Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — Page 2

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SOLONS PLAN TO RAISE SALARIES

Increased Cost of Living Given As Reason. GET $6 A DAY FOR SERVICES Conservation Measure, Advocated by Gov. Goodrich, Introduced in Legislature—Would Unify Control of Natural Resources. ' Indianapolis, Jan. 2 ’. —There is a quiet movement on foot among members of the Seyenty-first general assemmbly to put the pay of the mejnbers of the legislature on a basis that will be more commensurate with the cost of living at present-day prices. The constitution of the state would prevent any increase in pay of the members from taking effect at this session of the assembly, but a law enacted at this time might apply at the next session, at least to the house members and to the newly elected senators. It is doubtful if it could be made to apply to the holdover senators, since the constitution provides that increases in pay may not be voted by the legislators to themselves. Those persons in each ■'house, who are discussing the matter, are doing it very quietly because they realize thaj If public Sentiment were to be aroused they might do the legislature much harm generally by their proposals and rather than cause an outbreak against the members of that character, those interested f& that they say is a fair Increase in legislative salaries, declare they would much rather shoulder the additional expense of the session and say nothing further about it. One proposhi Is that some sort of expense money be voted to each member to help him cope with the high cost of living during the session. Many legislators say they cannot begin to “come Out even” on the $6 a day allowed by law. The constitution probably would

Admit of expense money being granted each legislator. The conservation commission bill, advocated by Governor Goodrich and other administration leaders, was introduced in the legislature. The original of the bill left out Important restrictions under such heads as entomology and fish and game protection and these restrictions now are' in effect under the various state •departments, which would be united under a central control by the conservation bill. When the administration leaders discovered that they were weakening certain of the statutes of the state by the proposed amalgamation they hastened to change the original draft of the conservation bill id include practically all.the laws that now govern any of the state departments, which would be taken over under tbe terms of the proposed bill. It is proposed to change the present hunting and fishing license laws of the state to such an extent that every one will be compelled to purchase a fishing license, evujt if he fishes in his own county, just like hunters now are required to have licenses. It is believed that with this addition, enough revenue will come from the department of fish, and game alone to pay practically the entire cost of the administration of the conservation bill.

Representative David Rothrock, who is a professor at Indiana university, Is prepared to introduce a bill that is said to be backed by many members of the organization of the state and by other teachers and educators’ organizations, which will increase the qualifications for county superintendents of schools to a point far in advance of the present requirements and will attempt to take the county superintendent’s job out of politics. The measure provides that no person shall be eligible to the office of county superintendent unless a graduate of a standard college or standard normal school, maintaining a four years' course, and shall have completed and obtained college or normal school credits for not less than twenty semester hours of professional work for the training of teachers. The measure also would compel the applicapt to have not less than three years’ successful experience in public school work, and it further provides for the Issuance of county superintendent’s qualification certificates by the state board of education, as a pre-requisite to obtaining a county superintendency.

Section 3 of the bill provides that "In electing county superintendents of schools, the township trustees shall consider only the qualifications of the respective candidates and shall make their choice exclusively on merit, regardless of the political affiliations of the respective candidates.” The measure also provides that A all county superintendents in office at the time when this act shall take effect shall continue to serve for the term for which they were elected, unless removed for cause, and shall be eligible for re-election. This section apparently is written into the bill to obviate attacks on the measure by county superintendents now in office, who could not fulfill the requirements of the proposed bill. The proposed bill would take effect May 1, 1919, if enacted in its present form. * It says no word on the question of increased salaries for county superintendents, although it is understood such a measure may be Introduced in the assembly, os usually is the case.

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JEWS MAKE GOOD FARMERS

The British Army Found Palestine Dotted With Fertile Fields and Prosperous Communltlea. When the Anglo-Egyptian army, which Invaded the Holy Land under General Allenby, reached the territory lying between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean, it made a discovery which proved both George Bernard Shaw and Israel Zangwlll to be in error. Shaw hnd stated, In opposing the Zionist scheme, that the Jews had. since Old Testament days, been townspeople, merchants and artisans, and could not be made to go back to the fields. Zangwlll had placed his hope on a future-Zion to be organized and colonized after the war. The soldiers of Allenby found thousands of acres cultivated by immigrant Jews dwelling in a dozen or so communities similar to the townships of New England. Moreover, these communities, in spite of the drastic measures of the Turkish government elsewhere taken In regard to the requisitioning of produce and taxation, were found to be in a thriving and prosperous condition and far superior, as to scientific cultivation and housing, to the Arab farmers or those of the Turkish crown lands in thd plain of Sharon.

To Make Land Fertile.

In the San Luis valley of Colorado there is an area of from 400,000 to 500,000 acres, which has almost completely been deprived of fertility in a seemingly mysterious manner. This condition has been Investigated by Dr. W. P. Headden of the Colorado agricultural experiment station, and he attributes this condition to so-called “black alkali,” composed largely of sodium carbohydrate. This carbonate Is carried in the waters of the valley, including the rivers and. the artesian wells, and the practice of sub-irriga-tion has brought It to the surface by capillarity and evaporation. Doctor Headden suggests that the remedy Iles in a conversion of the carbohydrates into sulphates by the use of a liberal amount of gypsum to one pound of black alkali —and downward washing by means of surface irrigation with furrows or by flooding.

Horrible Habit.

The meek little man’s wife had forced him to make application for life Insurance. “I am not quite sure about your case,” said the doctor, shaking his head doubtfully. “Your heart action is not what it should be. Do you use tobacco?” The meek little man thought and thought and finally brightened perceptibly. “Oh, yes, doctor, I—er —use an awful lot of it.” “How 3o you use it?” asked Doc. “Why—hum—you see, I use it* to sprinkle clothes to keep out the moths.” “Can’t possibly pass you, then,” roared Doc, as he gave the meek little man the wink. And the m. 1. m. took the wink add went on, his way rejoicing.

History, Contrariwise.

Eve had just tried to hand Adam the Ben Davis. “No, my spar,” sqld our first ancestor, “knowing as I do what the verdict of future generations will be to my weakness for apples, I shall have to decline. Save it for Caln and Abel.” So saying, he deftly kicked the serpent straight into the open mouth of the family dlnosaurlan which had been standing near by waiting for history to happen. Then he shouldered his hoe and started for Eden, which by his wisdom he had saved from being a war garden.

The New Painted Ceilings.

Some of the modern Interior decorators are producing the most novel and Interesting effects with ceilings. In a certain dining room, where the dark-paneled walls are topped with a softly tinted yellow plaster, there Is a celling which immediately arouses one's admiration and wonder. It is cressed with ’ dark beams, between which the plaster Is painted a deep, serene, restful blue. Who would have thought of a blue celling with yellow walls and dark paneling? Yet the effect Is charming.

A Wind Warrior.

"What’s become of B hfglns?” "He’s laid up, a victim of the war.” "I didn’t even know lie enlisted.” “He didn’t. He sprained his larynx telling how things ought to be done."

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AMERICA MUST HELP ARMENIANS

Turkish Brutality Almost Inconceivable, Has Nearly Destroyed the Race—lnfants Thrown Into Fire Where Mothers Were Being Roasted Allvo by the Barbarians

MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT

Cleceland H. Dedge, Treasurer Armenian and Syrian Rallaf, W John St., New York.—The appropriation aekod of Congress for handling food relief la not Intended In any way to take the place of the subscription being aaked for relief and rehabitation In the Near East. I hope that thio subscrlptlon will not In any way be Interrupted or reduced. The need Is Immediate and very great. WOODROW WILSON.

Details of the slaughter of Armenians during the world war Is not a record of Irresponsible reports but of documents sufficiently buttressed with provable facts to find credence In minds of officials of the Britlst foreign office. The following extracts are from the British Blue Book on “The Treatment of Armenians," and need no introduction. Read ’these and determine if the appeal for peoples of unhappy lands Ln “the Belgium of Asia" have right to part of our prosperity. Indiana’s quota In the national drive for the Armenian and Syrian relief fund is equivalent to saving 21,000 lives; Ilves that have fortunately escaped the determination of the Turk to hunt down the race to extinction: “On the 25th day of June the Turks surrounded the town of Bltllc and cut Its communication with the neighboring Armenian villages; then most of the able-bodied men were taken from their families by domlciallary visits. During the following few days all the men under arrest were shot outside the town, and buried in deep trenches dug by the victims themselves. The young women and children were distributed among the rabble, and the remainder, the “useless” lot were driven to the south and drowned in the Tigris. Any attempt at resistance, however brave, were easily quelled by the regular troops. The recalcitrants, after- firing their last cartridges, either took poison by whole families or destroyed themselves in their homes in order not to fall into the hands of the Turks. “It Is In such ‘gentlemanly’ fashion that the Turks disposed of about 15,000 Armenians.” In the town of Moush Itself the Armenians, under leadership of Gotoyan and others, entrenched themselves in the churches and stonebuilt houses and fought for four days

ANOTHER CHAPTER OE BRUTALITY

America Must Go to the Relief of Survivors of the Armenian and Syrian Races —Cardinal Gibbons Makes Strong Appealin' Behalf of These Persecuted' People.

CARDINAL GIBBONS’ INDORSEMENT

The attempt to relieve and nave the etarving peoples' in the Near East deserves the sympathetic support of all Christian people. The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief Is to undertake to raise in January, a large sum for this purpose. I hope that all who have given freely for this and other forms of war relief will be generous still in the face of this greatest tragedy of the war. CARDIANL GIBBONS.

Nothing can be more convincing of the need for the Armenian and Syrian Relief funds than official testimony contained in the British Blue Book on “The Treatment of the Armenians.” The following is from Document No. 117, and the statement was made by Miss M., a Swiss resident of Turkey: “I have just returned from a ride on horseback through the BaghtcheOsmania plain, where thousands of exiles are lying out in the fields and on the roads without any shelter and completely at the mercy of all manner of brigands. Last night, about twelve o’clock, ‘a little camp was suddenly attacked, there, were between fifty apd sixty persons in it. I found men and women badly wounded — bodies slashed open, broken skulls and terrible knife wounds. Fortunately I was provided with clothes, so 1 could change their blood-soaked things and then bring them to the next inn where they were nursed. Many of them were so much exhausted from the enormous loss of blood that they died. The Armenians have been valiant fighters since the beglnlng of the race. They were overwhelmed by sheer numbers when the Turks first came out of the East with their le- • giofis of Janissaries, and they have since been persecuted because of "the same disproportion. From a nation of 21,000,000 the Armenians have shrunk to 4,000,000 and these will perish unless America helps them. There has been no weak submission to the massacres by their Turkish overlords. Document 130: The villages on

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in self-defense. The Turkish artillery, manned by German officers, made short work of all the Armenian positions. Every one of the Armenians, leaders as well as men, were killed fighting, and when the silence of death •'reigned over the ruins of churches and the rest, the Moslem rabble made a descent upon the women and children and drove them out of the town into large camps which bad already been prepared for the peasant women and children. The shortest method for disposing of the women and children concentrated In the various camps was to burn them. Fire was set to large wooden sheda-Jn Alldjan, Megrakom, Kbaskegh, and other Armenian villages and these absolutely helpless women and children roasted to death. Many went mad and threw their children away. -Some knelt down and prayed amid the flames in which their' bodies were burning. Others shrieked and cried for help which came from nowhere. And the executioners, who seemed to have been unmoved by this unparalleled savagery, grasped infants by one leg and hurled them into the fire, callng out to the burning mothers: “Here are your lions!” -

This Is the testimony of Sister D. A., German Red Cross nurse in Turkey, as set down in Document 64 of the British Blue Book on “Treatment of Armenianns:” The Armenian children In the German orphanage at H. were away with the rest. “My orders, said |he Vail (official) "are to deport all Armenians. I cannot make an exception of these.” He announced, however, that a German orphanage was to be established for any children that remained and shortly after he called on Sister D. A. and asked her to visit It. She found about 700 Armenian children In a good building. For every twelve or fifteen children there was one Armenian nurse, and they were well clothed and fed. "See what care the government is taking of the Armenians,” the Vail said and she returned home surprised and pleased. , But when she visited the orphanage several days later there were only thirteen of the 700 left —the rest had disappeared. They had been taken to a lake six hours’ journey by road from the town and drowned. Three hundred orphan children were subsequently collected and suffered the same fate as their predecessors.

the southern and eastern slopes ot Jibal Mousa are included administratively in the Vilayet of Aleppo. When order for deportation were Issued the Armenians of the villages preferred resistance to death to accepting the tirades of their Turkish rulers, and retired into the fastness of their mountain which rises northwest of the villages and on its further flank falls steeply into the sea. The subjoined. narrative was translated from a statement by a refugee by the Rev. Stephen Trowbridge, Secretary to the American Red Cross at Cairo, Egypt: With 15,000 Mohammedan troops they surrounded Mousa Dagh oh the landward side. Tneir plan was to starve us out. On the seaward there was no harbor nor any' communication with a seaport; the mountain sloped steeply to the sea. We were fully occupied with care of our woimded apd reparation of damage done by a previous attack. Our women made two large flags on one of which I printed in large clear Eng lish, “Christians in Distress! Rescue!" The Turks again attacked us by several approaches, and we had some severe fighting, but never at such close quarters as during the first engagement. From one point, of vantage wo were able to roll boulders down the precipitous mountain side with disastrous effect to the enemy. Our powder and cartridges were running low, and the Turks evidently had some idea of the straits we were in, because they began shouting insolent summons to surrender. Those were anxious days and long nights! One Sunday morning, the fifty-third day of our defense, I was startled by hearing -a man shout at the top of his voice. He came through the encampment to my hut. “A battleship is coming and Jias answered our waving. Thank God!” he exclaimed. It was the French “Cuichen,” a fourfunnel ship. The captain heard our plight and sent a wireless to the flagship and befpre long the Admiral’s ship arrived. .We were taken aboard four French cruisers and one English and two days later arrived in Port Said. It is the survivors of such horrors as these who are to be beneficiaries of the fund of >30,000,000 to be raised in the United States in January.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Charles Moria* Sr e * 8u X er Charles M. Sands Civil Engineer... .L. A. Bostwick Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden,,,,,J. J, Montgomery . Councilmen l?t Wardßay Wood 2yd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymire At Large, Rex Warner, C. Keener JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty..J. C. Murphey Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Cleric Jesse Nichols Sheriff’.True D. Woodworth Auditor..J. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyore. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright County Assessor..G. L. Thornton County Agent.. Stewart Learning Health Officer....F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd DistrictD. S. Makeever. 3rd District Charles Welah Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees 4 Township Grant Davissonßarkley Bhrdett Porter Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevreGillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff..... Jordan Alfred DugglebyKankakee Glifford Fairchild.... Keener Charles W. PostlllMarlon Charles C. WoodMilroy John Rush .'Newton Walter -HarringtonUnion John F. PetetWalker John BowieWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant Officer

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