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he jim Mir dmii F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 111 Hntered as Second-Class Mall Matter lune 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Reneaelaer, Indiana, under the Act of March a 1879. - Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING RATES Display 12%c Inch Display, special position . . 16c 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 more months. Cash must accompany order un- ' ' less advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not te exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. // i WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1918

CANDIDATES ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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.

CONCERNING EXEMPTIONS

When the selective draft law was passed and the government began the 'mobilization of an army, many were the predictions that it would meet with bitter opposition from the people. Members of congress even were heard to remark that they would not Choose between being a conscript and being a convict. But contrary to all such gloomy views, the work has been going smoothly on and the people have quietly adapted themselves to the law’s requirements, till now the calling of men under its provisions is regarded as a mere matter of course. The selective draft law is a signal victory for sound government. It recognizes the fundamental fact that man owes a debt to government, and is bound to pay that debt on demand—that theVe can be no exemption so long as the man himself is physically and 'mentally fit to pay. Nothing but physical or mental unfitness can exempt any man from the obligation. But isn’t there a further obligation resting upon the benificiaries of government? Is life and personal service all of the debt? Getting down to the gist of the question, if the government has the right to demand the services of your son, has it not the right to demand the services of your dollars as well? Is property taor^.sacred

in the eyes of the law than life? Life and service alone can never win the war. These must be backed up and sustained by the money and means of the nation. But is the burden to fall entirely on the government of raising these means of sustenance. Before many more months of this war have passed, the people of this country are going to be rudely aroused to the fact that, Viewed in the light of justice and right, NOTHING should be exempt. Life is the most sacred of our possessions. Yet life is demanded by our government, and we see no injustice in the demand. But as soon as our precious dollars are demanded we raise a holy howl. Our government is fighting for itsexistence. The life and death struggle 4s now going on. and shall any citizen of this government dare to claim that his country has not the right to his last dollar if that should be needed to insure victory? So long as the bond issues of the government are readily subscribed. hjowe’ver, indications are that that means will be taken to finance the war. Should these issues fail of subscription the real test as to the ultimate (.authority of government will come.

A NASTY PROFESSOR

For brazen impudence and unparalleled shamelessness the case of Thomas, the unmoral University of Chicago professor, caps the climax. His escapade is still, fresh in the public mind and his five-column palliation for his conduct is still making decent people gasp. That he was not fired bodily from the university is disgraceful, but it is in keeping with the institution of learning. God save the mark, which has harbored too many notorious professors of loose living to do anything else but leave a bad-taste in the mouth when mentioning it. Thomas registered in a loop hotel with a young woman, young enough to be his daughter. She Is the wife of an officer in the U. S. army fighting for freedom in France. The Couple were in a bedroom and trapped in an exceedingly uncompromising situation. They were arrested despite their prominence find later the wife of the professor excused her husband’s conduct by taking the young woman into her home as a sickening example of condonement of the behavior of her spouse and the soldier’s wife.

The professor, who Justifies his teachings and preachings and his studies of the sex question by raw methods, says he was merely studying woman and tells the world that he has done the thing before and tries to make out a case in the /face of an outraged and disgusted public opinion. The world is not yet ready for private sex clinics and we doubt that it ever will be- When. a brave man gives up all to fight for his country, he is supposed to be able to leave his wife and children behind safe from the machinations and advances o.f goatish professors. His mind should be free from anything that would arouse lurking suspicions and uneasiness as to the

conduct of his wife at home for whose safety from outrage he has gone to the front to fight. The preservation of the Home is what our boys are, giving their bipod for in France. If Thomas is too old to go to war, he ought to be too old to interest a soldier’s. wife when her husband is thousands of miles away. ■ ' ■ Thomas is a flne specimen of educator for classes of young men and women, for it is only to be expected that he preaches what he practices. Some day we hope that this brave officer will return from France to take care of Thomas. If he takes care of him in the way he ought to we do not believe that there is a jury of decent American citizens ■who will be very long in returning a verdict against so contemptible a creature as this University of Chicago professor.—Lake County Times.

CALLS KAISER A MURDERER

The New Yorker Volkszeitung, a Socialist daily printed in German, I announces the committee on public' information at Washington, express-| ed its opinion of the first great battle of the German offensive on the Somme in a powerful editorial, the editor taking for his theme the i lines of the poet Herwegh: “You have won the world’s foremost place in murderous infamy. Germania, I shudder at the mention of you.” After reviewing the cynical disregard of the kaiser and Hindenburg for all moral laws and human decencies, the editorial continues : ------7-

