Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — Page 2

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STATE TICKET

For Governor JOHN A. M. ADAIR of Portland For Lieutenant-Governor MASON J. NIBLACK of Vincennes For United States Senator (Long term.) JOHN W. KERN of Indianapolis For United States Senator (Short term) THOMAS TAGGART of French Lick For Secretary of State HOMER L. COOK of Indianapolis For Auditor of State DALE J. CRITTENBERGER of Anderson For Treasurer of State GEORGE A. BITTLER of Fort Wayne For Attorney-General EVAN B. STOTSENBURG of New Albany For Supreme Court (Second district) DOUGLAS MORRIS of Rushville For Supreme Court (Third district) CHARLES E. COX of Indianapolis For Appellate Court (Northern division) JAMES J. MORAN of Portland For Reporter of Supreme Court PHILLIP ZOERCHEk of Tell City For Judge Appellate Court (First district) JOHN C. McNUTT of Martinsville

For State Superintendent of * Public Instruction ’ SAMUEL L. SCOTT ■ of New Albany ’ < For State Statistician " S. W. KANN • ■ of Ligonier ’ For Delegates-at-Large ’ BENJAMIN F. BOSSE ’ of Evansville * W, H. O’BRIEN ’ of Lawrenceburg " JOHN AV. KERN < of Indianapolis ’ STEPHEN B. FLEMING " of Fort Wayne ’ < For Alternate Delegates-at-Large " ALVIN PADGETT of Washington 1 GEORGE AV. BRILL of Danville 1 JUDGE ALONSO BLAIR of Shelbyville 1 \ A. A. GAST / of Warsaw Presidential Electots-at-Large EVANS AVOOLLEN of Indianapolis MEREDITH NICHOLSON' of Indianapolis . Contingent Elect ors-at-Large S. M. FOSTER of Fort Wavne LEW O BANNON of Corydon DISTRICT TICKET For Representative in Congress Tenth District GEORGE E. HERSHMAN , of Crown Point For Joint-Representative Jasper, Benton and Newton Counties CARL LAMB of Benton county For Prosecuting Attorney, 3sth Judicial Circuit C. ARTHUR TUTEUR of Rensselaer * » ♦ » * * * * * *

JUNE DAYS.

By Walt Mason.

“p, what is so smooth as a day in June? Then, if ever, are flossy days!” So the poet sang, with his lyre, in tune, and the subject deserved his praise. For a day in June is the slickest thing that ever the gods designed, and the man who doesn't then smile and sing has barnacles on his mind. Then the coltkins play and the calfkins romp, and gamboling are the lambs, and the bullfrogs toot in the lonely swamp, all happy as pickled clams. Then the grass is green and the skies are blue, as blue as the laws allow, and the blossoms gleam in the morning dew like gems on a damsel’s brow. Man’s bosom throws with abounding life, he ceases to fear and fret, and he remarks to his smiling wife, “This world is the onelbest bet.” It is the time of the blushing bride, the time of the graduate; and man, he tosses his grouch aside, and sees that his smile’s on straight.

Seize Massacre Participants.

Additional messages from Chihuahua City, also confirming reports of the capture of Villa, related that a number of bandits who participated in the Santa Ysabel massacre had been captured and were being conveyed to Chihuahua City for execution.

British Submarine Aground.

London, Jan. 21.—The admiralty announced that a British submarine had gone aground on the Dutch The crew has been saved.

PINCHOT ASKED TO DEFINE HIS POSITION

Answers Demanded to List of Pertinent Questions. Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester and for several years accepted authority on conservation questions, has been challenged by the AVater Power Development Association to define his position as to water power legislation and to explain to the country why he is opposed to pending legislation to encourage the development and use of water powers. In an ojien letter addressed to the Pennsylvania Bull Mooser, signed by Harry W. Hand, chairman of its executive committee, the Development association, an organization of manufacturers of water wheels and hydraulic and electrical equipment and supplies, challenges Mr. Pinchot to be specific in his charges that certain bills in congress are in the interests of water power monopolies and to produce proof that there is, as he has alleged. a powerful lobby at work in Washington to pass these bills. The letter is as follows: “You have charged President Wilson and a majority of the members of the United States senate with having failed to defend public rights in permitting the passage of the Shields bill authorizing water power development on navigable streams. “This association holds no brief for any particular bill and is anxious only for legislation that will stimulate new industries and national prosperity through development and use of water powers now flowing to waste. We believe the Shields bill to be such a measure. We believe that it offers terms to capital which will encourage investment in water power development. We believe that the indorsement of this bill by former Secretary of War Garrison and by the senate committee and the fact that among the senators who voted for its passage after four weeks of exhaustive debate were representatives of the Democratic, Republican and Progressive parties, while only twenty-two votes could be mustered aghinst it, is evidence that the bill gives full consideration and protection to all public rights and interests. “You have written and talked much about a water power trust. Do not ail students of economic conditions agree that the power business is a natural monopoly and that there cannot be economic competition in the distribution of electric current in any given locality?

