Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Page 2

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NATIONAL TICKET

For President WOODROW WILSON of New Jersey For Vice-President THOMAS R. MARSHAL of Indiana STATE TICKET For Governor JOHN A. M. ADAIR of Portland 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 ZOERCHER 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 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, 30th Judicial Circuit C. ARTHUR TUTEUR of Rensselaer COUNTY TICKET For Clerk of the Circuit Court ALVA D. HERSHMAN of Gillam Township. For Countv Sheriff HARRY GALLAGHER of Rensselaer For Countv Treasurer STEPHEN A. BRUSNAHAN of Union Township For Countv Recorder JOHN BOWIE of Wheatfield For Countv Surveyor DEVERE YEOMAN of Newton Township For County Coroner dr. a. p. Rainier of Remington For County Commissioner First District JAMES CLARK of Kersey k»- ... For County Commissioner Second District ROBERT J. YEOMAN of Newton Township

The fellow who thinks he knows it all usually knows less than the one who admits that he knows nothing. A clean mind needs but few promptings from others.

THE MAN OF GERMAN EXTRACTION WHO EXPERIENCES A NATURAL INTEREST IN THE WELFARE OF HIS STRICKEN FATHERLAND AT THrS TIME OWES IT TO HIMSELF TO REFLECT j ON THE UTTERANCES OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN THIS CAMPAIGN. MR. ROOSEVELT’S WORDS, IF REDUCED TO ACTION, WOULD MEAN BUT ONE THING, WAR WITH GERMANY. THE SORT OF PROTECTION WHICH MR. HUGHES SUGGESTS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD EXTEND TO THE COMMERCIAL FORCES OF THE COUNTRY, WOULD MEAN, WHEN APPLIED TO THE RECENT Raid of a german SUBMARINE OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST, AN IMMEDIATE DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY. CAN ANY LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, OF WHATEVER NATIONALITY, SUPPORT THE DOCTRINE OF PLUNGING AN ENTIRE NATION INTO VIOLENCE AND BLOOD FOR THE PROTECTION OF COMMERCIAL PROFITS, THE GREATER PART OF WHICH GOES INTO THE POCKETS OF A PRIVILEGE - PROTECTED ARISTOCRACY? NO ONE WILL URGE AN AMERICAN VOTER TO CONSIDER GERMANY’S WELFARE IN ARRIVING AT iHIS DECISION AS TO HOW HE SHALL VOTE, BUT WHEN ALL THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT BOTH THE WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY IS SERVED BY THE ELECTION OF WOODROW WILSON, THE GERMAN - AMERICAN VOTER CAN REJOICE THAT IN HIS VOTING HE HAS SERVED THE BEST INTEREST OF BOTH THE LAND OF HIS ADOPTION AND HIS NATIVITY.—Indiana Forum.

THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECHES

The two addresses delivered in Indianapolis Thursday by the President will both serve an important public purpose. Great as wag the interest in good roads in this state before Thursday's meeting, it is greater today. For the President showed that good roads were necessary, not only to the economic development of the country, but to its spiritual unification. The President’s plea was for nationalization, mobilization and co-operation, and he argued that there could be nothing of this unless the people were brought into close relations through improved highways. The question was, not simply one of getting goods to market, though that was important, but of knitting the people together in unity of purpose and aim. Sectional lines, he said, could be obliterated only by the feet of the people who walk over them. It is precisely so with the lines that seem to divide classes. The more the members of each class know of the members of other classes, the less.is the chance of misunderstanding. There is thus in this good roads movement a good deal more than the mere question of construction, maintenance and taxation. It has its sociological and moral side. We all know how r greatly the lot of the farmer has improved under the influence of rural free delivery, the interurban roads, the better highways, the telephone and the motor car. All these have operated to multiply human relationships, and to make them much more close. Bad roads separate and divide, while good roads bind people and sections together. This was the idea underlying the President’s speech. The Tomlinson hall address was little more than a lecture on the federal reserve system and the rural credits law% and their relation to the life and business of the farmer. Mr. Wilson showed what had been done by- the federal government in the last ten years to develop farming, both as a science and a business. And this service has, of course, been exceedingly valuable and helpful. Special stress was placed on the newer laws, as was natural, since the speaker expected to deal with rural credits. Mr. Wilson’s lecture on these subjects was simple, easily understood and luminous. There must have been many in the audience who, after listening to it, had a clearer knowledge of the subject than ever before.

Both these meetings were, as every one knows, non-partisan, and the addresses were enjoyed by Republicans and Progressives as well as by Democrats. They will bear careful reading, and will no doubt receive it Thursday our people welcomed the President to Indianapolis. Now they will hope that he

enjoyed hie visit. Kews.

TOWN FACTIONS

Perhaps no other one factor wields so great an influence in retarding the growth and prosperity of a town as factionalism. It spreads itself as a pall over the community life, and under its malign influence all progress wilts like a pear tree under the blight. No amdunt of energy and public spiritedness is sufficient to survive its depressing effects. Take the average town torn by factionalism. A measure of public improvement is proposed. It comes from one of the two factions. It really has merit and would be beneficial to the town. Does it meet with approval? Yes—from that side of the house. From the other side, bitter opposition. Why? No mortal man can tell, except that It emanated from “the other side.’’ There you. have the meat in the cocoanut. “The other side” stands for everything that is undesirable and vicious. And it is a sad commentary on our boasted Christian civilization that this spirit of bitter factionalism too frequently originates where it should never be found—in the churches. With them, all too frequently, “our folks’’ does not mean, as it should, all of God’s creatures, hut, is contracted to apply to “our church,” be it Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, or what not. Again, in many small towns, this factionalism centers in the banks. Each has its following. Each is striving not only to build up its own fortunes but to tear down the other. But from, whatever source, the fact remains-y-and the factionalism flourishes—a sad commentary on the boasted “progressiveness” of our countrymen. And the pity of it is that it is all useless and fruitful of no good results to either side.

United effort would invariably accomplish for both what divided wrangling accomplishes for neither. There is a world of truth in the old emblem of the bundle of sticks, bound together, which no man could break, but which, taken separately, a child could destroy. No factional fight in a community ever yet resulted in complete victory for either side. Many communities have had the sagacity to recognize this fact and, while there have always been and will always be differences, have had the good sense to endeavbr to harmonize and work together for the common interest. When we see a community torn by factions, we feel like reminding it of the old fable of the cats and the monkey—the cats found the cheese, but the monkey ate it at last.

AS THE EDITOR SEES IT

It is an old saying that two heads are better than one, and on the same principle two heads together are better than when they are facing in opposite directions. It will pay us to keep our heads together in this city for the good of the city and each individual in the city. When we are facing in opposite directions and pulling apart we get nowhere and accomplish nothing. The result of our labors is a cipher. 'But not so when we get our heads together. Not so when we act as a community and not as individuals. Not so when we all face a definite object and pull until we get there. It is good to keep our heads together. We learn each other’s ideas and ambitions and thoughts, and from this knowledge springs the impetus that brings success to any community. Let’s get our heads together in this city, and keep them there. Some people talk mucji and do little. Others talk little and do much. A few are betwixt and between and never succeed in setting themselves or the world afire. There is, however, a happy medium which will afford us the necessary outlet for our thoughts and yet serve the good of the community at large. Don’t be a clam, and don’t be a big noise. Talk when you feel like it, but talk sense and talk to people who have sense. When we do that we will gradually bring to the surface the good points in each other; we will open up opportunities for the development of the community, and will be able to hit upon the means of pushing our city along. The man who talks little but says much when he does talk is often silent when a little talk from him would accomplish wonders. On the other hand, the big noise is known as a noise and commands about as much attention and remembrance as a passing gust of wind. Talk up, but speak gently and to the point. You will be both heard and heeded.

Every person knows his own j mind, but it is not every one who knows how to apply it. Many have positive convictions on certain subjects, but have not the power of will to assert those convictions in the faee of determined opposition. Every person has a mind of his own, but each mind is susceptible to influence from other minds, both great and small. The babbles of the fool will sink into the brain of the man of intellect, and sooner or later will have its effect in one way or another. The fool listens to the wise mart and immediately imagines that he is himself the fount of wisdom. The man who walks the middle course absorbs both the wisdom and the foolishness of the others. The fellow who goes through life kicking at other people usually is propelled into eternity by a kick from the devil. Kicking don’t pay either the kicker or the fellow who is kicked. The injustice of an unjust kick leaves many a heartache behind which rankles and grows into bitterness which lasts for months and years. At times it ceases only with the death of the victim. But the victim of the kick is not the only one who loses in ! the game. The kicker makes a reputation for himself with every kick that he gives, and that reputation follows him through life. When the day comes that he needs the services of a friend he often finds that he has kicked the only people to whom it is possible for him to turn. He loses because he has kicked himself out of the confidence of his fellowmen. Don’t kick unless you have good cause. Again we suggest that you speak a good word for this city. If you look around you can find plenty of opportunities for doing so, and the more good things you say of the city the more the people of the city will say of you. The home booster may make a few enemies , among the chronic kickers, but he will make hundreds of friends among the solid people of the community. Speak up and be heard.

TIED TO A HOME

The owning of a home, a fortune greatly desired by every man, is achievable by most men. And yet the proportion of Americans who live in rented quarters grows larger year by year. One of tho prime reasons for this Increasing tendency is that an increasing proportion of earners are employes, and being employes they wish to hold themselves free to move as better employment may offer itself. To this hope of better employment the hope of a home is easily sacrificed. The fear of being tied to a home is not uncommon in those who are not employes. Some are not content to settle down permanently, being lured by the enchantment of the beyond—that beyond being the other side of the continent, or the other side of the street. Moving becomes a habit, made easy by those whose business is transportation. But in the end the habit is expensive. As a matter of everyday demonstration, two facts stand forth: First, being tied to a home is vastly more profitable than being foot-free and homeless; and, second, the home-owner need never be tied to his home in an undesirable way. Few men ever accumulate enough to carry them through life without first being caught and tied up. Every well established business is a financial hitching post. The business of the life insurance agent is to catch and tie those who will not otherwise accumulate. Buying a home while living in it is one of the surest ways on earth to persuade a man to accumulate property. But a prudent man is not financially hampered by owning a home. A home wisely located, wisely built and wisely cared for is always a liquid asset. Somebody can be found willing to pay full value for such property. The chances are that the property will have increased in value in the owner’s hands. Thousands of home properties are increasing in value steadily, even though the buildings grow older. Good judgment in the building and care of a home always pays good dividends. A man too timid to build a home is seldom brave enough to build a fortune.—Minneapolis Journal.

In their desperation the Republicans are resorting to an un-Ameri-can course and are lugging into the campaign the forced issue of sectionalism. It is regretted by all Americans who believe that true Americanism consists as much in being loyal to all of our country as in presenting a bristling front to foreign nations, once since the Civil war has the sectional issue been raised before and that was done by the Republicans in the “bloody shirt” campaign of 1880, and the people of that time who are

still living remember what a despicable thing it was.—White County Democrat.

It comes in poor grace from Albert J. Beveridge, this ridicule and belittling of the child labor law passed by the congress that supported the Wilson administration, and with a practically non-partisan vote. Mr. Beveridge professed to have an interest in the passage of the law ( to protect children against factory and mine slavery that he ought to rejoice with the country that it is now on the statute books. He is he last man on earth who should condemn it.

Every citizen of this town is interested directlyj in its welfare, for his own welfare depends upon the prosperity of the town. For that reason, if for no other, we should do as much as possible of our buying at home this winder and Christmas, and let the mail order houses bleed some other place. Let’s keep our money in circulation at home this winter. Better still, let’s keep it moving around here all of the time. We will make its acquaintance oftener ourselves.

David Lubin, founder of the International Institute of Agriculture and father of the rural credits movement in America, has joined the list of prominent Republicans openly advocating the re-election of President Wilson. Within a fortnight Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Henry Ford, all Republicans and men of international fame, have made similar declarations.

The man who does not take his home paper misses three-fourths of what on in his home community. He must either borrow the paper from his neighbor and be considergxOa tight-wad and a niusance, or he riiust be content to learn a little and know less. This paper costs but $2 a year, and is worth ten times that amount to any person.

Every merchant in this town wants to sell you goods. You want to trade with the merchant who will do the best by you, who will sell you the best good-, at the least price. It is up to you to read the ads in this paper, and it is up to the merchant to see that you read his ad. When you both do this you both win.

If you know of an item of news that would interest your neighbors, don’t withhold it from, us—tell us. If you know what they know, and they know what you know, and everybody knows what everybody else knows, soon we will all know everything there is to know. That’s why we publish this paper. Tell us.

Those German submarines are getting entirely too frisky. It is quite inconsiderate of them to come snooping around chasing icicles up and down our official spine. Besides, it is bad for our digestion, disastrous to our dignity, and a general nuisance all around. Go back and get under.

Of the people who buy goods on credit 40 per cent never pay in full, 7 per cent never pay at all, and we don’t know hew many wish they could get out of paying.

There are good qualities in all people, but some appear to be making desperate efforts to convince the public that they are the exceptions to the rule.

Failing in his efforts to get rid of General Pershing, First Chief Carranza announces his determination to put an end to bull fighting.

When you are happy your joy just hops right along to others and gives us all a bully good feeling. Pass your smile along. In the lives of some women there are three important elements—the puff box, the poodle and the kid, in the order named. When a wise man talks you learn a few things in fewer words. When a loud mouth opens you hear nothing but noise. When laughing at the other fellowjust remember that he may have quite as much fun at your expense another day.

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA The spirit of America is one of peace, but one of independence. It is a spirit that is profoundly concerned with peace, because it can express itself best only in peace. It is the spirit of peace and good- ' will and of human freedom; 1 but it is also the spirit of a ' nation that is self-conscious; 1 that knows and loves its mis- ' sion in the world, and that ' knows it must command the ' respect of the world. » WOODROW WILSON. «