Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — Page 2

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IE JIM COBNTY DWil F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoftlce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March I, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday The Only All Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Strictly In Advance ADVERTISING RATES Display 12%0 Inch Display, special position ..16c Inch Readers, per line first Insertion. .Is Readers, per line and. laser.... S« Want Ads—l cent per word each Insertion; minimum 25c. Special price If run one or more months Cash must accompany order un. less advertiser has open account Card of Thanks—Not te exceed teilines, 50c. Cash with order. Ke advertisements accepted for th* first page. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 1918

“Republican leaders in congress,” nays Louis Ludlow in the South Bend Tribune “have started a definite movement looking toward the nomination of Gen. John J. Pershing as the republican candidate for president in 1920.” Now what do you think of that? It hasn’t been so very long ago since every republican in the country was accusing President Wilson of playing .politics in selecting Gen. Pershing as commlander of our overseas forces, in preference to Gen. Leonard Wood, better known as Roosevelt’s pet and second choice. “Black Jack” Pershing has never taken any interest in politics, but God pity him if he falls into the camp of the stand pat crowd that is now booming him for president. —Starke County Democrat.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I hope some day to write a song » that will astonish all the throng on this old planet groping; but meantime, since I have to buy the children lids and shoes and pie, I’ll take it out in hoping. I often, think if I had time to put my beet into rhyme, John Milton would look faded; but writing doggerel that pays takes up the passing hours and days, and keeps me worn and jaded. I don’t suppose 11l ever pen the ode that will as’ ton Isp men, and bring me Shakespeare’s laurels; and as of old my ink shall flow, expounding lessons all men know, and bargain counter morals. But when all day I’ve lyred and lyred, until I’m frazzled out and tired, it's pleasant to sit!

dreaming of that far day when I shal write an ode so full of force and ilight, the critice will be screaiiihg. And thus your dream is soothing you, though you may know ft won’t come true, this side the rivtr Jordan; it’s good to have some Mind of goal; and so, for duds ai d grub and coal, you struggle on accordin’.

COMM ISSffONERS’ PROCEEDINGS

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Gratnfr stone road in Barkley townslfip. In the petition of Joseph Kosta et al for a stone road, supplementary report was filed and approved. Road ordered established and notice ordered for letting contract on first day of January term. Contractor Walter V. Porter was allowed S4BO on the James Lane stone road and $320 on the D. H. Yeoman stone road. The county treasurer reported $4,382 collected on the George M. Myers ditch, leaving $2,393.66 of unpaid assessments. Bonds ordered—lssued. Contractor granted an extension of time to complete work to May 1, 1919. Report and profile filed in the A. I. Sargent ditch, and expense account allowed as set out in report. Contracts for supplies for poor farm were awarded to the G. E. Murray Co. for dry goods; John Eger, groceries: Eigelsbach & Son, 50 lbs steak at 35c a' pound; 50 lbs boil and roast at 28c a pound. True D. Woodworth, sheriffelect, filed his official bond in the sum of $5,000, with Walter V. Porter, Greenleaf L. Thornton and Ancel Woodworth as sureties. Superintendent of poor farm filed report for the quarter ending November 30. showing receipts of $1,406.80 and expenses $3,652.58, leaving a net deficit of $2,245.78. Interest on county funds for the month of November amounted to $860.34. according to the report of the various depositories, as follows; Trust & Savings bank, Rensselaet, $23 6.37: First National bank, Rensselaer, $210.35; State bank. Rensselaer, $186.66; Bank of Wheatfield, $61.64; State bank, Remington, $165.32.

