Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — Page 2

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HE m MIT DtMOCRiT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Oflfce 315 Residence 111 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter j-m A 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer Indiana, under the Act of March A 1879Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only AU Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING RATES Display 12%c lack Display, special position ..15c Inch Beaders, 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 more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not te exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. AH 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. z SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918

THE LOCAL MERCHANT

There never was a time in the’ history of business when the local merchant was in as good a position to place himself on a solid footing with his customers than today, neither has there ever been a time when he could so easily lose his prestige with them. With the cry of economy on every hand and each and every member of the class known as the buying public intent upon practicing economy to the fullest extent, there must and will be some radical changes in business methods in the not far distant future. That the city brother of the local merchant has sensed these changes and is already making his plans ( to meet the new conditions is evident

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to the casual observer. Profits must be reduced and when this is done sales must be increased to maintain the standard of gross profits. Of the two —the country merchant and the city merchant —which is in the best position to reduce profits and still maintain his business upon a paying basis? Students of economic conditions are all agreed that the country merchant has every advantage over his city brother in times such as we now have, but the latter is not going to sit idly by and see good trade slip from him without making every effort in his power to hold it. The greatest of his claims to economic business conduct —that of buying in large quantities and obtaining a better price—has been done away with by government regulation of price and quantity sales. In the buying markets today the country merchant is on an equal footing with his cosmopolitan competitor. But notwithstanding these conditions, and of which but Jew people are cognizant, the city merchant is now and will continue to make every effort to attract trade to him. Many of the arguments that have availed him and served his purpose in times past will be used again and with telling effect unless offset by an equal persuasive argument from the local merchant.

That the city merchant is hot on the trail of patronage everywhere is well known to those in a position to know. His advertising is going into corners heretofore unrecognized, and he proposes to leave no stone unturned to secure custom from, any and all sources. One barrier which he has encountered that has temporarily put a halt in his endeavors is the policy of many local newspapers to discourage and frequently refuse city advertising that is in direct competition with any local concern. Yet this barrier will not prove permanent and sooner or later will be surmounted. The city merchant recognizes the value oif the local newspaper as a means of reaching the buying public in that vicinity, but if he cannot use that medium, he will use some other to the best of his ability even though the cost is much greater. And here is. where the local merchant must come forward and with all the ‘powers at his command strive to offset the tremendous drive that is being made for the custom of his territory. In his efforts along this line his most powerful ally will be the local newspaper, ever ready to help In any and every move that has a semblance Of local benefit, and ever reluctant to do that which will in any way tend to take trade away from home.

The local merchant must recognize and appreciate this fact, and make use of the service offered. The newspaper publisher is only a human and is conducting his business for what there is legitimately in it, and whenever the time comes that he does not receive an adequate remuneration for his labors from local concerns he can turn to the city merchant and be welcomed with open arms. This condition is one that the local merchant alone has con-

trol of and one which he must not , permit to come to pass. One other thing that must be realized by the small town trades-’ man is the ability to recogniz'e his real competitor. The fact that you 1 sell shoes and John Smith further down the street also sells shoes does not make 4 him your competitor, and the same is true of those who sell hardware, groceries, clothing or any other line of merchandise. What is good Ifor you is good for him, and what is good for him is good for you. Your real competitor, the one who seeks to take the custom from your territory, is the city merchant. Don’t try to beat John Smith out of a sale. Rather take him by the hand and together strive to offset the increasing inclination among the people to trade away from home. It can be done. You have the means at your disposal and prudence must be your guide.

The announcement of the Presi-, dent naming a guaranteed price of, $2.20 a bushel for the next wheat crop is made under Section 14 of the food control law of August 10, 1917, which says: “Whenever the President shall find that an emergency exists requiring stimulation of the production of wheat and that it is " essential that the ’producers of wheat, produced within the United States, shall have the benefits of the guaranty provided for in this section, he is authorized from time to time, seasonably and so far In advance of seeding time as practicable, to determine and fix and to give public notices of what, under specified conditions, is a reasonable guaranteed price for wheat, in order to assure such producer a reasonable profit.” The law provides for regulations regarding the grading of wheat and says: “The government of the United States hereby guarantees every producer of wheat produced within the United States that upon compliance by him with the regulations prescribed he shall receive for any wheat produced in reliance upon this guarantee within a period not exceeding eighteen months, a price therefor as fixed pursuant to this section.” Thus the government of the United States guarantees to American farmers the price of 1918 wheat and says that this guarantee is hereby absolute and shall be binding until May 1, 1919.

Satisfactory equipping of the army is now assured, Secretary of War Baker has officially announced, for rifle and cartridge production has reached a plane guaranteeing plenty of fighting materials for the American army in France. Since April 6 this country has turned out 700,000 rifles. For the week ending February 9, 13,012 rifles was the daily output. This was four times as many in one week as Great Britain turned out in ten months of war, the secretary said. Some $400,000,000 has been spent to produce these results. The production of cartridges during January was, says the secretary, 7,300,000 a day. -r

PLANS TO SAVE ROAD FUNDS

Nearly a Million Dollars Now Due Indiana for Road Building. Indianapolis, February 28. —To learn how Indiana highway projects stand under the fifty-fifty plan of the federal law since the United States government has adopted a policy of restricting large expenditures to improvements regarded necessary for winning the war, L. H. Wright, chairman of the Indiana state highway commission, will soon go to Washington; He regards prompt action necessary to save for the use of the state the $812,000 of federal funds that have accumulated in the last three years, and he fears that the policy of the federal government may put a serious limitation on highway improvements; except on a relatively few roads that would be of special value in the promotion of the war. Mr. Wright says the policy of the state highway commission will be to get projects approved by the federal authorities as soon as possible so that even if construction should be postponed, the federal funds would not be lost to the state, but would be available for use after the exigencies of the war had passed. A number of the proposed roads, it is believed, will readily be approved on the ground that they would aid in winning the war. “Contractors will not bid,” says Mr. Wright, “unless they have assurance from Secretary McAdoo, director of railroads, that he will release cars to haul the materials used in road construction. So while I am in Washington I shall try to get the whole matter straightened out." Under the fifty-fifty plan by which the federal government supplies as road project should be carried on

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much money as the state, or rather counties o<f the state, the federal government must approve a project before a contract can be let. The active work of investigation and approval is done by Logan Page, head of the road bureau of the department of agriculture. Mr. Page has approved some of the project statements forwarded to Washington by the state highway commission, but this approval is of a preliminary nature, and it does not authorize the state highway commission to go ahead. It is presumed that the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of agriculture will agree on a policy, if they have not already done so. Eight projects under the fifty- fifty plan are how in. They are in StJoseph county, Elkhart, Johnson, Putnam and Hendricks, Wayne, Vigo and Clay, Marion and Hamilton. Proposed projects are in Jackson county, Henry, Hancock, Howard, Lake and Porter, Miami, Fulton and Allen.

Federal funds began to be available in 1916, the year the fiftyfifty law was enacted by congress. But at that time Indiana did not have a state highway commission, and the use of the federal money was conditional on states having highway commissions to supervise road construction. The 1917 legislature created a highway commission and provided for a state highway engineer in order to come within the provisions of the federal law. So, including 1918, there is an accumulation of three years of federal funds or a total of about $812,000, which the state highway commission is eager to save for Indiana. Mr. Wright says the state must act within three years of the passage of the federal law, but he believes that if Indiana gets projects approved, the federal part of the money will be available later even if some road construction is postponed because of the war. The federal law provides that 70 per cent of any road improved shall be a post road. The policy of the state highway commission, in drawing up projects has been to choose main market and post highways. Chairman Wright fears many men will be made idle should the federal government decide against most of the road construction projects. The question of whether a certain

Safeguarded Investments Are your dollars Loafers er Wetm? Money that is not invested pays ub reurns, any more than grain in the bin wxE griw crops unless planted. Every man er vmliowith money should put that money to wwn. Jay Gould once said that SlOf smraK3ti n the right thing at the rigM tSese uraaßt earn as much as a man steadily sisuiyst He died worth hundreds off irnTFiens. The average man or woman knows maCKrng about how or where to invest mxmw to good returns from it. It is car hastooß to advise investors where and haw to SatvesL- • where investments can earn the lest r®turns with the utmost of safety. Brokerage Department We buy or sell listed or unlisted storks aid bonds. If you are anxious to buy er seC let us help you. We can probably bry tiestock you want cheaper than yon ean_ W® can sell your stocks at the best jmk® ®r we can exchange non-dividend-paying stock far stock that ito paying dividends. Wnae to us about it. Underwriting Department We underwrite the selling of the stork rs companies but before accepting an sssne ass stock for sale we make a most thorough nt complete investigation off the It has to grade up A-l or we will not aam£e it. It is this type of investment that. Jay Gould alluded to in the. quotation ahrve — * “The right thing at the rjgto ttoffit”" How To Buy Stock We will purchase stock for you for cash, neon the deferred payment pirn. We make a moderate charge for carrying stock on to® <feferred payment plan but you berome entitled to all dividends, bonuses, toe stock you buy earns from the dteto yaur first payment is recorded. Let us this plan fully. Two Unusual Opportunities We have at present two exceptional-y attractive opportunities. Both are ggh aJge investments with large profit J Ask for Offer B-2. Mail This Coupon Today

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PHILOSOPHY OF WAIT MASON

I know a huw- rtf txmsela fair. I whose spirit greatly I admire; they have the nerve t® and. dare, they’re full of patrJrcfe fire. There’s one of them sb passing sweet, she’d make The fetriiEses: fraus, and wen are always at irfc feet with talk of rings and marriage- row. Whoever gets her in the em£ will have to bear the marks ®f strife; she-'H be a sister or a crsemc to others, but I she won’t be wife. ‘TH never wed a man who shirts., wto does not, ■ when his country raiasC -ke says, blow out a works with shrapnel, bombs -nr mmuaniballs.’' I know some men wear a scowl when facing some grra-T sacrifice; ; and men there are wto raise a howl whenever they cig np the- price. But all the womst sitae I know are thoroughbreds. ®T spirit high, their one regret that they can’t go and show us how 1® meet amd die. A man win wonder where he’s at when for a bond he tie rocks; his wife will soak her Sttmday hat to buy some yam frc ssfifSers socks. A man will sink sf he must use some substitute fee leaf er cheese; his wife will auEtlnr ®tf her shoes, and barefoot g© to bees.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918

■. . . CWtCAMM, ikuSmacuU* a LUVI»VHAS RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect February, 1917 NORTHBOUND Na. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:61 aja. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:01 a.aa No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7 :36 a.sa. No. 32 Indianap'a to Chicago 10:16 a.sa No. 38 Indianap'a to Chicago 2:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:11 ML No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to 'Cincinnati 1:46 aj*. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:66 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati) 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’a I 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette I 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati I 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville [ 11 J. • asa

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor;Cnarles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney .Moses Leopold Civil Engineer...L. A. Bostwick Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden.J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward ßay Wood 2nd Ward..... Frank Tobias 3rd Ward. Fred Waymire At T-arge. Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attoi ney-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 SurveyorlL D. Nesbitt CoronerW. J. Wright County Assessor... G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. E. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd DistrictD. 8. Makeev* 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson........... Berkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole.. Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordaa R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George Ham merton Union 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 Jorian 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 A Dean's law office. „ JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans, win 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 AU 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 toll AM. 2 to 6 P.M. 1 “ 7 to B P. IL Attending Clinics Chicago Ttieeffare 5 A. M. to 2 P. IL RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig's drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Ree. Ne. 442-B RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Felts) Practice in all Courts. Estatpe settled. Farm Leans. Collection Department. Notary In the office. Over T. & S. Bank. Phone No. It RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Oetee pathy. Post-Graduate American Scheel ed Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. StflL Office Honrs—B-12 a. m., 1-B a. a. Tuesdays and Fridays at Montlseße, Office: 1-1 Murray Blds. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA