Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — Page 4

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Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Favorable report- on the resolution for immediate investigation of the Michigan Newberry-Ford senatorial campaign was ordered by the senate contingent expenses committee at Washington on a strict party vote. • * • Recognition of the provisional government of Poland lias been accorded by the American government, officials of the state department at Washington said in making public a ir.ess.ig' which Secretary Lansing at Paris has sent by direction of President Wilson to Ignaee Jan Paderewski, the new Polish premier. *• • * Final legislative action was taken by congress at Washington on the ad* ministration bill appropriating SIOO.(XMt.OOO requested by President Wilson for European famine relief. Ihe conferees’ report was adopted by both senate and house without debate. The food administration at Washington announced that President Wilson signed a proclamation in Paris on January 23 removing restrictions on the manufacture of so-called near beers. * • * Legislation prohibiting general immigration for a period of four years following the signing of the P e “^ e treaty was approved tentatively by the house immigration committee at Washington. The food administration at " ashington has applied to congress for the passage of a drastic and far-rea thing bill, appropriating $ 1.230,060 ,(W” for the purchase of the entire wheat crop of the United States at the present guaranteed price and placing the disposition and control of the crop absoiutely within the authority of the president.

Revocation of President Wilson’s power to return railroads under government control to their private owners at any time within 21 months after peace is declared was proposed in a bill introduced at Washington by Senator of lowa. * • * Rear Admiral Jiiblack, commanding American naval forces in the Adriatic, informed the navy department at Washington that the action of the Italian authorities In hauling down the American Hag on the steamer Dinara was due to a misunderstanding and that the Italian commander had apologized and ordered the Hag restored. The house at Washington passed and sent to the senate the bill approprating $10,500,000 for constructing hospitals for disabled soldiers and sailors. General March, chief of staff at Washington, informed the senate military committee that shipping arrangements had been made by which 300,000 men might be transported home monthly and that all of the American expeditionary force could be returned home and demobilized within six months. ♦ » »

Foreign The hospital ship Russ, with fully, armed and equipped Russian troops en route to Renal from the French front, called at Copenhagen. • * * The German and Austro-Hungarian banks at Constantinople have reopened under allied control. Only small sums of gold and silver were found in the vaults, the bulk of the, currency being paper. • * • The Frankfort Gazette gives as the definite results of the elections to the German assembly 165 social democrats, 91 centrists, 75 democrats, 38 conservatlsts, 22 national liberals and 22 Independents. » * • • A Copenhagen dispatch says Spartacan forces have overthrown the government in Wllhemshaven and have occupied the banks and public buildings. Court-martial of their opponents has been ordered. ' The worst labor riots since the outbreak of the war took place at Belfast. Squads of police charged into the riqting mobs of strikers nnd finalry dispersed them. The mobs were attacking and stoning the doors of newspaper offices. An Archangel dispatch says bolshevik forces failed at midnight to drive American and British troops from Tulgas, on the Dvina river, southwest of Archangel. Earlier they had bombarded the positions with artillery. • • * England has agreed to cede Gibraltar to Spain in exchange for Ceuta and Morocco, according cto the Paris LTntrannsigeant. Whatever ultimate decision is reached by the peace congress on their fate, one thing appears certain: .Germany will not be given back her colonies.

General Ludendorff, former quartermaster general of the German army,has returned to Berlin and is living in a small village in the Grunewald district under an assumed name, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam. • • • Peace Notes An Amsterdam dispatch says the men chosen as Germany's peace delegates find no favor with tbe German press. Count von Bernstorff, the papers fear, would only serve to antagonize the Americans, Dr. Mathias Erzberger advocated ruthlessness in 1915. and Hausemann is denounced as a kalserlte. • • • Personal , William H. Little, sixty-nine, retired business man of Pana. 111., was run down and killed by a Big Four train while attempting to cross the track in front of it. • • • Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, has arrived in Brussels. She is a guest at the American legation. U.S.—Teutonic War News A Laibach (Austria) dispatch says reports from Marburg state that quite a serious disturbance broke out there on the arrival of tin American “debarkation committee." which was under command of Colonel Allies. It is reported that live persons were killed and 30 injured. • » •

Aviation Lieutenant O’Neill of the American army was killed instantly near Chatillon-sur-Seine, In France, when his machine collapsed at a height of about 700 feet. ♦ * • General Pershing reports from Paris that by April he will be dispatching American troops homeward from France at the rate of 300,000 monthly. • • • European War News A Paris dispatch says that by virtue of the agreement made at Treves by the allied commissioners halt a million tons of German passenger shjps are put at tbe immediate disposal of the United States. * « • Tbe cost of the war to Great Britain was approximately $40,640,000,000, declared Sir E. 11. Holden at the annual meeting at the Lyndon City and Midland bank, of which he is manty'ing director, of this sum $5,535,000,000 was loaned to the allies. ♦ * * The British cabinet has decided, according to the London Daily Express, to maintain tin army of occupation numbering OOO.tMM) men. » » » An Amsterdam dispatch says British forces have advanced from Baku and occupied the Trans-Caucasian railway, also occupying Petrovsk and Astrakhan, tit the mouth of the Volga. 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ Gon. von Iloetzendorff, former Austrian chief of staff, said in an interview at Vienna that lie was forced to relinquish his command because he insisted that all military efforts be concentrated against Italy. “The defeat of Italy would have meant the collapse of'the entente,” he declared.

♦ * * Gen. D. von Winterfeldt, member ot the German armistice commission, has resigned, according to advices from Berlin. Domestic Organized opposition to the plan of the federal food administration for the government to buy and sell the ,1918 and 1919 wheat crops was put under way in Chicago under auspices of leaders of the board of trade. * » * Two thousand Baptists of Waco, Tex., held an all-day prayer service, praying that “Providence shall end the death toll from Influenza,” "* » • The newspaper La Patria of Montreal, Que., announced that $300,000 had been lost there by several local men who gambled on the American racetrack through a fraudulent scheme concocted in Montreal. By agreement of counsel argument in the circuit court at Detroit, Mich., on motion for change of venue in the libel suit brought by Henry Ford against the Chicago Dally Tribune was postponed for one week. » * • Aliens were chased about Winnipeg, Man., and forced to kiss the union jack, an employment agency smashed up and several companies forced to promise that all aliens would be discharged within three days by Canadian soldiers just returned from the front, who found their jobs filled by them. - • * »■ Emboldened by the success of.the national prohibition amendment, Prof. Frederick W. Roman of the department of.economics of Syracuse (N. Y.) university, started a general movement for a federal amendment prohibiting the use of tobacco-. ♦ • • Julius Barnes, president of the Food Administration Grain corporation, assured flour dealers and millers in a statement issued at New York that there would be no impairment during the present crop year of the govern-ment-fixed buying price of flour.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

SHIP STRIKERS WARNED BY U.S.

Will Be Policy of Government “to Let Job Stand/’ Says Director Piez. NEED A BREATHING SPELL Director General of Emergency Fleet Corporation Fefers to Tieup at Seattle —Wages to < Go Down. Washington, Jan. 31.'—It will be the policy of the government in shipyard strikes to “let the Job stand," Charles Ptez, director general of the Emergency Fleet corporation, said. He referred particularly to the situation at Seattle, where, he said, men had been out for a week, and at San Francisco, where he said It was referred workers in two trades intended to go out shortly and tie up all the work in the district. Mr. Piez declared most of the yards needed n breathing spell, that he did not think the government would continue to furnish work at extremely high wages unless Increased skill and output Justified It, and that in his view it was highly urfwlse for shipyard workers in their own interests to call strikes at existing scales. Wages Up; Output Down. “Most of the yards need a breathing spell," said Mr. Piez, “and an opportunity to go over their organization with a view to eliminating production factors which have tended to increase costs. How greatly the costs have been Increased is shown by the fact that in one Pacific coast yard, typical to some 1 extent of the general situation, now give each worker $1.70 for putting in the same time that he would have been given $1 for a year ago, while In the same period the average output of work per individual is only 70 per cent of What it was a year ago.

“In an Atlantic coast yard, that I have in mind, workmen today receive $2 for putting in time that brought them $1 a year ago, and the average output per individual has dropped in the same period GO 2-3 per cent of what it was one year ago. % "Combining this decreased efficiency with the increased wage, the result lias been to make ship construction costs entirely unreasonable. Some contracts for ships have been already canceled by the government. In my view, the present temper of congress and its attitude toward ship construction makes It highly unwise for shipyard workers in their, own interests to call strikes existing wage scales. No Pay Boost by United States.

“In 'Seattle, where the men have been out a week, the demand is for $1 an hour pay as a minimum for all workers In the, yards, skilled, semiskilled or unskilled. Ido not think that the government will continue to furnish work at extremely high wages unless it is justified by the increased skill of the workers and the increased output per man that high wages ought to bring.”

PRESIDENT TO SAIL FEB. 15

Wilson to Be Present at Closing of Congress, Then Go Back. Paris, Jan. 31. —President Wilson will leave France on February 15 and return to America, in order to be present at the closing of congress on March 4, it was learned from an authoritative source. President Wilson will stay in the United States a few days only, after which he will return tb France. His absence from Paris' will not exceed three weeks. During’the absdfice of the president Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando will doubtless go to England and Italy, respectively, where their duties as heads of those governments claim them. The work of the conference will continue during the absence of the three leaders. Most of the committees have now been appointed and are ready to commence examination of the various problems assigned for their consideration.

4TH LOAN PAYMENT NOW DUE

Purchasers F«s>m the Banks, However, Not Affected. Washington, Jan. 31. —To correct misapprehensions reflected In many Inquiries, treasury officials explained that although the final 30 per cent payment on the fourth Liberty loan was due at the treasury and federal reserve banks, this would not affect bond purchasers who''are buying from banks or other institutions on the monthly Installment plan. The monthly installment arrangements are strictly between the subscriber and the bank and the bank will pay the installment due today, virtually granting credit to the, individual subscriber for remaining payments. Owing to advance payments, far ahead of the required schedule, only .about $400,000,000 remained to be paid today to complete the $6,989,000,000 of the fourth loan.

GREEK TROOPS IN THRACE

Occupation of Turkish Territory Con ' tinues, Report. Athens, Jah. 31. —The occupation ot Turkish Thrace by Greek troops, it i: learned fjotn a reliable Source, con tinues.

WILL POLICE TURKEY

CONFERENCE PLANS TO DISPOSE OF EMPIRE. War Council Decides on Measures to Maintain Order—Turk Cabinet Resigns. Paris, Jan. 31.—The sffpreme war council of the peace congress, It was officially announced, has reached satisfactory provisional arrangements dealing with the former German colonies and the occupied territories of Turkey In Asia. The council decided that the military representatives of the allied powers at Versailles shall meet and report on the most equitable distribution of the burden of supplying military forces for the purpose of maintaining order in Turkey, pending action by the council regarding the government of the Turkish territory. Constantinople, Jan. 31. —As a result of the protests of the allied powers against the spoliation of Greeks nnd Armenians the Turkish cabinet has resigned. Rome, Jan. 31. —A federal republic of the Balkans is the latest advanced plan for keeping the peace among these fire-brand natiops. The plan, according to reports received here, has been worked out by the Bulgarians, the draft proposing the, inclusion in the republic of Serbia, , Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovnia, Montenegro and Slovenia. The Idea, it is said, grows out of the historic associations of the Coburg dynasty. . / _

AMERICA TO MEET RATE CUT

U. S. Shipping Board Prepared to Fight Britain’s Effort to Seize <• Markets. Washington, Jan. 31. —America will meet and, if necessary, more than meet any cut in shipping rates the British may see fit to make in their effort to seize control of the markets and 'ocean transportation. That was the flat assertion at the shipping board headquarters. While th* chiefs of the division of operations were in conference preparing to slash rates still further, especially rates to South’America, the first rumblings-of belligerency came from the direction of congress. Sharp criticism of England's embargo against American products was voiced on the floor of the senate, and talk of reprisals came from both sides of the chamber.

SAYS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

Government of Northern Russia Warns People Against Rumors of Recent Bolshevist Victories. * Archangel, Jan. 31. —The northern Russian government in a proclamation to tlie population warns the people against any unnecessary alarm over the recent events which resulted in the evacuation of Shenkursk by American and allied forces. The proclamation says it was necessary to evacuate Shenkursk because of the small forces available for its defense and also because of the exposed allied position ou this front.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Open- High Low- ClosCorn— mg. est. est. ing. Jan'.1.26% 1.30% 1.26% 1.30 Feb 1.21%-1.21 1.27*4 121 127 Man ...,,,1.1911.20 1.25 1.19 1.24% Oats-Jans4%-54% .56% .54% .56% Febss*4 .57 .55% .56% Marss% .57% .55% .57% FLOUR-Per bbl., in jute, 98-lb. sack basis—Barley flour, $6.80; corn flour, $6.50; white rye flour, $9.25; dark rye, $8.25; spring wheat? $10.50; first clear, In jute, $9.60; second clefir. $8.60; special brandy $10.80; hard winter, $10:50010.80; soft winter, $10.50. These prices apply to car lots, except for special brands. HAY—Timothy, [email protected]; standard. $26.00027.00; No. 1 light clover mixed, $25.00026,00; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clover mixed, $25.00026.00; No. 3, $20.00024.00; sample, $10.00016.00; clover, $12.00025.00. BUTTER— Creamery, extra, 92 score, 42c; higher scoring, commands a premium; firsts, 91 score. 41c; 88-90 score, 38039 c; seconds, 82-87 score, 36037 c; standard, 40c; ladle, 38c; renovated, 38c; packing stock, s3©34c. Price to retail trade: Extra tubs. 44%c; prints, 46c EGGS—Receipts, 1.067 cases; fresh firsts, 36%©47c; ordinary firsts, 45%046c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 46047 c; cases returned, 45046 c; extra, packed in whitewood cases. 51%©52%c; checks, 35039 c; dirties 40042 c. •DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys. 41c; fowls, 26029 c; spring chickens, 25026 c; roosters, 20022 c; ducks, 30031 c; geese, 22© 24c. * POTATOES—Per 100 lbs.: bulk, northern. $1.6001.70; sacked, $1.6001.70; westerns. $1.9002.00. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers. $18.50 019.75; good to choice steers. $17.50018.50; medium to good steers. $15.00017.50; plain to medium steers, $9.00015.00; yearlings, fair to choice, $13.00019.50; Stockers and feeders. $8.25013.50; good to prime cows. $9.50012.75: fair to prime heifers. $9,000 14.75; fair to good cows. $7.0009.50: cancers’, $5.5006.00; cutters, $6.1006.75: bologna bulls, $8.2509.00; butcher bulls, $9.0001150; veal calves, $13.00014.75. HOGS—Fair to choiee light hoes, $17,000 17.50: choice to light butchers. $17.40017.55; medium weight butchers, 226-260 lbs., $17.55 017.75; heavy butchers, 270-350' lbs., $17,400 17.65; mixed packing, $17.00017.60; heavy packing, $16.75017.00; rough packing, $16.50 016.75: pigs, fair to good, $12.00013.75: stags (subject to 70 lbs. dockage). $15.00016.00. SHEEP—Western lambs, $15.00016.65: native lambs, $14.00016.50; yearlings, $13,000 14.75; wethers, good to choifte, $9.00012.00; ewes, fair to choice, Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 30. CATTLE— Receipts, 700: dull. CALVES— Receipts, 275; steady; $5.00© 17.0tf HOGS— Receipts, 1.600: 15025 c higher; heavy and mixed, $18.15018.25;' yorkers, $18:15; light yorkers. $16.50017.50: pigs, $15.50 016.50; throwouts, $12.000 16.00; stags, SIO.OO 013.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts. 1,200; lambs, 20.' higher; lambs, $11.00017.35; others unchanged.

Just a Little Smile

His Wife’s Fault

“Tills man says you owe him money, Sam," said the judge. “Dot’s right. Judge, I does." “Well, why don’t you pay him?" “Why, I hain’t got nothin' to pay him wlv, Judge." “Well, why haven’t you?" “To tell the hones’ truf, judge, I 'spects my wife has -felled down on de Job!"

A Suggestion.

The Officer —Here, you said yon were .a painter and could rig up some camouflage to hold the enemy back. What have you done? The Private —I’ve made one of the best signs I ever pairHed. It reads ‘No Trespassing’ in four different languages."

Paying for

Two political candidates were discussing the coming local election. "What did the audience say when you tol<l them you had never paid a dollar for a vote?” queried one. “A few cheered, but the majority, seemed to lose Interest,” returned the other. —The Line Gauge.

All in His Tongue.

A southern Indiana lawyer has made many patriotic speeches during the last few months. His tongue, like the men of that famous state across the Ohio liver, has been almost silvery, and his followers have been many. But his stenographer, who knows him from real life- better than from his speeches, has merely kept still and smiled when people have boasted of his patriotism. When the fourth Liberty loan bonds were offered for sale he bought one — one of the SSO denomination. The people who'had praised his patriotism now looked grieved. But the little stenographer still smiled. “Oh, I know him as of old,” she told her mother that night. “I learned long ago that his, patriotism was.like his religion—in his tongue and not in his hands or pockets.”

U. S. STEAMSHIP IS AGROUND

New Steamer Piave, Manned by Naval Crew, in Trouble. Dover, Jan. 31. —The American steamer Piave, which left New York for Rotterdam January 14, went aground near here Monday night. It failed to float witii the tide this morning and its position is considered critical. A lifeboat from Deal has been sent to the scene. Tlie.Piave is a new vessel and is manned by a crew from the United States navy.

Pastors Poorly Remunerated.

Southern Methodism has 6,150 pastors and 19,311 churches. Eighty-five per cent, or 16,381 churches, have services only once a month. During the last year 819 pastors received less than $400; 1,268 received less than $500; 1,585 received less than S6OO. Among all the pastors only 1,723 received more than SI,OOO.

Subscribe for The Democrat. COMMUNITY SALE A community sale will be held at Parr on Friday, February' 28, 1919. Those having anything to sell please list same with W. 'H. Myres at Parr. —Advt.

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FOR SAIJt For Sale —About 40 tons of timofhy hay.—Call 915-G. f-1 For Sale— Ford in No. 1 condition. —Kuboske’s Garage, ts For Sale—Some fine clover hay In barn. Reid’s Yellow Dent seed corn improved.—HENßY PAULUS, phone 938-G. f-1 For Sale —Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition. —THE DEMOCRAT, Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain er printed, at The Democrat Office, ts For Sale —Three coming 3-year-old geldings, sound and good ones;

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, IM*

1 black mare 6 years old, well broke.—W. C. FAYLOR, phone--926-X. # *-5 u L** For Sale by reason of tastalliag furnace, a fine base-burner aaed only two years; all In splendid condition. May be seen at Democrat office—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—B tons of good timothy hay in mow; will sell part or alt together, 6 miles scuth and 2 miles west of Rensselaer.—RlLEY TULLId, phone 927-E. ts For Bale—A Webster’s Rew International Dictionary, almost new and very little soiied, sheep binding and good paper Publisher's price |l2; will sell for $8 cash.— JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Barred Rock cockerels, fine in shape and site, good in color; don’t put your buying off too late. lam going to close these fine birds out at >2.50 apiece. Phone or write.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. f-5. For Sale—Boulder Messenger 08283, Hampshire boar, June pig, wt. 225. Sire, Boulder Duke 37079, dam Count 2d 96830. Now time to settle late gilts. This hog one of my best, kept back for own ue. Can release him now.—RUSSELL VANHOOK, phone 938-A. f-5 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 aom« of these birds before they are all taken.— WM. HERSHMAN, Medaryville. Ind., R-l. ts _ f One of the Best Located Realdeuce properties In Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-atory house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-bulldingn. etc. Ground alone Is worth price asked for entire property. Terms !♦ desired. For further particulars call or address B care THE DEMOCRAT.

For Sale —In The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die -umbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rufbber stamp pads, typewriter ribbons for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papdrs, legal blanks, etc. For Sale—Some real bargains fa* well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a.. 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a I also have some exceptional bargain® 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. ts Tyi>ewriters—Two brand-new Oliver typewriters, complete with Instruction book, cover, brush, bottle of oil, etc. Machines have never been used, and are equipped with tabulator, back-up, new ribbon, etc. —s4o each, cash or satisfactory terms. These machines, understand, are in brand-new boxes, never having been 'unpacked. We will ship express collect to any point at price given above. —THE DEMOCRAT. j 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 in cultivation balance pasture, six miles from town. Price $65 per acre. Terms to suit. Possesgio® February 1. provements, located on stone road. 100 acres 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, city water.— MARY JANE HOPKINS. ts For Rent—Six-room house and ten lots with good well of water; 3 blocks west of Five Points, on Clark street.—GEOßGE W. OTT, phone 913-H. f-4 WANTED Wanted Wood-choppers to ent cordwood near Rensselaer. — JOHN J. LAWLER. See J. B. Walter, Mgr., phone 337. ts Wanted—More fanners 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 4fß. ELMER GWIN. ” 1 ts Bookkeeper, office man, clerk, etc., can make frami five to twentyfive dollars per week on 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. €-15 MISCELLANEOUS Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 imlles west of Parr. Will sqll In patches, any quantity desired.—J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 337. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHA*. J. DEAN * ' SON, .Odd yellows, BnfltMny a. Rensselaer. tor* Mutual Insurance—Fire and IdgM. ning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 58J-L. H Farm Loans—Money to loan e* farm property In any sums ■■ M SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN,