Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — Page 4

Panama Canal Will Aid In Promoting Harmony Between America and Japan

By Admiral BARON DEWA,

TIIE friendly relations and intercourse between the United States and Japan may be said to have begun with the visit of Commodore Biddle in the bay of Yeddo in 3S4G. It was a small beginning, indeed, Jjut with the coming of Commodore Perry and Mr. Townsend Harris, a New Yorker, as the first minister of the United States our relations rapidiv ripened into close intimacy and mutual friendship. FROM THOSE DAYS THE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS •MADE BY THE UNITED STATES TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OP MODERN JAPAN ALONG THE LINES BOTH OF MATERIAL CIVILIZATION AND OF MENTAL AND MORAL LIFE WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED BY SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS OF MY PEOPLE. . Today we are privileged the completion of what may well be consider d the greatest engineering achievement on record—namely, the Panama canal. The great new highway between the orient and the Occident has been opened to the world. From these shores of North America one may sail a ship westward to the shores of Japan, whose constant aim is the promotion of friendship, now happily existing between these two countries. I AM CONVINCED THAT BY THE OPENING OF THE MIGHTY CANAL THE RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES WILL DEVELOP GLORIOUSLY ON THE SOLID FOUNDATION OF MUTUAL COOPERATION AND SELF RESPECTING INTERDEPENDENCE.

Community Center School a Great Agency For Making Public Opinion

By Dr. RAYMOND V. PHELAN,

IX literature and discussion much has been said of the idle school - house, the town meetings of long ago and the town problems of today. These things need to be said again, but the big community idea is THAT TIIE COMM UNITY CENTER StiIIOOLIIOTTSE IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST AGENCIES FOR MAKING NOT TIIE PUBLIC OPINION THAT I LAS BEEN CALLED PRIVATE INDOLENCE, BUT A TWENTIETH CENTURY PUBLIC OPINION, ALEUT. THINKING, FEELING, ACTING, FRATERNAL. Community center propaganda says among other things to the countryside: “Open up your school houses to public discussion. Be not afraid of the truth or the untruth. Take for your motto that maxim put by Sir Thomas More into the mouth of lltopus, ‘The native, force of truth will at last break forth and shine bright if supported only by the strength of argument and attended to with a gentle and unprejudiced mind.’ ” To be successful with the town and. the schoolhouse a university must itself have the community center spirit. THE UNIVERSITY THAT WOULD DO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY CENTER WORK MUST FURTHERMORE BE FREE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SELFISH, INDIVIDUALISTIC ATTITUDE TOWARD HUMAN LIFE, AND ALWAYS IN ITS ACTS AND POLICIES IT MUST SHOW A FULL REALIZATION THAT DEMOCRACY IS NOT MERELY A BUNDLE OF HUMANELY SOUNDING WORDS.

Effect of European War Will Be to Strengthen American Patriotism

By Dr. WILLIAM M. SLOANE,

IT is the conspicuous merit of our present administration that at the outset it discerned the immediate consequences for us with clear definition. Its position exasperated the rank and file of Americans, while it confounded the plans of Europeans. BUT POSTERITY WILL ADMIRE OUR NATIONAL STAND, AND WE OURSELVES ARE SWIFTLY RETURNING TO SANITY. WE ARE AT LEAST NOT IN THE STATE OF DANGEROUS COMPLACENCY ARISING WHEN ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF US. These, then, appear to be the effects of the present war on America: A strengthened and purified patriotism, a new national consciousness which reveals us as possible leaders in a forward movement against selfish materialism and, filially, a new educational training in grasping and settling'questions of vital import as to citizenship and self defense—as to the burdens of taxation and willingness to undergo a chastening discipline far different from the type of lawless liberty which borders on license. It is the central, all comprehending question of the hour: CAN WE IN OUR PRESENT SOCIAL SYSTEM PRODUCE AN EFFICIENCY COMPARABLE WITH THAT WHICH WE GROPINGLY CONSIDER ANTAGONISTIC? IF WE ARE AWAKE TO THIS THE WAR HAS PROVED THE SOURCE OF SAVING GRACE TO US. IF NOT, HISTORY WILL SAY OF US WHAT VIRGIL SAID OF TROY, “TROY WAS, BUT IS NO MORE.”

