Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Page 4

DEMOCRATIC NEWS LETTER.

[By Lew Ellingham.]

Indianapolis, February 26.:—The writer believes that senate bill 276 which passed the upper branch of’ the general assembly Tuesday; is a had piece of legislation.', The bill would create a state highway commission composed of the state geologist and two others to be appointed by the governor. The first business of this board would be to appoint a state highway engineer .whose salary 1 would not exceed four thousand dollars a year, and his,expenses;. Where the improvement or repair of a public road would exceed one thousand dollars a mile, or where a bridge or Its . repair would ,exceed three hundred dollars, the* approval of this, state highway board is required,- One can easily: see, what this.means. Every public improvement of this character would require the county officials to make a trip to Indianapolis and there make arguments before a highway board, and receive from them

the- privilege of making this improvement. In other words, a county cah not even spend its own money without a centralized board issued them a certificate granting the privilege sought. Could the imagination of man think of anything more contrary to the rights of the people of the state than this proposed law. Improvements must wait while a part of the officers of the county make a trip to the capitol and invite a board to giVe them authority to do what these came county officers .know before they leave home, is the right and the business thing to do. Was there over anything so ridiculous? Other provisions of the bill are that the state engineer shall make a map of the state showing principal roads and the available materials for road construction. The proposed law concludes by having the revenues derived from the automobile funds collected by the secretary of state, transferred to the credit of the state highway board and after the expenses of this board is paid .the balance if distributed as the law now provides. Soft .for the state highway board. This is none of my business, of course, but if eVer there was a just cause., for the kicker. Ibis is the opportunity of a life time. The bill has, passed the senate arid now goes to the house. Every mother's son in the

state should stand right up on his bind legs and raise seven kinds of u—ll and high water, until this bill is as dead as a gnat's hell, Another provision of the bill not mentioned, provides that before the board of conntv commissioners appoi nt a road supterintendent, said applicant must produce a certificate from this state board showing that he lias successfully passed an examination and is qualified to superintend road construction. That is going some isn’t it?

r Along with woman'; .suffrage, the Bell finance hill is now sleeping the sleep that' knows no awakening. The end came after several appeals for its life and these appeals were followed by many parliamentary strategic. moves, all of which failed to save the day or save the late of the Bell finance bill. The house democrats failed to cancus on the measure, that is enough of them refused to be bound bv caucus action to pass the bill. So those backing it gave tip-the ghost and made room for the legislative axe. The bill only concerned Indianapolis.

Another senate bill is the ninefoot hotel bed sheets. Senator Gruhe is the author. Passed. While Representative Feiok is using up a lot of energy in trying to legislate Dr. Hurty out of an office, along comes the Marion County Medical Society, and resolutes to the extent of naming Dr. Hurty as pne of the really big men of the state and: the nation. Here is the resolution : "During, this period there have been placed on the statute books of Indiana a considerable number of sanitary laws, practically every one of which lias been conceived and written by Dr. Hurty. These laws cover almost every phase of progressive sanitary science. Some of them are unique and original. All of them are of immense value to the citizens of our state- “ His work has been so practical, so far-reaching and helpful and has mfbeen pursued with such unselfish, singleness of purpose.that the state of Indiana will undoubtedly honor itself by some day erecting a monument to commemorate his notable public service.”

Trend of Prices of Farm Products.

According to the department's bureau of crop estimates, the level of prices paid to producers of the United States for the principal crops increased about 11.2 per cent during January; in the past seven years the price level has increased during January about 2.1 per cent. From January i to February I, the price of wheat Increased 21 per

cent, corn. 11 per cent, oats 11 per cent, barley 16 per cent, rye 12 per cent, blckwheat 7 per Cent, potatoes l per cgnt, flaxseed 21 per cent, hay ,4 per cent; butter declined 3 per cent and eggs declined 8 per cent. On February 1 the index figure of crop prices was about 6.4 per cerit higher than a year ago, 24.8 per cent higher than two years ago, and 11.1 per cent higher! than the average of the past seven years on February 1. " The level of prices paid to producers of th'e United States lor meat .animals decreased 0.6 per cent during the month from December.l3 to .January 13. This compares with an average increase .from December 15 to Jariuary 3 3 in the-past four years of 1.8 per cent. On January 15 the average i weighed) price of meat animals — hogs, cattle, sheep and chickens — v vas $6.57 per TOO pourids, which compares with $7.05' a year ago, $6.40 two years’ ago, $5.44 three years ago, $6,40 four years ago, and $6.67 five years ago.—U. 8. Dept, of Agriculture Bulletin.

Legislative Notes.

Senator Neal’s eugenics bill, which would have required Dan Cupid to become a licensed physician in Indiana. was defeated in the lower house of the legislature Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 52 to 36. It was the second test in the lower branch for the measure. Ten days before it had failed to pass for lack of a constitutional majority, but the fact that the ayes exceeded the noes on the first vote permitted a reconsideration. Representative W. L. Wood’s bill relating to subsidy elections was passed in the house Monday by a vote of 73 to 3, and is now pending in the senate. Only a little more than one week remains of the 1915 session of the Indiana legislature. Up to yesterday morning there had been 412 bills introduced in the senate and 573 in the house. Only a very small number of bills. have as yet 'passed both houses and been signed by the governor. ‘

By a vote of U 1 to 2, the house killed the Bell finance bill Wednesday afternoon. This bill applied to Indianapolis only' and was intended to help Mayor Bell out of a hole he had gotten into through his own shortsightedness: Governor Ralston, T o;n Taggart, and the entire democratic machine was legging for the passage of the bill, arid -had very easily gotten it through the senate, v hich seems to be but a tool of this machine. The house is apparently the safety-valve of this session of the •legislature and to it will be due, for most part, whatever beneficial legislation, is enacted. Senator 0. A. .McCormick of North Judson. chairman of the legislative reapportionment 'committee, introduced a new senatorial reappor-tion-nient bill in the senate Thursday v-hic'h places Jasper county with Bake, Newton and Porter, and also gives Lake two senators of its own, Starke county, now with Jasper. Newton and White, is placed with Laporte county, while White is placed with Carroll and Pulaski.

The American merchant vessel Carib, was sunk by a mine off the coast of Germany Tuesday. It. was loaded/ with -1.0(30. bales of cotton and left Charleston January 22 for Bremen, Germany. It is claimed in a dispatch from Berlin that the Carib was not using the route laid down in German marine instructions. The crew of thirty men were saved.

THE EUROPEAN WAR IN BIBLE PROPHECY.

Undreamed of passions have burst forth, devouring the lands that patient hands have beautified and made fertile, and centuries have stocked with art treasures. To the entire world the war has come as a complete surprise because they h"ye. not read nur book (GGO pages—cioth) telling that just such conditions would exist, only to be followed by the still greater devastation of anarchy The first edition came from the press in 1897. Of vaster interest and importance is its promise of better things in store for this earth, when the wrath of nations has run its course. Send thirty-four- cents in stamps (with this coupon) to cover postage, to The Temple, No. 26 W. 63rd St., New York City, anil receive a copy promptly.

CHARGE ROAD PAID MILLIONS

Commerce Commissioners Report on L. & N.’s Giving Money to Officials and Legislators. Washington, Feb. 26.—The interstate commerce commission sent to the senate its report on the investigation of the finances, rates and practices of the Louisville & Nashville and allied railroads. It charged the Louisville & Nashville with acquiring competing lines and with carrying oh for years at a cost of millions of dollars an elaborate political and publicity campaign to eliminate competition and Influence public opinion. German Gold Sent to Holland. Amsterdam, Feb. 26.-Mrhe Telegraaf says it has learned that a special train is bringing $4,000,000 in German gold from Berlin to this «sity.

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WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News The German submarine blockade of the British isles has been in effect for a week with the result that so far as is known, two. American, two Norwegian, one French and six British steamships have been sunk by mine or torpedoed by submarines. Two German submarines are missing and a third has been hit and possibly sunk by a French destroyer. * * * The British admiralty announced at London that the Clan MacNaughton, an armed cruiser, has been missing since February 3, and it is feared has been lost. Clan MacNaughton carried 20 officers and a crew’ of 261 men. Clan McNaughton is believed to have been lost as the result of a storm. * * * A sudden change of feeling concern- , ing the attitude of Italy has been noticeable in diplomatic quarters in Berlin during the last few days. The* position of Italy appears to have become a matter of much greater concern. The reasons for this change are not clear at this time. * * * The continued French offensive in the Champagne region is resulting successfully, according to the official communique issued at Paris. It states that the French forces have made new progress to the north of Perthes, many prisoners were taken. Berlin claims the German forces were successful everywhere.

The official list of changes in the naval personnel, issued at London, announces that “Capt. Creil F. Dampier, until recently in command of the battleship Audacious, has been promoted to-rear admiral.” * * * Troops of the Union of South Africa occupied the town of Garubeb, German Southwest Africa. * * * Nicholas Misu, Roumanian minister to London, soon will return to England bearing a note assuring the Brit-' ish government that the Roumanian army will take the field in April. * * * The Swedish steamer Specia has been sunk by a mine in the North sea. The Specia sailed from Liverpool' on February 7 with a crew of 3 8 and a cargo of 2,600 tons. •* * - Making claim to marked successes in the Carpathians and to having defeated the German offensive campaign in the north, which “never emerged from its period of preparation,” Russian staff officers at Petrograd took an optimistic view of the outlook along the whole front. The German advance from -East Prussia has been stopped, owing to floods. * * *

Domestic The senate of the Vermont legislature killed the woman suffrage' bill which was passed by the house. .■* * * Most of the Piute Indians driven into Cqttcnwood Gulch succeeded in escaping during the night, according to a message received from Bluff, Utah. « * * * At the resumption &f the attorney general’s investigation in New York of the cost of wheat, bread and flour, C. H. Canby, president of the Chicago board of trade, denied speculation was responsible for the high price of wheat. He asserted the law of supply and demand has caused a steady,, rise in the price of grain and that the present quotations are induced by the European demand. * * * The water is rising rapidly in the Mississippi river near Dubuque, la., owing to heavy rains, and melting snow. There is danger of floods if the ice breaks suddenly. Robert M. Sweitzer defeated Carter H. Harrison for the Democratic mayoralty nomination at Chicago by a plurality of approximately 76,000. The voto was the largest ever cast in a Democratic pricary in Chicago. The total was approximately 300,000. Sweitzer received five women’s votes to Harrison’s three. William Hale Thompson was the Republican nomination for mayor by a plurality placed at approximately 1,000 over Judge Harry Olson, fusion candidate. * * , * The Hoffman house, one of the oldest of the downtown hotels and for many years headquarters in New York for Democratic politicians, has been sojd to a construction company. The price is said to have been more than $3,000,000. * * * Richard Peter Stegler, a native of Germany who had signified his allegiance to the United States by taking out his first citizenship papers, was arrested for obtaining a fraudulent passport and was committed to the Tombs at New York. * * * The 36 master plumbers who have been on trial at Des Moines, la s , since February 10 on charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust law were convicted by a jury in the federal district court. Judge John C. Pollock will pass sentence later.

By a vote of 66 to 62 the Minnesota house of representatives, at St. Paul, passed the senate county option measure making prohibition a county issue. The measure now goes to Governor Hammond, who has indicated he would sign it. * * * Foreign Four hundred members of the mutinous Indian regiment which revolted at Singapore have been killed, as well as seven Gferman prisoners from the detention camp who joined the natives when offered their freedom. * * r* Six officers, 13 soldiers and 13 civilians were killed and eight soldiers were wounded when troops of tlfe British Fifth light infantry regiment stationed at Singapore, India, rioted because of dissatisfaction over promotions. Landing parties from British and allied warships restored order. ** * j Personal Mrs. May S. Allen Webb, eightyseven, first president and organizer of the W. C. T. U., died in Savannah, Ga. She was born in London, but spent the greater part of her life here. She has been the only honorary president. * ** Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has been successfully operated upon at Bordeaux, France. Her right leg was amputated at the knee as the result of an injury suffered several years ago while playing ‘ Joan qt Arc." * *' • Judge William Kavanaugh, aged forty-nine, of Little Rock, Ark., president of the Southern league, died suddenly of apoplexy. * * * Erov Rojesvensky, Russian consul general, died at San Francisco. * * * Ernest Thompson Seton is no longer chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America. The office held by Seton has been abolished.

Sporting Official announcement by Promoter Jack Curley that the fight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard for the world’s heavyweight championship will not be held until at least two weeks later than March 6, was made at El Paso, Tex. - * • Mexican Revolt A message from Aguascalientes to San Antonio, Tex., says Gen. Santos Coy and Gen. A..Banuelos, former Villa officers, who remained with Gen. Roque Gonzales Garza when the latter fled from the capital, were executed by order of Villa. * * * Washington Praise for the “simple, straight-for-ward" people of the southern mountains, and criticism of “the airs that high society gives itself” were voiced by President Wilson at Washington at a meeting held in the interest of Berea college, Kentucky, founded to educate the mountaineers. * * * The California eight-hour law for women providing that no woman shall be employed more than eight hours a day or more than 48 hours a week in any mercantile establishment, factory, hotel, hospital or apartment house, was held constitutional by the United _ States Supreme court at Washington. -• * * Importations of raw silk in the fiscal year 1914, totaling 34,500,000 pounds, broke all records, according to the department of commerce announcement made at Washington. This was an increase of 2,500,000 pounds over the imports, of 1913 and 21,500,000 Founds more than in 1900. * * * An executive order issued by President Taft in 1909 withdrawing from public entry and private exploitation of any kind 3,000,000 acres of oil lands in Wyoming and California was upheld by the United States Supreme court at Washington. * *■ * . The department of agriculture at Washington has extended the foot-and-mouth quarantine to nine additional states —Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

President Wilson nominated the members of the interstate trade commission at Washington. He sent to the senate the names of Joseph E. Davis, Edward Nash, Hurley of Chicago,- William J. Harris of Georgia, William H. Parry of Seattle, Wash.; and George Rublee of Cornish. * * * Secretary Daniels of Washington ordered Commander Walter R. Gherardi, American naval attache at Berlin, to investigate and make a full report on the destruction of American steamer Evelyn. Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee said he could see no complications arising from the destruction of the Evelyn. * * * The Army and Navy Journal in an editorial urged President Wilson to mabllize at once 1,000,000 volunteers. Purpose, editorial says, is not to make war, but to avoid war by preserving neutrality and maintaining country’s honor and dignity. . t * * * . -* .. Without a dissentipg vote the senate at Washington passed the army appropriation bill, carrying approximately $103,000,000, while the house aided in clearing up legislation for the session nearing a close by passing the $6.1)00.000 fdftification bill. : ‘

German Secret Service, For maay years past Germany has been spending on her secret' service between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 annually, that is to say, about five times as much as France and from 12 to 15 times as much as Great Britain. The purpose to which these funds are mainly devoted is the establishment and maintenance of spies at fixed posts in potentially hostile countries, says a writer in the Atlantic. In France, where this smothered warfare has been waged most persistently, it can best be studied. The principal agents are iarelj Germans. They are as a rule Swiss, Belgians and Alsatians, with a sprinkling of corrupt Frenchmen, if they are Germans, then they hasten to take out naturalization papers and to make themselves conspicuous by protestations of loyalty to the land of their adoption. But in all cases they are instructed to disguise their operations under forms of ordinary business. They take shops, land agencies, hotels, insurance offices and so on. They follow their calling just like everybody else in the locality. They attract irb notice, either by having too much money or too little. Their businesses are soundly established and are in keeping with the requirements of the neighborhood. The expenses of starting them are borne out of the secret service funds, and from the same source the deficits, if any, in the annual balance sheet are made good. The man in

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charge identifies himself with the life apound him, sits on committees, makes as many friends as possible, subscribes generously to local charities, and not infrequently gets himself elected to some minor pg|ce.—Chicago Journal.

A Cowardly Fowl.

Mrs. Jones bought a chicken ai the family butcher shop, and after embellishing it with |bread crumbs, celery, cranberry sauce and other glad things she proudly set it before the head of the family. ’’What is the matter, John?’’ askcd the young wife, with an anxious look as hubby laboriously carved the bird-and began to apply it to his appetite. “Isn’t the chicken all right?’’ “Why, yes; I guess he is all right, dear, was the hesitating response of father. “But I fear he w r as a very great coward.’’ “A great coward!” returned the perplexed wife. “What do you mean?” “Don’t they say, Mary,” smilingly rejoined the old man, “that the bravest are always the tenderest?” Philadelphia Telegraph.

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« For 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. Mouse re- 1 cently 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.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y. FOR RENT I °r Rente- —Good 3-room house, 2 acres of ground with fruit of all kinds, at SSO per year. Located 7 miles northeast of Rensselaer, on R. R~L W. N. JENKINS, McCoysburg, Ind. WANTED Wanted—Girl for general house work. Steady employment.—Phone 43, Lock Box 713, Rensselaer. Wanted— To buy for cash 160 or more acres of good, level black land. Give full description and location in first letter, do not use postal cards. No agents.—Lock Box 475, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted— To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Lost—Between H. L. Wortley’s f arm and Rensselaer,. a violin and outfit in gray canvas case, bearing initials L. N. Finder please notify H. L. Wortley, R-3, and receive reward. Fstray Taken Up—2-year-old heifer, came to my place, 5 miles south and 5 miles west of Rensselaer, several days ago. Owner may have same by proving ownership apd paying charges.—FßANK CORBIN, Brook, Ind., R-R. Oak Lumber—All kinds for sale, or sawed to order, at farm, 2 miles south and 4 miles west of Rensselaer.—AßTHUß POWELL, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 29-M Mt. Ayr ex. ' change. •• Auto Livery—“Frenchy” Deschand, prop. A new car just purchased. Will drive any 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 lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire es M. I. Adams, phone 633-L. FINANCIAL Farm Loans—l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. I arm Loans—Money to loan os farm property In any sums hd to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLA P I fln hnl Wlthout EMay, If I II w,th <>ut Commiu oi, I IIU . 10 Without Charges foi H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINBO E