Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Page 2

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FARMS FOR SALE.

$2,500 livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely Improved, near courthouse, at a bargain. Therms $5,000 down. 225 acres, in Wellington county, Ind., nine miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, has house, 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 Converse, Miami county, Ind., in first-class condition, doing a good business. Will trade this plant clear for farm land Or good property. 21 acres, five blocks from court house, 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. Price SSO; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, lies near station and school, gravel road, and in good neighborhood. Price $65, terms SSOO dow-n. 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 corn land and all in cultivation. Has large dredg ditch along one end giving fine outlet for This farm has fiveroom house, barn, good well, and orchard. Price S6O. 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 good part prairie and remainder timber, containing considerable saw timber. WU sell at the low price of $27.50 per acre. Terms SSOO down.

190 acres, all black laud, tiled, on gravel raod, telephone, al builinpr as good as new, seven-room house, large barn, cribs and granery, wind mill and tanks, fine shade and lawn, woven wire fences and a model farm. Lies close in. Price only SIOO. A dredge boat for doing all kinds of dredge ditch work, in as good condition as new, % size. Owner will trade for land or property and as sume or pay difference. 160 acres—We have three 160-acre farms all well located on mam roads near stations and school, nearly all black land and on dredge ditches giving good drainage. Each farm has good house, good barn and good well. Can sel either farm for $47.50 and take SI,OOO as first payment Might take some live stock. Onion land as fine as the best, on dredge ditch adjoining statiqn and on main road. Wil sell in tracts of 20 acres or more at $45.

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IW HKMSS SYSIQLOF GOVERNMENT! r i FOR .INNfACITIES

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

SERIAL NO. 5. Efficiency in Local Government. When efficiency of - local government Is spoken of there is meant that ALL the things which OUGHT to be done SHALL be done at the TIME and in the MANNER they SHOULD be don*. Efficiency means all that can be imagined of official honesty, public economy and civic progress. No interests that touch the people are more in need of Efficiency than the government of the cities. City rule is not a question of dividends for a few stockholders. It is a matter of the welfare of the community; the spending of funds to which the entire tax-paying body of the citizenship has contributed. This welfare should be conserved with all industry and wisdom, all honesty and faithfulness. This money should be spent with all fidelity to each taxpayer’s right to a just share of the proceeds of taxation. If government fail in its obligation of efficiency, the people suffer and their community is retarded. The grade of efficiency that is applied to local government is the greatest factor in the civic and, in the long run, in the material progress of the city. It determines the cost of maintaining the city, the standard of maintenance and the degree of its people’s well-being. The activities of government never cease. The consequences of its good or bad works are perpetual. The cost of its shortcomings is always operating and always piling up. The grafter is not always grafting. The official who raids the treasury is not always looting. But inefficiency, wherever It performs, is constant in its work and everlasting in Its effect. The penalty of it remains a cumulative tax upon the people for all time. It is a law of economics as well as of physics that losses by waste can never be made up. The people of the cities should understand this. Waste of one sort and another by the inefficiencies of government deprives them of the things they should have but do not get. Splendid systems of parks and driveways, of public playgrounds and open places, of cleanliness and sanitation, or whatever the city’s unsupplied needs may be, could all be procured and maintained by what is wasted through the inefficiencies of government. When the cities of America prescribe efficiency as one of the first principles of municipal rule all the practical problems of city management will have been put in the way of solution. The Business System of Government for- Indiana Cities proposes to wipe out inefficiency by abolishing parties and party politics in city afTairs and establishing the administration of municipal government by experts.

i City as a Business Institution. The American city of today is a big financial and industrial corporation. Why not manage it as such? It collects and disburses immense sums of money each year. It employs hundreds and in some cases thousands of men. It manufactures and it builds, it creates and it constructs. It expends vast amounts for materials. It pays out other vasts amounts in wages. It is ever employing, always buying, constantly selling. This is business. Why not treat it as such? All the work so done, all the transactions so made, all that is bought and all that is sold, every cent taken in and every cent paid out are on the public account. To the last penny the money that passes in these affairs belongs to the people. For each dollar taken why not give a dollar’s worth? This money in great part comes from the classes of people who can feel the loss of it and it is spent for what these same classes of people greatly need. Why should they be cheated a third to a half because the men chosen to handle it do know how to buy and how to sell, how to spend and how to save, how to manage and how to make one hundred cents go the full span of a dollar? The people expose themselves to these consequences. They do not seek the capable and the expert; they do not insist that their business shall be transacted on a business basis. In choosing men to collect and disburse all this money, to plan and execute all these affairs of the municipal business, they do not unite to choose men of known fitness or tested capacity, but divide and choose men according to the political parties to which they belong. Sometimes “we guess they’re all right,” and at other times “we hope they’ll -do;” but no measures are taken to make sure of it. Why not have done with that sort of folly? A business corporation is maintained to make money for its stockholder. To do so it must be well managed. A municipal corporation is maintained to render certain Indispensable services and to provide certain imperative necessaries to.tbe people who live under it. To do this in such manner that all shall get in due portion what they need and what Is their right to have, the city should be well managed. Is it? Why should the city corporation, instituted to meet the necessities of an orderly and regulated society, to raise the standard of living, to make human beings better and happier, be worse managed than a business corporation instituted merely to make money for a few persons? The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities takes the hu-

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man view of municipal duty. It is designed to cut politics out., make efficiency the standard of administration and to lodge the control of government in the hands of the people who create it.

Folly of Partisan Warfare Over City Government. Why should the voters of a city, all equally interested in the welfare of their community, divide into hostile camps, the one shouting. “We’ll elect Jim Crow mayor because he’s a democrat,” and the o|;her shrieking “We’ll elect Bill Snow mayor because he’s a republican.”? Why should not the two bodies unite to proclaim, “We want good government at home and all of us together will vote for it?” The cry, “For the Party,” has spelled waste in the cities of this country that exceeds the cost of the great Civil war. Add to that what the interests of cities have suffered from the evils inflicted by “city politics” and the total cannot be even guessed at. Why should there be partisan divisions and contests in city government? Why should city government and city problems be complicated with state and national political machines and state and national issues? No city can settle a foreign policy. No city can fix the standard of currency. No city can rule peace or war. No city can frame schedules of the tariff. No city can direct the law-making policy of its state. There is nothing any city can do to define the difference between one political party and another.

The city deals with the conditions under which its inhabitants must live and with which all its business and industry must be surrounded. Its functions are a labor of business, not the construction and enforcement of “policy.” Its work is to see that the city is kept clean and sanitary; that its thoroughfares are maintained; that light, water and transportation are provided; that peace and order are enforced; that life and property are made secure. There is no “policy” in the doing of these and all other things that fall within the obligations of local government and over which no question can be raised. The only consideration is that at reasonable cost to the people these things be done well. There can be no party “policy” in making a contractor with the city fulfill his contract. There can be no party “policy” in making the seller of supplies to the city “deliver the goods.” There can be no party “policy” In the city’s progress or the aids it lends to progress. There can be no party “policy” in preserving the property of the public, instead of permitting it to lapse into decay and ruin. There is no way that is “democratic” or way that is “republican” of managing the affairs of a city. There is a way that is bad and a way that is good—the way that is political and the way that is business. Cities cannot be managed by the histories and traditions of parties. They cannot be managed by what a majority of their voters may think as to revision of the tariff. They must be managed by the common sense and spirit of their people working through servants chosen for fitness and kept for efficiency. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities cuts political parties out of the municipal situation. It founds administration of the public business upon the principle of expert efficiency. It allows the people to retain constant control of their home government.

Can the Candidates Afford It? The voters of a city divide into two war parties each bearing a factional name. They engage every four years in a battle called a campaign for possession of the offices of the city. It costs money to run a campaign. Sometimes the cost isi heavy and compels expenditures that equal the principal salary list for the entire term for which the successful candidates were chosen. Where does the money come from? Can a man who gets an aggregate of say SB,OOO for a service of four years as mayor afford to spend $5,000 to obtain the place? Can a ward councilman who receives $l6O a year to perform his duties afford to spend SSOO to SI,OOO to procure his own election? What is there in the office of counoilman to justify such an outlay of money to win the election? To whose interest is it that a councilman be inducted into office at such a cost? In Indiana the mayor is the only important elective official in the executive branch of city government. The brunt of the campaign assessment must fall upon him or those who want him. Can the man of average means stand it? If he doesn’t stand it, who does ? Are appointments contingently sold? Are favors conditionally promised? And if these things are true, is there a good guarantee that the administration will be conducted with the public interests uppermost? Why should the people divide? Why should men be chosen to office merely because they have “put up?” Why gain the support of any interests by promising them something the people have the first right to know about and examine? The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities abolishes parties in municipal affairs. The highsalaried officials, Including the mayor, are appointed. The recall stands against officials who are not what they should be.

