Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — Page 8

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Presbyterian J. B. Fleming, Minister. 9:30, Sunday school; 10:45, morning worship and sermon, subject: “If Thine Enemy Hunger, Feed Him.” 7:00, union services at the Christian church. Serm m by Rev. E W. Strecker. Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, Pastor. 9:30, Sunday school; 10:45, morning worship and sermon by the pastor; 6:00, Epworth League, topic: “All for Christ, My Money;” leader, Miss Aiken. Continuation of study course. 7:00, union service at the Christian church. The pastor of this church will preach th*' sei mon. James Schoool House 2:00, Sunday school; 3:00, preaching service. Baptist Sunday, December 1. 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 7:30 p. m., evangelistic service. The revival meetings under the leadership of Evangelist S. E. Hamilton, will continue throughout next week. Services every night at 7:30. All are welcome. Services at Parr 10:00, Sunday school; 11:00, morning worship and preaching; 6:30, Christian Endeavor. Union Set”, iw. The monthly union service will be held at the Christian church Sunday evening. Rev. Edward W. Strecker of the Methodist church will preach. The public is invited to attend. Lutheran service will be held in St. John’s church on next Sunday, December 1, at 10 a. m. In Kniman Lutheran church service will be held at 10 a. m., on December 8. —REV. H. F. KROHN. Preaching at Gillam Sunday evening at 7:30. Remember, quarterly conference in afternoon at two o’clock, in Barkley church.— J. E. DEAN, Pastor. Dr. McKenzie will preach at Barkley M. E. church Sunday morning. Quarterly conference in afternoon at 2 o’clock. Come to both services.—J. E. DEAN, Pastor.

NOTICE

To all members of Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M.: You are hereby notified that the stated meeting for the election of officers will be held Monday evening, December 16, 1918. Your attendance is requested. BY ORDER OF THE W. M.

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SENATO DEPENDS WAR WORK BILLS

Antagonist of President Says Efforts of Military Committee Vindicated. SUMS UP WORK OF BODY t Will Retire as Chairman on March 4, and May Be Succeeded by Senator Warren, Father-in-Law of General Pershing. Washington, Nov. 29.—“ Our work is done. We have been severely criticized by some. We have lost some friends. We have made some friends. Our effort has always been to help, never to hinder. I believe we have been vindicated.” Senator Chamberlain thus summed up the work of the senate military affairs committee, of which he Is chairman, during the war period. “We have had a fearless committee,” he said. “With less courageous men our achievements would have been impossible. Now that the' war is over and Investigations will be made to criticize and not to assist, I am glad to relinquish the chairmanship.” Warren Slated for Post. Senator Chamberlain will retire as chairman of what has been the most committee of congress during the last year and a half when the Republicans come Into power on March 4. He may be succeeded by Senator Warren, father-in-law of General Pershfng. No man In congress has been (more severely criticized than Senator Chamberlain, although his colleagues believe he did more to assist In winning the war than any other legislator. His controversy with the president, following his assertion that the government had “fallen down” in the conOf the war, provided a number of sensations.' “Scandals growing out of the war cannot be avoided," Senator Chamberlain said. "The public will be shown where there has been seemingly unwarranted extravagance in war expenditures and will condemn those responsible for it, without taking into account the pressing necessity for speed in their work.

Defends Aircraft Board. “Payment of $lO for aircraft materials worth only $5 and. letting contracts without competitive bidding Is difficult to understand,” Senator Chamberlain said, “unless you take into account the fact that the aircraft board was compelled to get its materials as quickly as possible at whatever price it could. It had no time to look 'around for bargains.” From this time forward the military affairs committee will have little to do, Senator Chamberlain believes. The 'forthcoming army bill will be of far less Interest than those enacted during the war, he said. "President Wilson has practically all the power he needs to proceed with demobilization,” he continued. “The various bureaus created dyrln§ the war .can be consoiidateil with other bureaus under the Overman act and their service practically terminated.” Don’t forget The Democrat’* fancy stationery and office supply department when in need of correspondence cards, stationery, typewriter ribbons and papers, the better grade of lead pencils, ink erasers, etc., etc.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U.S. —Teutonic War News A number of American submarine chasers, accompanied by the parent ship Bucknell, left Queenstown Monday for the United States. * • * The German frontier was crossed at several places by American signal corps units and ambulance workers. Short trips were made Into Rhenish Prussia, where the inhabitants are reported to have shown the Americans every consideration. * « * With General Pershing, the American commander In chief, at her side, the youthful grand duchess of Luxemburg, from the balcony of her palace in Luxemberg, watched the Americans march into her capital. • * ♦ American engineers laid the last rail connecting the standard gauge railroad between Verdun and Metz, having virtually rebuilt nine miles of the track. It is over this line" principally that the forces of occupation will be supplied during their advance. ’ » • * European War News The French trl-color now flutters from the citadel of the ancient fortress of Strassburg, dating from the time of the Romans. At the head of the French Fourth army, amid a furore of enthusiasm on the part of the populace, Marshal Foch, King Albert of the Belgians and General Gouraud and Marshal Petain entered the historic town on the Rhine, through the famous Schlrmeck gate amid the tremendous enthusiasm of 300,000 people. Never did an army have such a triumphal greeting. ... r r ♦ ’ ' An Amsterdam dispatch says eleven German torpedo boats and mine layers that were left in the Antwerp harbor have been Interned In a Dutch port. » * * An Edinburgh dispatch says that Admiral Beatty’s historic signal after the German fleet had been moored at the appointed place was: “The German flag is to be hauled down at 3:57 and Is not to be hoisted again without permission.” Germany as a naval power, ceased Jo exist Thursday. The heart of her mighty fleet —14 ships of line, seven light cruisers and 50 destroyers —surrendered to an armada of British, American and French vessels, the greatest fighting force that ever stood out to sea. * * • The historic event accomplished when Marshal Petain, commander In chief of the French armies, made his entry into Metz, the great stronghold of Lorraine and the pivot of Germany s effort to crush France, may be said more than any other happening to consecrate the victory of the allies in this war.

* * * Foreign • American control of the Turkish gendarmerie and finances is being urged by a group of nine newspapers —seven' Turkish and two French—ln Constantinople. ♦ ♦ ♦ “The kaiser took with him all the government gold and silver securities and used fraud to get them past the customs authorities,” says the Neue Leipsinger Zeitung. ♦ * * Russian bolshevik troops have crossed the River* Narva on a broad front and have entered Esthonla, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipus, says a dispatch from Stockholm. • * ♦ Germany’s war debt, not counting any indemnities the allies may demand, is $50,000,000,000, according to a Munich dispatch to the London Dally Mail, quoting the Bavarian minister of finance. e ♦ ♦ ♦ A Brussels special says the program of the new Belgian government includes universal suffrage for all males over twenty-one years of age and a general election as soon as possible, probably next May, » » ♦

An Amsterdam dispatch says Liebknecht, the radical, has emerged victor over Ebert, the moderate, in a three-days’ struggle at Berlin. The affairs of all Germany rest for the moment in the hands of the Berlin workmen and soldiers’ council, which has wrested all power from the Ebert government. The chancellor and his ministers are reduced to figureheads. * » ♦ A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Copenhagen states that an antibolshevist revolution has broken out in Russia. Moscow is reported in a state of siege and the Black sea fleet is reported to have raised the imperial flag. * * » A says German newspapers report that the united wotkers’ and soldiers’ council have proclaimed Oldenburg, Oestfrlesland, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Hdl-stein a republic. The capital Will be at

It Is officially announced at Lima that Peru has withdrawn her consuls from Chile as a result of the renewal of anti-Peruvian rioting in Iquique and Antofagasta. • • • A London dispatch says King Albert and the Belgian government entered Brussels at two o’clock Friday. * ♦ * ♦ King Albert of Belgium will visit Paris December 5, it Is announced. He will leave for Brussels early in the evening. * * * A plot to swamp Spain with bolshevist agitators has been nipped in the bud by the Spanish authorities, according to Madrid advices. Domestic • Of the 59 officers and men who have remained with the United States gunboat Scorpion In the Golden Horn, near Constantinople, since diplomatic relations were severed, 25 have married Levantine women. ♦ ♦ • Difficulties between Peru and Chile,, which resulted in recall of consular representatives by each nation from principal cities of its neighbor, have been overcome by an apology on the part of the Peruvian government, Consul Castro Buis, consul general of Chile, announced in New York. ♦ * ♦ Three masked bandits held up the Commonwealth Savings bank of Chicago in typical wild West style. Nearly a dozen shots were fired. The amount taken was $2,900. * ♦ ♦ Total subscriptions to the United War Work campaign were $203,179,038, or $32,679,038 in excess of the amount originally asked by the seven war relief organization for their work during demobilization of the army.and navy, according to an official announcement at New York. * ♦ “• A thousand soldiers, sailors and marines broke through a cordon of police surrounding Madison Square Garden al New York and attacked international socialists who had attended a mass meeting at which bolshevik doctrines were expounded. • ♦ ♦

A New Vork dispatch say? fifteen steamships aggregating 206,769 gross tons, were lost by the Cunard line during the war. Of these, all except two were classed as war losses, having been sunk by torpedoes or mines. ♦ * * A million • letters from “our boys" overseas that will gladden the hearts of “the folks at home” reached New York on the French liner Rochambeau. ♦ * » Railroad employees representing the entire western system will recommend permanent government control of all railroads. They will also ask Director General McAdoo to reconsider his resignation. Business agents of western railroad eirtfrloyees’ unions will hold a conference at Chicago to work out a definite program. ♦ ♦ •

Sult against the government is planned by Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph company at New York, If a merger bf the Western Union and the Postal is attempted, he announced. ♦ ♦ » Influenza has broken out at the state colony for epileptics, near Dixon, 111. August Weiss of Chicago and Edward Gill, Ashmore, Hl., are dead and five others In dangerous condition. ♦♦- ♦ * Washington No active division of the American expeditionary forces can be landed in the United States before Christmas, Secretary Baker at Washington said. The policy of returning first the thousands of casuals and the auxiliary troops from England will postpone the movement of first-line troops who have been designated for release by General Pershing. • « • Deaths in the navy from “war causes” totaled 1,233, Surgeon General Braisted told the house naval committee at Washington, which is framing the 1920 naval appropriation bill. No figures were given as to deaths from disease. In further revision of the war revenue bill the senate finance committee at Washington struck out entirely the proposed federal license tax on use of automobiles and motorcycles, which ranged from $lO to SSO annually in the house bill, according to horsepower, and from $5 to $25 under the plan previously adopted by the senate committee. • » * Levies aggregating $1,000,000,006 wjere cut from the speeial miscellaneous tax schedules of the war revenue bill by the senate finance committee at Washington in accordance with its decision to make the 1919 levy about $6,000,000,000. » • * The Supreme court at Washington recessed for 'Thanksgiving until December 9. ~ ♦ - * • First units of the American expeditionary forces to return from overseas are expected .to arrive in New York about the end of the present week. General March, chief of staff, announced at Washington that 382 officers and 6.614 men of the air service and other detachments training in England now are homeward bound on the Minnehaha, Lapland and Drca, British liners.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. TO NAME 9 POST-WAR AIDS Governor to Appoint Commission to Assist in Solving Many Problems of the State—Action Taken , at Conference. Indianapolis, Nov. 29. —By a resolution adopted at the close of the postwar conference held in the statehouse, Governor Goodrich was urged to appoint a reconstruction and readjustment commission of nine or more members to represent the principal interests and activities in the state. The governor said that he would at once begin to select the members of the commission and that he would announce their appointment in two or three days. He declared th.at he was highly gratified at the success- of the conference and that the data brought forth by the various speakers would assist greatly in working out concrete plans for the state’s course in dealing with after-the-war conditions. More than a score of speakers, each representing some large activity or interest In the state, presented thier ideas and offered suggestions for relief or guidance. The meeting was held in the chamber of the house of representatives. There were speakers representing manufacturers, labor, chambers of commerce, religious bodies, the colored race, women’s organizations, education, banking and shipping interests and other bodies. The chamber was crowded and among the persons attending were many, men and women of affairs and few that were merely idle spectators. Among the salient ideas presented were: » That there must be a wise balance between state and federal control of education. That laws must be provided to protect women that have gone into industry and to prevent illiteracy among children going into industry. That the colored race should be given a right to enter industry on a merit basis.

That public instruction delayed by the war be started immediately to absorb returned soldiers in employment. That women be paid like wages as men in like work. That provisions should be made for the care of returned soldiers suffering from mental ills caused by war. That only co-operation among all classes will solve the problems between employers and employed and control the problems of the relation betw’een wages and the cost of living. That public health should be given greater consideration for the well-be-ing and success of the state. That federal control of railroads should terminate with the war. That the highways of the state should be controlled and constructed with the county as a unit and that a state highway commission should be endowed with powers not only to construct the main arteries of travel, but to keep them in repair. That social centers should be developed at all schoolhouses. That there must be a continuation of food economy. That war-time agencies should not attempt to deal with peace conditions. Following the conference, resolutions favoring the formation of a reconstruction commission were presented by M. E. Foley and were adopted. The commission will have only advisory powers and will be representative of every principal interest in the state. It is proposed that the number of commissioners be 1 not less than nine; that’provision for state headquarters be made and funds provided to meet the necessary exepenses.

Rate Increase Proposed.

Richmond, Nov. 29. —The city council has appointed Edward H. Harris, Edward Cureton and Walter V. Reid as a. special committee of citizehs to act with a committee composed of members of the council, to investigate the needs of the Richmond municipal electric light and power plant. ~ The increasing demands on the plant during the last few years, both in the light and power departments, has, in the judgihent of the management of the plant, made necessary extensive new equipment'and with this additional cost to be carried it has been proposed that the city petition the public service commission far an increase in rates.

Plan $4,000,000 Building.

Indianapolis, Nov. 29.—A program which would call for the expenditure of $4,000,000,000 in highway construction and buildings within the next four or five days has been informally discussed by Leo K. Feeler, county auditor, and tlie county commissioners as the contribution of Marion county to the readjustment and reconstruction of business and industrial conditions.

Attempt to Rob Bank.

Goshen, Nov. 29.—Men who planned to rob the New Paris State bank at New Paris, a village six miles south of here, failed In the attempt and apparently were frightened away by villagers, who passed the building. All preparations had been made by the robbers to blow open the vault door. Nitroglycerin had" been placed and all details were in readiness for an explosion.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1918 :

SCHWAB TO QUIT AS SHIPBUILDER'

Other Affairs Soon Will Fore® Him to Leave Fleet Corporation. TO ASK WILSON FOR RELEASE! Declares Government Will Keep Right, on and Complete Original Plan for 13,000,000 Tons of American Ships. New York, Nov. 29.—Charles MJ Schwab will shortly ask President Wilson to release him as director general of the Emergency ■ Fleet corporation. Pressure of other business will ba the basis for such a request. MrSchwab, in answering inquiries, said: “I am planning now to put the! Emergency Fleet corporation in such, a position that I shall ask the presldent to release me when the change) has been made from emergency toi economic work. To Finish Program. “We will keep right on and complete the entire original campaign, aggregating 13,000,000 tons of ships. The. plan of the future is to build for economic permanency. The past has been for emenrgency. “I want it clearly understood thati we contemplate employing all kindsof efficient labor, regardless of nationality, and the high standard ofl wages paid will be fixed by the gov-i ernment board. “I cannot discuss my plans for the, future, but I can say now that when. President Wilson hsfeed me to takecharge of this work he pledged me his support through thick and thinAnd he has stood by that promise to the bitter end, through trials and tribulations and through all the glorious accomplishments.” Labor to Benefit. In speaking about labor and laboring conditions generally, Mr. Schwabsaid : “I believe firmly that in the past labor has not had Its fair share of profit from this prosperous country of ours, but also I firmly believe that labot wil, come into its own and; will receive its fair share of profit ii> the future. *1 believe that manufacturers generally will awaken to the uncontradictable fact of the advantages to be. derived from contented well-paid labor, and if they do fhis they can expect real efficiency from labor in return. “No general rule can be laid downt now for the relationship between capital and labor, but it is jny opinion that future years will see a much closer relationship, which is necessary to. their mutual advantage.” Blockades to Go On. Mr. Schwab was asked to express his view# on the term “freedom of theseas” as often mentioned by President Wilson, but declined to do so, beyond saying: “My understanding of the president’s statement regarding the freedom of the seas is that the seas shall be open to all nations at all times for the commerce between all nations, but; I do not understand that a port could not be blockaded in times of war ast at present under international law.”

400 PERSONS ON PEACE STAFF

British Government Engages Whole Paris Hotel. London, Nov. 29. —The British goys ernment will have a staff of 400 persons in Paris for the peace conference, Assistant Secretary Towle of the fobd ministry informed the correspondents. He said the government had taker] the Majestic hotel for this staff and would have a corresponding force of servants. The Paris hotels, added the secretary, were expecting fabulous prices; hence the food industry had undertaken the catering for the delegation and the house of commons had lent, many of Its help for this purpose.

SUFFRAGE LAW IN HUNGARY

Men of 21 and Women of 26 Giver* the Ballot. Budapest, Nov. 29. —-The new suffrage law, which will be submitted to, the national assembly by the Hungarian government, gives-, the ballot to all men twenty-one years of age and all women who are twenty-six, providing they have been Hungarian subjects for six years and know how to read and write. All electors twenty-four years old will be eligible to election to the national assembly without distinction of sex.

MOONEY SAVED FROM HANGING

California Governor Commutes Sentence to Life Imprisonment. Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 29.—Governor Stephens has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence to death of Thomas J. Mooney, who was to die on December 13.

House Rallies From Influenza.

Paris, Nov. 29. —Col. E.«M. House left bls bed and went outdoors this, morning for tbe first time since he was stricken with the grip.