Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1912 — Page 2

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1 COUNIY OENOCMI F. t unuuu'un, tDITOR AIDPOIUSIEI OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June s, 1308, at the. post off ice at Rensselaer Indiana, under the Act of March 3, IS, ' Published Wednesday and SaturdayWednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue, 8 pages. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1912.

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FARMS FOR SAUK. 52,500 livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely improved, near courthouse, at a bargain. Terms 55,000 down. 225 acres, in Wellington county. Ind., nine miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, has bouse, good barn, 4 acres of peach orchard, is on R F d . and township high school 80 rods from farm. Will trade for property or farm near here. Large brick mill and elevator in Cor verse. Miami county, Ind., in firs<.-class condition, doing a good business. Win trade this plant clear for arm land'or good property. acres, five blocks from court hou»e. cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all' good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood; • Pt-ice ceims SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings. all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through tbe farm. 1-es near station and school/ gravel road, and in good neighborhood Price $65. terms 5500 down. 97 acres, near station, school, on main road and lies between- two dredge ditches giving fine outlet for drainage. All black land in cultivation. Good Six-room house large barn. Price $55. Terms. 99 acres, all good corp land and all in cultivation. Has large dredg ditch along one end giving fine outlet for drainage. This farm has fiveroom ho-se, b*rn, goed well, and orchard. Price 560. Sell on easy terms or take good property or live: stock as first payment. 80 acres at a bargain. This tract; of land lies in good neighborhood; near school and station and on main; road. It is level, a Igood part prairie and remaindar timber, containing * considerable saw timber. WM sell at, the low price- of 127.50 per acre : Terms 5500 down. 190 acres, all black land, tiled, on gravel raod, telephone, al builhigr.

las good as new, seven-room house, i large barn, cribs and granery, wind J mill and tanks, fine shade and lawn, 1 woven wire fences and a model farm, i Lies close in. Price only SIOO. j A dredge boat for doing all kinds ; of dredge dittrh work, in as good condition as new, size. Owner will trade lor land or property and assume or pay difference. 160 acres—-We have three 160-acre farms all well located on main roads near stations and school, nearly all , black land and on dredge ditches j giving good drainage. Each farm i has good house, good barn and good well. Can sei either farm for $4 7.50 • and take SI,OOO as first paumeiit. Might take some live stock. Onion land as fine as the best, on ; dredge ditch adjoining station and |on main road. Wil sell in tracts of : 20 acres or more at $45. GEORGE F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Ind.

PUBLIC- SALE The undersigned will sell at Public Sale at the Andrus Farm, 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Renssel-I aer, commencing at 10:30 a. m„ on: Thursday. Dec. 12. 1912. the following property: 3 Head of Horses—2 Heavy Draft Mares, good workers. one grev, 1 ore sorrel, weight 1.600; 1 BayDraft Colt, coming 2 years old in spring. 9 Head of Cattle—s good Milch Cows, fresh in spring; 2 Yearling Heifers, one full Jersey, one half Jersey; 1 Yearling Steer. Hi Head of Hogs—Eight Shoats wt. from 140 to 160 pounds; 1 full blood Du roc Sow wit h 7 pigs. Chickens—loo full blood Rhode Island Red Hens and Pullets and 5 Cockerels. Household Goods Etc.-—I good as new Golden Harvest Separator; 1 new Wagon Box; 1 new Endgate Scoop Board: 1 Washing Machine; 4 tons Hard Coal; 3 tons Lurig Coal; 40 gallons Coal Oil; 2 stands of Bees; 40 or 50 gallons of Gasoline; Single Harness; Sorghum Molasses; Potatoes: Apples; Canned Fruit; different kinds of Tools and some Household Furniture A credit of 12 months will be giver on sums over 510 with the usual conditions; 6 per cent for cash where entitled to credit. MRS. JOHN ANDRUS. Col. Fred Phillips Auctioneer.

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PUBLISHED BY THE BUSINESS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT STATE COMMITTEE OF THE INDIANA FEDERATED COMMERCIAL CLUBS.

SERIAL NO 6. Waste in City Government. The greatest factor in the burden of local government and in the backwardness of cities is waste. It is a drag upon progress and a handicap to every life in the community. It is the greatest of our civic sins. America has no city that has not been set back or kept back by the waste of which its administrations, one after another, have been guilty. While here and there is a large city made notorious, like New York or Philadelphia, Pittsburg or San Francisco, by the magnitude and audacity of its official corruptions, the wasted city is on every hand; none has escaped. All have suffered from it, tolerated it and believed themselves helpless against it. Waste makes the city tax rate high. It deprives the people of necessaries and conveniences, of comforts and enjoyments, of contentment and happiness that they might otherwise very well have. Though waste is wicked, it is not made criminal. In some spasm of civic indignation the law may finally lay its hand upon the grafter and boodler; but the criminal law cannot reach the official who is incompetent or the employe who is Inefficient. That task remains for the people, who must destroy the system within which inefficiency and waste so greatly thrive. The old system must be replaced by one in which efficiency is fundamental, and that will not only put honesty and good sense into the practices of government, but put progress and courage into its spirit. The long-endured form of city government in America is partisan from head down. Its officials and employes are chosen by political standards, and the city, accordingly, receives the political quality of administration and the political grade of service. Since the people do not require that it be done, administrations spare themselves the effort to produce for the people profitable results, as the executive organization of a railway, a manufactory or a bank is required by its stockholders to produce profitable results. Now and then may be found an official or employe who Is competent, and perhaps many others who with opportunity might become so. But even those who may be termed "good” are not ’good" with the same degree of efficiency that officials and employes in private business are "good " Efficiency and politics yill not mix. Partisan rule, and waste are an inseparable cause and effect. Higher taxes and less to show for taxation are th '".escapable result of a system of g . i e nt that breeds waste as natura. .. and prolifically as filth breeds dies It is a crime against the living and the unborn. Those who must dwell amidst the ravages of waste are defrauded of their due. while a wasted and rundown city cheats posterity of a share of its rightful inheritance.

The business system of government for Indiana Cities strikes at the root of waste by abolishing parties in city government. It proposes that business science shall enter into city business and that taxes he spent by experts.

Why the City is the Prey to , Waste. The leaks which make up the sum of waste in city government are many, but these streams branch from a common source The inefficiency that partisan government imposes despoils the people a thousand-fold more than graft. Men with no knowlege of the things they are to do and of no experience or training in the way to do them, are put at the head of the government. Below them the places are filled in kind from the partisan ranks. The incompetence that is thus installed in the greatest and most vital business interest of the community enters upon a career of waste —waste of effort, waste of time, waste of resources, and, in toto, waste of money. Nowhere in the city government is there l expert and scientific knowledge of matters that must constantly be dealt with; nowhere trained capacity to handle business affairs of large moment, great urgency and huge expenditure. Work by contract is performed not onlv under ignorant supervision, but under incompetent, inadequate and sometimes corrupted inspection. Materials for construction in public work are accepted w-ithour test and without question. The city does not know what it buys and the sellers know the city does not know. There is no standardization of supplies; no system, skill or expertness in the city’s methods of purchasing. Each department, bureau or division does its own buving and gets its own skinning? There is want of knowledge, of experience, of efficiency and, worst of all, of the sense of responsibility. Men who dp not know cement from slack lime, or asphalt from coal tar, pass upon and accept miles of costly pavement. Men who know nothing about mechanics or machinery, or of the problems and economics of production and distribution, or of the finances of business, are chosen to manage huge utility concerns upon which the people must rely for indispensable services. In the operating branch of government the payrolls carry deadwood officials and deadhead employes, Illustrating in a widespread and costly practice our shameful proverb that any one with pull enough to get a “city job" can fill it Through all this runs the sin and the penalty of waste. City property and public works show the mould and

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decay of neglect, losses are multiplied fold upon fold, and the cost of it is borne by the people. The total of this waste is a great percentage of the money taken by taxation for support of municipal government. This blight of waste, that tomes from the inefficiency of partisan rule, falls upon all. There is waste on all hands —waste by dishonesty, by neglect, by stupidity, by extravagance—and it takes from the people in necessaries, In ! property, in money, in health, in enj joyments and in moral quality. It iis a useless and an immoral waste due wholly to the want of common sense in the system of politics and ; the methods of choice we employ to ' select our government. The taxpayer is assessed from 25 to 50 per i cent more than the need would be if his city business were transacted with the efficiency that private business : is transacted. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities was drawn expressly with a view to putting an end to waste in the government of cities.

The City as an Example of Business Efficiency. City government should be the best, not the worst example of business method and business efficiency. The city should furnish not a pattern merely of municipal operation, but a model of scientific system of doing work, developing economy, increasing results and making progress. This principle is vital, since the city in operation is almost purely a business establishment and means so much tor the good or ill of all persons under it and all interests within it. The city should contrive to do not as little and that little as badly as can be got along with, but all that ought to be done in the best manner of doing It. The city should plan, not for the bare needs of the day, but for its expansion—in population, in industry, in commerce, in civic greatness—a long way ahead. The city should be clean and sanitary, and sightly and wholesome to the sense, according to the laws of health and the dictates of selfrespect. Its streets and alleys should be substantially improved and the improvements maintained. Good order should prevail and the laws should be made to deal fairly by all. The city should provide, or see that there are provided, those public services that the daily necessities of the people re- - quire, and that such utilities are operated with the needs of the people and the principles of justice always in mind. The city should itself go forward and make easy the way for the procession of all interests that compose its greatness and give it its strength. The city should maintain itself at the highest practicable standard at the lowest possible cost to the people. Officials and employes should be constantly sensible of their duties to the people and always mindful that upon their shoulders lays responsibility for the welfare of all. The city should foster love of the beautiful by Itself creating beauty. It should teach cleanliness by cultivating its own decencies of condition and appearance. It should counsel honesty by its own probity. It should uphold economy by its own thrift. It should lead all progress by its own advancements. It should raise all business efficiency to higher degrees by its own examples. In short, the city should be in all ways exemplary, instead of the last word in waste and extravagance, corruption and incar pacity. In physical quality, in civic character, in social Ideals the city ought to be an inspiration to its people, and in efficiency, in progress, in profit of operation it should be a pattern to all business. It is a grave confession of civic Incapacity to plead, as many do, that free institutions and home rule in their very nature make honesty, common sense and business skill impossible conditions of government. To assert this is either to falsify our character as a people,. or to convict us of unfitness for the liberties we enjoy.

Under the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities the municipality can be made to realize those practical ideals, rule upon which may be reafeed a citizenship that wiH cherish its Mvileges and respect the obligations Itk liberties impose.

A House for You. “If you have sense, and feeling, determine what sort of house iJvlll be fit for you; determine to work for it —to get it—and to die ini It, if the Lord will. I mean, one that you can entirely enjoy and manage; but which you will not be proud of, except as you make it charming in its modesty.” —Ruskin. , Trunk Linings, Little bags of lavender in the compartments of trunks that must stand for any length of, time, sweeten wonderfully the air that is so apt to grow musty. If trunk linings are slightly scented in this way dresses and underwear are more daintily fragrant at the end of the journey than when one folds a sachet among the garments themselves. As It Is In Life. No one ever has tho choice of ths very best. Most things, humanly speaking, are simply the choice of one good thing and one not so good*

Edward P. Honan, i ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, abstracts, Real Estate Loans, Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

S. C. Irwin, ’-•aw, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loans Office in Odd Fellows’ Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Over State Bank Phone 16 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts Estates settled Farm Loans Collection department Notary in the office RENSSELAER, INDIANA,

Arthur H. Hopkh s, LAW, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. Loans on farm and City property Buv° sp n rlty a ? d mortgaged and farms and City property . Farm and—-erty fire insurance c, amer ICAN BUILDING I.OAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATIONS Office over Rowles & Parker Store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of z- °men and low grades of fever Office in Williams block, opposite Court se?l ÜBe Foriner ly occupied by Dr. HartPhone Office and Residence, 442 RENSSELAER, INDIANA.-

S. Herbert Moore, fl. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ca hs will receive prompt attention Telephone No. 251. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

B. C. English, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Trust & Sav ing s Bank Office Phone 177 - Residence 116 RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST.

