Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — Page 8

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about all the commercial club can do la to try to influence the state commission as to the route over wfcich this road is built. This can be done by petition. Dal Prevo then announced that Francesville was willing to have the road come straight from Winamac to Lackey’s corner, then south to Francesville and then wesf to Rensselaer. By this arrangement both towns will have a good route to Winamac, the county seat. This would be an ideal arrangement if it will be possible to make the state commissioners see it that way. The big discussion was on the Francesville-San Pierre road. The club was about evenly divided as to whether the petition should go to * the state highway commissioners or whether it should go to the county commissioners. According to the reading of the new law the state commissioners are instructed to first build the road connecting the county seats and then after they are built, which no doubt will take many years, they are to construct the state highways. Anyone can easily see that the Francesville-San Pierre road could not be built by the state for a good many years ~yet and what are we to do in the meantime? Plug along through the same old mud and chuck holes. If we ask the county to build this road and get our petitions in at once, no doubt the road w ill be built in the very near future. Somebody says that this will raise the taxes and that if the state builds the roads it will cost the county nothing. Is that true? I believe that we are taxed just as high as the laws allow. So there can be no chance that our taxes will be raised if we ask the county to build this road and if we don’t ask the county to build it and the state commission turns down the petition, which they no doubt will, then we are left in the soup to struggle out the best we may. Fellows citizens, awake! Don’t lose the chance' of having this road built. Why shouldn't the county build one of these good roads on this side? The roads are bound to be built and if we don’t get our petition in early some other part of the county will beat us to it and our road will not be built. But still we will have to pay for the roads. A prominent banker once said that a’ good, hardsurfaced road along or through a farm raised the value of the land 110 per acre. Farmers, does this mean anything to you?—Medaryville Journal.

THE NEW STATE HIGHWAY LAW

Why It Is Necessary to Have State and 'County Unit Rond Law. The people of the state of Indiana in their effort to improve the •highways have built and improved roads in every section of this state. They have cheerfully paid the expense and made it possible for the tourists of every section of the country to enjoy the fruits of their labor. These roads were partially constructed before the day of the motor vehicle, and were buijded for the horse and buggy and the farmer’s wagon. We find that we are entering a horseless age, that motor vehicles and mammoth motor trucks are touring our state from east to west and north to south. We find that our townships are bonded to the limit in many instances and our roads can no longer accommodate the purposes for which they were made and 1 stand the wear of the motor vehicle that hails from every state in the Union. Therefore, it is necessary that the states that use O'Ur roads should help pay the cost of construction and the cost of maintenance. To this end the United States government has agreed to appropriate a sum of money equal to the amount that the state of Indiana will appropriate for the purpose of building and maintaining 'permanent market highways throughout our state. Pursuant to this agreement the seventy-first general assembly enacted the state highway law, which we believe to be a step in the right direction to give Indiana the assistance that is due her in order that she may be relieved from the individual heavy burden of taxation necessary to build and maintain permanent highways. 1 The cost of the present public thoroughfares have been borne and paid by the different township and municipal corporations. This has become such a burden that it is necessary to enlarge the unit. While the state has found it a burden, the thousand townships of Indiana have found it a jnuch greater burden to construct the roads from" the proceeds of t-ieir taxable property. Therefore, it was considered a wise conclusion to pass <’. county unit Jaw in order that the county as a whole might bear the expense of constructing and maintaining roads

and thus relieve the Individual township of this burden. We feel that this is right and will be an equitable distribution of taxation; by enlarging the unit it will coat lead per cwplt* to the Individual. This will assist us in connecting the mala market highways that will be constructed by the state and national government, and in the next few years will find us with permanent roads and a lower rate of taxes for their construction and maintenance. Jasper county is entitled to her portion of the support that she may get from the state and national government. —By Representative W. L. Wood.

PHILOSOPHY of WALT MASON

Inspired by psalms and sermons, and good books on the shelf, I try to love the Germans as I would love myself; but when I’ve loved the critters for minutes five or ten, I need a course of bitters to tone me up again. It’s hard to Jove the people who trampled Belgium down, destroyed the church and steeple, and burned the helpless town. It’s hard to love the blighters who raise a sickly whine when whipped by allied fighters, and shooed across the Rhine. And yet 1 keep on trying to love them more or less; tne effort keeps me crying, and sweating, 1 confess; and when I’ve loved the duffers a half an hour or so, no other being suffers the agonies I know. I’m weary and exhausted, as though by mortal ills, by doctors I'® accosted, who say I'm needing pills. I feel my doom's been spoken. I'm hobbling on a crutch, I’m weak and bent and broken from loving Huns too much. A man may love the Russians nor find existence vain; but if he loves the Prussians he cannot stand the strain. And still, inspired by sermons which teach that hate’s a fake, I’ll try to love the Germans until my spare ribs break.

First Horses in the United States in 1629 When Oxen Did Great Service on the Farms

The first horses imported into the United States were brought to New England in 1629. One horse and seven mares survived the voyage. Horses were not highly esteemed nor much needed in America at that time nor for a hundred years afterward. There were no race courses nor trotting parks and the roads generally were so poor that speed was not desirable had It been possible with safety. Oxen were found to be much Letteb for all farm work. Most of the land was rough, rocky, and full of stumps, so that oxen, being strong, patient and slow, made much the better team for agricultural purposes ami lumbering than did horses, end they were cheaper kept, needing but little grain even when at hard work, and none at all when In pasture. They required no expensive harness like horses, only a cheap yoke and chain, and were quickly yoked. Under such circumstances it Is not surprising that horses in New England were not greatly admired or much petted. A farmer was prouder of a yoke of large, fine'red oxen, four years old, well matched and well broken, than of a span of degenerate horses such as were common at that time in the country. They were seldom stabled or groomed except when at work every day. The colts until three years old were wintered in the yard, In order, It was supposed, to make them tough and hardy.

Tricks Found Necessary in Getting the Ugly Crocodile to Pose for His Photograph

It is a habit of crocodiles to conceal themselves in burrows in the banks of rivers, which makes it a real task for the photographer whose problem is to rout them out of their holes and get them into view of the camera. In the American Museum Journal A. W. Dimock gives an amusing description of the methods he used when confronted with the task of taking pictures of crocodiles in Florida. It was rehlly exciting, says Mr. Dimock, after locating the mouth of a crocodile’s cave, to hang the noosed end of a rope in front of it and stand on the bank above waiting for a “bite," while my boatman busied himself thrusting a harpoon pole into the earth from ten to twenty feet behind me; In a few moments out would rush the crocodile; then there would be excitement at my end of the line. The big reptile always struggled and foughil; he clutched at the line and rolled over and over; he swam out into the stream and he sulked in its depths, but the noose was tightly drawn and never allowed to slip, and the end found the creature facing the camera on the bank. It was a matter of ethics that the crocodile should be freed when he had posed for his photograph, and removing the lasso called for much agility on the part of the volunteer.

Maybe.

“The rich have no financial worries.” “Maybe that’s why many of them seem to find life so dull.”

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

GOOD ROADS

COMPLETE MILITARY HIGHWAY Road From Alexandria to Camp Humphreys la Longest Road Outside of Cantonments. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Nine miles of concrete road between Alexandria, Va., and Camp Humphreys. Va., soon will be ready for use, marking the completion of planning and supervisory work done by engineers of the bureau of public roads of the United States department of agriculture for the military authorities. The road from Alexandria to Camp Humphreys is the longest military highway outside of cantonments Uiat has been planned and supervised

Building a Better Road.

by engineers of the bureau, although the total construction planned and supervised by these engineers aggregates several hundred miles and covers practically all the recognized types of construction, from sand clay to first-class bituminous surfaces and concrete roads. Seventeen highway engineers and one superintendent of construction were detailed to military work by the bureau in July, 1917, the period of their assignments varying from three to fifteen months.

KEEP TRAVELED ROADS OPEN

Highway Commissioners of Several Eastern States Plan to Remove Snow This Winter. Highway commissioners or their representatives from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Delaware recently met with the Highway Traffic association of the state of New’ York and reported that plans had been made to keep the most traveled roads open every day this winter. Of an appropriation of $1,000,000 made by New York for maintenance of the routes used by army transport trucks $50,000 is available for snow removal. In Connecticut the cost of snow removal on 1,000 miles of highway aggregated about $50,000 last winter, or approximately SSO a mile.

WAR TEACHES GREAT LESSON

Soldiers Returninfl From France Tell of Many Advantages of Improved Highway System. One of the great lessons at home which the great war taught us is that of good roads. Ask any of the soldiers from “over there" when they return how they found the roads and highways of Europe, and ask especially those engineers and members of the motor corps what, in their estimation, was one of the greatest advantages the allies had in the transportation of food and supplies and they will state that outside of a never ceasing flow of motortrucks and equipment, the excellent highways and roads permitted the uninterrupted use of this equipment.

ROAD OFFICIALS TO QUALIFY

Civil Service Examinations Required of Candidates for Highway Offices. Some of the states and cities require candidates for appointment to the highway departments to pass a civil service examination, thus removing the offices from political Influence. This is greatly to be desired. Men who have shown good administrative ability should be continued In office. In the communities where this policy has been followed there is general satisfaction with road and street conditions. B

Caring for Highways.

In caring for highways—used now ten times as much as they were a year could fit the case so well as “a stitch In time saves nine.”

Cellars for Vegetables.

Storage cellars for vegetables need a coo’ temperature. If there Is, a furnace in the cellar, partition off the space for storage.

Chicken Selective Draft.

Culling is the selective draft applied to your flock of chickens.

THE PEMBERTONS

By SARAH B. INGHAM

icopyrtghi. ISIS. by the McClure Newipaper Syndicate.) Beth was aroused from her rending by a heavy chugging sound out aid*. Looking out she naw a young man darting here and there about a large touring car. Evidently something had gone wrong with the machine. Pulling out his watch he exclaimed to himself, “Only ten minutes to catch Aunt Sue on that train. I’ve got to make it somehow. Ah! I know what Til do. Perhaps I can borrow that horae I see in there.” Beth was all alone and grew quite excited when she saw the young man running toward the back door, for already she had thought that he was rather nice. She answered the hurried knock, and the young man said, "Excuse me, madam, but could I borrow your horse and carriage that I see out there? My machine has broken down, and I'm to meet my aunt at the station in eight minutes. I really must be there. I'd take good cure of your property and return It very soon if —” Beth was puzxled. Should she let her prize horse go Into the hands of a stranger, and what would her parents say if she did? Seeing that she hesitated, the young man drew a card from a case, passed it to her and said, “You know my machine is yours until your outfit is returned to you. You really would oblige me so much if you would let me take it.” Were her eyes deceiving her, or was it really true that she had known this young man before? While a young girl, and when visiting an aunt in New’ York, she had met at a party a boy by this name, and perhaps it was the same one. Ten minutes seemed like hours now, for the young maid was quite anxious for the return of the stranger. No wonder they hadn't recognized each other, for it hud been six years since they had met. The incoming train gave its usual shrill toot and Beth pictured Aunt Sue alighting from It, with the assistance of her nephew. Ah! they were coming down the road now. Black Beauty was prancing along at high speed, knowing that her mistress was waiting for her. “Well, we're back safe and sound, and I surely appreciate the loan of your outfit. I see you are guarding my car—l mean yours, ha, ha. This is my aunt. Miss—” “Pemberton,” interrupted Beth. “Pemberton! Did you say Pemberton?

“Why, say, are you the Ruth Pemberton that visited the Smiths in New York about six years ago?” “I think I can answer for that person, Mr. Primrose,” and now she displayed two delightful dimples. A Hands were shaken and a rapid conversation commenced. “You see we arrived Monday from New York, and we are staying at the Burns cottage for the summer. It’s sure jolly to find an old friend close by. Now 1 think if you will trust me again I’ll drive Aunt Sue home and tht>n we can re. sume our talk.” Later in the evening when Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton returned they were very much surprised to find their daughter entertaining a young man on the piazza, but when Bgth told them her' story and after they were introduced he was made most welcome, and this welcome was a lasting one, for the following year he became a son-in-law to Mr. Pemberton, Esq.

CANCER HAS VARIOUS ORIGIN

Peculiar Customs, It Has Been Proved, Are Frequently Cause of Terrlrible Disease. In parts of China where the head Is shaved by public barbers the razors used are often dull and full of nicks, and the irritation of this scraping often causes cancer. Chinese men suffer from cancer of the pharynx and esophagus due to their habit of eating very hot rice, which is thrown into the mouth forcibly with chop sticks. Chinese women eat after their lords and masters, when the rice is cold, and they never have this kind of cancer. In India much cancer is caused by the chewing of betel nuts. In Kurdistan, India, the natives wear baskets filled with hot coals across their abdomens to protect them from the cold, and more than 50 per cent of all the cancer in that region forms in the abdomen and groin, while in other countries such cancers are very rare.— Major W. J. Mayo, war department lectures.

Use Time Properly.

Happy is the man who early learns the importance of using and not abusing his time, for hours and years lost early in life are more costly than if lost in later life, when the mind has passed its formative stage and habits have become fixed. Time is the quintescence of democracy. To every human being, king or commoner, emperor or serf, it deals out with even hand 24 hours a day, neither more nor less. Time is the chisel given each one of us to carve our monmument. — B. C. Forbes.

Pointer for Charity Seekers.

Don’t write begging letters. They’re too easily thrown into the waste basket. If your charity is worthy call in person and dare them to throw you into the waste basket. —Exchange.

Oh, Joy! Get the “Happy Savings Habit!’’ WS.&] 1 . W« Sav« and SuceooA

WHICH ROAD DO YOU TRAVEL? Here Are the Signposts: End of One Will Find You “Broke,” Other Happy and With Funds. .. - b There are two roads in life. One leads to a quagmire of nothingness. The other leads to success. Both are lined with signposts to show the wary traveler In which direction he is moving. But many people go along, their eyes on the skies, on the ground, or unseeing in dreamland, never noticing that they are advancing on the wrong highway. Do you know which road you are traveling? Here are the signposts. The end of one will find you empty-handed. The end of the other will find you with funds for A sunny opportunity—with War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds working for you at over 4 per cent interest.

Spendthrift Road. "This is on me.” “One more of the same.” “Lend me five.” “Charge this.” “Here, boy.” “Where do we go from here?” “Let’s have another round.” "You can go home any time.” “Your money’s no good.” “I can’t be bothered with small change.” “The sky's the limit.” . “I’m paying for this.” “Don’t be a piker.” “It's all in a lifeUmej” “More where this came from.”

FOR A RAINY DAY.

Sing a song of sixpence! A pocketful of “tin,” Four and twenty Thrift Stamps All tucked in. When the card is finished The stamps begin to gain, Isn’t that a pretty plan ’Against a day of rain?

Bar "Stamp Shark" Advertisements.

Newspapers throughout the country gradually are banishing from their columns all advertisements inserted by unscrupulous persons who conduct a business of purchasing War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds at a discount.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL S,

Thrift Road. “What’s the price of this?” “One will do.” “The walk will do me good.” “No, thank you.” “I can't afford that.” “Give me your best price.” “I’ll carry this.” “I promised my wife.” “I need the money.” “Let me pay my share.” “I can get along without this.” “I’ll get it as I need it.” “Is it worth seeing?” “A penny is as good in my pocket.” “This is what I got for my money.”

The Children’s Banker.

“This card represents my first real money,” recently said a farmer’s wife, with an odd look of mingled pride, deprecation and something very like triumph. “At home, as a girl, I had no money. Mother bought things for us children with whatever money father gave her. Since I’ve been married it’s been much the same. I’ve got things at the town stores and,, Jim’s paid for them. Even my egg and butter money has gone, as a rule, to help with the household upkeep—turned in on the grocery bill, usually. I’ve never seemed able to hold on to a penny. “But when the War Sayings Stamps came along I said to myself, ‘Here’s your chance, Mary!’ And now I buy War Savings Stamps regularly, take ’em in change as regularly as I sell chickens or cash the creamery check at the bank. I’ve filled several cards already, and I can tell you I gloat over ’em! When those War Savings Stamps mature I’ll have real money of my own.”

Do not sell your War Savings Stamps. The government borrowed the money for a specific purpose. If the securities are not retained your purchase will have been of no permanent benefit to the government. The men who buy and save, who follow the principles of thrift, are the people who will shape the destiny of the nation.

SAVING IS THE QUICKEST—ROAD TO OPPORTUNITY

HER FIRST REAL MONEY

CAPITALIZE YOURSELF

Hold On to Your Stamps.