Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Additional organizations assigned to 'early convoy home comprising 270 officers and 4,927 men were announced by the war department. • * * Postponement of “Health Sunday” from February 9 to February 23, so as not to conflict with Theodore (Roosevelt memorial services arranged for the former date, was announced by Surgeon General Blue of the United States public health service. • * * Speaker Champ Clark declared in fche. house during debate on the diplomatic appropriation bill in favor of ’‘every American soldier being withdrawn from Russia and the rest of Europe.” He answered criticism of the course of Ambassador Francis in Russia by saying it came from members Ignorant of conditions there. * ♦ • The senate foreign relations committee at a special meeting considered resolutions offered by Senator Johnson of California (Rep.) asking for an official statement of the Amerlean policy in Russia, by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania (Rep.), expressing the view that action looking toward formation of a league of nations be postponed until after the peace conference, and Senator King of Utah (Dem.) proposing settlement of the Mexican depredation claims. • * * Speaker Champ Clark declared in the house at Washington during debate on the diplomatic appropriation bill in favor of “every American soldier being withdrawn from Russia and the rest of Europe.” • * • Testimony tending to establish a direct connection between radical elements In the United States and the bolshevikl of Europe was given to the Overman subcommittee of the senate Judiciary committee, which is investigating German propaganda at Washington. * * * Secretary Baker at Waslyngton 6rdered the'release of 113 conscientious objectors held at Fort Leavenworth, the remission of the unexecuted portions of their sentences, their, “honorable restoration to duty” and immediate discharge from the army.

* ♦ ♦ A Washington dispatch says tnxA on amusement admissions will not be increased by the war revenue bill. The conferees agreed to rescind their previous decision to increase the rate from 10 to 20 per cent. I» ♦ ♦ v The post office department at Washington will stand pat on its new telephone rates. Furthermore, it will enforce the payment of the new tolls, despite conflicting orders of state public utilities commissions throughout the' country, said William 11. Lamar, solicitor of the department. • » * Live stock on farms and ranges of the country on January 1 was valued at $8,830,204,000 in an estimate made publie by the department of agriculture at Washington. This is an increase of $546,006,000 over their value a year ago. President Wilson cabled to Secretary Tumulty at Washington his approval of the proposal to hold Roosevelt memorial meetings throughout the country on February 9, simultaneously with the joint memorial services in congress. • • • The senate bill to make Grand canyon a national park was passed by the house and sent to conference at Washington. In the area set aside are 996 square miles of public land, now parts of two national forests and a game refuge. The proposal has been before congress for 33 years. • • • Foreign Swedish military missions which have just returned to Stockholm from Lithuania and Esthonla have reported favorably regarding the sending of a voluntary military expedition into Lithuania. see A Berne dispatch says the German military command, in announcing the ■capture of Mitau l>y the boisheviki, said that the advancing Russians also had occupied Bqheljani, Schaulan, Tukkum and Golduz, In the region west and southwest of Riga. • • « The London stock exchange committee on the treatment of alien enemies approved the rule barring all enemyborn members and assistants after the ■war. The rule will go into effect March 25. \ , ♦ * ♦ An Amsterdam dispatch says Berlin Is again in t6tal darkness. The employees of the General Electric company, which controls the municipal lighting plant, we«t on strike at five o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Street ear motortnen and conductors also walked out. a

A- Dublin dispatch says the British government has decided to proclaim the Tipperary district a military area In consequence of the killing of two policemen and the seizure of blasting explosives which they were guarding. • • • According to the Svenska Dagbladet of Stockholm, Trotzky has telegraphed that the bolshevikl probably will have to evacuate Petrograd without a fight. He says the bolshevikl were heavily defeated in the north. • • • The whole bolshevlst army on the northern theater of war has turned against its masters and is joining the ranks of the anti-bolshevik forces, it is reliably reported to Copenhagen from Petrograd. • * • The Irish republic has been proclaimed. The Sinn Fein parliament, meeting in the Mansion house in Dublin, rose to its feet as the historic declaration of Independence demanding the evacuation of Ireland by the British garrisons was read. The declaration of independence, read to the assemblage amid thunderous and constant cheers, asserts that “the Irish people ajpne have the pow’er to make laws binding on the Irish people.” • * • A Stockholm dispatch says the Esthonhins have recaptured Dorpat, about twenty-five miles west of Lake Peipus, from the bolshevlst forces. They captured three guns, a locomotive and more than one hundred cars. • • • A London dispatch says an outbreak of cholera in Hamburg is reported by the Exchange Telegraph correspondent. Seventy fatal cases have occurred. • • • Peace Notes President Wilson was the guest of the French senate at a luncheon at Paris. He was greeted by Antonin Dubost, president of the senate, who made an eulogistic address, in which he said that the senate welcomed the American president and his ideas. * * • U.S. —Teutonic War News An Archangel dispatch says bolshevik forces on the northern Russian front attacked American and Russian positions on Sunday last. The defensive outposts were withdrawn but the bolshevik attack on the main position was repulsed. • * • A Coblenz dispatch says the Krupp plant at Essen began working for the United States government Tuesday. The task undertaken by the Krupps consists of making •parts for 72 incomplete cannon, rejected by the American authorities as part of the war material offered by the Germans under the terms of the armistice. ♦ * »

