Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Page 6

Higher Earnings

THE establishment of a successful shipyard at Quincy has meant of necessity the application of every possible principle of scientific management in all the many branches involved. We feel that only by constant betterment of our efficiency and the consequent training of a proper working force, are we assured of a proper future. ' Scientific management, to my mind, is the application of certain principles to the and guiding and the assisting of labor along proper business and economic lines. These principles are universally recognized in the business world today, and are necessarily becoming more evident in every American shop as the competition grows keener and the necessity for the utmost proficiency correspondingly greater. This is especially true in a plant where so many deferent trades are involved as in a shipyard. Only by dint of constant attention to details and careful booking of results for future comparison can efficient results be arrived at. The difficulty? of obtaining such results is greater in proportion as the repetition, is less. For years past we have endeavored to keep careful account of work done and the tifne spent,thereupon in every department, and the use of this information has given us a definite idea of the efficiency of our working force, and has allowed them in turn to make higher earnings, with correspondingly greater satisfaction to us both. Specialization of the work to whk-h this points the wav, elimination of unnecesary processes, and the •necessity for proper aids to efficiency are three of the cardinal principles oFscientlfic management which wehave used, and are using more : and more every day in the development of this shipyard. '. ~ . ' . . AA e have not adopted the Taylor system as such, as our work is so complex a variety that we cannot employ any such general scheme in all our departments. e are, however, as is everyone else at present, constantly striving to increase the efficiency of the labor empldyed, and, with very few exceptions, in every case where a systematic study of the question has permitted the introduction of premium or contract work lessened

costs have meant greater earnings to the workers who brought them about, and this with no injurious results to them.

False Teeth Tend to Shorten Life

By H. E. CROSSWELL Raleigh, N. C.

tides of food which other people can eat without any difficulty. Now, after ten years, perhaps, of abstinence from heavy foods, difficult to masticate, and getting older every day, he purchases a set of false teeth. Immediately he feels rejuvenated and starts to eating anything and everything with the avidity of a schoolboy. But his stomabh rebels, although in many cases the man feels no ill effects at the time' But after a while he gets indigestion, dyspepsia and a thousand other complaints, and all because of his false teeth. If he had let them alone he would have continued eating easily digestible food and his stomach, to say nothing of years to his lifetime, would have been saved. No, sir, I don’t wear false teeth, and I never shall.

Man Needs to Know but Three Tongues

By I. H. GEHRING

know but three tongues—English, German and French. The Russian matters little, for one can go all over the czar’s dominions On one or two of the predominant languages. The English will keep at the head of the procession, for many more millions employ it than any other one tongue. While a great language, it is in some respects very inferior to the German. One can express his thoughts more clearly, I think, and convey his exact meaning more accurately in German. By reason of this the German literature is preferable to the English.

Why Allow Guilty Persons to Escape?

By K. J. MARSHALL

Could not the legislature amend the present law and grant the trial jndfe or jury hearing a divorce case the power at the sqme time of sentgsaDg the corespondent if guilty to the penitentiary for from one to Jfrwt'ywwa, at the same time making other statutory grounds punishable fOßSSMrtaary sentence? This would soon cure the divorce evil, save dfeviMWDt tie* and protect the children

By H. G. SMITH, Boston, Mass.

I believe that teeth are one of the element in modern times which contribute to shorten life. . ' • That is one of my pet hobbies, and although I am often laughed at for holding such an opinion, I believe it is correct and I will tell you why. A man rarely needs a set of false teeth until he is nearing fifty at the earliest, and he usually manages to get along for perhaps eight or ten years before that on a few natural teeth. He is getting old in the meantime, and finding himself hampered by inadequate teeth. He must perforce forego many ar-

I possess the same fluency and command of German and English, but possibly I can use the English just a trifle more readily as I converse in it oftener than the other, which is my native tongue. When speaking with my father and mother I invariably speak German. A good many years ago I had a very fair mastery of Italian and Spanish, but through disuse I have utterly lost the ability to converse in either. French I read with ease, but seldom essay to talk It because! of bad pronunciation. After all, a man nowadays needs to

In many of the sensational divorce cases reported in the newspapers a corespondent is named, with dates and places. The judge hears the case and a decree is given. But is the corespondent to a divorce suit not a criminal if the trial judge finds the allegations true? Is not the one who has broken up a home, robbed another of that which is most precious and sacred, a worse robber than a burglar? Then why are the guilty ones not prosecuted after being found offenders in a divorce suit? Stolen articles can be replaced, but home ties and peace of mind never.

' ' • . . . « -• ’ . ~ ———— Proper Training of Working Force Assures Future

EXCELLENT METHODS GIVEN FOR IMPROVING YIELD OFPOTATOES

Farmer Should Carefully Go Over Patch and Select Tboso Hills That Have Tubers of Good Size—Treat Seed by Themselves and Plant in Separate Patch for Best Results.

This Field of Potatoes Yielded at Rate of 375 Bushels Per Acre.

(By PROF. L. R. WALDRON, North Dakota.) It is a common belief that if we purchase a variety of potatoes from a seedsman that we have secured just one variety. This is true in a measure. If dhe seedsman is reliable, he will send potatoes that are uniform in color, depth of eyes, earliness of maturing, and other qualities. But unless these particular potatoes have been pedigreed, then we have not received one thing byt many. The farmer can demonstrate this fact to his own satisfaction. At digging time let him lay off a portion of a row containing 100 hills. In order to show this, each hill must have come froth only one piece of seed. The 100.hijls are dug and the tubers of each hill are kept by themselves on top of the hill. The products of the 100 hills are now ready to be studied. At first glance the hills may appear to run very uniformly. A little closer view will reveal the fact that about the only thing that is uniform is that they are all potatoes. The first hill has one large one, two medium-sized ones and half-a-dozen small ones. The next hill has one medium-sized one and several small ones. Perhaps the next hill has three or four good-sized ones. Another hill has a solitary tuber, but of good size. Perhaps another hill has nothing but little runts. Thus it goes through the 100 hills. The ordinary farmer will pick up the tubers from all of the hills and put them all together. He does this complacently and with satisfaction. His fathers did it before him and all of his neighbors do it. Why should mot he? Late in winter, when he begins to read the seed catalogs, he wonders why on earth, or under it, he cannot raise such splendid crops of potatoes as he sees pictured. Now, thart is the point I am getting at; our variety is not a unit. In our 100 hills that we have dug, close study might reveal the presence of at least ten strains or varieties, instead of the one that we thought we had.

The hill that bore the little runts has the runt character as a habit. It is going to persist for years, and every time we plant seed of that strain we will know to a certainty that we win harvest little potatoes. The hill that produces one or two large and several small ones, is a common feature of potato fields. The hftl that bore three or four good-sized tubers is the one to fasten our eyes on. That is the hill that has ability and the one that we should get next to. We will assume that we have three tubers to every hill and that the total weight of the three tubers is one and one-half pounds. There is nothing absurd in this, for often an individual tuber will weigh more. We will further assume i that our rows are three and one-half feet apart and that our hills are two feet apart in the row. This is open planting, probably more open than is commonly practiced. At this rate of planting there will be 6,200 hills per acre, assuming nearly a perfect stand. With one and onehalf pounds per hill, we would have a field of 165 bushels per acre, a yield worth striving for by the majority of farmers. Now it may be that the hill with the three or four good tubers will not, breed true, but the chances are that It will. The offspring of the hill is almost certain to produce a certain percentage of small tubers, but we may count upon it that it will produce a lesser percentage of small tubers than the average hill. What a farmer should do at potatodigging time is to dig a fair-sized patch, leaving each hill by Itself. After the patch is dug he should fully go over the patch find select out those hills that have few tubers of good size. The tubers from those hills should be sacked by themselves and laid away for seed for the year following.

If he is particular he may not be able to find more than ten hills to his liking,. J. In the springtime these should be treated by themselves and planted in a separate patch. The second year’s product from the ten hills will be sufficient to plant quite a piece of ground, perhaps as much as the farmer desires. ■ If the farmer wants to follow a method even better and more accurate than this, he should plant each of the ten hills-in a littl/ plat by itself. This requires that each hill will be sacked separately at planting time. If the ten plants show up of about equal value and all good, it is not necessary to keep them longer separate, but the product of the ten plats may be sacked together and saved to plant the main patch the year following. If two or three of the ten plats are off, these should be discarded and the good plats saved. If an occasional farmer follows the method here laid out, he will soon find that his neighbors will be after him for seed and they will be willing to pay him a bonus for them.

WATER REQUIRED BY DAIRY COW

Should Be Pure and Fresh and Easy of Access to Animal in Pasture and in Barnyard. Inasmuch as it has been proven by actual experiments that the average cow will drink 1,600 pounds of water a month, great care should be exercised to provide her with water. That is true enough, but there are two other points that need to be also included. 1. This Abater should be pure. Impure water is just as hurtful to the health and vigor of a cow as it is to a human being. It produces disease just the same. It reduces the amount of milk the cow would naturally give. 2. The water should be easy of access for the cow, both in the pasture and the barnyard. With a large herd of cows, say 30 to 50, it is a good plan to have two or three watering tanks in the yard, where the cows are watered out of doors. It is worth while also to have a man remain in the yard while they are drinking, to drive the master cows away from the tanks as soon as they have drunk their fill. In turning cows out to drink, It is a good plan to first turn out the underlings and the most timid ones, giving them plenty of time to get what water they want undisturbed. Lots of money can be lost with a herd of cows by being Indifferent or careless on this water question.

BETTER HOMES FOR THE FARMS

The Department of A*ricnlture Establishes a Brandi for Information on House* 11014 Topics. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture has always recognized the influence for good farming which flows from an attractive farm house, and has developed a branch of the department which, through its correspondence and its publications, has become a bureau of information on household topics. Bulletins on subjects relating to food and to homemaking have been prepared which have had a circulation of more than 10,000,000 copies. One of these. The Economic Use of Meat in the Home, reached an edition of a million and a* half copies. At the same time this branch of the department has given special attention to agricultural education, assisting states to plan and organize schools, to secure teachers, and to prepare courses.

NOTICE. Pursuant to an act passed by the General Assembly of 1911, creating the State Bureau of Inspection, notice is hereby given to every person; firm •or corporation operating any business, regularly employing five or more persons, agriculture and domestic service excepted, that e license fee of one ($1.00) dollar shall annually be paid to the Chief Inspector, and on receipt thereof tne Chief Inspector shall give to such person, firm or corporation a certificate showing the license fee has oeen paid. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with the piovisions Cf this section are subject to a fine of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. The Chief Inspector will submit to each person, firm or corporation a blank rorm upon which such person. firm or corporation shall report to the Chief Inspector the following information and such other information as may be required by the Chief Inspector: 1. Officers. 2. Character and location of business. Number of persons employed: mate?, females. 4. Description of buildings and equipments, number of floors, elevators, boilers and fire escapes. Blank forms as required by law will be furnished on application at the office of the State Bureau of Inspection, Room 120, State House, Indianapolis, Indiana. ELLIOTT R. HOOTON, Ch : ef State Bureau of Inspection.

Notice oi Diico NOTICE OF TIME FOR DOCKETING PETITION FOR DITCH lA MILROY TOWNSHIP. State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper,) ss : In Commissioners’ Court, August Term, 1912. In the matter of the Petition for a Ditch in Milroy Township, Jasper County, Indiana by Washington S. Lowman, Et Al. Notice is hereby given to Joseph J. Dickinson, Frank M. Reed, Ziba McCashen. Lemuel Tyler, Cornelius M. Horner, Jesse A. Tune, George P. Daugherty, W. A. Knapp, Charles E. Clark. Charles Sommers, Christ Stoller, Erasing Brothers Land Co., Jacob Jqhns. Sophia Saltwell and Benjamin J. Gifford:

That Washington S. Lowman, et al., have filed in my office a petition to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, for a tile drain and open ditch upon the following described route, to-wiv A tile drain commencing at a 1 oint 20 rods west of the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of Section 24, Township 28 North, Range 6 West in Jasper County, Indiana; thence in a northwesterly direction to a point near the center of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 28 North, Range 6 West; (hence in a northeasterly direction to a point about 50 rods north us the center of Section 18, Township 28 North, Rang,e 5 West, and An open ditch commencing at a point about 50 rods north of the center of said Section 18, at the terminus of the proposed tile drain as above described, and running thence in a general- northeasterly direction to its outlet in a public open ditch known as the Saltwell ditch at' a point about 40 rods south of the. north line of Section 17, in Township. 28 North, Range 5 West, in said Jasper County, and State of Indiana. You are further notified that you are named in said petition as tae owners of lands which will be affected by said proposed drainage, that said petition is now pending and that _the same is set for docketing on August 6, 1912. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor of Jasper County. Schuyler C. Irwin, Atty, for Petitioners. July 6-13

People Tell Each Other About Good Things.

