Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1917 — Page 2

the m» f F. K. BABCOCK, PakiHtoar OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUKTV I_CMtO Otatsncß Tttaptioncs Office 315 R—ldMif 311 Entered m Sccond-Ctaae M*U Mattv June 8. 13M. at the poetoffice at Rehnaelaer. Indiana, under the Act <rf March Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. WEDNESDAY, MAR. 7, 1917

W. R. WOOD'S LEAK PROBE FIZZLE

Claude Bowers, secretary to Senatuyjohn W. ‘Kern, has written a communication for publication which we herewith present: Tha utter fizzle of the investigation into the ludicrous partisan insinuation of Congressman Will R. Wood and a few other splenetic standpatters, reflecting on the*’, personal honor and honesty of the Presidents personal and political family, has left that gentleman in an unenviable position. “It is now conceded that the friends of the President in the house made a. serious blunder when they were stampeded into dignifying the slander by giving it official notice. It is contended by some, however, that Mr? Wood and his fellpw reputation 'snipers’ were counting on having their insinuations igfiored and were planning to spread the report that the Democrats were ‘afraid’ to order an investigation. “That they would have failed to making a decently resectable impression on intelligent people is considered certain; for President Taft, Addressing the National Press club about the time the investigation was on, declared that it was a ‘waste of time, energy and money’, to dignify such. stuff with official notice. “While several reactionaries

were in the apparent conspiracy to besmirch the reputation of the President a , of the States by creating the impression he had surrounded himself with a bunch of common crooks, it is Mr. Wood who will, be longest remembered for his contribution to the work. “The glibness with which he threw out his insinuations against the President’s private secretary and the President's brother-in-law actually astounded the blase politicians of the capitaL “There has never been a time since Washingtons administration when it would not have been possible to have picked up from the gutter gossip Of irrespdnsibles, discreditable stories about Presidents and official , families. In long days gone when the code of professional ethics among the correspondents of the press yas not so high as it is today, reporters refused to lend themselves to the dissemination of these frotesque slanders. Among public men such a thing has been considered unthinkable. “The distinction of having become the instrument of blatherskites of slanderous gossip was’.reserved for Mr. Wood. It is due the real leaders of the Republicans

in congress to say that the action of the congressman from Lafayette amazed and disgusted them, and the same was true of the correspondents of the press. "It is probable few public men fail in the course of any one week to receive anonymous or signed by some mysterious unknown, reflecting on the character of somebody high in authority. These letters usually were consigned without a moment’s thought to the waste basket. There is probably not another member of the house who would have rushed into print with amateurish haste, with insinuations of the basest nature against officers close to the President of the United States on the uncorrdfctffated word of 'Mr. A. Curtis,’ who remains unknown today. - ■ ... “The action of Will Wood calls attention to the fact there have probably been more deliberate attempts to blacken the reputation of President Wilson than since tha days when the national bank hirelings were engaged to destroy the reputation of Andrew Jackson.’’ — Tippecanoe County Democrat.

THE HOME GARDEN

This year promises to witness a greatly increased interest in the city home garden, for not only has gardening taken a prominent and well deserved place in the curriculum of the public schools, thus, through school children, spreading among the entire city population

the, fundamental rules about intensive cultivation, but the high price of vegetables during the winter has whetted the public appetite to such an extent that many will turn to their back for fresh vegetables at modest prices. The area of wasted ground in a city the size of Indianapolis is, to the foreign obseryer who is accustomed to seeing evtery foot of ground utilized, really appalling; And most of it is wasted because most of the people are not acquainted with its value. There are few persons in the city who can not devote at least an hour a day to a small home garden. Many, of course, find more pleasure in sports, devoting such time as they can spare frojn their work to more or less strenuous exercise. Some are of the opinion that it is

■waste of time to cultivate a small tract of ground, a few hundred square feet. They do not realize that by careful planting, frequent watering and methodical cultivation, a great deal more can be raised in a city back yard than the farmer would attempt to raise in the same area. He has not the facilities for watering his farm, and he must have room to cultivate with horses. The country has not grown to a point where intensive cultivation in rural districts, as it is practiced in Belgium, for instance, is profitable. But it is profitable in the city. The expense is another reason why many persons hesitate to start a garden. They believe —and not without reason—that the soil is poor and will have to be treated before it is fit for intensive gardening. Hundreds of lots in the city have been filled with inferior soil, but if weeds and grass will grow upon it, vegetables can, by the application of fertilizer, be made to grow, also. And the expense of this treatment is not much. In fact, by the expenditure of $3 to $£ for fertilizer and seed, the average back yard can be made to produce enough vegetables to feed the average family during a large part of the summer. It can not be done, however, without a considerable amount of work. This brings in another phase of the question, for the work is really among the most healthful forms of exercise, “worth more to the man who spends his days at a desk or counter or bench than the garden. If this is considered the expense becomes a negligible consideration,, and if the ground and time are available, there is no excuse left. —Indianapolis News.

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Canton Glass company at Marion was completely destroyed by fire Sunday night. The loss is SIOO,OOO and is partially covered by insurance 1 . Kentland Democrat: Former county clerk Charles M. ‘Daniel and wife moved this week to Indianapolis where the former last week purchased a grocery business. F. M. Waggoner of Colfax, Indiana. a former resident of Gillam township, was brought back to Francesville for burial Friday. We di# not learn any of the particulars of his death. Mr. Waggoner was about 65 years of age. The Uncle Sam Oil and Gas Co., of capital $100,000; to mine for gas, aud other minerals; directors, William C. Myers, H. A. Myers, R. F. Myers, Frank Schultz and W. J. .Hubbard, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state.

1917 BASIS OF ASSESSMENT

The following schedule has been adopted by the assessors of Jasper county fpr the assessment of .personal property for* the year 1917: Money and notes, 75c on the sl. Stocks and goods, 75c on the sl. Horses, 75c on the sl, Mules and colts, 75c on the sl. Cattle, fat“ $7 per cwt. Cattle, feeding, $5 per cwt. All other cattle, 75c on the sl. Hogs, $7 per cwt. Sheep, $6 per head. Cord wood, $3 per cord. >%z Wheat, $1.25 per bushel.

Corn, 60 c per bushel. , . Oats, 40c per bushel. Potatoes, $1.50 per bushel. Timothy seed, $1.50 per bushel. .Rye, 80c per bushel. Clover seed, $7 per bushel. Onions, $S per bushel. Timothy hay, $6 per ton. Wild hay, $ 3 per ton. Ensilage, $2 per ton. Pork, $lO per cwt. Lard, $lO per cwt. Wool, $25 per cwt. Ice, 75c per‘ ton. Lumber, 75c on the $1; Chickens, $5 per dozen. . L ’ Turkeys, $2 each. 1 Geese, $6 per dozen.

Automobiles, 75c on the sl. . Additional improvements, 40c on the |l. I

Inaugural Address Appeal for United Americanism

• ; - . . . • .... -- - ■ Washington, March 6.—-Presi-dent Wilson's inaugural address delivered yesterday was My Fellow-Citizens—The four years which have elapsed since last I stood "in this place have been crowded with counsel . and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in Our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our life, i liberate and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our politics to a broader view of the people’s essential interests. It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction. But I shall not attempt to review it. It speaks for itself and will be of increasing influence as the years goby. This is not the time for retrospect. It is time, rather, to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future. . Although we have centered counsel and action with such unusual concentration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves upon our attention, matters

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lying ooitside our own life as a nation- and over which we had no control, but which despite our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more irresistibly into their own current and influences. It has been impossible to avoid them. They have affected the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywhere with 4 passion and an apprehension they never knew before. It has been hard to preserve calm counsel while the thought of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence. We are a composite and cosmopolitan people. We are the blood of all nations -that are at war. The currents of our thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevitably set its mark from the first alike lupofi our minds, our industries, our commerce, pur politics and our social action. To be indifferent to it or independent of it was out of the question. And yet all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it. In that consciousness, despite many livisions, we have drawn closer together. We have been deeply wronged upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in return; have retained throughout the consciousness of standing in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that transcended the immediate issues of the war itself.

.As soffio-of the injuries done us have become intolerable, we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind —fair dealing, justice, the freedom to live and be at ease against organized wrong. It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more' and more aware, more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make v good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. We stand firm inarmed neutrality since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist" upon and can not forego. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great

struggle itself. But nothing will alter our thought or our purpose. They are too'clear to be obscured. They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered. We desire neither conquest nor advantage. . We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people. We have always pro-; fessed unselfish purpose and we 1 covet the opportunity to prove that, our professions are sincere. | There are many things still to do at .home," to clarify our ownj ( politics and .give new vitality to J the industrial processes of our own ; life, and we shall do them as time i and opportunity serve, but we real- 1

ize that the greatets things that remain to be done must be done with the whole worjd for stage and in co-operation with the wide and universal forces of mankind,., and we are making our spirits ready for those things. They will follow in the immediate wake of the war itself and will set civilization ub again. We are provincials no longer. The tragical events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we would have it so ‘ or- not , And yet we are not the legs Americans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true t.p the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. , These, therefore, are the things , we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace: That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples, and equally responsible for their maintenance. That the essential principle of peace is the actual equality of nations in all matters of

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right or privilege. That peace can not securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of power. 7 That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the family of nations. That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, under rules set up by common agreement and consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible to all upon equal terms. That national armaments should be limited to the necessities of national order and domestic safety. That the community" of interest and of power upon which peace must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of seeing to it that all influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encdur-. age or assist revolution in other states should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented.

I need not argue these principles to you, my fellow countrymen; they, are your own, part and parcel of your own thinking and your own motive in affairs. They spring up native amongst us. Upon this as a platform of purpose and of action

we can stand together. And ft is imperative that we should stand together. We are being forged into a new unity amidst the fires that now blaze throughout, the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God’s providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, purified of the errant \ humors of party and of private in : terest and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. i I stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which yon have been audience because the people of the United States have chosen me for this august delegation of power arid have by their gracious judgment named me their leader in affairs, I know now what the task means. I realize to the full the responsibility which it involves. I pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this! great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confi-

[dence and their counsel. i The thing I shall count upon, the [ thing without which neither coun- ' ssl nor action will avail, is the . unity of America —an America [ united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity [and of service. We are to beware of alp- meh who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own profit or use them for the

building up cf private power; beware that no faction or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of 'our people; beware that our government be kept pure and incorrupt in all its parts. ] ' United alike in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve \to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task tb which we must now set our hand. For myself I beg your tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled dnd we shall walk with the light all about us, if we be but true to ourselves- —to ourselves as we have wished to b£ known in the counsels of the world and in the thought or all those who love liberty and justice and the right exalted.

FORMER GILLAM MAN IS DEAD

Albert G. Robb of Washington, Oklahoma, and a former resident of Gillan township, passed away at his home February 19. Mr. Robb formerly farmed the farm now owned by John P. Ryan, and is the father of Mrs. Perry Defip] TTIR Albert G. Robb was born at West Union, Ohio, April 8, 1825, and when 8 years of age moved with his parents to Martinsville, Morgan county, Indiana, where his father, yvith the help of him and an older brother, cleared a farm in the heavily timbered country. As soon as this was accomplished and his parents were in a position to live in comfort, he bought his time from his father and at the age of 18 went into the world to forge for himself a career of usefuluness. He went to Chicago in— 1844, which at that time was little more than a village, and from there to Genoa, Illinois, where he bought a

farm from the government, paying $1.25 an acre for it. Here he remained until the gold excitement in California attracted the attention of the country, and taking his consumptive brother he started for the el dorado. They left Independence, Missouri, with an ox team the first of May. 1849, and reached Hangtown, (Stutter’s Mill) on September 6 of that year. The following year his brother died and he remained in the mines until the spring of 1853, when be sailed for home, crossing the Isthmus of Panama at the place where the Great Panama Canal spans the isthmus and has become the great artery of commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific, going to Chicago from there by way of New York and the Great Lakes. He was united in marriage to Amy E. Williams July 18, 1853, returning shortly afterward to his former home at Martinsville, Indiana, where he enterea into business as a cabinet-maker. I When the country’s call for defenders came in 1861, he locked his shop, walked to Indianapolis and enlisted as a private in Co. E, 26th Ind. Vol. Infantry, and was mustered out of service as 2nd lieutenant in January, 1866. j Following the war and during the reconstruction period he took a very active part, lending all his energy and ability to the upbuilding of his ruined country. In 1888 he moved his family to Kansas, where they lived in comfort until age forced them to go to the children for the care that only a child can give. They settled in Washington, Oklahoma, where his son resided, remaining there until his death which occurred on the 19 th. —Medaryville Advertiser. -

Francis Jones, New York negro subway porter, threw a bucket of Water on what he thought was burning paper and went back to work. When he discovered- it was a bomb he fell down a flight of stairs.

(fesifieotW FOR SALK

Reid’s Yellow Dent Seed Corn -—A. limited amount for sale, bred for early maturing and high yield. Shipped on approval. If not satisfied return same at my expense and money will be refunded. MOSES SIGO, Remington, Indiana. Phone 79-I.m-22 For Sale—Good big work horse, also some yellow seed corn. — GEORGE SIGO, Rensselaer, Phone 942-E. * m-17 For Sale—A high grade standard ' make of piano, very cheap. Write H. A. RUSH, 280 E. Court St-, .Kankakee, Illinois.m-10 For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE.tf Fop Sale—ls tons good timothy hay, five tons in stack, ten tons in mow.—CHARLES BRITT. Phone 923-B,

For Sale—Good team of work mares, wt’24oo.—W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 80-C, ML Ayr exchange.tf For Sale—Plenty of good oak lumber at $lB and S2O a 1% mile northeast of McCoysburgfl —O. N. BERRY, McCoysburg, Ind., i R-l. • m-17 For Sale—One bay horse and one bay mare, 4 and 8 years old, lady broke. Call at noon at McCoysburg. Cheap if sold at once. —PAUL D. STEPHENS.m3 For Sale—l gelding, 3 mares, all gentle and good workers; 3 coming yearling draft colts; 1 red cow with calf by side, fresh since Feb. 24. CHAS. H. GUTTRICH. Phone 9 2 8-J. -j mlO For Sale—Remington typewriter No. 7, with tabulating attachment

Machine in splendid order and looker and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale— Rebuilt typewriters, as good as new, at one-fourth to onehalf the price of new machines; any buiId.—HEALEY & TUTEUR, Rensselaer. . 1 ts For Sale— One gasoline 16-horse power engine, mounted on iron wheel wagon, will run ensilage cutter or small separator. This engine is a Fairbanks Morse, anil a good one. $l5O buys it. This is a bargain for some one. See JOHN J. STOCKTON, or telephone 915-B or 409. < tf For Sale— so,ooo to 75,000 feet of oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price, from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white oak posts on ground at 7c each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 642, Rensselaer. tf 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 gddres? R care THE DEMOCRAT.

FOR RENT For Rent— Bo-acre improved farm 2 miles southeast of Wheat? field. —HARVEY DAVISSON. For Rent— Good 6-room house, outbuildings, 2 lots, plenty of fruit. —PHONE NO. 618.m7 For Rent— Farm', to Industrious, sober, capable man; will furnish.— EMBERSON SMITH, F.air Oaks, Indiana.\mlO For Rent— B-room house, electric lights; two blocks east of court house square, on McKinley avenue. Phone 130. L.„ mlO For Rent — 320 acres good pasture land, well fenced; windmill, etc.; in Walker tp.—J. DAVISSON. ’Phone 313. m 7 Farm For Rent— l6o-acre farm, weft located, and in good condition. —ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. 1 ts For Rent—A dandy suite of office rooms over The Democrat office.—F. E. BABCOCK. ts For Rent good 4-foot woven wire fence, new windmill and tank; 1 mile west of Virgie. Enquire of J. W. STOCKTON. Phone >5 of 915-B.tf For Rent— -Brand new 4-room house, acre truck or pasture ground, in Kniman.—ROßT. MICHAL, Kniman, Indiana. tf

For Rept— The five-room fiat over The Deomcrat office, city water, bath, electric lights, etc. To small family only.— F. E. BABCOCK, Phone 311 or 315. For Rent— Bo-acre improved farm, located 2 miles north of town, close to school bouse; good roads on both sides of it. Will rent for cash or grain. See J. W. STOCKTON, Rensselaer, Ind., at once, or ’phone 25 or 915-B. ts ’ LOST Lost—Monday evening, a light tan kid glove, nearly new, between my home and Montgomery’s news stand. Finder please return to Mabel Nowels. •" WANTED Wanted—At once, one-half dozen setting hens.—RAY D. THOMPSON. Wanted to Borrow—s4oo or SSOO on good real estate security. —BOX 51, Kniman, Indiana. mlO Wanted—Job on farm by the month, by single man of good habits; am a good worker —can do all kinds of work but milking. Address JOHN BLOUNT, Monon, Indiana, R-18. ■■■• •" , - mS

MISCELLANEOUS Butter Wrappers Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat office. Typewriters The Corona, 6pound machine; just as good as the larger makes; new machines at SSO; see them at HEALEY & TUTEUR’S, south of Worland’s furniture store. tf Storage—l have two rooms for storage of light household or’ other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 311 or 315. Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will 4 be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price ts

FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.— JOHN A. DUNLAP ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclcne. Inquire of M. I, ADAMS, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title Is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & son, ■ '• ~ ■ Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm propertv in any sums up to S 1 0- 00 O.—E P, HONAN. I fipl I I] VI IHv Without Chargeo fee Hr Making or Recording Instrument*. . W. H. PARKINSON ■■. - - r - ..' ...