Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — Page 2

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HE JIM COOHTT DMII F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence *ll Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING RATES Display 12%c Inch Display, special position. . 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c Readers, pep 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. 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, APRIL 3, 1918

CANDIDATES ANNOUNCEMENTS.

FOR SHERIFF. Editor Democrat—Please announce my name as a candidate for Sheriff of Jasper county on the Democratic ticket, subject to the Primary Election. JOHN GUSS, Union Township.

FOR CORONER. Editor Democrat—Please announce my name as a candidate for coroner of Jasper county on the Democratic ticket, subject to the primary election. DEO O. WORLAND. Marion Township.

STAND BY THE PRESIDENT

There are still some people in minded that this is not Presimnded that this not only President Wilson's war, or the Democratic party’s war, but THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S WAR. There are still some who need to be reminded that there are times. when to play politics is criminal, and this is qne of those times. President Wilson is Commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the republic, not because he is a Democrat, for a Republican might have been in his place and have had the same problems to solve. He is the commander because, having been placed in the presidential chair, he came under the provision of the Constitution that places in the hands of that official the leadership of the nation in times of war. He is asking your support no’t because you are a Democrat, or a Republican, or a member of any other party, but because you are an American, and your country is in danger and in urgent need of your services. He is asking your loyalty because he is doing his utmost to >in YOUR battles for you, and safeguard YOUR interests.

The does not claim that it has made nd mistakes. It makes no claim to superhuman wisdom or knowledge. It can, however, and does claim that the immense tasks that the war has imposed upon it have been discharged with a minimum of mistakes. It admits the limitations of human nature, but claims for itself honesty of purpose and a sincere desire to administer the affairs of the nation to the lasting interest of the whole people. Your government needs YOUR support, not your criticism. It must have your support, or YOUR interests will suffer. If for no other than self-interest, you can not afford to obstruct with carping criticism. If you are not prepared to remedy, or offer a remedy for, the evils of which you complain, accept affairs as they are. come forward with a loyal and whole-hearted support, and contitions will be much more apt to change for the better. Stand by your President, by yo sr country, and by your own homes.

LIE MILLS ARE ACTIVE

In connection with war operations. a splendid plan to adopt is to refuse to believe any report that does not come officially from Washington. The lie mills of the enemy are active, and they are located in all parts of this country. It is the policy of the enemy to stir up discontent. apprehension and terror by any and every means in his power, and be will scruple at nothing in order 'to carry his point. Well he knows that any cause of anxiety or unrest subtracts from American efficiency.

Every loyal citizen of the United States should be assured of one truth—-his government will advise the public freely of every circumstance in connection with war activities that directly affects said ] public* We do not have to depend on rumor for information, because the bureau Of information is in existence for the purpose of supplying the people with the truth in every instance. Just a few instances of needless worry over maliciously false reports might be cited. Recently the repbrt was spread that ground glass had been found in the food of soldiers in some of the camps. The report was- at once investigated by the authorities and found to be absolutely false and without the shadow of foundation—a malicious lie, deliberately circulated for the purpose of sowing alarm and discontent. When the falseness of the report was proven, the government reassured the public, and we have heard no more of the matter. Then the report gained currency that some of the camps were located in notoriously unhealthful localities, and that epidemics of measles, meningitis and other diseases were raging. These, too. were given the lie by the; government, and it was plainly shown that not in any camp had the death rates been above normal for the country, and in most instances was in fact far below normal, demonstrating the health efficiency of the entire army cantonments.

America can win this war; she will win the war. But she can subtract from her efficiency and unnecessarily prolong the conflict if she suffers herself to become alarmed over every idle report or malicious lie that is circulated. We must keep cool and apply every ounce of our energy in work that counts in aid of our government and the brave boys who are to fight our battles on the fields of Europe and on the seas. Trust your government. It is right, and it has a due regard for your peace of mind, and everything that you should know that is calculated to affect that peace of mind will be duly communicated to you by those in authority. Bury the products of the lie mills In utter unbelief. That way it will be harmless.

“NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES”

A great deal is said and written these days on the subject of “nonessential industries,’’ and many people are vociferous in their assertions that all such will have to be cut out if. we are to avoid running on the rocks. Ninety )>er cent of this talk is the sheerest bosh, for the reason that those indulging in it have not the faintest conception of what the' results would be were their advice taken. American business interests are so inextricably interwoven that it is a practical impossibility to arbitrarily declare this one essential and that one non-essential. Our government has encountered just this difficulty. Some time ago, when it became apparent that we must conserve.on the coal supply, government officials cast about for these “non-essentials,” but right there their troubles began. It was not difficult to locate a number of lines, the finished products of which could safely be classed as non-essential. But in every case it was found that the uselessness of the article produced or manufactured was the smallest consideration in weighing the importance of the business. In every case it was found that the, industry itself had become so Vitally a part of the great American business fabric that its elimination or even its crippling work irreparable injury to numbers of other lines and thoroughly unsettle business conditions generally. , As a case in point, the officials first of all were up against the automobile industry. The auto could in no sense be deemed an essential. Up to a decade ago the country had managed to scrape along very comfortably without it. American life could still go on without it. But its elimination would do more to paralyze business than perhaps any other one industry, unless that of railroad transportation.

And thus it went, in varying degrees, through almost the entire list of American industries. The general prosperity of the country would not admit of the suppression of scarcely a single one. In this emergency the government has adopted the only logical course. While it was impractical to eliminate any one line or number of lines entirely, it was found that many lines could be curtailed. The tremendous expansion of all to •meet the demands of a luxury loving people, could, when luxury was forced into the background, be easily contracted to meet only the sternest necessities. Plants in various lines that had been using stated amounts of fuel, raw material and labor, could with .perfect safety be put on a shorter allowance of each, i this in the aggregate would work the required conservation. This the government has done, and will continue to do as occasion requires.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

That war garden will be just as big and as good as your patriotism will let it be. . It would seem there is nothing too improbable to happen. A Kentuckian has died from too much whiskey. -V Parisians are now closely scanning all German prisoners for fear Hindenburg may attempt to reach Paris via that route. A slacker singing “Over There,’’ and a professed Christian singing “I Want to Be an Angel,’’ are sights to make the devil chuckle. Now that the daylight saving bill has become law, perhaps some of our young bloods can worry through and be ready for bed by 2 g. m. If all American pacifists were as practical in their pacifism as Henry Ford, we would, soon have peace, but it would be peace through victory. It will be many years before the hen tribe will cease boasting of the great age attained by their ancestors who flourished during the world war. Germany is in a terrible passion

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

*at our taking the Dutch ships. Jn ’ the words of a famous political j boss, "What the h—l are you going to do about it?” The men of this country, have decided that they will not permit the women to do all the conserving of clothing, so they will give up the j belts on, their coats. When is a sacrifice not a sacrifice? ■ The meat packers are urging Mr. Hoover to abolish the meatless | days because the supplies are piling up. We would second their motion if the prices showed any in.clination to “pile’’ down. The kaiser is said to be a diligent student of the career of NapolJeon. There are a few incidents toward the close of that career that are not calculated to give William any great amount of satisfaction if he would emulate the* little Corsican. Now that Lenine and Trotsky have succeeded in demobilizing and [ demoralizing the Russian armies, 'they are wildly calling upon the Russian people to “defend the revo--1 lution.” Seems to us we recall re--1 ports of a people who were forced ito "make bricks without straw." j Of course Holland put up a stiff protest against our seizure of those ‘ ships, but Holland was speaking 1 for Germany’s benefit then. And now that the affair is settled and we have the ships, Holland will get her supplies, provided she agrees to keep her back door closed and locked.

If Secretary Baker had any idea he would ever want to run for office, he should not have permitted the report to get past the censor that he hid in a wine cellar in France during an aerial bombardment. At least he should have had creditable witnesses to smell bis breath when he emerged. Uncle John D. Rockefeller has Just finished paying his income tax, amounting to $32,400,000. This leaves him only $22,000,000 on which to 4 support his family this year. With the help of all the Hoover regulations, this should be made to answer, if he gives careful attention to the garden.

WHY NOT INCLUDE ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGE PAPERS?

Philip Zoercher, former Democrtic clerk of the Supreme court, who made a series of mighty good political speeches in Jasper county during the 1916 campaign and will be remembered by many Democrats here as a very patriotic German, is opposed to the publication of all German papers in this country, according to the Indianapolis News. The Democrat heartily agrees with Mr. Zoetrcher, except that we would go a step farther and prohibit the publication of all foreign language papers in the United States. Let the foreigners learn to read English and it will make better citizens of them all. Following is Mr. Zoercher’s views as published in the Indianapolis News.

Philip Zoercher, a member of the state board of tax commissioners, who has been making speeches on behalf of the Friends of German Democracy in Indiana communities where there are many citizens of German birth and descent, takes a firm stand for the suppression of German language newspaipers and magazines. In an expression on this subject today, Mr. Zoercher mentioned the Teleferam and Tribune, the Indianapolis German language daily, as one of the publications he felt should either print its paper in English or cease publication.

. “This is no time for pussyfooting, but it is a time for plain speaking, it makes no difference how much it hurts,” said Mr. Zoercher. “We are at war with Germany. Every newspaper and magazine published in the enemy language should be suppressed. The fact that translations of the articles published in the German papers are furnished to the government is not enough. If there are citizens _in Indiana who can read nothing but German it is time they were learning English. If the German language publications were suppressed during the war there would be no call for them after the war.” Mr. Zoercher speaks and, reads German , and until recently was / a regular reader of German papers. But since 1916, when he became conwjnced that the German press was a menace to American institutions, he has been bitterly opposed to such literature. “I think that most of the people of German blood in Indiana.ftoday who are not ‘right’ in regard to the United States and sympathize with Germany are readers of German papers which have poisoned their minds,” he said. “I am frankly saying this in my addfesses to audiences of German-Americans. When we recognize an evil we should be frank about it, particularly ip this time of war.' In addition to the German language newspapers, I believe that another source favorable to Germany is the religious papers and magazines published in the German language. -— Indianapolis News.

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PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I see the husky young man pass, and mutter to z myself, ‘‘Alas! How much I envy him! I’m bent beneath my weight pt years, the finish to my view appears, while he has strength aud vim.’’ But when I've pondered things a while, I reconstruct my faded smile, and wear it on my face; I say. Youth has more grief than age; more worry, trouble, futile rage—l’d not be in his place. I sit beneath my fig ,and vine, and sweet serenity is. mine, naught can disturb my calm; extinguished are the fires that burned my heart in youth, my eyes are turned to Gilead, its balm. The smoothest girl in town may pass, the most resplendent gorgeo-us lass, no rapture will she rouse; but that young man, I envied late, will spend the night before her gate, and fill the air with vows. He’ll lose his

sleep and appetite T and silly verses he’ll indite, on wedding bells intent; he'll fret and fume and rend his soul, and when she finds he’s blown his roll, she’ll wed some other gent. Oh, youth is full of rage and pain, and only age is safe and sane, consoling and sublime; and so I sit beside my door, and moralize an hour or more, and have the blamedest time.

MOUNTAINS OF OIL UNTOUCHED

Mountains of oil! That is not a figure of speech but an actual fact, as recent investigations by the government experts in w’estern Colorado and Utah prove. A sedimentary clay of th© Tertiary age saturated with oil and solidified into shale is tjie substance of which these oil mountains are composed. Mr. Dean E. Winchester of the United States Geological S'urvpy says that in Colorado alone there is sufficient oil-bearing shale to yield about twenty billion barrels of crude oil, from which two billion barrels of gasoline may be extracted, and that in Utah there is probably an equal amount. Here in the Rockies great hills lift their heads heavenward, veritable mountains o> oil. For ages they have stood there unw’orked by man, and it is only within a few months that effort has been made to convert them into beneficial use. Some of the shale yields as much as ninety gallons of oil to the ton. Destructive distillation is the (method of obtaining the oil from the x mined ore, and the fuel used is gas, a by-product of the process. Mr. R. D. George, state geologist of Colorado, says that in the fifteen hundred square miles of territory in northwestern Colorado in which there are commercially workable oil-shale beds there is an oil content of thirty-six billion barrels, or just about ten times as much as has been produced in the United States since the oil industry began in 1859. Even a much more conservative estimate w’ould be sufficient to dispel fears of an immediate oil and gasoline famine. For many years -the shale beds of Scotland have been worked profitably in spite of the fact that the deposits are hundreds of feet beneath the surface and in strata only inches wide. The Colorado shales are on the surface and are several feet in thickness. One of the most important by-products is aimmonia, which will be of great use for enriching farm land. Mr. Winchester has estimated that the Colorado shale will produce about three hundred million tons of this valuable fertilizer.

Mountains of oil! Yes, not only of oil but of gas, naptha, gasoline, lubricating oil, paraffin, ammonia and several other important products.— Youth’s Companion.

Subscribe for The Democrat. Awfimwi [Under thi« head notices wm be pub llshed for 1-cent-a-word for the firei insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each ad dft'lonal insertion. 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 ot more times—as the case may be—for 21 cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the adVer tlser.] FOR SALE For Sale—At a bargain, secondhand Oakland car.—M. I. ADAMS, phone 933-L. a-13 For Sale —First-class organ in A-1 shape.—P. W. HORTON, phone 24-D. a-6 For Sale—Some good seed pettitoes, Early Ohio’s and Bugless.— ALFRED PETERS, phone ,943-H. For Sale- —Full blood O. I. C. male hog, old enough for service.—JOE TRULLEY, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 945-B. a-6 For Sale—Some 1916 seed corn, three varieties; 95 pct test guar-

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anteed. Phone 913-0. S. A. ARNOLD. & Timothy Seed—New, homC-grown timothy seed for sale. —-Phone 337, JAMES E. WALTER, Mgr., J. J. Lawler lands, Rensselaer. ts Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat Office, ts For Sale —250 bushels good homegrown blue and white tested seed corn, averaging 90 per cent or better, an early maturing variety, good yielder.—JAMES E. BRITT, Parr, R-l, phone 923-B. tsFor Sale —Now is the time to secure your Barred Rock eggs; the best you can get for $2.50 per setting of 15 eggs; also Mammoth Pekin duck at $1.50 per setting of 11 eggs.— a. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Indiana. a-® For Sale—Overland roadster, just been overhauled and in good running order; good tires all around. Car has not been run to exceed -L<ooo miles. —See M. KUBOSKE, at Kuboske’s garage. ts For Sale —A Webster’s New International Dictionary, almost new and very little soiled, sheep binding and good paper. Publisher’s price sl2; will sell for $8 cash.— JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Typewriter Ribbons —The Democrat .carries Jn stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 75c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts One of the Best Located Reel dence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildinga. etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT/ For Sale—6oo-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice city ot 2,000 population. Farm is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natchez and which intersects with the Jackson highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 21$ or 499, ts For Sale—B-ply Litho Blanks. We have on hand several hundred shebts 22x28 8-ply litho blanks, coated 2 s sides, that we will sell in lots of 50 or more at $6 per 10(1, which is less than cost a year ago. This board was ordered for a special purpose, but customer changed order and it was not used. Is put up in 50-sheet packages and has .not been broken. —THE DEMOCRAT. ts

FOR RENT Pasture—We have plenty of good pasture for the season near Fair Oaks. Horses $1.50 per monUfT’ cattle $1.25 per month. Horses must be marked and cattle branded. Will care for stock from May 1 to November 1. —JAMES E. WALTER, Mgr. J. J. Lawler lands, phone 337, Rensselaer, Ind. ts LOST Lost—March 22, near the Gwin lumber yard in Rensselaer, crank for automobile. Finder please leave at The Democrat office. Lawn Mowers Sharpened—Call on D. E. Hollister in rear of poultry house, opp. McKay's laundry, for your lawn mower sharpening, a-15 False Teeth—We pay up to sl2 for old or broken seta. Send parcel post or write for particulars.—DOMESTlC SUPPLY CO., Dept 14, Binghamton, N. Y. ts MISCELLANEOUS Storage—l have two rooms tor storage of light household or other goods .in The Democrat Terms reasonable.—F. E. BAB COCK. Phone 315 or 311.

Own Your Own Home —The Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Associafton 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 ihome and let the monthly rental 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. tl FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHAS. J. DEAN * SON, Odd Fellows, Building. Rensselaer. tl Money to Loan—S per cent fam loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. tl Mutual Insurance—Fire and Idght. ning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 511-L. tl Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up fa SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. I Cal llul I UUI Illi) I Without Chargee ffa KftMTV | T B * c ** l ** UIILI J w. ■. paudimk