Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — Page 4

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Uncle Samuel Is Unbusinesslike and Needs a National Budget System

By G. B. CORTELYOU.

wasted annually. I cannot attempt with any degree of accuracy to name the exact -unount of money spent needlessly during any one fiscal year. It is no exaggeration, however, to say that the figures will run into millions of dollars.- This same condition holds today. I desire to point out that the distribution of immense sums raised mainly by taxation should be subjected to the closest scrutiny, classification and co-ordination. The present method of dealing with money matters is entirely lacking in system. There is probably no other civilized government—certainly no government which is truly representative—where there has been such a complete lack of supervision of the budget as in the United States. With a war debt of $25,000,000,000 hanging over us it is no longer practicable to meet an annual deficit by an assessment upon the nation’q stockholders —its citizens.

Even the United States, with a total estimated wealth of more than two hundred billion dollars, is not so rich or so powerful that it can afford to disregard the principles of business efficiency or fail to provide itself with a carefully mapped out budgetary plan.

“Not the Fault of the President; It Is the Omission of Our Laws”

At the conclusion of hostilities our president appointed himself, selected four associates, and proceeded to in Paris. These five men spoke for the United States of America, and from the first meeting until the treaty was signed theirs was the voice of the United States. Whether the commission truly interpreted or failed to interpret the wishes of the American people they were placed in the unfortunate position of not knowing positively what our people wanted. They guessed that it favored a certain policy, which was their policy, and it may be they guessed correctly. To this day they do not know. If they had known there would be no discussion in the senate. George of England, Clemenceau of France and Orlando of Italy knew that if at any time they failed to properly interpret the wishes of their countries the legislative branches of their governments had in their possession the power of recall. No king, monarch, president or ruler of a single nation in Europe is permitted to exercise the same unrestricted right as our laws give to a president. The president must not be blamed because he exercised these unusual, extraordinary powers. It is not his fault; it is the omission of our law. Will the Democratic party, the Republican party, or a new party secure for the people of the United States a right that is possessed even by the people living under the monarchies of Europe, or shall our executive retain and exercise a power more unrestricted, unrestrained and autocratic than that of any European ruler? This is a problem for the future and is independent of the question of the ratification or approval of the peace treaty or the League of Nations.

Future of the Women of Britain Lies Wholly in the Hands of Labor

By BEATRICE FORBES-ROBERTSON HALE

""There are two alternatives before the women of Britain. [There are 2,000,000 women who can never marry. If labor speeds up and the people work to throw off the national debt, as the French did after the FrancoPrussian war, then these superfluous women will have a chance in industry. But if the extreme labor agitators have their way everyone will be at loggerheads, the outpht will diminish and women will be the victims, for they will be unable to get employment. In this event there will be nothing for those 2,000,000 women to do but sink into misery or go to the colonies. Their future lies virtually in the hands of labor. I wrote in 1914: “Feminism, if it is a live thing, cannot mean the elimination of children from women’s lives; one can afford to trust not only life but women for that. The time has already come when women are achieving success in their work and in the upbringing of their children as well. But complete freedom, both to work and to bear children, involves almost unimaginable changes in social conditions,- ;in housing, nursing, education, cooking, cleaning and in industry and the professions. It is the biggest job of the feminist movement, and on its success or failure the' whole thing hangs.” These “unimaginable changes” are already coming about in England as a result of the war, and home life, community life, education and industry are being put on a new basis. The reconstruction program of the British government is so farreaching that ten years ago most of us would have called it socialistic, but people have moved forward to meet it. Frau Clara Mende, German National Assembly—The emigration question particularly concerns the women at this time. Women must impress on the government that no consuls or no foreign representatives be selected who are unmarried in order that each place where we are represented the families of our representatives may become centers of German colonies. Secretary of tig Interior Lane—We must stop the concentration of 'our work in the big pities if we art. to solve for long the problem of soaring food prices. B •

Former Secretary at the Treasury

The government of the United States for more than one hundred years has been conducted upon financial principles which would have bankrupted a private corporation within a few months. No public officer has been directly responsible for the adjustment of expenditures to receipts. No public officer has direct control over the estimates of the different departments. A distinguished gentleman in 1909 was credited with the statement that 30 per cent of the government’s entire revenue —a sum totaling $300,000,000 —was

By MAJ. HARRY B. HAWES

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

AT THE STAR THEATER FRIDAY The Great Photodrama, “The End of the Road.” That a new day has dawned in the discussion of sex is nowheru more strikingly apparent than in the presentation of such a picture as “The End of the Road,” whic-> is to -be shown Friday in the Star theater. It is a photodrama of such daring and containing such shocks as to have aroused comment throughout the country. But it is, withal, so sweet a story and so cleverly constructed and enacted, that it avoids giving offense, etven with its ehocks It used to be that talk of sex .was banished to the places of secrecy—with all the opportunity for perverted facte to find lodgment in the minds of boys and girls. Now it is recognized that this very secrecy bred the ignorance and recklessness whiwh has been found to have tainted hundreds of thousands of our unen and women, with a distinct and terrible menace to the future of the nation. “The End of the Road” has been declared the most powerful weapon in the organized fight to banish secrecy about sex from all parts of the country. It does its part—never dodging facts in scenes nor mincing words in titles in covering the subject of sex relations and the terrible penalties of ignorance and recklessness. In cities where it has been shown 1 physicians have reported that men and women have brought their cases to them, with recovery assured in thousands of cases, where, formerly, the victims of their own ignorance would have gone to the grave silent, and left behind a taint which might extend even to the third and fourth generation, with blinded and crippled babies in its wake. It is this mission which has made “The End of the Road” the most-discussed picture of the decade. In it appear Richard Bennett, famous star of the legitimate stage, who placed on the boards “Damaged Goods,” in violation of all tradition, and Claire Adams, declared the most beautiful girl in fllmdom. A strong cast supports them in a story of love and its obstacles in which the paths of two girls cross and recross, the one finding misery because a foolish mother permitted her to gain her sex facts at a perverted source; the other finding perfect happiness “at the end of the road” through the wisdom of a mother who talked to her about life and its dangers from her early teens. The picture will be shown from 1:30 to 11 o’clock Friday in the Star.—Advt.

A LAGGARD CONGRESS INDEED

Republican Paper Scores Its Party for Dilly-Dallying Policy. The Indianapolis News (Rep.) in a lengthy editorial in Monday evening’s paper, scored the Republican congress severely for its do nothing policy, saying: Congress was called together last May in extraordinary session because it was supposed that there was much work to (be done that could not wait for the session in December. Indeed, the president was severely criticised for not calling congress together in March, immediately after the close of the regular session. There were, it seemed, matters that it was absolutely necessary to tend to. Yet, after almost six months, congress is able to show nothing done of a constructive character. , Shortly after it met, the house of representatives actually talked of adjourning because It could find nothing to do. The appropriation bills were, of course, passed, but beyond that the record is practically a blank. Congress was promptly informed that the railroads were to be returned to their owners at the end of the present calendar year- That is only a little more than two months away. Though there have been hearings, no railroad bill has yet been reported to either house, though it is known that some legislation is necessary. It does not seem probable that there can be any before the end of the year, though the country is hopeful. Confessedly the immigration problem is one of the first importance. It was announced in the disipatchea last week that 10,000,000 Germans and Austrians and hordes of Bolshevik! were preparing to descend on) us as soon as peace was declared. Yet, though there has been an abundance of time, no immigration policy has been agreed on. The only thing that can be done, and it is not certain that even this course will be taken, is to extend the wartime restrictions for a year. Nor does it seem likely that anything of iftniportance will be done even at the regular session, which meets >.in December. Senator Penrose, chairman of the senate finance committee, favors the postponement of all reconstruction legislation, as far as it affects finances, till 1921. We do not believe that the people desire any general tariff legislation, and that it would be a mistake to attempt it under present conditions. But there are questions -that certainly ought not 'to be passed over. It is generally agreed flhat there must be some safeguarding of pur

tww Industries that sprang up during the war against German con> petUion, Some policy in regard to shlp.ping ought to be agreed on. Yet all such matters are, it Senator Penrose has his way, to go over till after we have elected a president next year. So, what we were led to believe was to be a construct!'/ congress, has thus far constructed practicaly nothing The mistake probably was irv thinking that any congress that met on the eve of a presidential campaign could be constructive.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The .egular teachers’ examination will be held at the high school auditorium Saturday, Oct 25. All teachers in the county who are teaching on permits must take this examination.. The Jasper county board of education was very favorably impressed with the consolidated buildings at Tefft and Demotte. Trustee Duggleby of Kankakee township piloted the party to Tefft and Dunn’s Bridge. Trustee Bowie of Wheatfield led them over northern Wheatfield township to the Cook ranch, where they were royally entertained by Mr. Cook. After dinner they were directed by Trustees Bowie and Fairchild towards Demotte, where they inspected the new school building. The members of the board from the center and southern end of the county were very much surprised to see the great progress the north end is making in Its farms and schools. Commissioners Makeever, Welch and Marble were in this party also. Prof. Paul W. Ashby of Tefft is proving his ability as a leader in the community work in Kankakee township. His latest success is a school ipaper containing interesting suggestions relative to healthy community progress. This paper is edited principally by students in the high school. Miss Zona Dillon and Miss Helen Porter, teachers at Union In Jordan township, are getting results in their rooms by soliciting their pupils to purchase thrift stamps. During the first month of/school the pupils of both rooms bought 117.92 worth of these savings securities. The sales were distributed as follows: Bernard Brown, $4.24; Bernice Brown, $4.20; Oral Fenwick, $6.35; Ivan Cain, $1.30; Harold May, 64c; Grace Shumaker, 44c; Ductile Augspurger, 37c; Helen Shumaker, 27c; Francis Brown, 10c; Flossie Simonin, lc. Other schools of the county are urged to report their work in this thrift as well as patriotic work. Institutes were held at Rensselaer, Barkley Center, Wheatfield, Fair Oaks and McCoysburg last Saturday. Robert Rayle is teaching the Union school in Marion township. There are 25 teachers who are teaching their first schools this year. They are doing remarkably well. It is not fear of failure but desire to do well that is making success for them. Miss Nettie B. Jordan of Barkley township has been 'procured by Jasper county to give services to promote health throughout the county. She has decided to work in our schools a part or most of her time. Miss Jordan will come to a school upon solicitation of a teacher and give a diagnosis of any child or number of children relative to hearing, sight, tonsils, throat, adenoids, stoppage of nose, ears, etc. In fact, this traveling nurse can be made the most effi- ' cient official in Jasper county if the teachers will communicate the names of their defectives' to Miss Nettie B- Jordan, Rensselaer, Ind., in care of Red Cross.

On Thursday, Nov. 13, State Supt. L. N. Hines has decided to hold a conference in the forenoon and afternoon at Rensselaer. This conference is designed to formulate a program of rural education in the tenth congressional district. Supt. Hines has written all county superintendents and trustees in the tenth district urging them to he present at both ttye forenoon and afternoon sessions. This educational conference is open to all friends of education who are interested in rural education'. Jasper county will be represented by the 13 trustees and as many others as can attend a genuine educational Conference. The meeting will likely be held in the court house. If the crowd is too large then other accommodations are available. A visiting day will be given to all teachers of Jasper county regardless of experience. Most of the beginners and several of the experienced teachers have had their visiting day already. The entire Fair Oaks school visited at Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer last Friday. ,The state association meeting will be held at Indianapolis Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1. Teachers are privileged to attend with two days’ pay. This is optional with the teachers. Teachers under the Jurisdiction of the county superintend-

ent can get their tickets from the county superintendent. The fee is $1 this year. By paying the fee at home Che teachers are rid of enrolling troubles at Indianapolis. The fee there is th* same. Mildred Rush and Mildred .Gifford gave a joint box social last Friday night. •'*»-

CLIPPED from OUR CONTEMPORARIES

Shenman Hawkins, aged 33 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hawkins of Brook, was killed at Toledo, 0., Oct 12, when (he was accidentally struck and run over by an automobile driven by A- A. Lockard of Toledo. Young Hawkins was born and raised in Brook and served three years In the army, after which he went to Toledo and was employed as a motorman for the Toledo Railways & Light Co. • j Harvey Mclntyre, driver for the Thompson Pasterlzed Milk Co., was killed at Frankfort at 9:10 o’clock Friday morning when the truck he was driving was struck by the northbound Monon passenger train whlcfh passes through Rensselaer at 10:36. The accident occurred .at the crossing just south of the fair grounds and near the junction of the Monon and T. H. I. & E. Interurban.

Steel mills in the Chicago and Calumet district opened- the fifth week of the strike Monday with a distinct advantage over the strikers, according to the claims of mill officials. Many of the mills, according to plant managers, operated with a labor force of 75% and others were said to have nearly a full force. The union leaders said the bulk of the strikers were standing firm.

An automobile in which were Leonard Jacobs, 48 years old, a prominent St. Joseph county farmer, his wife, aged 39 and her mother, Mrs. Josephine Frazer, aged 67, and three children of the Jacobs’s, was struck by a New York Central train at the Spring street crossing in Mishawaka Sunday night and the three former killed and the three children badly Injured.

The Bolshevik hold on Petrograd Is weakening and its fall is expected at almost any moment. Kronstadt, the great Island fortress seaside, capitulated- Friday, and there is nothing now to prevent the advance of the Esthonian troops along tile shore toward Petrograd, which the fortress guns had thus far held up.

Thieves stole two stands of bees from the premises of G. Burkle, 7 miles west of Lafayette, on the Pine Village road, Saturday night. Mr. Burkle is offering SSO reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves.

There are now less than 15,000 American soldiers in France and this number is rapidly diminishing. Within a month, it is said, virtually all the soldiers will be back on American soil.

(Under this Lead notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first Insertion, %-cent-a-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notices. No notice accepted for less than ?5 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times —as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.) FOR SALB For Sale—9 white pigs, 6 weeks oId.—HARLOW PEEK, phone 949-B. ts For Sale—Big-boned B. O. Rhode Island Red roosters. —MRS.. C. HURLEY, Wheatfield, R-l. ml For Sale —1 full carat, perfect diaimond, on easy terms. Inquire at Democrat office. ... * ts For Sale—Some nice recleaned timothy seed. —G. M. MYERS, phone 646, ts For Sale—-Seven-room house, near churches and schools and on imtproved street. Easy terms.t—G. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale—-Second-hand automobiles —Fords, Overlands, Saxons, Empires. KUBOSKE & WALTER, phone 294. ts For Sale—Studebaker Four, threepassenger roadster, model 18; first-class condition. Priced right. —J. C. TRANBARGER, Mt. Ayr, Ind. 022 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inbh, recently rebuilt and in A-l eondltlon.—THE DEMOCRAT.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 19i».

For Sale—A number of pure-bred Buff Orpington cockerels, price reasonable if taken at onee.—J. R. BRANDENBURG, McCoysburg, Ind., R-l. nl ° For Sale—(iood line of secondhand cars, among them two 1917 Fords 'and one 1918 Ford with selfstarter and Iights.—KUBOSKE & WALTER Garage. ts 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. Possess! on can be given in November.—MßS. NORA WORDEN, phone 296- ; 022 For Sale—BO-acre farm. Will trade for a garage in a suitable location. Fanmi has good barn, house, garage and other outbuildings; 2 wells; 1% miles west of Wheatfield. Apply in person or write FRANK TEB6IG, Owner, Wheatfield. Ind., R-l. A nls For Sale—My S acres Just north of city limits of Rensselaer; 7-room house 28x28 feet, basement sise 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.—MßS. O. M. PEEK, phone 949-B. ts

New and Rebuilt Typewriters are carried In stock in The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply Department. We handle the Oliver, brand-new and various other makes in rebuilt and second-hand. If you are in the market for a typewriter we can save you some money.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts 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 cabinets, typ* writer papers, legal blanks, etc. For Sale—l6o-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land an in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price S9O per acre. —CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. ts Typewriters—One brand-new Oliver No. 9, latest machine made by the Oliver Typewriter Co., price $57 —monthly payments if desired; 2 Smith Premiers, No. 10, rebuilt and in first-class condition, price S4O and $45, respectively. These are splendid machines, visible, tabulator, back spacer, 2-color ribbon, etc. We also have other makes of second-hand and rebuilt machines on hand from time to time, and carry at all times a full line of best make ribbons for all standard typewriters.—THE DEMOCRAT, ts

For Sale—Good two-story, 7-room house, with bate, electric lights, drilled well, large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade traes; on corner lot—really two lots each 7#«s 150 feet, each fronting Improved street and Improved street on side. Splendidly located on best residence street in Rensselaer. Lots 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 «., 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, heme. — 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

WANTED 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. t BABCOCK. ts < I Wanted—A four or six-row corn shredder.—O. M. TURNER, San Pierre, Ind., R-l. 025 Wanted —A married man and wife to work on farm. Good wages. Phone 937-A, -ERNEST BEAVER, Pleasant Ridge. 025 Wanted —Men to put in 1,000 rods rods of tile on the J. J. Lawler land west of Rensselaer.—Call ERNEST BEAVER, Foreman, phone 937-A. 029 FOUND Found—On the street in Rensselaer, Oct. 16, a plain gold brooch. Owner may have same by calling at The Democrat office and paying for this notice. 022 FINANCIAL Fann Loans—Money to loan on I farm property in any sums np to I 110,000.—E. P. HONAN. ts Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEAN ■ & SON, Odd Fellows’ Building, ■ Rensselaer. ts ■ Money to Loan—l have an \ ited supply of money to loan oniw good farm lands at,5%% and us-*®? ual commission or 6 % without ■ commission, as desired. Loans will be made for 6 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. See me ■ about these various plans.—JOHN ■ A. DUNLAP. • ts