Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — Page 4

, • _ • Ml . Province of the -t, Slate In Disputes L-yjll Between Capital and Labor jj-jy ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ By MARTIN G BRUMBAUGH, Governor t of Pennsylvania \S—- - ' 4 1 PROPOSE that we shall consider the man rather than his toil. I suggest that it is not the province of the state to act as umpire in industrial disputes. It is the province pf the state to become a party to arguments from the very beginning of any serious dispute. THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH IS A FACTOR' AND A PARTY TN EVERY DISCUSSION OF THIS CHARACTER, AND ITS BIGHT MUST BE CONSIDERED AT THE VERY BEGINNING lAS WELL AS AT THE TERMINATION OF EVERY SUCH CONTEST. ' There should be ho inherent antipathy of labor for capital or vice Versa. Their interests are identical, and it is within the power of the state, and, indeed, it is-the state’s duty, to compel both sides to recognize this fact • Let me go a step further and predict that within the next twenty years the state will be as greatly concerned about the leisure time of the people, young and old, as it is now concerned in their working hours. Most crimes are committed during the period of idleness. IT IS OUR DUTY TO INTEREST THE STATE AS A GOVERNING AND LEADING FORCE IN THE USE OF THE HOURS OUTSIDE THE WORKSHOP, AND I PROPOSE TO DO WHAT I CAN IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF MY HIGH OFFICE IN THIS DIRECTION.

Modem Japan Deserves High Place Among Civilized Nations By LINDSAY RUSSELL. President of the Japan Society of New York WHAT I particularly deplore is a certain habit of mind among otherwise sane and efficient Americans that harks back to old prejudices and a belief in old libels against the Japanese, no matter how often or how fully they have been overset and disproved. There is less of it than there was, but its manifestation is frequent. - That is the unpleasant side. On the other' hand, f have found of late among the leaders of the American press and people, like former President Taft, for instance, a calmer and more reasonable view of the Japanese position and American responsibility in face of it. Our society sets its face against the common misunderstanding, BASING ITS' ATTITUDE ON A (’LOSER STUDY AND MORE SYMPATHETIC APPRECIATION OF JAPAN’S ANCIENT iCIVILIZATION AND MODERN UPLIFT, WHICH HAVE COMBINED TO GIVE IT A FIRST PLACE AMONG THE CIVILIZED NATIONS OF THE WORLD. , . So wonderful lias been the progress and so., unique the national life on which the newly acquired accomplishments have been overlaid that there is at first an excuse for misapprehension by the foreigner, but it should disappear on closer acquaintance. INSTEAD, THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN (SO CALLED BY THE CHINESE, SINCE IT IS OVER THE SHORES OF NIPPON THAT ASIA FIRST SEES THE MORNING) IS THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

Why Warlike Nations Decline In the Quality of Populations By DAVID STARR JORDAN, Former President of Leland Stanford University IFTER a long period of continuous war the Homan empire found /A difficulty in refilling the emptied military’ranks with efficient Roman soldiers. Military selection had taken tlie strongest and left the empire without the ablebodied citizen youth who would have been their descendants. Our own civil war took a million men, some of the men with the finest qualities. Many of them left no descendants. Those who were unfit were left behind. North and south the nation has suffered by this loss. The new generation of men and women since the war has taken the nation’s problems into their hands, BUT THESE ARE HANDS NOT SO STRONG OR SO ABLE AS THOUGH THE MEV OE TODAY STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THE MEN THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.' The Bien who died in that war had better stuff in them than the father of the average man of today. Those states which lost most of their young blood will not recover for centuries,- perhaps never. We can never know how great our actual loss has been. THE WARLIKE NATION OF TODAY IS THE dECADENT NATION OF TOMORROW. THE NATIONS THAT ARE AT WAR ALL ARE PAYING THE SAME PENALTY. REVERSED SELECTION IN EUGENICS WILL HANDICAP EVERY ONE OF THEM.

Working Women Should Be Protected by a Compulsory Minimum Wage Law By Miss GERTRUDE BARNUM, Special Agent For United States Industrial Commission IFEEL a sense of shame for those wealth* women who live in luxury on the money wrested from poorly employees of their husbands AND A GREATER SHAME THAT THE MONEY THEY r HAVE TAKEN IN THIS MANNER THEY HAVE LAVISHED IN EXTRAVAGANCE AND WASTE. There is no fairness in the average business man in dealing with his female employee. He gets her for as low' a wage as her necessities compel her to accept, works her for as many hours as she may endure and makes as much profit out of her as he possibly can without any humane considerations. The workingkomen themselves are largely to blame. They have accepted these conditions and pretended.to be satisfied with them in order to get employment and gain the favor of those wherexploit them. ' THERE SHOULD BE A COMPULSORY MINIMUM LAW FOR EVERY FEMALE LABORER, WHETHER SHE BE IN THE FACTORY, THE STORE OR THE HOME.

WORLD’S EVENTS

TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News An agreement was signed in London for the loan of £5,000,000 ($25,000,000) to Roumania. Will use the money for the purchase of war materials. ♦ * * Reporting the Germans left 1,000 dead in fighting west of Craonne, French war office claims successes for allies all along battle line except at one spot, where a landslide imprisoned two companies of French. Germans made them prisoners. Allies announce German lost 1,500 men at Ypres. .. . •'' • • The capture of nearly a mile of French works in the Craonne region and French support southeast of St. Mihiel is announced in an official Berlin report. Saxon troops captured 865 wounded Frenchmen. ♦ * ♦ Turk menace to Suez canal; Hodeida incident and occupation of Avlona bring Italy on verge of joining alites in war; Turkish advance force defeated by British Suez canal. * ♦ * Austrians after three days’ fighting take Uzsok pass in the Carpathians by storm, routing Russians; czar’s forces begin new drive in East Prussia. ;

Aeroplane raids and bomb-dropping expeditions, the Carranza agency announced at Washington, are to be conducted against Mexico City. General Hill’s army has joined General Obregon for the march on the capital. .** _ « Austro-German forces have occupied Kielce, Russian Poland. Kielce is the capital of the Russian province of that name.. ♦ ♦ ♦ The British battle cruiser Lion was struck below the water line and had to be towed to port by the cruiser Indomitable, one British destroyer was struck and tpwed to port, one officer and 13 men were killed, and three officers and 26 men wounded in the Helgoland naval battle in the North sea, according to additional reports given i out by the official press bureau at London.- ' •t * 'A The German cruiser Gazelle was torpedoed by a submarine in the Baltic, according to information received at Malmoe, Swedeh. The Gazelle was able to return to the port of Sassnitz. - . ♦ ♦ ♦

The committee of the radical party at Rome has unanimously adopted a motion declaring Italy’s participation in the European conflict is indispensable to the satisfaction of her aspirations and the protection of her interests. The Radicals of Padua voted for Intervention and denunciation of triple alliance. ♦ * * Reported in Berlin that the German cruiser Karlsruhe during the past fort--night has sunk 11 merchant ships flying the flags of the allies. ■ * ■ *' ■ * ' Armed British merchant vessel Viknor, missing for several days, believed lost with her entire crew. A number of bodies have been found on the north coast of Ireland. It is believed she foundered or struck a mine. ♦ ♦ ♦ That one of the British warships engaged in the North sea battle with the German fleet was damaged, though not seriously, by the German fire was reported by the master of the Dutch steam trawler Erica, which has just arrived at Ymuiden.

♦ * ♦ Domestic The, New York board of education voted, to reinstate Mrs. Bridget Peixotto, a teacher who was dismissed after she absented herself from her duties to become a mother. . With only one of its members opposing, the committee in charge of the woman suffrage bill in the Texas legislature favorably reported that pleasure to the house. * * * Harry K. Thaw pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy and his trial was set for February 23. Meanwhile Thaw is to remain in the Tombs in New York. ♦ ♦ * John Young, former auditor of the Farmers’ Deposit National bank of Pittsburgh; died in the western penitentiary at Pittsburgh, Pa., of tuberculosis. Young was convicted of stealing $1,050,000 from the institution in 1908. William Travers Jerome was removed from his position of special deputy attorney general of the state of New York by Attorney General Woodbury, and at once ceased his fight to have Thaw sent back to Matteawan. . “ Percy B. Sullivan, convicted in the federal court of using the mails to defraud, was sentenced to two years and six months in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, at Springfield, 111. Sullivan was head of a fire insurance company.

Mother Jones, friend of the mfn--1 ers, after an interview with John D. Rockefeller. Jr r in the offices of the , Standard Oil company in New York, declared Rockefeller has always been misunderstood and that he promised to help the miners. Rockefeller ended his testimony before the federal commission. plate manufacturers from all parts of the, country are holding a conference at Pittsburgh, Pa., to discuss with representatives of their employees proposed changes in the wag© scale. * • ♦ Woman x suffrage passed the West Virginia legislature at .Charleston. The vote in the senate was 28 to 1, and in the house 80 to 6. The measure will be voted upon by the people at the next election. A boy robbed the Guarantee State bank of Houston. Tex., of $5,000. was killed before going half a dozen blocks. ♦ • * John Haley, Michael Norris, John Miller and James Lynch, labor officials were indicted .by the federal grand Jury. Five counts charge both a conspiracy and a combination in restraint of interstate commerce. .* * ♦ Schooner yacht Idler owned by J. P. Jefferson of Warren, Pa., lost on Diamond shoals. It is believed Capt. Robert H. Harding and his crew of 14 men perished. * - ♦ ■» fl": ■' Mexican Revolt Provisional President Garza of Mexico and his government left the capital for Cuernavaca, where a new seat of government will be established. The army of occupation, the Carranza force, lingers on the outskirts of the city, but is expected to enter soon. ’fl .’fl'* ' *a " ■■ Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico, has been captured by the Carranza forces after several days of severe fighting with the Villa troops. * » * Foreign General Noriel, insurgent leader, and two aids convicted of the murder of a political enemy in 1912, were hanged ajt Manila, P. I. “We must maintain under the colors our entire army, for at any moment incidents are possible which may render it necessary for us to make an appeal to arms,” said P. W. A. Van der Linden, premier of the Netherlands to the Dutch parliament. * * * Violent bread riots are reported to have broken out in Croatia and Bohemia in AuStro-Hungary. At Aram riots have been in progress three days, it is said. .♦ • • Parliament of Iceland passed a measure forbidding the sale of alcoholic liquors. • » ■-a --fl--' The Portuguese ministry, of which Hugo Joutinbo was premier, resigned. • • • Personal Senator Penrose is confined to his home at Philadelphia by a bronchial affection. • ♦ * George Foster Peabody of New York has declined appointment to the federal trade commission. Dr. James Henry Parker, former president of the New York Cotton exchange, died after an operation on his knee. His widow is president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. • * * Mrs. Helen Kelly Thomas, formerly the wife of Frank Gould, inherited estate of her second husband, Ralph Hill Thomas, when his will was filed at Mineola, L. I. * ♦ * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., told the United States committee on industrial relations at New York that his father contributed $200,000,000 to philanthropy. „ * > »" •' < . Washington A summary of increases in ocean freight rates show a total of $311,864,000 yearly extra toll on American exporters should the present, rates continue. President Wilson approved the recommendation of Secretary Daniels and Superintendent Fullam of the naval academy, that Midshipman Leonard Kirby, Jr., of New Jersey be dismissed. Kirby’ was charged with placing a flask of liquor in a classmate’s locker. » » » “Legal fiction” of a private corporation will not save the United States from the consequences of its participation in the purchase of ships, according to Senator Root, who attacked the ship purchase bill in the senate at Washington. “I am not going to argue against buying a ship, but against buying an international quarrel with every ship.” ’ ♦ * » Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who had been ordered to take a complete rest for ten days on account of an attack of indigestion, w*as reported at Washington as not seriously ill. • * * By a strict party vote, the senate commerce committee at Washington adopted a favorable report on the Fletcher substitute for the ship purchase bill and Jay the same vote rejected the Lodge declares that no Interned shipsrof belligerents shall be'purchased.

Immigration Bill Vetoed by Wilson.

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blit’ not until if has been rendered. Let the platforms of parties speak out upon this policy and the people pronounce their wish. The matter is too fundamental to be settled otherwise. “I have no pride of opinion in this question, I- am not foolish enough to profe’ss to know the wishes and ideals of America better than the body of her chosen representatives know them. I only want instructions direct fropi those whose fortunes, with ours and all men’s, are involved. (Signed) ' “WOODROW WILSON.”

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FOR SALE

For Sale—Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18-to 45 bushels, followed by a crop of cow peas which makes from $25 to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hog flesh as an acre of corn. Go there and see if we have told the truth; if we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly im> proved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location' and improvements. Terms: Onethird down, balance on time at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of tfhe finest farming country in the world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi* county comprises 265,000 acres of fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for geiieral neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has. great thrift and enterprise. Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very" large proportionsand the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the Inhabitants own their own homds. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons. They have the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county-wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 475', Rensselaer, Ind.

For Sale— alfalfa seed.— RANSOM ELIJAH, Fair Oaks, Ind. ts For Sale—Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels.—M. I. ADAMS, phone 933-L. Fof- Sale—lo or 12 tons of good mixed hay, clover, timothy, alfalfa and rye, excellent for milch cow.— E. P. Honan, phone 285 or 344. For Sale—2 Berkshire male hogs, wt. about 125 pounds each; also some white oak and red oak posts.— Phone 935-D, Rensselaer, Ind. f-7 For Sale—Clover seed, good quality, free from buck-horn or any noxious weeds. One black Poland sow, farrow in April.—SOL NORMAN, Parr, R-l, phope 921-J. For Sale—Bo acres good corn land in cultivation, well located, splendid buildings. Price $75. Terms, SI,OOO down, long time on remainder. — ARTHUR G. CATT, Rensselaer, Ind.

For Sale—6-horse power gasoline engine, almost'new, also Ford Tour-r ing car in good condition, new motor recently put in; will sell at public auction on the street in Renssw-

Mixea.

As the train was moving out of a Scotch station a man in one of the compartments noticed that the porter in whose charge he had given his luggage had not put it into the van and so ■ shouted to him and said: “Hl, you old fool! What do you mean by not putting my luggage in the van?” To which the porter replied: “Eh, man! Yer luggage Is ne'er such a fool as yersel’. Yer i' the wrang train!”— New York Globe.

Wearying Chase.

Tommy could not understand why his teacher thought the following paragraph from his composition on •“A Hunting Adventure” lacked animation and effectiveness: “Pursued by the relentless hunter, the panting gazelle sprang from cliff to cliff. At last she could go no farther. Before her yawned the chasm and behind her the hunter.” —Youth’s Companion.

Slight Difference.

“I didn’t know you were so accomplished a linguist,” he remarked as he glanced at the paper she was reading. “I don't make any pretensions in that direction.” she answered. “But that is a Russian newspaper you have picked up.” “Why, so it is,” she answered in surprise. “I thought it wa's a dialect story.” ” ,

Discouraged.

“Don’t you dance?” “No,” replied Mr. Meekton. “Haven’t you tried to learn?” “Yes. The lady I employed was a very competent instructor. But I can’t see any sense in a rpan’s paying a woman to find fault with him.”— Washington Star

laer, at 2 p. m., Saturday, Jan. 30. Cash or bankable note.—JOHN W WARD. For Sale—About 20 tons of choice timothy hay.—GEORGE A. COVER, phone 926-E. !■ or Sale—6o acres, ten acres timblack corn land in cultivation; on main road near school and station; fine outlet for drainage. New four-room house, barn and well. Price $75. Terms, SBOO down, IOQ g time on remainder.—Enquire at First National Bank. For Sale— io acres good black land, all in cultivation, fair buildings, fruit, etc.; onion land close that can be rented, $1,500; SSOO cash, time on balance to suit; 7U> miles Rensselaer.—J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind. I ' or Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county,’N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar ' grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. House recently remodeled, and practically • good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm—Adiiress L - J - SHELLAND, orcester, Otsego county, N. Y.

WANTED M anted—Place on a farm by a married man. Address Box 23, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted—All kinds of'Yaw furs. I pay more.—C. McCULLET, Remington, Jnd. t s Salesman Wanted to look after our interests in Jasper and adjacenfcoun ties. Salary or commission. Address THE HAR\ El OIL CO., Cleveland, Ohio. Wanted—To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year Ioan; will pay 6 per cent interest semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. miscellaneous Auto Livery—“Frenchy” Deschand - A new car J us t Purchased. in dnve an - v where at any time. Phone 319. ~ Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable—F. E. BABCOCK. Mutual Insurance— Fire and nlng. Also state cyclone. Inquire es M. I. Adams, phone 533-L.

financial Farm Loans— Money to loan on T("’nnn r ° !) : rty t) in “ tS SIO.OOO,—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest and p wuVout^elay^^HN 0 A?DUn“ I fiPl |||P I Uvl lllv Charge* for H Making or Recording Instruments. 4 - H PARKJNBQT Subscribe for The Democrat.