Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1918 — Page 2

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11l JASPER 6011111 Mill F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8. 1908, at the postofflee at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March K 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. advertising rates Display Display, special position ..15c Inch Readers, per line first Insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. inser.... 3c Want Ads—l cent per word each Insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or mure months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card di Thanks—Not te 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, JAN. 30, 1918

THE MONDAY CLOSING ORDER

Since the confusion resulting from the Monday closing order has begun to subside and business is getting straightened out on the new course, the country can - view the matter in the light Of sober reason. And we can now see that if conI I . ditions which brought about this order were ever to be remedied, some such action was imperative. Business is rapidly adjusting itself to the change. Not Only this, but the great army of loyal, patriotic business men of the country —the men who were already bearing much of the war burden, have eome smilingly to the front and shouldered this new burden willingly, Of course, more or less protests were to be expected, but these arose largely from ignorance of the order of of the necessity which

prompted it. In the main the response has been very satisfactory, and indications now are that ail fear of a fuel famine that should become general, has passed, at least for this r\ season. The Monday closing order, together with the previous five-day dosing order, marks the first real I sacrifice the people of this country have been called upon to make in the prosecution of the war. Its reception and the spirit in which it is being met is a barometer that correctly records the degree of patriotism of our people. That the response was so unanimous and so feearty must be a cause for much Satisfaction at Washington, and will go far to assure the administrator that the people are with the leaders in any move that the latter deem really necessary to winning the war.

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Experiences of the past few months have demonstrated that the quality of American patriotism has in no sense deteriorated, nor has it become less universal. Its apparent absence can at any time be traced directly to ignorance of real conditions and needs. Given an incentive for sacrifice and a correct understanding of the conditions demanding it, no people on earth are more ready to respond. Let us hope that further sacrifices will not be necessary. But should they become so, rest assured the people will face them with a smiling composure and a ready acquiescence. We have already given our sons (our most priceless possessions), and beside these our money, our property, our comfort or convenience are of small value. Never fear but the American people will measure up to every demand. They always have, and there is as yet no signs or decadence. We hajve torn the word “defeat' from the dictionary.

IF PEACE SHOULD COME

Although it may be premature to speculate on the possibility of peace being consummated anyways soon, still the action of Russia, and added to this the utterances of Premier Lloyd-George and President Wilson, have set many people to wondering what would be the effect on this country should peace be declared. This is a contingency we should be always ready to welcome. It can work only good to us, and not any harm. Those who pessimistically refer to “war profits” are short-sights ed indeed. The business otf the United States is in no sense _d£pendent on war profits. True Tiiuch. of the national energy is being put into war preparation, but when peace is declared this force will welcome the opportunity to transfer to the arts of peace. These have suffered neglect and are in great need of attention. We could stand a falling off in prices of all commodities and be the better off. We could also benefit by an enlarged supply of everything that enters into the |ife and activities of the people. Surpluses in all lines have been swallowed up, and . even with the world at peace, it would require years to reach the point where the surpluses would materially affect prices. This fact is our guarantee that for a long time to come the needs of the world will call for our utmost exertions, and at high prices. The United States is not only the great creditor nation of the world, it is also the supply depot .of the earth. All nations are now looking to u 9 for the implements off peace as well as war. The war has greatly enlarged the field of our custom, because we have taken the trade of many of the warring countries, whose every energy is being expended on war activities. Our production and manufactures in the arts of peace are far greater today than ever before. Peace, if if can be had with honor, will be welcomed by every soul in this country, because it will release for the beneflcient service of mankind, forces that nowi are employed in the arts of destruction. It will

take a generation for ouY greatest efforts to place ue back where we were in 1914, as far as concerns the available supply of all the necessaries of life. ' Peach, with honor, As the prayer of every earnest soul in this country. '

BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL

When war was first declared, the call went out to the country, “Keep Business as Usual.” At that time it was feared that the war scare would have a depressing effect upon industries of the country and cause business to “steer close to shore.” Ordinarily '/this, might have been the result, but in the present instanco the very opposite has been the case. Instead of curtailing business in any direction, the war has given such a stimulus tp business in all

lines that the American people today are more prosperous than at any time in their history, and this in the face of the huge sums they have been called upon to contribute to the various war activities. Now tho slogan is not business as usual, but business NOT as usual, —greater than usual, with more vim and vigor than we have ever before put into it. We are called on to make every minute and hour of our days to count. The manufacturer is urged to speed up production, the farmer is urged to multiply the yield of his acres. Every mill and factory and. shop in the land is urged to give its best efforts to swelling the volume of business —because only by keeping the volume up to the highest possible mark can we be enabled to , respond to the tremendous demands that are being made upon the resources o>f the country. We have been accustomed to boast of the immense natural arid undeveloped resources df the country. The time has come when those resources must be developed. An unopened coal mine must be opened and its treasures, thrown on the market. Mineral deposits must be developed and their contents given to swell the total of materials. Valuable tracts of timber that are needed for manufactures must be laid under the ax and the saw. The resources of the country must be brought into use.

While prices in all commodities are high, the country has money—millions and billions of it. Almost any kind of a workman in any branch of industry can command a decent salary, and good workmen are in demand at wages never before dreamed of. But in order that this may continue, all must work and earn and spend. The purse .strings must not be closed on the dollar that is in hand, hut it must be .spent freely that a crop of dollars may be the result. What if raw materials are high? The world is crying for the finished product at figures even higher. The demand in all lines is, supplies, supplies, and more supplies. There is no limit to the demand except the capacity of the country.

Those responsible for the order that no more profanity is to be used by the mule drivers in our army in France, were doubtless moved by a worthy motive, but like many other worthy motives, it is more attractive in theory than in practice, kgfiip mule is an American institutnwi. There has always been, in c/iJnection with this institution, a peculiar vocabulary that fits no other. The amenities of polite society are meaningless to his muleship. It is only when he begins to smell the sulphur as it drips from the language of the driver, that the long-eared hybrid wakes up to the knowledge that there is “something doing,” and begins to assert himself. If the report is true and the order is really in effect, the mule will feel like an orphan in a strange land, and if mules can think he will call down curses on the day that he wandered so far from home and those friends who, if not the most polished in their diction, at least had the merit of perfect profanity.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

If the war goes on much longer they will soon be teaching 'geography in the schools by wireless. The mystery of the whereabouts of ex-Czar Nicholas is beginning to rank with the mystery of “who hit Billy Patterson?” The old-time spend-thrift who boasted of having "money to burn” now has a son who is boastful of the fact that he has coal to burn. In thanking Gott for the destruction of that hospital ship, did the kaiser apologize for the failure to sink the wounded soldiers who were aboard? The Indianapolis Star says, “When we get up to heaven we shall understand the Russian situation and probably not until then.” We don’t believe any of that Russian mix-up originated up there.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

The sixteen cantonments built for the training‘of soldiers cost $134,000,000, with a (net profit to contractors of 2.98 per cent. If the prices of poultry and eggs continue to climb, Sambo may find ihis nocturnal occupation classed under the head of “capital crimes/’ If that man Hoover keeps on he will have all the doctors “down on him.” There won’t be , a case of chronic dyspepsia or gout in the Country. ,| Mr. Hoover should award a medal to that beauty doctor who declared that cornbread “makes for a fine pink complextion.” That ought to out-Hoover Hoover.

The big hog-producttion rally pulled off recently all over the country was strangely silent on the question of increasing the tribe of the “hog that walks like a man.’’ Germany is reported to be eating dogs. This country could spate her a few million, and they ought to be extra toothsome, too, as they have been practically brought up on mutton. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin has broken into the Irish question. Some friend should whisper to Miss Rankin that that is the best question in the world to let alone. It’s loaded at both ends. A news item says, “(Hoover wants the government to buy all the sugar.” It might just as well. With the whole Country going dry there’ll soon be nothing left to mix it with.

An English legal decision says that butchers may not weigh feet with shoulders and legs of mutton.. Over here it has been customary for butchers to weigh hands with cuts of steak, but we didn’t know English butchers went us one better and weighed their feet, too. In a speech to his soldiers the kaiser is quoted as saying: “The gigantic battles which raged from spring to fall on Belgium and Frejach soil were decided in favor of your glorious arms.” He is evidently of the same school as the general who characterized his retreat as a “masterly advance to the rear.”

, We conservatives who have made light of Bolsheviki doctrines will feel very foolish if eventually we have to thank that cult for a victorious peace. There are indications that their virus is working among the German masses. The junker crowd at least do not minimize the danger, as witness the recent wholesale arrests of Socialists in Germany.

PHILOSOPHY’ OF WALT MASON

Now Groundhog Day, my friends, is here, most fateful day of all the year. The groundhog has all prophets skinned who fuss with maps and measure wind, who multiply the world’s distress with bughouse forecasts in the press. The groundhog scorns all lows and highs;- he views the landscape and the skies, and if the weather’s bright -and fair, with signs of springtime everywhere, he crawls right back into his hole, and sighs, “Oh, winter, let her roll! There’ll still be snow and ice to burn—you cannot fool me worth a dern!’’ But if the skies are overcast, and there's a chill and wintry blast, the groundhog says, “I’ll stay outdoors, and start to do my vernal chores. Old Boreas has came and went—he cannot foo‘ me worth a cent.”- The groundhog’s grammar may be punk, hut his predictions are not bunk. As we grow old our faith declines in goosebones and the other signs; and human prophets make us sore —-they don't guess right one time in four, and they are guessing every day, until they guess their lives away. The groundhog, most retiring seer, hands out a guess but once a year, with moderation most sublime, and hits the” bullseye every time.

PUBLIC SALE Having rented his 'farm and going to quit farming, the undersigned "will hold a public sale at his residence, 1 mile east of Kniman, 6 miles southwest of Wheatfield, beginning at 10 a. m., on , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918 the following property: 5 Head of Horses—l gray mare, 6 years old, wt 1300; 1 gray horse, 6 years old, wt 1350; 1 sorrel mare, 5 years old, wt 130 Q; 1 coming 3-year-old black mare, wt 1200; 1 sorrel horse colt, coming yearling. 18 Head of Cattle—l 2-year-old Shorthorn bull; 1 roan cow, coming 7 years old, fresh in March; 2 yearling ’heifers; 9 spring calves; 1 full-blood Jersey, 3 years ojd, giving milk; 1 full-blood Jersey, 6 years old, giving milk; 1 6-year-old roan cow; 2 red cows, 8 years old. 12 Head of Hogs—4 fat hogs, wt 250; 2 Duroc brood sows; 6 head of shotes, wt 40 pounds. 400 bushels nice seed oats. 2 dozen Plymouth Rock chickens. Farm Implements—B ft. Osborne disc, good as new; 8 ft Superior grain drill with fertilizer and grass seed attachment, good as new; good walking plow; 16-lnch John Deere sulky plow; 1 Sure Drop corn planter with 160 rods wire; Avery

cultivator with gopher attachment; 1 new hay rack, never been used; 1 low down Superior seeder; 3 3section harrows; ' 1 Studebaker wagon with triple box, good as new; 1 rubber tired Studebaker buggy; 3 Bets good work harness; 1 Osborne mower; 1 McCormick rake; 1 John Deere corn planter, with fertilizer attachment and ICO rods wire; 1 Dutch Uncle riding cultivator. Terms—A credit of 11 months will be given on all sum* over >lO, notes to draw 6 per cent from date if paid when due; if not paid when due notes to draw 8 per cent- 2 per cent discount for cash. JUDSON R MICHAL. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. H. W- Marble, Clerk. Hot lunch by Kninan Ladies’ Aid.

BIG PUBLIC SALE As I a.m going to move to Michigan I will offer at public sale on the Dunlap farm, *4 mile east of Surrey; 4 miles north and 2 miles west of Rensselaer, the following described property, commencing at 10 a. m., on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY «, 19IS 8 Head Horses and Mules—Pair mules, 7 years old, sound* wt 2500, well broke and good workers; pair black mares, 4 in spring, sound, !wt 2600, well broke and match perfectly; bay horse, 3 years old in spring, Sound, wt 1250, broke, a good one; pair black mares, coming 2 years old in spring, good blocky mares; black mare colt, W4Ba.U<?<X« 7 7 : ” : . ■ 22 Head of Cattle—Black cow, 3 i years old, fresh by day of sale; 3 red cows, 5 years old. fresh In March; 3 2-year-old heifers, iresh in spring; 6-year-old cow, fresh in spring; 2-year-old steer; 6 yearling steers; 4 spring calves; purebred Shorthorn heifer, recorded; pure-bred Shorthorn bull, 18 months old, recorded.

22 Head of Hogs—9 brood sows; 2 pure-bred Duroc sows; 2 Berkshire sows; these sows are all bred to pure-bred Spotted Poland China boar. This boar is sired by Paul No. 20, the biggest boned boar of the breed. 7 Hampshire shouts, wt 130 lbs. each; 11 fall pigs, wt 60 lbs. each. Farm Implements—2 good wagons, 8-ft binder, in good shape; 2 Tower gophers, as good as new; 2 Brown walking cultivators, 1 disc, 1 sulky plow, 2 3-section hailvw s, 1 2-section harrow, manure spreader, been used two seasons; 2 sets good leather work harness, 1-horse weeder, set gravel boards, doublefan endgate seeder, corn sheller, 600-lb. cream separator, been used 18 months. 10 Tons Good Timothy Hay. Terms—slo and under, cash in hand; on gums over <lO a credit of 11 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due, if not paid when due to draw 8 per cent from date; 2 per cent off for cash on sums over 310. No property to be removed until terms of sale have been complied with. EST AL PRICE. Fred A. Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch by Rosebud church.

BIG PUBLIC SALE The undersigned is going to quit farming and move to Montana, and will offer at public sale at his residence, 1 mile west and 3 miles south of Roselawn, 4 miles west and 1 miles north of Fair Oaks, known aS the (lay Harris ranch, commencing at 10 a. m., -on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1918 11 Head Horses and Mules— Consisting of 1 black horse, 1® years old, wt 1400; 1 bay mare, 11 years old, wt 145®; 1 bay mare, 8 years old, ’wt 12®©; 1 black gelding, 5 years old, wt I’s®; 1 sorrel gelding, 5 years. old, w* 1300; 1 bay mare, 13 years old, wt 1150; 1 gray mare, 3 years old. wt 1400; 1 brown gelding. 4 years old, wt 1250; 1 roan filly, 2 years old, wt 1150; 1 pair mules, wt 2400; 1 suckling colt. 26 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 12 milch cows, 11 will be fresh in spring, 1 heifer with calf by side; 2 yearling heifers will be fresh soon; 9 spring calves; 1 red bull, 2 years old; 1 black bull. 1 year old; 1 yearling steer. 39 Head of Shoots—Weighing from 50 to 150 pounds;. Poland China brood sow, wt 350 pounds. About 8 or IO bn- Good Seed corn; 13 tons of good timothy hay or more; 5 dozen chickens. Implements. Wagons. Etc.—Consisting of 3 wagons. 1 a Birdsei!, good as new; top buggy; road cart; Kingman klondyke: gang plow; 5 sulky plows. 2 Olivers, good as new, 1 Janesville, good as new; 2 Tower gophers, good as new; 2 cultivators; 2 steel harrows: 18-foot flexible harrow; 7-foot Champion binder in good condition; endgate seeder; McCormick mower; 12-foot weeder; Hayes corn planter, good as new; Deere corn planter; Case corn planter; corn shelter; 2 discs, I 7-foot and 1 8-foot; 8-foot roller; hay rack; No. 16 Nisco manure spreader, new; some team harness and collars; range stove; heating stove; chairs and other articles. Terms—slo and under cash in hand; on sums over 810 a credit of II months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per eent interest from date; 2 per cent off for cash when entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. PARMER WEEMAN. W. A. McCurtain. Auctioneer. E. P. Lane. Clerk. Hot lunch on ground.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 191*

funder this head notices wID JM PUbHabed ’for 1-cent-*-word for the flrw hwrtton, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional 'nsertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within ♦he above rate, will be published two or mote times—as the case may be —form cents. Where '• replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding aueh replies to ths advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Some nice White Wyandotte cockerels. —DAVID STONER, phone 913-D. f-2 Camp Shelby—sl.oo brings you a 3-4x25-inch half-tone picture of any Indiana company stationed there. Also a sheet, “A Man From This House,” free with eaeh order. Order now.—HOMER DAVIS, Rockville, Indiana. f-2 For Sale —Standing timber, 2 miles west of Surrey; also 5 head young horses. Wood choppers wanted, and one 2-year-old full-blood Shorthorn bull wanted. —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, R-l, phone Mt. Ayr, 92-D. f-26 Remington Typewriter, No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine tn splendid condition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost 3120, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—My residence property with two lots, one block from public square on Cullen street. Also, 120-acre farm, well improved and well tiled, two miles north of Brook, on main Brook road. —JOHN O’CONNOR, Kniman, Indiana. ts Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or , printed, at The Democrat Office, ts For Sale—6oo-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice City of 2,000 population. Farm is well improved. Located oh Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natchez and which intersects with the Jackson highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 21« or 499. £ ts One of the Best Located Residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two Improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property Terms if desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT.

FOR RENT For Rent—9-room house, electriJE lights, city water, three blocks* from court house. —-DR. F. A. TURFLER. ts FOUND Found —On the street, a rosary. Owner may have same by calling at thin office and paying for this notice. WANTED Wanted—Veals, live or dressed.— Phone 160-black. —H. A. QUINN. Wood Choppers—We are paying $2 per cord for cutting 4-foot wood. J. E. ’WALTER, Mgr. J. J. Lawler lands, phone 327, Rensselaer, Ind. False Teeth—We pay up to sl2 for old or broken sets. Send parcel post or write for particulars.—DOMESTlC SUPPLY CO., Dept 14, Binghamton, N. Y. ts

LOST Lost—On last Friday morning, between Arthur Williamson’s residence in Rensselaer and up town, a pocketbook containing between $6 and SB. Finder please leave at The Democrat office and receive reward. f-2 MISCELLANEOUS Own Your Own Home—The Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association makes loans to those desiring to buy, build or improve homes, on EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Pay off that mortgage on your property by our plan, or build a home and let the monthly you are paying your landlord pay for your home. Call at our office and talk this over with our Secretary, D. DELOS DEAN, Odd Fellows building, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts Attention Farm Owners—The Walker Township National Farm Loan association can loan you money any place in Jasper county at 5 per cent on thirty-six years’ time. Meet us at Walker Center school house in Walker township the first Saturday night in each month, or call or write V. M. PEER, Sec.-Treas., Fair Oaks, Indiana, or WILLIAM STALBAUM, Pres., Tefft, Ind. ts

FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. ts Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. tl Mutual Insurance—Fire and Lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 533-L. tl Farm Loans—Money to loan farm property in any sums up tS 1 '" 310,000. —E. P. HONAN. mix . without Chargee linilTV < Makta « ® r Recording | Iff Instruments IW wll I w w MRXTWm Subscribe Cor The Democrat