Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — Page 4

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Swift & Company’s 1918 Earnings i How They Affected You During the twelve months ended Nov. 2, 1918 (its fiscal year), Swift & Company transacted the largest volume of business on the smallest margin of profit in its history. Profits of the meat business —under regulations of the United States Food Administration were limited to a maximum of 9 per cfent on capital employed but not to exceed 2H cents per dollar of sales. Swift & Company in the regulated departments earned 7.57 per cent on capital employed and 2.04 cents per dollar of sales, out of which had to be paid interest on borrowed money and taxes. Here is how these earnings affect you. Live-Stock Raiser— Swift A Company killed 14,948,000 head of livestock, which weighed alive, 4,971,500,000 pounds. Swift & Company made a profit of only a fraction of a cent per pound liveweight Consumer — The sales of our meat departments were 4,012,579,000 pounds on which our earnings were less than Yi cent per pound. The per capita CQnsumption of meat in the United States is given as 170 pounds. If a consumer purchased only Swift & Company’s products he would contribute only about 78 cents a year, or VA cents a week as profit to the company. Swift & Company, U.S. A. ,

DUTCH REVOLT FEARED

REVOLUTION IS EXPECTED IN HOLLAND, DISPATCH SAYS. Government Troops Called Out to Guard Buildings at Leyden—Turks Surrender Medina. f : Amsterdam, Jan. 17.—1 n view of rumors of the Impendfhg outbreak of a revolution la Holland the Het Volk sfeys mlltlary guards have been placed before the town hall and telegraph office at Leyden, which Is about midway between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. London, Jan. 17.—The Turks Who have been bolding out in Medina, the holy city of the Mohammedan faith, have capitulated to the king of the Hedjaz, it was officially announced here. Capitulation was under the terms of the Tmklsh armfstlce. Announcing the capitulation and explaining the delay in securing It, the official statement says: 9 The holy city of Medina has capitulated to King Hussein under the Turkish armistice terms. The delay In bringing the garrison to compliance with the terms was due to Its long Isolation, which necessitated our permitting the interchange of special communications with Constantinople and to permit this armistice period to be prolonged locally. It was renderefl incumbent upon King Hussein to secure the capitulation by arrangement not by assault. * "The Amir Abdulla, representing the king of the Hedjaz officially, entered Medina at 11 a. m. Monday. He was enthusiastically acclaimed and proceeded to the tomb the prophet where he offered the midday prayer.”

CROSBY QUITS FINANCE POST

American Commissioner for United States in Europe Resigns—To Advise Peace Delegation. Washington, Jan. 17.— r Oscar T. Crosby has resigned 4s special com-

missioner of finance for the United States in Europe. Secretary Glass will accept the resignation soon, but Mr. Crosby intends to remain in Europe to advise the American peace delegates on financial questions.

SAYS 500 PERSONS PERISH

Rome Report Declares French Steamship Chaproi From Marseilles Struck a Mine. Rome, Jan. 17. —Five hundred persons perished when the French steamship Ohhproi, outward-bound from Marseilles, struck a mine and sank withjin four minutes in the Straits of Messina.

Czechs on Bavarian Border.

Berne, Jan. 17.—Czech troops are occupying the Bavarian border, facing Bavarian troops only, a few yards distant, according to the Vienna Koi> respondenz bureau.

ARRANGE TO EXPORT WHISKY

Distillers to Ship Spirits Out of the United States. New York, Jan. 17.—Distilling Interests of tne country, anticipating enof nation-wide prohibition a year hence, have completed plans for the conversion of their manufacturing plants and for export of the whiskies and other spirits now in bond, Norman R. Sterne, president of the Trans-Oceanic Commercial corporation, newly organized export subsidiary of the Distillers’ Security corporation, declared here.

Leave orders now for fruit and ornamental trees, ghrubbei-y, etc., for spring delivery. All trees guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge.—CHARLES PEFLEY, phone 475. „ - : : / Duplicate order books, Fairbanks scale books, etc., carried in stock in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

PIQ HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK OUT TO LABT ANALYSIS. ' • DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Mo» ment In All Parte of the World— Of Intereat to All the People Everywhere. Peace Notes * A Paris dispatch says the number of representatives allowed each nation In the peace congress, as given out unofficially and subject to revision, although practically determined, Is as follows: United States, 5; Great Britain, 5; France, 5; Italy, 5; Japan, 5; Brazil, 3; Belgium, 2; Serbia, 2; Greece, 2; Poland, 2; Czechoslovaks, 2; Roumania, 2; China, 2; Canada, 2; Australia, 2; South Africa, 2; India, 2; New Zealand, 1; Portugal, 1. * • * A Paris special says the first question to come up before the actual peace conference next Saturday will be that of the proposed league of nations, and It was made known that It had been planned for the conference to devote 12 hours dally to this work If necessary, until It Is on the way to completion. • • • At Monday’s session of the allied military advisers in Paris, presided over by Marshal Foch, the suggestion was made that the allies occupy some of the German ports, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris. • * • So pressing are the questions, such as the Russian problem, which must be settled before the actual peace conference gets to work that the armistice, which expires January 17, will have to be extended, says a Paris dispatch. * * *

European War News Fifteen hundred Canadian soldiers who were previously thought to be dead, have been found since the armistice to be alive as prisoners in Germany, according to Ottawa reports. * * * The cabinet at Paris decided that German war prisoners henceforth should be employed in reconstruction vyork in the liberated districts. The measures adopted provide that a minimum of 200,000 will be put to work. * * * British troops have occupied Dusseldorf, which has been in the hands of the Spartacans, according to a report from Berlin, says a Copenhagen dispatch. * • • A London dispatch says that Ijj air raids on the United Kingdom by the Germans during the war, 5,511 persons were killed or Injured, of whom 4,750 were civilians. * * * A London dispatch says the allies have notified Turkey that unless the Turkish force at Medina lays down its arms immediately the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed. * * • Foreign A cordon of troops has been thrown around the suburb of Moabit, one of the molt important industrial sections in Greater Berlin, for the“purpose of carrying out the work of disarming civilians and such Spartacan fighters as are still at liberty. Peace negotiations have begun between the Spartacans and the German government.

• * * A Rerlin dispatch says Fie’ld Marshal von Hindenburg soon will take command of the German troops opposing Polish forces in eastern Germany, according to advices from Bromberg, quoting newspapers printed In the province of Posen. * * • Property losses in Berlin during the .past week of terror amount to tens of millions of marks. In addition to the damage to newspaper plants and government buildings, merchants’ losses through looting are very high, one youth being captured with 60,000 marks’ worth of Jewels which he had stolen. * * * “Our hands are now free to take up the great task upon the accomplishment of which the fate of the young "German republic depends,” said Friedrich Ebert, at the end of a week's terrific struggle at Berlin. * * • Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader, Is reported to have fled from Berlin to Liepzig, according to advices received at Copenhagen. Chiefat Police Eichhorn, according to Vorwaerts of Berlin, has fled to Denmark. *, * * A Berne dispatch says Count Michael Karolyi has been named provisional president of Hungary. He also takes the portfolio of foreign affairs. * * * A London dispatch says private advices from Germany via Holland assert that parts of Berlin already resemble the shattered zones of Reims, Cambrai and other cities on the French front. Children and women are killed In their homes, yards or gardens, so fiercely has the zone of the machl»e gunfire been swept over and over again.

Hunger riot* took place In Petrograd on Saturday and Sunday, according to advices received at Stockholm. Ten thousand people paraded through the streets shouting fo* bread and were fired upon by bolshevik troops, who are said to_have been Letts. Desperate from hunger, the crowds are reported to have asked the soldiers to fire upon them. • • • Wholesale executions of the defeated Spartacans are being carried out by the victorious government troops, according to dispatches from the German capital. • • • The German garrison at Constance, Baden, has joined the Spartacans and obtained complete control of the town. * • * Domestic Mrs. Mark Lukes of Sycamore, Ga., given birth to nine children in four years—triplets in 1915, twins in lflfl7 and quadruplets in 1919. * * * The legislatures of 30 states have ratified the prohibition amendment to ehe United States Constitution. This ratification puts the nation on the.water wagon, giving the necessary threefourths vote. * • •' Seven more states have ratified the federal prohibition amendment, making 31 all told. Thirty-six are needed to make the amendment effective. * * * Seven persons were killed and 12 injured in a rear-end collision on the Reading railroad 15 miles north ot Philadelphia. • • • Twenty-one passengers were killed and 15 injured on the Wolverine express of the New York Central when the Southwestern Limited of the same road crashed into it In a rear-end collision at South Byron, 35 miles east ot Buffalo. • • • Washington

A vote by the senate at Washington on the woman suffrage resolution will be indefinitely delayed in view of the rejection by the New Hampshire legislature of a resolution to instruct its senators to support it. • • * Federal ownership, operation or regulation of public and semipublic utilities was recommended in the report of the committee on reconstruction ot the American Federation of Labor at Washington. * • * A Washington dispatch says conferees on the war revenue bill agreed to eliminate the house provision levying horsepower license taxes on automobiles, and the house tax of 1 per cent on mail-order establishments. - ** * 1 Resolutions protesting against the annexation of Korea by Japan, and asking President Wilson to apply the principle of self-determination to that country, have been received at Washington. * * * Bolshevik agitation in the United Slates shows no promise of reaching a stage of open disorder, according to department of justice officials at Washington, who have been observing the movement. • * * The senate at Washington adopted a resolution authorizing payment of $5,000 a year and extension of mall franking privileges to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. The resolution now goes to the house. i * * * A Washington says an agreement for control of the TransSiberian and Chinese Eastern railroads by an inter-allied committee virtually has been concluded. * • *

Demobilization of the American army, General March, chief of staff at Washington, said, is proceeding at a rate which comparative figures show to be more than twice as fast as the British demobilization. Actual figures up to January 10 of men discharged from the American army showed a total of 693,889. British discharges to January 7 numbered 352,658. American troops -scheduled for demobilization now- number 1,151,000. * * • The house at Washington passed, 228 to 91, the annual river and harbor bill, carrying $26,000,000. ** * * A Washington dispatch says Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory has resigned, to take effect March 4. President WllsOfi has accepted and will announce his successor soon after his return from abroad. In his letter of resignation Mr. Gregory says that for pecuniary reasons It is essential he leave the public service. Also for some months his health has not been of the best. • • • The housd at Washington passed the administratioq bill appropriating SIOO,000,000 for the relief of the starving peoples of Europe. The vote was 242 for and 73 against. The bill now goes to the senate. • • * Establishment of motortruck routes to reduce the cost of living by transporting farm produce to the cities is advocated by Fourth Assistant Postmhster Blakeslee at Washington. He asks the seunte post office committee to appropriate $8,975,000 in the post office bill for that purpose. * * * A Washington dispatch/says naval demobilization. plans are in abeyance, and recruiting for the permanent service is being pressed now' so that the navy may be prepared to man big'Qerjpan merchant ships. (

IDENTIFY ALL OF WRECK VICTIMS

Twenty-Two Persons Were Killed on New York Central’s Wol- • verine Express. LIST OF DEAD GIVEN OUT Engineer's Tale Refuted by Flagman's Statement of Lighted Fuse and Danger Signals of the Automatic, Says Report. Batavia, N. Y., Jan. IL—All of the 22 persons killed in the wreck of the New York Central’s Wolverine express at South Byron had been identified with some degree of certainty. The list follows: Capt. Franklin E. Leonard, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich. Herman Harvey, Grand Haven, Mich. Ballard Jones, negrp porter, New fork. Thomas B. Cummings, New York. Mrs. Jennie Levine, New York. Henry W. Sears, 333 Washington street. Grand Rapids, Mich. R. 0. Parker, Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss N. Delaney, 427 Union avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Grace Remington, 132 Fulton street, Grand Rapids, Mich. George Rigby, New York. Patrick R. Dougherty, 412 West Fifth street, Flint, Mich. Mrs. Patrick R. Dougherty, his wife, who died yesterday. Mrs. Ledeaux, 110 Henry street, Detroit, Mich. . Simon Ledeaux, three-year-old son of Mrs. Ledeaux. Anna Ledeaux, five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Ledeaux. Celia Grauman, 240 Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich. S. J. Adams, New York. Mrs. Henrietta Hollister, Brooklyn. Capt. F. Staud-Jiminez, New York. Mrs. Staud-Jiminez, New York. Philip Levi, Norfolk, Va. William Johnson, Detroit, Mich.

Lickermans Will Recover. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Lickermnn of Chicago, who are in the hospital here, will recover, it was said. Railroad officers who have been investigating conflicting statements regarding the collision, declared that they could see no explanation of the cause of the wreck. John Friedley of Buffalo, engineer of the Southwestern Limited, maintiflned that no block signal was set against his train and that -he saw no warning light until lie was within a few car lengths of the Wolverine. In his statement he was supported by his fireman. J. R. Dinan, superintendent of the western division, declared he could not explain the accident. Found Fusee Lighted. New York, Jan. 14.—New York Central officials issued a statement from C. P. Babcock, flagman on the Southwestern Limited, tending to confirm the statement of the Wolverine Limited flagman that he lighted a red fusee at least 25 car lengths behind his train. Walking east, he overtook the flagman of the Wolverine and together they proceeded to the automatic signal tower, where they placed torpedoes on the tracks. Babcock,, said the statement, tfoticed that the automatic signal was set at “danger.” He later re turned to the sigdfcl tower with Engineer Friedley and found it still at “danger.”

