Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Page 2

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ARBITRATION NECESSARY

If we could find some way to prevent by law radical action in tlfe way of strike or lockout until the government could all the facts and instruct public opinion, it would he worth while. We not only want to know what the men need, but what the roads are able to pay without impariring their service to the public. As between money that goes to favored stockholders by manipulation and money that is paid to employes in increased wages, I much prefer the latter, but there must be fair dividends. The welfare of the entire country demands that, for the railway investor is one of the chief contributors to that welfare. Without him we can have no further development of the country's chief industry, the industry upon which all our other industries depend. If ability to pay dividends is found to depend on authority to increase rates to meet the increasing cost of labor and supplies and taxes, ;m it is bound to b~, *1 en by all means let the roads into ease the rates To increase dividends to the vanishing point, thereby cutting off all new capital, means government ownership, and we ought not to approach government ownership in this country until government regulation has failed. It is now so far from being a failure that the United States has today the best system oi railroads in the world, with the best wages for employes and the best service to the public and by far the cheapest servfce in proportion to its quality. * * * To come-back to the present, 1 eee no way for the settlement of our labor disputes except by mediation, and if that fails, by arbitration, and we already have sufficient law for that purpose, if it is supplemented by some governmental device for getting the needed facts. I refer, of course, to voluntary arbitration. At the time the present mediation act was under discussion, preliminary to Its passage, there was some talk of providing compulsory arbitration. That talk has been revived in the course of the controversy now pending. But tb nited States ought

not to have campulsory arbitration, if it means, in its logical outcome, involuntary servitude. There w r ould be no point in compelling' the opponents to arbitrate, whether or no, unless you could compel them later, on to abide by the award of the arbitrators and, in the case of the men, make it obligatory for them to remain at work. On the other hand, if you admit the principle that they can all give up their jobs at once and combine to prevent others from taking their places, that, means that there is always the possibility of civil war. A strike of the dimensions of the one now threatened would be civil war. It is idle to ignore the fact that such a strike could not be won without force, and that the strikers would use force. And there would be nothing left for the public but to use force, too, in the shape of the military and every other agency at the disposal of the government to offset violence and keep the roads in operation. It seems barbarous and uncivilized, but civilization has not yet devised any other way. It will find a way eventually and there is no need for discouragement. Reason and persuasion go much further than they used to in these matters. When wo have learned how, they will go all the way in every contingency.— Son a tor Newlands in New York Times.

FOR STATE HIGHWAYS.

The Hoosier State Automobile association has made an early beginning to its statewide campaign in the interests of better roads. It has not, ol course, beets inactive in the past, but it proposes in the future, in view of next winter’s legislative ! session, to be more active than it | has been heretofore. It is in favor of of a state highway department and asks support from good roads advo- . cates throughout the state to the end that the campaign now begun J’’ iy be carried successfully to the doors of the legislature, j It may be unfortunate from one point of view that the organization I is known as an “automobile association.’’ minds of some, the ( idea still lingers that the movement is fostered mainly by automobile owners and for their especial benefit. Apd those who hold this conception |of the purpose and motive of the association are inclined to oppose it. Automobilists, however, are only supporting this movement. ThouI sanas of men—ana women, too—who never owned 1 a car are to lie found in every section of Indiana ready to lend their encouragement to the establishment of a more practical and less clumsy and less costly system of road improvement. “Our whole good roads plan,” says the association, “is ridiculous. Indiana has 4,500 road officials with 4,500 different ideas—no state organization, no head, no standards, no uniformity. We have scores of good roads officials, seriously handicapped for lack of system and standards. Every state in the Union has a good roads department with the exception of South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Indiana.” The association might have added that among the "4,500 road officials” there are some with no ideas at all, some

with ideas and no initiative, Wine more with ideas that are bad and still others with ideas mo small to meet the demands. It is a bad system. What it has cost the people of the state since the state outgrew it and what it is costing the people touay may be easily determined. Nearly every township in Indiana can produce testimony to its futility and wastefulness. Each year, $18,000,000 is expended on Hoosier roads. To a good many of us it would seem that at least half of this is wasted. Examples are numerous—take the roads from Indianapolis to Broad Ripple as a striking instance—where large sums have been spent annually for nearly half a century only to result, in the long run, in- roads that are a disgrace to the community that has patiently supported them. Against the campaign of the automobile association will be aligned many interests. Not the least of these will be the “4,500 road officials with the 4,500 different ideas.” The public, however, has a good champion in the association and it ought to lend it generous assistance.—lndianapolis News.

AUXILIARY TRANSPORTATION.

Should a railroad strike occur next Monday, the immediate effects on the business of the country would be deplorable, but perhaps not disastrous. The railroad managers have planned to operate, with the aid of skilled mechanics, emergency trains for the movement of milk and perishable food products. In the large centers of population the railroads would meet with the most stubborn labor opposition, and the movement of emergency trains would be made more difficult. But a stoppage of steam road transportation wrould be attended by less loss and suffering than would have been the case a few years ago. When the last attempt was made to tie up the railroads, the country was dependent upon the steam lines, and the demoralization of traffic caused a disturbance of all business. In the last few years the electric railway has become a competitor of the steam road. In the heaviest populated portion of the country—that I is, east of the Mississippi and north ( of the Ohio and Potomac rivers—- . there is in operation a vast network lof electric roads. It is possible to make a continuous journey by interurban from St. Louis to Buffalo. Practically ‘all the great cities in ! this territory are provided with in- | terurban systems, which radiate to , the nearby towns. Lines, such as i those operated through Indiana and , Illinois, while now utilized mostly for passenger traffic, could carry supplies of food into cities. The automobile truck, operated on ■a good road, should also be regarded as an important auxiliary. Overland transportation of freight is growing in volume. Trucks are built to carry ten to twenty tons. These are used by city firms to reach . nearby towns, and by dairymen and agriculturists to carry produce to commission houses. While the motor truck and interurban can not compete with or take the place of the steam road, they stand between the public and cessation of traffic. Their service would he a great aid in

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SAVE THE PRINCIPLE.

Having sweepingly condemned the best known method of settling' disputes that do not yield to mediation, the brotherhoods have, reverted to the old rule of force as f ilter for ( their purposes. Believing that they can thus secure immediately a large increase in wages, they decline to submit to a fair inquiry that: may or may not serve to justify the desired : increase. They explain their course ; merely by saying that disinterested arbitrators cannot be found to give them justice. * * * Thus is raised a issue vitally concerns the whole people, organized wage workers perhgps most of all. The trade unions through the years , have made their successful fights on the basis of reason and justice. Their right to organize, their right to receive redress of grievances, their right to dispose of their labor by collective bargaining—these rights j and others re!?t upon an underlying spirit of fairness. Now tne condem- | nation of the entire human race as containing no member fit to give a decision in a labor arbitration is a plain declaration by four trade unions occupying a specially strong strategic position that henceforth fairness must give way to force. Such a presages ruin. It is the duty of every intelligent person in this crisis to demand that the arbitration principle be upheld —Chicago News.

Walt Mason’s Rhymes.

The farmers raise so many crops the harvest season never stops. They’re always reaping oats or hay, or putting winter wheat away; alfalfa helps to pay their debts, and keeps the world in cigarettes, and they have corn and Johnson grass, and sorghum, rape and garden sass. So, be the weather dry or wet, some crop will be a good safe bet. The beans may shrivel in the heat, but there’ll be divers kinds of wheat; the oats may languish in the rain, but there’ll be lots of other grain. The cockleburs may pine away, but there’ll be stacks of luscious hay. The western farmers used to raise but little else than yellow maize, and if a crop they chanced to lose, in wintertime they ate their shoes. Crop failures meant a fa’mine then; the fields were full of hungry men. But now the corn may die the death, may wither in the hot wund’s breath, and still the farmers tool their cars, and. smoke the crimson band cigars, and take to town the shining bones, and buy a peck of precious stones.

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iri»i:iii,i;iinn* CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLE R V RENSSELAER TIME TABLE j NORTHBOUND No. 36 j Cincinnati to Chicago 4:41a.m. No. 4 ; Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 t Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 j Indianap s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 6 i Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 , Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:30 p.m. CHICAGO <£. WABASH VALLEY RY. Effective March 20, 1916. Southbound Northbound Arr. Read up Lv. Read down No 3 No.l No. 2 | No. 4 P.M. A.M. P.M. a&pm 5:20 7:05 McCoysburg 6:10 11:10 *5:13 *7:00 Randle *6:15 *11:17 *5:05 *6:54 Della *6:20 *11:25 4:55 6:48 Moody 6:27 11:35 *4:45 *6:41 Lewiston *6:34 *11:45 4:37. 6:38 Newland 6:40 11:53 4:2$ 6:29 | Gifford 6:46 12:01 *4:16 *6:20 Laura *6:55 *12:14 •4:01 *6:10 McGlinn *7:05 *12:39 3:56 6:06 Zadoc 7:08 12:24 *3:52 *6:03 Calloway *7:11 *12<38 3:40' 5;55 Kersey 7:20 12:50 •Stops on Signal. ’ 7 7 CONNECTIONS. No. I— Connects with C. I. &L. Train No. 40 northbound, leaving McCoysburg 7:18 a. m. . C. I & L. Train No. 5 will stop on signal at McCoysburg to let oft or take on passengers to or from C. & M . V. points. No. 3. —Connects with C. I. & L. Train No. 39 southbound and No. 30 northbound. I. & L. Train No. 30 wil stop on signal at McCoysburg for C. & W. V. passengers to Chicago or Hammond. All trains daily except Sunday,

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spltler Clerk.. Charles Morlan Treasurer....... .Charles M. Sands Attorney........ Moses Leopold Marshal Yern Robinson Civil Engineer.... \V. F. Osborne Fire Chief......J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden... .J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward.............. Ray Wood 2nd Ward.. Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner. F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk... ...S. S. Shedd Sheriff B. D. McColly Auditor... J. P. Hammond Treasurer........ Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor M. B. Price Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor. . .G. L. Thornton Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble .2nd Dlstrist D. S. Makeever 3rd District. Charles Welch ' Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett P0rter,......... Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole.. Hanging Grove John Kolhoff ......Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, Jr Marion George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrin Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfleld E. Lamson. Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer. C. B. Steward. Rensselaer

TRUSTEES* CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first' and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflee address—Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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