Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — Page 2

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IK. JiSPER COUHTT DEMOGRIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF W JABPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as second class mall matter ■June 8, 1908, at the poetofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March «, 1879, Published Wednesday and Saturday The Only All-Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION $2 00 PER ANNUM—STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY "Fifteen cents per men. Special position. Eighteen cents Inch. READERS , Per line, first insertion, five cents. Per iWie, additional insertions, three toents. WANT ADS One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25 cents. Special price If run one»pr more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has an 4pen account. CARD OF THANKS "Not to exceed ten lines, fifty cents; Cash with order. ACCOUNTS All due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads ■tnd cards of thanks, which are cash With order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1919.

NOW FOR RATIFICATION

President Wilson met the virtual challenge of the Senatorial opponents of the peace treaty and the League of Nations by the freest and fullest presentation of the conditions and considerations which dictated the engagemnets that are now awaiting ratification by the Senate. For three-and a half hours the President answered the questions propounded to him by members of the Foreign Relations committee. With patience, painstaking and the utmost frankness he responded to their request for information. This conference was without precedent in American history, but it

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amply fulfilled the President’s promise—made months ago—that he would take the Senate and the country Into his confidence In respect to the treaty and the League. It was the fault of the Senate committee that this complete exposition and explanation of the treaty and the covenant was not sooner forthcoming. The President upon his return from France expressed his willingness —and at the conference showed his preparedness —to clarify and justify every act of the Paris peace council. From the lips of the man who was one of the authors of the treaty and - of the League—who knows every inch of the ground between their inception and their consummation —the Foreign Relations committe has learned that Article X of the covqpant is subject to our own judgment and to the authority of Congress; that the Monroe Doctrine is beyond the purview of the League; that questions of purely domestic policy and government, like immigration and the tariff, are equally outside its jurisdiction. If the Senators who have opposed the treaty and the League continue their obstruction it will not be for want of understanding and reassurances. Their opposition henceforth will be suspected as of a different origin. The President made it quite plain to the members of the Foreign Relations committee that, if they choose to regard their country’s obligations lightly, they tmay adopt interpretations that do not alter the text or impair the force of. the treaty. If such “interpretations” in a separate resolution will salve th.eir pride without at the same time jeopardizing the advantages which the United States derives from the treaty and the security which all the world obtains through the League, the Senators are free, so far as the President is concern-

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ed, to take the Whatever the action of the recalcitrant ' Senators may be, the people's attitude will be unmistakable. They know the President has had a greater opportunity and a better right to judge of the need and meaning, and value of the treaty and of the League than the Senatorial critics of his work have had. If neither is perfect the people are not dissatisfied. They will not tolerate the Senate’s attempt to give them less because they have not obtained more. They want the treaty ratified and the covenant accepted without further delay.

SENATE FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS

History says that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The United States senate is indulging in a similar passtime. Senator McCumber of North Dakota, Republican, scored the foreign relations committee of the senate last week for playing politics with the treaty of peace and the league of nations. Everyone knows that the delay in ratifying the treaty is causing unrest and disturbance throughout the country and the world, as well as keeping up the high cost of living. President Wilson has stated that the league of nations is only binding on us morally, and it in no way limits or imterfers with our sovereign power pr any of our rights. There are three great moral forces embodied in the league of nations, each of which alone will prevent wars in the future. The first is, that the league binds every nation* to give three months’ (notice before starting a war. In three months’ time the power of public opinion will be able to prevent the commencement of that war. The second point is, that no nation will be allowed to build up a traffic in arms, such as the great Krupp works of Germainy did, and without Which Germany would never have started the war. The third point is, that every nation signing the league has agreed to impose a commercial boycott .on whichever nation wilfully attempts to start a war.

These three great principles will be more than ample*to preveht another terrible war. While the senate has been dillydallying with the treaty and talking as if they were going to reject it, the Hapsburgs of Austria have been getting busy, and one of the grand dukes of the old dynasty actually got possession of the Hungarian government for a few days, and there are powerful influences at work in Germany endeavoring to place the kaiser back on the throne. .All of these evil developments have resulted from the hostile attitude of certain senators ifi regard to the league of nations. If there is no league of nations there will be nothing to prevent the old bloody warriors and savages of Germany and Austria from plunging into war again, and finally drawing us into it as they did before. Every senator who votes against the league or who delays it by offering useless amendments is working In the interests of future wars and further slaughter of the human race. • It is said that every senator is receiving piles of letters from his constituents urging prompt 'ratification of the league, which will not only prevent future wars, but will speedily restore the country to normal and peaceful conditions. Every citizen who believes in ending wars for all time should write to his senator urging him to vote for the ratification of the treaty.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

"Investigations” into the war are popular with the present Republican Congress because they offer a hope of distracting the public mind to the past. Why don’t the Republican leaders show an equal Interest in the high cost of living and other problems of the present?

The House of Representatives did well in a small way by repealing the tax on soda water and soft drinks, but its leaders ought to remember that there Is another side to the consumer's difficulties—■ his outside, for instance. Now for the repeal of the taxes on clothing. Before the Republican Senators can come to an agreement as to their action on the League of Nations some one will have to negotiate a treaty of peace and comity between the “mild revisionists’' and the “outright rejectionists.” If a Congressional committee travels 7,000 miles In a private car for thirty-five days to “investigate’’ partisan charges respecting what happened last year, what is the price per yard of ancient history? No one would be so foolish as to allege that all Republicans are profiteers, but the present leaders of Congress are acting as if they strongly suspected that all profiteers are Republicans.

Republican Congressmen who are traveling thousands of miles to investigate what happened last year are falling thereby to observe of what Is going to happen to them next year. Apparently Republicans In Congress believe that there can be no move toward “reconsructlon” until after they have wrecked the constructive work of the last Democratic Congress. Did the Republican Senators consult President Wilson for informs tion or was It their purpose to get another (pretext for talking for twc months? Most of the soldiers have been demobilized, but they are still fighting—for fair recognition from a Republican Congress. v - ‘The Republican Congress has been prevented from passing bills by its engrossment in an effort to "pass the buck.” The high cost of living is greatly aggravated by the necessity of living through a Republican Congress. Some of the best Republican oratory now to be heard has for Its theme, "How Not to Do It.” There are three P’s in peace—production, prosperity and progress. Ratify the treaty!

TELEPHONE NOTICE We feel it of the utmost importance to • explain to all telephone patrons conditions as they exist in the telephone field in Rensselaer and vicinity. Every one knows the existing conditions, which no one in (particular is to blame for; but the conditions are here and must be met. All patrons also know that prices in every business and profession in town and country have increased except the telephone company. The butcher, groceryman, shoe man, millinery, furniture, dry goods, hardware, confectionery, banks, garages, hotels and restaurants, picture shows, bakers, dairymen, Implement dealers goods and service have increased from 50 to 200%. They add it on to their prices and charge you for the service and goods. Telephone companies are not allowed this privilege, and suffer the loss. Again, the physician and surgeon, lawyer, real estate and Insurance man, the dentist, optician—services and goods have increased to the highest point, for which they charge you. But no change in the telephone rates. The farmer with his $22 hogs, $lB cattle, 50 to 75 cent butter and eggs, hay, corn and every product of the farm, with the land values soaring to points beyond comparison. But the country telephone rates are the same as when wheat was 75 cents, hogs $3.50, eggs and

WE LOAN Money On Live Stock Crops and Real Estate on short time and in small amounts if desired; or will loan on real estate We buy bonds and do a general collecting busineas, aell real eatate, etc. W. L. WOOD Room 1, I. 0. 0. F. Building

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165 acres, three miles from Rensselaer, on the Jackson highway. Good corn and oats land, good outlet for drainage and thoroughly tiled. Improved with good woven wire fence?. 11-room house, barn 40x70, silo 14x50. Good hog house and other outbuildings. This farm has the best corn in Jasper county now growing upon Iti Price $225 per a»re. 120 acres, on stone road, 6 ndl.es from town, good outlet, well tiled, fair fences, Improved with 5room house, fair size bam, windmill,. grainary room, double crib, poultry house and other outbuildings. Price $125 per acre. Terms. 95 acres, 6 miles from town, on a gravel road, rural route, telephone. 80 acres in cultivation, balance pasture, may all be cultivated. Good ’ fences and buildings, M. E. GRAVES, Morocco, Indiana.

butter 10 to 15 cents, and all 1 other prices accordingly. What we ask of the patrons is to think of these conditions and then figure on the following: Poles have advanced 45%, wire 170 to 200%, instruments from $6 to $7 each, all brass, nickel, platinum, repairs and equipment have advanced 300 to 400%; on cable and conduit the advance Is from 100 to 200%, batteries 150%. We have been compelled to advance our labor from 20 to 40% and It Is not yet receiving Its just dues according to other conditions and living. We are unable to procure the needed amount of help. We have endeavored to get and have endeavored to keep the service up to standard until in the last few months. We realize that we are not, can not and do not expect to, for no Just person would expect to receive the same service when no more revenue is paid. With the increased costs we are compelled to operate with one lineman short, with a chief operator one-half of time —and will be taken off entirely, doing away with giving information to our patrons. We felt we might be able to pull through the war conditions with its increased cost of material and labor, but as they still Increase we find there Is nothing to do but to let the service suffer. We feel this statement Is due the patrons and the employes and the company, that you cannot expect as rapid and correct service or your trouble to be taken care of as quickly as if the company could receive the advance increases all other business receive. We will endeavor to do our best, but this must be discounted with the advance In wages and materials we are compelled to pay.—JASPER COUNTY TELEPHONE CO.

PUBLIC SALE As I am going to quit farming, I will offer at public auction at my farm, 10 miles northeast of Rensselaer, 9 miles west and 1% miles north of Francesville, 1% miles north of the Barkley M. E. church, on what is known as the Clover Leaf farm, commencing at II a. m., on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1919, 5 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 bay horse 11 years old, wt. 1500; 1 brown horse 11 years old, wt. 1300; 1 sorrel mare 7 years old, lady broke, wt. 1100; 1 brown mare 7 years old, wt. 1100; 1 sorrel horse 7 years old, wt. 1050. 35 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 20 black, short-fed steers, wt. about 900; 7 good milch cows; 1 good white-faced two-year-old bull; balance young steers and heifers. 38 Head of Sheep—Consisting of 26 good breeding ewes; 1 good pure-bred buck, and 11 good lambs. 30 Head of Hogs—Consisting of , 2 good brood sows with pigs, balance shotes weighing from 75 to 100 pounds. About 4 dozen Chickens, mostly White Leghorns—all young hens and good layers. • 12 Stands of Bees. Farm Implements—Consisting of plows, h'arrows, discs, corn planter, manure spreaders, and all other necessary farming implements; 2 good sets of harness, one with breechihg; *2 cream separators,, in good order; a good new mud boat; base-burner, in good order; 6-foot steel water tank and many other small tools too numerous to mention. About 5 tons of Hay in mow. Terms— A credit of 12 months will be given, on all sums of over $lO, notes to draw interest of 6% from date if paid when due; if not so paid to draw 8 % from date; sums of $lO and under cash in hand; 2% off for cash when entitled to credit. H. E. LOWMAN. ~W. A. McCurtain, auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, clerk. Hot lulnch on grounds. Buy your typewriting tablets at The Democrat office.

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consisting of 6-room house, good barn, doable crib, hog house, windmill, tone 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, 14.-mile 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 farms to suit purchaser. See JOHN A. DUNLAP, Rensselaer, Indiana.

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RENSSELAER TIME TABLE ' In effect March 30, 1919. NORTHBOUND. No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:34 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:01 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:88 a.m. No. 33 Indlanap’a to Chicago 10:86 a.m. No. 38 Indianap's to Chicago 3:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 3:37 a.m. No. 6 Chicago to Louisville 10:65 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Indianap's 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chgo to Indpls and FL 1:57 pun. No. 89 Chicago to Lafayette 6:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indianap’a 7:81p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. , CITY OFFICIALS Mayor...,Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morian 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 Jes<a Nichols Sheriff True D. Woodworth AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor ..L. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright Assessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural agent....S. Learning Health Officer . ...F. H. Hemphill COMMISS LONERS District No. IH. W. Marble District No. 2D. 8. Mak sever District No. BCharles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday bf each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevreGillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff Jordan Alfred DugglebyKankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Charles W. PostlllMarion Charles C. WoodMilroy John Rush Newton Walter Harrington Union John F. PetetWalker John BowieWheatfield M. L. Sterrett. Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant officer.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Offici over Fendig’s Fair. Rensselaer, Indiana. George A. Williams D. Delos Dean WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Fann Loans? Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office in Odd FeUows' Block Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor to Frank Folts) Practice In all courts Estates settled Farm loans Collection department Notary in the office Over T. & S. bank. 'Pnone No. 1* Rensselaer, Indiana. w SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE Five per cent Farm Loans Office In Odd Fellows’ Block Rensselaer, Indiana. E. N. LOY PHYSICIAN Office over Murray’s department store. Office hours: 10 to 12 and 1 to L Evening, 7to 8. Phone 89. Rensselaer, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to typhoid, pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s drug storu. 'Phones: Office No. 442; Kes. No. 443-B. Rensselaer, Indiana. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON v Opposite the State bank Office ’Phone No. 177 Residence ’Phone No. 177-B Rensselaer, Indiana. JOE JEFFRIES GRADUATE CHIROPRACTOR Forsythe block. Phone 124-A Every day in Rensselaer Chiropractic removes the cause of the disease.

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