Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — Page 2

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THOSE MISGUIDED PRO-GER-MANS

There is little doubt but what a very large percetage of the German voters have been throwing their support to the Republican ticket in the last two electons and I have always thought they were misguided in so Soing, but my opinion in no wise alters the facts. Whether by common consent or through organization the work was done, • I do hot know, but I do know that the evidence of its doing is well at hand. There is one township in Tippecanoe ebunty where there are 38 known Democrats —or rather there were 38 before the war. A few of these men refused to subscribe to any of the war activities and it is said there are nearly a dozen who do not own liberty bonds, or if they do the amount of them is so small that they will never need a clipping machine to cut off the Interest coupons.

They gave no encouragement to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the K. of C., or any other war charity so far as I have been able to learn. They opposed conscription and the war program generally. They were not out spoken—certainly not, but their actions spoke louder than wo"ds. They didn’t do anything—they didn’t say anything. When the votes of this township were canvassed on November sth the Democrats had from 24 to 27 votes for their various candidates. The returns were clear —the re-

suits proved two prepositions— First, that the Republicans did not vote the Democratic ticket. Second, that these anti-war Democrats voted the Republican ticket. Now the war is over and there comes a general summing up. The armistice is to be followed by a peace parley. President Wilson contended from the start that we were not fighting the German people, but the German autocratic government. Supposing that President Wilson is successful in establishing in Germany a democratic form of government, which is of everlasting benefit to the German people, supposing that the military program which so many good German citizens came to this country to escape or have their children escape is forever ended and the people rule Germany by the ballot where the kaiser formerly ruled by the sword; supposing other unhappy lands are freed of autocracy and independent free governments are set up and the world is really “made safe for democracy,’’ what then will be the attitude of the German sympathisers in this country?’’ Such a program would mean the making of the fatherland, a land of equal opportunity and some of the relatives and friends of the Germans in this country may possibly become officers instead of peasants and their sons would have chances which the iron heel of militarism had crushed for them in the past. Would these voters still oppose Mr. c Wilson; would they yet vote the Republican ticket because the President protected them at home and saved their relatives and friends in Germany? The end of the war was brought about by the entry of America; its money, men and resources, and is there a loyal citizen of the United States who regrets its ending? Is there one who prefers that battles go on; that men be killed; that women and children suffer to the end that the ambition of one man may be gratified? Or do they feel thankful that the day of carnage is over and that Woodrow Wilson, aided by the brave sons of America, performed for civilization this splendid service? “He ended the war.” Or “He ended autocracy,” may suc-

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ceed "he kept us out of war” as a campaign slogan in 1920 and I am anxious to know whether those few fellows in the township I speak of will feel that a service has been whether they will continue to worship the kaiser and the things he stood for.—Tippecanoe County Democrat.

ROAD LEGISLATION

The Indications are that the next session of the general assembly will enact some important highway legislation. Advocates of good roads have been given to understand that they can have about anything they want as long as itheir desires are based on sound public .policy and as long as the sought-for legislation is found to be rational, economical and needed. The Interests (working for good roads in Indiana have begun to think about what they want. The old state highway commission law was declared void by a circuit judge, and an appeal was taken to the supreme court, which has not acted, although the case has been pending for months. It seems taken for granted now that a new law will be passed, because the old law will not be upheld. The advocates of a permanent system of highways in Indiaun should lose no time in working out their program, and agreeing on legislation that will be of benefit to the people. The road work should be divoorced from politics because the partisan manner in which existing laws have been enforced has been unsatisfactory. Contractors have (played (politics and have received favors in return. Township and county officials in many instances have been unworthy of the highway jobs they held, but they kept their places through political pull. Indiana will not have satisfactory roads until a system is evolved whereby only good work will be accepted, and roads once accepted are kept in constant repair. Eliminating the middle men in the business of building highways will finally bring the matter to where it should have 'been years ago. Then the taxpayer, who foots the bills, will get some value for the money he spends.— Indianapolis News.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The man who toils the long hours through goes home at close of day; he is so sore in every thew, so weary, all he hopes to do is just to hit the hay. He says to Ma and Old Dog Shep, when he has reached his chair, “My work has robbed me of my pep; I wouldn’t take another step, to be a millionaire. Just hand me here the daily Sheet, so I may scan the news, and then to slumber deep and sweet I’ll drag my aching, swollen feet, now sticking in my shoes.” He reads a while and then he cries, “Great Scott, Maria Jane! The way we soak those Prussian guys! The fur of Kaiser Wilhelm flies! and me my hat and cane! I’ll have to go and see the boys, and talk the war o’er, and make a glad, triumphant noise; a batch of news like this destroys that feeling tired and sore. I may be home by 10 o’clock, I may be home by one; 'twill take quite a while to talk about the way our soldiers knock the sawdust from the Hum.” And then with blithe and springy stride he chases down the street, to talk with neighbors, far and wide, of how the tail goes with the hide when Yank and German meet. The kind of news we’ve had of late is better far than pills, to brace the worn and weary skate and make him keep his smile on straight, and banish all his ills.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Peace Brings Us New Mouths to Feed

ALLIES ARE FED BY SELF DENIAL

Generous Doing Without in America Supplied Food to Europe. Exports from this country since It entered the war have kept starvation from Allied Europe and have maintained the health and strength of those who have been bearing the brunt of our battles, so that they could hold out to victory. Now that hostilities have ceased we must assume the added burden of keeping starvation from increasing its toll upon the millions who have been liberated from the Prussian yoke. Famine would undo the work which has been accomplished in freeing the world for democracy. No Stable government can be established and maintained by a nation harassed by hunger. A starving people turns to rioting and anarchy. Food has given strength and courage to the nations fighting for democracy; it must now give the nations strength and tranquillity to re-establish themselves in freedom and democracy. Without our help It would have been absolutely Impossible for the Allies to maintain a living ration. Since our entry into the war we have been contributing largely to the support of one hundred and twenty million people whose normal food supplies have been cut off, whose' production has fallen almost to the vanishing point, whose fields have been devastated by Germany. The food exported from the United States in the past year has been sufficient to supply the complete ration of twenty-tw’o million people. It is hard to grasp the magnitude and significance of the assistance which has been lent the Allies by the patriotic, voluntary service of the American people. The food we sent abroad last year would have been sufficient to feed one-fifth of our population. And this was done in spite of the fact that we entered the year with short crops. Our surplus was practically nothing. An overwhelming proportion of the fpod that left this country last year was saved out of the normal home consumption of our own people. In spite of difficulties met in internal transportation and shortage of ocean tonnage our food exports last year amounted to a figure that a few years ago would have been unbelievable. Even the most optimistic element of our population faced with anxious consternation the prospect which opened before us with the beginning of the 1917 harvest year. The American people have not been compelled to save. They have been appealed to on the basis of humanity and of patriotism. They have responded voluntarily.

Besides such Incidental benefits as the improvement In figure and health that we’ve reaped from our meatless, wheatless days, think of the fun we’ve had out of them —the new crop of jokes, jibes, topical songs and cartoons to replace the mother-in-law joke and the boost to our reputation for ready humor I

Eighty millions of men cannot be taken out of production for four years without lasting losses of yield. It will be years before their fields recuperate, farms are restored and herds restocked. Save food.

PURPOSES OF FOOD ADMINISTRATION THE DAY OF ITS BEGINNING.

The hopes of the Food Administration are threefold: So to guide the trade in fundamental food commodities as to eliminate vicious speculation, extortion and wasteful practices and to stabilize prices in essential staples.—Herbert Hoover,- August 10, 1917.

SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD FOR EVERY PERSON IN U. S. SAVED FROM WASTE

Farmers and Threshermen Patriotically Respond to Call of Food Administration. From Information received by the U. S. Food Administration from the principal grain growing states, it is now possible to announce with fair accuracy the amount of wheat saved last harvest by improved methods of handling. According to Official calculations, efforts toward cleaner threshing saved fully 16,000,000 bushels of wheat with corresponding savings of other small grain’harvested and threshed In a similar manner. In addition, other states, though unable to furnish figures, reported greatly reduced harvest losses. The figure for wheat alone is equivalent to seven one-pound loaves of bread for every person in the United States and represents food that formerly was either an absolute loss or was recovered to only a slight extent by poultry and livestock. While opportunities in this branch of conservation were large, the quantity of grain recovered surpasses early expectations. It is noteworthy also that results were secured principally through voluntary co-operation. No conservation measure of the Food Administration, it is declared, has received more wholehearted support than that pledged and rendered by farmers and threshermen toward reducing grain waste at its source.

WQHH The benefits of our food-saving campaign that was a vital factor in the winning of the war were not all to these we fed. We have at home a new appreciation of food that will prevent it ever being wasted again by those that have come to understand the religion of saving and the place that food occupies in our new, world-wide human relations. Out of empty granaries to draw 141,000,000 bushels for export—the will of a free people accomplished that marvel. Do you remember when food control by voluntary action was deemed a daring adventure in democracy 1

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1018

OH IC AGO, INOtAItAPOLm A LOUISVILLA ■ V RENSSELAER TBQD TABHi In effect July 1, 1918. . - . „ - f SOUTHBOUND No. 85 Chicago to Cincinnati 3:31 a.m. No. 6 Chicago to Louisville 19:56 ■an. No. 33 Cgo to Indpls and FL 1:W am. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:59 BQn. No. 31 Chicago to Indianan’s 7 :tl pan. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:29 p.m. NORTHBOUND | No. 36. Cincinnati to Chicago 4:33 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:89 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:88 a.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 8:54 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 8:50 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICER* Mayor Charles G. Spitler Cler aCharles Morlen Treasurer Charles M. Hands Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer.. ,L. A. Bostwick lire CiuetJ. J. Montgomery Fire Wai den.... J. J. Montgomery Councilman Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymire At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kelmer JUDICIAL Circuit Judge, .cnaries W. Hanley Prosecuting Aiiuiney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court—Second Monday iu February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICER* Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff...;B. D. McCully Auditor.....J. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles vT May Recorder George Scott SurveyorH. D. Nesbitt CoronerW. J. Wright County Assessor.. .G. L. Thermon County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. E. Johnson COMMISSIONER* Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd Distr IstD. 8. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION T rustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff.Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George FouiksMilroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph Salrin.Walker Albert S KeeneWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. M. Sands 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 themselves accordingly. Postoffiee address —Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month in Williams * Dean's law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Tisane. Will practice in all the courts., Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA SCHUYLER C, IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 6 Per Cent Farm Loan*. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos 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 13 A.M. “ 3 to 5 P. M. •• 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays* 8 A. M. to 3 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid. Pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig's drug store. Phones: Office No. 442 j Res. Na 445-* RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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