Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Page 2

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DON’T CRITICISE YOUR GOVERNMENT

One of the foremost hardware companies of this country has issued a little booklet that is one of the finest pieces of pure patriotism. This booklet is directed to its traveling men, and contains some sound advice as to their attitude toward the government in its conduct of the war. It advises' the men, whatever their politics may be, to refrain from any criticism of the administration, assuring them that our leaders are doing all that mortal ' men can do to bring this country through the crisis that faces us. It also reminds them that all the

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really big men of the nation have forgotten, for the time being, that they are either Republicans or Democrats, and are standing shoulder to shoulder with the President and his fellow laborers.

This is loyalty of the /purest brand. And it is an example that more could follow with profit. Every idle criticism of those in authority is just so much influence against the cause to which we are irrevocably pledged. It is just so much adverse .force that our leaders must overcomei to win. And worst of all, it all tends to encourage the enemy. The most idle and thoughtless criticism by Americans of their government is wafted straight to Berlin, and by the time it reaches there it is expanded to represent the common sentiment of Americans.

-President Wilson is not asking for our loyalty on the ground of his democracy. (He doesn't ask it on the ground of his learning or superior attainments. He asks our allegiance because the American people have placed him in a position where he is largely responsible for the welfare of the nation, and it were ingratitude on our part, after placing him there, to cravenly desert him and leave him to bear the great burden alone, and worse still, hampered at every step by our senseless complaints.

American soldiers are on the firing line in France. They are going across by thousands and hundreds of thousands. No army can give its best service that has not the solid moral support of its home people. It is treachery of the worst kind to send our boys to fight OUR battles and then bicker and quarrel among ourselves as to methods and means. We have men of the highest character as our leaders. Let us have faith in their ability and integrity, and instead of annoying and nagging, support them to the last dollar and the last drop of our blood. That's what our boys will do, and can we do less?

IS FOOD CONSERVATION FAILING?

Reports come from many sections of the country that the answer to the appeal for conservation is not by any means wdiat it should be. It lias been some time since the people were urged to economize on wheat, yet we are informed that the consumption of wheat in this country for the month of October, 1917, was 18 per cent greater than for the same month last year.

Now, hysteria in the matter of economy will get us nowhere. It is useless to seek to scare the people with the very of possible famine. All too well they know this to be impossible so long as the seasons come and reasonable work is done. People everywhere are earning more these days than ever before, perhaps, in their lives. This no doubt accounts for much of the increase in consumption.

But while the people can not bo neared into economy, 4f the matter is placed before them in its proper light, common sense . should induce them to economize. The present era of high prices is in the nature of a windfall—a

streak of luck that can not, in the nature of things, continue indefinitely. Eventually the cause—war -u— must be removed, when prices will naturally seek something near their old level. The man who, while taking every legitimate advantage of inflated values, at the same time /practices economy in his expenditures, is the man who will be living on Easy street when the slump comes. The fellow who increases his style of living to match his salary will find himself at that time in worse condition than ever. He will have contracted habits of life that he will find impossible to maintain when conditions change. There is, however, another aspect of the case that should be impressed upon all. Our government has decided to maintain the allies to the best of its ability. It will also keep plenty of supplies going to our own armies in Europe. These causes, together with extravagance at home, may easily cause such conditions that it will be imperative that the government take active steps in food control. This has not been done as yet, the government preferring to place the people on their honor in the matter of conservation. If that honor is continually and systematically violated, the government will have no alternative other than to take charge. The man who persistently refuses to comply with the requests in the matter of food conservation is helping to bring that day nearer.

ONE-SIDED EDUCATIONS

We are. told that the demands off the times necessitate special education of our youth for special lines of endeavor —that the “all round” man is a misfit in American life. In a measure this, is true, but it is a theory that may easily be carried to excess. In the first place, education does not consist in acquiring knowledge, hut rather in the ability to acquire knowledge. The truly educated man is not so much the man who has acquired an extensive knowledge on a given subject, as one who has developed his intellect that is capable of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of any subject. Frequently the most helpless and most to be pitied of human beings is the man thoroughly skilled in some one line, but with an abysmal ignorance of all else than his own specialty.

This one predominating trait for which the American character has heretofore been known for its adaptability—the power to measure up to any emergency. This trait has brought men from between the plow handles and landed them in the halls of congress. It has taken men from the cobbler's bench anl clothed them with the judge’s robe, it transported a Billy Sunday from the baseball diamond to the great tabernacles where thousands hang upon his every word. It is this quality of adaptability that must not be educated out of the American youth. Train for specialty if you will; develop skill in a chosen line, and develop it to the utmost. But do not destroy initiative. The value of this trait was never more forcibly shown than in the readiness with which our young men have adapted themselves to the .army life. The young clerk now shoulders his kit and takes jauntily to the long hike; the dreamy scholar- wields the nick and shovel in the trenches as though to the manner born. The young man who has all his life taken orders from others, now directs the activities of hundreds, while he who has heretofore had a small army at his beck and call, now serves in the ranks. In educating, let u.s first develop the power of application—after that is time enough to apply the power.

Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire has introduced in the senate a resolution asking that the agricultural committee of that body investigate the advisability o': admitting Chinese labor during the period of the war. The senator is thoroughly alive to the economic danger that threatens this, country unless there is a large increase of farm labor for the coming season. In an interview the senator is quoted as saying: ‘‘l think we

will be in a very serious fix unless we get farm labor. Crops everywhere are unharvested because the labor is leaving the farms.’ Complaint comes to me, some of it bitter, that while the government asks the farmer for increased production the crops cannot be gathered.” The resolution does not propose to admit Chinese as citizens or with a view to their permanent residence here, but oh somewhat the same terms as American soldiers are sent to France, under the control of their government, to be returned when their labor is no longer needed. The plan at least deserves earful thought. The labor

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shortage is acute, and does not promise to be any less so in the future. And if the country is to produce the record crop expected of it another season, there is no time to be lost in arranging for an adequate supply of labor.

And what if Senator Calder of New York did own some S2O shirts? That's nothing to question a man's patriotism for. The senator is probably well able to afford them. When he bought them he enabled his • merchant or tailor to make a payment on a liberty bond; the whole- 1 sale house also gathered in a mite J of profit, and the manufacturers of the cloth, likewise the makers, and even the seamstress who sewed their seams may have had an extra: supper Ifrom the proceeds. It is such men as Senator Calder who keep the wheels of commerce rolling. If every man wore the cheapest clothes he could find, the higher priced ones would mildew on the shelves and famine would stalk through the land. Let the senator wear SSO shirts if he wants to and is able.

The Russian Bolsheviki seem to; have been handed a lemon in thej German peace proposals. The kais-, er's government modestly demand- j ed control of the Russian wheat! market for a period o#* fifteen t years, that she retain all Russian territory now occupied by her troops, and that all German-made j goods be imported into Russia j duty free. Doubtless there were a few minor concessions she would have also, but she hoped to have no trouble in securing these things when she had her victim securely tied. But even a Bolsheviki has glimmerings of reason and the proposition was not received with enthusiasm.

Jerusalem ik at last in Christian hands, and the preaching of Peter the Hermit has been vindicated. During the twelve hundred years in which it has been in the hands of the Moslem it would be hard to estimate the lives sacrificed in the attempt to wrest it from him. It should never again be desecrated by his presence, to say nothing of his control. The Holy City should revert to its rightful owners, and the entire territory of Palestine with it. They should have a free

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hand in rebuilding a Jewish nation if they so will. Since the overthrow of the Romanoffs, things have happened so rapidly in Russia that the average editorial writer is forced to keep • a stock of effusions on hand to in-! sure getting the right “dope’’ and : even then a lot of perfectly good editorial efforts have been dumped into the discard. If things over there ever stay “put” for twentyfour hours on, a stretch, we may have something to say of them. The kaiser is quoted as saying that all he wants is justice, and the allied world is of one mind in the determination to see that he gets it—and ih full measure. The j probabilities are, however, that his j kaisership won't recognize the artij ele when he sees it coming. 1'• ' \ It might be well to suggest to j other beautiful young heiresses | that the gun method is not always ! the safest in disposing of an obI jectionable husband or ex-husband. c We are assured by Washington officials that profiteering in food will be ended. May the end be [ soon, and may it also be the end of the profiteers. A Russian writer claims his people are the most civilized on earth. The manufacturers of safety razors can disprove his claim.

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OHICAUO, IMDIANAPOLIt * LUUlMli.il RENSSELAER TIME 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 10:30 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:61 p.m. No. H Louisville to Chicago 3:11 p.m No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati! 1:46 ajm No. 6 Chicago to Louisville! 10:56a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati! 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s I 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette! 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati I 7 :S1 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville] 11:1#p.m

OFFICIAL. DIRECTORY, \ CITY OFFICERB j Mayor Charles U. Spltler . Clerk Charles Morlan , Treasurer Charles M. Sands i Attorney. Moses Leopold I Marshal Vern Robinson 1 Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne ; Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery ] Fire Warden... .J. J. Montgomery Councllmen 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 OFFICERB Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff B. D. McCSlly Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer........ Charles V. May Recorder George Boott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd Dlstrist D. 8. 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 Glllarn Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild... Keener Harvey Wood, jr......... .Marion George Foulks Mllroy 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

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