Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — Page 6

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Sv 07/J SBwIIH *' ”™l U Make A ' 3 S Complete h Only by finishing the job can this be done. Only by providing the money | to gather up the loose ends and round ■ off the rough, projecting points that f* still remain. M Our boys made Victory! It’s our duty to make it complete by an over- Ls S. whelming subscription to the Victory ».< Hl Liberty Loan. . J Of £4 Victory Liberty Loan Committee Thii tpoce contributed by .WXSiX&SWb MAIN GARAGE • The Best in Rensselaer

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

BROOK (From the Reporter) Oscar Leach returned from Attica Monday -where h-e had been taking treatment. Miss Francis Shand of Remington was the guest of Gertrude Weishaar Saturday. Charles Murffltt'and family came from Leiter’s Ford Sunday and visited with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Myers are now installed in their new home, recently purchased of W. A. Gridley. Mrs. Cecil Scott and baby came Wednesday for a visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sampson. Mrs. James Fenton and daughter, Mrs. Frank Bates, of Chicago are visiting at the Otto ’ Frauenhoff this week. Raias have kept the farmers from the fields for nearly a week, but the wheat, grass and oats keep growing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corbin drove Up from Attica Sunday and spent the day with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cline. Sergeant Walter G. Hess, Who was home to attend his father’s funeral, left for Gamp Taylor Sunday last. Just after his departure word of his discharge came ahd he Is at home again. Frank Graves and son and Buster Brown of Foresman went to Valparaiso last Saturday to visit Harry Graves, who is going to school there. While there Buster made arrangements to enter school there this fall.

Mr. and Mrs. Orpheus Lyons moved to Beaver City Tuesday Where the former will take charge of the Lyons, Rich & Light elevator Mr. and Mrs. Claude Fix will occupy the property vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Lyons. The editor of the Reporter visited from Saturday until Wednesday With his brother, R. B. Foresmlan and family at Benton Harbor, Mich. The latter had just returned from an operation in the hospital and is making rapid improvement. Word was received last Wednesday of the death of Oscar Leavitt, who lived at Basin, Wyo. His brother Ervin left for that place at once. He will be buried there. The cause of his death was due to a case of pneumonia. He was raised in this community and was well known here, but had, lived in the west for several years. Miss Marceline Ulyat and Mr. William* Wasson stole a march on their friends Monday and went to Danville, 111., and were married. Mrs Wasson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ulyat, who live Bear Brook. She is a graduate of the 'Brook high school and has taken special training at an Indianapolis college. For some time she •tad been engaged in the millinery in Brook. She is one of our most capable young women, And has always taken a prominent

part in church and social work. William Wasson is well known here, having at one time been employed in the Leopold clothing store. He is with the Earl Duvall clothing store in Rensselaer and is a young man of excellent prospects and ability. The young couple have the best wishes of a host of friends. They are now at home in Rensselaer.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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coal. We also get troops and about 1,000 Red Cross nurses. Then we go home, and I hope a furlough is awaiting us. Due to the fact that we are short of coal we are only using half our boilers and therefore do not make much speed. At the best we can only make about 1 6 knots per hour. Well, it’s getting late and 5:30 comes pretty early, so I’ll finish this tomorrow if I get time. Have been pretty busy getting the store and ice boxes in shape for provisions. Will write more. Goodnight. Well, this is Sunday morning. We got in here last night about 5 o’clock. Took us 50 hours to run 490 miles, only averaged about 8 to 9 knots. The engines will be overhauled here. “All the boilers are dirty amid leaking. All the water lines are stopped up with waste. The ship itself is clean, with the exception of a few store rooms. • I’ll have to go to work as we’re going to dock at 10 a. m. and we have a little more work to do before'we get started loading. I’ll have one of the boys mail this this afternoon if I don’t mail it myself. Give my best regards to all. My address is 11. S. S. Mobile, care postmaster, New York. Will write again before we leave here. With love to all, HARVEY.

The transport Mobile, due at New York April 21, has aboard the field and staff, headquarters and supply companies, medical and ordnance detachments, Batteries A to F, inclusive, of the 130th field artillery; army ambulance sections 504, 510, 512, 525, 552, 553, 625, 626, 633, 634, 636, 638 and 648; base hospital No. 76, convalescent camp No. 1, bakery companies Nos. 350, 388, 397 • and 398 and detachments of base hospitals Nos. 21 and 50. Indianapolis Star. No better job work produced in this section of Indiana than that turned out by The Democrat.

Subscribe for The Democrat. LA. BOSTWICK Engineer and Surveyor Ditch and Map Work. Road Maps Office on East Harrison street in block east of court house. Have car. Phone 549. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

GLAD TO PAY COST OF PEACE

Millions of Lives Saved by Vast Military Preparation of Our Government. FOE KNEW AND QUIT COLD These Life-Saving Bills Must Be Paid and the Boys Brought Back to the Country They Love. “The price of peace,” of which the Victory loan Is but a part. Is large, but not nearly so large as it would have been had the war been fought to the annihilation of the German armies as our military lenders believed would be necessary. the war lasted as long as these lenders anticipated, hundreds of thousands of American youths and millions more of their allies would have been called upon to pay the supreme sacrifice. That they were not forced to give tbelr lives Is In no small measure due to our government's preparations to crush the enemy completely. The industry as well as the man power of the nation was called Into the government service, and a great war machine was created which the German general stuff suw meant complete annihilation far their forces if they fought on, so they quit. There were in France when the armistice was signed, 2.002.175 officers and men wearing the United States uniform. In the states there were more than 1.30U.000 more In training or awaiting shipment overseas. Thia army had 1.500,000 rifles and 429,000,000 rounds of ammunition in France when the armistice was signed. There were 221.000.000 additional rounds on boats en route to France at this time. These figures do not deal in anything but Infantry equipment. Smokeless pywder was being delivered at the rate of 4.800.000 pounds a xgeek and high explosives at the rate of 6,9oo.ooo*pounds. We had on hand when the war closed, 419 tons of mustard gas, enough to |oad 410,000 sheila; 654 tons of phosgene, 511 tons of chloropicrin, 660 tons of white phosphorous for incenßiary bombs, 303 tons of tannic tetrachloride, and 153 tons of titanium tetrachloride. We had enough gas to smother the German Army. On the defensive side the government had developed the best gas mask known, and had produced 5,087,600 of them. We had built 2.010 ten-ton caterpillar tractors and 1,586 15-ton machines for hauling great guns. There were 15,000 more of these under construction when the war ended. They had

demonstrated their ability to drag the heaviest mortars, howitzers and rifles over any terrain, no matter how badly cut up or how wet. Ten thousand Ford “baby” tanks equipped with two Ford engines would have been on the front line . the time the Victory Liberty loan is td be floated. They would have been supported by thousands of the French “whippet” type tanks and the big 35ton American tanks driven by Liberty motors. We had in France and in use at the army at home, 57,607 trucks of two, three and five tons capacity, 11,476 ambulances, 18,375 motorcars and 29,421 motorcycles. Our merchant marine was growing at the rate of 400,000 tons dead weight per month when the war ended, and we were turning out about 10,000 airplane engines a week, with planes to carry them. German spies found this out. German spies knew that the U-boat had failed because of the barrage of mines that the British and American navies had strung across the North sea. German spies sent word to the general staff that In spite of their best efforts to check the Americans at the home base, they were outgeneraled. So the German staff learned that the Americans had thrown their unlimited resources Into the sdales with the allies, and the German staff turned “yellow” and quit. That mighty preparation of which the above is but a fragmentary tale, Is the reason why the Victory Liberty loan Is the last of the war loans. Had the war gone on there would have been a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, an eighth loan—loans until the German hordes had been crushed and sent back Into the heart of the fatherland. The need for these was eliminated by the mailed fist of our great preparation, which supplemented the gigantic efforts put forth by our allies. “Let us, then,” as the secretary-of the treasury has said, “with thanksgiving to God that we were spared any greater price, meet the honorable cofnmitments of our government contracted in behalf of the freedom of the world.” HELP "FINISH THE JOB.” For permanent peace and prosperity —support the Victory Liberty loan. Buy Victory Liberty loan securities to rebuild the world.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

