Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — Page 2
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lit JISPEB COBNTT DiOKHIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence ftll Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofllce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March ft, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print New*, paper in Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR advertising rates Display 12%e Inch Display, special position. . 15c Inch -Readers, per line first Insertion..Be Readers, per line add. inser. ...$c 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 t* exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. No advertisements accepted fpr 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. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918
DEMOCRAT STATE CONVENTION
To the Democrats of the State of Indiana and all others who desire to affiliate with them: The Democratic party of the State of Indiana and all who desire I to affiliate with such party, are' hereby notified to meet in delegate j convention at Tomlinson Hall in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana,.! on the lath and i9th day of June, j 191 S, for the purpose of nominal- j ifg the following state officers, toWit: Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Clerk of Supreme and Appellate Courts. Superintendent of Public Instruction. » State Geologist. One Judge of the Supreme Court for First District. One Judge of' the \Supreme Court for Fourth District. Two Judges of the Appellate Court for First District. Two Judges of the Appellate Court for Second District. The convention will be composed
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of J.G7I delegates apportioned among the several counties of the state, and the representation for this, the Tenth district, is as follows: Benton 7, Jasper 7, Lake 50, Newton 6, Porter 9, Tippecanoe 25, Warren 5, White 11. The delegates from the ' several counties composing the congressional districts will meet at appointed places at 7 p. mu, June 18, the place of meeting for those from the Tenth district being Room 80 at the State House. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected, viz: One member of the committee on Rules and permanent Organization. One member of the committee on Credentials. One member of the committee on Resolutions. One vice-president of the convention. One assistant secretary of the convention. The committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet at Room 9, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of the district meetings. The committee on Credentials will meet at Room 9, Denison (Hotel, immediately after adjournment Of district meetings. The committee on Resolutions will, meet in Room of Ordinary, Denison Hotel, immediately after adjournment or district meetings. The convention will meet on the If th day of June, 1918, at 9 o’clock a. in., at Tomlinson Hall, to receive reports of the committees for the adoption of a platform, and the nomination of candidates. Witness my hand and seal this 9th day of May, 1918. CHAS. A. GREATHOUSE, Chairman. FREDERICK VAN NUYS, Secretary.
The civil war pension increase bill was passed Tuesday by the senate, 3G to 22. It amends the house bill hv increasing the minimum monthly pension to those who served ninety days from .$23 to S3O and provides pensions of $32 to S4O a month according to length of service for those seventy-two years or older. The bill would increase, the pension roll by $35,000,000 a year,
PREDICT BUMPER WHEAT CHOP
Washington, June 4.—A bumper wheat crop is predicted by food administration oflicials on receipt of favorable reports from all parts of the United States. Actual yields, of both winter. and spring wheat will exceed the department of agriculture’s estimate, they say. Harvesting has begun in California, Texas, Kansas and southern Nebraska, and will rapidly extend northward through the wheat belt.
Winter wheat will yield close to 60Q,000;000 bushels if bad weather does not damage the crop just as harvest is setting jn, it is estimated. Spring Wheat totaling 232,758,000 bushels, 1917, will leap up possibly 25 per cent. Reports of favorable weather from the spring belt in the northwest encourages food administration officials. Warning is givepi that wheat must be saved. The direct threat at trans-Atlantic shipments, made by German i -boats, emphasizes Food Administrator Hoover’s determinato pile, up reserve wheat abroad. His plan is to stock Europe against temporary cutting of the line across the Atlantic by raiding U-boats,
CROWDER TO ENFORCE RULE
Men of Draft Age Must Work Productively or Fight. Washington, June 7. —Rules for the enforcement of Provost Marshal General Crowder’s “work of fight” regulations, announced recently, call ‘on all citizens to report to the nearest local draft board names of men within draft age Who are habitually idle or who are employed non-productively. Each local board is created into what will be practicably a court to sit probably weekly to decide such cases as may be brought before it. Upon a case being presented, the board will serve notice upon the registrant of not less than three days nor more than seven days, directing him to present such evidence as he may care to submit. In every case the board must send the complete record to the district board for approval even if the decision is in favor of a man.
PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON
The men who deal in salted mines once found in me an easy mark; they sought me, by any trees and vines, and left my wallet stripped and stark. And agents for the works of Pope, of Scott and Moore and Bertha Clay, were wont to hand me flitn-flani dope, and bear my hard-earned roll away. And people often passed the hat, to build a home for pilted dames: I lacked the nerve to cry out “Scat!’’ I fell for all their threadbare games. The agents still are running loose, they seek my cottage every day; but now I have a good excuse, and shoo them'from my door away. I say to them, “In normal times I'd buy your junk and make no roar; you know I always spilled the dimes right cheerfully in days of yore. I’d gladly buy a ton of books, anrl I’d go in for mining, strong, but I must use my change, gadzooks, to help the Red Cross cause along. I’d gayly buy your duplex lamips, your patent substitute for lard, but every month I buy thrift stamps, and paste them on a printed card. I hate to turn you down like sin, I’d like to gladden all your days, but I must help the allies win, with all the coin that I can raise.” No odds how tired the agents feel, they do not paw the ground or swear: there is no come-back to my spiel; it stops all argument right there.
STORAGE OF INDIANA COAL FOR DOMESTIC USERS
This statement applies to storage under cover in house, flats, hotels, office buildings, schools, churches, etc., where less than 500 tons are stored. The amount of coal available next winter will depend on transportation conditions and not capacity of mines. It therefore follows that to avoid shortage, coal must be stored by the ultimate consumer. It can not be stored at the mines. Spontaneous combustion is a danger of Indiana coal that has been exaggerated, Properly selected and properly Stored Indiana coal presents no danger in basement Storage. The following simple precautions will insure safety: 1. Store only screened coal. Do not store screenings or run of mine. 2. Each pile should be one grade. Do not mix coal from different mines.
3. Store only No. 4, No. 5 or No. 6 vein coal or Minshall or Brazil block. \ 4. Clean floor carefully. Do not allow trash, rags, waste or anything else to get into the coal pile. 5. Do not place coal near hot pipes or chimneys, 6. Keep coal dry. If coal must be wet down, wet only portion that is to be used immediately. 7. Ten feet high should be limit of pile. Pressure is apt to break coal up if pile is higher. The storage of coal should be refarded not merely as a war measure, ut as part of the solution of the general coal problem. Storage of coal will do much to help in stabilizing an industry of fundamental importance by permitting mining operations to proceed throughout the year at a fairly uniform rate, and it will serve in a large measure as insurance against the losses accompanying a shortage to the fuel consuming industries. . Quality of coal is money to the consumer. Store coal now when quality js good. No one can foresee what may happen next winter. ALEX. R. HOLLIDAY, Assistant Federal Fuel Administrator for Indiana. Approved: EVANS WOOLLEN, Federal Fuel Administratpr for Indiana.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT
SPEND MILLIONS TO SPREAD LIES
Germans Circulate ‘'Whispering Propaganda,” Including Attacks on President. IS DIRECTED FROM SPAIN Mexico and South America Flooded With Book Which Likens United States to Vampire—Lies About Rainbow Division. Washington.—The German propaganda was never busier in the United States than at the present time. This fact lias been established by agents of the government, and energetic methods To combat this sinister peril are now being carried out. Not only is the propaganda, which is operated from headquarters in Spain, working day and night to cause trouble in this country, but it is also working just as hard to discredit the government of the United States in Mexico and Central and South America, where there has recently appeared for free distribution a book entitled “'EI Vampiro d**l Continente,” the vampire of the continent referred to being this country. An official of the federal government, one of whose duties brings him into contact with German propaganda in all parts of the world, said the Germans were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to spread discontent, particularly among the uneducated people in all the countries of the allies, their activities including among other schemes a concerted and vicious attack, wherever possible, on President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and other high officials of the allied governments. Worked for Years on Scheme.
“We know that for years before the outbreak of war in 1914 the German government worked to perfect its propaganda arm. In Germany they called Into the sendee of the state for this purpose the great psychologists of the country, the big newspaper men, the university professors, trade experts, and even novelists and dramatists. Agents were sent into every country in the world to study the people, until the government files in Berlin contained complete data regarding the peculiarities and susceptibilities of all people with whom Germany had reason to anticipate a clash. r “Up to a few sjpnths ago the propaganda concentrated against England in an effort to isolate that nation. Every neutral country in the World was flooded with false information regarding England and her purposes in the war. “Now the attack is switching from England to the United States. Every possible effort to poison the minds of the people in certain parts of the country is being resorted to, the effort being especially vicious in those parts of the country where the percentage of illiteracy is greatest, and among the negroes. The special story which is being whispered over the country — and we are the victims of what is known as the ‘whispering propaganda’ —is that this is a war of the wealthy classes, anil that the president plunged the country into the struggle to ‘save the millionaires’ as well as to safeguard America’s huge loans and credits to the allied countries. “We have even established the fact that the propaganda has penetrated into the mountain fastnesses of the
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Carolinas and Georgia, where the mountaineers have been led to believe that another Civil war is imminent Lies About Rainbow Division. I “The disaster story has also been ] worked to a finish in all parts of the country. The Rainbow division has been picked oat as the victim of this phase of the propaganda, because it represents all sections of the country, and a disaster which overwhelmed that . command would have its effect in all 1 parts of the nation, and not in some 1 particular section. “This is the source of all those mysterious rumors to the effect that this or that regiment in the Rainbow division has been annihilated. “South America at this moment is swamped with a pamphlet entitled TEH Vampire del Continence, ’ which is perhaps the most vicious attack on a nation ever published, and the nation in this instance is the United States. | “Some months ago there was sent to South America for circulation a little officially prepared document entitled ‘Why America Went to War.’ Instead of making friends lor us the book lost . them, and an investigation was ordered. This investigation led to the discovery that the Germans had got hold of the genuine documents, after which they proceeded to substitute an edition of their own. The spurious edition was the same as the American, with the exception that the Germans inserted a preface. S “The preface was cleverly written, and to the ordinary person read as if it had been prepared by our government. But the statements in the preface did not bear out the facts In the rest of the book and so instead of believing what we said thousands of peo- ’ pie who read the book came to the conclusion that we were lying. Proper i steps are now being taken to counteract this work of the enemy propaganda. 1 “In the South American countries the Germans have bought up numerous newspapers, which they employ to spread their propaganda.”
Trees as Service Flags.
East St. Louis, El. —This city in the near future will .probably have a new kind of service flag, a tree for each local boy in the fighting service. Plans are now being made by the Woman’s Civic Federation and the woman’s committee of the council of national defense to plant these trees near the homes of the enlisted men. The trees will bear the names of the soldiers or sailors they represent.
Now Use Electricity.
Lyons, Kan,—Electricity will replace the old hand drills and the miners’ lamps in the Bevis salt mine, near this city, after the mine has been operated for years in the old-style way. The mine has been wired for electric lights, and the drills will be replaced by electric drills. The output is expected to be almost doubled by the new methods.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918
OMICMO, IHUIANAPOLIS * LOUKVIUI R V RENSSELAER TIME TABLE ■ In effect December, 1917 NORTHBOUND No. 35 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:48 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:61a.m. * No. 48 Lafayette to Chicago 7:36 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 16:36 a.m No. 38 ; Indianap s to Chicagol 2:61p.m. No. 5 : Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m No. 30 , Cincinnati to Chicago 6:66 p.m. ; SOUTHBOUND No. 35 ‘ Chicago to Clnclnnatll 1:46 ajm No. 5 j Chicago to Louisville | 18:66 « No. 37 j Chicago to Clnclnnatll 11:18 a.m. No. 33 ! Chicago to Indianap'a I 1:67 p.m. No. 38 ' Chicago to Lafayette | 6:66 p.m. No. 31 | Chicago to Cincinnati J 7:81 p.m. No. 3 j Chicago to Louisville | 11:16 p.m
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles (J. Spltler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer........ Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer.. .L. A. Bostwlck Fire Cmei J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councllmen Ist Ward Ray Wood 2nd Ward a. Frank ToTilas 3rd Ward, .Fred Waymlre At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday In rebruary, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff B. D. McCoUy Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt Coroner..... W. J. Wright County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. E. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd Dlstrlst D. S. Makeerer 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets ths First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens G 111 am Warren E Poole.. Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood. Jr. Marion George Feulks ltllroy John Rush.: Newton George Haimnerton Union Joseph Salrin Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfleld M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt.Rennselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer
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JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan 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 thenselves accordingly. Poatofflee address—Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month In Williams & DeijMffi law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.
EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendigs 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. Deloe Dean, WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All 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 to 12 A. M. “ “ 2 to 5 P. M. “ “ 7 to > P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesday a 5 A. M. to 2 P. IC. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendigs drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No, 442-ffi 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 Foltu) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over T. & S. Bank. Phone No. II RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES Graduate Chiropractor Forsythe Block Phone 124 Every day in Rensselaer. Chiropractic removes the cause of disease. F, A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYftICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A T. BtlH. Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-1 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays as KontteießtL Ini. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIBT Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store , RENSSELAER, INDIANA ' jSkJ Do you use the want ad. of The Democrat? If not, try fIL Subscribe for Thd Democrat.