Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — Page 2

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CONSCRIPT INCOMES!

Is our congress going to say I that it is only the lives of bur boys that are owing to their country in this crisis? Is there something yet more precious that must not be laid on the altar? Is the wealth of our money'”lords too sacred to •be touched without gilt-edged notes, bonds and usury? Perish—the thought! Will redblooded Americans who are ready to give their lives for their country consent to give those lives in defense of the money bags of the Shylocks? Not unless those bags are opened wide ‘to the country’s needs. Two thousand years ago a poor woman dropped into the contribution chest her “mite” —but it was her all. At the same time the rich and powerful gave princely sums, yet the Master Teacher declared

Mlipli 1.. 11 Kill \ rw^i^l W/ I ffifr J'jhn .Marlatt Can Sell Almost I Any Hake of Tire Once g Fd|l (t- but this town is not big enough in which to do business I on the ONE SALE ONLY basis. -■ ' I must/sell tires again and again to the same people. » On this principle my business has grown because I sell a tire that B cuts down upkeep to a fair and reasonable figure. .. .. B People ask how far will this tire run? I tell them we rarely see a -|1 S Diamond that won’t go five thousand miles. Yet Diamonds are B B PRICED on a basis of only three thousand five hundred miles. B There is no “velvet” in the price, but plenty cf “velvet” in Diamond |g| mileage. B ® We carry a complete line of sizes in stock and can fill your tire wants w B immediately. If you can’t come, telephone. ■ Every Diamond Tire must deliver full value in service. If ever a Diamond Tire fails, a cheerful, willing adjustment M ■ will be promptly made. Bh B Rennssalaer Garage I ■ -A_ Rennssalaer, Indiana v ra* « a» “W W’ - *<-

her gift to be greater than theirs. Many a sorrowing mother will be called upon in the days to come: for her “mite”—her brave young son. Fathers are asked to surrender the sons upon whom they hoped to lean in the helplessness of age. Are these sacrifices to be made that the miser’s hoard may be safe? Conscript incomes! Conscript wealth wherever found, if necessary, to the prosecution of the war. In God’s name, are the tplutocrats who have fattened on the public for generations to still be regarded as a “privileged class’’ when the life of our nation and its people are at stake? Conscript the incomes! Let the Shylocks lay their wealth where the poor man lays his life.

NO FEAR OF OVER-PRODUCTION

“There is no possibility of overproduction of food in this country this year. America will raise a normal crop,” said L. S. Hawkins of the New York state food supply commission at the annual meeting of the Western New York association of district superintendents of schools at the Statler hotel recently. “Factors in this crop situation are scarcity of labor, seed and machinery,” -said the speaker. “Plans are now under way to conserve potatoes by drying them. Dried potatoes do not sound palatable, but when no others may be obtained we shall be glad to eat them. “One of the most alarming problems is the bean situation. There has been an Increase In the acreage of this crop, but there Is no crop so liable to failure. Beans are a most valuable product in time of war, and a strenuous campaign will be made by the government through the Scout system to prevent disease spoiling the crop. Spraying machines will be furnished farmers as a preventative. “The livestock situation also Is serious. The price of feed is so high that farmers have been killing a lot of heifer calves to obtain the high prices offered for veal. The result is a decrease in the milk supply, one of the country’s most valuable foods. It will be difficult to remedy this. “Food production, however, Is only half of the problem confronting the country. Besides produc- . ing, steps must be taken to reduce

Conscription Registration Facts

Tuesday*; June 5, is the only day for registration. " t Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. No matter what just daim you hare for exemption, you MUST register. Registration is distinct from draft. » * ■ The penalty for failing to segisier is imprisonment, not fine. To register is a publie duty. Every male resident of the ■United' States who has reached his twenty-first and has not reached his thirty-first birthday MUST register on the day set, June 5, 1917. The only exceptions are officers and enlisted men of ... the regular . arm", the navy, .the marine corps, and the national guard and' .naval -militia. sbbieet to call to federal ■ service, and officers in the officers" reserve- corps and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. Under a new construction of '-e-registration proclamation explained by the United States proves-: marshal general, members of the national guard or any military r naval organization subject to call, though not yet mustered into the federal service, need not register. The only organizations of ‘-e Indiana national guard which are subject to call, and therefor? exedapt from registration, are as follows: First, Second and Third infantry regiments; Batteries A, C and D of the artillery: Cojnpany A, signal corps; Ambulance Companies Nos. T and 2; Field Hospitals, Nos. 1 and 2, and Engineer Companies A, B and C. Members' of all other new units and proposed units of the Indiana national guard now formed or being formed must register for the reason that they are not yet subject to federal eall, not having beta fi-mafly extended federal recognition. Every person who register? will receive a card signed by the chief registrar of his precinct, st :ng he has complied with the law. Such card must be shown to linemen or other officers on request on or after the day of registration, Jane 5. Those who through sickness -ball be unable to register should cause a. representative to apply to the county or city clerk for a copy of the registration card. The clerk will give instructions as to how this card should be filled out The card should then be mailed by the sick person, or delivered by his agent, to the registrar of his voting precinct. The sick per-cm will enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return to him of his registration certificate. Any person who expects to be absent from his voting precinct on registration day should apply as ??<--n aS practicable for a registration card to the county clerk of the county where he may be stopping. The clerk will record the answers on the card and turn it over to the absentee. The absentee should mail this card to the registrar of his home Vtjting precinct so tbat it will reach that official by registration day. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be enclosed with the card to insure the return to the absentee of a registration certificate. -

living expenses. This can only be done by conservation of the food supply and eliminating waste." H. H. Horner of the chief examination divwon of the education department, reviewed briefiy the educational legislation passed at Albany the last session and answered questions in connection with bills. The township bill was the subject of discussion. W. L. Ward was elected president, H. A. Dann, vice-president, and Mrs. Dorothy B. Connolly, see-

retary-treasurer.—New York Times.

THE FARM ON A BUSINESS BASIS

Farmers who lament the exodus front the farms to the cities may .surprised at being told that 'they' themselves are largely to '’.ire. yet such is the case. They are at fault, in that they have filled to deal with hired help and renters on a business basis. Let us illustrate: Mr. Thompson, who owns a large ■farm, takes John Smith as his hired help and installs him and his family in a tenant house on the He agrees to give Smith his house rent, garden, truck patch, fire” wood and cow pasture, with rerhaps ‘other “favors,” together with a moderate wage for time actually put in at work. Generally speaking, this wage is somewhere around |1 a day, in some sections of the country more. Smith works for a year. He puts in T-ossicly 250 days. At the end of that time he takes stock of his earnings,. and right at this point is where the trouble comes. Smith can see nothing for his year’s work but S±so. He has come to regard the other items in the contract as ‘■free favors,** and consequently values them lightly. He hears of his neighbor, Tom Jones, who has gone to town or the city and is making good wages—s 2 or ?2.50 a day. His own earnings look too puny to suit him, and to town he goes, only to find that for the "*Ttee favors” he has valued so lightly in the country the best part of his earnings in town must be paid. However, he has made the move, and rather than be classed as unstable or unreliable, in town he stays. If Mr. Thompson, in contracting with Smith, had said plainly, “Your house rent is worth so much per month, your fire wood so much per cord, your cow pasture so much,” and so on through the list of “favors,” the whole matter would have worn a very different aspect, and Smith would have seen that instead of being hard his lot was a very easy one. When the- employer and help on the farms learn to place their dealings on a sensible business basis a big improvement will be the result, and more men will stay on the fhruis. .

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Now that summer is approaching the potato blossom will no doubt make its advent as a select article of millinery adornment. We can see right now that If this restrictive diet business goes much farther there will be a number of failures among the manufacturers of anti-fat. Our idea of a “work of supererogaticn.” as the preacher would say. is the department of agriculture telling the people how to have “wheatless” and “meatless” days. The information is entirely super-, It is not necessary to be stingy or resort to parsimony in your personal or household expenditures,

but it is highly essential that every person refrain from extravagance or waste of any nature while we are at war with a powerful foreign country. Foreign missions continue to pour into the United States and, as a result, American gold continues to pour out —or rather, it is loaned to the allies and spent in this country for supplies that are to be sent abroad to win the war. There is no bottom to the American purse when the cause of humanity is at stake. Up to the present time the country as a whole has been practically sleeping with regard to the war. But we will awake with a sudden start when the selective draft begins to draw our own sons and brothers to the trenches. There will be no lack of interest frotn then on. Once thoroughly aroused to the seriousness of the situation, the American people will wade in with sleeves up and stick until the last dog is hung.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair.. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. .h> - • SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE A 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. I. M. WASHBURN 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 Typhoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fevers. Office 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 Courts. 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 —8-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA

■I J SB Undertakers NOl AND HORSE DRAWN HEARSE AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones: Residence 5? Olllce 23

Your Tribute to • the Departed should take the permanent form of a monument. Let us show you some designs that will come within your means whether they be small or large. Our monuments are artistic whether they are of little or great cost. So do not delay putting up a stone because you think you cannot have a nice one with the means at your command. We will supply one in good taste for probably less than you expect to pay. Will H. Mackey Rensselaer, Ind.

J 1 ACKER’S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit. PSfiSt Heipa to eradicate dandruff. ijiSVSR. For Restoring Color and ■’sSSK ; Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. K&I2JK 50c. and SLOO at Drurei.ta

OHICAQO, INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLE RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect February, 1017 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.9L No. 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 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. , SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati | 1:45 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville | 10:55 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati | 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s I 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette) 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati J 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville | 11:10 p.m

!; OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, I CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer. Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson 2 Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne J Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery >! Fire War den. i.. J. J. Montgomery ; ’ Councilmen 1 Ist Ward Ray Wood 1J 2nd Ward Frank Tobias i> 3rd Ward............. Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Krealer 1! JUDICIAL i i 1; Circuit Judge.. Charles W. Hanley 1I Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben'Hess 1 1 Terms of Court— Second Monday ' I in February, April, September ' I and November. Four week ’ > terms. COUNTY OFFICERS ' I Clerk Jesse Nichols I Sheriff ß. D. McCoUy p Auditor .......J. P. Hammond J J Treasurer Charles V. May ![ Recorder.. George Scott Surveyor..E. D. Nesbitt ,' Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson S County Assessor.• .G. L. Thornton j! Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill I 1; COMMISSIONERS 1| Ist District H. W. Marble I 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever • 3rd District Charles Welch I Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. b COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION I. Trustees Township Grant Davisson ßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grova John Kolhoff .....Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, Jr Marlon k George Foulks Milroy Ip John Rush Newton 1 p George Hammerton Union Ip Joseph Salrin Walker 1; Albert S Keene Wheatfield 11 E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer ]; Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, I ■ ' Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first' and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address—Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month in G. A. Willlm’s law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

BIRO DAY DIALS* IM )imt iFiict oni ceiwi. lEISSEUEI, 111.

PIONEER Meat Market EIGELSBACH & SON, Props. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna ' AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest . Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

Every farmer who owns his farm ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of his postoffice properly given. The prln* ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special' izes in or his specialties in stock. Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you write and insures the proper reading of your name and address. Purchase your calling cards, correspondence cards, correspondence stationery and envelopes from The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. We carry the most complete line to be found outside the large ewes, ' ,