Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCILANOES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Nick Dupies, a pioneer reßident of Benton county, died at Fowler last Friday night of apoplexy, aged 72 years. lHe is survived by a widow and nine children, five daughters and four sons, all grown. President Wilson and party left France Saturday on the Mansport George Washington, sailing from Brest shortly before noon. The George Washington is also bringing home a large number of American troops, and will reach New York next week. - The state senate Monday afternoon passed a new antl-German language bill, prohibiting the teaching of any foreign language or foreign subjects In elementary, parochial or private schools. This bill does not apply to high schools, inasmuch as this feature was covered in a bill passed by the senate and now before the house. “President’s Success Has Enormously Increased American Prestige Abroad. Wilson's Sane, Moderate and Fair Views in Peace Conference Have Commanded Respect and Confidence of Other Diplomats,’’ said headlines of an article in yesterday’s Lafayette Journal (Republican), telling of the amazing increase in the power and popularity of President Wilson and the acco-mpanying growtty in the moral prestige of the American nation abroad.

The draft of the league of nations constitution, which was unanimously agreed upon, was read by President Wilson at the peace conference last Friday. The draft contains twenty-atx articles, and was the unanimous report of fourteen nations —the United States, dreat Brittan, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czecho-

Slovakia, Greece, Poland, Portugal* Roumanla and Servia. The adoption oft these articles will put an end to all future wars, it la be* lieved.Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, president of the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana, made a statement after the United States senate bad voted against the suffrage resolution. In which she blamed the pickets for the senate’s action. She declared that the women who had) picketed the White House, and who had in other ways made spectacle* of themselves In Washington, had managed to swing the balance of power against the suffrage resolution. The needed one vote was not forthcoming and the resolution wag defeated, . li*4