Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — Page 2

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FOR WILSON ©A B MARSHALL ®V?* JU iff//*"* 'M& TOR ‘'Sa( ;-Jg' PEACE p*S» <F®» JE® Mi ana M|WB PROSPECT

Raymond Robins, who was chairman of the recent Progressive! national convention in Chicago, has declined the challenge of Mrs. Antoinette Funk to meet her in public debate on the reasons why Progressive voters should be asked to vote for Charles E. Hughes when President Wilson is in the field.

NO HARD TIMES HERE.

The Big Four railway has placed orders with the American Car company for 1,000 new cars of various classifications, all to be' used in the freight service. The cars have all been contracted for immediate delivery and most of them will be built, at the Madison and St. Charles plants of the car company. Five new monster passenger engines of the Pacific type have been ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive works of Philadelphia, and are to be constructed at once. The order necessitates an outlay of nearly $3,000,000.

WHAT DOES MAINE SIGNIFY?

While the Republicans are going about the country and proclaiming a "sweeping victory” in Maine, they are also trying to hide some of the significant facts disclosted by the official tabulation .of returns. Sills, unsuccessful Democratic

candidate for senator in Maine, polled 10,200 more votes than did Wilson in 1912, while Fernaid, Republican candidate for senator, polled 4,000 fewer votes than the combined Roosevelt' and Taft vote the same year. While Hale, Republican candidate for senator, received 5,000 votes less. If the change indicated by the Maine vote prevails all over the country, the Democrats will gain largely, and the ‘re-united’ Republican party will lose heavily. The same proportionate alteration in New York would swing the Empire state to Wilson by 250,04)0 votes. In the whole country such a change would give Wilson the Presidency bv 750,000 majority of the popular ▼ote.

THE SUBMARINE ISSUE

The state department yesterday decided that armed submarines were warships, and were entitled, as other warships are, to enter American harbors. It is, so it is held, the duty of this government not to exclude them, but to see that they make no unneutral use of our harbors. The decision is fair to all the powers, since they all have submarines which might find it necessary at some time to claim American hospitality, under the restrictions imposed by law It is believed further that the ruling is in accordance with the law.' These

boats have been denounced as ■outlaws, and as such not entitled to the privileges accorded to legal vessels. But -whether they are outlaws or not depends on the use made of them. A battleship might make itself an outlaw by violating the rules of civilized warfare. If' submarines, as such, are outlaws, there is not a first-class power in the world that does not carry these outlaws on its naval list. The entente allies would think it very hard if we. should exclude one of their submarines, seeking entrance, from an American port. The case, as was suggested yesterday, is by no means free from difficulty. But this government has, from the beginning of the war, taken the position that international law could not be changed, while hostilities continued, to meet new conditions. Germany demanded that this be done, holding that, because of the frailness of the submarine, it was not always possible for it to warn a ship about to be attacked, or to make provision for the safety of those on board. The refusal of this government was peremptory—and it was based on sound reasoning. The state department said that the fact that the submarine was a new instrument of war, not in existance at the time the legal rules were framed, was no reason for modifying the law in its favor, and no justification for its disregarding the rules which, it was said, it could not obey. Our contention was that if the submarine could not do its work under the rules it could not do it at all. The la ( w stood. It was not changed one iota in the direction of increasing the efficiency or enlarging the immunities of the undersea boats. The new demand is that we change the law so as to abridge the immunity of those boats. Again the

answer is » refusal. Having for two years treated them as warships, subject to all the limitations imposed on such vessels, it certainly would be most unfair now to say that they are not warships, and pot entitled to the privileges of warships. Having insisted that they meet the obligations imposed on them by what we. said to be their status, we can hardly deprive them, as a class, of the privileges flowing from that status. If it be said that they are a new and “different” sort of warship, that was precisely the argument advanced by Germany, and which we refused to consider. They are different, of course. It is much easier for them than for an ordinary vessel to get into a harbor and to get out of it. But the question is still the same, that is whether we shall change the law to meet new conditions. The important thing is that the new rules regulating submarine warfare should be agreed to by all nations after the war is over. If we should decide that submarines are not warships and not entitled as warships to enter our harbors, Germany might say that if they are not warships for this purpose They are not for any purpose, and so not bound by the law that governs such vessels. The policy adopted by the state department is consistent. It is well that it should be adhered to. —lndianapolis News.

MR. GOODRICH’S CONNECTION WITH CORPORATIONS

Following is a partial list of the corporations organized by James P. Goodrich and a partial list of the public utilities with which he was or is connected. Mr. Goodrich made the statement when he became a candidate for governor that he. was disposing of his holdings in all of these corporations, but the last reports to the secretary of state do not show that he has done so. If he did dispose of hip holdings in these corporations, the people of Randolph county are anxious to know why the money received for his holdings was not turned in on the tax schedule which he made out about March 1. He made out a tax schedule and swore that he was worth SBIO in personal property. It is’reported that Mr. Goodrich is worth at least $1,000,000.

In a number of his speeches he has stated that one-half of the personal property in Indiana is hidden and not returned for taxation. It would seem that Mr. Goodrich is quite well qualified to speak on this subject. If the records in the Randolph county assessor’s office can be relied upon and the statements concerning Mr. Goodrich’s wealth are true, then possibly ho knows more about hidden taxes than any other man in the state and for that reason ought to be permitted to explain to he people, if he will, what he knows about hidden property. The Democratic newspapers of the state should publish his connections with the public utilities and corporations of Indiana that it might give Mr. Goodrich something else to talk about and a chance to explain what kind of a state tax board he would appoint, which on appeal would appraise these corporalions of his, and also what kind of a public utilities commission he would which would fix rates of the public utilities with which he has been or is connected. Of course wg all know that Mr. Goodrich would not take advantage of his position as governor in making these appointments because, “He is an honorable man, so are they a]l. All honorable men”; Citizens’ Light, Heat & Power Co. Operates plants at Portland, Winchester, Lynn. Saratoga and Farmland.

Directors'—J. T. Moorman, president; F. L. Ward, vice president: E. S. Goodrich, secretary and treasurer; W. W. Goodrich, E F Kitselman, W. E. Miller. Washington Water. Light & Power . Company Washington, Indiana. Directors—- • Tames P. Goodrich, president: Henry C. Starr, Carl R. Semans, Jesse TMoormarjj Edwin H. Cate. Jeffersonville Water, Light & Power Company Jeffersonville. Directors— James P. Goodrich, president; J. T Moorman, Henry C. Starr, R. W. Strauss John F. Starr. I nion Heat. Light A Power Company Union City and Winchester. Directors—George W. Patchell, E. F. Kitselman, P. R. Goodrich. John W. Smith, Jas. P. Goodrich, J w r MtCormick, J. B. Goodrich. Leavell Realty Company Winchester. Capital, $50,000 common. Officers—J. T. Moorman, president; J. D. Miller, secretary: T. J. Leavell, treasurer.’ Hinshaw-Leavell Land Company Winchester. Capital, $15,000 common, $17,000 preferred. Officers and directors—Thomas J. Leavell. Emma F. Leavell, Jacob E. Hinshaw, Blanche .Hinshaw. Woodbury Glass Company Winchester. Capital,. $200,000 common, $75,000 preferred. Officers and directors—George E. Leggett, George H. Clark, L. M Kimmel, J. C. Leggett, M. L. Somers, V. H. Huston. Semans Edible Oils Company Indianapolis. Capital $25,000. ‘ Directors—Carl R. Semans, John

W. Macy, James E. White. ' . Hydro-Electric Light and Power Co. Connersville. Capital, >IOO,OOO common. Directors—E. D. Johnston, president; L. R. Johnston, vice president; J. M. Shale, secretary and treasurer. Union Reduction Company Indianapolis. Capital, >150,000 conimon, >150,000 preferred. Officers and directors—Jesse T. Moorman, president; Samuel E. Rauh, vice president; iHenry Rauh, treasurer; James P. Goodrich, secretary. Goodrich Bros. Hay & Grain Co. Winchester. Capital, >IOO,OOO common, >IOO,OOO preferred. Officers and directors-—John B. Goodrich, William W. Goodrich, Edward S. Goodrich, James P. Goodrich, Percy E. Goodrich. Indianapolis Reduction Company Indianapolis. Capital, >IOO,OOO common, SBO,OOO preferred. Officers and directors—Jesse T. Moorman, president; John R. Engle, treasurer; Clifford S. Meier, secretary; Carl R. Semans? Globe Mining Company Indianapolis. Capital >10f),000 com mon, $ 1 00,000 preferred. Officers and directors—M. E. Lowish, Robert Metzger, Ward H. Watson, W. H. Tobin, E. M. Pierce. Bert Mcßride, E. J. Robison. Plymouth Electric Light & Power Company Plymouth. Capital. $100;000. Directors —C. D. Snoebereer, president; Isaac Snoeberger, vic» president; V. L. Snoeberger, secretary and treasurer. Winona Telephone Company Knox and Winamac. Capital SIOO.OOO common, >IOO,OOO preferred. Officers and directors—Sam Tomlinson, W. S. Daniel, A. B. Diggs, L. E. Daniel, L. A. Tomlinson. Security Trust Company Indianapolis. Capital, $500,000. James P. Goodrich owns 134 shares. Parker Banking Company Parker City. Capital >25,000. James P. Goodrich owns eighteen shares, SI,BOO. Citizens’ Ranking Company Lynn. Capital >30,000. James P. Goodrich owns fifteen shares, $ 1,500. People’s * Loan & Trust Company Winchester. Capital >30,000. James P. Goodrich owns fortyshares, $4,000. Aetna Trust & Savings Company Indianapolis. Capital SIOO,OOO. James P. Goodrich owns 142 shares, $14,200. Randolph County Bank Capital $60,000. James P. Goodrich owns fifty-five shares, $5,500.

WILDFOWL IN INDIANA

Indiana, forty years ago, was famous for the wild fowl shooting it afforded. Hunters came from all pa.rt-4 of the country to the Kankakee marshes and returned to their homes with good bags of wild geese, Canadian and Mexican brant, ducks of all kinds, and specimens of swans, the last named for mounting. Pittsburg members of an English lake club usually had a carload of game to distribute among friends as trophies of a spring butchery. The supply of wild fowl seemed to be inexhaustible. Great flocks of geese, mallard ducks, redheads, woodducks, pintails, spoonbills, teals* butterballs, and a few canvasbacks, came from the South each spring. Indiana was a link in one of the four great flyways from the Gulf of Mexico region to the wilds of Canada, the other routes being the Mississippi river valley, the Atlantic coast district, and the Pacific coast. The marsh region of northern Indiana was a favorite resting and feeding place during o the spring and fall migratory flights. The geds’e and brant fed in the corn fields for 100 miles about their resting places, pulling ears of corn from the shocks and gorging themselves, and the wily hunter, knowing the habits of the birds, made a “blind’’ in a corn shock and shot them at close range. Mallards and redheads flew each morning to the oak woods and fed on acorns and chinquapins until they became almost as fat as their cousins, the butterballs, and wooddocks feasted on the aromatic peashaped seeds of the spatter dock (.yellow water lily) and wild rice, which grew in abundance along the Kankakee river. Other ducks found succulent roots to feed qn and patches of wild celery that grew here and there delighted the canvasbacks, though they did not scorn the w*ld rice and the seeds of the spatter dock.

Perhaps the greatest refuge for wild fowl in the country thirty years ago was the Gaff reservation in Newton county in the northwestern part of Indiana. Thousands of of marsh land, including Little Beaver lake, were fenced in and policed by a force of constables in the employ of the Gaffs of Cincinnati, who used the land in the summer time for grazing cattle. Big Beaver lake had been drained and converted into corn fields. Mallards and woodducks bred in the reservation, and other migratory wild fowl, Including white swans, rested there in comparative security, except for the fussilade of shotguns that assailed them as they entered and left the reservation. The writer on several occasions spent a few days on the reservation and what he saw

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J OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. i CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer..... ... .Charles M. Sands Attorney.... Moses Leopold <■ Marshal. Vern Robinson 1 p Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief......J. J. Montgomery 1, Fire Warden—.J. J. Montgomery Councilmen b Ist Ward.... Ray Wood I* 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 m February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerks. S. Shedd Sheriff b. D. McColly Auditorj. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorM. B. Price Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson i County Assessor...G. L. Thornton Health Officer. .Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble Distrist...., .D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION 1! Trustees Township 1» Crant Davissonßarkley j Burdett Porter..;Carpenter 1> James Sthvens...... Gillam Ip M arren E Poole. .Hanging Grove 1, John KolhoffJordan ’> Sl-J 3 ’ Davis Kankakee Ip Clifford Fairchild.. Keener 1 p Harvey Wood, jr Marion Ip George Foulks Milrov p John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union G Joseph Salrin Walker ’ £ lb ? rt S Keene ...Wheatfield i! m K a mson. f " o ’ ® U P4-•• Rensselaer ’ Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, li Rensselaer

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