Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1915 — Page 2

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A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

Now that O. L. .Brown, the Lafayette and Northwestern railroad promoter, is asking the taxpayers of j Rensselaer and Marion township to give hint some $61,000 of their hard-! earned money to run his proposed i road here from Wolcott and through! the west side of Rensselaer, he he should be willing to give our people a little more information regarding the present status of his company and at the same time tell us what official position he himself occupies in the said company. In the first place, who' is Ihe president of the organization at this time, as The Democrat understands that I)r. Pettigrew of Logansport, who was the president when the company was first organized, resigned some time ago and got out of the company? If a new president has been elected in Dr. Pettigrew’s place, when was he elected and who composed the board of directors at the time his successor was elected? Who, if anyone, has succeeded directors, A. P. Rainier, Bert Sheets and W. T. Elmore of Remington, all of whom The Democrat is reliably informed resigned and got out of the company several months ago? If their successors have been elected, by whom, when and where were they elected? , WJio are the present j board of directors of the company and where are they located? ( The Democrat understands that May 7 last was the regular date for the annual stockholders’ meetins Was a call for this meeting ever made or published and was such a meeting held? If so, when and where, and who were the officers elected at the meeting? What amount of stock has already been issued and what per cent of the stock isued has been paid in? Who are the present stockholders in the company and how many shares of the stock do they hold? If the bonds could not be floated

to build such a road through Rensselaer and Ja-per county when money matters were easier and he business interests of the country were not unsettled by reason or the great European war and the possibility of our own country being drawn Into it ere it is over, what assurances can you or the president or officers of your company give us that you can secure the balance of the money to build and equip this road shoulu y.e give you < of our money.' 'ln conclusion; do not avoid these question by saying it i« none of our d business, but answer them all fully and frankly, that the voters here may have an intelligent understanding of the matter and know whether you are the whole works or, have a lull force of officers behind you, and who those; officers are. Remember that the people whose money you are asking for have a moral right to know and should know something more about your company than they now do. and, if you are honest and sincere you will U'’'' he-; it ate to be frank with them.

Over in White county one-balf of the subsidy tax recently voted for the so-ealed Lafayette, & Northwestern Railroad, in Princeton and Round Grove townships, was ordered placed on the tax duplicate by the county commissioners at their session last week, and will be collected by the county treasurer the coming winter, when the 11* 14 taxes are collected. The other half is to be levied next year. Now if this road is never constructed, so that the money may he paid over to the company, the amounts will probably in time be paid back to the taxpayers, but it is a “long way to Tipperary,“ and some of it will never get back to the pockets of those who paid it in. People of Jasper county once had some experiencel with the old “Continental’’ railroad, where the tax was levied and collected and the road never built, so The Democrat, is informed, and our older citizens still rememjber about it. By the way, the promotors I of the L. A- N. W. R. R. Co. did not, | apparently, consider the people over in White county such easy marks as those of Rensselaer, as they only asked for per cent in Wolcott and Princeton tp„ instead of 2 per cent as here.

And now Chicago has a big street railway stfike on its hands, 14,500 men quitting, their jobs on the surface and elevated railroad systems of that city at midnight Sunday night, and thereby tleing up the entire street railway system of the city. As The Democrat has stated many times, we. must have compulsory arbitration laws to settle these labor disputes, and pending the time the matters are being arbitrated work shall go on the same as before. The people will not much longer stand for the paralyzing of the entire business and industries of a city or community at the behest of a few “walking delegates.”

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WALT MASON

The Poet Philosopher. Nine men get up at break of dawr* and toil with splendid zest, to trim the whiskers from the lawn, and keep the weds suppressed. They puli up thistles by the roots, and swat -11 noxious Weeds, and solftly say, “Well bet our boots the-e things won't scatter seeds." They to their conies devote their lives; they striv - f.j keep things neat; they know the lawn, where bluegrass thrives for beauty .an t be beat. The tenth man doesn't e .re a whoop how shabby Things-a ppo a f;. t.h eweed s are .gro wing round his- coop in regiments, each .*i - i- -mothered by the • f ds. which swipe each inch of soil, and every zephyr blows the ->o -. i . ief r the good man’s tofi. 1h- r- is no law to make him eat his weeds, or mow them down, although hi- .la < will queer the street, and Tfi-ndicap the-rown, Why doesn’t con -r- - lip nd knock this Jonah on ‘ ? F< r i,- rly every village i.lo k got this sort of skate.

SCHOLARS OFTEN BAD SPELLERS

An Accomplishment That Many Famirtfi Men and College Graduates Lack. Correct spelling and good English are not always the accomplishments of a college student, or even of a college graduate. The Harvard authorities think that they ought to be, for the examination officials and teachers are much distressed over the fact that the hoys whose writing- are submitted are often ignorant of the fundamental principles of spelling and grammar. Deaa Briggs, himself one of the finest writers at the university , says, in writing of the matter: “We all live in glass houses. Until the written and spoken English of college officials throughout the country is better than it is now, the English used by many worthy boys in an examinatidzi will never be ‘ correct, coherent and idiomatic,' in any strict sense of these words. We all live in glass houses; yet we must accept the duty, and take the risk of throwing stones.*’ Evidently Prof. Briggs is not one who will enforce the new rules without a wide leniency in favor of any man with a good head whose failings in English are native. In excuse for faulty spelling, he writes: “Spelling is an accomplishment, the lack of which is still—or still should be- —a disgrace: but many sfood and great men have lacked it: and since the spelling book has ceased to be in daily and universal use at school, the proportion of intellectual persons who cannot spell appears to have increased. One of the world's greatest scholars in his own department habitually in college spelled ‘speech’, with an “a,“ and wrote themes about 1 Thackery arid 'Scot.” One of the best loved professors in America spelled ‘usually’ and similar words' with one I,' and ‘niche,’ ‘ni'ch.’ An-

; Annual Commencement of the Public Schools of Barkley ♦ and Marion Townships

To Be Held at Barkley Church, Saturday Night, June 19,1915, at 8 v o’clock. PROGRAM Music, .i. ’ Invocation. Music. Tuberculosis - - Jennie L» MeElfresh A i rip ti. a Relative - ' - Ethel Georg* £ h V f 'lgnms - . . Ethel Holmes - - - - Newell Haves ' Clifford Spate xw ‘ - Hollice Holmes Musi U r " LSt Man - Hazel Marie Moore i!™"’ .... ' ' ~ ‘ - Zana Michael WlHiy, The Orphan Boy - David Callander - Olive H. Ellsworth The Fly - - _ Irene Price vEJJ-f Settlement -- Bessie Addeline Moore * - William MeElfresh Ihe T irst White Man in Indiana - Emil Trullev MUSIC- ’ Thus Vn*' S cv 1 * rl *' , « >n Diplomas County Superintendent All Sing America. ■ Benediction. teachers JENNIE L. McELFRESH WILLIAM McELFRESH HOLLICE HOLMES ■ " ■ IRENE PRICE ETHEL HOLMES ETHEL GEORGE prs(! , p . IX . T , HAZEL MARIE MOORE BESSIE ADDELINE MOORE EMIL TRULLEY OLIVE H. ELLSWORTH NEWELL HAYES CLIFFORD SPATE DAVID CALLANDER ZANA MICHAEL GRAfIUATES ~ GRACE YYAYMIRE BERNICE BOONE VESTA R. BROWN ' EARL GROSS ANNA DOWNING MARGARET R. SYVENGLE ANNA McKINNIS ° U ' E IfcLE> PEARL HORN LEE WILLIVER AGNES CHAPMAN A. C. CAMPBELL ETHEL ISLEY" GRANT DAVISSON. Township Trustee ERNEST LAMSON. County Superintendent.

t'ner e ollege professor, who more than justified his academic training, wrote purgerer' 'for ‘perjurer’ in his junior year. "We must face the fact that bad spellers may be good writers. In a certain- college course in English composition the man who was recognized as the ablest writer of the class was quite capable of writing Satin' for ‘Satan' and of spelling other; words to match. In the gram mar school his writing might have been marked zero; in college it was I y marked 'A.’ ” Long agq some university professor, said to be President Elliot produced a test sentence that would • rve as aK examination in spelling tor old Noah Webster himself: "It i- amusing to view the unparalleled arrassnaent of a harassed pedler or -;.ddler. sitting on a cemetery wall and viewing the symmetry of a j-cJcd potato, pomegranate or per..ou."—Boston. Glo’:."

Misused the Slogan.

‘ 1 'in the central west the eleci: !:t and power companies have i eon making a practice of inducing the thriving cities in which they operate to erect large electric signs in some prominent spot, usually near the railroad station, bearing some so-called "slogan" blazoning forth in many candle power lights a leading attribute of the town. At Springfield, Mo., the board of trade decided on “Springfield has it” as the slogan for that city and a large electric sign with these words outlined in brilliant lights was erected near the Frisco station. A few days after the sign was put in comu issicn workmen began erecting another large electric sign close to ■hat bearing the city slogan. A few days later the city fathers were astounded to see on this sign in lights even more eye startling than those of the municipal slogan the legend, The Springfield Liquor Co. Sells It.” There is now talk in Springfield of offering prizes for a new city slogan.—Wall Street Journal. Horse Has Wooden Leg. Farmer Fjred Harris, of Pownal, a few, miles from here, has never been in Winsted, Conn., nor has he ever been called a nature faker, but he says (and the correspondent bears him out) that he has a horse with a wooden leg. Thus: One of the horse’s legs became infected and a veterinary wanted to shoot the beast. “Neigh,” said Harris and the horse together. So the leg was cut off. Then the village carpenter was called in. and after some experimenting a wooden leg fitted with a thick pad was constructed, and the first thing the neighbors knew the old horse Was bad- on the farm job. Mr. Harris admits the horse has something of a ‘‘lumbering” gait, but thinks that is to be expected.— Adams iMa-s.V Cor, Xew York World. . . '

Things \\ e Are Beginning to JLearn i' rom the Great. European Conflict. World war has proved to be an enricher of vocabularies. Terms like "mobilization” and "mortarium” have become a part of everyday speech since the days of last July and August. The American public, long unfamiliar with such matters, can now distinguish with tolerable accuracy between a cuirassier and a Cossack; the uhlan and the dfagooiii; a submersible and . submergible. Along with a better and a tar more intimate knowledge of Euro ean geography has come a habit of making finer distinctions between technical terms. It is curious to note old words like dart, mortar and pilot taking on new meanings. Primitive man fought with darts. They disappeared- trom what we were pleased to term modern warfare and •they have returned as missiles designed to be dropped from skyeraft. Some of the early types of artillery were mortars, but the Germans have given the world a new meaning by their modifications of this gun and by putting it to new uses. We have always thought of the pilot as having to do with naval affairs, but the air pilot is one of the biggest factors in the present struggle. There- are certain new words, too, coming out of the struggle. Air base is one of these, ooagulen is another, and trinitrotolulene is perhaps the newest. Air base explains itself, while coagulen is a preparation which will instantly stop the flow of blood from a wound. Trinitrotolulene is a fulminate recently perfected. Taube, the descriptive name given the German monoplane, has come to us out of the war along with “territorial,” an English term for forces raised for home defense. We are gradually becoming familiar with the fact that when the war cables talk of petrol supplies this refers to plain old gasoline. We are mastering, too, the difference between a pacifist and a piou-piou, a Highlander and a huzzar. Xeutralitz, too, is an old word that has taken on some strange, new and somewhat twisted meanings since the uhlans galloped across the east Belgian frontier a few months ago.—St. Louis Republic.

Another new supply of Ideal Account files received in The Democrat’s stationery department. These are much cheaper and more convenient for keeping moderate-sized accounts than a cumbersome ledger.

CASTOR Ik For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears ___ -•Vnature of

To Be Held at the M. E. Church, Rensselaer, Friday Evening, June 25, 1915, at 8 o'clock. program Music. Invocation . - - . R ev . Curnick Music ■ * - - - Mrs. Gwin Wheat ' - > ' Paul Schleman 1-ranees Willard - - Mary Redgate Lirds That Help Is - - Lucile Knox Dinners of the Nations - Mary Bachman The Magician of Touch - Katherine Tobin Lafayette and His Visit to the U. S„ Paul Kohley My Mother’s Story - Esther M. Kruse Music - * - - - Quartette Glass Address - - .- Rev. Titus ; Mysic ' ' - - Mrs. Randle Presentation of Diplomas County Superintendent Music - - - * - Quartette Benediction - _ U Rev. Curnick ■ ■' i TEACHERS LURAL ANDERSON GERTRUDE JACKSON FERN TILTON GEORGIA LINTON LAURA BREKKER ACNE? HAULER ’ . ADDIE HARRIS FRED TYLER FLORA KAHLER HENRIETTA FAY' HARVEY WOOD, JP,„ Trustee. ERNEST LAMSON. County Superintendent.

WAR AND WORDS

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FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at & 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 SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loan-s without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUXLAP. ( flf inl With o ut Delay, | F |M Without Commission ll) IV Without Charges for {] miM taking or Recording fit |;<r I Instruments. rrJi.L I W. H. PARKINSON Five different grades of legal typewriter paper kept in stock in Tfcs Democrat’s stationery department. Also abstract and legal document backs, printed or blank. Don’t pay fancy prices for your typewriter paper when you can buy it here of as good or better quality for much less money. Our typewriter paper is put up in boxes of 500 sheets, bnt will be sold in smaller quantStles if desired. Call at The Democrat office and get one of the new style pencil holders with the perpetual calendar. A neat holder, nicely nickel plated and costs but IQ cents. We also have the new spun glass ink erasers at 25c, and different styles of pencil point protectors and rubber erasers, only 5c each, in our fancy stationery and office supply department. _ Procure your printed or engraved calling cards at The Democrat office.