FOOD ON WAY TO FRANCE

Tons of Flour and Other Foodstuffs to Be Sold. Washington, Jan. 14.—Three cargo ships loaded with 46,906,000 pounds of flour and other foodstuffs, are en route to Gibraltar, where they will be unloaded and the cargoes sent Into France for sale to the people at cost, the war department announced. The supplies were purchased by the department in this country, and will be distributed under the direction of Herbert Hoover.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY IS, IMS

FOR SALE For Sale—About 40 tons of timothy hay.—>Call 916-G. f-T For Sale—Sbme white oaJk and black oak second growth timber, near Egypt school ‘house. Will sell by patch or load.—Wit. P. MICHAEL, phone 927-H J-26 * 4For Sale—Registered Spotted Poland China male hog, wt. about 300 pounds, also a good young registered Shorthorn bull. —JAMES W. AMSLBR, phone 933-B. J-2S For Sale —A HT4xl2-ft Axminister rug in good condition. Reason for selling, it is too large for room. —MRS. J. W. SAGE, phone 258, No. 226 North Van Rensselaer street. j-18 ‘ ——— ‘ - *i For Sale or Trade for Live Stock— My Overland touring car, "Model 83,” 1916, in good condition, with five tirfes. Car has not' run over 10,000 miles. Price reasonable.— GEO. WENRICK, 3% miles north of Goodland, Ind. >-22 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. Typewriters—One brand-new Oliver, with back-up, tabulator, etc., machine never has been used and is a dandy, S4O. One Simitb Premier visible No. 10 with back-up, tabulator, etc., recently rebuilt and is all in the pink of condition, S4O. —• THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Some very fine pore-bred M. B. turkeys, both hens and toms. Some extra good toms. Want to dispose of all except those I will keep for my own use. Call early If you want some of these birds before they are all taken.— WM. HERSHMAN, Medaryvllle, Ind., R-l. ts

For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel (Tie -umbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp pads, typewriter rlbbpns for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, a©count files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. Office Supplies—Rubber stamp daters, ink pads, steel die numbering machines, carbon paper, all kinds of typewriter papers, secondsheets in onion-skin, both white and colored, etc., etc., at The Democrat office. For Sale—Soirie real bargains In well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sixes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, Home. — HARVEY DAVISSON. tl FOR RENT - For Rent—My house on Park avenue, electric lights, city water.— MARY JANE--WOPKINS. ts LOST y; ’ Lost—December 21, some place in the business section of Rensselaer, a lady’s small black pocketbook containing between $5 and *6. Finder please call MRS. W. H. TODD, phone 925-D. j-15

Lost—Sunday night, probably some place between Rensselaer and Remington, crank for Paige car. Finder please leave at Democrat office. J-18 FOUND Found—New Year’s eve, near Monnett school, tire chain for large car.—ORVILLE HUFF. Owner may have same hy calling at Thp Democrat office and paying for thiß ad. WANTED ■■ Wanted—Position cm farm by married man with small family; experienced. Call Francesville 121-H or address—»H. E. MAXWELL, MeCoysburg, Ind., Route 1. J-18 1 — ■ Wanted Wood-choppers to out cordwood near Rensselaer.— JOHN J. LAWLER. See J. E. Walter, Mgr., phone 337. ts Married Men Wanted— To work on farm in - lowa, good wages, steady work year around, furnißh. good house to live in, milch cow and garden. State age of each In family, also experience- in farming In first letter. Address J. W. CROWLY, Emmetsburg, lowa. J-lt Wanted —More farmers to know about the great land movement In the clover lands of Wisconsin. See me about the next excnroton. Office in Wright Bldg., near Washington street bridge. Open evenings. Telephone 418. ELMER GWIN. ts

MISCELLANEOUS Standing Timber —We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell lav patches, any quantity desired.—J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 337. ts FINANCIAL . Money to Loan.—CHA». J. DEkN M ' SON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. MS. Mutual Insurance—Fire and nlng. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone SSSnL. ft Farm Loans—Money to loaa farm property in any sums » kg SIO.OOO.—E. P. HONAN,