Dr. F. A. Tur her _ OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Pa?hy dUa p e ost A S r e a 7 u a a n te ®chool of Osteot. °s s j,r athy - d - Office Hours— 8-12 a. m„ - 1.5 p . m . lnd. UeSdayS| and Frida ys at Monticello, I ' 2 A n c 3 o R ®nsselaer, Ind. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

IMillions tn Loan! We are prepared to take care of all the farm loan business in this and adjoining counties at Lowest Rates and Best Terms, regardless of the ‘‘financial stringency.’’ If you have a loan coming due or. desire a new loan It will not be necessary to pay the excessive rates demanded by our competitors. FIVE PER CENT. ?Ml fflißissioo • prow Mice ?

i S. C. Irwin Odd Fellowa Bldg. Rensselaer. 7

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RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. Effective Nov. 24, 1912. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31 —Fast Mail (dailv) No. s—Louisville 5 —Louisville Mail (daily) 11 -m a " m - No «~£ hlcago T to £ Hoosier Limited (ilaiivi No. 39—Milk Accom. (daily) No. 3-Chieago to kt , . NORTH BOUND £°- *—Lsville to Chgo. (daily) 4 « o N°‘Accom. (daily) 7-33 A ™ - No. 32—Fast Mail (daily) 1 No. 38—Indpls. to Chgo (da’ih'i a- m- £°- e —Mail and Exp. (daily) N<x 30—Hoosier Limited (daily) 6’02 p m Passengers for C H a ' I j3s:-£ o s ■« lions a^M£no d n connecW H - B LAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRKCTORX. .. CITY OFFICERS. Clerk Meyers Treasurer .... o’ ‘V, ™ Morlan Attorney .. Thompson Marshal - L«opoW Civil Engineer. G u rg ® u * tar4 Fire Chief j j - JL. Osborn ® Fire Warden .... 2nd Geor f§_ I H °p. kiM 3rd Ward At Laf 8e C. J Dean, 2

JUDICIAL. ber. Four week terms. ovem

v COUNTY OFFICERS. sheriff •:::::::: ■■■■■ • Judsoa H r - Auditor ............ Treasurer Z’”' ’ W F W HeS te or ..:::7.::::: John E Q k L< K

Tor ™ A . COMMISSIONERS. Wm. H. Hershma. 3rd District Cb oT. leS r K- Stackhous? rfra District Charles T. Denahm < -'°r nln i ss j one ra’ Court meets the First Monday of each month.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Charles May .’.cJSntJ J. VV. Selmer Gillam w° r w e r ’■ ■■ * • naoktag’ Grove tL H - WortleyJordan Kankakee H. E. ParkisonMarion George L. Parks Milroy L« ** Lane. Newton Isaac Kight .Union K - Ke ? ne Wheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt ....Rensselaer C ' Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. StembelWheatfield Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan 1 ownship attends to official business at nis residence on Monday of each week. Persons having business with me wili please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3 W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton Township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address. Rensselaer, R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union Township attends to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address. Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

Insmonce in pioiEcis AT REASONABLE RATES Your property In City, Town, Village or Farm, against fire, lightning or wind; your livestock against death or theft, and YOUR AUTOMOBILE against fire from any cause, theft or collision. Written on the cash, single note or installment plan. All Losses Paid Promptly. Call ’Phone 208 or write for a good policy in a good company. RAY D. THOMPSON Rensselaer, Ind.

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