TURN "BUSY BERTHAS" INTO VICTORY MEDALS

Workers of the Victory Liberty Loon Will Be Decorated for Helping Uncle Sam In the Big Victory Drive. The “busy Berthas” that spat their hell at Verdun are silent. Their fate has been decreed. They are to become medula of honor conferred by the treasury department on volunteers In the Victory Liberty loan army. The mighty Krupp masterpieces are being melted up to make Victory Liberty loan medals. . Op one aide of the medal will be a reproduction of the /

Treasury building, and on the reverse side will be certification of the worker’s imrticlpation in the loan drive. Space is left for the name of the recipient to be engraved on the medal. The medal will be about the size of a half-dollar. Purchasers of Victory loan securities will not receive these medals, as the bonds are intrinsically worth all the buyer pays. However, those who volunteer to sell the Victory issue to their neighbors and associates will be

awarded one of these medals. The only restriction is that the medal will go only to those who in advance of the drive are authorized to perform the work of distributing the Victory Liberty loan among the people. If you want one of those medals, your Distinguished Service Cross as it were, for service in Uncle Sam’s financial army. It behooves you to hustle over ami see the chairman of your Victory Liberty loan campaign and tell him yon are on the job. Some of the medals have just reached the Seventh federal reserve district. A large quantity of them will be available for distribution before the campaign begins. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”

EUROPE TO SEND GREAT MEN HERE TO HELP

Many Prominent Military Leaders and Statesmen of Allied Countries Will Come Over to Speak for Victory Loan. Fresh interest is contributed to the taming Victory Liberty loan campaign by the announcement that many eminent military leaders and statesmen will come here from Europe to speak for the loan. It is reported that the great interest and support evinced by the alien population in previous loan drives is responsible for the decision resulting in the speakers being brought here. Felix J. Streyckmans, federal reserve director for the Liberty loan foreign language division in the Seventh district, on his return to the district headquarters in Chicago, after conferences in Washington, issued the following statement: “Many prominent Europeans will visit this country during the coming loan drive and bring the message of victory to their Americanized countrymen. I regret that I cannot announce names at this time, but they will come through Washington after acceptances have been received. The invitations are being sent through the state department. working in conjunction with the diplomatic representatives. ' “We want these foreign men of affairs to visit us not only as an expression of thanks to our own foreign-born for their support during the war, but so that they get first-hand information from their own countrymen as to the changes that have been occasioned in, their qative lands by the world war.” While Mr. Streyckmans was noncommital regarding the identity of expected visitors, it was learned from an authentic source that some of them have achieved world-wide recognition in affairs of state, while others have leaped into prominence by their spectacular participation in the great war. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”Our boys fought hardest in the last few hours of the war and won the great battle for humanity. They did not quit us in the final test of their bravery, and we cannot quit them now In the supreme test of American patriotism —the patriotism of peace—the Victory Liberty loan.

Front View of Medal.

Reverse Side of Medal.

EVERY CITIZEN AN AMERICAN

Woman's Foreign Language Division of Victory Liberty Loan Committee Has Active Organization. “Every citizen an American. Every American a government stockholder. Bolshevik doctrines will not flourish In the minds and hearts of those who have a proprietary Interest in their government” That is the threefold object of the newly organized woman's forelgn-lun-guage division of the Victory Liberty loan, according to Mrs. Edward Bemis, director for the Seventh federal reserve district In reply to a question, Mrs. Bemis said: “Our foreign-born women have often had reason In the past to think we cared little for them, but now since their sons and brothers and husbands have fought side by side with ours the differences have fallen away. We ure all women of one country, working to one end—a united America.” Mrs. Bemis believes there need be no lack of co-operation between the native and foreign-born inhabitants of America. She is Inclined to place a large part of the responsibility for a lack of united interest at the door of the countless native Americans who stand in need of re-Americanizing. War work has shown that much of the renewed patriotism'-on the pert of descendants of the older generations of Americans may well be learned from our patriotic foreign born. The Council of Foreign-Language Women has been presenting “Gifts of the Nations” to the people of Chicago since the Third Liberty loan campaign. After a program attended by fifteen nationalities, the majority being Americans, one foreign-born woman said: “This is the first time since I came to America that I have been asked to <*> anything with the American people.” Said another woman: “I always could speak enough English to get things at the store, but never before did American ladles want to talk with me. Now I shall get books and learn to speak English like the rest of them.” “Many do not realize that the heritages of many of our foreign nationalities may well be emulated by our far newer civilization,” said Mrs. Bemis. “There is an innate courtesy in some of these older countries, and they have a patriotism engendered by years of seeking the liberty found in America. “We want to know our foreign-lan-guage neighbors for what they can teach us as much as for the service that we ourselves can render them. “Every member of each community has an interest in supporting our government’s financial program. We must bring the boys home; we must establish business for our returned ’ soldiers and we must help this country and Europe to stand free and for peace. We women are as interested in this as men can possibly be.” The five states of the Seventh district Michigan, Illinois, Indiang, Wisconsin and lowa, will have a forelrn-

JIB H'M r JFrM- j Her DouHeLoan 4'.f • ■ ■ To her country she lent her boy—that Peace might be born and safety made certain. To her country she lent her money—that Victory might be complete and that the work her son commenced should be well finished. « Hera waa a double loan —but the aeCond brought back the first! r To bring them back—and make the peace aecure—buy to , your abaolute limit in the Victory Liberty Loan. Victory Liberty Loan Committee This space contributed by '**‘‘''** Rowles & Parker The Corner Department Store RENSSELAER, IND. . . ... j b , , . 0

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languag* chairman for women. Each county where there are resident for- ' elgn groups will have as county chairman a woman who understands the local needs of the various communities. Group meetings are planned for each nationality wherever It exists in considerable numbers. “Out of this work will come—If our hearts are In It—that united interest In the service of our country which we call Americanization.” HELP “FINISH THE JOB." Give to Enjoy Blessings of Peace. We are enjoying the blessings of victory and peace. Think of what, hud we been defeated, we would be willing aow to give for victory, and make your subscription to the Victory Liberty Loan accordingly.

We may speak of the Victory Liberty loan as a Peace loan, a Victory loan, or a Thanksgiving loan, but In a sense It is a Memorial loan to our brave boys who died on the field of battle. The Germans, not the Yanks, were the quitters. Help finish the job with the Victory Liberty loan.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE The undersigned administrator of the estate of Thomas J. Jones, deceased, will sell the personal property of said estate at public auction at the late residence of decedent, just east of Tefft, Jasper county, Indiana, camumencing at 1 p. m. on SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919. Said property consists of a lot of carpenter, blacksmith and gunsmith tools, sporting goods, gun stocks, work benches, vices, hammers, wrenches, screwplates, dies, braces and bits, drills, paints, brushes, tool chests etc. Also 1 No. 10 L. C. Smith gun, 1 Remington repeating shotgun, 1 Marlin 38-40 rifle, 1 Springfield rifle 5070, 1 Hopkins & Allen rifle 22-caL, 1 small guage shotgun, 1 Harrington & Richards pistol, 1 22-cal. -pistol, 1 lot of revolvers, a lot of ammunition, shot, etc.; set of paint ladders, 1 small safe, fishing tackle, boats and oars, and numerous other articles. Terms—Under $5 cash fa. hand; sums over $5 a credit of 4 months will be given on good bankable notes bearing 6 per cent Interest after maturity. F. W. FISHER, Administrator. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for coal for county use for the years 1919-1920 on Monday May 5, ’ 1919, for 600 tons, more or less, of the following' kinds of coal. Mine Run, Screened Lump and Egg size, to be shipped f. o. b. Rensselaer. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock -p. m. of said date and to be accompanied by aflldavlt as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor.