Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Because of the high price of beans and other foodstuffs, the annual bean supper of the G. A. R. post and Woman’s \ Relief Corps of Cambridge City has been postponed indefinitely. The British admiralty announced Thursday that Germany’s ‘widely advertised campaign of ruthless' murder on the high seas,” resulted in the loss of less than one ship plying in or out of British ports between February 1 and 14. The" Lake County Times of Hammond last Wednesday printed a remarkable picture taken of a dead man found near the city limits on Tuesday. The tian’s eyes had been opened and to all appearances in the picture he was asalive as ever. The picture was printed in an effort to establish his identity.

The Oxford Gazette, which has been published by Charles Craw & Son since the retirement of Jesse Birch several years ago, has been sold to Wayne Canine, who took charge of the office yesterday: The junior Mr. Craw will continue the ■publication of the Boswell Times, which has for the past few months been conducted in conjunction with the Oxford paper. Through a long course of legislative fatuousness our country has lost millions of dollars in wasted power, and stands to lose many millions more unless the present ’situation is remedied. The funda- ' mental economic principle about hydraulic* power is that every cubic foot of water that plunges downI ward unutilised in a sheer waste •of inherent national wealth. If you 'do not dig up your coal or cut down your wood its fuel value remains, while in the case of unused water powers, the water of the present runs to absolute waste. The thing of vital importance to the country at the present time is that all thd sources of hydraulic power, which are economically available, should be brought quickly into use so as to give modern industry a fair chance. The water which is not used today is lost capital. We need water power legislation which shall* give encouragement toward the immediate development of every horsepower worth the while, with .provision to protect the government jin its ownership, if you like, by regulation of prices and by limitation of charter rights, but still constructive instead of destructive .as at present. The electro-chemic-al industries need more power at Niagara and legislators should see to it that these great industries [are taken care of. —Metallurgical 'and Chemical Engineering.