Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Page 4

IK JOT GOOMIY DMOCRIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, 1916.

AUTOS AND RAILROADS

In a considerable number of annual reports of railroad presidents in the last two years mention has ibeen made of inroads which automobiles are making on railroad passenger business. There is another aspect, however, of the development of the automobile and automobile truck which may turn out to be of considerable advantage to railroad development. The use of the automobile and the automobile truck is acting as a preventive of branch line railroad building, thus conserving capital for betterments to existing lines. A good road is built by the state or county, and this road, with the development of the automobile truck, acts as a feeder for the railroads which it crosses and, moreover, a feeder built with the public’s capital and not the railroad company’s capital. Unprofitable branch line mileage has been the old man of the sea on the back of many a railroad in this country. A good state or county road crossing a railroad will be a feeder to it for forty or fifty miles on either side of the track. At the present time there are many rural communities which are sending freight and passengers over forty miles or more of good road to the ndhrest railroad by automobile—as much traffic as the railroad could hope to get over a branch line, the interest charges on which would be great enough to eat up nearly all the profit on the line haul.—Railway Gazette.

FARMS AND BILLBOARDS

Why in the w r orld will farmers lease to advertising concerns the right to erect lines of billboards along railroad rights-of-way. It is one of the most excuseless and un profitable disfigurements of the country. It breaks up the tilling plan of the field and it leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the railroad travelers.

The farmer who lets his barn be used as a signboard for pills in consideration of having bad paint put. on it advertises himself as thriftless. The man who cuts into a good field in order to get a few dollars from a liver cure or a blend of booze is losing sure money to get what he foolishly regards as easy money.

One of the advantages of owning a farm that thousands of railroad passengers see every day is the possibility that some of them will fancy and want to buy it. If statistics on the subject could be had it would be astonishing that so many sales come this way. Well, the farmer who plasters his land over with circus paper and patent medicine propaganda is in effect saying: “I can’t make this land pay just farming it.”—Farm and Fireside.

John O'Mara, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, at a meeting of railroad men at Indianapolis last week, said: “I have just returned from an extended trip over the state organizing Wilson clubs among the railroad men, and find that better than 90 per eent of the transportation men were for Woodrow Wilson regardless of politics.” Modesty is a jewel—but, like most jewels, in this day it is hard to find.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

My friends, when I'm elected, the people, now dejected, will bid farewell to grief; I’ll make their sorrows bubbles, to all their tears and troubles I’ll bring a prompt relief. The people now are groaning; for justice they are honing, and hone for it in vain; but when I am elected, an end may be expected to all stress and strain. The tyrant and the spoiler now rob the humble toiler, their feet upon his neck; but when I am elected the tree will be erected on which they’ll swing, by heck! Oh, men with spades and axes! they burden you with taxes —that is the tyrants’ plan! But when I am elected all laws will be rejected which tax the working man. The rich men ride in motors; on foot you go, O voters, your feet all seamed with scars; but when I am elected this sin will be corrected; you’ll all have choo-choo cars. Alas, my friends and neighbors, you’re wearied by your labors, your strivings gall and irk; but when I am elected a change will be detected —no man will have to work!

GETTING AN EDUCATION

There are two ways of getting a college education. One is to get it in college. The other is to obtain it from those who have been to college and have put their culture into print. The latter course is open to any one who will take it, on the farm br elsewhere. It does not give all the benefits o£ going to college, but it confers some that are not to be obtained there.

The great books of the language have been written by greater men than one is likely to find in any college faculty. The ability to work alone, and do it successfully, is in itself about all that the best college can hope to give by education, —Country Gentleman.

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

I‘OLITICS IN NEWTON COUNTY Editor Democrat: With the Democratic party in control of state and nation and with a record of progress and achievement behind them that means nothing but Success in the coming election, it is truly regrettable that party . conditions in Newton county are such as they are. While we hope and expect general success in the election, there are many' of us in Newton county who cannot support, much less work for the success of the county ticket as a whole. And this condition has been brought about by the actions of those office-holders at Kentland who have presumed that they are more than a servant of the people. You may not understand the situation in this county as thoroughly as we, but you cannot deny us the privilege of refusing to support those persons who have used the benefits of the office. given them for the detriment of a’ party organ that has fought our battles for more than twenty years, ’during which time there was little or no hope of success. As editor of the Kentland Democrat Mr. Steinbach has ever been loyal to the best interests of the party and the people as a whole, and he is most surely entitled to every penny’s worth of patronage in the hands of Democratic officials.

But because his good sense and honor rebelled at some of the methods and persons being thrust upon the party in, the campaign of 1912, and because he had the courage to speak his thoughts, he has been made the goat of the party since that time. I refer particularly to County Auditor Sizelove. No one will deny that during the campaign of 1912 the Kentland Democrat supported Mr. Sizelove most whole-heartedly and enthusiastically, yet just as soon as he ascended to office he refused to even as much as recognize the Democrat editor, and took particular pains to see that the Democrat did not receive one cent of the large amount of patronage controlled by his office. And he has even been so self-assuming in the matter as to feel that he owed no word of explanation of his acts to the Democratic voters of the county who gave him the office. He. seems to think that the office is HIS. to have and to hold and do with as he pleases, even to the detriment of the only real worth-while Democratic paper in the county. That is why many Democratic voters of Newton county are opposed to the re-election of Mr. Sizelove. When any man becomes bigger and more important than the party he is supposed to represent, it is time he be retired, which will surely come to Mr. Sizelove this year.

Democratic success in Newton county has not served to build up the party, but rather to tear it down, and this must be more fully realized in the future. The ticket as a whole, this year, with the exception of the candidate for auditor, is an unusually strong one. and is deserving of election. - They are not the caliber of men who will usurp the privileges of an office to the detriment of the party’s be= f interests. . . **

HILLIARD & HAMILL

A clothing store for young men. age 4 to 80— not overlooking the young men who are past 'BO years.

LOOK HERE!

What? Box social. Where? Blake school, Jordan township. When? October 26, 1916. Who invited? You and all your friends. FRIEDA WINELAND, Teacher.

COMING EVENTS

Election, Thanksgiving day, Xmas and Ford party, at HILLIARD & HAMILL’S.

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HOUSTON MADE GREAT ADDRESS

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to be let into the secret. He assailed Mr. Hughes for his recent declaration that he was not interested in the relation of the tariff to the people. He also pointed out that for the first time in history the burden of taxation was equally distributed, that heretofore it had rested on the masses while those who were better off were permitted to evade taxation.

The federal reserve act was referred to and proclaimed a new credit structure of the nation; that its efficiency had been amply demonstrated during the terrible financial strain of 1914, compared with’ which the conditions causing the panic of 1907 were postively trivial. This new law, he said, while not making a panic impossible, made one highly improbable; that in the future the finances of the country would be directed from Washington instead of New York.

The secretary devoted some time to an honest and clear discussion of the farm ’oan act and the rural credits bill. When in thorough operation these measures will make possible the borrowing of money at a rate cheaper than has been heretofore known.

The federal aid roads bill, he declared, would revolutionize the road question of the nation. That while today there is an annual expenditure of $280,000,000 for roads, of which 40 per cent is needlessly wasted, when this bill once was in operation it would provide better roads for all at a great deal less money, and surely there are none who doubt this statement for its truth is a matter of common knowledge to all. One of the greatest benefits for the American farmers and their wives is the agricultural extension act, which will make possible the disseminating of information by personal contact through two experienced agents in each of the 2,850 counties of the nation. These agents, in a majority of cases, will be a man and a woman. Among other laws of immeasurable benefit to the nation discussed by him were the child labor law and the farm products standards act. This latter bill will prove of great benefit to all farmers through preventing the adulteration of rural products, which has proved so profitable to speculators, yet so costly to the farmers. Referring to the President, Secretary Houston that no man had ever been harrassed by such grave and delicate questions as he, yet he had kept a balance so perfectly that he had failed to satisfy the extremists both at home and abroad. And regarding Mexico he stated that Mr. Wilson had saved this country from the shameless disgrace of a war with a downtrodden nation.

He assailed Mr. Hughes for attacking the eight-hour law, yet declared he dared not say he would repeal it. The President, he said, was deserving of great credit for this act, for it had saved the nation from an industrial war that would have been almost as ruinous as a foreign war.

As regards the statement attributed to Secretary Baker regarding the soldiers of Washington's army, the speaker branded it a campaign falsehood and stated that Secretary Baker had told him to he did not say anything of the kind.

In regard to 1 the President, the speaker said he believed that if the people of the United States could know him as he knows the executive. 80 per cent of the electorate would support Wilson at the polls. He told of his “blows at dollar diplomacy ’ and of his “riddance of the insidious lobby’’ in Washington. There is no man *in the nation today,” the speaker said, “of purer private and public character than Moodrow Wilson: no man is less considerate of himself. Certainly there is no clearer speaking man and his critics have evidently failed to realize that clear speaking implies clear thinking. No better trained man has ever occupied the President s chair. He has always been a student and he Anows the limitation of things. He is the greatest progressive of this continent and he knows how to progress. There is no more patient, persistent, constant and courageous man than he. He has been tried by fire and he has stood the test. You are the jury and I do not dream that you will for a moment think of displacing him.” The speaker was loudly cheered upon concluding, attesting the popularity of his remarks and the sincerity with which they had been received.

ELDERLY MEN, ATTENTION

Extra heavy weight, all-wool suits, sls. Extra heavy odd trousers, $3. Soft, warm underwear, $1 t° |4. —HILLIARD & HAMILL.

BAD JUDGMENT WAS SHOWN

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and four weeks ago tomorrow the road was closed and the work of removing the old bridge and putting in the abutments for the new structure were beguh.

Now, understand, not a thing had been done during the summer to put the roads necessary for the detouring while this work was being done in decent condition—and many well informed people say that a temporary bridge at the side of the old structure could have been put in for SSO to take care of the traffic until the new bridge was

completed. Except for the extra distance to travel and the extreme roughness of the detour roads, it did not make so much hardship while the roads were dry, but after each rain—and for the past week we have had enough rain to make each of-these detour roads what Sherman said about war—and scores of automobiles have got stuck in the mire, while the atmosphere in the locality of these sinkholes has been of a lurid, sulphuric hue both day and night. As a matter of fact a county should be made liable for admages that would permit such things to exist as this, and it is probable that actions for damages would lie if anyone were to take the matter

into court. It is uncalled for and is a disgrace to Jasper county. If a new bridge was to have been put in it should have been started much earlier in the season and a temporary bridge constructed or the detour roads repaired to make them passable. Poor business judgment and lack of ordinary “horse sense” is very much in evidenec in this matter. The abutments were completed October 14, but the material for the bridge was not shipped until last week, we are told—it comes from Rochester, Indiana—and how much longer t'he public will have to put up with this thing is problematical. In any event it will probably be two or three weeks, even though the iron was on the ground now—which it isn’t—and in the meantime the rains have made the detour roads a regular quagmire in several places. Few travel between Rensselaer and Remington now if they can avoid it, and besides the inconvenience to the public it is a handicap to the business interests of both towns.

ON SAME FARM MANY YEARS

John T. Culp Oldest Native Born Resident of County.

John T. Culp of Rensselaer is probably the oldest native born resident of Jasper county, and has the unique distinction of having lived on the same farm for about seventy-five years. Mr. Culp will be 80 years old on December 2. He was born on the farm in Barkley township where he resided, continuously until he moved to this city, a few years ago. It is a real pleasure to sit down and converse with Mr. Culp and hear him tell of this county in the early days of his life. In those times wild game of all kinds were quite plentiful and while he himself was never much of a hunter, yet he recalls the abundance of deer, wild turkey, pheasants and prairie chickens that were in this county during his youth.

And times and modes of living then were far removed from what they are today. There were no stoves of any kind, the cooking being done over the wide open fireplaces, which also furnished heat for the house. Corn pone or johnny cake wag one of the chief edibles, and when eaten with home-made molasses was genuinely relished. Their clothing then was all homespun and made by the good housewives and mothers of that day. We of this age are too prone to neglect the hardships and trials these sturdy forefathers and mothers encountered and endured in making this country what it is today. With our present-day ease of living it is hard to comprehend all that they were obliged to /contend with as the real builders of the land.

TIMELY ADVICE FOR FARMERS

How to Select Seed Com Intelligently, by an Expert. The only proper way to select seed corn is from the stalks w.hile standing where they grew, assoon ag ripe and before the first hard freeze. As soon as the crop ripens go through the field with seedpicking bags and husk the ears from the stalks that have produced the most corn without having any special advantages such as space, moisture, or fertility. Avoid the large ears on stalks standing singly with an unusual amount of space around them. Preference should be given the plants that have produced most heavily In competition with a full stand of less productive

plants. In all localities the inherent tendency of the plant to produce heavily of sound, dry, shelled corn is of most importance. Latematuring plants with ears which are heavy because of an excessive amount of sap should be ignored. Sappiness greatly increases the weight and is likely to destroy the quality. In the Central and Southern states, all other things being equal, short, thick stalks are preferable. Short stalks are not so easily blown down and permit thicker planting. Thick stalks are not so easily broken down, and in general are more productive than slender ones. The tendency for corn to produce suckers is hereditary. Other things being equal, seed should be taken from stalks that have no suckers. ‘

I r i 0)1 a irl n 1-L.dLd KU U

The eighteenth annual convention of the Tenth district Woman’s Relief Corps was held at Fowler yesterday.

Audrey Allen, 2 years old, died at a Terre Haute hospital Sunday as a result of injuries inflicted by a rooster at the home of the parents in Hymera. The rooster attacked the child Friday and drove its spure into the baby’s temples. An operation failed to save the child.

Sim Marion, living near Monon, was kicked by a mule at 6 o’clock Wednesday evening and sustained a broken nose. (He was taken to Dr. Reagan’s office where he was treated. He was attending to chores when ‘ the animal delivered the blow. The injury though painful Is not serious.

Howard Budge of Lafayette, a brakeman on the Monon, was killed in the yards at Lafayette Sunday night when a switch engine crashed into a box car on which Budge was hanging and hurled the car over again a steel coal car on the next track, crushing him to a shapeless r mass. A wife and two children survive him.

Crawfordsville lost one of her industries early Thursday morning in the burning of the Pioneer Box factory, causing a loss of about $40,000 and throwing forty men out of employment. The loss is covered by insurance and the factory will be rebuilt at once. The fire apparently originated in the office of the plant, but the cause fcould not be determined. It was discovered at 3:10 a. m. and there was much delay in getting connected with the fire department.

What might have been a serious automobile accident occurred on the pike just north of Lowell Friday night. A car driven by Ben McClatchey of Morocco went to pass another car in the road and in doing so got too close to the bank and was thrown into the ditch. Mr. McClatchey had three ribs broken and was otherwise bruised up. One lady was thrown about twenty feet, but luckily was not hurt. The injured man was taken to Lowell for medical treatment.

Several days ago Sheriff Hamilton of Benton county discovered some fresh cut shavings 'in one of the hot .air pipes at the jail w'hich is not in use any more. He immediately asked Oscar Borders, the man charged with taking the meat near Otterbein, about it. He informed the sheriff that they had been cut from an old mop stick by Boyd Slater with the idea of making a key to the big lock on the prison door. Sheriff Hamilton made a careful search and found a number of blank keys made from bed springs hidden in the air pipes. A wooden key, an exact duplicate of the key to the room, was found in the flush box of the toilet. Slater, wiho is being held for robbing the Messner & Son store at Oxford, said Borders was the man who was doing the work, and that the knife with which he was working would be found in his bed, and it was. A number of keys have been found in locked cells, which these two prisonerg have never been in. It will be hard to determine which is the guilty man, as both are suppposed to be crooks. A search through the cells and corridors was also made and a complete equipment for making a jail delivery was found, including a sling shot made of leather and filled with about a half pound of shot. An attempt to pry off one of the steel bars at a window with the iron trip lever of the flush box left fresh marks in the paint. Fowler item in Lafayette Journal.

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FOR SALE For Sale—Some good doors and windows.—SYLVESTER GRAY. Michigan Land-—For particulars see or address D. L. HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, Ind.. R-3. o-30

To Rent— Good 160-acre farm, 4 miles of Rensselaer; grain rent.— See C. G. SPITLER or MOSE T.FOPOLD. . ■ 0_26 O _ 26

For Sale—Coming 4-year-old bay horse colt, driver, not broke, wt. about 950. Cash or bankable note. —DANA RISHLING, Gifford, Indiana. n _ s

For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale or Rent—A new 4-room cottage on a fine lot, with considerable fruit, located in Kniman.— ROBERT MICHAL, Kniman, Ind. ts For Sale—9-room modern house, hot water heat, electric light, city water, etc.; house is nearly new. Almost five acres of ground with house, and has lota of fruit; located three blocks from court house, on improved street. Am offering property for sale on account of poor health.—MßS. A. GANGLOFF, n-10 For Sale—24o acres of land, one mile north of Kersey, with new sixroom house, new barn with cement foundation and room for eight head of horses, new double gralnery, which will hold 4,000 bushels of corn. This land is known as the Frank G. Ray farm. It is appraised at $75 an acre. Will be sold at the office of Charlee G. Spitler at Rensselaer on Thursday November 1916, at 10 o’clock a. m. Must he sold to settle an estate.—JOSEPH B. ROSS, executor of the will of Frank G. Ray, deceased, Lafayette, Indiana. n-9

For Sale—One base burner, one range, dining room tables and chairs, three iron beds and springs, dressers and rugs. Call at VAN R. GRANT’S residence ts For Sale—Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well located. Can w sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. ts For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. ts For Sale—One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. WANTED Wanted to Rent—Five or sixroom cottage, centrally located, with lights and city water.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts M anted—Girl for general housework. Wages SS.—MRS. DELOS THOMPSON. 025-28 Wanted Cheap typewriter, in good condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. FOUND Found—On the football grounds, after the game of Sunday, October 8, a rim and glass for an automobile headlight. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying for this ad.

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