Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — Page 8

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War Advantages Shown 9 Extensive investigation on the part of the Council of National Defense has served to demonstrate the following important war advantages resulting from the establishment of the Rural Motor Express and Return Loads systems: 1. PRODUCTION IS STIMULATED. Farmers invariably increase the variety and quality of their production when regular marketing facilities are made available. In every section studied, a great increase in the variety and the amount of production followed the establishment of the Rural Motor Express. 2 THE FARMERS ARE RELIEVED OF THEIR TASK OF HAULING THEIR PRODUCTS TO MARKET, AND THE EXISTING FARM LABOR SUPPLY IS THEREBY CONSERVED. The investigation shows that in some places the hauling done by five men with wagons can be done by one man with a motor truck at many times the speed. This leaves the farm laborers at work in the fields 3 ADDITIONAL FOOD IS MADE AVAILABLE BY TAPPING THE FARM COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE NO OTHER GOOD SHIPPNG FACILITIES. Much of this additional food is now either wasted or greatly deteriorated because of poor shipping facilities. Rural Motor Express is especially needed now when labor is scarce and food demands are high. Farmers and merchants alike enthusiastically favor the system. In many farm communities where the rural express is in operation, the farmers state that an interference with this service would immediately result in reduced production. The Highways Transport Committees of the State ana County Councils of Defense are lending every encouragement possible to the establishment of Rural Motor Express lines and Return Loads. Their further operation is not only economic, but highly patriotic and wherever possible should be established at once and encouraged to the nfaximum. inquiries should be addressed either to County Councils of Defense or the Highways Transport Committee of the Indiana State Council of Defense, Room 83 State House, Indianapolis, Indiana.

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS

REMINGTON (From the Press) Mrs. V. M. Beal returned Tuesday from a week’s visit with her uaughter, Mrs. W. J. Dick at Watseka, Illinois. Mrs. Clara Balcom and daughter, Jane, have been spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Cy Rice of near Delphi. Charlo's Bonner has just returned from a month spent in the Dakotas. Charles is well colored and looks like a sure enough farmer low. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rich and daughter, Louise, of Indianapolis were over night guests of Mr. and ■Mrs. Walter Gillam on Thursday last Mrs. Fern .Arms and Mrs. Nora t’orce left here the last of the week for the south"- where they have good positions and will work for a time. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hymen and baby of Logansport, , and Mrs. Wm. G. Beal and daughter. Marceline, Of Goodland were week-end guests of Mrs. Ella Parks and family. Miss Ethel Smalley has resigned her position as principal of the Fowler high school, and Monday morning she left here for Washington, D. C., where she will enter the government service to do clerical work. Marion Parks and Wilbur Sutherland left Monday via the auto route for Florida, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. Parks and baby

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&nd Mrs. Ella Parks will join them later, after first visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hymen in Logansport. Two deaths from the flu are reported from Morocco this week. One, Mrs. King, and the other, James Russell. The former was quite well known in Remington •where she frequently visited. Her maiden name was Gertrude Quinn. Mr. and Mrs., Andrew Scott of Paulina, lowa, came Sunday for a couple of days visit With Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Biddle. From here they "went to Waynetown for a visit. Mrs. Warner Elmore has spent the most of the week in Monticello at the bedside of her son, Blanchard, who has been very sick but is now reported as much better. David Shand, one of the oldest and best knov n farmer residents of Gilboa township, died at his home, four miles southwest of Remington, Saturday, October 12. Mr Shand has long been a sufferer with liver and gall trouble, and this, coupled with heart failure, was the cause of his demise. His last «ickness was of three weeks dura.tion during which he suffered greatly. Besides a widow, he leaves three daughters and one son to mourn his departure, namely: Mrs. Roy Atkinson of Benton county, (Mrs. F. W. Case of Franklin Park, Illinois, Miss Frances and Clyde at home. The funeral was held Monday at the home, Rev. C. W. Postill of Rensselaer, conducting the services, after which the retnains were interred in the cemetery at Goodland beside those of fais first wife, who preceded him

1C ASTORIA For Infants and Children ' In Use For Over 30 Years & -

twenty-five years ago. David N. Shand was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, December 19, 1851, and died on October 12, 1918, aged 66 years, 9 months and 23 days. Mr. Shand came to America when 18 years of age and worked as a stone mason, which was his trade until 1876, when he began farming, which occupation he followed until the end. He moved onto his present farm thirty years ago.

VIRGIE

Denver Potts visited home folks Sunday. Mrs. John Zellers spent the week at the saw-mill. Bert Demoss and family went to Demotte Monday.- - Earl Williams and mother went to Kniman Tuesday. R. G. Gasaway and John Reed, were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mrs. John Reed and daughter were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. in&es Ada and Bertha Florence cameNjome Tuesday from Rensselaer. Miss Gladys Halleck of Fair Oaks visited John Zellers’ family Thursday. Al Helsel has finally gave up his hoise and buggy and is now riding in a Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Winslow and family tot k dinner with the Lewis Harrington family Sunday. Mr. and MfSr-Wm. Potts returned Monday from Attica, where they had been visiting their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman attended the funeral of their neice, Mrs. Harry Frames, at Demotte Saturday.

PINE GROVE

Jud Zook was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Lewis Davisson is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. James Torbet called on Mrs. Andy Ropp Tuesday afternoon. Hiram Day of Rensselaer is' plastering for Roy Torbet this week. Mrs. William Hurley visited her sister, Mrs. Simon Cooper and family. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Torbet attended the sale at Budd’s, north of Aix, Thursday. Mrs. Grant Davisson spent Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Rudolph Ritter and family. Mrs. Clifford Wells of Rensselaer is spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family. ijri Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet and daughter, Ruth, and Mr. and Mrs. John Dale and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family.

A LITTLE CHANGE

By Walt Mason.

My wife keeps busy rqund the shack; she works until she strains her back; she cleans the dishes and the spoons, she darns the Shirts and cooks the prunes, she molds the pies and bakes the bread, and sends nineteen kids to bed. And every now and then I say, “You’ve had a long and weary day, so let us don our lids and go to see the ■ moving picture show. Or let us [seek the ice cream joint, and our jinsides with cream aniot. Put op ’ your-farthingale, my Belle, and let 'us go to yon hotel, and buy our ‘dinner for a change, and eat it in surroundings strange.” Then Susan Belle puts on a smile, and sings ‘around the coop awhile, and bids ' farewell to cares that cark, and says she's happy as a lark. Some small attentions, such as these, the jaded frau are- bound to please. They lift a burden from her mind, and they relieve the weary grind. I know so many working wives who might have sunshine in their lives, if their Old Men would only say, “You’ve had a hard and dreary day, so let us go, on eager feet, and see the dogfight down the street.”

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RETURN LOAD BUREAUS OF GREAT ASSISTANCE

Many Communities Adopting New Way of Transportation as War Measure. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which includes the live commercial organizations of practically every city of importance in the country, has issued to its members the following bulletin on Motor Truck Transportation, specifically dealing with a Return Load Bureau: The motor truck is a part of the transportation equipment in every community. Its use more nearly to capacity will help solve local problems. " More complete use means loads both ways. A motor truck usually carries a good load to its destination, whether the destination is in the same community or <in another city. Too often, however, the truck makes the return trip with no load. Every time this occurs there is waste of at least half the capacity of a truck to do work in transportation.

GEORGE S. WINDERS.

Of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, who is putting into execution the most effective plans for making the Return Load Bureau of greatest usefulness.

Owners of trucks do not wish half the earning power of their vehicles to j be lost. Manufacturers and mer- j chants with goods piled up and await-| ing shipment do not like to see empty trucks pass their doors. Both need a local clearing house for information about the trucks that are available, and the shipments that are ready—l. e., to bring together loads and empty trucks. Such a clearing house the local commercial organization can easily pro- i vide. It will not ordinarily entail any I special expense. It will promote co- ■ operation in the community. It will [ render a very real service for which., business men will be thoroughly grateful. Retnrn Load Bureau is a convenient name for a clearing house. The Bureau should ascertain the established lines of trucks that run regularly on fixed routes and the part of their capacity that is not being utilized. It should then obtain infor-! mation from all owners of trucks used for private hauling, getting statements 1 about the capacity of each truck, how far its capacity is used, between what i points the capacity is unused, if the unused capacity cap be made available for other persons at a reasonable price, etc. Besides gathering this information the bureau can make known to everyone that whenever a truck is to make a trip without a load the i bureau will respond to a telephone in-' quiry by endeavoring to give the name , of a person who wants to send a load over the route in question. Efforts can be made also to have drivers who,

bring loads by truck from other points to the Bureau in order to get return loads. At the same time the bureau can enlist the co-operation of business men who may have shipments to make. In order that any driver or other person from out of town may quickly ascertain if there is a return load for him, each bureau should be specially listed in the telephone directory. With incidental questions the Bureau will not usually need to deal. For example, it can leave the compensation that is to be paid to negotiation between the parties. In England Return-Load Bureau* have proved of great assistance. They have been most developed in the United States by commercial organizations in Connecticut. Experience has demonstrated that the assistance they can render is very real and important, and that they can be organized advantageously in many communities where they have not as yet been tried. ....

MAKES COMMUNITY EFFICIENCY.

Thomas. F. Snyder, secretary of the Return Load Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at Indianapolis, reports big Interest among all business organizations in the Rural Motor Express and Return Loads as means of developing community efficiency. j

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STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MUST RAISE MUCH MORE FOOD Aselstant Secretary of Agriculture Makes Plain Demand to Follow War—Many Coffins Shipped— Liberty Flour. Lafayette, Oct. 18.—Production of food in the United States must be kept up to its present volume for at least two years after the close of the world war, it was declared here by George I. Christie, assistant secretary of agriculture for the nation. Unless that is done, he added, European nations will face a shortage that may be followed by results of the most serious kind, especially as to disease. He also said that it must be remembered by farmers that labor is going to be scarcer the coming crop year than it has been this year, and that they will have to adopt more efficient methods in order to assure adequate ffroduction. Professor Christie, who is also the head of the agricultural extension forces of Purdue university here and is now on leave of absence, came here from Washington, D. C., to confer with agricultural leaders from throughout the state onVa definite agricultural program. Hpwever, because of tlie prevalence of influenza, the meeting had to be called off. His announcement as to food needs was made to members of the Purdue agricultural extension staff. A definite program, it was announced, will be formulated within the next week fol- . lowing conferences between representatives of the national department of agriculture and farmers and stock men all over Indiana. Professsor Christie said that every community in Indiana should organize at the present time to get soldiers to come back to their own homes after the war. He said there was danger in the present proposal of colonizing returned soldiers in cutover timber regions, irrigated lands and other undeveloped country. To let these men get away from Indiana, he said, would be a distinct loss to the state. He said that Canada is looking out for this particular matter at the present time, and, that Indiana must do the same thing.

Coffins Sent to Washington.

Evanville, Oct. 18.—A carload of coffins was sent by express from Evansville to Washington, D. C., for the burial of victims of influenza. Edward Burtls, president of the Evansville Coflin company, received an order from the war industries board with the statement that an express car was being sent here for the shipment. The number of coflins sent depended on the size of the car and was in the neighborhood of 100. A Richmond coffin manufacturer received an order from the government for 125 caskets, to be shipped by express to Washington, D. C. The coffins were not in stock and a special force of workmen began making them at the rate of one every four minutes. The entire order was shipped in a special express car the same evening to reach Washington at noon the following day.

Plans Milling of Liberty Flour.

Indianapolis, Oct. 18.—Anticipating the universal demand for Victory flour, which consists of 80 per cent wheat and 20 per cent substitutes, to which the United States food administrator is seeking to educate the American consumer, Carl W. Sims, chairman of the milling division of the Indiana federal food administration, is sending to millers of the state, the suggestion that they prepare at once for the production of this mixture. Efforts are being made, Mr. Sims is advised, with a fair prospect of’success to obtain a suspension of thfe mixed flour law, for the period of the war. This law imposes a revenue tax on all mixed flour and It has served to discourage preparation for the production of the Victory formula.

White County Wheat Acreage.

Monticello, Oct. 18.—A report just ' completed by P. R. Bausman, county I agent, shows that there were 9,977 acres of wheat grown in White county this year, averaging 23.2 bushels an acre. The average yield last year was 19.5 .bushels, and the ten-year average ' for White county is 16 bushels. There i was also a total yield >of 2,356,321 bushels of oats, 154,403 bushels of rye and 10,418 bushels of barley.

j Indianapolis, Oct. 18. —Official authorization of new buildings at Fort Benjamin Harrison to house an additional 10,000 soldiers were received at the fort. Construction work on the , new barracks Will be begun within a month. An expenditure of about $2,500,000 is contemplated. The fort will be an engineers’ training post, and j with the enlargements will accommo- ! date 20,000 men.

Monticello, Oct. 18. —Mrs. A. W. Loughry <jf this city has received word that her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Kendall, and Mrs. Kendall’s daughter were vlctijns of the forest fire in Minnesota. They will not recover, it is said. Both were formerly residents of this city. , .„

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TRUCK MEN SEE LARGER SERVICE

Will Serve to Stimulate a Community Spirit and Have Far Reaching Influence. M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier State Automobile Association, believes the Rural Motor Express and Return Loads program will serve to stimulate a community spirit that will hate far reaching influence. Mr. Noblett declares the three great economic advantages increased food production, conservation of labor and relief of the railroads, are sufficient Justification for the extension of the enterprise. But he sees, also, through the more general use of the motor truck, a welding into closer relationship and better understanding, the country producer and the city consumer; the facilitation of the rural mail delivery, the increased interest in and support of good roads movements, and finally and most important of all, a direct contribution to the national forces engrossed with the problem of winning the war. Richmond and other Indiana cities, outside of Indianapolis, have witnessed the development of the usefulness of the motor truck as a common carrier. Individual truck owners had found much encouragement in establishing routes over which they made regular trips, delivering merchandise from the Richmond wholesale houses to the small town dealers within a radius of thirty miles, and bringing back produce and other tonnage from the small towns and farms. Passenger traffic also was profitable. The possibilities of the system appealed to a wealthy corporation, which established more than a dozen highpowered, large capacity trucks, which, until the war upset local conditions and depleted man-power necessary for the operation of the system, was one of the most valuable assets the community possessed. During the severely cold winter months the trucks assisted in clearing the roads for ordinary traffic, and especially for the rural mail carriers. Only on one or two when, during the spring thaws, did the unimproved roads make truck travel impossible, was it necessary to suspend the schedules. The result has been that these soft roads have been improved with gravel and it has been said with truth, that the Wayne county highways average above those of any other county in the state. The motor truck is to be credited with much of the incentive for this evidence of the necessity of a high standard of road- maintenance.

The economic value of the Rural Motor Express and Return Load Bureaus are not confined to the public which enjoys quick, efficient service therefrom. The truck driver also is an enthusiast on the subject of the possibilities of the system. C. L. Macy of Mooresville, Indiana, who has been driving a motor truck to Indianapolis daily, speaks authoritatively as a representative of the men upon whom directly rests the responsibility as a representative of the men upon whom directly rests the responsibility for the success of the plan. Mr. Macy was one of the original boosters of the Return Load Bureaus. He realized the wastage of a return trip with an empty truck. He knew his possibilities in relieving the established common carriers of the burden of the short-haul freight, and was quick to enroll with the Return-Load Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at Indianapolis. He now adds to his revenue and efficiency, with a very little additional expenditure of energy or motive power. “This Return-Load idea is the. goods,” said Mr. Macy. “Why, should I not haul a load back? It doesn’t take much more time and only a little more work and it does a lot more good.

“The people are being educated out our way to this Return-Load idea and the difficulty of getting the return load is passing away aß'the time. "Of course,' we can afford to haul cheaper witjj loads both ways. That’s plain. Why, we can nearly cut it in two —not quite. "We truck men are doing a big job and it will be bigger as the months go by. Nobody suspected a year ago that we’d be hauling what we are now. But the possibilities of it are great. It amounts to this that most of the short-haul hauling will be done by the motor truck.”

HOOVER IS BACK OF THE MOTOR EXPRESS United States Food Administrator Hoover has approved the Rural Motor Express and the Return Loads in the following statement: "The development of the rural motor express idea, in my opinion, is in the line of progress and should redound to the benefit of the producer, the consumer, and the railroads. This means of transportation should facilitate delivery, conserve labor, conserve foodstuffs, and should effect delivery of food in better condition."

SATURDAY', OCTOBER 1»,

THE WESTERN FRONT AT HOME

Earn and give. For a year the young people of America have been coached in thrift Instead of the old problem in the arithmetic book.. “If Mary’s mother gave her three apples, Jane gave her two, and she ate one, how many would she have 7” the third grade girl is now sent to the blackboard to solve, “How many Thrift stamps at 25 cents apiece will Mary own at the end of 12 months if she saves 10 cents a week?” The girl in the grade above her is learning in her arithmetic lesson how many Thrift stamps it takes to buy the yarn for 500 helmets for the soldiers in France. Still farther on the eighth grader is told to figure in terms of War Savings stamps how much it costs to supply a regiment of Uncle Sam's men ■ with shelter tents. And now the Earn and Give club of the younger girls of the Young Women’s Christian association is organized to turn those Thrift lessons, into giving. The children of America have been turning in pennies and nickles and pasting a green stamp on their Thrift card. The Earn sad Give club can now use some of those cards and War Savings stamps in their campaign among the younger people for the united war fund. This fall when the war council of the Y. W. C. A. made plans for the 1918 war drive, it included in its program the rule that no young girls under eighteen can do any soliciting, on the streets or otherwise. They can. give, but they can only give by earning. Consequently in order to co-or-dinate the efforts of the girls in all the districts over the country, the Earn and Give club is enrolling members and has given out ah estimate of $5 apiece to be earned for th? war fund campaign by the American girls who still count their age in 'teens. Five dollars apiece from the younger girls of the country will mean that the nation as a whole will fill Its charitable organisations’ war chest. Some high school girl in New York city is going to earn her $5 by shining her own shoes instead of stopping at the Greek stand on her way to school and by making her own sandwiches for her noon lunch. Out In lowa the girl who has been spending 15 cents plus war tax for a movie three nights a week is going to draw a line through the movie habit except when there is an especially good bill. More than onegirl plans to clean all her own gloves this winter and to salvage all the paper and collections of junk about the house which should be sold to the junk man to be worked over into some productive industry. The girls in their ’teens are going to earn instead of ask others for the money. They are to sacrifice and give in their own names and older women will make the public requests for money elsewhere. Many, of the girls who are waiting to join the Earn and Give club are already Patriotic leaguers, and they have learned several practical lessons in the thrift that will mak* them effectivemembers of the new club by servation of fruits and vegetables. They have canned and pickled. Now ’when the end of summer brings the beginning of school they will changetheir thrift Into winter thrift and” begin saving their $5 for the Y. Vs. C. A. war fund. * •*\Vh» rever You Are Is the Western Front” is tlfe slogan which the Earn and Give club has adopted. Anna onewiry thirteen-year-old daughter of New York's East side, who was one of the first and youngest members to join the campaign at a New York settlement house, had to have it explained to her that instead of western front meaning fight and fight meaning fists, the westtern front means work and work means save in order to give.

The girl who joins the Earn and Give club will discover that in coojunction with her working and saving in order that her club will furnish its quota of the money that is going to help the girls like herself in France and Belgium, she Will also find numerous ways in the community to help the war that she had never dreamed of. She will see that all the fruit pits and stones that can be saved from her own dining table and from those of her neighbors, are dropped into the little red barrel at the corner, in order that the carbon which the seeds contain can be used In making charcoal for the American soldiers' gas masks. She will save all the tin foil that she sees for the Red Cross. She will help collect clothing for the French and Belgium, orphans and perhaps semi them some of her own.

School girls in India, children from squalid, dingy homes, with absolutely no spending money, gave last year to Belgian and Armenian relief when they themselves were not getting enough to eat. They gave up their meat once a week for the Belgians, though they only had it twice a week themselves,. and for the Armenians they set aside the handful of fresh grain that otherwise each girl would have ground in her own little stone mill. Both contributions, from all the girls in one missionary’s school, amounted only to $5 a month. “But it was a tremendous sacrifice,” their" teacher writes, “although a joyous one. It actually meant less bread each day, and once a week a meal of dry bread and water. This was done by 80 girls from the meanest homes in the world —children between the ages of five and fifteen.” Four hundred thousand girls in 47 states have become Patriotic Leaguers since America declared war. If as many school girls and working girls from all classes pledge to earn and give, the united war fund campaigners win have $2,000,000 of their $170,500,ooa