let us hope that the matter will be handled in a business like manner -and that_.no injustice will be done the Bchoolg or the lax payers, The valuation last year was sl,502,986, and the levy was $1.85 on the SIOO. This raises $27,805. This year the valuation is $3,579,775, and the proposed levy is $1.14 and should raise $40,809. In addition to the $41,000 which s proposed to be raised by local taxation, the schools receive nearly >4,000 from state tuition and dog r unds. •The report of the city school >oard was not on file at the auditor’s office and we were unable to get any figures from their business last year. If the board needed $13,000, or nearly 60 per cent more money this year than it used last year it should xave complied with the law and so informed Hie tax payers to thpt effect. This very huge increase at ;he taking effect of the new law is nopportune and unfair to the law and will create criticism and complaint which will be charged to Hie 1 aw unjustly. ,

ATTEND K. OF C. INSTITUTION AND BANQUET AT DELPHI.

A number of the members of the local lodge of K. of C. attended the institution of a lodge of Knights of Columbus at Delphi Sunday. Besides the installation services and the conferring of degrees there was an elegant banquet and a fine time generally. Those attending from here were: Lon Healy, Jack Murphy, Joseph Halligan, Henry Hordeman, Mike Quinlan, L. Halsema, Bern Luers and C. Brusnahan.

PATRONIZE GIRL SCOUTS

The Girl Scouts will serve ice cream and cake on the court house lawn Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Guy Meyers, of Wheatfield, was in Renseelaer today. Since the death of her husband she has been iving with her mother, Mrs. Fred £arch, of Wheatfield. Roscoe and Andy Finch went to Paxton, 111., today for a visit with relatives and later will shuck corn. The former was discharged from the military service at Camp Grant on September 9 after almost two years’ overseas service.

AT THE STAR THEATRE the house of good pictures -TONIPHT- J Anna Q.JNilsson “The Way of the Strong” Story of the Great Northwoet TUESDAY Wallace Reid Cleo Ridgley "The Girl of the Golden West” " Wednesday] Baby Mane Osborn THURSDAY ~ Xtdfre Anderson "Crown Jewels” Also 2-Reol Koysteae Comody

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