Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — Page 2

POPULATION OF CITIES TO PASS RURAL TOTAL

Washington, Aug. 6.—For the first time in the history of the United States the 1920 census returns will show that more people live in the cities and towns than in this rural territory, officials of the census bureau estimated today. When the final tabulations are - completed, officials said they expect it to be shown that 51 or pos- . srbly 52 per cent of the total pop- ' lation of continental United States resides in urban districts. According to the official estimate of the total population recently made by Dr. J. A. Hill, chief statistican of the census bureau, which was 105,000,000, the number of people living in cities and towns, if the percentage is 51, would be 53,550,000, and 51,450,000 in rural territory. v _ .. That the urban population would exceed the rural has become increasingly evident as the tabulations are completed, census officials said. With the population of about onethird of the cities and towns, including practically all of the larger cities, and about one-third of the counties tabulated and announced, the bureau statisticians feel c®™ l ’” that the rural population will be shown to be less than the urban. “There has been a very great tendency toward large increases in the cities and towns which we can not account for, unless it has come from the country,” said Samuel L. Rogers, director of the census. “This tendency toward the cities has been apparent for some time. The increase in the proportion of the urban population has been steady and rapid since 1880. in fact, this tendency has been manifested conspicuously since 18ZU.

FORD BUYS RAIL UNE, IS REPORT

Reports that Henry Ford, the Detroit millionaire .automobile manufacturer, had purchased the nghts of way for an interurban line from Logansport to South Bend, running through Rochester, were partly verified by Harold Davison, state district highway superintendent. ine line, which it is said Ford has purchased, was surveyed several Y®*” ag n and many fills and culverts built, when the project collapsed It is said that Mr. Ford will start work on the line immediately and hopes to have cars running from South Bend to Lakeville, a town ten miles south of South Bend, fore winter. It is said the entire line to Logansport will be opened in the spring.

ABE MARTIN.

“Here’s a suit o* clothes I paid seven dollars fer ten years ago. It s commencin’ t’ show some wear, but th’ suspenders are as good as they ever wux,” said Ike Moots today. Mr Lemmie Peters took a straw vote in th’ soft drink parlor yisterday.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. During my absence my dental office will be H . * Dr. W. L. Myer, Dentist. “Babe” Ruth clocked off homers number 40 and 41 at the «penseof George Dauss of Detroit rriaay. One ball went out of the ball yar and the other landed m the bleachers. Mrs. Van Grant, who underwent a tonsilectomy operation at the hospital Tuesday, is getting along lyWe now another carload of Fat-back hog feed. Iroquois Roller Milla. Phone 456.

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WARSAW OPEN TO RUSSIAN SOVIETS

Poles Must Quit City at Once, Say Allies. CAPITAL IS TO BE MOVED Haller's Forces Abandon Defenses Along the River Bug. Warsaw’s Last Line of Defense, Without Destroying the Bridges. Paris, Aug. 5. —Warsaw will have to he evacuated within a few days, In the opinion of the French and British military experts there, and the government is expected to be moved within that period, probably to Cracow. The report of the members of the military mission, telegraphed here, declared that the Polish army along the River Bug, had retreated so precipitately that it did not even destroy the bridges behind it. This river was Warsaw's line of defense. Wounded Tax Hospitals. Cracow, Poland, Aug. s.—Thousands of wounded soldiers are taxing hospital facilities here, and doctors and nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are often dropping beside the operating tables. The American Red Cross lias opened an Improvised school for nurses and 300 women are being given a hasty elementary course. L Failure of Parley Stuns Warsaw. Warsaw. Aug. s.—The suspense under which Warsaw has labored for three days was heightened by the news that the negotiations at Baranovitchi between the Polish and soviet Russian armistice commissions had been without result. The report that the Russian soviet government insisted that peace conversations begin at once caused a sensation In political circles. Announcement was made that Gen. Romer’s party was authorized only to confer with the bolshevlki on the question of an armistice. Tills was in line with the understanding that prevalled when the Polish emissaries left this city for the fropt. The breaking oft of the negotiations was due to a misunderstanding, according to the contention of the Russian soviet authorities in a wireless dispatch received here. The latest communication from the soviet suggests the negotiations both for an armistice nnd for peace be held in Minsk today. It asks that the Poles send a delegation to Minsk invested with all the necessary credentials to negotiate for peace. The Poles contend that it will be physically impossible for them to comply with this proposal. Officials of the American consulate have packed up their most Important records for prompt shipment from this City Jn case the Russian bolshevlki continue to advance. The task of vising the passports of the hundreds who desire to leave Warsaw will continue until the consulate is forced to close. Outgoing trains for Vienna, Posen and Danzig are crowded, and seat reservations are selling at a large premium. People are fighting to gain entrance to the station platforms and rush for places to sit or stand as soon as the trains back in. A close guard is maintained by troops, who inspect all paper to see that no soldiers depart until they bear proper credentials. While the Polish delegates are retracing their steps homeward from Raranovltchi, where the conference with the bolshevlki ended so abruptly, the bolshevlki troops are reported everywhere to be pressing their attacks on the entire battle front from the East Prussian line on the north to the region adjacent to Lemberg in Galicia on the south. Inside the great battle arc the Poles are hurriedly preparing defenses, particularly trenches f and barbed-wire entanglements in front of Warsaw. Many Americans and British subjects, including number of former officers, are reported by the recruiting officers to be enlisting in the Polish volunteers. British Irritated. London. Aug. 5. —The British government is irritated over what it believes is soviet Russia’s equivocation over the British suggestion that the Russians halt at the armistice line' of root ion in Poland and begin peace negotiations. It has dispatched a sharp note to the soviet government demanding a yes or no answer as to whether that government Intends to listen to the suggestion. The note, it is reported, contains no threats and is not In the nature of an ultimatum, simply requesting a quick answer as to what soviet Russia intends to do.

LIVE WIRE KILLS WORKER

One Electrician Loses Life and Another Burned While Working In Plant at Dubuque, la. Bubuque, la., Aug v s—Roy Mueller, L twenty-four years old, was electrorated and E. M. Davis severely burned when they came in contact with a high tension wire at the plant of, Swift A 00. The men were eleetriciahs and had just finished installing a pasteuriser when the accident Occurred.

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WORLD’S NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth marquis of Queensberry. is dead at Johannesburg, South Africa. —- The gross national debt was reduced to a total of $76,404,453 during July, according to the Washington treasury statement The socialist congress in session at Geneva, Switzerland, voted to remove Its headquarters from Brussels to London. Llge Daniels, negro, said to have confessed to the murder of Mrs. Hall, was hanged by a mob in the courthouse square at Center, Tex. Several clothing manufacturers In New York reported a reduction in their working forces because "of lack of orders and general trade.” The 1920 population of Oregon is 765,285, an increase of 110,523 since 1910. or 16.4 per cent, the census bureau at Washington announced. The mobilization at a moment’s notice of two army divisions has been arranged for by the army council at London in view of the Polish situation. Existence of anthrax among stock on several plantations in Miller county, Arkansas, has been discovered by government veterinarians at Texarkana, Ark In a night flight near Los Angeles, Cal., Lieut, Ormer Locklear and his aid, Lieut. Milton Elliot, were killed when their plane crashed 1,000 feet to the ground. State’s Attorney General Armstrong of Maryland has ruled that the police of Baltimore city do not possess the power to make arrests for violations of the Volstead act. Farley P. Christensen, presidential nominee of the Farmer-LAbor party, issued a statement at New York denying that the party was controlled by Industrial Workers of the World. Increase of more than a million bales In the prospective-production of cotton over the indicated yield a month ago was forecast by the department of agriculture at Washington. Six armed men, unmasked, entered the Commercial Savings bank at Moline, 111., backed two tellers into a vault and all others Into the cashier’s office, swept $20,000 into sacks and made their escape. The sale of the liner Von Steuben, formerly the German commerce raider Kronprinz Wilhelm, to Fred Eggena of New York for $1,500,000, was announced by Chairman Benson of the shipping hoard at Washington. Fifteen persons are in the County hospital and 20 men are in the city jail at Denver, Colo., as a result of rioting in that city, which began when union sympathizers attacked strikebreakers who were endeavoring to run street cars.

A Beirut (Syria) dispatch says the situation In Cilicia has improved considerably. The French troops which recently left Adana won a notable victory at Yenlde, the advices stating that tlie enemy left more than 400 dead on the field. Refugees arriving at Allenstein, East Prussia, declare that the bolshevlki are shooting all landowners and property holders, and others suspected of having money. The wearing of a white collar, they assert, is sufficient evidence for a death warrant Indictments charging violation of the Sherman and Lever acts were returned by a federal grand jury at Chicago against 41 of the leaders In the “rebel” yardmen’s strike that paralyzed railroad.transportation throughout the country last winter. Treasurer of Northern Pacific Dies. St. Paul, Aug. 3. —Charles Alexander Clark, treasurer of the Northern Pacific railroad since 1887, died of pneumonia at a local hospital wbere he had undergone an operation for stomach trouble two weeks ago. teenth census. John Alexander, alias John La Grance, said by federal authorities to be the most important suspect taken in their search for anarchists since the signing of the armistice, was seized by members of the bomb squad and turned over to Immigration Commissioner Harry Landis at Chicago.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Aug. 5. Open- High-, Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. Dec. ...2.32-29 2.45 2.28 2.40-40% March .2.31-29% 2.47% 2.39% 2.42 CornSept. ...L4Z%-43 1.49% 1.42% 1.48%-48 Dec. ...Le%-24 1.29% 1.23% L26%-% OatsSept 71-70% .74% .70% .78%-% Dec. .....70-59% .72% .69% .71%-% RyeSept. ..1.74-73% LBl 1.73% 1.80% । Dec. ...1.74 175 1.74 1.75 ( FLOUR—Hard spring wheat—Short patent, [email protected]; first clear, second clear, 87 SO@S 25: special mill brands, in 961 b cotton sacks. [email protected]; warehouse delivery, [email protected]. Soft winter wheat—Short patent, [email protected]. Hard . winter wheat, Kansas short patent, 811.00 @UJS; first clear, [email protected]; second clear, 87 [email protected]. Rye flour—White patent, 89.00@ 9.25; dark, 88.00@&25. HAY—New No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; standard and No. 1 light elover, 840-00® 46.00; No. 2 timothy, 8M00040.00; No. 1 clover and No.l timothy, [email protected]. CATTLE—Choice to fine steers, 815-26® 17.15; good to choicec steers, [email protected]; ] fair to good steers, [email protected]; yearlings, I fair to choice, [email protected]; good to prime cows. [email protected]; fair to good heifers, j [email protected]; fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]: veal calves. [email protected]; bologna bulls, Mso® 7.W. HOGS—Choice light butchers, 815.900 i 14.30; medium wt. butchers, 515.66ffi6.15; heavy,, butchers, 270-350 lbs. 815.40015.85; fair to fancy light. [email protected]; mixed butchers, [email protected]; heavy packing, tit 7W14 75: rough packing. [email protected]; pigs, 81200315.00; stags. [email protected]. SHEEP — Native lambs, 812-09014.60; western lambs, S1S.OO®1A«; feeding lambs, ; 89 00012.00; ytarlings, [email protected]; wethers, ’ 86.00*10.00: ewes. 84.0006.50.

BLAME FOR SUGAR COST ON WILSON

Failure of President to Act When Urged by Hoover Resulted in Excessive Prices. HISTORY’S WORST SCANDAL What is called a “billion-dollar blunder” on the part of Woodrow Wilson is brought out in Harvey’s Weekly, which declares that Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts went not “a whit beyond the fact when he said, in the closing days of the last session of Congress, that “In American history never has there been such a scandal and incompetence as has been displayed by the present administration in relation to the sugar problem of the United States for IMO.” ■ Continuing, the journal edited by Col. George Harvey, once the sponsor of Wilson, says: “The responsibility for this scandal, the responsibility for loading upon the American people a wholly unnecessary additional burden of from 11,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000 In living expenses, rests solely on the shoulders of President Wilson.”

Wilson Ignored Advice. The weekly goes on to say that as early as July, 1919, Hoover was so impressed with the prospect of extravagant sugar costs that he cabled from Paris to the President urging him to buy the entire Cuban crop, but the President ignored the advice. In September, 1919, the United States Manufacturers’ Association, at a meeting held tn Chicago, passed resolutions outlining the threat of chaotic sugar conditions, forecasting high prices and urging the President to avail himself of the opportunity to buy the Cuban crop. But Wilson, the journal says, declined. The sugar equalization board also called the President’s attention to the impending sugar shortage but there was no response at the white house, and the Cuban crop was subsequently sold after an answer from the United States had been awaited for three months. The President, according to conservative estimates, had deliberately passed up an opportunity to save the people of the United States from sl.000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000 In their living expenses.

HARDING NOT AFRAID TO WORK-DOES OWN TASKS

Marion, O. —Warren G. Harding is not afraid of work. When he has a task to accomplish he buckles down to the job and hammers away until it is satisfactorily finished. His friends point to this trait as one of the commendable things that characterize the Republican nominee. He revealed this fact recently when he set himself to wort on his speech of acceptance, delivered on the occasion of the formal notification of his nomination, July 22. The senator did not call in stenographers or clerks to take his dictation. Instead he went to a quiet room in his home, took an ordinary black pencil and a pad of paper and proceeded to turn out the speech. He worked for over a week in this fashion, and when he had finished it is said that few changes were required in the original manuscript. “I wrote the speech as I used to write for my newspaper,” said the senator. "It’s a habit of thirty years’ standing. I write as I think.” He has never learned to use the typewriter.

FARMERS FAVOR PLANKS IN PLATFORMS OF G. 0. P.

Indianapolis, Ind —General approval of the platform planks of the Republican party pertaining to the affairs of the farm and farmers has followed the publication of the party’s declaration of principles, it is announced at the headquarters of the Republican state committee here. The national platform plank on agriculture calling for the extension of credit and encouragement of the production and Importation of fertilizing materials has attracted wide support. The plank in the state platform on farms and homes which pledges the enactment of legislation designed to encourage ownership of farms is also endorsed by those interested in agriculture.

M’CRAY HAS REST-NOW READY FOR BIG CAMPAIGN

Indianapolis, Ind.—Warren T. McCray, Republican nominee tor governor, has returned from Lake George, Mich., where he took a short rest in preparation for his campaign for. election. He is planning a vigorous engagement and will cover every* county in the state, according to present plans. Friends close to Mr. McCray state that the candidate has received' offers of help and support from inluential men in every district. Many farmers have interested themselves in behalf of his candidacy and have sent him word that he will have almost solid barking in the rural precincts

COMMENT Of STATE PRESS-EDITORS MT PUBLIC IS TURNING TO HARPING

Political Writers Emphasize Growing Impatience Abroad With “One-Man Rule"—Republican Nominee’s Sound Policies and Strength in His Party Reasons for His Expanding Popularity —Cox’s Alignment With Wilson Vexes Bemocratic Following. la

The Republican press of Indiana is united in an unqualified endorsement of Senator Warren G. Harding as the G. O. P. candidate for president. Senator Harding’s virile Americanism, his strength with the party throughout the nation, his sound opinions and policies on government and administration and the fact that he was the choice of a convention free of group domination are pointed out by the G. O. P. editors as strong reasons for his popular appeal to the electorate. At the same time the political writers emphasize the growing impatience that is abroad with what the press calls the “one-man rule” of President Wilson and It is asserted there are great elements of the thinking public turning to Senator Harding, whose election they confidently look forward to as the instrument to put an end to the Wilsonism which has long since developed into a national irritation.

Cox Aligned with Wilson. A survey of editorial utterances In the Indiana dailies and weeklies of the Republican faith goes further to show that Cox’s conference with the president and the subsequent announcement by both that each was in hearty accord with the other has worked grave harm on the Democratic hopes. It is asserted that this can have but one meaning; namely, that Cox has surrendered to the President, and that he goes before the nation asking for election on the basis of perpetuating the Wilson program of internationalism. The common people, according to the Bloomfield News, are going to settle the election, and “they like Senator Harding. They understand him. They see in him a relief from the “voices in the air” from the folly of a government run by moral mush. . .” The Newcastle Courier proclaims the nomination of Harding as the “first indication to the people of the country that we are on our way back to sanity and stability in government” and the Shelbyville Republican calls on the public, to “be for the ticket, be for the platform and do your part to redeem the country from incompetency.” Harding Well Qualified. The Greensburg Daily News points out that Harding has been in the senate of the United States for six years and has never dodged an issue and the Monticello Herald praises him as a man who has been courage-

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ous enough to stand for his convictions, a man “who will unite every element in the Republican party.’ Further, the Herald declares, “He is qualified by experience and training for the office of president. He is able to grasp large affairs, has great native ability and has bene trained In statesmanship. Senator Harding has learned from experience to listen to the advice of others and in the times just ahead can be trusted to call around him the best and ablest Americans for counsel and advice.” Friendly and Sympathetic. The Corydon Republican finds much to commend “in the human side of the Republican candidate —-his attitude as a friendly and sympathetic neighbor—his solicitude for the welfare of those who, like himself, have eaten their bread in the sweat of their faces. . . ." The Columbus Republican finds occasion for genuine rejoicing in the fact that Senator Harding is a “man that will carry the full strength of his party at the polls, thereby insuring its success,” and insists that “he is right on every important issue now confronting the nation.” The Freeman of Indianapolis (col-) says, “Senator Harding has had all the experience peculiar to the office and should, we think, be highly successful as the nation’s chief executive.” Proof of Popularity. The Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel pleads for an end of criticising a man because he has made friends rather than enemies of his/ colleagues and finds the fact that Harding’s fellowsenators are for him almost to a man a decidedly creditable and pleasing fact and a proof of his faculty to make himself agreeable and affable. Endorsed by Typo. Unlen. The Sullivan Union is sure that “no Republican can find fault with Harding and Coolidge or their nomination” and the Jonesboro Herald says the newspaper fraternity rejoices that one of its members has been named for the highest office in the gift of the people. The Railroad World, Indianapolis, a railroadmen’s monthly, recalls that Senator Harding’s candidacy was endorsed by the Typographical Union of Marion and mentions that some time ago a profit-sharing plan was started by the Senator in his establishments and each year the employes are given a share of the earnings.