Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Page 2

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THE JASPER mm DEMOGRIU F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Printi News. paper in Jasper County. advertising rates Display 1214 c Inch Display, special position.. 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion. .5c Readers, per line add. inser.... 3c Want Ads —1 cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the ■first page. . ■ WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 19T7

BUSINESS WILL BE GOOD

What is business? Why, it is simply the people with their wants and needs. Business is not begotten in < the bank, the countingroom, or the office; these are but the-,, effects of business —the response to the cause. The man who makes business is likely to be in the shop, or on the farm, in the factory, or at the forge. He is toiling and imoiling to get a good week's pay when Saturday night comes so that he can purchase some groceries and dry goods, and possibly go to the moving picture show or theater, or, better yet, put something liberal into the contribution box at church on Sunday, or take a week-end trip with his car. iHe may have enough in that week’s pay to purchase his wife or his daughter a new dress. He may be able to save up a few dollars from that week’s pay for a home of his own, or for an automobile. And all this -makes business,. In fact, it is about all there is to business—this matter of food and clothing and housing, and educating and uplifting. Take away these and there would be no business. In 1 countries where they exist in the 1 most meagre and- pdhurious fashion only, there is little business. Of course, business may be anticipated. That is to say, a man' may 'produce something like an! automobile, a piano, a plow, a suit ! of clothing—anything that the peo-i pie need or desire—with a view that the prospects are favorable for its disposal and consumption. But it is as important to he assured that the people have the means or

power to consume it as it is that they will have the will or desire to consume it. The people always have wants and the desire to grati-j fy them, but they do not always have the means to gratify them. The off-hand remark: “Let business go on as usual,” has little effect one way or another. It will j go on without command, and it will not be stayed by indifference. The only question as to business is whether you as a business man are going to get it, or whether yqu will' allow it to pass on to some one else. That it will be done by some one goes' without saying. All the people are working and consequently all are spending. There has not been a time for many years when the conditions for good business were more favorable than now. Moreover, the thing that is absolutely necessary to the execution of business —money, a medium of exchange—exists in about the same volume that it ever has. It is true it has largely changed hands, but it still; exists, and this change has taken it from the rich, whose wants and needs were already well supplied, and put it into the hands of the former poor whose wants and needs are not supplied, hut who will liberally supply themselves now that they have the means. During these abnormal times of war the production of things that people need has by necessity been largely curtailed, in order to give place to the production of the things needed for war. In addition to this, a large portion of the young and able-ibodied producers of the civilized world has been withdrawn from productive channels. They are now consumers only. Thus it may be '-easily seen how pressing the demand must be for things the people want and need, and who likewise have the means j to purchase tjiem. j How can business fail to "be good then, and whether or not the war ends soon or continues long? Of course, lack of confidence and of optimism would delay production I somewhat, but as far as we can see, these qualities strongly exist among business men. Producers are handicapped by the scarcity of ! raw material and by the pressing j necessity of making war supplies, I but the need of general production lis imperative and it will continue Ito exist for some years or until j the demand has been jnet. This government is likely to spend on account of the present war anywhere from $10,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000. and possibly much more. Some of this- money will go abroad, but mighty little, j Most of the loans to foreign govI ernments are in the ,for»mi of credits; the cash itself will remain right here. Probably three-fourths of this stupendous sum will be filtered along down among the common j people, and there it will mostly reI main until it -is spent Jot comiforts j and luxuries —the things that keep | our mills and factories and- stores [and farms full of activity. And this is what makes business.

It is asserted that the best marksmen are usually those with blue or gray eyes. 7 " T " ■ y

DEMAND A SQUARE DEAL

" We as a people are in danger of losing our grip on one of our most cherished traits of character—fairness. Time was when this word and all it stands for was written broad on our national life, and we have prided ourselves on our readiness to accord to any and all people a square deal. And, paradoxical as it may seem. this trait still Wei are as ready as we ever were to* grant large justice to aIL Bat. granting justice is only one-sided fairness- —but one side of the human equation. < j We should demand justice and fairness, each sos self and for all others. This we are rapidly ceasing bv do. Year by year we are more and more sleeping on onr individual and . collective rights, and others, more active and aggressive, are usurping them. The resources —yes, the actual 1 productions—of this great nation ! are so abundant that “want” should be an unknown word with ns. Yet want exists, and exists largely. With our great wealth we should be the most care-free people the world has ever seen, but we are not.' Lines of care are deep upon the national brow. And all of this because we sleep, upon our rights and will not rise up and demand a square deal. We: allow congress to misrepresent us and have not the energy or nerve: to elect a congress which will force justice and fairness for us. It is time we arose in our might ’ and demanded that the price booster and speculator go, and he will not go until we do. We are hopelessly in the ban4s of the exploiter—-the speculator in other people’s rights and privileges. From the man on the corner who sells us a pair of shoestrings for twice their worth because he knows [ we would not walk a block for the difference, ’up to the giant corporation that furnishes the steel for our buildings at more than its worth because he knows we can get it no where else, all are out for the exploitation of the other fellow. We have said that we as a peo-. -ple are as ready as ever to accord fairnes3 to all. Yet the very presence of oppression and extortion in our midst has a tendency to breed in us a disregard for this principle. Doubtless you are familiar with the story of the Arab and his camel —how it intruded its head into its master's .'tent, which the latter kindly permitted. But meeting no resistenee, it was not long before the camel was in the tent and its master was excluded. It 4s so with us. We are systematically exploited and held up by the speculators and the Shylocks until we are in danger of supinely surrendering to th.eir every demand.

