Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — Page 2

IK B8M! ■! E E. BABCOCK, Publisher A ' - ■ OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephone* ; Office 315 Residence 311 EnterM as Second-Class Mall Matter June < !s■<». at the postoffice at Rensse laer. Indiana, tinder the Act of March t. 1879. . * Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1917

THE FLAG

Let us hang out the flag, .the red. white a®d blue, A sign to the world that we are loyal and true To the country we love, the home of the brave; Let our banner float above us and ripple and wave. Then hail to our flag, the red, white and blue— The flag of the nation that’s loyal and true. It floats o'er our land and shall float o’er the sea , The flag of our country, the home Of the free. 6 It whs carried aloft by the gallant and brave Who fought: for our country from oppression to save, So here in our states, the states that we love, ■ • - The red, white and blue shall wave .. from above. \ - Then hail to our flag, " the -red;, white and blue, The flag of the nation that's loyal and true. » - . It floats o'er our land and shall float o'er the sea— The flag’ of our country, the home of the' ' free. ‘ ‘ -—Sarah A. Crockett. Enjoy your money while living. Others will make it fly when you are dead. . / ~ ' “Buying a ; pig in a poke” has lost all element of risk. No chance to lose now. • We have stood on the brink of war ?o long we have become dizzy and are tumbling in. A loyal American is one who places the welfare of America above that of all other nations. Extravagance and parsimony are both sins, but there is a happy medium which makes you actually human. Russia has demonstrated the fact, that the guillotine is not the only instrument that can remove a crowned head. _ Turkey may be considered the “sick man of Europe,” but from his recent efforts at sprinting you would never believe it. - Nobody can blame those German sailors for attempting to escape. The word had gone out that they were to be sent to a “bone dry” state. , . '

Things are beginning to happen on other parts of the old ball now, and'if ydur Uncle Carranza doesn't get a better press agent he will soon be in total eclipse. If Europe legalizes polygamy after the war in order to build up its shattered population there will be a tremendous slump in the male population of this country. I Society women at Atlantic City insist on the hotel managers treating their pet dogs as guests. The managers should accede to the demand. Any dog is as good as the woman who considers a dog her equal. y American physicians who have been engaged in hospital work in Germany contend that the food shortage has operated to improve the health of the people. They could have learned that much at home. American newspapermen are noted for health and longevity.

Emerson 7-inch Double Records 25c Little Wonder Records 10c Popular Sheet Music Jarrette’s Variety Store

Just about the time an article of diet reaches a sufficiently high price to be really toothsome and appetizing, along comes some meddlesome highbrow and declares it fatal to one or more of the pet ailments of mankind.. Spuds are now declared 'to have a special grudge against the little catarrh devils and we are warned against eating them. * . You say, Mr. Merchant, that you don’t have to advertise because you have been in business so long that everybody knows you. Well, there is a certain mail order concern in Chicago that has probably been in business as long as you have, and we will bet a nickel to a ginger cake -that every 'person that reads these lines can call the name of that firm. And we will bet, further, that over half of your customers have catalogs of this firm in their homes right now. They see the value of advertising. Can’t you? . Citizens of Layramie township residing four miles south of Clark’s Hill are greatly incensed over the alleged un-Americanism displayed by Henry Arndt, .a farmer. Neighbors 1 : have entered complaint to Sheriff Slayback tfiat each morning Arndt raises a Gernfen flag on a pole which he erected in his yard. The sight of- the flag has aroused; the ire Of the citizens and they demand that something be done. Sheriff Slayback said last night that; he instructed two men residing in the vicinity that the first time they saw the flag raised to shoot it down and place Arndt under arrest.Saturday’s Lafayette Journal-

APRIL AN HISTORIC MONTH

Tennyson said, “In the spring a young ’man’s’ fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” Strangely enough, in the most typically spring •month of the twelve in the calendar, April, the fancy of the people of the United States seems to turn not to love, bqt to war. as we may see from consulting the accounts if the different American wars given in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.- ’ The battle of Lexington that ishered in the war of independence ( was fought on April 19, 17 75. The ■attack on Fort Sumter, ushering in j the great rebellion, took place April 12, lifrkL The SpanishAmerican war nagan with the declaration of war by Spain April 24 and by the United States April 25, 1898. Even the Mexican war began in April, for it was on the 24th of April, 1846, that the first fighting took place in an attack of a large force of Mexicans on a small party of American dragoons under Captain Thornton.

Of the five wars in which the United States has been engaged, four have broken but in the month of April; only one, the war of 1812, began in a different month, ind as a matter of fact that war did. too. for it was on April 4, 1812, that congress enacted the embargo against Great Britain, following it a little later by the formal declaration of war. There is an old proverb that “History never repeats itself." This loes certainly not hold true in the past history of the United States as regards war, and with congress meeting on April 2, this year, it seems safe to state that -it will not be true again this year.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The weather prophet, in his den, annoys the jaded souls of men. He hands down daily, his decrees, ex,plaining why we roast or freeze. Today we shiver, in our woe, be-. cause somewhere theje is a “low.” Tomorrow we shall bake or fry, because somewhere there is a J ‘high.’’ I do not like the weather chief; he is unmoved by human grief. He'sits up in his moldy tower, like Marianna in her bower, and scans his dreary - maps and charts, and plies his dark and mystic arts. He doesn’t care if people freeze and have rheumatics in their knees; he doesn’t care a whoop or wurst how many kitchen may burst. The weather is to him: a game, and stolidly ve plays the same. While we are thawing frozen toes, he rants away about his lows. When icicles are in our eyes, he hands us bunk about his highs. There’s nothing human in his spiel, and no emotion does he feel. If he would help us cuss a streak, when cold winds blow, week after week, if he’d adrnit he has a pain, when this old world! io soaked with rain, he might draw closer to our hearts; but no, he reads his dippy charts, and through the same old motions goes, discussing tiresome highs and lows. I

Christian Science Christian Science services at 11 a. m. Sunday in the auditorium of the public library. Public cordially invited. ts

CONGRESS TOLI> / THAT WAR EXISTS

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against the- German government, which 'he characterized as - a “natural foe to liberty,” the President recommended: Utmost practical co-operation in counsel and action with the governments already at war with Germany. ' Extension of liberal financial credits to thosa governments, so that the resources bf America may be added, so far ap possible, to theirs. Organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country. * Full equipment of the navy, particularly for mea;ißr>o.f dealing with submarine warfare. An army of at least 500,000 men, based on the principle of universal, liability to service and the authorization of additional increments of 500,000 when they are needed or-can be handled in training. • •* Raising necessary money for- the United States government,. .. so far as possible without borrowing and on the basm of equitable taxation. All preparations, the President urged, should be made in such a way, sp as not to check the flow of war supplies to nations already in the field against Germany. Measures to -accomplish all these ends, the President told congress, : would be .presented • with the best thought of the executive depart-' ments which will bo charged with the conduct of the war and he besought consideration for them in that light. While the President was speaking, word of the torpedoing without warning of the, American steamer Aztec, the first American armed ship to be .attacked in the barred zone, was passed from mouth to mouth, but the President did not know of it until he had finished.

While congress works on the war resolution the cabinet will hold a war session to which Major General Scott, chief of staff of the army, and Admiral Benson, chief of operations, of the navy, may be invited. Meanwhile, many days of hurried preparation for the eventuality which now confronts the nation have borne their fruit and remain only to be carried further. The nation is on a war footing, declaring war upon no other; only girding itself to take up the gauntlet that had been so ruthlessly thrown down. It is made plain that our entrance into the war drama is not prompted by hope of gain, ambition, or lust of conquest. The President even goes so far as to renounce all thought of indemnity when peace terms are concluded. Whatever contribution the United States may make in the way of life and treasure and sacrifice is given I freely in behalf of humanity and world order. The high purpose that actuates the nation is set forth with clearness in the following excerpts, which, taken in connection with the discussion of conditions in Russia, may be interpreted as sounding the knell of monarchial rule as an important factor in world affairs;

“Our object * * * is to vindicate the principles of peace and the justice in the lief of the world against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concern of purpose and of actions as will henceforth ensure the observance of these principles. Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peacs of the world is involved and the freedom of their peoples ariji the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. “We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of canduct and* of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.

“We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them, but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse Jhat their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. . “It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were pro-, voked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow-men as pawns and tools.’*

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic Break Reports from all sections? of Philadelphia tell, of organized efforts being made in. many cities and boroughs to stimulate recruiting in the army, navj and marine corps, and organization of local committees to arouse popular interest in defense measures. More than .eighty Slavs ■ , employed, in the steel mills at Sharon. Pa.. i been drilling for th? last ‘two months, and have volunteered for naval service. | Forty-five Roumanians have -formed a (•ontpany and will offer, their, seiyices | In event of war. . ’• The German government will ask i American ofiicltds and relief \utrnW> .of the American commission for relief in Belgium to submit to a period of ‘•news quarantine," the time not to ex-' Ceed 4 four weeks, to prevent tnilitar> information beiilg given out. says a dispatch received at Amsterdam. ♦ * * or ' A mid' cheers, shouts, waving of flags ami the Hare of photographers flashlights Compaim's G of the First Illinois infantry left Chicago for •‘somewhere in Illinois.” The troops were scheduled to begin guarding a point of strategic import am-e within the state. ' ° ♦ ♦ ♦ The New York Herald says it has obtained from observers at Montauk Point, L. 1., information that two German war submarines of the latest type, were seen distinctly a few miles frmri slr.re. Continuing the Herald -says: “Their obvious, objective will be an attack upon New A ork harbor if war is declared.” * * *

An attempt by three men to enter the arsenal reservation at Watertown, Mass., by burrowing under a fence was reported by Patrolman David A. Thompson, who said he fired five shots at th? men after two of them liad fired at him. The men escaped. • * * Four hundred and eleven officers and men of the Kronprinz Wilhelm arrived at Atlanta, Ga. The interned officers and men of the Prince Eitel Friedrich were sent to Oglethorpe. ♦ * ♦ The United States government at Washington has granted safe-conduct for German officials in China to pass through this country. They will probably land at San Francisco. ♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty-nine members of the Aerial Coast Patrol, the “millionaire flying corps,” left for West Palm Beach, Fla. They were for.training by Secretary Daniels, The order vtas received .at New York following the enrollment of the corps in the naval fly* ing reserve corps. •.-•;■ ♦ ♦ ♦ The American liner St. Louis, first armed .American ship to cross the Atlantic, has arrived safely at its destina-' tion, Secretary Daniels announced at Washington. * * i* J. P. Morgan & C 0,,, it was announced at New York, hate agreed to advance an amount up to $1,000,000, without interest, to relieve possible embarrassment of the depot quartermaster of the war department in the purchase of army supplies. ♦ * ♦ Congressman James R. Mann of Chicago, Republican leader of the house, announced at Washington that in the country’s crisis he would forego all ambition to be speaker of the house of representatives to prevent any possible deadlock in the house organization and the meeting of congress to enact legislation needed for the safety ot the nation. ' Reports reached the state department at Washington that German agents in Russia-are seeking to foment a counter-rev<dHi/on by Russian socialists present provisional government. So far their ,efforts have been unsuccessful. Corporal Frank E. Zellmak of L company, Seventeenth United States infantry, shot himself, his companions said, rather than stand guard over German interned sailors at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. He was a native Hungarian.

European War News r The village of Coucy-'LerChateau was captured by the French, the Prris war office announces. Further progress was made in the lower section of Coucy forest, all of the northern part of which is now held by the French. . The sinking of 25" more steamships, 14 sailing Vessels and 37 trawlers, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 80,000, In the last few days, was announced by the admiralty at Berlin. * * * .- ’ Hindenburg struck on the eastern front what are generally interpreted as the Initial blows in a drive against the heart of Russia. Contrary to expectations, these first attacks did not come on the Riga front, but ofi the sector between Dvinsk and Pinsk. Petrograd officially reports the repulse of both attacks. - -7 ... , ——’ * - ~

Removal Notice I have removed my REAL ESTATE and FARM LOAN office from the First National Bank building to the ground floor of my own building, south of State Bank corner in Leo 1 Mecklenburg’s Electric Shop. I have a supply $f money to loan on mortgage at lowest current rates. . ■ Remember the new location, west side court house square. Regular office days, Friday, Saturday, Monday. Phone 109 —• Emmet L. Hollingsworth

Eli H... Redman, former circuit court judge, one of the men convicted of election frauds in Terre Haute and sentenced in 191 a to five years imprisonment in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, died at the federal prison Friday after a few days’ illness. He leaves a wife and one son. The body was brought to Terre Haute for burial.

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FOR SALE Or Trade—>s vacant lots in Fair ■Oaks. Also washings and housecleaning work wanted.—L. V. MARTIN, Rensselaer. als S. C. White Leghorn eggs, 75c for 15, $5 per 100.—PHONE 919-B, Rensselaer.ml Good Recleaned Timothy Seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts Nearly new Studebaker wagon with triple box. —C. A. CALDWELL, one block west of M. P. church, Rensselaer. aS Second-hand Ford in A-l condition. One slightly used Chevrolet 490, good as new.—M. I. ADAMS & SON. aS Good Team of Work Mares, wt. 2400,-—W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 80-C, ML Ayr exchange. ts Maple Syrup and Sugar, guaranteed strictly pure; put in 2-quart cans, 75 c a can f. o. b. railroad. —J. M. BROWN, Sugar Grove, Warren Co., Pennsylvania. alO

Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs for setting, 50c for 15 or $3 per 100.— MRS. T. M. McALEER, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 15-X, Remington exchange. a-7 Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, $2 per setting of 15. The best that can be bought for this price anywhere. Also mammoth Pekin duck eggs, $1.50 per setting of 11 eggs, unsurpassed in quality.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. al 5 Remington Typewriter, No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid condition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. I have some extra nice Clover Seed, strictly pure and clean, guarantee no buckhorn or thistle. Also 6-year-old mare, wt. about 1200, lady broke, works anywhere.—, HENRY PAULUS. Phone 938-G. a 9 For Sale—Team of work horses and team of 3-year-old mules; also some re-cleaned timothy seed, 1 bushel clover seed, 1 new 12-inch gang plow, only plowed 10 acres. —- JOSEPH TRULLEY, Rensselaer, R--4, Phone 945-B. a-10 Seed Corn —Have a limited amount of Reid’s Yellow Dent seed, rack dried, all of pedigreed strains. If you wish any order at once as supply is running low. —HENRY PAULUS, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 938-G, route 3. •a 5

Five-passenger Automobile in good running condition, electric horn, Presto-lite lights, top, good tires, two practically new; extra inner tubes, jack, etc. A bargain if sold soon. Will demonstrate. —F. E. BABCOCK. One Gasoline 16-Horse-power Engine, mounted on iron wheel wagon, will run ensilage cutter or small separator. This en-. gine is a Fairbanks Morse, and a good one. $l5O buys It. This to a bargain for some one. See JOHN J. STOCKTON, or telephone 915-B or 409. ts 50,000 to 75,000 Feet of Oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to 118 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. ~ : , y \ V Stop Paying Rent—Own a homp in the hardwood timber belt tff

Wisconsin, sls to $25 per acre on terms to suit. Sugar maple, oak, basswood, birch, etc. Choice clay loam soil. Pure spring streams. Close to towns. Improved and partly improved farms. Write FRANK M. DOYL’E, Immigration Agent, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. a2l 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 P desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. See JAY W. STOCKTON for some choice lots in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana. Fine location; all public improvements made and paid for. Also some fine uncultivated land, as well as some of the best land that’s in Jasper county. « There is no indebtedness against any of this property. If you are interested telephone 25 or 915-B.

Bees —I have for sale twenty strong hives of Italian bees. Price $8 per hive, cash. Each hive, if the season be favorable, will give from two to four swarms. I will sell May and June swarms for $5 per stand. Men who assume to know claim that a hive of bees should be in every orchard and' pickle field to pollenize each bloom and thus produce a large crop. The old saying, “A swarm in May is worth a ton of hay, and in June a silver spoon,’’ may hold good this year.—FRANK FOLTZ.

WANTED Sewing—Spring sewing wanted at home for boys and girls.—MßS. ELL'A RISHLING, Rensselaer, ml FOR RENT 80-Acre Improved Farm, 2 miles southeast of Wheatfield.—HAßVEY DAVISSON. ~ 160-Acre Farm, well located, and in good condition.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS.tf A Dandy Suite of Office Rooms over The Democrat office.—F. E. BABCOCK, . ts Pasture—l have room for 20 head of stock to pasture for season. -—A. E. KIRK, Parr, Indiana, R. F. D. No. 1. al 2 1 ' . ■ ■ ■■ ■- I l.ly 11 ■llli The Five-Room Flat over The Democrat office, city water, bath, electric lights, etc. To small family only —F. E. BABCOCK, Phone 315 or 311.Pasture of 160 Acres, has quite a good deal of timber on it, and there is also a lot of pasture in the open land for grazing purposes. Will rent reasonable. It is north of Rensselaer. See JAY W. STOCKTON for further information. Telephone 25 or 915-B. - ■-■ 1 ' ll ' ' 11 J ' We Have Room for about 250 head of stock for the season on the J. J. Lawler pasture? near Fair Oaks, plenty of grass and water. Cattle, all ages, ($1 per month; horses, $1.50 per month for season. Call or see superintendent, JAMIES E. WALTER. Phone 337. ts

MISCELLANEOUS Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in, any quantity desired, either plain •_ or printed, at The Democrat Office, ts Storage—l have two rooms for storage of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable. — F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 315 or 311.. Typewriter Ribbons —The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons fqr nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price.tf

FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans. —JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance —Fire and Lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS, Phone 533-L. ts Farm Loans—l' 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. ts Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I A 1 1L 'I Without Delay, Mr I IIIP Without Commission, UvJ lllv Without Charges for lAlirV >,Maklng °* Recording Hill I Instrumeifts. UilL I J W. H. PARKINSON.