Twenty years ago few people in the world knew of such a preparation as a Powder for the Feet. Todav after the genuine merit of Alien’s Foot-Ease has been told year after year 'by one gratified person to another, there are millions abroad and in this country who would as soon go without a dentifrice as without the daily use of Alien’s Foot-EaSe. It is a cleanly, wholesome, healing, antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes, which has given rest and comfort to tired and aching feet in all parts of the world. It cures while you walk. Over 30,000 testimonials qf eures of smarting, swollen, tender, perspiring feet. It prevents friction and wear of the stockings and will save in your stocking bill ten times its cost each year. Imitations pay the dealer a larger profit, otherwise you would never be offered a substitute when you ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, the original antiseptic powder for the feet. It gives a restfulness and a springy feeling that makes you forget you have feet. Allen's FootEase is the greatest comfort discovery of the age and so easy to use. It prevents soreness, blisters or puffing. Don’t go On your vacation without a package of Allen’s Foot-Ease. Sold everywhere, 25c. Don’t accept any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Address. Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T. jyl

Rosebud Farm and Mill, two miles east of Parr Phone 507B (Jasper Co.) Rensselaer Exchange, P. O. Parr, Ind. ' ■ ■■:/■ J. ‘'• ■ . FOR SALE Clover hay in the mow, sl2 per ton. Purchaser must get it out.—AMOS H. ALTER & SON, Parr, Ind., R-l.

Notice of Bridge Letting, No. 1963.

Notice is hereby given that o a Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Conntv. Indiana, will receive sealed pioptFals for the construction of a steel bridge in Union Township acr, ss the Otis ditch on the east and west line between Sections 29 and 30 Township 31, Range 7, said bridge to be built according to plans an J specifications on file in the Audi’o- 3 office. Same to be about 39 long and 16 feet roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required br »aw and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Countv. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor of Jasper County.

Notice of Bridge Letting, No. 1964.

Notice is hereby given that on Monday, .August 5, 1912, the Board cf Commissioners of Jasper Coontv Indiana, will receive sealed propel als for the construction of a ste»L bridge in Walker Township across the Jungles ditch, on the sonta line of Section 29, Township 31 Range 6, said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office Same to be about 40 feet long and 15 feet roadway. ATI bids to be accompanied t»v bond and affidavit as required bilaw and to be.on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserie* the tight to reject any and all bids By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor of Jasper Coun-y.

Notice of Letting Contract for Coal.

Notice is hereby given that an Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed pro peals for the following kinds of coal: Domestic, Lump and Mine Run. AU bids to be accompanied bybond and affidavit as required bylaw and to be on file by 2 o’clock of«-taid date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of; Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Of Jasper '..Coqary.-'

Notice of Bridge Letting, No. 1559.

Notice is hereby given that on Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board °t C-omniissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, vvill receive sealed prtjiofals for the construction of a steel bridge in Barkley Township across the Knickerbocker Ditch on the east line of Section 22, Township 30, Range 6, said bridge to be built according to plans and speeZßcations on file in the Auditor's office. Same to be about 20 feet long and 16 feet roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all tve* By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor of Jasper County.

Notice of Bridge Letting, No. 19CO.

Notice is hereby given that on Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed profesals for the construction of a steel bridge in Barkley Township across the Marion lateral ditch on the east line of Section 22, Township 39. Range 6, said bridge to be according to plans and specifications on file in the office of the -County Auditor. Same to be about 4.0 feet long and 16 feet roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by iaw and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor of Jasper County.

Notice of Bridge Letting. No. 1961.

Notice is hereby given that on Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive pealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Barkley Township across the Jungles Ditch in Section S, Township 30, Range 6, said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. Same to be about 4J feet long and 16 feet roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor of Jasper Coun'y.

Notice of Bridge Letting, No. 19C2.

Notice is hereby given that pa Monday, August 5, 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Kankakee Township acrc-s the R. E. Davis ditch on the north line near the northeast corner cf Section 18, Township 32, Range 5, said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. s Same to be about 40 feet long and IS feet roadway. AU bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH F. HAMMOND, Auditor of Jasper County - .

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