Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — Page 2

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"A FUGITIVE FROM INFORMATION”

In his remarks yesterday before lhe senate committee on foreign relations, Senator Lodge said: The president has never offered <o come before this committee. He only sent a telephone message saying he would be glad to have the committee come to the White House. We have called for paper after paper and he has not sent one. iEven if this were correct, it is as easy for the committee to go to the White House as it is for the ■ president to visit the committee room. But the president went further than this, for in his address

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delivered when he submitted the treaty to the senate, he said: My services and all the information I possess will be at your disposal and at the disposal of your cammlttee on foreign relations at any time, either Informally or in session, as you may prefer, and I hope that you will not hesitate to make use of them. That surely may be construed as an expression of willingness to appear before the committee, and it was so understood by the country. It was so understood by Senator Lodge. In the News of July 19 was this: Senator Lodge is in error in his statement that “there seems to be in the press a great deal of misunderstanding about the president desiring to appear before the foreign relations committee.” There has been no mistake whatever; the situation is too simple to be misunderstood. The president announced that he was ready to appear before the foreign relations committee and give it any information that he had, and Senator Lodge said Ifehat he would not be invited to do so. The Massachusetts senator cited a precedent of the Madison administration as being against any consultation between the president and the committee, Mr. Madison holding that the two were co-ordinate branches of the government, and therefore ought to act independently. If Senator Lodge stands by his precedent, he would neither go with the committee to the White House, nor ask the president to appear before it. When he said that the president would not be invited, he imust at least have believed that the invitation w r ould have been accepted if tendered. We fear that the New York Evening Post was right when it spoke of Senator Lodge as “a fugitive from information.’’—lndianapolis News.

< A VACATION FROM DUTY The heat of summer, though it be a discomfort to all others in

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Washington, has proved a .convenience to the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives It has provided them with an axcuse for a month's recess from the pain «ud labor of doing nothin? While in their refuges by the sea or in the mountains —fa from the torrid atilt of Congress—the Republican leaders may contemplate their recent record of “masterly inactivity.” In a two months’ special session, which they sought to compel President Wilson to call for their own partisan purposes, the Republicans have passed only those bills which could and would have been enacted by the previous Democratic Congress but for the filibuster in the Senate last March. As to the vital legislation which I resident Wilson recommended, which the country demanded ?nd which the Republicans promised, they have done worse than nothing. They have not merely failed to act —by bickering and jealousies among themselves they have made affirmative actl >a impossible. Great measures of reconstruction for the adoption of which the special session was called have either been defeated or allowed to go without the slightest consideration. Legislation for the railroads, the passage of the reclamation act, the adoption of a program for the devel< pment of water power, the r**orgaiJ’ation of the army, Lt<« °s tablishment of a budget system, the outlining of a maritime policy, the abolition of luxury taxes, the safeguarding of immigration, the protection of American industries brought into being by the war, notably the manufacture of dyestuffs —all these are in the catalogue of Republican omissions.

LET THE REPUBLICANS ACT!

At least two opportunities have J been given to the Republican Congress to move toward a reduction in the cost of living without at the same time impairing the wages of workers or the fair profits of producers. The Federal Trade Commission’s reports on the packing industry, which is charged with an attempt to restrain trade and monopolize the production and distribution of staple foods, and Governor Cox's attack on exploiters and profiteers in Ohio, give inspiration and occasion for a Congressional inquiry and remedy if the Republicans really wish to legislate for the entire country instead of acting or omitting to act for the behoof of special interests. There is a general feeling that the present expense of living has outrun any fair ratio to the cost of production and distribution. There is a conviction that those who supply the public need for food and clothing and other commodities are manipulating and profiteering without conscience or curb. The look to the Republican Congress for action tha. will correct tbe conditions of w.i’ch the Federal Trade Commiasliu ard Governor Cox —amon? thoisands — are complaining. There can be no escape firm this duty to the people without incurring the odium of indifference to the country’s welfare or the guilt of collusion w th the profited'.. The Democrats have shown the way. Let the Republican majority suit Its acts to the necessities.

STILL TRAMPLING “PROGRESSIVES.”

No one envies the plight of the so-called Progressive Republicans nowadays. Though still firm in the belief that they rule the party, some way or another they are still minus the control and have a monoply on nothing but jeers and rank ingratitude. The situation in the lower house of Congress is an example. The defeat of James R. Mann and the election of Frederick H. Gillett to the speakership was hailed as a “progressive” victory. But that was all Mann lost. His lieutenant. Mondell of Wyoming, was chosen Republican floor leader, Mann stalwarts dominate the “steering connmittee” and the Committee on Rules, and head all the other important House committees. Mann himself had to be recalled from Chicago to, rescue his party from the state of legislative and general helplessness into which it had fallen. Just prior to the last incident the “Progressives” thought the time propitious for an enlargement of the party “steering -committee” in order to | accommodate a larger representation of their element. The reactionaries opposed the plan, naturally, but seemed able to do nothing. Lacking the courage to deliver the punch that would again put the “Progressives’* down for the count, they sent for Mann. He came, and down went the “Progressives” amid the war cries of the "Old Guard.”

War Risk Insurance Bureau officials are enlisting the co-operation of five hundred thousand volunteer workers to present to service

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men the benefits to be derived from continuing their war-risk insurance. The government sells this Insurance to the service men at cost, which la about one-third lower than it can be purchased from the old Une companies. The government pays all the expense of operation, giving the service men the protection at cost as one way of showing Its appreciation for their war service. Forty billion of such insurance held by four million men will have a profoundly beneficial effect on the social and economic life of the nation.

The first thing the Republican majority in Congress knows the people will begin to demand an investigatlon of the investigators who are spending time and money to discover why wars are expensive, while at the same moment one set of Republicans in the Senate are opposing the League of Nations and inviting further conflicts. Perhaps the numerous Congressional “investigations” into the conduct of the war are after all only designed to satisfy Republican curiosity as to how the Democratic administration could achieve so magnificent a success in spite of the G. O. P.’s persistent opposition. "Jim” Mann won’t enlarge the "steering committee” of the House of Representatives, he announces. The Republican majority in that branch of Congress has found the present number and personnel of the "steering cammitee” able to furnish more trouble than the leaders could settle. By the way, the "luxury tax” is one factor in the high cost of living, and the President has repeatedly urged its abolition. The Republican filibuster prevented its repeal last March and the Republican majority in Congress continues it in force. \

(Republicans have always regarded high prices as great blessings. From this viewpoint the present excessive cost of living would appear to be a notable benediction. Is that why the Republican ma- ( jorlty hesitates to move against the profiteers? Senator Penrose Is again in print with a promise of “economy” in govermental expenditures. If the country cowld only cash Republican promises the national debt would be paid every Saturday night. /Has it been noticed that the Republican “investigations” begin with liberal appropriations which go in part to pay salaries to “experts,” clerks and other employes who are chosen by reason of their partisan pull? •

There is something harder to establish than a League of Nations — that is a concert among its Senatorial opponents. Every farmer wuo owns bls farir ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of h!» postoffice properly given. The prin* ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special izes in or his specialties In stock Neatly printed stationary gives you personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you writ* Eud insures the proper reading 01 your name and address.

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A table for Invalids has been invented which can be clamped to the head of a bed and swung into position for use or out of the way without taking up any floor space. In the Alps the mosquito Anopheles, which causes malaria. Is found plentifully up to heights of 5,600 feet, but 'malaria is never met with above 2,600 feet. A novel Idea In building construction which has been introduced in some European cities is the use of glass bricks for certain parts of the outer walls. In China if a younger son should commit a crime the older son is likely to be taken into custody and made to pay the penalty for the offense. An elephant is said to be possessed of such a delicate sense of smell that it can scent a human beingat a distance of 1,000 yards. The rapid growth of vegetation in polar regions is attributed to the strength of the electric currents in the atmosphere.

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consisting of 6-room house, good barn, doable crib, hog house, windmill, some tile. Price SIO,OOO. Terms. 40 acres, 1% miles from Rensselaer, on stone road, good improvements, woven wire fences, all hedge posts, good orchard, adjoining S4OO land; price SIO,OOO. 200 acres, pasture and farm land, from gravel road, fairly well drained, practically level, no sand hills, small house and barn, telephone, rural delivery. Price $75 per acre. 70 acres, Marion township, 40 acres in cultivation, balance pasture, a good hog farm; 6-room house, good new barn, silo, windmill. Price $l5O per acre. We will make reasonable terms on any of the above fame to suit purchaser. See JOHN A. DUNLAP, Rensselaer, Indiana.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.

HIM-* RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effort March 80, 1515. NORTHBOUND. No. 35 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:Ma.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 82 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 3:5! p.m. No. 6 Louisvine to Chicago 8:81p.m. No. 80 Cincinnati to Chicago 5:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 2:87 a.m. No. 6 Chicago to Louisville 10:60 a.m. No. 87 Chicago to Indianap’s 11:18 a.m. No. 38 Chgo to Indpls and FL 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indianap’s 7:31p.m. No. 8 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk .... Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Civil Engineer . ...L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden ... .J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ward No. 1 Ray Wood Ward No. 2 J. D. Allman Ward No. 3 Fred Waymire At large—Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL OFFICIALS Circuit Judge C. W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty...J. C. Murphey Terms of court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICIALS Clerk Jessa Nichols Sheriff True D. Woodworth AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder Surveyor L. D. Nesbitt Coroner JAssessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural agent....S. Learning Health Officer ....F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS District No. IH. W. Marble District No. 2D. S. Maksever District No. 3Charles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson.. ..Barkley Burdett Porter. Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevreGillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff-... Jordan Alfred DugglebyKankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Charles W. PostlllMarion Charles C. Wood .Milroy John Rush Newton Walter Harrington .-V mon John F. Petet....Walker John BowieWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant officer. e—* 0-0 —♦ —• —e s e e e

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