Sanol Eczema Prescription is a famous old remedy for all forms of Eczema and skin diseases. Sanol Is a guaranteed remedy. Get a 35c large trial bottle at the drug store. —Advt. *

Potter & Sawyer have started up a seed business in Rensselaer and will buy and sell clover and timothy seeds. If you have any of the above to sell or wish to buy, see <H>. H. Potter at the Farmers’ Grain Co. office. —Advt. d-23

SACRIFICES OF U. S. DEMAND TRIP ABROAD

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knew themselves beaten; ana now their very empires are In liquidation I And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was. What unity of purpose, what untiring zeal I What elevation of purpose ran through all its splendid display of strength, its untiring accomplishment For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business readjustments nothing is more important than the immediate determination of the taxes that are to be levied for 1918, 1919 and 1920. As much as the burden of taxation must be lifted from business as sound methods of financing the government will permit, and those who *—

conduct the great essefUlal indust is of the country must be told as exa ty as possible what obligations to the <yernment they will be expected to rtet m the years immediately ahead .f tnem. It Will be of serious consequence o the country to delay removing all inton£ n l eS ln thiS matter a sln » !e diy i° ts « th « n the r ’ ght P rocess es of rebate justfy. it is to te|k nf OTC . Bt™ctlon D SLf onfldent buß, Aess reconare resolved" 6 th ° Se 6ncerta,nt,es If M K U<rt t ßtax <n Eur °Pe - have bee nnecessary°/* lnUe ' l “ T”? 58,000,000,000 by ralSe X the year 1919, but and I agree with rf the war has ended tresasury that it „ secreta J y of the the amount to mediate rapid An imof the gover../decline in the expenses for Contx -‘ nment ,s not to be looked will inZ v racts made for war supplies Uqupi, ,deed, be rapidly canceled and TTiated, but their immediate llqulilon will make heavy drains on the treasury so rthe months Just ahead of us.

The maintenance of our forces on the other side of the sea is still necessary. A considerable proportion of these forces must remain in Europe during the period of occupation, and those which are brought home will be transported and demobilized at heavy expense for months to come. - Asks Aid for Belgium. May I not say a special word about the needs of Belgium and northern France? No sums of money paid by the way of Indemnity will serve of themselves to save them from hopeless disadvantage for years to come. Something more must be done than merely find the money. If they had money and raw materials in abundance tomorrow they could not resume their place in the industry of world tomorrow—the very important place they held before the flame of war swept across them. Many of their factories are razed to the ground.

Worried About Railroads. Tl» question which causes me the greatest concern is the question of Die policy to be adopted toward the railroads. I frankly turn to you for counsel upon it. I have no confident judgment of my own. Ido not see how any thoughtful man can have who knows anything of the complexity of the problem. It Is a problem which must be studied, studied immediately and studied without bias or prejudice. It was necessary that the administration of the railways should be taken over by the government so long as the war lasted. It would have been impossible otherwise to establish and carry through under a single direction the necessary priorities of shipments. Exceptional circumstances and.-ex-ceptlonal methods of administration were not needed to convince us that the railroads were not equal to the Immense tasks of transportation imposed upon them by the rapid and continuous development of the industries of the country. We knew that already, and we knew that they were unequal to It partly because their full co-operation was rendered Impossible by law and Mielr competition made obligatory. so that it has been Impossible to assign to them severally the traffic which could best be carried by their respective lings In the interest of expedition and national economy. The full equipment of the railways which the federal administration had planned could not be completed within any such period. The present law does not permit the use of the revenues of the several roads for the execution of such plans except by formal contract with their directors, some of whom will consent, while some will not, and therefore does not afford sufficient authority to undertake improvements upon the scale upon which it would be necessary to undertake them. Several Plans Possible.

I believe that it will be serviceable for me to set forth as expliclty as possible the alternative courses that lie open to our choice. We can simply release the roads and go back to the old conditions of private management, unrestricted competition and multiform regulation by both state and federal authorities; or we can go to the opposite extreme and establish complete government control, accompanied, If necessary, by actual government ownership ; or we can adopt an intermediate course of modified private control, under a more unified and affirmative public regulation and under such alterations of the law as will permit wasteful competition to be avoided and a considerable degree of unification of administration to be effected, as, for example, by regional corporations under which the railways of definable area would be In effect combined In single systems. The one conclusion that I am ready to state with confidence Is that it would be a disservice alike to the country and to the owners of the railroads to return to the old conditions unmodified.

Some new element of policy, therefore, Is absolutely necessary—necessary for the service of the public, necessary for the release of credit to those who are administering the railways, necessary for the protection of their security holders. I welcome this occasion to announce to the congress my purpose to join In Paris the representatives of the governments with which we have been associated In the war against the central empires for the purpose of discussing with them the main features of the treaty of peace. I realize the great inconveniences that will attend my leaving the country, particularly at this time, but the conclusion that it was my paramount duty to go has been forced upon me by considers*

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tions which I hope will seem as conclusive to you as they have seemed to me. , Accept U. 8. Bases of Peace. The allied governments have accepted the bases of peace which I outlined to the congress on the Bth of January last, as the central empires’ also have, and very reasonably desire my personal counsel in their interpretation and application, and it is highly desirable that I should give it in order that the sincere desire of- our government to contribute without selfish purpose of any kind to settlements that will be of common benefit to aiLthe nations concerned may be made fully manifest.

The peace settlements which are now to be agreed upon are of transcendent Importance both to us and to the rest of the world, and I know of no business or interest which should take precedence of them. The gallant men of our armed forces on land and sea have consciously fought for the Ideals which they knew to be the ideals of their country; I have sought to express those ideals; they have accepted my statements of them as the substance of their own thought and purpose, as the associated governments have accepted them; I owe it to them to see it, so far as in me lies, that no false or mistaken interpretation is put upon them and no possible effort omitted to realize them. It is now my duty to play my full part in making good what they offered in their life’s blood to obtain. I can think of no call to service which could transcend this. Never before have there been agencies in existence in this country which knew so much of the field of supply, of labor and of industry as the war industries board, the war trade board, the labor department, the food administration and the fuel administration have known since their labors became thoroughly systematized; and they have not been isolated agencies; they hTive been directed by men who represented the permanent departments of the government and so have been the centers of unified and co-operative action. It has been the policy of the executive, therefore, since the armistice was assured (which is in effect a complete submission of the enemy) to put the knowledge of these bodies at the disposal of the business men of the country and to offer their intelligent mediation at every point and in every matter where it was desired.

Problem Economic One. So far as our domestic affairs are concerned the problem of our return to peace Is a problem of economic and Industrial readjustment. That problem is less serious for us than it may turn out to be for the nations'which have suffered the disarrangements and the losses of war longer than we. Our people, moreover, do not wait to be coached and led. They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose, find self-reliant in action. While the war lasted we set up many agencies by which to direct the industries of the country In the services it was necessary for them to render, by which to make sure of an abundant supply of the materials needed, by which to check undertakings that could for the time be dispensed with and stimulate those that were most serviceable in war, by which to gain for the purchasing departments of the government a certain control over the prices of essential articles and materials, by which to restrain trade with alien enemies, make the most of the available shipping, and systematize financial transactions, both public and private, so that there would be no unnecessary conflict or confusion —by which, in short, to put every material energy of the country in harness to draw the common load and make of us one team in the accomplishment of a great task.

I entirely concur with the secretary of the treasury In recommending that the two billions needed in addition to the four billions provided by existing law be obtained from the profits which have accrued and shall accrue from war contracts and distinctively war business, but that these taxes be confined to the war profits accruing In 1918, or in 1919 from business originating In war contracts. I urge your acceptance of. his recommendation that provision be made now, not subsequently, that the taxes to be paid In 1920 should be reduced from six to four billions. May I not hope,, gentlemen of the congress, that In the delicate tasks I shall have to perform on the other side of the sea, in my efforts truly and faithfully to Interpret the principles and purposes of the country we love, I may have the encouragement and the added strength of your united support? I realize the magnitude and difficulty of the duty I am undertaking. I am poignantly aware of its grave responsibilities. I am the servant of the nation. I can have no private thought or purpose of my own in performing such an errand. I go to give the best that is in me to the common settlements which I must now assist In arriving at In conference with the other working heads of the associated governments. I shall count upon your friendly countenance and encouragement. I shall not be inaccessible. The cables and the wireless will render me available for any counsel or service you may desire of me, and I shall be happy in the thought that I am constantly in touch with the weighty matters of domestic policy with which we shall have to deal. I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assurance that it has been possible to translate Into action the great ideals for which America has striven.

Short Furrows

“Abe Martis” is Isdiasapolia News.

“Won, it loots like th’ world would soon be safe fer democracy,*’ said Tell Binkley, this hiofnin’. “I reckon that’s th’ program,” replied Hon. Ex-Editur Cale Fluhart, “but how many folks care anything about democracy or know what it means? You haint heard nobuddy jollifyin’ ’cause th’ world is now safe fer democracy. What they’re interested in is ther own well bein’ an’ personal comfort. I’ve (heard more knockin’ an’ comiplainin’ an’ grumblin’ an’ speculatin’ since that thing wuz signed than I’ve heard all thro’ th’ war.” “Well, we don’t have enough wars t’ know how. t’ recover from ’em. We’ve been doin’ so blamed many big things • that most o’ us have become bewildered. We couldn’ comprehend anything as big as th’ war an’ we can’t comprehend th’ great blessin’ o’ peace. We’ve been goin’ along contributin’ an’ investin’ an’ boastin’ an’ sacrificin’ an’ substitutin’ an’ knit•tin’ an’ hurrahin’ an’ tryin’ t’ out do one another in paterism till we’ve jest become saturated with war. Peace jest suddenly threw a wet blanket on us.” “Yes, ever’buddy seems t’ feel that they’ve been stung. One thing, th’ Huns gave up t’ easy f suit us. We didn’ git t’ soak ’em hard enough. It’s goin’ t' take as long t’ git th’ war spirit out o’ us as it took t’ git it in us. Why, we’d begun t’ think it wuz paterotic t’ pay six cents a pound fer kraut. We thought we wuz helpin’ t’ win th’ war. Now with th’ Huns licked an’ kraut jest where it wuz, we feel duped—we feel like we could have won with kraut at five cents a quart jest as well. An’ I think we could. Peace has muddled an’ dazed us. Th’ pe-rade is diver an’ we don’t know what t’ do. Miss Tawney Apple sent a twelve dollar cigarette case t’ a friend at Camp Taylor jest an’ hour before hostilities ended. Imagine her frame o’ mind. Peace should have been declared gradually.”

“Lem Watson had a $3,000,000 walnut gun stock contract, an’ had already picked out a auto an’ a tnusic box When peace overtook him.” “Uncle Ez Pash had three barrels o’ carrots in his cellar. Now, ther a dead loss.” “Tipton Bud had a walkover fer th’ nomination fer sheriff till a boom started fer Private Stew Nugent, who’ll soon be home from France.” “Mrs. Em Mopps has been makin’ airplane spindles an’ doin’ th’ best kind till peace hit iher. Now she's t’ live with a wealthy nephew who’s a car tapper in Vincennes. I don’t know what’ll become o’ her when Uncle Sam; let’s go o’ th’ railroads.”

“Miss Vevay Moots wuz t’ marry Private Artie Small when he got back from France an’ now he’s not even goin’ over.” “Miss Fawn Lippincut’s aunt had her son-in-law heavily insured before he enlisted an’ he never got out o’ Hattiesburg. She thought some o’ buildin’ if he’d been killed.” “Tipton Moots finds himself loaded down with bonds an’ no shoes.”

“Well, you see all these folks are sore. It’s th’ same thing- all over th’ country. Folks had got settled on a war basis an’ peace has knocked ther plans crazy. Ther’s no openin’ in this country where a riveter kin make anything like what he’s been makin’. No woman 'll want t’ return t’ th* kitchen from th’ lathe. Business ’ll newer be satisfied with a fair margin o’ profit. Even th’ salaried feller won’t feel right with a few dollars above expenses. It’s goin’ t’ take a long while fer folks t’ git .reconciled t’ th’ ola order o’ things even if th’ ole order o’ things ever’ returns.” “I reckon, after a while when things get cooled down, a feller kin buy a submarine chaser purty cheap,” said Uncle Niles Turner.

FORSALE For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and in A-l condition. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale —Pure-bred Big Type Poland China male hog, 18 months old.—W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, Indiana. d-4

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1»JL8

For Sale by reason of installing furnace, a fine base-burner used only two years; al! in splendid condition. May be seen at Democrat office—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—Vigorous young purebred Hampshire boars of finest breeding. Papers.—RUSSELL VAN HOOK, phone 938-A. d-7 For Sale, Trade or Rent— A. good 7-room house, good cellar, well, plenty of fruit, 3 good lots for trucking, located at Reynolds, White county.—ROßEßT MICHAL, Reynolds, Indiana. d-1 Advertise in the “Want Column.” For Sale—Full blood O. I. O. male bog, a good one, a little over a year old. Four miles south of town, on stone road, and west % mile of James schodl house. — GEORGE W. KENNEDY, phone 949-B. <M For Sale—ln The Democrat's Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die numbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribbons for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. Typewriters—One No. 5 Oliver, splendid condition, tabulator, etc., tin case, S3O; 2 brand-new later model No. 5 Olivers, bankspacer, etc., S4O each; 1 Smith Premier visible No. 10, tabulator, back-spacer, etc., a dandy machine, S4O; 1 Smith Premier No. 8, gocd condition, S2O. —The Democrat. For Sale—«OO-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice city ot 2.000 population. Farm is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natchez and which intersects, with the Jacksen highway. Price S3O per acre.—■ HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 24$ or 490. H For Sale—Some real bargains In well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 162 a., 80 a. X also have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 493, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. ts One of the Best Located Residence properties In Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two Improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth pries asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For further particulars caU or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT.

FOR RENT For Rent—My house on Park avenue, electric lights, city water.— MARY JANE HOPKINS. For Rent—Good 9-room hopse. Bath, toilet, electric lights, city water and cistern, adjoining my residence. —E. P. HONAN, phone 285 or 334. For Rent—Good seven room house on corner of Park avenue and Work st., with bath, electric lights, cistern, etc. Large lot, nice shade, fruit, and large barn if desired.—• F. E. BABCOCK, at Democrat office. WANTED Wanted—Wood choppers, will pay 50 cents per hour.—ALBERT WARNE, Fair Oaks, Ind. d-6 Wanted—Men to husk corn at Fair Oaks and Pleasant Ridge farms. —JOHN J. LAWLER. See James T. Walter, phone 337. d-5 Wanted—More farmers to know about the great land movement in the clover lands of Wisconsin. See me about the next excursion. Office in Wright Bldg., near Washington street bridge. Open evenings. Telephone 418. ELMER GWIN. ts LOST Lost—Between the Sol Norman farm and Rensselaer, or between my home and P.irr, the cen.Jjer piece of a side curtain for ‘Studebaker car. Finder please leave at Democrat office or notify SOL NORMAN. d-T

FOUND Found —On Rensselaer-Remington road, about 4 males south of Rensselaer, Monday, gent’s glove. Owner may have same by callng at The Democrat office and paying 25 cents for this ad. MISCELLANEOUS Storage—l have two rooms for stor* age of light household er othefl goods in The Democrat building Terms reasonable.—F. B. BAB COCK. Phone 31« or 111. Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 te 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell in patches, any quantity desired.— J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 3 37. ts Typewriter Ribbons —The Democrat carries in stock In Its tansy stationery department the famous Nedidh make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 75c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. tt FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHA®. J. DEAN B BON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. II Money to Loan—S per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. W Mutual Insurance—Fire and LigM> nlng. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. L ADAMS. Phone 833-L, W Farm Loans—Money to loan Mt farm property in any sumo ng M >lo,ooo.—®. P. HONAN, 4