Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — Page 2

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“IN THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY"

'How many homes in this country have already become sadly familiar with this phrase? it seems to be hurled at them in a coll and unfeeling manner by the military authorities. It is the set phrase used in announcing the death, on the field of battle, of a brave American boy*who has sailed three thousand miles a.t the call of ‘'duty.’’ ‘‘Your son /died in the performance of his. duty,” ' Mothers, fathers, do you get only sorrow from the (message? Do you not rather gather the sadly sweet conviction that all is well with the brave soul who saw his duty and went bravely to meet it —-played the MAX to the end of the glorious, if. brief chapter? . And what shall we say of ourselves; we who were not called to go “over there,’’ yet were called to an equally honored task here at home? Have we not “died”—but LIVED “in the performance of duty?’’ The boy gave all he had—his life. He gave it like the hero

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that he was. Are We giving LIFE?’ Think soberly for a moment. What does it mean to give life for country? It doesn't mean a dolla. or two to the Red Cross and an auto for daughter. It doesn’t mean five dollars to,the Y. M. C. A. and a seal-skin coat or a diamond.for mother. It doesn't mean a fifty dollar Liberty bond, while we buy another farm. What DOES it mean? Think! “He DIED in the performance of duty.’’

AN OLD TRUTH REVIVED

Every day now the line is being more sharply drawn between the real, self-sacrificing patriot, and the profiteer hiding under a cloak of blatant loyalty. Nineteen hundred years ago. the Man of Gallilec quietly remarked to a company of friends and followers that • “it is more blessed to give than to receive.’’ At the time it made little impression upon his hearers, and in the centunries since that day men have grasped it merely as a theoretical truth, with no real thought of (making it a life principal. But the i present woYld cataclasm has put people to thinking seriously of this statement of the great Teacher. People with -no claims to religious convictions are waking up to the fact that underlying the statement is found the true secret of life. We are coming to see more clearly every day that the selfish life is the miserable life, stunting and dwarfing all the finer qualities of our nature that have, elevated us as a race so immeasurably above the human brutes with whom we now do battle. When the final history of this War is written, those whose namt* will go down at the head of the honor’list will not be the profiteers who grasped millions from a suffering world; but those who gave, and gave, and gave, till they could give no more who stripped themselves of earthly possessions to gain a crown that all earth and hell can never deprive them of— The proud consciousness that they have “done what they could’’ for humanity and the RIGHT.

INVASION

The last excuse of the pacifist has been brushed aside. The United States has been invaded—invaded by Germany. If there yet’ remains a single American citizen who is not willing to throw his all upon the alter of his country, that man should be banished from the land he dishonors. and disgraces.

Many people are asking the question, ‘ How can German submarines operate so far from a i»ase?” And they find no answer to their question unless it be that the base may not be so far away as* we suppose. Hun influence is almost supreme in a certain country on this continent, the people of which bear us no love, and a submarine base in that land would be no surprise. The sooner we awake to the fact that freedom’s enemies are in th» saddle and riding hard, the sooner will we take steps to bring those riders to a disastrous fall. While the Hun .is looming large in our view, let us not forget that there is, and has been, treachery much nearer home.

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

Did you ever think very much about the doctor in your town? How he - goes to the metropolitan cities to study things as they are done there. In New York, Chicago or San Francisco he attends clinics always in the hope of discovering something new to take back home, if your doctor doesn’t do this, he is not a good doctor for your community and he doesn’t develop very fast. Now it is the same way with the merchants. The man who boasts about not being away from home for twenty-five years, or even one year is not the best kind of a merchant because every month, every week, every day, sees things changing and changing for the better. If it is for the doctor, the lawyer and even the minister to travel around and see how other people conduct their affairs, why is it not equally good for the merchant. I don’t care whether he keeps a dry goods store or a butcher shop. Get out of the rut and see how they do things in the big towns. The butcher should see the new’ sanitary ice houses; the grocer can note hbw the store fixtures and conveniences are improved; the dry goods man can note systems of providing for the comfort of customers, for educating clerks and for facilities in handling merchandise. There are a thousond and one ways by which a man can benefit by traveling, outside of- all. question of buying. You can't invest money with much more assurance of a good return than you can by’ spending it on a trip to a big city.—Ex.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The foe is always spieling in loud, majestic tones, and hopes he is congealing the marrow in our bones: in language high-falutin he twists the truth askew; the Austrian is tootin', the Teuton tootin’ too. Old Hindenburg was boasting, in Ijis fat Teuton way, through Paris he’d be coasting upon a certain day. Th> certain day was cheery, though rather cool and wet, but Hindenburg was leary—he hasn’t got there yet. Big things theyr’e always, planning, the Prussians in command, and we take pleasure canning the mighty things they ye planned. It’s always been a habit of chesty Kaiser Bill, to think the foe a rabbit, whom sounding words would kill. “Your Uncle Strm ..had better,’’ he said to B?er Gerard, "lie low, or, donnerwetter! I’ll jolt him pretty hard!” Forever, always bluffing! 'Twill be the Teuton way, until we knock the stuffing from him, and eke the whey. Big words and scowls tremendous may scare a sheep, mayhap, but they will only—lend us amusement while we scrap. “I’m feeling pretty skittish," said Bill, “so, dead .game sports, let's clean up all the British, and take the channel ports.’ To bragging he is given, he’ll brag the long months through, he’ll rag until we’ve riven the tootin’ Tent in two.

Soap is almost unobtainable in occupied Belgium ' and the housewives are accordingly seeking possible substitutes. To them a chemist, through the medium of a Brussels newspaper, gives this advice: -‘Pour the hot water in which peeled potatoes have been boiled over the linen to be washed. Allow it to soak until the following day, then rub it as you would in a lather, but without adding soap or anything else. The linen a ill come out of the tub perfectly white.” . During the severe part of the last .winter, when the fuel shortage became critical, a coal thawing plant at South Amboy, X. J., performed valuable service in relieving the situation, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. In particularly cold, stormy weather it is of the rule rather than the exception that coal reaches northern cities in such solidly frozen masses that it has virtually to be mined out of the ears. The last winter was especially, favorable for this condition, and thousands of tons of fuel destined for New York reached Jersey badly bound with ice. Many such coal trains were thawed at South Amboy. The new plant there consists of a long concrete shed divided into thfee longitudinal chambers, each of which spans a separate track.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

EX-GOV. RALSTON IN GREAT ADDRESS

Reviews Platform Recently Adopted by the G. 0. P. State Convention. —— \ ’ ■ WILSON HOPE OF WORLD Fil'bustering by Republicans in the United States Senate Delayed Preparation for War. Indianapolis, June 20. —The following is the full text of Ex-Governor Ralston's speech before ‘he Democratic State Convention yesterday. He said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: This is one of the really big days in the world’s history and the eyes of the nation are upon you. From this time henceforth each of you will be a marked man. This will be so, not because of any superior virtues you and your party possess, but because at this crisis in the affairs of nations you have been vested with authority to speak in a representative capacity not only on State and National questions, but also on world issue . Duty therefore bids you take care, that there bp wisdom in all your deliberations. ,'here should be no mistake made in the ticket you will nominate and the

SAMUEL M. RALSTON.

declaration of principles you will adopt. Patriotism, and not partisan politics, should be the polar star of your thought. Put Democrats in Power. Our party is in power in the Nation, bearing not only the burdens of this Nation, but very largely the burdens of all the allied nations, struggling to have human liberty guaranteed everywhere. It is therefore our duty to restore to power in Indiana, the Democratic party —the party that is in sympathy—whole-hearted sympathy—with the National administration, headed by that incomparable statesman, Woodrow Wilson. There are other reasons for putting the Democrats back in power in Indiana. Our party points with pride to its record in this State. Its administration of State affairs under VicePresident Marshall, as Governor, and under the last Democratic Governor, is a guaranty of what the people may reasonably expect of it, if they again call it to power., ? When the last Democratic administration assumed control of the affairs of Indiana, the State was greatly in debt, and was compelled to borrow monej’ from time to time, in sums of §200,000 and §400,000 at a time, frequently at a high rate of interest, to meet her current and outstanding obligations. But our party, as then managed, did i.ot seek to side-step the duty that lay plainly in front of it. It had no desire to shift on to other administrations, the burdens it should bear; but it stood for a sane administration of public affairs, whereby it could liquidate the financial obligations of our commonwealth, and at an early day give the people a reduced rate of taxation. Indiana Out of Debt. By the course thus pursued many appropriations made by previous administrations wens paid; the running expenses of the State were met, and b-'th the domestic and foreign indebtedness of the State were liquidated and Indiana, for the first time in eighty-two years, put out of debt. Notwithstanding the inadequate tax levy in force at the beginning of the D.mocratic administration in 1913 and the many additional and unusual demands made upon the State during the subsequent four years, on account of the increase in the number of institutions and wards of the State; the constant increase in the cost of living; and in round numbers one hundred thousand dollars on account of the mouth and foot disease among the cattle in the State and other items too numerous to mention, it is most gratifying to be able to call your attention to the fact, that at the end of each fiscal year the State treasury shewed

an inerea.e in its annual balances; and that on the last day of that administration there was in the State treasury, over and above all outstanding warrants, $3,755,997.98. And the State out of debt. z And let it be not forgotten, that beginning on the 13th day of January, 1913, our party so managed the affairs of Indiana, that the Governor, in his message to the 70th General Assembly, in January, 1917, was in duty bound to, and did, recommend a reduction in State taxes, of 3 cents on each SIOO. And the State out of debtl Progressive Legislation. A hurried review of the legislation of the past thirty years in Indiana, will show that fully seventy-five per cent, of the really progressive laws of that period was enacted by the Democratic party. Its record in this respect is monumental. We point to it. It is an established fact, but too voluminous to review on an occasion like this. Public Service Commission. I will be however, for referring to one of the laws placed upon the statute books of Indiana, during my administration, in view of the criticises that h,avs been offered of it and of its administration, while I was in office. I have in mind our Public Service Law. And I make bold to say that this law is not surpassed by any law of the .kind in this country. Nor has it, or any other law of the kind, ever been more wisely and ably administered thffn was this law by the Commission I appointed. If any man takes issue with me, I challenge him to a comparison. If it be insisted that this Commission made mistakes in administering this law, I call attention to the fact that, for many months past, the Commission has been Reorganized and new men have had and now have, the controlling power in its administration; but no man, no corporation, municipal or private, has asked the new commission to reduce a single rate, or reverse a single ruling made by the old commission, except in cases where a higher rate has been asked and in many cases granted. No revision downward has been made by the reorganized commission and none will be made. And yet my administration was criticised, abused and villified ■with all the venom of creatures that hiss, because, it was. charged, it fixed rates too high. But that is not all. The old commission saved utility patrons, on an average, SIOO,OOO a year. The new commission has raised rates, and increased the cost of utility service more than SIOO,OOO per year, but no creatures are hissing. We are told, however, that the Commission, through its reorganization, has been taken out of politics. If that be true, things are not what they seem! I concede that the Commission should be kept out of politics, but I maintain it is quite as important that it be not required to submit its findings and deCrees for approval to a power not authorized by law to pass Thereon and not sustaining any official relation with the people. Of this subject, however, more will be said in the future.

Taxation. The Republican party of Indiana, recently assembled in convention in this hall, put forth a platform, on which it is proposing to stand in the approaching campaign. This declaration of principles is a sort of crazy quilt combination and is so long and bewildering that it is doubtful if there be an hundred people in the State read it. It is also indefinite on subjects on which it should be explicit. The power to tax is one of the most sweeping powers of government. It is the power to destroy. The fathers of our State, who framed for us our constitution, appreciated the danger the people would encounter, if sane and definite restrictions were not thrown about the exercise of this power. They therefore declared it should be exercised on a basis of uniformity and equality; The present tax law of Indiana is framed on this basis. When honestly executed, and it can be, if we are capable of self-government in this State, it affects alike all property-holders and_to this no mar. should be heard to object. If it be said, it is difficult to have all property assessed on the same basis under this law, the fault is not with the principle underlying the law but in the machinery provided for the application of that principle and this can be corrected by amendment. But those who are against our present tax law cannot be heard to object to it on the ground it is difficult to enforce uniformity and equality under it, since they do not want this uniformity and equality in taxation under any law. The thing they are seeking is to be given a free hand to classify property, so that one class of property may be taxed higher and another class taxed low'. Such a scheme would enable property-holders, able to support a lobby or have a pull, to shift burdens they should bear on to those not financially able to cope-withrthem, for special favors. ‘ The people have not forgotten the long drawn out and bitter wrangle in the last legislature over the attemptto frame a new scheme of taxation. Their opposition to it has continued to grow’ in strength, and to fight this new’ scheme off as long as possible, they opposed with all the influence they could muster the calling of a special session of the legislature. Is there any one so dumb that he does not understand why the legislature has not been convened in special session? v : - In view of the importance of this subject and the aroused feeling thereon, I submit that the declaration in the Republican platform that, “The evils in our present tax system can only be corrected by complete revision of our tax laws,” will not have the approval of the people. It is too indefinite. If it is meant that this proposed'revision should include an excise tax law, candor re-

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SATURDAY,- JUNE 29, 1918

OHICAUO, INDIANAPOLIS • L.OUISVH-L1 RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE, In effect December, 1917 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:46 a.m. No.* 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:91 a-m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a-m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a-m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:69 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:46 aum No. 5 Chicago to Louisville] 10:66a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati) 11:18a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s I 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette | 6:69 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati I 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville | 11:19 p.m

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk'Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer.. ,L. A. Bostwick Eire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymire At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-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 Surveyor...,E. D. Nesbitt CoronerW. J. Wright County Assessor...G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. jE. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd DlstristD. 8. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoftJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, -JrMarlon George Foulks... Milroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion 1 Joseph Salrin....Walker Albert S KeeneWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer —♦ —♦ —♦ —♦ —• —•—•—e —•—♦—•—« TRUSTEES’ CARD. 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 themselves accordingly. Pottoffice address—Rensselaer, Indiana. ’Second and last Saturday of each month in Williams A Dean's law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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