Hdward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, abstracts, Real Estate Loans, Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. S. C. Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loans Office in Odd Fellows’ Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Over State Bank Phone 16 John Dunlap, LAWYER (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice fn all courts Estates settled Farm Loans Collection department Notary in the office RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Arthur H. Hopkins, LAW, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. Loans on farm and City property, peisonal security and chattel' mortgage Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Barm and city fire insurance. Attorney for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over Rowles & Parker Store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

F. H. Hemphill, M. D.~ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to hi. o f Women and low grades of fever. Office In Williams block, opposite Court House. Formerly occupied by Dr. HartswL Phone Office and Residence, 442 RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

S. Herbert Moore, fl. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON All calls will receive prompt attention w yt, w day from my office over the Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 251. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. C. English, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust & Savings Bank Office Phone, 2 rings 77. Residence Phone, 3 rings 177. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. . Office over Larsh’s drug *tore RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Dr. F. A. Tui her OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN r.=?£ adua i e Amer| can School of OsteoGraduate American School T. Stm P thy under the founder, Dr. A. Office Hours—B-12 a. m., - 1-5 p. m . „l uesdaya and Fridays at Montlcello, 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

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Chlcago to Northwest, Indianapolis. Cincinnati and the South. Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. Effective Nov. 24, 1912. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Fast Mail (daily). 4-4n a _ No. s—Louisville Mall (daiiv) 11 -no f" 2* No 33 Hm? 80 T° I P d * ana Polis 11:32 a! m NoftSm? 1 * 1 " Llmited (daily) 2:00 p at! No. 39—Milk Accom. (dallv).. 6-ofirl 2* No. 3—Chicago to Louisville. Ill; 05 p! ££ XT _ NORTH BOUND. No foZMm^V 0 Chgo - (daily) 4:53 a. m. No 8 6~M»H IS ' £kg°. '(da'iiyj sIM p * No l an r (daily). 3:38 p. m No. 30—Hoosler Limited (daily) 6:02 d n»! Passengers for C. H & r> .J." a£dV S D ° W the termlnal N^« , N°- 4 will stop at Reiisselaer to let off passengers from points south of HammomTan^^Chh^go 11 *’ 6 "* L ° W *“- *£?«*£& 8r ■SSS*Br COQn#c * H. BEAM. Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTOR!. Mayor ..... C ! T . Y . p M Clerk 9,\ Meyera Treasurer r ’ n iS m h „ Morlan Attorney .......\ M n »; a Th i ompso “ Marshal Leopold Civil Engineer.". oZhlSZ* Fire Chief . J rrr At JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanle* Prosecuting Attorney... .Fred Loneweh Terms of Court—Second Monday In £? r br “ary. April September and November. Four week terms. “ COUNTY OFFICERS. sheHff • • • Judß °& »• Treasurer . .!!!!I! [±. Recorder John W. Tilton Surveyor ...W. F. OsbomS Coroner tx? t County Supt '.'.V.V.Eraest' uLJfon bounty Assessor John Q. Lewi* Health Officer .E. N. Loy T * A a COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Wm. H. Hershmaa f“d District Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd District Charles T. Denahm Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barklev Charles May .; Carpenter J. W. Selmer Glllam w° r £ e £ u *? r - Hanging Grove m**':-' T„„i. s „,p SSs H. E. Parkison Marlon George L. Parks Mllroy p - kajj® Newton Union Albert Keene Wheatfleld Fred Karch Walker E. Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English ....Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. , The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on Monday of each week. Persons having business with me will 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 TOWfISHIP. 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. Postofflce address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

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