The worst battle of the great war, the bloodiest battle in all world history, continues. ♦ ♦ * Aggression continues. * * Murder continues. ♦ * ♦ But it is by no means certain that the German armies will succeed in opening the way to Paris and in throwing themselves upon the capital of the unfortunate country. \ If the military masters of Germany believe that the advantages they have already won in' this battle — yes, and even if they should come out victorious in this greatest of all battles in history—that this would bring nearer a conquerer's peace for them, they will be greatly disillusioned. The (resources of the allies are well-riigXz inexhaustible. The marauding march of the Hohenzollerns into the heart of revolutionary Russia has changed the views of all friends of peace in the allied countries. The nations are aghast at thought of the outlook in this war and at the ruthlessness with which it is conducted. Sharpened opposition will be the only outcoine of a German victory. And the worst feature of this greatest battle in world history is ! that it will undoubtedly serve to set back the thought of peace with the [German people.' The greater the. i victory the easier it will be for the | military masters of Germany to 'spread the view among the people [that the German army is unconquerable and that all that is required is patience and endurance: and then I peace will be attained —a conquer- | er’s peace. A great victory at the western front now will serve to weaken the growing opposition of the German people to the military caste. Through such a victory the junkers and pan-Germanists will get the upper hand more than ever, and the reasonable and peace-loving part of the population, and especially the working classes, will have their influence curtailed. All this the iH'ohenzollerns and their junker companions know very well. And that is why they stake everything to make this worlds greatest battle into a world’s greatest victory. This is the objective I for which they are ruthlessly sacriI fleing ‘upon t’lie altar of the father|land’ the sons of German mothers land the fathers of German children. It is for this objective that the ! blood of German soldiers flows in 1 streams into the rivers of northern I France and thence into the ocean. ■ This is the objective for which the flower of the German nation is beI ing slaughtered, for which a whole 'generation is being .wiped out. I And the kaiser thanks his God I for the help which He presumably lis giving him in this stupendous murdering. And the German people? * * * I ‘Germania. I shudder at the menI tion of you.’ .

The Evansville Demokrat, a daily and weekly German language newspaper published by F. W. Lauenstein at Evansville, Indiana, ceased publication and went out of business with last Sunday’s issue, after a mass meeting held there at which its suppression was demanded. The paper was started fifty-four years ago by Mr. Lauenstein’s father. Personally Mr. Lauenstein is a patriotic citizen, and his wife is chairman of women’s division in the Third Liberty loan campaign and has been doing great work for the American soldiers.

It’s rather puzzling to know whether it would be best to go by Mexico on our way to Europe, or wait and come by there on our return. That trouble spot is due for a, visit before long. Political discussions are taking second place these days. What is the use of going so far afield for a topic, when even such a simple thing as a loaf of bread furnishes an opportunity for-argument as to what it contains?

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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heatless, and. also the eatless days. Our Uncle takes very good care' of we boys, and his navy is a fine place for anyone. I As you know I am, limited as to ' what I may write and one has to be careful or we will say too much. My address is H. J. Phillips, Sec. 21c., U. S. Navy Aviation Forces, Foreign Service in France. Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Hoping this will find the people of the glorious U. S. as it leaves me, I am Your friend, HARVEY PHILLIPS. P s.—Before I got a chance to mail this' I was sent to the Base i hospital at Brest for treatment. llHope to be back at work before this reaches you.

Following is Mr. O’Connor’s reply; Kniman, Indiana., April 28, 1918. Mr. H. J. Phillips, 11. S. Navy Aviation Forces, Foreign Service in France. My dear Sir and Friend: I received your very welcome letter of the 11th ult., and not being at home is cause of delay in answering. J want to assure you that it was with deep feeling and much joy that I first saw your letter, and because of the fact that you were the first and only one of the large number of American men or boys that thought enough of me to write to me after I had talked to them lin reference to joining the U. S. I navy. So you see, my dear Harvey, that I have good reason to be glad to hear from you, especially because you are in the service of my own country and in that particular branch which I most love, the U. S. navy. Just forty-eight years ago last Tuesday, April 23, I was honorably discharged from the U. S. navy, after seven years’ service and a trip clear around, the globe. Just fifty years ago 1 3 was in Japan during their civil war, and you know that if there is anyone in this world that loves the U. S. navy and Old Glory, I am one of them, God bless our dear old Flag. ’ Well Harvey, my dear young American, I surely think more of you now than ever before and because you are now protecting, not only my dear country, but also my dear home here and the virtue of my dear wife and daughters; because if you cannot whip the kaiser there he will whip us here, and that is as sure as God lives. So, my dear young man, everything is at stake and all depends on such men as you, our own American boys in Europe, and may God bless and strengthen and give you courage and vigor to all our men and women in all the different branches of our country's service. Oh, how many times I wish 1 could onlj* be again on the deck of one of our dear war ships, and let >me say Harvey, that your letter I shows you to be a true American sailor, and why, because you do not say one \yord of fault about either the food or hardships of the service. -That is righty' my boy, war is no place for picnics. War is hell and we must keep hell and the trenches out of our own beloved soil, and that can only be done by such young men as you. And don’t forget that the future of our Republic depends on you and the rest of yott. I will always be glad to hear from you. Your true friend and admirer, JOHN O’CONNOR.

LETTER FROM ROSS BENJAMIN.

Sunday, March 31, 1918. Dear Mother: — These oil lamps we have here are a long ways from being like the lights at home and we wear a cap like a teacup, without any on in front, so I am writing with a post card in the front of my caps to shade by eyes from the light. In this room we have to furnish our own heat and light. We have oil lamps and an oil stove. We buy oil from the commissary at the- post. At the post there’s a lot of Field Clerks (stenographers), who have their own mess and we eat there. Breakfast at 7:30, dinner at 12:30, and supper at 5:30. Tomorrow they change the breakfast hours to six thirty, but we have made arrangements to have our breakfast at 7:30 as before. Shortly'after I came here they set the clock ahead an hour, so six o’clock really means five o’clock. I like that pretty well, for although we get up pretty early, it gives us a nice long evening. We quit work at 5:30, *which really means 4:30. We go to bed about nine o’clock as there is not much else to do. We went to church this Easter morning at a little chapel in an old French hospital near the post and heard some very fine music. Couldn’t understand much they said as it was all in French. Nearly .every body over here are Catholics and I hardly know how to act in a Catholic church but there is nothing else to go to here. *Went through an old Catholic church last Sunday that was built about a thousands years ago, some time in the twelth century. It is really over seveft hundred years old. Most of the housese here look about that old.

The fighting up north has been pretty fierce this last week, but if it was notfor seeing so many men in uniform here we wouldn’t know there was a war. I suppose you read all about that in the papers about as soon as we do. I haven’t had any mail yet and have been here over three weeks, but I guess I can’t complain for a man comes into the office now and then and says he has had no mail for two months or more. Been raining for two days now but up to that time the sun hits shown almost every day since I have been here. Have a pan of water on the oil stove that is hot and am going to take a bath such as it is. They say there are only two or thfee bath

tubs in the whole town and I have learned to .take a bath in a teacup and shave without any mirror. Will write again in a few days. Lovingly, ROSS. RENSSELAER. IND..

MILROY

Miss Houston spent Sunday with Irene McAleer. Marion Garvin visited her sister in Wolcott Sunday. Oliver Hamilton and family spent Friday with his father’s family. Mrs. William Fisher spent Tuesday with friends in Rensselaer. iris Williams spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks. * Mrs. Jay Fosdick went to Illinois to care for a new grandchild last week. Iva English visited over Sunday with her sister,. Mrs. Earl Foulks, and family. _ 4 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Culp called on Mr. and Mi's. Fred Saltwell Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Caster called on Mrs. Anna Chapman one evening last week. James Wood and Miss Edna Christenson visited at the home of William Chapman Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gilmore and children visited Mrs. Gilmore’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Southard, Sunday. . Mrs. Mary McCa’shen, who has been visiting her niece, Miss Laura Clark, came for a visit Sunday with her son ar.d family, Charles McCashen. Mr. Learning and Miss Geyer of Rensselaer attended the community meeting at Queen City Saturday evening. The next meeting will be held at Center. Miss Geyer will give a bread demonstration in the township at an early date. Let all try and be present.

JASPER COUNTY CLASSIFICATION

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Borden Tyler, 4-C; Elmer Clark, 2- Peter R. Steele, 2-C; A. W. Bush, 1-1, on appeal, , 2-C; Frank Spencer, 4-A on appeal; Walker Snodgrass, 1-A, on appeal, 1-1; Russell A. Sage, 3-J; Earl V. Williams, 3- William Meyers, 3-J, refused to reopen; George Fritz, 2-C; Daniel Leighty, 1-1; Alfred Biley, 2-C; Charles Stevenson, 2-D; Edward Gramps, ;2-C; James Kelly, 3-J; A. E Glasgow, 2-C; John Dluzak, 2-C; Henman Alberts, 4-C; Charles Wiseman, 2-C; Lloyd Madaus, 2-C; Charles T. Claussen, Charlbs William Britt, 3-J; Ja'mes Hoferlin, 2-J; John Loppen, Jr., 4-C; Delos H. Waymire, 2-C; Henry Toben, 2-C; J. H. Hayes, 3-J; Edward Nagel, 2-C; Robert Phares, 3-J;' John Phares, 3-J; Hugh Yeoman, 2-C; Oscar Weiss, 3-J; Leonard Johnson, 2-C; F. McCurtain, 1-1, on appeal; Sewell Randolph, 1-F, George Peterson, 2-C;* Louis Ray Sigo, 4-C; Jacob Peterson, 2-C; William T. Stath, 2-C; Frank Benark, 2-C; Jacob I- Veld, 2-C, physical appeal; Louis Rachovsky, qualified. In calling Schwab to the shipbuilding job the government is calling wide knowledge and trained experience. Our ships will sail.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION No. 1119 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Edward Cain, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. RAY D. THOMPSON, Administrator. April 9, 1918. a 17-24-ml MWEMISW [Under thia head nonces win ba published for 1-cent-a-word for the Aral Insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keepins cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or 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 advertiser.] FOR SALE Cane Seed for Sale —I have a quantity of sugar cane seed for sale. —J. C. BORNTRAGER, phpne 929A, Rensselaer. m-11 For Sale —Five stock hogs, weight about 130 pounds each.—JOHN J. EVERS, 2 miles west of Virgie. a-30 For Sale —Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for hatching.—MßS. M. I. ADAMS, phone 933-L. ts For Sale —Rock Island corn planter with 80 rods of wire. Guaranteed to be in good running order. Will sell worth the money.—JOE ZICKMUND, Mt. Ayr exchange phone 9 2-M. m-1L For Sale—Cream separator, will guarantee it to do No. 1 work; reason for selling, am leaving for training; also 3 tons timothy hay in barn, will at's23 per ton if taken by May B.—ALFRED LONGSTRETH, phone 939-H. m-6

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,191 S

For Sale —One pure-bred < Shorthpra bull, 5 years old; 1 grade Short- - horn bull, coming 2-year-old; 3 grade ['Shorthorn heifers. —GRANT SUTTON, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2*. j-1 For Sale —Milliner shop, good fixtures and a nice line of stock to work over. Fine opening for some one. If interested call by June 1. LYONS & WEISHAAR, Brook, Indiana. * Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers In any quantity desired, either plain ar 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. 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. Second-Hand Typewriters One Smith Premier No. 10, with tabulator, back spacer, wholly visible, one or two-color ribbon, a machine practically good as new in every way, S4O; two Smith Premiers No. 2, both in excellent condition and will do as good work as ever. Priced S2O and $25. —THE DEMOCRAT. 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 Sale —Overland roadster, jest been overhauled and in good running order; good tires all around. Car has not been run to exceed 4,000 miles. —See M. KUBOSKE, at Kuboske’s garage. ts Typewriter Ribbons —The Democrat carries in 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 For Sale—6oo-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice city of 2,000 population. Farm is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natches and which Intersects with the Jackson highway. Price S3O per acre. — HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 2l< or 499. “ For Sale—-8-ply Litho Blanks. We have on hand several hundred sheets 22x28 8-ply litho blanks, coated 2 sides, that we will sell in lots of 50 or more at $6 per 100, which is less than cost a year ago. This board was order©W f orj| a special purpose, but changed order and it was nht used. Is put up in 50-sheet packages and has not been broken. — THE DEMOCRAT. ts

WANTED Wanted—Middle aged lady for housekeeper for Norman Warner. Apply at WARNER BROS.’ Hardware Store. ts Work Wanted —A number of young . men from 15 to 20 want work on farms for the summer. Most of these have had experience. Farmers needing help are asked to secure it early in order to get first choice. Apply to COUNTY AGENT, Rensselaer. m-1 Cream Wanted —Have recently begun buying cream at Parr and will pay best prices. Also have 1 5-year-old mare, wt. about 1100, In foal, and some shoats and brood sows for sale.—J. S. LAKIN, Parr, Ind., phone 932-G. ts LOST Lost—A crank to automobile between my place and Rensselaer. Finder please leave at Democrat office or notify A. M- YEOMAN, Rensselaer, ' m-4 FOR RENT Pasture—We have plenty of good pasture for the season near Fair Oaks. Horses $1.50 per month; cattle $1.25 per month. Horses must be marked and cattle branded. Will care for stock from May 1 to November I.—JAMES E. WALTER, Mgr. J. J. Lawler lands, phone 337, Rensselaer, Ind. ts MISCELLANEOUS / Estrayed—From Pasture at my farm 3% miles northwest of Wheatfield, Tuesday, April 23, a bay mare, 3 years oId.—ROLAND MYRES, Wheatfield, R-l, phone Wheatfield exchange, a-30 Storage—l have two rooms for storage of flight household or otheg goods In The Democrat building Terms reasonable.— F. E. BAB COCK. Phone 315 or 811. FINANCIAL ~ Money to Loan.—CHAS. J. DEAN * SON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. ts Money to Loan—s per cent fans loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and Lightnlng. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M., I. ADAMS. Phone 538-L. ts Farm Loans—Money to loan ea farm property In any sums up ta 1 SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. ’ I IM MS KAlirw [Making er win