“You have complained that the Shields bill proposes to give away water powers without compensation. This, of course, ignores the big fa< t that a large part of the expenditures in construction of any dam and power plant must go for improving navigation and that this public benefit is to be rendered without cost to the government. AVithout raising this argument., however, why do you want a charge made by the government for use of water power?

“Me want to see the water powers of the United States developed and used. Do you? “Is it not a fact that under the kind of restriction and high rentals in the present laws, approved by you, development has come practically to a standstill and no large powers have been or are being developed in the national forests and the public domain? “Is it not true that under the present gneral dam laws, which do not offer terms attractive to capital, only eight dams and wateif power plants, with a total development of less than 140,000 horsepower, have been built on navigable streams in the last ten years? “Is it not a fact that in this same period water powers in Europe have had the greatest era of development known to history? “Do you not know that under the restrictive policies of the United States for ten years past not a single electrochemical plant using water power has been built in this country, while in the same years Europe has developed more than a million horsepower of hydroelectricity devoted to fixation of atmospheric nitrogen alone? “Are you aware that restrictive laws and water power failures in this country have so discouraged investment that some of our largest power enterprises of recent years have had to be financed abroad? “Is it not true that excepting in the cases of a few’ of our largest and most attractive powers, the margin of competition is very close between water power and cheapened cost and Increased efficiency of steam plants? “Do you not know that very cheap power Is essential to the establishment of the electrochemical,, electrometallurgical and other new’ processes and Industries necessary in this country to enable us to keep abreast of the industrial and agricultural progress of other countries? “Is It not true that every kilowatt of Electricity produced by water power is the approximate equivalent of two pounds of coal saved for future consumption? “Are you not aware that every dollar, every cent added to the cost of water power development adds to the cost of supplying power to the consumer, decreases the possibilities of production 1 of power cheap enough upon which to build great new industries, lessens (jibe margin of economy between generating power by water and by steam and diminishes the number of water powers that can be economically and profitably developed. In like manner and extent diminishing

the hope of conserving the fuel supply? “If you are aware of these facts why sboqld you want to hamper and retard water power development by, adding rentals, taxes .or any other items unnecessarily to its cost? “You and your friends have told the country that a great and powerful lobby is at work in Washington to influence water power legislation, with the implication that this influence is improper. Will you, for our information and that of the public, identify this lobby, say who composes it, what interests they represent aqd show any improper or vicious efforts on its part to influence legislation?

“You have declared that in taking over power plants that might be built under the provisions of the Shields bill the government would be required to pay for an unearned increment in lands taken by power of condemnation granted under the act. As a matter of fact and of law, are you not mistaken in this declaration?

“You charge that the bill does not protect public rights, because at the end of fifty years, in buying the plants, the government would be compelled to take over transmission and distributing systems dependent upon the water powers for their value. Would you have the government discourage investment in such utilities by proposing to destroy the value of these properties at the end of fifty years? If the government did buy the generating plant and not the distributing system, what would you propose it might do with the power? You may say that the whole cost of the plant should be amortized and the property turned over to the government free of cost at the end of the i>eriod. If so, do you not know that the amortization cost would have to be added to power prices and would operate to discourage water power development in the same manner and for the same reasons as would be the imposition of any other form of rental or taxation adding unnecessarily to the cost of power? Also, why should the present and the next generations be asked, during the pioneer stage of the enterprise, to build and pay for a plant in order that future generations might be given the property free of cost and so allowed to enjoy cheaper power?

“We consider use to be the highest form of conservation of water power. The senate seems to agree with this belief. Are you of the same opinion? If not, why not? If so, do you not agree that legislation which will encourage and stimulate maximum development and use is the most desiralde form of water power legislation? "You seem to see an impropriety in the fact that hydraulic engineers and water power men—men w ho know the w a ter power business—have been consulted by congress about this legislation. Whom would you consult to obtain the facts? If you were going to build a house, would you employ an architect or a poet to draw the plans? “Since the sole aim and purpose of this association is to give the widest publicity possible to all the facts concerning water powers, in the hope that such publicity will bring about enlightened public sentiment in favor of legislation that will result in their development and use. we are giving this letter to the press and invite you to do the same with your reply to these questions.”

NEW LAWS NEEDED TO GIVE JOBS TO JOBLESS MEN.

It is estimated that fully 30,000 engineers are more or less affected by the stagnation which for three years has existed in water power development. Up to three years ago plants under construction, begtln before the operation of the new laws had put a stop to planning new enterprises, gave work to these engineers and to hundreds of thousands of skilled and unskilled workmtn. Today engineers of long experience are haunting the offices of power companies and contractors begging for jobs. One capable engineer recently announced that he had written 1,300 letters asking for employment without receiving an offer. Pages "of advertisements of "Positions Wanted” appear regularly in engineering papers, while there are practically no “Help Wanted” advertisements. One manufacturing plant in Philadelphia with $2,000,000 invested in buildings and machinery for the building of water wheels was shut down for ten months last year and this year has had only one order for one small wheel.

