Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — Page 2

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DESTROY THE FOOD TRUST!

Several years ago a protest was made through these columns against tjie improper methods of the men who control the cold storage business of this country. At that time regret was expressed that a great invention had been debased and prostituted and the people made to suffer. The prediction was made that eventually there would, be governmental interference. It was shown then, as it <an be shown today, that instead of equalizing the price of perishable foodstuffs and establishing a more or less uniform range for them, the system has operated to raise the average prices in the productive seasons, and to vastly increase them in the non-productive periods. With the addition of new storage warehouses more and more available food supplies are abstracted from the market and stowed out of reach, until it has now come to pass that the material is released only in sufficient amounts to maintain a constant semi-dearth. Four years ago the Ohio general assembly, after an exhaustive inquiry into the high cost of living, attempted to deal with the storage evil, but the skillful lobbying tact tics employed defeated all efforts at relief. The storage warehousemen convinced the farmer members that their interests were being imperiled, ,and this blocked action. Conditions are again, becoming unbearable and, as before, are injuring most the workers with the lowest wage. Sporadic inquiries in New York and Chicago show that the storage warehouses and grain elevators are filled to bursting with meat, poultry, eggs, butter, grain and cereals. One speculator in Chicago owns 6,000,000 dozens of eggs, and, in the language of the late Boss Tweed, has coarsely what the people are going' to db about it. A yea? ago, he said, he made a loss, and now proposes to recoup himself. In practice he is fining the because in his last venture he bought too much and the weather became too warm. , It is all vgry well to deplore the inter-

ference of the government with private business and individual enterprise. But it is sheer silliness to permit a few men, a small group indeed, to stand between millions of people and their food, and demand, like robber barons, a toll on every mouthful sought. Congress acted, and with the full approval of the people, to take the taxes off the breakfast table through changing the tariff schedules on foods. If the cold storage plants and the warehouses are to be continued by their owners as agencies for the oppression of the consumers, and if gross and unfeeling speculators insist upon gambling in food supplies, congress should repeat its tactics and strike hard and heavy for the emancipation of the American pantry. It is monstrous that bread made with American flour and beef butchered in American abattoirs are selling cheaper in the warsmitten cities of, Europe than they are in this place of their production. If this be socialism and a blow at private property, this recommendation for stern and even harsh action, let the harriers of the poor accept, it as such!—Cincinnati Enquirer.

ICONOCLASM There is a demand in certain sections of the eastern states to substitute in the reading course.of the high schools modern books in place of the classics which have so long and so successfully held sway. The only surprise in this matter is that it has not come sooner. It is really a marvel that anything bearing the stamp of age and established usage should have so long escaped the blows of the modern iconoclast.

We are well acquainted with the element from which this demand springs. They are the typical exponents of “modernity.’’ They know that, wisdom begins with their generation. They think with a tolerant pity of such men as Milton, Shakespeare, Scott, and others as having been deprived of the many advantages they themselves enjoy. The wisdom of Solomon is as the babbling of a fool to them.

It would be interesting, though, to know what these reformers would substitute for the despised classics. What, for instance, would take the place of such of Shakespeare’s works as “The Merchant of Venice,” “Julius Caesar,” “Macbeth,” and others? Would “Mr. Dooley” and others of his ilk be the substitutes? Possibly these would-be reformers have lost sight of the two-fold mission of the classics in the present day reading course—the analytical exercise and the deep insight into human nature which these works impart. What modern author has painted “Shylock’’ more true to like than has Shakespeare? Find, if you can, a more faithful portrayal of human passions than in "Macbeth.” We must go on record as opposed to the iconoclasts who would destroy our old classic Idols if they are not prepared to give us something better in their place. The

old works have in the past turned but some intellectual giants—men who have indelibly impressed their personality on their age. If our reformers will convince us that any modern substitutes can achieve even a tithe of the success of the old favorites, we shall be ready to listen with patience to their suggestions.

BUYING THE GOVERNORSHIP

Taking into consideration $lB,490.50 which he spent for” the nomination, it cost James P. Goodrich of Winchester fully $22,224.34 to be elected governor of Indiana. A statement filed by the gover-nor-elect gives his total election expenses as $3,733.84. It is probable a supplemental report will be filed within the next few weeks, Mr. Goodrich says, inasmuch as several bills have not yet been filed with him. Additional expense in the sum of $75 is expected, the statement says. The Republican state committee received $2,850.87 from Mr. Goodrich during the campaign, according to the statement. Two donations were of SI,OOO each, one was SSOO and another C-was $350.87. The last named • donation was made November 4. / The’salary of the office for four years is but $3 2,0 00, or a little more than $9,0 00 over what the office cost him. Goodrich is known as a “tightwad,” too. John A. M. Adair, Democratic candidate for the governorship, who was defeated bv Goodrich, has filed his statement of campaign expenses. He says the campaign cost him but $2,1 88.75, of which $1,600 went to the Democratic state committee.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

My neighbor Johnsing can afford a lot of things that I can not; yet I’m not envious or bored, beneath my collar I’m not hot. My neighbor Johnsing has a roll ’that’s large enough to choke a steer; I congratulate him, and my soul is smiling still, from ear to ear. For one thing is supremely true —as some one said, in ringing tones — that happiness has naught to do with what a human being owns. Old Masters hung upon the wall won’t bring a nickel’s worth of bliss. The rich man, in his gilded hall, 'is always saying things like this: “The gladdest time I ever spent, was when I lived in yonder shack, and had to husband every cent, to buy suspenders for my hack. I like to have enough to eat, I like to have some clothes to wear, and caskets for my shapely feet, and gasoline to feed the mare. I like to feel, in dismal times, upon the day that’s wet and dank, that I have half a dozen dimes in storage in the village bank. Let neighbor Johnsing view his roll, through tears that make his vision dim; I wouldn’t touch it with a pole, when seeing what it’s done for him.

DON’T MEDDLE WITH NATURE

You May Start Something That Will Cause Trouble. Forty years ago the planters of Trinidad were in despair. Rats were ravaging the great sugar cane plantations. Traps, cats and ferrets had all proved useless. Ruin stared the planters in the face. Then some genius suggested the importation of the mongoose. The mongoose is a native of India, a charming, furry beast that looks like a big and amiable ferret. It makes a delightful pet, but its reputation rests mainly on the fact that it is the deadly enemy of the poisonous cobra and also the finest ratter in the world. A score of these animals were sent for. Soon there were no more rats. Then the mongoose turned its att/ntion to the chicken yard. Shortly poultry was almost extinct and eggs at a premium. Next the mongoose cleaned out the native bin’s and a plague of caterpillars ensued. How are the mighty fallen!

Today there is a premium of 3 shillings on the head of each mongoose, yet the pest is said to be getting worse. Now the islanders talk of introducing the Indian starling, in the hope of keeping down the grasshoppers, which are ravaging the crops, or else of utilizing the Barbadoes blackbird for a similar purpose. The muskrat, which is an animal many times the size of any British rat, has been trapped for generations in British North America for the sake of its fur. Spine twenty years ago a Hungarian landowner, Imported several pairs of muskrats and turned them loose in a lake on his property. They multiplied in surprising fashion, for they had none of the enemies which, in the native country, keep them under control, and for a time the Importer reaped quite a considerable income by the sale of the skins.

But the animals soon began to spread, and then came stories of burst dams and broken canal banks. The creatures burrowed everywhere, and ifeach year the tale of damage increased. Just before the great war broke out the Hungarian government offered a prize equal to $25,000 to any person who could invent some method of exterminating them. St. Helena, famous as the island prison of Napoleon, was at one time covered with a thick forest. Cattle did not do well there, and goats were imported to give meat and milk for the settlers. They soon ran wild and betook themselves to the hills, where they multiplied by thousands and browsed on the young .trees and shrubs. Today the island is little better than a desert.

Sable island is a great crescent of sand in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia, and for centuries had no inhabitants but gulls and rabbits. Rats were accidentally imported in goods consigned to the lighthouse, and they became such a pest that in 1 880 cats were brought in to cope with them. That finished the rats. And then the cats turned on the rabbits and wiped them out. The cats became so savage that they were actually a danger, and some bright settler imported a pair of big northern foxes to cope with the cats. The foxes killed the cats, and then, having nothing left to eat, they died out. Today Sable island has only the gulls left.

KEROSENE AS A MOTOR FUEL

The attempt of Alfred Gohn to drive an ordinary automobile from Warren to New York with common kerosene as the motor power, Was successful under adverse circumstances. He encountered weather which made the going hard, and even froze his radiator, but in spite of this lie made an average of twenty miles to the gallon. Nor was this kerosene specially prepared for the purpose, but was purchased at the stores on the route as the driver needed it. If the experiment to use kerosene in place of gasoline should prove a success, it will be of great value to the oil industry, since the refiners have been handicapped for several years by the accumulation of stocks of illuminating oil on their hands.— Oil City Derrick.

NOT SO BAI) AS IS PICTURED Brook Reporter Gives New Version of Pierson Shortage.

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that we believe that it is only justice to him and his friends to give the facts as they appear in court. During the two years he was postmaster no inspector ever visited him until September 6, 1916. No charges were filed against him for any irregularities except during the months of May, June and July of *1916.

On May 31 the postmaster had $438 of government funds, during this month and subsequent months of June and July some money was sent to the Chicago office, but on June 30 there was still $494 duo the government, and at the end of July this amount had grown to $683. In August the government statement was taken up and all of this money sent to the Chicago office. This settlement was made voluntarily, and on September 6 the government inspector came and brought a statement calling for $66 and some cents that the postmaster did not have on hand. According to the affidavit of Mr. Pierson’s partner, Philip Miller, the inspector’s statement from the government auditor contained $50.90 more than that of the one sent to Pierson. They secured the funds and settled according to the inspector’s statement. (He took the other with him with the idea of checking it up and returning in a few days. Mr. Pierson explained all the details of the offense to the inspector when he came, also made him a written statement of it when asked later. He went direct to the district attorney when in Indianapolis and explained that he wished to plead to the charges of failure to remit but not to the embezzlement of the $66 and this request was granted and that charge was thrown out. He gave Judge Anderson a similar statement of the affair, and received his sentence, as the judge stated afterward he sentenced all postmasters who came before him and were found guilty of misconduct of government funds.

The stories that he was short $1,600, and SSOO at the time of the visit of the Inspector, do not square with the records in the federal court. It was within the discretion of the judge to fine, or imprison, or both. The young man made no attempt to defraud the government and as he was under bond the government could lose no money. He comes from an excellent family and has held responsible positions of trust with the International, Harvester company, and his past record was as clear as a bell. Every man must obey the law. We do not question the decision of the judge. But after listening to similar cases, some of them more pathetic than this, we wonder if the taking of a few years of a man’s life and all that follows in all cases makes men better or gives to us more protection.

O. L. Calkins Leo Worland Funeral Directors Calkins &* Worland Office at D. M. Worland’s Furniture Store. 1.--.. Phone a 5 and 307 Store Phone 23 RENSSELAER, .... INDIANA

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Uw Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dean. WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office in Odd Fellows Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. L MLWASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. “ “ 2 to 5 P. M. •• •• 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—--5 A. M. to 2 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of women and low grades of feverOffice over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Coprts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16 RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours—B-12 a. m., 1-6 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES CHIROPRACTOR Graduate Palmer School of Chiropractic. Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, lowa. Forsythe Bldg. Phone 676 RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA

pSMCC TM Piom: AT REASONABLE RATES < IJ Your Property In City, Town 4 I I Village or Farm, Against Fire, < Lightning or Wind; Your Live. < Stock Against Death or Theft. J and 4 YOUR AUTOMOBILE 4 Against Fire From Any Cause, 4 Theft or Collision. < Written on the Cash, Single < Note or Installment Plan. All J Losses Paid Promptly. 4 Call Phone 208, or Write for < a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD < COMPANY. ] RAY D. THOMPSON < RENSSELAER, INDIANA < PIONEER Meat Market EIGELSBACH & SON, Props. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow Ideal Account Files, $1.50 each.— The -Democrat’s fancy stationery department

CHICAUU, IMOiAMaruu* • uvv iaviuug*RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect October, 1915 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago " 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. Na. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:51 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.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. 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 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m. CHICAGO & WABASH VALLEY RY. Effective March 20, 1916. Southbound Northbound Arr. Read upLv. Read down No. 3 No. 1 No. 2 | No. 4 P.M. A.M. P.M. a&pm 5:20 7:05 McCoysburg 6:10 11:16 *5:13 *7:00 Randle *6:15 *11:17 •5:05 *6:54 Della *6:20 *11:26 4:55 6:48 Moody 6:27 11:36 *4:45 *6:41 Lewiston *6:34 <11:46 4:37 6:38 ' Newland 6:40 11:58 4:28 6:29 Gifford 6:46 12:01 *4:16 *6:20 Laura *6:55 *12:14 *4:01 *6:10 McGlinn *7:05 *12:30 3:56 6:06 Zadoc 7:08 12:24 *3:52 *6:03, Calloway *7:11 *12<38 3:40 s:ssKersey 7:20 12:50 •Stops on Signal. CONNECTIONS. No. I—Connects1 —Connects with C. I. & *L. Train No. 40 northbound, leaving McCoysburg. 7:18 a. m. C. I & L. Train No. 6 will stop on signal at McCoysburg to let off or take on passengers to or from C. A W. V. points. No. 3.—Connects with C. I. & L. Train No. 39 southbound and No. 30 northbound. C. I. & L. Train No. 30 wll 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. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer... Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief.J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay 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 Februaj-y, April, September and November. Four week terms. a COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt Coroner .Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. ,G. L. Thornton Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marbls 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets ths First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson.....Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George FoulksMilroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrinWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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