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GRKENCASFLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, \l (.1 ST 25. 1919.
THE WEATHER: i wk \nd cool.
| the first division; Col. Henry I). Lind-/ j sley, formerly, mayor of Dallas, Tex.; | j Seijjt. “Jack’’ Sullivan, of Seattle, | Wash.; Sergt. Alvin C. York, of Ten-| nessee; Robert Bacon, ex-secretary of 1
! state.
j What is a local post? The constitution states that a local j post : rail have a minimum member-j j ship of fifteen. No post shall be re-1 j ceived into the Legion until it has re-' | ceived a charter. A post desiring a ’ charter shall apply for it to the state ! hradch, and the charter will be issued, | upon recommendation of this state I branch by the national executive comj mittee. No post may be named after
! any living person.
Russell Newgent, son of Mr. and
' Mrs. W. W. Newgent of this city, is _ | secretary of the Indiana State Le-
NEWbEW STATE SEoRETARY K " i ’ th ' ,niliiai:i officer* bein.
as follows; )
Chairman—Raymond S. Springer,
, Connersville.
Putnam county returned soldiers' Secretary-L. Russell Newgent, In-
have organized an American Legion dUmipolis
chapter. The necessary fifteen char- Tke charter is nmv at the Huffman I
t.r members have beei secured i
more names will be added within a additional names Those who wish to day or two. The following names become charter members should go at have been signed on the charter: , ont . e and sitfn ; as it is
AMERICAK LEGION TO BE FMED
ITNAM COI N11 ORG \M/ \- rjON WITH MORE TH ' N FIFTEEN MEMBERS' on chari er —LEGION IS A NATIONAL OR(iANIZATION —MEN AND WOM-
EN ELIGIBLE.
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His Broad Acres
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i RECKON MOSODV'i^ 1^. COIN' TO STARVE L next year IF I t 1 KIN HELP IT, BY i CRACKY' /
Estel Brothers
Justin G. Schmitt
Gerald Handy
Robert A. Hoffman Russell V. Vermillion Jore G. O’Neal
Aurl O. Allen
Gwin G. Ensign James A. Bittles Robert E. Hanna Harold M. Hootman Lawrence W. Crump Frank R. Young
Paul Grimes
Geoige C. Kritch
Paul Gibson
Charley Donnehue Thomas L. Howard
What is the American Legion? It is the organization of American veterans 0 f the world war. It is nonpartisan and non-political. It is a
not only an
| honor to become a charter member [ j but something which will be treasured j
| in later ygarf.
The dues per year arc 2. r .c to sts’.tc headquarters and 25c to national
j headquarters.
f o- ■■ i
IMPORTS IN<REASE IN Jl LY, EXPORTS DECREASE
peal the tax on soda water, which 1 would cost the federal treasury something like ¥21,000,000 per annum. I Even the soda water bill, however, has failed thus far to get out of the workless Senate committee on finance,! of which Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-, vania is chairman. I' or weeks prior to the issuance of 1 the call for a special session of Con-) gross, Republicans were severe in their criticism of the President for delaying the call. One of the re. sons they gave fer demanding an early convening of Congress was the necessity for the enactment of legislation to meet the reconstruction problems that followed the close of the war, and particularly a need for the readjustment of the tax and tariff sched-
ule*.
In his call for the special session, issued in May, the President recognized the need for constructive legislation, and in his.message to Congress at its convening referred especially to matters of taxation, urging the need of prompt and helpful legislation that credit and enterprise might be iiuickened to help business get back to
normal.
“I hope that Congress will find it
possible to undertake an
Willi STORY CJliSES STIR ST PERAI1W
K.\(Ti/n AND GREENCASTLE CITIZENS AROUSED OVER Si VTKMENT THAI DR. GROSE HAS SECURED SOCIALIST TO TEACH IN THE COLLEGE THE COMING YEAR — PROCESSOR HAD JUST BEEN ENGAGED.
FACULTY DISBELIEVES STORY
Imports in July were the largest inj the history of the country, while the] j exports were the lowest in any month j j of this vear, according to a statement j given out today by the bureau of for- | eign and domestic commerce of the 1
j department of commerce.
| The July exports amounted to i $570,000,000. nearly $350,000,000 less than in June, the high record month, but an increase over the $507,000,000
. ... . .. . I exports in Julv, 1918. For the seven civilian organization, not military or ., , ... . , . .. .. , ,, months ended with July the exports
■ were $4,018,000,000 in 1919, and $3,1482,000,000 in 1918, an increase of
j nearly 33 per cent in one year.
| July imports were valued $345,000,000 as against $293,000,000 in June,
TRAGEDY OF ARMENIANS IS RELATED
MISS HELEN MAY TAKEN TO HOSIMTAL
militaristic. It makes no distinction of rank and no distinctions between overseas men and men who did not
get overseas.
Who is eligible?
Any soldier, sailor or marine who, and $ ., 4; , (()00 000 in July( 1918 . served honorably between April ®i' They ari , thc ] ar gest monthiy imports
| in the history of our foreign trade, ! exceeding by $ll>,000,000 the previous high record in May of this year. Im-
AWICL SUFFERINGS OF THE ARMENIANS AT HANDS OF I ( RKS IS TOLD SUM) \Y BY W. E. CARPEM EB. OF BRAZIL —HE TALKED FROM (PERSONAL OBSERVATION — PEOPLE URGED TO GIVE LIBERALLY.
Dr. Gordon Thomas accompanied Miss Helen May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. May, who reside on the National Road near Mt. Meridian early this morning to an Indianapolis hospital, where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. Dr. W. M. Hutcheson was called to the May home late Sunday evening and found Miss May io he in a critical condition. Dr. Ruddel, of Indianapolis, performed ♦he operation. | Poy Ash and Francis Moran have gone to Newcastle where they will be employed. , jiilij* Hanneman, of Terre Haute, | spent Sunday here the guest of rela | tivej
HELD IN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
, ports for the seven months P nded j with July were $1,955,000,000 in 1919, against $1,788,000,000 in 1918, an in-
crease in the last year of less than 10 I countries of Armenia and Syria, told on Load was struck >y
1 Sunday evening before the Greencas- i'Phtning Snrd.iy evening about .i
It was a terrible story W. E. Carpenter of Brazil, late traveler in the
BARN OWNED BA ( H AS. REEVES I BURNED SUNDAY EVENING A barn on the farm of Charles Reeves, who lives east of Putnamville
1917, and November 11, 1918.
Are women eligible?
Yes. those who were regularly enlisted or commissioned in the army,
navy or marine corps.
When was the Legion started? It was first organized in Paris
March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand ^
officers and men, delegates from all 1 excegg 0 f X p dr t s 0V er imports I tie people at the Christian church.; uVlock < lurin * tht ‘ R < fVer ” vain <lorm the units of the American ex Pf“‘'j wa3 $225,000,000 in July, and $2,(163,-! Mr. Carpenter was secured by Dr.! and * lectri,!al <torm an ' 1 burned to tionaiy ,ln organization qqq qq^ j n seven months of this j Hilary A. Gobin, chairman of the tbe K rolin, l- " ,1( ‘ horse which th • meeting w ic ..iloptii a en ativi .000,000 more than the ex-' Putnam county Armenian relief fund, ,ici,r * b y former- were u* uule to urive
j cess in the seven months period of, to speak on his recent visit with ro!r the building was
1918 of $1,094,000,000, an incr e ase of| eighteen other
constitution and selected the name
“American Legion.”
What has been dune in America re-
frmr the building was burned t >
American Sunday J* Sevt ‘ ra ! tons hoy were also
i 57 per cent.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
garding it?
The action of the Paris meeting! was confirmed and endorsed at a simi-' lar meeting held in St. Louis May 8
to 10, 1919, when the Legion was Fred L. Sturgeon to Homer Griffin, i formally recognized by the troops land in Russell township, Considera-
wh<J served in the United States. j tion, $750.
Are the organizations in France Miriam Esther Evens to Eva Cohn,
... , , . i , ^ «iao tions, about $3,250 has been raised. and America separate? lot in Cloverdale. < onsiderntion, $100. <t , V '.
school leaders to Europe, in order to '■ , '~t , ' 0 >'ed. Mr and Mis. Reeves and secure personal observation of the , f uln ''y w ® r 'd hom vhn tntenand awful crisis which the Armenian peo- "ere not at home when tie
barn was
The friends of DePauvv University and members of the faculty were greatly disturbed Sunday ny thc appearance in tre Chicago Tribune of a sensational story in regard to a newly engaged professor in the de-
rly reron- P lirt ment of sociology. Dr. Grose,
sideration of federal taxes,” said the " hH himl Professor Calhoun, is not President’s message, “in order to ' n c 'dy, and no statement from make our system of taxation more Fd' 11 "t hand, but faculty members simple and easy of administration art ‘ convinced that the story is either and the taxes as little burdensome as ""true in many particulars, or that J they can be made and vet suffice to 8 sensational interpretation has been I support the government and meet all Fiven commonplace statements. In its obligations. The main thing we f ;lc L the whole story bears on its face shall care for is that our taxation t ' v ' de,,c e °f untruthfulness. No one. shall rest as lightly as possible on thc '"stance, could be made to believe productive sources of the country, President'Grose has showed symthat its rites shall be stable, and that I’ a, b.'‘ with revolutionary ideas. Again it shall be constant in its revenue l as t«part of the stHry itself shows yielding power.” evidence that the writer has been falThe ways and means committee of s ‘ y' n 8 quotations, inserting the the House is the committee whence word revolution in the context legislation relating to taxation ema- " be, ’e 't does not belong, together nates. It is the most important com- "' tb 0,ber evident attempts at senmittee in either branch of Congress; “"Tionaiism. Ire story that the facordinarily it is the ablest in the ldt - v uo " ’ 1 not P^rmi* ( alhoun to K V,! ’I“V s !.V. { s' 1 1 resentative Fordney, of Michigan, a faculty are out of town and the re-
mainder now on the campus believe
the whole story a myth. The Story i s as follows:
Greenrastle, Ind., August 24.—CoJ-
ticaily nothing. To date it has report- k>Ke cirt,es ' ver, ‘ stirred to,la .v b >’ »*“•
led out and the House has passed the PuM'^tion in the Chicago Tribune of
’bill repealing the war tax on soda morning of s letter allege l
FLIERS FIRST TO RETURN water, hardly a necessity of life, and li v Arthur < < alhoun, recant LILDO nnoi IU ntiunn whlch repeal certalnly not con . ly engaged for th. ch. ir of sociology ' 1 tributed to a reduction of the cost of b - v Ppesldent Cr '>''e DePauvv, in M-.rfa T,.v Vncmst T b t necessities of life. In addition, the Calhoun openly admitted his I irfn, Lex., August -o. The first rommittee has renorted out s ymp a thy for the so-called “left troops of the American punitive ex- H " U! ' e comm ' ttee has ,e P orte .", out wino ... nf c- nor , v . ... .ill somi* half-dozen net bills of individual ^ ^ Socialist par-y, wnicn
"♦ ih '' ri"iLTin t 8''Xw"t‘ d nvoi’u r titn"n
c
‘ tei otl(Kl ' last n ‘Kht, .. . ti . district with "ccompiished. The alleged letter from according to .elephone advices. The th< ^ “ ! r d for he natir.l f >-.f. Calhoun, written to Dr William remainder of the expedition followed, Ug ‘ m ' f0r the nat, ° nal Z.eug of the University of Minnesota. Marfa Tex 7^7st <>5 _ Troon . 1 " It is in this manner, that this most "as placed in the hands of the United Marfa, Itx„ August -•>. Iroop* .... .,. ,, States District Attorney Clyne of
FAILURE TO PICK UP HOT BAIL CAUSES ACTION
TO MARCH OUT WHEN RAIN OBLITERATES TRACE OK BANDITS—DAMS AND PETERSON. WHO ACCOMPANIED EXPEDITION. ARRIVE AT AVIATION FIELD. I
Republican, of course.
This committee has been in session most of the time since Congress convened. but it has accomplished prae-
| pie are undergoing at the hands of the fiendish Turks. i home, Putnam county's Armenian fund,
apportionment is $3,750. Of this i ®m , ’I ^ j.'*** RE 1 MON
amount with Sunday night contrihu-
1
HELD SUN DA \ AT HOME OK A. BROTHERS
Mr. Carpenter sailed from New
teen. These two executive commit-, ter, land in Madison tow s p. o . . , ... hardshins time and everyone had an enjoyable tees hive amalgamated and are now, sideration. $100. Lottie ' Endured bv ^0 party the speaker sa^d time. The place for the ,920 reunion the operating body of the Legion. Anthony Kerry and wife to Lottie , h t and pleasure because I " a8 selected to be at the home of Who afe the officer, of thi, nation-, E. Wood, lan.l In ''“’ hi "' ,on t ™ n 'i th , y k „, w b, their rom, Amrrirn | W» Whrrtrr.ft. at Or,,nwood.
»l nevrrnin, bod,T j W*. C.n»d.r« We* , J ^ th ,„ „ , h( . ' ml ! ,„d. Henry I). Lindsley, Texas, chair-1 George B. Gibson to C harles Run- . . _ . . . . . , | „ man; BeWttC. Clark, Missouri, vice ; yan, land in Greencastle township, Don of Armenia and gi e .v < ;
chairman; Eris Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, secretary; Gasper Bacon,
cious tendencies” of some educators now connected with American universities, presumptively with the sugges-
were ordered out of Mexico last night, important committee of the House is
The order withdrawing the Ameri- "'"'W thp 8 ' tuat, ‘ , '’ that ‘• onfronts K . " * T ° f the . L-.e nov at ntm-.c wnen toe <an punitive expedition which crossed the country. It has utterly faib d to * rU ck beimr at a neighbor’ 1 border last Tuesday morning in rise to the emergency u - an ' r s-ruck, being at a neighbor» (>f held ^ of .statesmanship, even with - verv
American aviators for ransom was
announced by Col. George T. Lang- vate and P ersonal '‘“ adinc t0 borne at 4:30 this afternoon. ’ M™' pnd * are given attention and Th, troop. m-wlW out of Vlexioo SuMtions .hot .IT.ct th, whole cun. «
last night. The first troops reached , are 'Knored.
Ruidosa late last night. Col. Lang-| The committee has no policy, thc home said the American forces will Democrats charge, and they point to resume their station tomorrow along the pages of the Congressional Record
Massachusetts, treasurer. Where are the temporary national headquarters of the Legion? At 19 West 44th street, New York
City.
When will the final step in thc organization of tfie Legion take place? November 10. II (armistice Hav' and 12, at Minneapolis, Minn., when a great national convention will be
held.
Why were those dates selected ? To celebrate the completion of the first year of peace, and because by that time practically all of thc men of the A. E. F. will be at home and
,, A lm "Armenia’s cry today is help,” said, I’RK ES OK HOGSSIEADX Consideration, $1,000. farnenter TO TEN CENTS LOWER Charles T. Coshow to Gilbert A., Carpenter.
Watson, lot in Roachdale. Considers- ! . The 8 P t ‘ ttker relat< ' d ,0 thr aud,en ‘‘ e tion $1 boo t ^ ie history of the suffering peo- ' Gilbert A. Watson to Charles Co- pie, how they became Christians in
show, lot in Roachdale. Considera-
tion, $1,200.
BRAZIL POST OFFICE SOLI)
—August 25—
Indianapolit. Receipts—Hogs, 5,000;
the fourth century and have endured j rattle, 1,500; calves, lifiO; sheep, 400. the torture and cruel treatment up j Prices of bo «s were steady to 10c
_ j lower in the local yards today with
until today at the hands of the “hell-
the Rio Grande.
Hot Trails
Are Lost.
marked degree of patriotism, for pri- tion that ther(> be prosecution if the
contents of the letter warranted it. Who gave the letter to the United
or by what
mean* it came into his hands has not
been disclosed.
Talks With Dr. Grose.
Unusual interest is displayed in th»
for substantiation of the truth of the letu ‘r for the reason that Calhoun in ! charge; it has no program and is ut- "' 'ting to his friend Zeug declares
Ihe , mounlain‘ ,etaUSe ^ nUnSt ° rn ’ S ' n | ^InsteaTof gaining a true grasp of * a ' a ry of $2,200 and that fie made no Lieut. Harold G. Peterson and the situation, as the emergency re- ^tempt to deceive President Gros.y Lieut. Paul H. Davis, the American quires, and then proceeding to deal explaining fiankly that he belonged aviator, whose capture by bandits "’ith the inequities, the inequalities to the radical soc.al.st group an,Ithat was the immediate cause for sending and the harsh features of the present after placing h.s v.ews before Free,American troops across the line, ar- tax schedules, existing because of the «ent Grose Dr Grose saul hat he was rivd at Royce Flyi ig Field at 4:35! a brupt termination of the war, the . In substantial agreement with CW
p. m. They crossed to Tdexico with
ish” Turks. Since the opening of the ] Fenrral sales at *21.55. A few b, " d3 | t j n , lfl the pur?a jt n.ttil tomorrow at
Local pat kers took
..ust.
! Cattle were slow and 25c to
the punitive expedition Tuesday. Col. Langhorne h I hoped that the troops today would pick up the trail
of th, bandit* led by Jesus Renteria, districts,
1 and that it would be possible to con-
,KSS THAN HREENCASTI-E ,h, ho*..
50c:
Ft. Wayne are three cities which have already sold their apportionment,
will have been able to participate in ! Greencastle has sold just about twice
' 11 M rr pe n ter el’t'.nxH.knt'. »h.r, | lower. Calves amt gheep were steady, j
ZX,h.. Manapalt Chte. J3 - '«>• T-»«t | «<VAt I.EAGl'E OF NATIONS
harems. Many other Armenians were |
Geneva, August 25.—The Munich
the election of their delegates to the convention. Who were some of the men who initirted the formation of the Legion? Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt of
the amount Brazil has sold. The townspeople are buying mo-e rapidly than the farmers. Th? following articles are still to be sold: Meat, carred
corn, canned beans and flour
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POLITICAL GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON 1
crucified, burned at the stake and ! Geneva, August z.>.—rne .viunicn Washington, 1). August 25. starved to death because they would ( rorrespondent of the Journal dc Ge- The sixty-sixth may become famous not give up their God. “For the sake j "P' - ® states that Germany intends to ; , s the “soda water Congress.” of suffering humanity, for the sake of fa' ln d a league of nations, hoping for j The present Congress, with Repubperpetuating the religion of your I ^ btl ndhercnce of Russia, Austria anti lican* in the majority in both hranchGod, I ask vou to give liberally to this 1 Du"{tary and later of Italy, Japan es, has been in session three months .Teat cause,” pleaded Mr. Carpenter.' and ^ bo smaller nations dissatisfied. about all that it has done is the
|-ith the Paris conference.” passage by the H se of a bi” to re-
Republican members of the commit- h° un " sentiments. Dr. Grose is nbtee have busied themselves getting sen * ' n N ' ow ^ ork ' bu * an expression through individual bills to boost the from b 'm '* expected today. In the tariff on industries in their respective ™e»ntime, members of the faculty detill of which serve to in-1 clare th “t Prof - Calhoun will not b«crease the cost of the articles to the permitted to teach at the school no consumer anti thus add to the cost of matter whet may be the view of Dr.
living. The ways and means commit-, Grose.
tee has only found time during its I" alleged writing to Dr. Zeug, three months of work to tarn its at- Prof ' Calhoun is made to say among
tontion to the TCfierol war tax system other things:
ones, and that resulted in t'.r- soda ' I :i .' ,L ' U 8a >' about water ta repeal by the House. condition of the proletariat (those A comprehensive and intelligent re-j wb{ > do not n "' n property) and the vision of the tax schedules would wipa |'mporsibility 1 f the immediate revoout injustices and relieve business of 1 lotion. But I am less interested ir its chief source of irritation at the th e verbiage of the left wing than in same time preserving the necessary j the idea of keeping it (revolution) revenues. Bv such a course, adequate, ultimately, everlastingly the center of revenue could be raised without any I attraction to the exclusion of mere general raise in tax rates. ' puttering reform. ________ _____
Instead of doing this, the one con-1
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