Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 August 1919 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY. AIGIST 20, 1019.
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LINTON TO SPEAK THURSDAY
PROMINENT EDK ATOR Ol INDIANA l Nl\ KKSI IA TO SPEAK THURSDAY NIGHT BEFORE TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE ON LIVE WIRE SUBJECTS—MUSICAL PROGRAM UNDER DIRECTION OF HARRY M v\w ELL TO PRECEDE ADDRESS.
ATTENOENCE IS LARGE
Dr. E. M. Linton professor of political science in Indiana University, I will address the Putnam County) Teachers’ Institute Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the high school auditorium on “America and the League irf Nations." Mr. Harry L. Maxwell, wwo has charge pf the music, will conduct a musical program beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Linton is a favorite speaker before the Putnam county teachers and a large crowd not only of teachers but townspeople as well are expected to hear him Thursday n.gr.t. The er.roUmer.l for the institute thus far is 114. Probably fifty more names will be enrolled before the clos. ing dav, Friday. The following names have been enrolled thus far: Cordelia Rule Joe Davidson Mrs. Joe Davidson Emma Jones Elmer Job A. F'armer Oscar Thomas Opal Grantham Nelly Lovett A. H. Hendrix Imogene Hendrix Gilbert Hale Ruth Hutcherson Carrie Logan Kate Reel Susie Talbott Clara Hodshire^ Merle Watkins Bertha Watkins Lillian Southard Jowania Stairwalt Freda Sahman / Glen Skelton Eleanor Perry Ella Pickett Virginia Baker Mrs. Olive Boughman Grace Dean Cory M. Cline Mrs. Mary Priest Mary Keough Kate Keough Avis Knetzer Cleo McCoy T.. E. Michaels F. L. Moore Lela Walls Bertha Hyten T.ottie Steele Paul Crodian Lucy Garett Mary Ader Edna Hand Emma Graves Grace Arnold Albert Heavin Mary Kearney Kate Oliver Lois Oliver Ina Spenser Vallie McKamey Ida Wood Pauline Glover Koleen Knoy Gladys Knoy l^on Johnson Mrs. Juliet Cline Roy Evans Mrs. Earl Runyan Laura Stewart C. E. Knauer Clyde Wilson Deliah Miller May Pickett F.ula Parrish Olive Shaver Cora Girt on Mary Lewis Ethel Ader Claud V. York Pearl Sinclair Irene Glasson Virgil P. Nier Dora Q Prichard Blanche Miller Frances Goddard Homer A. Higgins Florence Foster
Oliver Oscar Vaughn Glendon Rightsell Verna Shaw Essie Summers^ Lona iMoore Martha Hughes Margaret Ronk Wanda Mottier Margaret Galey Goldie Sheets Belle Lenard Dorothy Baldwin Mrs. E. E. Stratton ^ Jesse P. Annabal Mira Park Helen Marie Strain Lois Stewart Jennie Skelton Julia Shubert Dwight Singer Grover Clements Frank B. Meek Hobart Dunkin Emmett Hunter Truman 'McCammack Dovie B. Wright Eva Harbison Ruth Sewell Nettie W’oodall Carl Clodfelter Emma Ross Athel Bridges Reggie Miller Thomas Harvey Kate Lovett Goldie L. Ncivonirt Beryl B. Sandy Ruth Lane Emma P. Vaughan Roy E. Jones William A. Dow E. Frost Hurst Willis A. Dorsett Claude Hughes Frank Davis Georgia Ryan Walter W. Keller MOFFETT TO BE ON TIGER LINE-UP THIS YEAR
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Donovan Moffett, former Bainbridge high school ath'etlc star, promises to be one of the sh'ning bghts in the football and bus 1 et ball aggregations of DePauw during the coming at’ditic seasons. Moffett put the Bainbridge high school basket ; ball team on the map by his w >rk and last year injuries kept nim from assisting DePauw’s championship football team Moffett has the weight, the speed and the nerve to make a terrific lineman for the Tigers this fall. He received an injured ankle in the Indiana game last year that kept him from other football games of the season, but he showed up well in basket ball. His fellow team mates say he is one of the hardest hitting linemen ever attempting to make the Tiger team. He weighs well over 200, is lightning fast and Coach Buss is predicting > great things from this Putnam coun- j ty lad He will be a sophemore this
year.
UNION MEETING TO BE HELD AUGUST 21
CHIEF EXECUTIVE TELLS SI v. ATE COMMITTEE QUESTION OF WAR RESTS WITH CON-
GRESS UNDER PACT.
had tried to keep the nation free from obligation in European affairs j “so far as it was honorably possible | to do so," hut he assented that it 1 might he necessary to keep some j American troops in the Rhine ilisu ict | under the treaty for the next fifteen I years, ' m . jo'. '• ri ,:s il.l.t’STR\TION AT INSTITUTE. TCKSIJAY
QUIZ DRAWS OUI
FOODSTUFFS ARE SELLING RAPIDLY
an illustration of the devices used to determine musical ability. Upon the phonograph he placed records showing slight differences of pitch, time i and intensity. The teachers were
pjUJJJ asked to dteermine by ear the various
[differences. The tests were gradu-
_____ j ated from very easy to very difficult
I and it was noticeable that in the first
Washington, August 19.—President j stages of the test nearlv all the teachWilson, interpreting the league of na-1 vrs took part, being able to note the tions covenant today for the Senate | differences. Long before the end of foreign relations committee, declared : each test, however, the voices grew
Tuesday afternoon Dr. Jones gave IRK *■(>( PDSI DU It E HAS
SOLD APPROXIMATELY $1,000 WORTH <»l GOVERNMENT FOODSTUFF IN PAST TWO DAYS —< TOW NSPEOPLE B! Y MORE THAN COUNTRY FOLK.
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The Greencastle post office has sold 018 cans of govorrttnci'.i < cm since
torctgn relations committee, declared • earn resi, However, me voices erew - it imposed no legal obligation for the i fewer till toward the close only a the local office became a gvc. ery s».ire
of American military force in
protecting the territory or Indepen-
dence of any other nation.
But he added that the covenant might involve, in certain circumstances, an “absolutely compelling moral obligation” which might be even stronger than a legal promise. Pressed for a more exact definition by committee members, who insisted that the whole arrangement was “a rope of sand," he asserted that on the
two
I contrary he considered it as placing iwo ur mice <T..mc..v.c
The union meeting o u i nations in “an attitude of coni-J having to do with the slave trade now
castle churches will be he ( ru xt ut. ra) j es },jp an d protection" which would | in existence. The manuscript was day evening, August -4, a “ in | compel respect for the principles of I presented to the grandmother of Mrs. the Christian church. te a ' ess j j ug ti ce and liberty. 'Bridges by a former professor of De-
will be delivered bv Rev. . ,. ai j Meeting the committee in a round- ’ Pauw University. penter. of Brazil. He has just re-, ubIe diBCU „ ion in the east room of
turned from extensive travels in Syria | ^ white Ho(Jgei in con tradiction to and Armenia and from persona o j precedents of more than a cen urv servations gives an interesting | an(1 wUh the whoIe nation listening count of the conditions in these coun- ^ medium of a relay cf tries following the war. This will k 8ten0Kraphe „ t the President prove a most interesting meeting. many of thc detailj! of the Everybody in Putnam county cordial- ne(rotiations and touche d on all ly invited. the hotly-debated questions which
half dozen from the 150 teachers were Monday morning. Postmaster Wilsure of their ability to determine n hi m Denman and Assistant Pos'mi.*difference. ter Ernest Stoner, who have charge Dr. Sweet discussed the use of il- of goods have been sold. I he farmlustrations and the history library for ness and Mr. Denman stated late high schools. He illustrated thc use Tuesday evening that if the people 'of illustrations by telling the story continue to buy as the.' were buying 'of a very remarkable manuscript in, Tuesday the Greencastle apportionthe possession of the family of Mr., ment would soon be gone. Already James Bridges who lives just east of several articles on the list have been Greencastle. This manuscript is the I sold out. Approximately $1,000 worth log of a slave ship and is one of the | of fgoods have been sold. The farm-
three authentic documents
OHIO MAN NEW MANAGER OF TRICK BROS. STORE
Will Succeed Harold
Who Resigned to Take a Similar
Position at Monroe, Mich.
Prank Stephens, of Greenville, ()., who was recently discharged from service, has been chosen as the new manager of the Trick Brothers five and ten cent store here. He will succeed Harold Comstock, who resigned a few weeks ago to accept a similar position at Monroe, Mich. IMr. Stephens comes to Greencastle well experienced in this line, having been manager of the Trick Brothers Fountain Sfiuare store at Indianapolis before his entry into service. He was in the army eleven months, being stationed at Camp Sherman the entire period of his service. Mr. Stephens attended Oberlin College three years and is a brother of Clyde Stephens, who assisted in the store here during the holiday season two years ago.
have divided the Senate in its consid-
eration of the* peace treaty Givea F'reedom of Choice.
Article 10 of the covenant guaran-
J. Comstock, teeing the integrity of league mem- ‘ “ bers against aggression, he declared,
would leave to each nation “complete freedom of choice as to the application of force.” Even if the American representative on the council joined in a unanimous recommendation for military action the final decision for peace or war must rest, so far aa concerned the United States, with Con-
gress, he said.
The President revealed that Japan’s promise to return Shantung province to China was reduced to written form in the minutes of the peace conference. He asserted he had “every confidence’’ that the promise would be carried out and told the Senators it was “the best that could be got” out of the negotiations, Japan having given notice she would withdraw from the conference if her demands
were refused.
The American delegates, he said,
As to the library Dr. Sweet insisted that every library ought to contain three kind of books—guides, that is books telling of other books and their value in history; texts, books containing the facts of history, and historical literature, history written in excellent literary form and to he read because of its numan interest. Prof. Tilden spent the afternoon period in illustrating from various readings the divisions of literature dealing almost entirely with literature of the interpretation of life.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Greencastle, Ind., August 20, 1919 Callahan, James F. Entry, Mrs. Alpha. Furgeson Lumber Company Greason, Miss Laura. Jackson. Mrs. Mary. Jones IMr. Emery. Lane, Frank. McManis, Dr. J. C. McGregor, Mr. Thos Merry, Mr. E- P. Smith, Mrs. Alpha. Troon, Mr. Frank. Utt, Mrs. Nattie. Wright. Mr. Vern. Young, Miss Grace. In calling for same, please say “ad-
xertised.”
W. L. DENMAN, <P. M.
ers of the township are not buying as readily as the townspeople. The rural route men were given instructions by Postmaster Denman *o explain to the farmers the government sale and urge them to take advantage of the low price of the articles sold. For a comparison of prices, thc government is selling beans at about 7 cents per pound, while the grocery stores are selling beans per pound at 15 cents. Baron purchased at the meat store or grocery store is from 50 cents to 70 cents per pound, while the government is selling it for 36 cents per pound. The goods‘arc in a large governmental depot at Chicago. It takes several days for th" orders to be delivered to thc purchasers. Rice, vegetable soup and cherries have been sold out, reports Mr. De iman. “The goods are a great buy," savs the postmaster, “and more people should patronize the government. There i , a possibility of the government s< "big through the post offices of ‘he U ited States clothing articles within a few months. This sale would h •.ever, not be j.ut on until after all of ‘.he foodstuffs are
sold.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Emma J. Jones to C. A. Kelly and wife, lot in Greencastle. Considera-
tion. $1,000. v
Minnie W. Brownell to Harvey R. Mantel and wife, land in Warren Twp.
Consideration. $1,400.
Pearl Brown to Daniel B. Miller, land in Greencastle Twp. Considera-
tion, $800.
Washington, D. C., August 19.— Immediate relief from profiteering, prompt ratification of the peace treaty, including the League of Nations, and legislation extending some sort of substantial recognition to di-;-charged soldiers for their services during the war are some of the things the country demands of Congress, and which Congress would do well to grant, in the opinion of Representative Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma. Representative Ferris, who is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, has just returned to Washington from a trip to the Middle West. He declares that the public rt tired of the unending debate for which the present Congress is most celebrated, afid which gets nowhere, and that unless the Republicans who control Congress substitute constructive action for words before very much longer they will hear from the country in tones that will be very dis-
tinct.
“If 1 am any judge of public sentiment in the Middle and Southwest," said Mr. Ferris, “the preponderance is that the peace treaty, including the League of Nations ne agreed to at the earliest possible date; that the war be finally closed, that peace and prewar conditions be immediately restored, and that we get back to normal conditions at the earliest possible moment. The people understand full well that the peace treaty carries provisions, first for arbitration, second for disarmament, third against secret treaties, and fourth that thc United States can on two years’ notice withdraw from the league if she desires. They are heartsick about debates >n Shantung and other technilal phases—they want the whole matter agreed to and put behind them. “If I am any judge the people demand so” e immediate and affirmative protectio i against profiteering and those who are making abnormal profits out of the necessities of life. They also want it made perfectly clear that President W’ilson’s suggestions will fie followed and that every profiteer in whatsoever walk of life will be required to content himself with reasonable profits. Conditions are too abnormal and the load of the citizen is too heavy : t this particular time to withstand the fabulous profits that are being snatched from both producer and consumer on every hand. “The people demand that Congress do for the four million discharged soldiers what other countries are doing —give them some substantial recognition of their service. In conversing with numerous soldiers on the subject, they expressed the hope that the Mondell soldier land bill might lie materially amended so that it will lie made to benefit a very much larger number of soldiers and extend thc hand of opportuni% to those who do not desire to enter a soldier coloniza-
tion plan.
“In short, if I am anv judge, the people of the middle and southwest desire to put the abnormal war conditions behind them as rapidly as possible, resume pre-war conditions and take up their tasks anew, and any delay or long-drawn-out debate in the Senate over the peace treaty will be disheartening to them as it will be unprofitable to the country at larg*-. “I see that it has been asserted by Republicans now in control of both branches of Congress that the legislation now on the calendar is ‘chicken feed’ and does not deserve the atten-
tion of Congress.
“The American people who
daily being robbed by profiteers and food gamblers will be slow to agree with this logic. The railroad problem, intricate though it be, deserves attention and attention now. The development of the West by appropriate legislation for the development of oil, coal and other natural resources are all held in abeyance Unless the Republican leaders in Congress are totally wanting in initiative, and are
totally without nbilitv to
themselves and act. substantial and immediate steps should he taken for
the solution of these problems.
“The Republican Congress has been in session nearly three months. All it has been able to do is to re-enact the bills the Democrats formulated in the last Congress and which were killed by the Republican filibuster in the Senate. They have initiated noth-
CROWD COMES EARLY
THRONG ARRIVES ON GROUNDS \ i g O’CLOCK AND PROGRAM STARTS — YMUSEMEN1 AND REFRESHMENT STANDS BUSY.
PIGNiC WELL IN PROGRESS
You’ll miss the time of your life if you don’t attend the Farmers-Green-castle Commercial Club picnic now in progre-s in the Hazelett grove onehalf m:!e east of Greencastle. Hundreds of , pie were on the ground by 8 o’cb this morning and the booth row- .ook like the entrance to the R'ngiing Rrothers-Barnum & Bailey circus. Everything imaginable is there, from the balloon man to the cupid doll manager. The Green- | castle' band, under the direction of I Henry Werneke, started off the | gram at 10 o’clock with n . d 1’vely tune . The people there all smiled and this smile still continues at the time this paper goes to press. It is worth going to the grounds just to see some people’s face crack when they smile. Many amusing belt ribbons were being worr by the “jolly" members. Such as these were aeon: “Looking for a sweetheart,” “I’m martied—are you?" The grounds are a fine location for tie Gre«*rcastle people and rnan> are walking there. The interuroan cara were being filled at 9 o’clock this morning and many thousand people are expected to pass within the picnic gates. The merry-go-round is taking in its usual round. The program for the afternoon is one of high spots throughout. The addresses given by
American leaders will older folks, while the stands and refreshment sell to the others. The
prominent please the amusement booths will
following booths are on the ground: John Goddard, refreshment booth, Greencastle. C. McDowell, doll rack, Frankfort. John Veach, doll rack, Indianapolis. R. L. Lichliter, doll rack. Indianap-
olis.
George F. Hiles, efreshment booth. Indianapolis. E. H. Shaffer, cupid doll rack, Chicago. Ande Concilia, refreshment booth, Greencastle. Fred Dean, refreshment booth, Indianapolis. Charles Bishop, doll rack. Indianap-
olis.
Pocahontas Lodge No. 294, refreshment booth, Greencastle. W. R. Dormer, hoopla, St. Louis. Charles Dormer, cupid stand. Indianapolis. F. E. Talmage, novelty gallery, Venus. Fla. Perry Melville, ball rack. Indianap-
olis.
E. Murphy, ball rack, Kokomo, Ind. H. S. Sehumaker, ball rack, Jamestown. Granham Helms, shooting gallery, Miami. Church workers, refreshment booth, Crawfordsville. Allen Bales, refreshment booth, Roachdale. T. W. Kercheval, “The Spot," Indianapolis. Prince Rajah, horoscope specialist India. Mrs. Ed. Gant, refreshments booth. Stockwell, Ind. R. D. Adair, cupid doll, Indiaiuip-
olis.
E. J. Lemany, novelty shooting gal-
lery, Detroit, Mich. /
Emil Rader, refreshment booth. In-
assomhle j dionnoolis.
Jvan Murphy, string game, Green-
town, Ind.
T. E. Adams refreshment booth,
Greencastle.
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AIRPLANES LOOKED FOR. Although the airplanes had not arrived at 11 o’clock, they mav be here during the day. If they come. tft» (Continued on page three)