Power a National Need.

The public needs both steam power and water power. It is to the interest of the whole country that our water power should be developed as rapidly and as efficiently as possible. This development can be carried on only in one of two ways—either by government ownership and operation or by the employment of capital worked under the incentive of private property. Nobody but a visionary that the government should build and operate water power plants. Some system must, therefore, be devised for the development of water powers as a natural resource by private genius and private capital.—Outlook.

True Meaning of Conservation.

I believe that conservation in its broadest term means not the mere saving of a resource against the possible future need, but making of the conserved resource as widely useful to the greatest possible number in the shortest time consistent with the elimination of waste.—Professor Thomas H. Norton, Ph. D., Sc. D., Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, in Scientific American.

The Menace.

As careful as I am, I can i Not guard myself against)the fool; The wild and wholly reckless man, Indifferent to every rule. I may proceed with utmost care And watch for jolts and sudden bumps But I’m in danger everywhere So long as 'cars are run by chumps. There is no law to guarantee The safety of a man or child So long as fools are running free And motoring like demons wild. Though thousands dKjv> their autos well They’re menaced by the reckless few. For no man living here can tell Just what the fool is apt to do. I write it from experience ’Tis not myself I have to fear; It is the lack of common sense That marks a lot of drivers here The strictest rules I may obey To guard against all accident, Yet I’m in danger every day, The fool I cannot circumvent. -—Detroit Free Press

Rousch to Play With Giants.

Eddie Rousch, star last year in the outfield for the Newark Federals, will play right field for the Giants the coming season. Rousch developed in Indianapolis and was one of the first players selected when Harry Sinclair Invaded Newark. Rousch’s batting average was .298 in 145 games last season.

Tommy Leach to Manage.

Tommy Leach, a former National league ball player, has signed a contract to manage the Rochester team of the International league, according to a statement made by President Chapin.

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Notice of the Filing and Docketing of Ditch Petition.

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss. In the Commissioners’ Court to July Term, 1916. PETITION OF WILLIAM FOLGER ET AL, FOR A PUBLIC DRAIN. To Greenberry B. Lewis, Arthur R. Kresler, Minnie Grace Kresler, Rebecca F. Potts, Bruce Baker, O. Glenn Baker, Pearl Baker, Caroline Baker, Ruby Baker, Myrtle Baker, Nora Kiinberlin, Williard C. Baker, Carrie Baker, guardian of Vera and Mildred Baker, John Pi. Lewis, Isaac N. Lewis, Samuel R. Kershner, Martha M. Randle, Charles T. Randle, James Schaeffer, John F. Payne, William Folger, Joseph Wesley Pa-ice, Hugh O. Callender, Elizabeth J. Callender, Harvey Pierson, and Barkley Civil Township by Grant Davisson, Trustee, William Snedeker, Nelson Randle, guardian of George A. Baker:

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the sth day of June A. D., 1916, William Folger and others filed in the office of the county auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, their petition in duplicate and a bonds for costs, which said petition asks for the construction of a tile ditch for the purpose of draining the lands of the petitioners and lands which are shown by the transfer- books in the auditor’s office of Jasper county, Indiana, to belong to you and which lands likely to be affected by said proposed improvement are described in Said petition. Commencing at the outlet of the main line of the Mary M. Potts ditch and extending said main line a distance of about three hundred (300) feet where it will have a good and sufficient outlet in an already existing open ditch, and by the cleaning and repair of the lateral <o the main line of the Mary M. Potts ditch, by taking up, cleaning, repairing and relaying the tile in said lateral from the source of said lateral as originally constructed to a point in the line of said lateral about ten (10) feet west of the east line of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-six (26), township thirty (30) north, range six (6) west in Jasper county, Indiana, and from this last described point by taking up the old tile and replacing them with 16-inch tile to the outlet ,of said lateral in the line of the main ditch which is at a point about forty-five (45) rods north and two hundred fifty (250) feet east of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35), township thirty (30) north, of range six (6) west, in said county and state, but not connecting with said main line, and from this point continuing with 16-inch tile in a general northeasterly direction parallel with said main line of ditch to a point about three hundred (300) feet beyond the present outlet of the main ditch where said drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in an already existing open ditch. And by the construction of a 12-inch tile lateral to the lateral of the said Mary M. Potts ditch having its outlet in the lateral above described where the size of the tile is increased to 16-inch, and running from thence in a general southerly direction through the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26, crossing an east and west highway, thence south into the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 35, all in township 30 north of range 6 west to where it will intercept two lines of tile ditch running east and west across the last described forty acres and by connecting said 12-inch tile with said two lines of tile running east and west as aforesaid. You and each of you are further notified that the petitioners have endorsed on their petition as the da£ for the docketing thereof the 3d day of July, 1916. WILLIAM FOLGER, Et Al., Petitioners. John A. Dunlap, Attorney for Petitioners. j-7-14

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