There is absolutely no reason for the extortionate prices we have been paying for many months, except the machinations of the trusts, the storage companies, the speculators, or all who can In any way hold in restraint the supply, and by unfair means stimulate the demand and the price. When permitted free movement, the products of this country are always equal to any demand. This is not true, however, when a large proportion of onr production is cornered and retired from the channels of trade until scarcity forces prices to a fictitious leveL When cold storage first came into general use jt was hailed as one cf the greatest discoveries of any age. We very much fear, however, that it is fast becoming our chief oppressor, unless we can take its power out unscrupulous hands. It is -time for us to awake to the importance of demanding the Square deal, as well as according it. National disaster faces us if we do not.

State Of Ohio. City of Toledo, Bucas County, ss. Frank j/Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the r sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot he? cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Medicine. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my December, A- D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON. (Seal) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts -through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo* O. Sold by all druggists,' 75c. - Hall’s Family- Pills for constipation. Bologna university, the oldest in the world, has conferred the degree of “doctor of laws ad honoris causam” on President Wilson for his services to humanity.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

SETS EXAMPLE TO COUNTRY

Boston Guards With Jealous Care the Burial Places of Men Great in American history. There is not another town in the i United States, and probably none in the world, which has cherished the resting places of its great dead as has Boston. There are no less than a dozen cemeteries In and close about | ti*e City which . bear on their headstones the names of famous men and | women, many of whom died centuries ago. Most of these cemeteries are no s longer l burying grounds, having been | for long years crowded to the utmost ■ with white marble memorials to older ; generations; but they are preserved with the utmost care, no matter how [ valuable they may become for other ' purposes. Some of them front upon I busy streets, and are surrounded by high business? buildings; but rever- ! once for the great names on the headj. stones keeps them intact- ! One, *»f the oldest of them, all is the Granary burying ground, so called because the town granary once stood near ft. In this little plot of ground ■ tie the remains of three signers of the rvdaratim of Independence John j llano *‘fc. Samuel Adams a fid Robert I n»im> N.n,» gu-pmur! tnrlnrij ing the famous Governor Hancock, are j buried here, and so is Samuel Sewall, , who sternly condemned so many itvjj-Os to death, and wrote such an ! “nteresting diary abotft it. Here, too, lies John-. Hull, the colonial mint master- who gave to his daughter when j she married Bewail her weight in I Pine Tree shillings. Peter Fanueil [•and Pan! Revere are buried here, too, ! and the most conspicuous monument I of all is the one that Benjamin Frank- | tin erected to his parents. Here is an .acre of soil sirn with the bones of , men that made American history. No ' wonder B don cherishes It well.

PUT NOVELTY BEFORE BEAUTY

Accusation That Has Been Made, With Seme Reason, Against the Modern Fashion. An African girl who wears an iron bracelet wilf. according to one traveler; refuse a gold one except as a curiosity to b»- hidden. The more barbarous the people the' greater the tenacity with which the average among them adhere to the- riiina that i< “done,” so that dvilii: tion hasn't invented codes of dres«. i n fact, dress forms have a more strict fcinguage and meaning in th: Boa islands than they have in a Chicago *>.r Boston drawing loom. Cues® bigotry is greatest where fashions change the least —perhaps because change has not come to unsettle prejudice and keep the imagination free. Quite the opposite effect appears fashionable women. Too often they lose their loyalty to a beautiful eff- -e just as soon as it has fully hapl»ne«l. Tte-y are accused, in fact, of preferring novelty to beauty, even the beauty that hanuohlzes with tlieir own personality.

Nasturtiums.

Xa?hirtia3!s can be grown during the winter In ant warm room that has a sunny window. Strong sunshine is absoioteij necessary, windows that hate only a little sunshine, morning or afternoon, will n*>t give good results. The Pennsylvania department of agriculture rwimmemls the filling of a p«‘t six inches in diameter nearly full of soil: after it is pressed down there must be a space about three-quarters of an inch between the top of the soil and the top of the pot. This is to enable one to thoroughly water the soil. In -the canter place three or four seeds of a climbing nasturtium, putting about half an inch below the surface of the soil. Then place the pot in the sonny window and provide a trellis of strings.. The important thing to remember Is that while the seeds are germinating and the plant young, great care must be taken not to provide too much water and so sour the soil. .

Suppose.

Ih IT-h' George Washington was offered a midshipman's warrant on a British man of war. His mother had at one time consented, but when rhe hour arrived she flatly rebelled, and as her signature was necessary to the enlistment. George did not at the age of fourteen become a British seaman. Suppose he had enlisted ? He was the one indispensable man of the Revolution. Suppose Gilbert Livingston had not voted New York into the L’nion at the constitutional convention? How many of us recall now that in a vote of GO delegates from New York there was a majority for the union of but two, and Livingston was the man who determined the decision. Suppose the advance .on Littie Round Top at Gettysburg had been made on the day Lee ordered it instead of a day later? Suppose the confederates had inarched on Washington after the. victory of Bull Bon? —Des Moines Register.

When Razors Were First Used.

Razors appear to have come into general nse in France with Louis XIII. One> authority has attributed the reason for the style of smooth faces at this time to the fact that the king came throne as a child and so, of coarse, beardless. Out of courtesy to the king, the courtiers shaved their beards so that they would “possess no luicry which their king could not share.’' From the-eourtiers the custom descended to the common people, and was also copied by the English, for whom the j reach even then cre-

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REST MAY BE EXAMINED SOON

Washington, D. C., September 16. —ls a large part of the governors nf the states approve a suggestion by the provost marshal, general, an immediate examination of the 7,000,000 men registered for military service and not yet called for duty, will be begun. The suggestion was made with a view to satisfying the great number of young men as to what they may expect. Telegrams asking opinions on the advisability of such action were sent to all states and it is expected that all replies will be received soon. To secure the 68 7,000 men already called for service it wa3 found necessary to examine approximately 3.000,000. Under the plan considered candidates would know whether they are To be selected —and —-cmri-d —make plans accordingly.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

We suggest, in passing, that Chicago’s Big Bill spell it with a capital P. In many instances no doubt, the exemption boards have lived up to their names. Crowned heads are a world nuisance, but they often come in handy in a card game. Some men are like a bass drum; they are good for nothing but to m'ake a big noise. Every man tells the truth once in a while, but to some of them it is an awful shock. No, we may not be killing many of the enemy, but we are killing a deal of a lot of time. Love your neighbor as yourself, and then you won’t Jiave to lie about him when he is dead. There are two things that will make a blind" mah see. One is a well-shaped leg, and the other ,is another one.

There are entirely too many traitors in this country—and, likewise, too many lamp posts and tree limbs not in use. S, Our sympathies, however, go out to the title seeking American heiresses during this war. The suspense of waiting must be dreadful. We can’t, for the life of us, understand why pretty women insist on flirting with homely men when there ara so ifiany of us handsome ones floating around. An paragrapher asserts that the early milkman catches a glimpse of a woman's true complexion. All of. us . married ducks get that—but, Lord, we dassent tell. A fellow dropped into the office one day this week and told the biggest lie of the season. Said he knew of tw T o women who dear**' loved each other and never had a Word of criticism to offer. Then, too, we know of a man who never has an unkind word to say of any person living. He’s dead.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1917

OHICAUO,IMUIAM«I*ULIft * L.UUIAVII.LC RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati t'o Chicago 4:61 a.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 2:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago: 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 36 Chicago to Cincinnati! 1:46 a.m. No. 6 Chicago to Louisville! 10:66a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati ! 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s | 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette I 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati I 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville f 11:10 p.m

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer.".. ... .vCharles Mv Sand* Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief......J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Counciimen 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 Nichols Sheriff B. D. McColly Auditor.... J. P. Hammond Treasurer ..Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt C0r0ner........Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor. . .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Oilicer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. 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 Davisson ....Barkley Burdett Porter .....Carpenter James Stevens ...Gillam Warren E Poole.. Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, Jr Marion George Foulks Milroy John Rush ...Newton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrin Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfleld 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. Postofflce 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 t'o. 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 AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. “ “ 2 to 6 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-fc 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. Phono 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 —8-12 a. m., 1-8 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at -Montlcello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh A Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA