Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Page 2

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BONDING FOR MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS

It has long been a mooted question with the towns and smaller cities of our country as to whether or not they were justified in issuing municipal bonds for purposes of public improvement. One stock argument of the antis has always been that one generation is not justified in saddling a debt upon future generations/ But let us consider this. We will say that the town of Jonesville has set its heart upon acquiring a modern technical training school. The subscription plan, has failed to achieve it a,nd direct

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taxation is out of the question. At least it would be many years before sufficient funds could be realized by direct taxation. We will suppose, first, that the town decides to resort to direct taxation and establishes a fund that is intended in the course of ten or twenty years to furnish means for establishing the desired institution. We presuppose that the town feels the need of such a school, that her young people may be properly equipped for a life of usefulness. In’ the meantime, under the waiting program, they are either not receiving the necessary instruction, or else thej r are being sent away to some other place to acquire it. In the latter cage, the knowledge is dearly bought; and in the former, lives that might have been made of great usefulness to the world have been stunted and nullified by the failure to acquire competent training. Now, as to the bonding proposition. And right here property becomes a big factor in the problem. Let us take-Mr. A as representing the property interests, which of course are expected —to bear the chief burden of taxation. He has a family of boys to be educated and trained in professions and trades. Under the waiting" plan this is accomplished at great expense. vastly more than he would have had to pay had the bonds been issued, or else his own children are debarred the education they should have had in order that he may lay up a fund that will give this education to his grandchildren —a reversing of the policy which he condemns, as it is saddling a debt upon one generation for the benefit of the next. But, had the bonds been issued and the institution established at once, Mr. A ’s children would have profited by it and their children as well. And this would have been accomplished with no more expense than the direct tax plan entailed, and that without the loss of one generation of efficient usefulness. ’

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We say with no more expense, because the rate of Interest on such paper is very reasonable, and no town can afford to do without needed facilities on account of it. Now as to saddling a debt onto future generations, as they term it. Suppose the bonds have been issued and the school <has been established. The bonds will have a life of twenty’ years at least. In the meantime A —’s children have been educated and are in business for themselves long before the debt Is paid, and in all probability have succeeded to their father’s business, and it is really they who pay the debt at last, and not he. Furthermore, for their payment they have a tangible asset in the shape of the institution, which stands ready to do for their children what it has done for them. We might add that this principle holds good in all of the departments of civic improvement—the generation that benefits most is usually the one that does most of the paying. So .that, summing up the matter from a sensible and practical point of view, no town can afford to be without needed improvements from a mistaken ~ fear of injustice to future generations on account of bond issues.

THE FARM LABOR OUTLOOK The summer is rapidly passing, much of the harvesting has been finished and still the American farmer has kept fairly well up with his work. When the government urged him to plant more acreage, he was dubious of the outcome. .Where, he asked, would be found the labor necessary to reap the corps? When war was declared, his doubts increased, but, reassured by the government’s promises and activities, he planted as he was urged to plant and, thus far, his crops have , not seriously suffered from lack of labor. Or perhaps it should be said that the farmer has suffered from short labor about as other industries have suffered. Among the field hands of the summer, however, are many young men and middle-aged men, who may shortly be called back to their usual and ordinary vocations. This fact should not be ignored, for the corn crop is yet to be harvested, ensilage cut and stored, and the fall plowing to be done. The government is asking the farmer to increase his wheat acreage, to prepare the soil more thoroughly and to be more than ordinarily vigilant in the matter of seed. The farmers of Indiana alone are urged to increase their wheat acreage this year by 25 per cent. So the farmer must keep his eye on the labor market. In many sections of the country, college and high school students and school teachers have been at work in the farmer’s employ. Presently all these" laborers will go back to their class rooms. Who is to replace them? The government is fairly well organized by now to render practical assistance, but if this assistance is to be effective and timely, the farmer must see far enough ahead to make his wants known. It must not be accepted by any one and least of all by the farmer, that what we have been doing to meet the “emergency” of war is the work of a single season or of a single year. All that has been done in 1917 must be done again in 1918 —only, in 1918 we must de still more. We must prepare to garden as we have gardened this summer; we must plant larger areas and plant them earlier; we must gain time by preparing the soil, as far as possible, this autumn; we must farm more, dairy” more; we. must raise more hogs, winter hogs as well as summer hogs; we must raise more ca'ttle. sheep, horses, mules; we must can more, dry more. And the farmer, more than any of" us; must see to it now, while time yet remains, that lie shall be well fortified with sufficient labor to umdertake the tasks that lie before him. —Indianapolis I News.

WORD FROM PERSHING.

General Pershing, commanding the American forces in France, is not much of a talker, but when he speaks he, speaks to some purpose. His message to the American people ought to be taken to heart by them: Every man. woman and child should support- the administration in its determination to arm and equip the American army and to keep up its morale and that of the allied armies. This war will not be won by talk or by subscribing to the Red Cross. The American people must come tb a full realization of what the war means. It can be won only by striking hard and forceful blows,, not otherwise. The fact that Germany is obviously in distress and that AustriaHungary is even worse off, ought to serve only to stimulate the zeal of our people, and strengthen their determination. The harder we strike the sooner will the war be

over. There is no harm in taking| a hopeful or even cheerful view. But great harm will result from entertaining the illusion that we have an easy job on our hands. The people may well be thankful that so much has been done in so short a time. But they should realize that the greater part of the job is yet to be done. This nation must play an enormous part, perhaps the leading part from now on in the great work of breaking the Prussian power. General Pershing, it will be noted, assumes that the war is to be won—that there is to be no draw, no half-way settlement. That is the theory on which our people and their government should act. Men must be sent to France as soon as they ace far enough along in their training to finish their education behind the French lines. This is a matter which is wholly under the control of the general staff and the war college, and it may safely be assumed that it will be tended to. The important thing now is, as General Pershing says, that the American people have “a full realization of what the war means;” and understand that “it can be won only by striking hard and forceful blows, and not otherwise.” At such a time those people who are not for the nation and its cause are against both. Our brave men in France to the fullest support frdfh-all loyal Americans and they will, we are sure, receive it. Advertising is the modern method of communication between the business man and the consumer. Shrewd business men who have desirable propositions to offer know this and advertise. If you want to know what these desirable propositions are, read the ads in this paper each week. They tell story and name the merchant.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

We are coming, Kaiser William, 20,000,000 strong. The Irish national convention has just been in session. Please, Mr. Censor, take off the lid! —*— A local nut suggests that Mr. Hoover compile a book of food jokes for the simple minded. Considering his sightless condition, the blind tiger has remarkable success in eluding the hunters. One of the best grades of Italian cheese is seasoned four years before being eaten. We thought so! If Kaiser Bill doesn’t “get a wiggle on” that breakfast he had prepared in Paris will be getting cold. It remained for the American army mules in France to give Pershing’s negro troops their most rousing reception. No, we havenit heard of any of those Russian soldier girls complaining of the attentions of the street corner Johnnies. “Well,” says the cheerful idiot, “this coal Shortage will have at least one good effect. It will help to abate the smoke nuisance. One of the most humane features of the universal service measure will be in the relief given to some of our dependent husbands. One by one our treasured axioms are exploded. When you are tempted to remark that “talk is cheap” just remember that the telephones of the country return a monthly income of nearly $1 each. Two thousand letters, each one offering a solution of the submarine problem, were received by the navy department in one week. If these “wise heads” would only screw up their patriotism to the point of enlisting in the navy we might see some appreciable results. But they won’t! -

WHISKY’S DEMISE ON SEPT. 8

Hoover Rules Distilleries Must Shut Down Next Month. Washington. Aug. 57, —Whisky making in the United States dies at eleven o’clock Saturday evening, Septembers. The food administration ruled that after that hour no foods, food materials or feeds shall be used in the production of distilled liquors, for beverages purposes. At. that hour the long, hard-fought battle against the manufacture of whisky will have been won, and for the period of the war at least, distillers of spirits will be removed from the list of consumers of the nation’s food supply. The yvhisky makers fought to the last ditch and lost. They sought by every stretch of technical interpretation of the law to secure a 24-hour period ,of distillation beyond that allowed by last night’s ruling. ’They wanted to continue to make whisky up to the last possible minute and they sought to work through Sunday, September 9,. in order to take advantage of the limit of the law.

An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

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LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 18. Away down East in Virginia on the banks of the Potomac river and adjacent to historic civil war battlefields, there is an interesting and somewhat exceptional cantonment. It is at Quantico and is the home of the U. S, marines who are to participate soon in the European war. Here are to be found marines from Mare island, the Pacific training camp, as well as marines from Port Royal, the Atlantic camp. Upon their arrival here from these camps the marines are formed into regular infantry, light artillery and machine gun companies. It was my good fortune to be assigned to the regimental machine gun company of the 6th Regiment of Marines. I say good fortune because this duty is considered to be just a little more important, technical, varied and interesting than ordinary infantry duty. However, we are required to be more or less efficient in infantry drill and work and have a part of our daily routine set aside for infantry drill and bombing and bayonet exercise. Our day begins with reveille at 5:30 and ends with taps at 9:30. The work of the day is divided into periods for drill, bomb throwing, bayonet exercise, trench digging, gun school, lectures and machine gun maneuvers so that we, instead of getting tired of it, really enjoy our work very well. Indeed this great variety of duty and action is what makes the marine corps such an efficient and at-

tractive service. We are armed with the Lewis automatic machine gun latest model and which gun is the very best light type machine gun in the world. Each gun is manned by a crew of eight men and we have sixteen guns in our company. This gun is capable of firing 600 rounds a minute and you see is quite a formidable weapon. It is interesting to learn the gun, it? mechanical construction and potentiality. We all must know our gun, every part by name and its function and be able to take it apart and put it together again in a very few minutes, and do it blindfolded. In our drill with it, it is mounted on a twowheel carriage pulled by two marines. An ammunition carriage also drawn by two marines, always accompanies it. To drilb«with these seems rather grewsome, for we must preserve absolute silence and do much. of the drill at double time. With each crew there is a signalman and a range-finder. The latter is my especial duty and it is quite fascinating. Focusing the finder on various objects and finding their distances and then mapping them is not ordinary work. All of us, or rather, I suppose, most of us, are quite enthusiastic about our work and anxious to be transferred to scenes of action. Knowing our country’s need we are proud to fie in this service and are trying to live up to the reputation of the marine corps and to be semper fidelis. RALPH SPARKS. Note—Semper fidelis is the marine motto.

Experiments by a British expert reforesting some of the hills of China have led 1 to the establishment of a comprehensive course in forestry in a university in that country.

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OHICAUQ, INOiAMAPOU* 4b UOUIfcVILX* RY RENSSELAER TLME TABLE In effect February, 1917 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:61a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:01 a.m. 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 3:31 p.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 I 5:50 p.m No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati I 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville | 11:10 p.m

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk •• • Charles Morlan Treasurer.. Charles M. Sands Attorney. Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborns Fire ChiefJ. 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. Krealer 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 Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt Coroner... Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill County Agent. .Stewart Learning COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd Distrist......D. S. Makeever 3rd District. Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren. E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marlon George FoulksMilroy John Rush. i.... .Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph Salrin Walker Albert S KeeneWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, 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 Williams & Dean's law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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 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 Tuesday*— 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 Foltx) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection DepartmenL Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone 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. Still. Office Hours—B-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