Domestic Post-war problems, especially price revision, formed the topic of discussion at the convention of the National Association of Clothiers at New York. Opinion on the prospect of lower costs was divided, but it was generally believed that next season’s fall and winter clothing would be lower than those of 1918, and still further reductions for the spring and summer of 1920. • * * The transport Manchuria arrived at Nqw York from France with the One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Seventeenth Held artillery, headquarters Fifty-sixth artilbeny brigade, One Hundred and Sixth ammunition train, headquarters Sixty-sec-ond infantry brigade, training cadres from the Thirty-second division, and 966 sick ami wounded. * • • Returning troops and hospital units on the troopship Melisa found a real welcome awaiting tljiem when the transport made her way to Commonwealth pier at Boston after being anchored in midstream over night. ♦ ♦ ♦ lowa’s house of representatives at Des Moines refused to Indorse a resolution approving President Wilson’s league of nations plan, tabling it by a vote of 83 to 18, with seven members absent. * * * The Nassau county grand jury failed to indtet Mrs. Marie Augustine Lebaudy, who shot and killed her husband, the eccentric Jacques Lebaudy, at their honae in Westbury, N. Y., early this month. * * • Twenty-five prisoners, mostly Joliet convicts, who had been paroled to work in the government arsenal, escaped from the county jail at Rock Island and were reported to be headed for Chicago in automobiles, e • • A continued labor shortage with resultant high wages, for at least the period of 1919, was forecast at a conference at Chicago between some 75 men representing the various railroads centering in Chicago and government and state employment bureau officials. * * * Patrolman Charles Carney of Chicago killed a-burglar believed to be George Hart. Hart was shot through* the heart and through the jugular vein after he had-Jired upon the policeman. • ♦ ♦ Approximately . 30,000 shipyard workers in Seattle and 16,000 in Ta-, coma are on strike. The three months’ invasion of Kansas by the influenza epidemic cost 5,517 lives, says an official statement issued by the state health department at Topeka. - '

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

HOOVER CRITICS HIT

ALLIED FOOD COUNCIL HEAD REPLIES Ts SENATE CHARGES. Cites Packara’ Protest—Removal of War Prices on Pork Would Lift Great Burden. Paris, Jan. 24.—Herbert Hoover, American representative on the interallied food council, replying to criticism by members of the American sqpate, Issued the following statement: “I apparently emerge in a new light as a friend of the Chicago packers. At the same time my mail brings a report from Swift & Company blaming 'the food administration for reducing their profits $10,000,000 during the past year. I don't imagine that the lackers would appreciate a wide circle of such friends. "I notice, also, that I committed a crime in holding the October joint conference of farmers’ representatives and representatives of forty small packers as well as the big packers together with delegates from allied governments for the purpose of settling a price for exports or pork that would give the American farmer a square deal, insure equality of distribution and also protect the small packers. "We have even tried to secure the continuance of these war arrange'ments through the armistice period and the opening of other markets, because the American farmer did hie duty and produced the goods. "If the American farmer and the small packer now feel that these arrangements are wrong it would be the greatest burden off our shoulders. The British government is particularly anxious to be released from these arrangements.”

EX-KAISER A WOOD SAWYER

Dispatch Says Former Emperor Spends Several Hours a Day at Hard Labor. Amerongen,.Jan. 24. —Sawing wood continues tb the chief occupation of the former German emperor, who spends several hours each morning and afternoon within the castle grounds working hard while several manservants respectfully hand him logs and then pile the short sticks in heaps for use later in 4he furnaces of the castle.

POLES MAY BE RECOGNIZED

Recognition of the Bolish Government by Peace Conference Forecast In Paris. Paris, Jan. 24. —The recognition of the new government of Poland is expected here. Action to this end, it is believed, will be taken shortly.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Eto. Chicago, Jan. 2& Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— Ing. est. est. ing. Jan. 1.32 1.82% 1.31 1.32% Febl.2B 1.29% 1.26 1.29% Mar 1.26% 1.27% 1.24 L 26% OatsJan 62% .63% .62 .63% Feb 63% .64% .62 .62% FLOUR—The United States food administration flour sandards are as follows: >Per brl, In jute, 98 lb sack basis—Barley flour, $6.80; corn flour, $6.50; white rys flour, $8.75; dark rye, $8.25; spring wheat, $9.75010.00; first clear, In jute, $9.60; second clear, SB.CO; special brands, $10.00; hard »wlnter, $10.30010.90; soft winter, >510.40. These prices apply to car lots, except for special brands. HAY—Timothy, $28.00@30f00; standard $22.00025.00; No. 1 light ciover mixed, $26.00027.00; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clover mixed, $21.06025.00; No. 3, $21.00025.00; sample, $11.00017.00; clover, $12.00025.00. ! BUTTER—Creamery, extra, 92 score, 53c; higher scoring commands a premium; .firsts, 91 score, 52c; 88-90 score,* 51051%; seconds, 82-87 score, 49050 c; standard. ;52%c; ladles, 43044 c; renovated, 49c; packing stocks, 36040 c. Price to retail trade: 'Extra tubs, 65c; prints, 57%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 57c; ordinary firsts, '55056c; miscellaneous lots, caqes Included, 55©56%c; cases returned, 54055%c; extra, packed In whitewood cases, 63067 c; checks, 35039 c; dirties, 40©43c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 30c; fowls, 270; roosters, 20c; spring chickens, 26c; .ducks, 29032 c; geese, 20022 c. Price to reitail trade In single coop lots, %01c .higher. I DRESSED POULTRY Turkeys, 41o; 'fowls, 25028 c; spring chickens, 2602601 roosters, 29022 c; ducks, 80031 c; geese, 22024 c. POTATOES—Per 100 lbs, bulk, $1.75; sacked, $1.7501.85. • CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, $18.56 ©20.00; good to choice steers, $17.50018.60; medium to good steers, $15.00017.50; plain Ito medium steers, $9.00015.00; yearlings, fair to choice, •$13.00019.50; stockers and feeders, $8.00018.00; good to prime cows, $9.50012.75; fair to prime heifers, $9,000 14.75; fair to good cows, $7.5009.60; canners, $6.5007.00: cutters, $7.0007.00; bologna bulls, $8.5009.00; butcher bulls, $8.00010.00; 'veal calves, $14.00015.25. 1 HOGSFair to choice light hogs, $17.20 ©17.65; choice to light butchers, $17.40© >17.70; med. wt. butchers, 226-260 lbs, $17,600 17 80' heavy butchers, 270-350 lbs, $17,500 17 75 : mixed packing, $17.00017.60; heavy Backing. $16.75017.00; rough packing, $16.50 016 70' pis o , fair to good, $18.50014.40; stags (subject to 70 lbs dockage), $15.25© 15 80 SHEEP Western lambs, $14.00016.40; native lambs, good to choice, $18.00016.25; yearlings, $13.00014.25; wethers, good to choice, $9.00011.75; ewes, fair to choice, $8.00010.50. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 23. CATTLE— Receipts, 550; slow. CALVES— Receipts, 700; 50c lower; $5,000 16.50. ' HOGS— Receipts, 4,600; pigs slow; general market 40050 c lower; heavy and mixed, $18.00018.10; yorkers, $18.00; light yorkers $15.00016.00; pig 0,512.00014.50; throwouts, $12.00015.50; stags, $10.00013.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 4,400; lambs easier; lambs, $14.00016.65; others unchanged.

PLAN HEARINGS ON TAX MEASURE

House Body to Learn bpinions of Property Owners. FARMERS OPPOSED TO CHANGE Object to That Part of Proposed Law Which Would Tax Intangible Property Only 25 Per Cent of Total Value.

Indianapolis, Jan. 24. —Sentiment for and against the proposed revision of the Indiana taxing system was crystallized this week to a great extent. In the first place Chairman Kimmel of the house judiciary committee announced that his committee would hold meetings at regular intervals at which representatives of all the classes of property in the state could be heard as to their opinions on the new tax bill’s effect on that particular class which they represented. He started out these meetings with one last night at which members of the Indiana State grange were Invited to attend and discuss the proposed law as it will affect the fanning class of the state.

Much headway was made, it is believed, by advocates of some drastic changes in the tax laws, against this belief of the farmers, when it was pointed out time and time again that at the present time the intangible property of the state represents but 1 per cent of all the property listed for taxation on tlie tax duplicates. The aim of the proposed deduction on intangibles is to bring the intangible classes of property from their hiding places and such a plan has worked out well in other states where it has been tried, according to those who have been studying the tax problems of the state. Governor Goodrich made a long address on the tax problem before the meeting here of the State grange itseft.’ early this week and did much toward impressing the'farmer representatives there that their interests are to be most benefited by a revamping of the tax laws of the state and that the deduction proposed for intagibles in reality is aimed to increase the taxes borne by that class of property now and thus lighten the burden of taxation in rural communities, where all the assets usually are visible. Fred A. Sims, a member of the state board of tax commissioners, who has had a great deal to do with forming the new- tax law and. who is as well Informed on taxation problems in Indiana probably as any other Hoosier, addressed the legislative committee of the Indiana State Bankers’ association on the proposed tax bill, and the discussion turned to many points relating to the taxation of money and credits and bank property. Discussion centered on various plans under which adequately than now Is the case. , Many organizations - that have met here tills week or are to meet within the next few days are devoting practically their entire programs to the tax question and It is believed that sent! ment will so crystallize within the next week or more that some sort of definite action on the bill will be takenby the legislature. ’ The Johnson child labor bill, which will prevent children’s employment between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, except during vacation periods, thus changing the present law which allows such employment under certain conditions, now is being considered by the House committee on rights and privileges follow ing a hearing on the measure at which active argument was given both for and against the measure. The Mil is aimed to remedy other alleged defects in the existing statutes relating to women and children In Indiana industry and the manufacturing interests of the state are against it. Frank M. Smith, representing the Indiana Manufacturers’ association, attacked the bill on the theory that it would throw out of employment thousands of boys and some girls who did not desire to go to school and would be thrown into idleness and mischief by the application of the provisions of the bill. Mrs. A. T. Cox, a state factory Inspector for women, who was appointed by Governor Goodrich as a special officer some tipe ago and is being paid out of his contingent fund, summarized arguments in favor of the bill in the absence of Samuel Artman, chairman of the industrial board of Indiana, which also was represented at the hearing by Charles R. Hughes, a member of the board. It was brought out that the proposed bill would give jurisdiction of violations of the child labor laws in the hands of juvenile or circuit counts, rather than in the hands of the justices of the peace, as now. The proposed bill also would prescribe physical examinations to determine whether the young man or woman is fit to enter Industry and registration of the youth as they enter industry, to determine what type of work they best are suited for also would be provided, it was explained. Mrs. . Culla Vayhlnger of Upland, of the W, C. T. U.; Oswald Ryan, former prosecuting attorney of Madison county'; Charles Fox, president of the State Federation of Labor, and others spoke in favor of the bill. Richard L. Ewbank, an Indianapolis attorney, spoke in opposition to .the | bill.

STILL AT IT.

Hubby—A fellow named Jones called me a lunatic today. Wifey—He’s too good a judge Of hu man nature to have a common, ordinary name like Jones. Advice. Learn to say "No," young fellow, Learn to say “No”—and then Tou won’t In the cold gray morning Be saying: “Never againl” Good Reason. . “I am afraid, my dear young friend, that I am losing my grip.” “Don’t say that, professor. Why, your address has been holding attention from the start.” “But I am losing my grip, I tell you. I saw the porter give it to the wrong man.” His Job. “This new nurse who was an expugilist wants to know, what special duty in the hospital you have for him.” “Let him attend to the insomnia patients. He is just the man to put them to sleep.” What He Is Thankful For. “Uncle! You seem to have some trouble getting over the ground.” “I ain’t complainin’, boss, so long ez I kin keep from gittln’ under it.”— Judge. • Their Principal Use. “Pop, what are ayes and noes for In legislative bodies?” “With some of them, my child, thej are first to scent jobs and then wink at them.” Father's Views. “We’re all tpiman.” “I know, but it is hard to take that view of some of the specimens my daughter encourages to call.”

HER CHOICE.

Mrs. Morningcall—What women’* clubs do you favor? Mrs. Strongarm—When I need on« for tramps or my husband I can swing a rolling pin or a broom pretty handy. He Learned. A doting father is Bill Bum, He’s like a lot more, by jlng; He paid a lot of coin to learn • That his dear daughter cannot sing.

(Undec tMs head nocoee wm bo py>; Ushed for 1-cent-*-word for the flasf Insertion. 1-Z-cent-per-word for •*' dittonal Insertion. To eave boek-ks spins cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for lees than twenty-fly oent», but short ootloes oomtng within the above rate, win be publish*® two or more times as the case may be—forli cent* Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage win be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertlssr.] t ~ FOR SALB For Sale—About 40 tons of timothy hay.-—Call 915-G.f-1 For Sale—l»lfl Ford In No. 1 condition.—Kuboske’s Garage, ts For Sale—Some brood sows, to farrow in March. —Phone 908-B, I. L. JONES, Pleasant Ridge, j-25 For Sale—A 4-cylinder Buick, 1018 model, good condition, all new tires. Will sell at reasonable price. A. ODLE, phone 923-F. For Sale—2oo hedge posts at my arm 6 miles southwest of Rensselaer. —W.„ H. RITCHEY, Rensselaer, Indiana, phone 312. Butter Wrappers Vegetable parchment butter wrappers In any quantity ‘ desired, either plain er printed, at The Democrat Office, ts For Sale by reason of installing furnace, a fine base-burner used only two years; all in splendid

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condition. May be seen at Democrat office—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—Some white oak and black oak second growth timber, near Egypt school house. Will sell by patch or load.—WM. P. MICHAEL, phone 927-H f-lt For Sale—Registered Spotted Poland China male hog, wt. abont 100 - pounds, also a good young registered Shorthorn buII.—JAMES W. AMSLER, phone 933-B, >1» For Sale—A Webster's New natlonal Dictionary, almost new and very little soiled, sheep binding and good paper Publisher's price sl2; will sell for $8 cash.—• For Sale—Barred Rock cockerels, fine in Shape and size, good in color; don’t put your buying off too late. I ami going to close these fine birds out at $2.50 apiece. Phone or write.—A. D. HERfiHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. f-5. For Sale or Trade for Live Stock— My Overland touring oar, “Model 83,” 1916, in good condition, with five tires. Car has not run over 10,000 miles. Price reasonable.— GEO. WENRICK, 3% miles north of Goodland, Ind. J-M For Sale—Paragon lever - paper cutter, 23-lnch, recently rebuilt and in A-l condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Some very fine pure-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, Medaryville, Ind., R-l. ts

One of the Best Located BesL denes properties in Rensselaer, 75x800 feet, corner lot fronting o® two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms If desired. For further particulars call or address 8 ca r<l THFI DEMOCRAT* For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die -umbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp typewriter ribbens for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. Office Supplies—Rubber stamp dag. ers, ink pads, steel die numbering machines, carbon paper, all kinds of typewriter papers, secondsheets In onion-skin, both whits and • colored, etc., etc., at The Democrat office. - , For Sale—Some 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 4 in improved farms of all sises far-G ther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. ts For Sale—lOO acres well improved farm In Gillam township, miles from town, 4 miles from station, on improved gravel road. All level black land; good fences and buildings. Price right; terms reasonable. Possesion March first. 200-acre farm with fair improvements; level, black land, 110 acres in cultivation balance pasture, six miles from town. Price $65 per acre. Terms to suit. Possession February 1. Also 120-acre farm, good improvements, located on stone road. 100 aereg. in cultivation, 20 acres pasture. Price and terms right. Will trade any one or all of the above farms.—JOHN A. DUNLAP.

FOR RENT For Rent—My house on Park avenue, electric lights, eity water.— MARY JANE HOPKINS.« WANTED Wanted —Wood choppers, also standing wood for sale.—Joseph Kosta. Fair Oaks, Ind. j-29. Wanted Wood-choppers to cut cordwood near Rensselaer.— JOHN J. LAWLER. See J. B. Walter, Mgr., phone- 337.tf Wanted—Man past 30 with horw and buggy to sell Stock Condition Powder in Jasper County. Salary S9O per month. Address 424 South Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana. j-25. 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. EDMBR GWIN. ts Bookkeeper, office man, clerk, etc., can make fromi five to twentyfive dollars per week oq the side without interfering with present work by selling health and accident insurance to acquaintances. Others are doing it. Write for particulars. —Great Western Accident Insurance Company, Des Moines, lowa.' MISCELLANEOUS Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 8 miles west of Parr. Will sell in patches, any quantity desired.—J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter. Mgr. 337. ts FINANCIAL 1 Money to Loan.—CHA®. J. DBAMAR SON, Odd Fellows, BulldW Rensselaer. wQl* Mutual Insurance—Fire and LdgM* . nlng. Also state cyclone. Inquir'd of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 583-L. H Farm Loans—Money to loan Mt farm property in any sums ■■ M $10,000.—8. P. HONAN.