Development of the Individual the Aim of University Extension

By President CHARLES R. VAN HISE,

IT should be the aim of university extension to find the way for the bov and the girl of talent, whatever the place of birth, Whether the tene“ipent on the east side of New York or the mansion on Fifth avenue SO THAT THE STATES AND THE NATION MAY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF HIS HIGHEST EFFICIENCY AND AT THE SAME TIME MAKE POSSIBLE FOR HIM THE FULLEST AND LARGEST LIFE. It should also be the aim of extension to assist the ordinary individual as well as the man of talent. If society were perfectly organized each individual would have an opportunity to develop to the fullest decree the endowments given himV by nature, whether they be large or 'small. Doubtless this will never he accomplished fully, but it should be the aim of extension to assist every individual in this direction. THIS, THEN, IS THE PURPOSE OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION—TO CARRY LIGHT AND OPPORTUNITY TO EVERY HUMAN BEING IN ALL PARTS OF THE NATION; THIS IS THE ONLY ADEQUATE IDEAL OF SERVICE FOR THE UNIVERSITY.

Head of Japanese Dele-

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WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News Five more vessels have been sunk by German submarines. Seventeen lives were lost when the Belgian steamer Menapier was sent to the bottom. Crews of the other four vessels were saved. * * * The Germans suffered a decisive check in a battle north of the Aisne that brought death to at least 2,000 of them. Besides reporting the finding of the 2,000 (german dead on the field, the Paris war office says the French captured 250 men and six machine guns. At Vauquois the French sprayed flaming liquid on the German trenches. * * * Official announcement was made at Paris by the admiralty that the French mine layer Casabianca has been sunk in the Aegean sea by the Turks. The commander and 64 members of the crew were picked up by a British destroyer. A death duel between a British monoplane and a German Zeppelin was fought over a mile in the air just outside of Brussels. The battle came to an end when the German monster of the sky was sent crashing upon a convent, 6,000 feet below, a crumpled and burning wreck. Thirty-two men were killed. * * * Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped by a Zeppelin on towns on the eastern coast of England killing five persons and injuring forty others. Two fires also were caused. Four German submarines were captured in the Firth of Tay, east coast of Scotland, in a recent raid, according to officers of the liner Cameronia, from Glasgow. These crafts were caught in nets spread by the port authorities. The crews were captured. The Cologne correspondent of the Amsterdam Tijd says a report is current that Austria and Germany soon will announce their conditions of peace, in which emphasis will be given to the declaration that the Germanic allies are not engaged in a war of conquest, but seek only to insure the security of their territories. The allied troops on the Gallipoli peninsula have been driven back with heavy losses, according to an official statement issued by the Turkish war office at Constantinople. * * * The king of Roumania has signed a decree ordering general mobilization, It is believed that this move signifies that the date of the entry of Roumania on the side of the allies has been decided on and that hostilities will begin without delay. Official announcement was made by the admiralty at Paris that the French mine layer Casabianca has been sunk in the Aegean sea by the Turks. The commander and 64 members of the crew were picked up by a British destroyer. An additional 173 German army officers have arrived at Constantinople to make good the losses incurred in defending the Dardanelles. Domestic Fire which broke out in the plant of the John W. Bunn Wholesale Grocery company at Springfield destroyed the upper floors of the building. The damage was estimated by the owners to exceed $50,000. Control of the state court of Illinois was regained by the Republicans in the downstate elections, which returned their sitting justices and seated W. W. Duncan in place of Justice A. Watson, Democrat. Justice w. M. Farmer, the other Democrat seeking re-election, was successful. Three Republicans, Orrin N. Carter, F. K. Dunn and James Cartwright were re-elected. With the election of four Republican justices and one Democrat the vote on the bench will stand four to three. The arrival of the Roosevelt party at Pass Christian, Miss., was accompanied by a request for quiet because of Mrs. Roosevelt’s illness. The party will start on a tour of the islands this week. j* • • Frank Thompson of Carpenter, Wyo., was killed instantly and Theodore Poelman, a lawyer, was badly injured when an automobile driven by Thompson skidded over an -embankment into i a creek near Beloit wis. * * * A St. Louis and San Francisco pas, senger train was wrecked 19 miles west of Enid, Okla., and 50 persons injured, eight probably fa.tally. The train rolled down a 25-foot embankment. * * * Capt. John J. Knapp, recently in command of the battleship Connecticut, and now a member of the naval •xaminlng board, was appointed by Secretary of the Navy. Daniels commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard.

Seven were killed and many injured when Milwaukee passenger train No. 5, which leaves La Crosse. Wis., at 5:05 p. m., ran into a freight and wrecked bridge at Amherst Junction, ' two miles above Lake City, Minn. * • • Evely Block, twelve, and Bessie i Block, eight, were killed and their ; sister Helen suffered a broken leg ‘ and other injuries while driving home j from school gradhation exercises at ! Mount Pleasant, Mich. The horses | pulled the wagon into the path of a ! motor train. * * * The arrival at New Orleans of the | steamboat Steel City, from La Salle, 1 111., with a cargo of merchandise shipped to New Orleans by Chicago j manufacturers, marked the beginning j of what is expected to be a regular i freight service by water from the | great lakes to the gulf. I —' * * * 1 Two-slight b*t distinct earthquakes were felt generally throughout San j Francisco. No damage was reported, j * * • According to the monthly crop re-! port of the secretary of state’s offices, j at Lansing, Mich., the fruit crop of ’ Michigan received a severe blow from i frost in May. * * * John Umphress was killed instantly, | his wife and two daughters and Mr. | and Mr:;. F. P. Reese of Huntington, : Ind., injured when an M. B. & E. i traction car the Umphress automobile near Warren, Ind. * « * A voluntary increase of 15 per cent in the wages of employes of the zinc sniop i s of Bartlesville Was announced at Bartlesville, Okla. The Ha:w ll & Baker car building plant at Michigan City, Ind., has resumed operation at full time for 3,000 men. - * * * One man was killed, three children probably fatally injured, and four ( other persons slightly hurt in a collision between a trolley car and an automobile at Dutch Neck, N. J. * • • Personal Harry P. Darlington, a director of Armour & Co., dropped dead while playing golf at Chicago. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Darlington was sixty-five years old. * * * Dr. William Sayman Cummings, eighty-tliree years old, principal of the Guildhall School of Music from 1896 to 1910, died in London. He was noted as a singer, teacher, author and composer. - . * * • * Rev. Dr. Jesse Burgess Thomas, theologian and author, pastor emeritus of the Baptist temple of Brooklyn, is dead at Brooklyn. He was eighty-twS years old. * * * Dewitt Clinton Blair, eighty-one years old, senior member of the banking firm of Blair & Co., died at New York of pneumonia. Blair’s personal fortune is estimated conservatively at $20,000,000.

Mexican Revolt S. P. Jones, a British citizen, was killed and an Englishman, woman and child probably fatally wounded when they got within the range of fire when a Villista force captured Tuxpam, Vice-Consul Bevan at Tampico reported to the state department at—Washington. * * * Secretary Bryan received messages at Washington from Vera Cruz confirming reports of the defeat of Generals Villa and Angeles at Trinidad by the Carranzista forces under command of General Obregon, after five days of continuous fighting. * * * Thousands of hungry men, women and children are crying for food in Mexico City. Washington William Jennings Bryan submitted his resignation as secretary of state to President Wilson. Robert Lansing, present counselor of the dcpartment of state, automatically becomes secretary of state. The resignation resulted from differences of opinion over the note about to be sent to Germany. Germany, through a special Dutch envoy, is asking President Wilson to transmit proposed terms of peace to the allied powers. The envoy is Jonkheer van Gheel Gildermeester, a member of the court of Queen Wllhelmina of the Netherlands and connected with banking circles in Holland. He arrived at Washington Friday. * * * A necklace consisting of a chain of 117 diamonds and a diamond pendant, making 202 diamonds in all, will be the wedding gift of the house of representatives at Washington to Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, daughter of the speaker. * * * President Wilson and his cabinet at Washington considered the known fact that German interests, reported backed by the German government, are negotiating for the purchase of the great gun and munitions-of-war plants of this country. Secretary McAdoo laid the matter before the cabinet. He had information from secret service agents. It may become necessary, it was suggested by the attorney general, to prevent such a sale on the ground of public welfare, because of strained relations with Germany.

INDIANA BREVITIES

Columbus,—Harry Oxley, thirtyfive, of Newcastle, was locked up here at his own request when he admitted fraudulently signing the name of his father, Marian Oxley, to a check for $25 which he cashed at Maryland. He spent $1.50 for morphine and w-as robbed of the remainder at Indianapolis, he claimed. Laporte.—The annual conference of the Michigan and Indiana synod of the German Evangelical synod has adjourned after electing the following officers: President Rev. Paul Irion, Michigan City; Rev. C. C. Haag of Port Huron, vice-president; Rev. G. Eisen of Chelson, secretary, and Hon. Philip Eichorne of Port Huron; treasurer. 1 Laporte.—A twelve-year-old girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Tennis, was fatally burned, the parents seriously burned, while an infant child was carried safely through the flames, the house burning to the ground, the result of a fire on the Tennis farm near Union Mills. The girl attempted to start a fire with kero'sene, and an explosion followed Shelbyville.—Despondency over the fact that he got the worst of a horse trade is believed to have been the cause of the suicide of Tobias Ford, fifty-seven years old, whose body was found hanging to a rafter of a rear porch at his home. He was divorced from hi? wife several years ago and had lived alone since. Princeton.—Mrs. James Hillman, twenty-eight years old, is tinder bond of SI,OOO, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill Jennette White, twelve years old. Mrs. Hillman ife said to have fired a revolver at the child, but asserts that she w r as shooting at a chicken. There is said to have been a feud between the Hillman and White families, who live at Long Pond. Frankfort.—Mrs. .Morton Baker, for-ty-six years old, was found lying face downward in fourteen inches of water in Prairie creek in the rear of her home here. She is believed to have committed suicide because of the death of her two daughters within a year. Her husband missed her from home early in the morning and a search resulted in the finding of the body.

Tipton,—Tile twentv-first annual convention of the Frankfort District Christian Endeavor union will be held at the Presbyterian church in this city June 24 and 25. The district comprises Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Madison and Tipton counties. A program with several prominent speakers, including Rev. Harper McCune, R. A. Walker, Rev. H. L. Avery and others, has been prepared. Washington.—At a meeting of the Daviess County Hospital association J. G. Allen was elected president, J. M. Twitty secretary, and Mrs. M. F. Burke treasurer. J. M. Twitty and Mrs. Anna E. Harned were appointed members of the board by Judge J. W. Ogdon and the association elected Alvin Padgett to succeed the late Henry F. Vollmer on the board of control/ Valparaiso.—A. V. Dalrymple, student at Valparaiso university, was acquitted by a jury in the circuit court of assault upon Jesse L. Grubbs, another student. The trial lasted four days and was bitterly fought, but the jury returned a verdict after only a short time. Dalrymple admitted cutting Grubbs in a class fight, but asserted he did so to defend himself. Indianapolis.—No more Indiana university monthly luncheons will be held until the second Monday in September. That was decided at the June meeting, held at the Claypool hotel, because many of the alumni will leave the city during the summer. While the first Monday of the month is the regular luncheon day, It was decided to change it until the second Monday in September in order to avoid confiftion with Labor day. Judge HeVdis F. Clements of Mount Vernon attended the luncheon and spoke for a few minutes. Judge Clements, who was graduated in law at Indiana Th 189(5, now presides over the Posey county circuit court. Lafayette.—Arrangements for the annual outing of the Indiana Society of Chicago to be held Saturday, June 26, at Battle Ground, were perfected at a meeting of the officers at the Hotel Fowler in this city. Edward Rector, president; Joseph Holloway, secretary; Louis W. Landman, chairman of the entertainment committee, and E. P. Cockrell, general passenger agent of the Monon railroad, attended the meeting. It was decided to run a special train out of Chicago at eight o’clock on the morning of the outing. The special is scheduled to arrive at Tippecanoe battlefield shortly before noon. The Citizens’ band of Lafayette has been engaged to meet the five hundred or more members of 'the party at the train.

South Bend. — O. E. Swinehart, circuit court reporter at Plymouth, was killed instantly by a Mishawaka street car. The motorman asserted Swinehart was lying across the track, but the brakes failed to work in time to save him. Swinehart formerly lived in Rochester. His father, who was county recorder there, was killed several years ago in a factory accident. South Bend.—Carl Grein, forty-two years old, who committed suicide here by swallowing poison, is believed to have ended his life because two brothers in the German army were reported killed.

Our (p3§siJ|aßp [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for leach adau,ional insertion, i To save book-keeping cash should he sent with notice. No notiye accepted for less than twenty- five but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may he—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent In The democrat s .Care, postage will be charged for iorwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Sweet potato plants.— HARSHBURGER & CHUPP, Parr, I:id - j-13 !■ or Sale—Good fresh cow, with calf by side.—JOHN GUSS, R-2, Rensselaer. For Sale,—Half-seasoned lumber, 8 to 12 foot lengths, 4 to 8 inches wide, furnished on demand at bottom prices.—M. D. KARR, Fair Oaks, Ind. j_2o Tor Sale—Good second-hand refrigerator, outside measurement 34 in. wide, 46 in. high, 20 in. deep; 3 doors, ice door in front, large cooling chambers fbr food, ice capacity 100 pounds. For less than half its original cost.—Enquire at Democrat office or phone 311. For Sale Cheap—Owing to my husband’s long continued sickness we wish to sell our residence property on Forest street, lot 71%xl80; 7-room house, electric lights, cellar, cistern, splendid drilled well, barn, 2 hen houses and parks,-all in good condition; fruit and strawberries.— See MRS. J. W. KING, or J. C. Passons, phone 132. Tor 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.—Address L. .T. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county. N. Y.

WANTED t\ anted—A good solicitor to travel over Jasper county. Previous experience not necessary, but is preferred.—THE DEMOCRAT. Wanted—To borrow $4,000 on good 'real estate security on 6-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. \\ anted—Salesman calling on merchants, farmers or threshers. Staple article, sure seller. Big profits. Splendid side line. Proposition unusually attractive.—Union Steel & Wire Co., Indianapolis. LOST. Lost—On the street in Rensselaer folding bill book containing $lO, $2 and $i bills, also lodge receipts. Reward.—Leave at Democrat office. FOUND. Found—Child’s locket about two weeks ago in the Egypt cemetery. Owner may have same by calling on Mrs. Frank Welsh, phone 918-B, and paying advertising charges. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK.

Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidich brand, also cai. bon papers of the same make, ojs sale at The Democrat office. Painting Wanted—l am again prepared to do painting either by jon or day, and iu town or country. Have my own means of conveyance. - —C.— M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensselaer. a-G Flowers—Call Phone 439 for cut flowers, potted plants, fruit, candy, bulbs, garden seed, onion sets, seed potatoes, cabbage and tomato plants. We carry at all times a nice lot of strictly fresh caught fish. We deliver to any place in the city.;—OSBORNE FLORAL COMPANY. ts FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L.

Farm Loans— I 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. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to $10,000.— E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans— I am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I Get the MONEY } Without Delay, Without Commission Without Charges for Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON Subscribe for The Democrat.