Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — Page 6

WAR HITS NEWSPAPERS

Every Item in Publisher's List Up Prom Ten to Fifty Per Cent. One could hardly be blamed for jumping at (conclusions and Saying, “Some distracted housewife has lost > her shopping list,” upon finding ol4« the sidewalk a scrap of paper on ■which was scribbled ‘ blankets, felt, glycerine, rubber blanket, paper and ink, muslin,” Nevertheless, the finder might be altogether wrong—perhaps the shopping list belonged to the boss buyer for the mechanical department of a newspaper. Most newspaper readers may wonder what blankets, muslin, felt, rubber sheets and other items that are handy; things to have about the house have to do with the mechanical end of a newspaper, but just at this time the buyer who dropped bis shopping list has more serious things tn wonder about. As the cost of the articles listed and other items too numerous to mention continues to climb day ,by day he is devoting what little time he has for subjective exercises to wondering when the boosting of newspaper expenses is going to stop. Ever since the momentous August of 1915 —especially during the past six months —the skyrocketing of the prices of necessities around a newspaper plant has gone on with a beauty of consistency which arouses absolutely no enthusiasm among publishers throughout the country who have to foot the bills. Products essential to the publication of news* papers have jumped in price all the W'ay from 10 to 15 to 3,000 and more per cent. War,' directly or indirectly, is given as the reason for the enormous increase in the publisher’s bills. And, as war seems likely to continue for some time, so, too, the market skyrocketing promises to go to heights even beyond the “present astounding prices. Nowadays it. is next to impossible to obtain market quotations for even so short a time ahead as “next week.’’ It should be remembered also that concrete instances of the high cost of publishing given here are (he lowest prices obtainable, because the publisher buys in large bulk. lie, cannot cut in quantity—in fact, war.

A Personal Letter on the Question of Seed Corn By J. W. Ratekin TO MV FRIENDS, THE FARMERS: And when' I say "My Friends” 1 mean just that. I know there are a lot of seed men who tell you hou .much they think of you and • out t.imih and the children (whom they have never seen) on the one hand, while they are trying to'take ybur money away from you for low grade Seed Corn, on the other hand, and trying to make von feel good while they do it. I tan t hand you any of that b ink, because, for one thing, it isn't in my line, and lor another, | wouldn't insult your intelligence enough to 11 >to make you believe it — Hut 1 a n t»dl you some plain facts about, the Seed ( orn situation this year that will mean money in vour pQckets and that means more to your family titan a lot of hot air. Nor am 1 going to te.il you that I'm selling Seed Corn solely for your benefit. I hat S another.thing 1 believe you tire too intelligent to swallow HI T growing Shed Corn lias been my life's work -it's what I \e done all my life and what 1 expect to do for the res>t of my life. Our business lias grown steadily so • thirty-two years and there's a reason why. There always is. \\ e grow our own Seed Corn—— wp know what it is and the conditions under which it was raised, and there's one thing it’s a prettv good idea to keep in mind—GOOD SEED CORN IS SCARCE this year, and there are a lot of people -knowing that—who tiro figuring on a neat little profit by offering scoop shovel and elevator corn for seed, and much of it is 1014 corn too at a price way below what good Seed torn can possibly be furnished at. They don't care what results you get from it NEXT FALL as long as they get your money for it THIS Spring. They’ll be doing somebody else next year. We've been h re for thirty-two years and expect to be here as many more —we've got the goods and we’re here to face the music and back them up. We don't try to sell you cheap, low grade corn unfit for seed at a cheap price, but we do sell you the very highest grade of Seed Corn at a fair price. If you try to save 50c per bushf»l b> buying cheap, low grade See l Corn, and get 20 bushels less per acre > ield. I don t have to figure out for you how much you lose. -And one thing more—Von hoar a lot this year from men who have gotten themselves into the newspapers telling you that corn grown in Southwestern lowa will not mature in the Northern Counties of lowa. Illinois and Southern Minnesota, Wi .cousin and Michigan, hut once more farts are facts, and our Diamond Jo -' s Early White. Mammoth Early lowa A ellow Dent, and many other of pur varities have lieen maturing in eteij county in lowa, Southern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan tor U.» years, hut you do not hear these men trying to explain that. Aon can explain a whole lot on theory, and it sounds good, hut when you have got the actual facts to hack you up, theory goes into the discard. . .. .And FACTS ARE FACTS and RE KELTS are the things that talk, flood seeds are hound to make satisfied customers. And Just rememberone thing—if you have got to have an operation, you don't go to the plumber, do you? You go to the best specialist in that line you can find. Why 1 ? Because it pays vOu. It's the same proposition with Seed Corn. Go to the man who makes Seed Corn growing a specialty, who knows what he is giving you for Seed t orn, and who will back it up in every way—let you test it, try it, anil if not. satisfied, return it and get your money back. You take no chances. Special Prices if you order from this advertisement before May Ist, -~ —— —:— tn ; Diamond Joe's Early White. $.3.00 Early lowa A'ellow Dent 3.00 Early lowa Silver Mine . . 2.50 Pride of Nlshna A'ellow Dent 2*50 l’eid’s A'ellow Rent. ........................... 2.50 lowa Gold Mine. 2.50 Silver King 3.00 Bride of North •. ’ Dakota Bloody Butcher 3.00 Sacks free, f. o. b. Shenandoah, lowa. Cut out this list and prices and enclose with your order and remittance, and same will go forward on first freight out of Shenandoah, subject to your approval upon arrival. ~ Write today! Address me personally. J. W. Ratekin • President Ratekins’ Seed House, - Shenandoah, lowa

imiinimmtiiniitimnitini Was 50'V of Your 1915 Corn Fit for Seed? Mr. Shenk Says: “Where I used Swift’s Fertilizer 50% of my corn made good seed while there was no seed corn in my unfertilized field. Swift’s Fertilizer increased my average yield 21 bushels per acre. My fertilized corn was mature and marketable, while very little of my unfertilized corn ripened.” You can profit by following Mr. Shenk’s example. Use Swift’s Fertilizer Over 300 % Profit on Fertilizer Investment ] Geo. W. De Hart, Acton, Ind., writes: SWIFTS “I used your fertilizer last spring on some for the best 10 ear 9of White Com grown in FERTILIZERS Johnson County White Corn. This corn made a Marion County in 1915. B* yield ° f 1° “ acre 10 ears exhibited pa^m^e/ than £yotW at the Southport Farmers Institute and Corn fertilizer I ever used. It made me 20 bushels Show on Feb. 2nd, 1916 won First Premium more per acre than where no fertilizer was used.” liTPAYsiousnHi\ You Can Add to Your Profits by Using Swift’s Fertilizer 1 Order Swift’s Fertilizer from your local dealer today. If unable to obtain it, write The Red steer on the us for prices, terms and literature. We want live agents in unoccupied territory. bag is your guarantee of r highest possible quality SWjft & COITIDanV F “ / U.S.Yards owm Of X-UllipcUiy Chicago, 111. K ““' s iimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiunniiiiiiininniiiiiinimmiiniinfiiiisuwnniiiiiHmmiiiiHfiiiimin

and rumors of more war mean the printing of papers far in excess of the output, of normal times, which is one, merely one, item of war time inerease in ex p enses that the thought-

less and uninformed overlook when ottering the fallacy so often heard, “the newspapers want war.” Arid the publisher does not cut in quality of material. Before the war, to begin with, the important item of tons upon tons of metal used by the stereotyping and linotyping deportments in a great metropolitan daily newspaper plant, the metal, which is a composition of lead, tin and antimony, costs BVi cents a pound. A week ago today it cost 1244 cents during the forenoon. In rhe afternoon the cost was I,'! cents. A few days later last week it was boosted to 11! 2-1 cents a pound. And so the kiting goes* on, tin' increase in cost alone amonnt-ii-.fr'.l6 t housands of dollars a year. ’l’lie various editions of newspai pern eonnot, to use a shop expression, be “put to bed” without blankets, any .more t han humans: can. And I the newspaper presses must have | the blankets in summer as well as winter—rubber blankets that are , wrapped around the press rollers j first, felt blanket;' and clean muslin | bandaging covering rubber and felt, ! this padding being necessary directly under the fast moving paper if clear-cut printing is to obtain. Also quantities of the ordinary aranyj j blankets must be bought and cut into given sizes tor the stereotypers' j use. The increase in the' cost of musi lin, which the newspapers buy by the pound, has been comparatively slight i —only about half a cent a pound . more since the ante-bellum days of [1914. The rubber and heavy felt I blanketing, however, has been juinp,ed ,at least 15 per cent. The cost of | the army blankets has gone up 20 | per cent, the quality of the army blankets at the same time going . down. j | Press rollers, which are made! j largely Of glue, glycerine and moj lasses, have gone up, so manufacturers notified the consumers last j week, 1 8 per cent. Glycerine—and | the quality used in newspaper plants jis not. the pure white glycerine one buys in drug stores, but a quality less refined-hag taken one * flying leap from an ante-bellum price of 19 cents a pound to 54 cents. Only last week also Hie paper such as is used in the rotogravure section of the Sunday Sun, which then was S cents higher than it was a year or so ago, jumped to a 10 percent in- ! crease. No pulp is coming into the manufacturers. Mills that, not' so long ago were selling by (lie tons are now filling orders for pounds. Rags, which are being bought up by the powder manufacturers eagerly and ape needed also-by paper manufacturers in a cleaned arid more or less sterilized form, are a necessity in the mechanical departments of newspapers. The price of rags has j jumped just 10 per cent, or from three cents a pound to six cents. Wrkijig paper is an ’mportant item in a publisher’s paper bill, and it is worth noting that this item has gone up 25 per cent..

But it is when the consumer of anything having to do with dyes or any\other department of the chemical section of printing and photo-! graphic reproduction goes out with his shopping list that his hair turns ■ gray. Met.ol, which the art department of a paper cannot get along without, cost $4 a pound before the war. Now it costs SSO a ‘pound. Increases of 1,000 or 3,000 per cent and more looms up all over the chemical section of the printing plant. As an ink manufacturer explained a day or two ago, the acids and dyes and everything else used in the colored inks especially have exploded from 300 to 3,000 per cent in a jiift\ once the imports from Germany had been blocked. Blues that cost r.s cents before the war now cost sl4 and sls a pound, with increases in yellows also all the way up, to 3,000 per cent. And, what is mqre of moment, the manufacturers of inks fear that prospects of filling demands in the/.future look doubtful. ; Inks for Sunday lithograph sections have more than doubled in price, with an increase on every quotation for intaglio section inks going on steadily. Even the common black inks are affected, because the rubber manufacturers are corralling as much of the carbon as they can and using it in place of zinc and lead, a detail which will account for the preponderence of rubber goods having a black cast, which shoppers soon will find on the market in place of the white oast rubber they've been accustomed to see in the shops. Type founders have increased prices 20 per cent, and no let-up in the, boosting is in sight. Gum arabic, necessary in the making of matrices. iin printing plants, has jumped 100 | per cent. And wrapping paper, used in the circulation departments by the tons, cost twice as much as it did before the war, with wrapping rope of sisa 1 from Yucatan and jute wrapping ropes and twines from Calcutta now selling at an increase almost as great.—New York Sun.

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DON'T Ti?IBS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with sc. to Foley & Go., Chicago, 111., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive, in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for bronchial coughs, colds, ' and croup; Foley Kidney, Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold everywhere.—Advt.. An armload of old papers for five cents at. The Democrat office.

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At vis Sowers, Ade, Ind., endured terrible pains in his back and through his kidneys for eight years before he dually used Foley Kidney Pills. 110 says: “I would bloat up at times so that f could hardly wear iny-clothes. Secretions were scant and very red. Foley Kidney Pills were recommended to me, and tho first box removed the pain and after taking only three boxes the bloating was all gone arid nas never bothered me since.”•lust about everybody who has used Foley Kidney Pills is anxious to recommend them. From every state in the t'nion come letters praising Foley Kidney Pills, because they so trine up and strengthen the kidneys that by their vigorous, healthy action the ill results of sore, Weak, ailing kidneys and irregular biadder ac- ! r: ale lost in a return ci health and vi » Swollen; aching joints an t li omatic pains quickly yield to their heating, curative qualities. Sold everywhere.

Notice of Filing ami Docketing of Drainage Petition State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper )ss: In the Commissioners' Court, to May term, 1916. In the matter of the Petition of Marion E. Bice et al for Drainage Improvement. To Emma Brown, Charles H. Wingard, Jacob A. Hensler, Chris Hensler, Charles Robinson, Laura M. Robinson, Leonard Bice, Hazel Blake, Barnard Blake, Charity L. Bice, Margaret Talbert, Elizabeth J. Payne, Daniel Gudeman, Joseph Shide, Chase Burns, Riley Tullig, Jacob W. Dewey, Willis Samuel, Peter Nomenson, John Zimmer, Frank Nissius, John Lochrke, Rose Roy, Mary Zimmer, Henry Shide, •John F. Zimmer, Emil Besser, Frank G. Kresler, Jacob Kirkpatrick, William Thom, Charles N. Chilcote heirs, Sophia Chilcote, Jennie Gish, Law-

We Sell BUTLER AND STAR WINDMILLS In Either Wood or Steel Frames. We repair and build over all broken down J •; , . . . ‘ ' •. ■ ' c --” : Windmills. * • • , WATSON PLUMBING GO. Rensselaer, Indiana

rence M. Ritchey, Charles Gish, John Eger. T. I). Conoghan, the Civil Township of Jordan, by John Kolhoff, Trustee; the Civil Township of Carpenter, by Burdette Porter, Trustee; the Civil Township of Mil toy, by George Foulks, Trustee; the Civil Township of Marion, by Harvey \V. Wood, Jr., Trustee; You and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners in the above entitled cause have filed their petition in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, praying for the location and construction of a public drainage improvement upon and along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the Garrison ditch about 20 rods South of the Northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 31, township 28 north, range 6 west, in Jasper County, Indiana, and thence running northerly, along and near the range line road to a point near the northwest corner of said section 21 : thence running northeasterly, following the line of an old drain across sections 30, 29, 21 and 22, in said township and range to a point about 40 rods west of the northeast corner_of the northwest quarter of said section 22, where said proposed drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in the Garrison Ditch. You are further notified that you are named in said petition as being the owner of lands and easements which will be affected by the location and construction of the proposed improvement, and your lands are described therein. You are further notified that said petition is now pending, and will come up for hearing and docketing in the Commissioners’ Court of Jasper County, Indiana, on Monday, May 1, 1916. the same being the first day of the May term, 1916, of said Court. MARION E. BICE, Et Al. Petitioners. Attest: JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor of Jasper County, Ind. al-8