Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — Page 2

1 JM fionnn DEMDGRftt F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher •FFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office Sts Residence 111 Entered as' > Sccond-Claa* Mail Matter I Vane 8, 1908. at the postoffice at Renase-,1 leer. Indiana, under the Ac't of Marita L 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING KATES ! Display 12 %c Inch Display, special position ...15c Inch Senders, per line first Insertion.. 6c ‘ Senders, per line add. Insertions. .3e Want Ads—One cent per word each , insertion; minimum 25c. Special J price if run* one or more months. Cash must " accompany order unless advertiser has open account. I Curd of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines. 50 c. Cash with order. All acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of tharfks, .which are cash with order. No advertisement accepted fer Irst page, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917,

PROMPT ACTION IMPERATIVE

The recent indictment of -the onion combine in Boston, and later of the egg trust in Chicago should pry open the eyes of our national law makers to the very potent fact that there is something rotten in. the United States —very rotten. For months now the people of this country have insisted that the present extortionate prices of commodities are traceable to the price manipulators; that while there may be a scarcity in certain lines of commodities, that scarcity is not by any means' acute enough to warrant, the almost prohibitive cost of the articles in question. It was ho surprise to the public to learn that the Chicago egg gang ■worked their scheme through fictitious sales. As a matter of fact; that is the established method of those gentry. Their whole nefarious'business is pure gamble and Squeeze, always at the expense of the consumer.

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But with the exception of the prosecutions undef the Sherman law it seems that we are a long time in securing any relief. These prosecutions will not be a drop in the bucket, from the fact that they are likely to be long-drawn out and tedious, and to amount to very little in the end, The people of this country have not forgotten the farcical prosecution of the Standard Oil company and how very little, was accomplished'. . '. f , In the present emergency there is bat one remedy, and that is in government intervention to regulate prices, and from present indications we, fear another crop ’will be harvested and bagged by the speculating hogs before the law steps in and introduces a rule of reason and sanity. We believe the President is doing the best he can to this ehd, but he is handicapped by the procrastination of congress and the machinations of the hirelings of the speculators. One thing is certain, we must have both a maximum and a minimum price establishedidJn all commodities. The producer as well as the consumer must bo protected. If necessary, the products should be, marketed by government" bureaus, thus eliminating entirely the thieving horde of speculative middlemen. Bread riots are too near for comfort. They would be fatal in our national crisis. Herbert C. Hoover, the U. S, food expert, says that food speculators have been taking $50,000,000 a month from the American people for the past five months! No one will question this statement except to say that the estimate is probably too low. And yet they are permitted to go.> ahead and continue their thievery and gather in their ill-gotten millions! Pending food control regulations in congress President Wilson should act —-in fact should have acted lon-f ago—to put these freebooters out of business, using for his slogan the words of his immortal predecessor. President ’Jackson, who once said, “If there is no law that will enable me to act, by the eternal I’ll make one!” All accounts for merchandise must be settled by July 1, 1917, either by cash or bankable note. —■ THE G. E. MURRAY CO.

GREATHOUSE PUTS FEAR IN HEARTS

Republican Machine Not a Bit Pleased With Him as State Chairman, SO THE NEWS ABUSES HIM Opposition Press Unwilling to Admit His Splendid Record at State House Which Has No Equal. By Willis S. Thompson. Indianapolis, June’ 20.—Charles A. Greathouse, when he was the unanimous choice of the democratic state central committee to serve as state chairman, told the audience of democratic workers who were present that he did not wish to make too many promises. He preferred to get to work and, if possible, let his deeds exceed his words. It is on this line that he is immediately .starting to put the organization into working shape. He will . inject some ginger into tilings. At the first meeting Which will be held as soon as headquarters can be equipped for action; the woman’s executive committee, which will consist of one woman from each of the thirteen districts, will meet with and become an important part of the state central committee. The present members of the committee will name the women. Chairman Greathouse proposes at once to have his committee in action by perfecting the working forces in every precinct in the state. He is especially able as an organizer, his ability in this line having been shown in the excellent results accomplished while he Was state superintendent of public instruction. Selection of candidates for delegates at large to the constitutional convention will receive attention, ah though no plan has been agreed upon. The sentiment of democrats seems to be that while politics should be kept as for as possible from the convention, it is the duty of an organization such as the state committee to do all that it can to be sure that the people are given a chance to vote for the biggest men in Indiana regardless of what their politics.

The Indianapolis News now refers to Charles A. Greathouse as a “wheel horse in the democratic machine.” That is because he has been made stbte chairman because the News used the word machine in an obnoxious sense, and because the towering republican machine presided over by Joe Kealing, Jim Hemenway, Tobe Hert and the Indianapolis News fears that the good work of Greathouse is going a long way to the undoing of “state government by Goodrich,” which, being interpreted, means “government by the Indianapolis News.” , Fault is now found with Mr. Greathouse because he twice became state superintendent of public instruction when the democratic state organization supported him. The News is greatly worried because there is an efficient democratic organization in Indiana, and because there is a man of the standing and ability of Mr. Greathouse at its head. The News now appears to be greatly dissatisfied with the fact that Mr. Greathouse was twice elected state superintendent of public instruction. The editor of the News should have the honesty to admit .now, as it has done in some careless moments in the past, that the administration of Superintendent Greathouse was the best that has ever been known in Indiana or in any other state in the Union. That under his administration the fame of Indiana spread to all the states, because of the Splendid and substantial progress made in all things relating to education. '• All the people of Indiana know this. Superintendent Greathouse was responsible for more advanced educational legislation than all the men combined who ever held the office before him, and he put all these progressive Jaws into successful operation. It will be a long time before any political party in Indiana finds another man of equal ability for the job. While he was superintendent politics was never the first consideration. It never took precedence over efficiency. The first act of his successor was to depose some of the ablest people in the department and to name in their stead persons of absolutely no experience or special qualification, other than that they are republicans. So all that can be found to say against Mr. Greathouse now is that when he was a candidate the democrats. voted for him. After the election of 1918 the same editors can say that not only democrats, but republic cans and independents followed the Greathouse lead in voting with democrats to oust the grip of Goodrich on the state government, a thing of which the people of the state have already tired. The same complaint is that which has for a long time been made against William H. O’Brien, that when he was a candidate for auditor of. state the democrats voted for him. Therefore he is a member of some mysterious and awful machine. Yet no man who held the office of auditor did a tenth part of what Mr. O’Brien accomplished for the people. As_the direct result of his work, the republican debt of three millions which he assumed was entirely wiped out, and the day James P. Goodrich became governor he found the state not owing one penny of debt; and aS governor he accepted from the democrats a net cash balance on hand of six millions. More power to any political organization, call if machine or what you will, that produces such public officials as William H. O’Brien and Charles A. Greathouse. And the Indianapolis News, which 1 continues to denounce them, keeps up its laudation of Tobe Hert and Joe Kealing as great statesmen.

DEMOCRATS WILL SWAT COAL PRICE

Federal Government May Show Republican State Officials the Way. GREATHOUSE FOR CHAIRMAN Indiana Capital City Had Clean Bill to Present In Contest for Military Camp. By Willis S. Thompson. Indianapolis, June 13. —The federal government has entered the state to inquire into the reasons why coal should be costing more than several times a reasonable price, and why arbitrarily the coal operators should be advising the people to put in their winter supply if they-do not wish to pay still more. With the coming of the federal inquiry there is prospect that people may have an answer to some of these interesting questions. L. Ert Slack, United States district attorney, will act for the federal department of justice. While the Indiana public service commission got no further than to make the discovery that prices were high, limiting the punishment to the calling of ugly names to some of the operators, and concluding with the announcement that there was no remedy for the conditions, the commission got about as far as the people who understand conditions expected. But the people do not believe “there is no remedy.” The people have always believdU there was a remedy for such a coalition of highway robbery and burglary, else why are we in this war fighting for democracy and against autocracy? One of the hard-headed practical members of the. council for defense appointed by Governor Goodrich had an argument with an operator at one of the meetings the other day. The operator was commenting on how operators had been abused in the utterances of the public service commissions This member of the council reminded him that the young men who were enlisting to go to the front, one of the objects attained by the sacrifice of life and money being to protect such property interests as those of coal operators, might feel disposed to balk at sacrificing life for thirty dollars a month, when it was apparent that all the thirty dollars was to be taken away from the soldier’s family by the coal barons back home. There are conditions of ownership among the operators which did not serve to encourage consumers to expect any great things from their state government. For officials- however sincere, are not usually anxious to have their own oxen gored. But the federal investigation is not likely to respect persons or their likes or dislikes. It will probably insist upon answers to some important questions, however annoying they may be to ariy on€. And when it is over there is reason to believe some remedy will be found that will be effective. War prices need not prevail beyond the legitimate advances in the cost, of labor, of reasonable transportation charges and fair profits to operators. It might not be impossible for the government to become an operator on its own account as a war measure, and for the good of all the people it might be found to be a first-class arrangement permanently.

Earnest effort is being made by Indianapolis to secure the permanent military camp. Louisville won the temporary conscription camp. One of the government requirements made on all cities were clean surroundings, and in this the city of Indianapolis appealed especially. While things were, far from what they should have been when the Republicans capitulated to Mayor Bell and the Democrats, public gambling places, open saloon violations and undesirable vice conditions have been eliminated. An occasional violation appears, and because of its scarcity the unfriendly press exaggerates the discovery into matter of importance, and would give the impression that such conditions are the rule rather than the exception. ■ When the present city administration came into power, wide-open gambling and vice resorts were the rule and not the exception. Newspapers were silent on the subject. Lew Shank admits in all his- campaign speeches that persons connected with his administration levied tribute on these disreputable resorts. He says it was because of this he resigned. Indianapolis wishes to continue a clean city, and it is because of this, for one reason at least, that Dick Miller is receiving such generous support from voters of all political beliefs, as the Democratic nominee for mayor.

In discussing the selection of a Democratic state chairman, and the willingness of Charles A. Greathouse to serve, ,the Democratic press seems unanimous. The Fort Wayne JournalGazette expresses what is taken as a fair sample of the combined editorial opinions. It says: “Mr. Greathouse has all the qualifications. Young, energetic, original, enthusiastic, tactful, popular, progressive, he is just the man to lead the party of Woodrow Wilson in the next great battle. Although always interested in politics he has never been a politician in the wire-pulling, self-seeking sense. His record as superintendent of public instruction is brilliant. His work in connection with the introduction of vocational education into the schools of Indiana attracted the attention and admiration of educators 'throughout the nation. His work was constructive. It was constructive because his mind is constructive. And there is no room now for a party leader who is lacking in the constructive genius.”

PROTECT YOUR BUILDINGS FROM by ’ having them properly rodded. Sixteen years’ experience in the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I rodded. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and see me or phone 135 or 568. —F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts Subscribe for The Democrat.

LICENSED PLANT SBinnEMi-ftnffl “Save the waste-waste nothing” If unfortunate in loss of horses, cattle or hogs, telephone us at our expense. Our automobile truck and team are at your disposal. We go twenty miles for horses and cattle or 500 pounds of hogs. This service costs you nothing and until further notice we will pay the following prices: Horses $2.00, cattle we will remove the carcass and pay 9c a lb. for the hide. B.&L.MFG. CO., Rensselaer Telephone 17 or 89-A

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law 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 Leans. 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 M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN ANO 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; Re*. No. 442-R RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Saving* Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER. INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltx) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. • . Collection DepartmenL Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phon* No. 18 RENSSELAER, INDIANA

F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Stilt Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-S p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER. INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Lareh & Hopkins' drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA ■I 1 fc Undertakers MOTOR AND HORSE DRftWN HEARSE IiBOUICI SER¥IC£ Phones: Residence 5? Oilice 23

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OHICAUU, IMUIANAFOLI* aHuMuisVILLg «V RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect February, 1917 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 1 :30 a.m. No, 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s ,t'o 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 I 10:55 a.m. No.-37 [Chicago to Cincinnati | 11:18 a.m. No. 33 ' Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 i Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31 p.m. No. 3 I Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

DFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS May0r...... ...Charles G. Spitler C1erk....... Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sand* Attorney.. Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief......L J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward Ray 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 February; April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk.. Jesse Nichol* Sheriffß. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer.. Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor....E. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton Health Officer. .Dr.' F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd Distrist..... ,D. S. Makeever 3rd DistrictCharle* Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the 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 Ru5h....... Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrinWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt... Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

t 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 T with me will please govern theme selves accordingly. Postofflce address—Rensselaer, Indiana. f Second and last Saturday of each 1 month in G. A. Willim’s law T office. ♦ JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

s L ■ ■EisO I?, |\\w In u KIMI 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.

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