Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1919 — Page 3

A SOLEMN CHRISTMAS.

Judge Anderson’s message of justice and mercy to the misguided Kansas miners seems like a solitary note of hope and solace in a worldwide chorus of wrath and gloom. Wherever we turn the earth looks out upon a Christmas morning of doubt, deprivation, despair. From across the sea are wafted a myriad voices of wretchedness, famine, bloodshed, revolution, beggary, violence. Thrones are occupied by regicides, millions await starvation, bankruptcy threatens every treasury of Europe and the end of the gsoat war turns out to have been only the beginning of others. , . t The mental condition of the American people is one of universal and almost unrelieved unrest, suspicion, malice. The army is torn by feuds and the navy over the controversy medals. Labor is not only incensed against capital, but against its own divided membership. World peace is frustrated by venomous battle of personal and partisan ambitions. The storm of bitter hostility and unreasoning detraction, running into incredible extremes of almost criminal accusation, has already broken over 'the heads of men engaged in the most delicate and difficult tasks, like President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer, but promises soon to hamper the usefulness of such heroes and splendid citizens as Leonard Wood, Herbert? Hoover, General Pershing, Elihu Hoot, Mr. Taft and others. Apparently there is to be no limit to this obsession of wrath and envy which the great war or some obscure cause seems to have let loose upon humanity. It is a time when men and women of self-control and responsible leadership ought to speak in moderation and act with restraint. Never before was the Christmas spirit so sorely needed in the land. A political campaign is coming on, and without some abatement of the violence with which men are assailing one another, no seltrespecting person will wish to enter the souldestroying struggle. The first duty, obviously, is to make peace throughout the world with the treaty and the league in some form. On that foundation some superstructure of justice and reason may be erected here in our social, industrial and economic systems. Until this can be done, th£ Christmas message is almost a mockery.—lndianapolis Star.

BEVERIDGE ON AMERICANISM.

The address delivered last night by former Senator Beveridge at the anniversary celebration at Plymouth, M-wss., of the landing of the pilgrims, is far from being the speech common to such occasions. It is historical only incidentally; it contains none of the customary panegyrics over the passengers of the Mayflower who landed on that “stern and rock-bound coast.” That familiar ground is covered when he says that Plymouth Rock was the al rar on which was lighted the undying fire of those ideals and purposes that are today expressed in the word Americanism. The burden of the speech is a recital of the dangers that threaten ‘the existence of the American spirit how, the loyalty and love of country and equal rights to all that the fathers sought so arduously to establish. American nationalism has had opponents from the beginning.. Great Britain sought to destroy it; the civil war threatened it; our supposed German friends tried to undermine it, and now, says Mr. Beveridge, our nationalism and our American institutions are being attacked from without and within. By “without,” he means the propagandaof the Russian revolutionists so insidiously circulated. ' By “inside” he does not mean the L W. W., but ‘movements tending to the intimidating and disintegrating of our gov'ernment such as the passing of the 'Adamson law under the coercion and the recent failure of the government in the coal strike to enforce the law’s decree and actually to consult and compromise With law breakers. It is not the fact that the men who threatened congress in order to get their law passed or who graciously agreed, after consultation, to obey the law were labor union men that concerns Mr. Beveridge; it is that it is shown to be possible by these instances for any element or class of society to dictate to and intimidate the government regardless of public interest. For what one element succeeds—in doing, another will attempt, and the end will be as the speaker says, that the American people will be ruled by organizations and powerful groups unknown to the constitution and the laws and working in defiance of them. The address as a whole is a bold and powerful presentation of existing conditions and current issues and deserves to be read by all who are anxious for the preservation of the spirit and principles of true Americanism. It is the Utterance of a thinker, a man of convictions, and in striking contrast with the familiar mouthings of trimming politicians, who crave nothing but to any something that will prove popular and catch the favor of transitory and unreasoning gusts of prejudice and passion.—lndianapolis News. ' -

ABE MARTIN.

[lndianapolis News.] 11 It begins t’ look like fellers drop out o’ the Wilson cabinet, jest t* git a little newspaper boostin.’ Constable Plum announces that on account o’ so much unrest in th’ country he’ll open no packages this - Christmas. -,y

baptist church notice. Sunday school and Bible study, 9:30. Attendance last Sunday, 31. Morning worship and sermon, 10:45. Rev.W. H. Sayler will preach the sermon. This service F wfll be held each Sunday morning!

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

Farm Accounting School May Be Held. Farmers of Jasper county will be given an opportunity to brush up on the latest methods of farm bookkeeping some time after the holidays, if. enough interest is manifested in the subject to warrant the state extension department holding a special school on the subject here. The department is arranging courses in various parts of the state in order that farmers.’hnay be able to keep cost of production records, income tax records and other accounts highly necessary in up-to-date farming operations. The plan is to assemble thirty or more interested fanners for a day’s session in a room which has desks or tables so arranged that the men can write. Each man takes a blank farm record book and fills in inventories, not for his own farm, but as read from a sample book of a typical farm business which includes entries concerning which questions will likely occur. The men .summarize the record together and learn how to determine the income. Instruction is then given in working out the simple factors that will help them in studying their farms and also in transferring the necessary figures to the income tax blank. The school will take three or four hours. Farmers attending must pay fifteen cents for the book they use in the school. Such a school will be held in Rensselaer if thirty farmers will signify that they will attend. With all the difficulty that our farmers encounter in filling out the income tax records' alone, it would seem that many times the required number would be glad to attend for this one feature. Farmers who desire to attend such a school should notify the county agent not later than January 10th. Judge Selected for Corn Show. P. H. Hauter and W. H. Pullin, of the county corn show committee, have selected P. R. Bausman, of Monticello, as judge for the county corn exhibit which will be held at Rensselaer January -5 th to 10 th They are requesting every corn grower in the coimty to make exhibits at this show, as they believe that a well patronized show is one of the best means of promoting good corn growing. Jesse Snyder, president of * the poultry association, announces that about twelve trophy cups will be awarded on poultry, practically every exhibitor haying an opportunity to show for one or more of these cups. He predicts a good exhibit of birds in all classes. \ High Yields Should Be Reported. The Farm Journal, a farm paper which has been holding a crop yield contest the past season, has written requesting reports of high yields of crops grown in this section and has sent a report of the highest yields received thus far in the contest. The report shows that some of the winning oats yields are under sixty bushels per acre. It would seem that some of our Jasper county farmers could show higher yields for the past season and have a chance to win some of the premiums offered. - ' ' " •

WALKER CENTER.

Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington spent the week-end at Indianapolis visiting relatives of the former. John Karch, of Wheatfield, was 'calling 'on old friends and looking after rabbits. We see the rabbits still remember you, John. Mr. Sanders and D, Pass were sawing lumber the first of the week. Estle and Orval Meyers were callers at the Salrin home Saturday. Little Pauline Hurley has been quite sick the last few days, • Lena Meyers was on the sick list one day last week. How is the tooth, Lena? Alice Meyers, Bernice Meyers/and Bertha Hershman held Christmas exercises and a tree for their pupils. The children are all rejoicing as they have one week and two days’ 'vacation. Christmas exercises were held on Christmas eve at Walker Center. » Don’t forget Sunday school next Sunday at 10 a. m. Our mail man, Mr. Boyle, is busy these days with parcel post packages. ' < Noah Wenrick has returned from his visit with his son George, and expects to locate near Newland in the spring. Ceorge Turner, of Tefft, was in this locality purchasing hay the first ‘of the ■yyeek. 4 A merry skating party was held on the Joe Salrin farm last Saturday . night. Lee Jennings and family ate •Christmas dinner with Roscoe Poole Sunday. - The Liberty club will have a watch party at Mrs. J. J. Tomilson’s Wednesday evening and also an oyster supper. Every member and family is sure to be there to watch the old year out and the new year ‘arrive.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

W. T. Barbre, Pastor.—Next Sunday is the time to get ready to close the old year and start the new year right. The services will also be looking toward the starting of our special meetings. Morning subject: “Throw Out tiie Life-Line.” Evening subject: “A New’Year’s Message.” “The Brocks” will be here Friday and will meet the singers at 7:30 o’clock that evening at the chutch. The meetings will begin Sunday morning, January 4. ■ j Have your auto painted at the North Side Garage. Work guaranteed* Dries* right. 1

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WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. Dec. 24. President Wflson issued a proclamation returning the railroads to their owners on March 1 next. By i that time congress is expected to have enacted the pending legislation reorganizing the transportation systems of the country on a new basis. —“° — IL The president and Mrs; 'Wilson are to spend Christmas practically alone at the white house' tomorrow. Mrs. Wilson during the day, accompanied by Dr. Grayson, will distribute presents among relatives and friends and leave packages for the youngsters along the route to the president’s golf links. —o•— Senators Knox and Kenyon conferred today with Assistant Attorney General Becker, of New York, over the contemplated investigation of Russian soviet propaganda in the United States and the connection therewith of Ludwig Martens, the Russian soviet representative in New York. It was decided to make the inquiry a thorough one, Tasker H. Bliss, of the American peace mission, just returned from Paris, says the great need of Europe is a proper distribution system for supplies. The faulty distribution, he says t is largely responsible for the existing European troubles. The state department has ordered all shipments or arms to Mexico cut off. No comment is given as to the reason for the act or whether it may be the forerunner of a more drastic Mexican policy. ' —o— Thew United States has yielded in its clJim to seven former German passenger vessels which have been held by the shipping board as a club to"* force the British to give up all claim to oil tankers owned by a German subsidary, of the Standard Oil company.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Most teachers in Jasper county are dismissing on Wednesday before Christmas and will reconvene their schools on Monday, January 5, 1920. The Tefft schools closed last Friday, December 19, and will have a two weeks’ vacation. Professor Ashby has been suffering from an attack of appendicitis and will undergo an operation at Indianapolis during this period. Mr. Ashby Will not be able to resume work for three or four weeks at best. The DeMotte schools will have a very short vaipatioil owing to the fact that the schools there opened a month late. , Fair Oaks will have a week and two days. The board of education will meet on Monday, January 5, 1920, in the office of the county superintendent at Rensselaer. Probably the business of most importance will center about the selection of a county agricultural agent to follow Mr. Learning, who will vacate his present position the first of March. The board realizes the difficulty of securing a man who will follow Mr. Learning. He has rendered excellent service to Jasper county and his Successor must be a man of equal efficiency to make a success. At present it is difficult to know whether there will be any resignations among the teachers during the holidays. If precedent repeats itself then there will be-unexpected resignations from one angle of the county or another. However, there are very few eligibles on the substitute list, hence it is hoped that the present teaching, force will continue into the new year. Lottie Porter passed through Rensselaer from Tefft, where she is teaching, on her way to her home in Remington. Bessie Hullihan, of Gillam township, was in Rensselaer doing Christmas shopping last Satprday. Ernest Shultz and Helen Kissinger, teachers at Gifford, were in Rensselaer Saturday. Miss Kissinger has been unable th teach for a few days on account of Ruth Murphy, who teaches the Canada school in Barkley, reports that she netted about $55 at her box social last week. Gifford also reports S6O. Helen Porter and Zona Dillon, of Jordan township, were in Rensselaer shopping last Saturday. Hazel Miller and Golda Kessenger, of Hanging Grove township, were shoppers here last Saturday.

LEE.

Miss Lural Anderson came from Frankfort Friday evening where she has been attending college to spend the Christmas vacation with home folks. ‘ A. B. Lewis is quite poorly with infirmities incident ;to old age. » Paul Warner, of Kankakee, and Franklin Nelson, of Champaign, 111., visited a few days with relatives here. ' S. B. Snedeker shipped a carload of hogs to Chicago Monday. Will Gray and family, of near Monon, and Wayne Smith and family spent Sunday - with F .L. Overton and family. Butchering has been the leading business of our citizens for several days. Rev. Dean took dinner with H. C. Afiderson and family Sunday.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Rev. J; Budman Fleming, minister —Christmas, 1919, is past, and New Year's, 1920, is the next date in the calendar to check up on. Next Sunday, morning, December 28, we. will talk about “Sounding Your Depths and Recording It,” and in the evening Rev. Vaughn A. Woodworth, of Storm Lake, la., one of the boys who lived his days of “Real Sport” in this community, will preach. The Bible school at 9:30 will do a memory stunt in reviewing the work of three months. Kick yourself loose from the sandbar of irreligion and float out into the channel of God’s revealed will where (the individual and the race have the largest freedom and make the progress. . •

PLEAD FOR A COMPLETE CENSUS

PUBLIC MUST AID THE CENSUS TAKERS IN THE DUTY OF COUNTING NOSES. - ‘ v The fourteenth decennial census, to which President Wilson has called the attention of the nation in his proclamation made public recently, is to be the biggest, best and most complete ever taken if the plans of the census bureau do not go awry. l Director of the Census Samuel L. Rogers has announced that everything is in readiness to begin the canvassing campaign that during the month of January, 1920, will cover every mansion, every cottage and every.'hut in the country. An army of more than 87,000 enumerators, under the direction of 372 cenajia supervisors,- will be engaged in making the count. Every person in the land will be enumerated and the names, ages, birth places and occupations of all of Uncle Sam’s nieces and nephews will be set down and ffbrwarded to Washington. Many other questions concerning, home tenure, citizenship, marital status, literacy, sex, color and race are contained in the population schedule, which the enumerators will fill out from the answers given them. Farmers will be asked the questions contained ‘ln the agricultural schedule relating to farms. These questions cover farm tenure, farm products, values of farm lands, buildings, implements and improvements, field crops, garden products, farnf expenses, live stock, poultry, bees, in fact, all phases of the farming industry are covered. Even the family Ford will be counted, as, in fact, will all automobiles andtractors on farms. Questions as to telephones and electric lights, gas and water plants are also included in the group inquiries which fall under the general head* ing of “farm facilities,” the purposed of the government in collecting information of this character being to show the modern improvements on the farms during the past decade. So do not treat the census taker as a nuisance, but greet him as a friend. Tell him all about everything. The census bureau desires to emphasize the fact that the information gathered in the census is for general statistical purposes only and -that such information cannot be used as a basis for taxation. Nor can such information be used to harm any person in any way. This is pointed out in the president’s proclamation. j As a matter of fact, the identity of the individuals is lost as soon as the filled out schedules are received at Washington: For upon reaching there the information is transferred from the sheets to cards. This is done by machinery and names are discarded entirely. , Moreover, every person connected with the taking of the census is prohibited by federal law from divulging any information given them in the performance of their duties. t The bureau of the census has always had the willing co-operation of the public in the past and confidently looks forward to that same spirit of co-operation for the census of 1920.

CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK.

With Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman on the high seas bound for territory where they probably will find more congenial associates, the department of justice, with a great show of pride in its achievement, announces that it has “raised the curtain of secrecy” behind which have been concealed “years of investigation?’ The report goes on to declare that Emma Goldman was indirectly “instrumental in helping to form the unnatural ideas” of Czolgosz, who assassinated President McKinley. As further proof 'of its uncanny ability to ferret out the criminal practices of the turbulent Emma, the document states that she has devoted the most of the past twenty-five years in denouncing the United States government, teaching anarchy and disrespect of authority, advocating violence and obstructing the law. It has been proved, the department .announces, that this ! woman was involved, directly or indirectly, in nearly a score of killings and assassinations. Her. status las an alien was established also. Practically the same crimes have been chalked up against Berkman. Out $f its own mouth the department is condemned for these years of inaction and inefficiency, ending only when the entire nation demanded that prompt measures be ' taken to free our land from the . menace of anarchy. The government virtually was forced into deporting the arch criminals after permitting numerous radicals Ho cheat justice on various pretexts. Part of the criminal brood arrested in Seattle escaped after reaching New York, and for several weeks the department of labor quibbled with the department of justice over minor details hf jurisdiction in such After years of investigation, the government is now awaiting .the plaudits of the hation for upholding the sovereignty of the United States. It has rid the country Of the. two leaders and 250 of their radical followers, but the “soviet ark” carries with it the best wishes of thousands w,ho have been converted tc' radicalism by this evil doctrine preached from the Atlantic tc the Pacific. The immigration bureau of the department of labor ap pears particularly guilty of inefficiency. With the country rid of the anarchist leaders, the good work should continue with a house clean- . ing ’Of the immigration bureau.— Indianapolis Star. ,

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W. L. Bott was in Monticello today. Reason Dunn, of Fair Oaks, was in Rensselaer today. Mrs. Einnie Ulrey went to Indianapolis today. ■ ■■. . ■ - I—.III I .1 Blossom Brown returned today to her home in Delphi after a visit here with Mrs. John Adair. Hugh Miller returned to his home in Indianapolis today after a r visit here with his mother, Sarah Miller. Earl Ellis and family, who had been visiting in Kankakee, 111., with relatives, returned home today. Dr. E. Besser returned today from Harper, la., where he had visited with relatives. Paul Miller, of Indianapolis, is spending the holidays here with his mother, Mrs. Sarah Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Hollings-. worth, of Kalamazoo, Mich., spent Christmas here with the Hollingsworth family. ,S. E. Randolph, who had recently been discharged from the army at Camp Sheridan, Hl., went to Louisville, Ky., today. Edward Bellows and family and Howard Jones and family, of Remington, were the Christmas guests of Mrs. A. J. Bellows; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jinkerson returned today to their home in Chicago after a visit here with her parents, . Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire. Mrs. W. F. Ihne and Hannah Ludwig* were called to*. Foreston, 111., on account of the death of a relative. ' The name of Charles E. Hughes is now appearing in the headlines as a presidential possibility, and his supporters are / forecasting a victory for him through other forces agreeing upon him as a “compromise candidate.” ’ «■/'

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One thousand “Red” rioters were routed by New York police after hard fight on Fifth avenue Thursday. The “Red* were rioting In protest of the action of deporting 247 of their number recently. They were lead by a girl and there were many women in their ranks.