Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — Page 6

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Chicago Foot . Specialist is Coming Here At considerable expense and trouble, we have arranged tor a foot expert to be at this store Thursday, May 15th for the convenience of foot sufferers. Examination and Advice Free war W Imv j ' * '7* / /> / / k vswk • &■■ ' K jdSr //k % et Your Foot Come Forth and Gain ; Complete Comfort This expert, who is one of the Staff of Dr. Wm. M. Scholl, the noted specialist and recognized foot authority is able to tell at once what the real cause of your foot trouble is. He knows feet as a dentist does teeth or as an architect does houses. Tfienisa D£ Scholl Appliance, No matter how simple or how serious your foot trouble is, he can tell you (and show you) how to gain Immediate Relief and a rapid correction of the difficulty. Remember the dates, be sure to come in. Everybody welcome. B. N. FENDIG, Rensselaer, Ind. "Watch yburFz&t"

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

potash Prices Falling •‘By fall I expect potash prices to drop to a figure where these salts may be used at a profit on most of the soils of this country,” said Professor S. D. Conner of the •experiment station, who took a trip over the county last week. “We are being offered 26% goods now for about SBS per ton and your farmers could well afford to use that, if they could get it in time for corn planting, as potash Is the answer to at least threefourths of your soil problems.” The purpose of Prof. Conner’s trip was to locate an experimental field on which to compare various grades of American potash with the German product. Such a field was located on the farm of Charles Doctor on the range line road between Remington and Rensselaer. Angus Herd Founded The first herd of registered Aberdeen. Angus cattle to be established In Union township was ' founded last week, when I. F. Meader purchased four cows and a bull of Will H l . Ade of Kentland. The animals selected are all excellent representatives .of the breed, being vigorous, blocky and early maturing. Mr. Meader expects to build up a herd of high-class animals gradually. The Angus cattle have been slow to get started in Jasper county, but in founding this herd Mr. Meader will have the congratulations of all cattle breeders as there is still plenty of room for herds of high ansrit. Club Enrollment Complete Enrollment in the Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial club work for the

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season is complete, according to J. M. Sauser, chairman of the county club committee. The applications which have been accepted in the spring clubs are as follows: Potato club —Cecil Jefferies, Earl Stalbaum, Conrad Griffin, Earl Spangle, Francis Christenson, Carl Wortley, Chester Wortley, Hugo Makus, Oscar Peregrine, Leon K. Todd, Jerry D. Gross. Corn club—Kenneth Moore, Theodore Amsler, Charles Waling, William Daugherty, Francis Brown, Walter Brown, Johannes Eilts, Myron Collin, Walter Deerberg. Poultry club —Helen Keever, Ethel Yeoman, Mabel Yeoman, lona Griff, Gladys Hartley, Catharine Pettet, Rachael Peregrine, Mae Todd, Wilda Dewees, Ruth Sage, Ethel Nuss, Flossie Swisher, Ada Swisher, Myrtle A. Jennings, Golda Peregrine, Louis Deerberg, Irene Lilves. Canning club —Emma Zimmer, Mary Ruth Elder, Della Amsler, Zelma Clark, Hel?n L. Horse wood, Eva Blankenship, Lillian Kruse. In addition the total club enrollment includes 28 members of of the sheep club and 25 members of the pig club. Farm Management Committee Meets Endorsement of the campaign for cost of production records on farm crops and plans for creating a more general interest in the keeping of such records were important features brought up at the meeting of the county farm management committee last Saturday. Blanks have been provided for keeping records of the cost of production of corn, small grains, sheep, cattle and hogs, and these may be secured through any member of the committee or the county agent. Joseph Kosta was appointed to arrange for a multiple hitch demonstration to show the latest methods of working numbers of horses together without side draft. The committee decided that the twine being offered through the state farmers’ association is not of standard quality and that it should not be recommended for use. Discussion on the matter of bet-

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ter farm leasee brought out uo definite conclusion and no action was taken. lUt Day May 27 May 27 has been set aside as rat day by a proclamation issued by Governor Goodrich. “I call upon and urge all the people of the state to free their premises and their communities of rats and other rodents, and I further recommend and urge the mayors of cities, boards of county commissioners, township trustees, boards of education >and other public officials to assist in the organisation of the people of their respective jurisdictions for this work and otherwise enforce the provisions of the law. I further request boards of trade, civic and commercial organizations, associations, clubs, boy scout troops, agricultural and all other similar organizations and activities, including the public press, to assist in this campaign. I further recommend that new buildings Should be made rat proof, old buildings not so constructed as far. ns possible be remodeled and rendered rat proof; that harboring places should be destroyed; that public markets and other public buildings should be rat proof and frequently Inspected. To the end that the public may know the result of the campaign for rat extermination the active forces of each county are requested to make re;>ort through the county boards of health to the state board of health of the accomplishment in such counties and the stgte board of health is requested to give proper 'publicity to the information secured." Members of homes and farms in thhr county, as well as in other sections of the state harbor rats. According to the best figures obtainable. it takes the constant services of 200.000 men with equipment to provide for the rats of the United States, supplying them with food and repairing the damage they do to property. On this basis, the damage done in this county would amount to about $50,000 annually. If the citizens of the county will take rat day seriously and <make a conscientious effort to clean out these rodents and destroy their breeding places, .. much good will result. „

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BROOK (From the Reporter) Alva Grenard came over from Rensselaer Friday on business. Don Burley was a Rensselaer visitor Thursday of last week. Mrs B. F. Newell was in Chicago the first of the week, taking special treatments. Rev. Dillman went to Silver Lake Tuesday and brought his father home with him. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Robinson oi Rensselaer were calling on Brook friends Monday evening. Mrs. Chas. Bowman of Remington was visiting her brothers, Nason and Frank Turner, the first of the week. Richard B. McCoy of Denver, Colo., was here Tuesday and Wednesday visiting his aunt, Mrs. W. E. Harry. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Clark and Mr and Mrs. Harry Lent drove through to Chicago Tuesday, returning Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Thornton visited with the former’s parents, Mt. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton, in Rensselaer Sunday. Henry Spitler and wife returned from Logansport Thursday. They report Mrs. George Bartley very sick with sciatic rheumatism. Rees Clinton and wife and son Russell and Mts. John Hudson visited from Saturday until Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clinton at Kewanna. Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook of Joliet visited at the Byron Park home the last of the week. On their return home they took Dr. and Mrs. Crooks with them. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cooke and daughter Pauline of Goodland and Mire. Zella Allen and granddaughter of Chicago called on the editor and wife Friday evening. Warner Allis returned home this week. He had spent 12 years in the navy as a member of the 'marines and has concluded to rest awhile. He was among those who served in France.

Rev. Taylor and wife of Otterbein were guests of E. M. Unger and family Tuesday. Rev. Taylor was in charge of the Morocco circuit at one time and has many friends in this vicinity. J. W. Bartholomew, a prominent lawyer of Quarpau, Okla., gave his mother and sister, Mrs. Ephriam White, a surprise by arriving unannounced after an absence of 15 years. He lieved at one time in Newton county and has mgny friends here. Young John Condon and a companion of Momence left last week on a trip down the Kankakee, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. They will make the trip in a canoe and will carry a cbmping outfit with them and exrppct to land in the Gulf of Mexico. Frank Corbin and wife, Miss Lou Kemper, Sant Kemper, Harry Kemper, Grant Shaffer, wife and daughter were in Indianapolis Wednesday to see their brother Ralph, who was with the 150th F. A. of the Rainbow division. They report “Curley” looking fine and glad to get home. Mrs. Burford Lyons was called to Marshall, Ind., this week to attend the funeral of a nephew, the son of her brother, Oscar Burford. The little fellow was four years of age. He started to cross the street to a neighbor’s and an auto came along.

He thought to avoid it by jumping backward and was caught by a machine co 7XI ng from the other direction. He was thrown to the pavement and the skin torn from the side of his face and head. He was taken to Che hospital and Che wound dressed. In a few days he returned home and lockjaw set In and death resulted.

When Corns and Bunions Ache Do as the soldiers do! Shake into your shoes each morning some Alien’s Foot-Ease, the aatiseptin powder that makes tight shoos feel easy and gives rest and comfort to tired, aching, swollen, t'nder feet. Always use it to break in new shoes. —Advt.

The World’s Next Step

NO. « I he I.ea<ue of Nations and the Monroe Doctrine

Uy CLARENCE L. SPEED (Written for and Approved by the Illinois liranch of League to Enforce Peace.) Apprehension, real or pretended, that the cherished Monroe Doctrine will be signed away If the United States becomes a party to the league <># nations, as it is now proposed, is one of the grounds of opposition to the league In the senate. The Monroe Doctrine was enunciated at a time when reaction was in the saddle in Euroiie. Napoleon had been crushed and ancient dynasties were being re-established on the thrones which had been overturned following the French revolution. The infant republic Ilk America was surrounded by the possessions of powerful European states. With the exception of the struggling republic in America there was hardly any place where the spirit of democracy seemed to survive. President Monroe felt the isolation not only of this nation but of the democratic spirit which It represented, and gave voice to the doctrine that no European state should be permitted to obtain further territory on this continent. He feared that the establishment of monarchical forms of government any nearer our borders might make the overthrow of democracy complete. The right of the United States to take this position of guardian of a hemisphere was never admitted by the European nations, but Europe was busy with its own affairs and in the early days the Monroe Doctrine was not challenged. Time passed. Mexico and Central and South American countries threw off the yokes of Spain and Portugal. Democracy progressed In Europe. The British government was liberalized. France became a republic, then an empire, and then once more a republic. With the exception of the German menace, which was not recognized until the war broke out, Europe seemed to have no territorial designs on America.

But the Monroe Doctrine grew and grew. From being a protection against the aggression of monarchy which might overthrow democracy In the United States, it came to be Interpreted as Involving a duty of this country to protect the little LatinAmerican republics from punishment for reprehensible acts such as repudiation of debts or violence to the persons or property of foreigners residing In their borders. We were placing ourselves In the position of being made the policeman whose duty it was to make the little republics be good by force or ourselves to fight other nations tfhich might attempt to protect the rights of their citizens. Can anyone imagine any foreign entanglement more likely to Involve us in war than this? It will be remembered how near we came to war with England once on this account; and just before the world war broke out It began to seem pretty plain that we either would have to enforce order in Mexico or stand aside and see some other nation do it. However, except that the Monroe Doctrine was sometimes used to stir up jingoism in national campaigns, it had really played little part in American thought in recent years. In fact, our assumed rights under It were abrogated in some twenty arbitration treaties which we signed with England, France, Russia and other nations In 1913 and the years following, and no one even noticed it. These treaties agreed that the United States and the other nations signing them should “submit all disputes whatsoever to arbitration.” These disputes were just

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as likely—probably more so—to involve the Monroe Doctrine as anything else. And under the treaties we would have had to submit them to an International body much like that provided for in the league of nations. But, though we had signed away our rights under the Monroe Doctrine, the league of nations, while it does not mention this American principle specifically, in reality does recognize it by virtue of recognizing the fundamental principle underlying it; and this is the first general recognition it has ever had. The Monroe Doctrine asserted that no country would be allowed to grab territory on this continent without getting into trouble With us. The league of nations provides that no nation shall be allowed to territory anywhere in the world without getting into trouble with all the members of the league. Obviously this applies to America as well as any other country. The result is that we, instead of. having all the burden of enforcing the Monroe Doctrine against the world, now will have the world pledged to help us support it against any nation which seeks to grab land. Apparently this, Instead of dragging us into a foreign entanglement, helps us out of our one hereditary foreign entanglement which might threaten us with war over a matter In which we had little or no concern. And what if the league should fail?, What if all the other nations should suddenly decide to combine to overwhelm an offending state on the American continent? That would mean simply that we would be right back where we are now. We could either assume the duty of chastising the offender ourselves, sit by and see someone else do It, or go to war to prevent proper punishment being meted out. That’s all we can do now.

IS YOUR CHILD’S BIRTH OF RECORD? It Is Important That It Should Be To prove his age and citizenship. To prove his right to go to school. To prove his right to work. To prove his right to an inheritance. To prove his right to marry. To prove his right to hold office. To prove his right to secure passports for foreign travel. To prove his mother’s right to a widow’s pension. The War and Birth Registration The drafting of thousands of men for military service has emphasized the need for more complete birth registration. Young men have been confronted with the necessity of furnishing prooif of age and citizenship, and have found proof lacking on account of faulty laws or imperfect enforcement cf the law. Provisions Birth Registration Laws The law requires that the baby’s birth be reported by the physleian, the nurse or midwife in attendance, to the health officer, or town clerk, who reports it to the state board of health. If you are not sure that this has been done for your baby, write to the state board of health, and if they have no record they

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will send you a blank on which you may record the child’s birth yourself. It is not too late at any time, and may be very important ffor him in the years to come. Register Your Child’s Birth Now See that the child Is named before the 4th of the month following date of birth. A large percent of birth records have no Christian name, thus making a worthless record In future years. See to it that the records of Jasper county are complete. The health officer has tried to <make these as complete as possible, but is handicapped because parents are careless about naming the child. —DR. F. H. HEMiPHILL, County Health Officer.

CARD OF THANKS We desire to express to our friends and relatives our heartfelt thanks for their kindness and assistance during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father.—MßS. SAMUEL A. WILLIAMS and CHILDREN. Read The Democrat for live news. INSURE IN formers Muluol losuronce twirlion Of Benton, Jasper and White Counties. Insurance in Force December 81, 1918 <3,679,594 The average yearly rate for the 24 years this Company has been in existence has been but 24 cents on the SIOO insurance, or $2.40 per SI,OOO. State Mutual Windstorm Insurance written in connection. MARION I. ADAMS Rensselaer; S. A. Brusnahan, Parr, and J. P. Ryan (Gillam tp.) Medaryville, R. F. D.; Wm. B. Meyers, Wheatfield; V. M. Peer, Kniman, are agents of this Company and will be pleased to give you any further information. Stephen Kohley, Rensselaer, is the adjuster for Jasper county.

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