Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — Page 4

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We Are Responsible for All Damages to Foreigners in Mexico Since 1910

By SENATOR A. B. FALL

interfered diplomatically in Mexico to recover damages for any of our citizens, either for death or otherwise. In 1913, prior to the recognition of Carranza when he proclaimed himself first chief of the revolutionary forces, and when he was seeking recognition, he issued a decree known as the Calvo decree, and in that decree he pledged himself to us, because he filed it in the state department of the United States government, that immediately upon the success of his revolution he would go back to the year 1910, to the inception of the Madero revolution, and that he would, by a joint commission, ascertain all damages done to any foreigner or to his property up to the time that he founded his government substantially in the City of Mexico, no matter from what source, whether by revolution or by riot; in other words, that he would not do as they had continuously done, put in a defense that the damage had occurred by revolution. But the decree of 1915, which the president sent to the senate, as the foundation of his recognition of Carranza, repudiated the decree of 1913 and adopted the Calvo rule and we recognized him upon it; and what is the consequence today? That we are bound by every rule not only of morality but of international law to every government under the sun for every dollar of damage done to any foreigner in the Republic of Mexico from the time the revolution occurred in 1910 down to date, because the secretary of state and the president of the United States called upon France and Germany and Great Britain to yield to us in handling Mexican affairs, as was announced by the state department, and they yielded. When they yielded Carranza’s decree agreeing to pay damages was in full force and effect. We handled Mexican affairs, and when we recognized Carranza we recognized him under an absolute repudiation of that decree. Have we not placed the Monroe doctrine at least in pawn to every foreign government?

“World Statesmanship Will Be Sorely Tried in the Next Few Years”

By ROBERT LANSING.

Undoubtedly there is a great danger in the world today. Western civilization is still dazed by the shock of four and a half years of destruction. Industry and commerce are not yet restored. All of Europe is impoverished ; parts of it are starving. Its whole political fiber has been shot through. *. World statesmanship will be sorely tried in the next few years. Two things are essential: first an alert, intelligent, interested public opinion; and second co-operation of the nations. The former is needed both as a check on any sinister purposes thatmay crop up and as the great support for common action. The second is essential, unless the nations are to return to a selfish particularism which can only breed the inost dangerous dispute. The peace conference has been history’s greatest instance of a unified world statesmanship directing the moral and material resources of the world’s family of nations. To allow the spirit behind it to disintegrate at this moment of emergency, when united action is imperative, would be fatal to all the hopes of permanent peace with which we entered the war. If it is true that one nation can destroy the equilibrium of all it is all the more true that each nation is bound by its-own law of self-preserva-tion to co-operate with the others to check troubles before they get their headway. So I come home pleased but not complacent with the outcome of the past six months and hopeful but not in the least unmindful of the problems of the next few years.

World Is Forced Into New Activity for the Protection of All Children

It is not too much to say that the world is being forced willy nilly to a new activity for the protection of all children —not a few, not favored children, but all children. War losses of population and of wealth force Europe. A decent self-respect would force the United States even if it were not plain that the nations which are to maintain leadership will be those which most wisely and generously equip the children of today and tomorrow. First, as to illiteracy, the United States is perhaps ninth among civilized nations; that is, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany all have a larger proportion of the population who can read and write than has the United States. Second, as to maternal mortality, the United States is fourteenth in the list of civilized nations, judged by the proportion of deaths of mothers from causes incident to child-bearing. That is, in thirteen countries the mother’s life is safer than it is in the United States. Third, the United States is eleventh among civilized countries, tested by its infant mortality rate, a rate whose searching value as a sign of social wellbeing is axiomatic. Considering the Exemption this country enjoys from the poverty and hunger and devastation of Europe, it is not less than our reasonable service to make the United States stand first in every phase of child welfare in any list of countries. The war has left us no sectionSl questions; We have only the issue of a nation’s welfare.

The Calvo doctrine, as acknowledged and accepted by Latin-American countries, provides simply this, in effect: , No government shall be responsible for damages to any of its citizens occurring during a revolution, or by virtue of a riot. No citizen of a foreign country shall be entitled to collect damages against this government except as a citizen of this country would be entitled to collect damages. Under the Calvo doctrine, as it was presented at The Hague tribunal and refused, we could not have

By JULIA LATHROP,

b—Debate in Congress

, U. S. Secretary of State

Children's Bureau

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

PUTS BLAME ON REPUBLICANS

L. Ert Slack Lays Sugar Shortage to Business Hecklers. In an address last Wednesday night before the Jefferson club, a Democratic organization of Irvington, Indianapolis, L. Ert Slack, who as the United States district attorney, has been investigating the sugar shortage situation in Indiana, severely condemned certain business interests which he believed were largely responsible for permitting a shortage to take place on account of their resentment against the action of the administration at Washington in trying to regulate prices, it was Mr. Slack s opinion that such business Interests are trying to “put monkey wrenches in every line of the government's business” for the purpose of trying to discredit the work of the administration.

Mr. Slack said that as a result of his investigation he found that there is no sugar hoarded in Indiana at present and there is a real shortage. He said he had learned that certain persons in Chicago had been quoting sugar to Indiana dealers at a little more than the government price, and that certain Indiana dea’ers were taking advantage of this, holding that the .prices of sugar should be regulated absolutely by the wholesalers and retailers. It was charged by Mr. Slack that after the close of the war and before the recent regulations were put into effect by the government that a Republican politician of Chicago was largely responsible for the increase in sugar prices. It was related by Mr. Slack that an Indianapolis business man had expressed resentment to him because the Wilson administration had exerted an influence in regulating private business, and Mr. Slack believed such resentment was largely responsible tor the sugar shortage here, as after the armistice was signed no effort was made by wholesalers to buy sugar when a plentiful quantity could have been had. One of the wholesalers had said to him, Mr. Slack said, that he had not objected to government control during the war, but now that the war Is over the business men should be permitted to run their business to suit themselves. However, Mr. Slack said that a few days ago a prominent Indiana firm was glad to solicit- the assistance of the government in its private business after jt had contracted for a large amount of Canadian sugar and the delivery of the sugar had been held up. “Then they came and begged the United States district attorney to assist them in having the sugar delivered,” said Mr. Slack, said to them: ‘Since when did you change your mind about the desirability of the government helping you in your business?’ ’’ Mir. Slack said that when the United States government had control last year it had bought up the Cuban sugar crop, but this year it kept “hands off,” and the business men who have been heckling the administration permitted Europe to contract for threefourths of this year’s Cuban crop, and a shortage has resulted.

“Some of these days we are going to talk Plain to these Republicans,” said Mr. Slack in reference to Republicans whom he accused of criticising the business regulation policy of the administration. He said £he trouble with the Democrats is that they give plenty of praise to President Wilson but they sit back and permit President Wilson to do all the fighting against the Republicans.

Mr. Slack warmly commended the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant as presented by President Wilson, and agreed with the latter that the opposing Republican senators are a “bunch of quitters.” “I would like to be in the senate long enough to tell Senator Lodge that he is ia sore-toe quitter,” said Mr. Slack. He said it was an “infernal outrage” that such senators as Lodge, New, Watson and Poindexter should consider the “great document’’ as a sort of political -proposition. In his opinion, President Wilson did not make a mistake when he failed to put Senator Lodge and some other Republicans on the American peace commission. Mr. Slack believed the Republican opposition to the peace treaty and league of nations is due to a deliberate Republican effort to pl<ay for the German and Irish votes of the country. He said the recent speech by Senator Knox was the greatest effort to espouse the German cause that has been made by anybody, and he said that in the coming campaign he believed the Indiana Republican state committee would “surreptitiously” circulate the Knox speech among the Germans of the state. Mr. Slack said that during the

last five imonths the public has witnessed the most disgraceful heckling that has been made agelnst a president.

STATE G. O. P. NEWS BUREAU

Working Overtime to Convince Taxpay era Taxes Will Not Change. The Republican state news bureau is working overtime nowadays trying to convince the taxpayers how much better It is for them to harve their personal assessments raised away above all reason and 40 to 50% above the actual cash value of the property, and If their taxes are higher under the new law it is because they have waxed so fat in worldly goods during the year 1918 and it is no fault of the Republican tax law or the state board of tax commissioners. It is going to be a hard matter to convince the taxpayer —especially, for example the farmer whose wheat on hand March 1 last was assessed at $2 per bushel —that the action of the board in raising this assessment from 30 to 50% is not assessing him on something that he did not possess. For with wheat at $2.11 per bushel, why should it be assessed for taxation at $1 per bushel more than it will bring after it is hailed to market? Why should a SIOO horse be assessed by the state board at j 150 —$50 more than the local assessor had valued It at when it can't be sold for a dollar more than $100? The same thing is being asked by the taxpayer on many other items of personal property taxabies, all of which have been raised beyond all sense of justice or reason. But the man who has money or notes is not touchedby the state board, and his assefeSment on such ipersonals remains at the figures fixed by the local assessing officers. When the taxpayer goes to pay the first installment of his 1919 taxes next May he will have ample and convincing evidence of whether his taxes have been unreasonably increased or not.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

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visit at his home three miles north of Wheatfield, Thursday, Oct. 16. It is understood that the county commissioners were also invited. Mr. Cook is anxious to show all angles of Jasper county what be has done for Wheatfield, Keener and Kankakee townships. The board will be piloted over the different townships and will be at Mr. Cook’s home at the noon hour. The Demotte schools will open next Wednesday. They have a fine new addition that will serve as a community building as well as a school building. Trustee Fairchild has catered to the requirements of the state high school inspector and Demotte is now on the school map. Mr Fairchild has two college graduates in his high school faculty. Miss Margaret Marshall of Deputy, Ind., the principal, is a graduate of Leland Stanford and has also done work on her master’s degree. Miss Marshall has had a great deal of teaching experience and will give the -people of Demotte <a very capable and efficient school administration. Miss Addie Harris is a graduate of the state normal at Terre /Haute. She is the other lege graduate. The third teacher in the high school is Miss Marie Nevill of Rensselaer. Miss Nevill has finished her junior year in the Indiana state normal. Mr. Fairchild is on- the market for a teacher to assist these three in the high school to fulfill the recommendations of the state high school inspector. Two years ago Demotte ranked third in the county insofar as the number of school children is concerned. It is very likely that Demotte will hold the same ranking when the schools open next Wednesday. Last year the state high school inspector reduced the school to accredited standing on account of the building Now Demotte has a building on a parity with the large new building at Fair Oaks. Su'pt. L. J. Arend of Wheatfield reports that the schools are moving along very nicely at Wheatfield. Prof. Paul W. Ashby is doing some excellent work at Tefft. Prof. A C. Campbell is getting fine results at Fair Oaks. All of the high schools of Jasper county are moving with unusual smoothness to date. . . Russell Wooden has reached Washington, D. C., and is liking his work so far. William May, who was recently discharged from the navy, has been employed to teach in the high school at; Wheatfield. Miss Celia Steifel of Fair Oaks visited with home relatives at Salem, Ind., over Saturday and Sunday.

The BChooiß are running very nicely in most parts of the county.

MARTIAI/TuVW in strike zone

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unskilled forkers had gone beck. After an investigation following the arrest of a negro on a charge of carrying a weapon, C. E. Huber, assistant postmaster at Gary, declared today that many firearm* were reaching negroes at Gary through the mails. He expressed the belief that postoffice authorities could not refuse delivery of the firearms after they had once been placed in the mail.

ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS! I am prepared to half-sole your tires with Gates Half-Solos on tL'VB of all sizes. These are punctureproof and guaranteed 3.500 m*ie* Cost only one-half as much as you pay for standard tires. Tire and tube repairing at reasonable price*. Also handle Gates’ tested tubes In all sizes. Ford Special Oil, lubricating oil and grease. Free air and water. Come and see how Gates’ Half-Sole tires are put on. All work will be given careful attention. ’Phone 109.—JOHN J. EDDY.

PUBLIC SALE As I have sold my farm and am going to quit farming, I will sell at ipublic auction at my resi- ( dence, 7 % miles north of RensselI aer, % mile north of Aix, the following described property, sale beginning at 11 a. m., on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 • 6 Head of Horses — 1 bay mare, age 9 years, wt. 1500; 1 bay mare, age 13 years, wt 1400; 1 brown 'mare, age 12 years, wt. 1250; 1 grey gelding, age 5 years, wt. 1450; 1 bay gelding, age 4 years, wt. 1150; 1 black gelding, age 4 years, wt. 1200. 20 Head of Cattle— 3 milk cows, one 4 and the other two 3 years old; 5 coming 2-year-old heifers, bred; 11 coming 2-year-old heifers, not bred. 5 Head of Ewes. 4 Big Type Poland China brood sows. Farm Implements— l new wagon; 1 7-ft. grain binder, go»od as new; 1 wheat drill; 2 discs; 2 walking plows; 2 sets good work harness; 3 cultivators; 2 doubleshovel plows. 3 Stands Bees. Household Goods. Some Oak Posts. Terms—A credit of 11 months will be given, on sums over $lO, approved notes to bear 6 % interest if paid when due, if not paid at maturity 8 % Interest from date will be charged; 2% off for cash when entiled to credit. D. E. LAKIN. W. A. McCurtain, Auct. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Lunch by Aix Ladies’ - Aid.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE George W. Foulks et ux to Riley E. Snyder et ux, Oct. 1, Its 10, 11, bl 3, Benjamin’s add, Rensselaer, SI,OOO. Vernon Nowels et al to John Q. Lewis, Sept. 23, It 19, bl 23, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, SBSO. Albert Witham et ux to Leona Horton et baron, Sept. 20, It 2, bl 11, Weston’s 2d add, Rensselaer, SIOO. Philip R. Blue et ux to James (Hii Chapman, Sept. 27, Its 3,4, bl 9, Newton or Clark’s add, Rensselaer, S4OO.

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FOR SALE For Sale—City property and town lots. PHILIP BLUE, phone 438. ol ° For Sale —Recleaned timothy seed. —CHAMBERLAIN & MARLATT, at Rensselaer Garage. ts For Sale—Second-hand automobiles —Fords, Overlands, Saxons, Empires. KUBOSKE & WALTER, phone 294. ts For Sale—Maxwell 1018 touring car in good condition, also a few Liberty bonds. —JOHN W. SAGE, phone 258. 018 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and in A-l condition. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Good cottage on good street, close to schools- and churches. Modern, except furnace. Price reasonable. See MRS. E. S. RHOADS, or George A. Williams. °2O For Sale—A number of pure-bred Buff Orpington cockerels, price reasonable if taken at once. —J. R. BRANDENBURG, McCoysburg, Ind., R-l. nlO For Sale—My 6-room residence, with 1 acre of ground, on east Grace street, 5 blocks from court house. Lots of shade and fruit trees. Possession can be given in November. —MRS. NORA WORDEN, phpne 296. oil For Sale- —Six-room house with two 58-foot lots, electric lights, city

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and well water. Will «ell on part time if desired. —KORAH OANI ELS, phone 299. 11 For Sale-—Ford touring car, 1017 model, in finest kind of condition. —REV. H. F. KROHN, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 953-K. 08 For Sale—Full-blood roan Shorthorn bull, 7 months old; papers furnished. —JAMES LANE, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone Mt. Ayr exchange. 010 For Sale—l6o acres unimproved land near Laura, Jasper Co., Ind. Good drainage, known as the Relfsnyder land. , For terms address — F. C. REIFSNYDER, 518 East Main St,, Ottumwa, lowa.o-18 For Sale—My 5 acres Just nortM of city limits of Rensselaer; 7-room house 28x28 feet, basement size of house; cistern, with pump and sink in kitchen; well water on back porch; large garage; hen house; small crib and granary; cow and horse barn. —MRS. O. M. PEEK, phone 949-B. “ For Sale—24o acres of level black land, well located and good buildings. Also have several other farms, running from 40 to 160 acres, all of which is good land, as I will not handle any other. Price of the 240 acres is $125 per acre, with terms. This is the cheapest large farm I know of. Write F. STARKWEATHER, Niles, Mich. 06 F\ir Sale—s registered Hampshire brood sows with 30 pigs 2 weeks old, also 14 shotes, weight about 75 pounds.—THOMAS McGOWAN, phone 926-1. For Sale—Team of good farm horses; $175 for a quick sale. —MRS. W. M. GARLAND, 108 Milton St., Rensselaer. 018 For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die numbering machines, rubber stamp d..‘.ers, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribbons for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, account files, filing eablnets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. For Sale —The Joe Miller farm, 1 % miles north of Mt. Ayr, will be sold to the highest bidder in the Newton circuit court at the term convening Monday, Oct. 13. Farm is well improved and Consists of 157 acres. Is to be sold to settle estate.—THE MILLER HEIRS. 018

For Sale—l6o-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land all in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price S9O per acre.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON.« For Sale—Good two-story, 7-room house, with bate, electric lights, drilled well, large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade trees; on corner lot—really two lots each 75x 150 feet, each fronting improved street and improved street on side. Splendidly located on best reaidenee street in Rensselaer. Lota alone worth more than entire property can be bought for. —F. E. BABCOCK. ts For Sale—Some real bargains in well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sixes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home. — HARVEY DAVISSON. tl Typewriters For Sale——One brandnew Oliver No. 9, latest model, never been used, $57; 2 Oliver No. 3, one with wide carriage, rebuilt and in perfect condition, S3O each; 1 Smith Premier No. 10, rebuilt and in perfect order, S4O. Will sell to responsible parties on monthly payments, if desired. All rebuilt machines are equipped with cover, new ribbon, etc., and will do just as good work as they ever did. Come in and let us demonstrate these machines before you buy one elsewhere.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts

FOUND Found—Automobile tire on steel riimt in' front of St. Joseph college Saturday. Owner may have same by calling at the college and paying for this ad. oil LOST Lost Somewhere between Wor. land’s furniture store and Virgie, a baby’s tatted hood, also a child’s red bouquet. Finder please notify MRS. L. E. HARRINGTON, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2. oil WANTED Wanted —A housekeeper on farm. —JOHN EILTS, Rensselaer, Ind., R-2. 010 Wanted —Married man to work on farm.. Good salary for right man. Inquire at The Democrat office. ! ts Wanted—To purchase a few sth Liberty Loan (Victory) bonds.— GEORGE M. MYERS, phone 640. Wanted—To buy 5 or 6 cords of good 4-foot body wood, to be delivered before Nov. I.—F. E. BABCOOK. ts FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan am farm property In any sums up to 110,000.—8. P. HONAN.tf Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows’ Building, Rensselaer. ts Money to Loan—l have an unlimited supply of money to loan on good farm lands at 5%% and usual commission or 6 % without commission, as desired. Loans will be made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. See me about these various plans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts