Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1920 — Page 2

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F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Dlstanc* Talephone* Office 315 Reefdence *ll Entered as second class mail matter runt I, 1908, at the poetoftlce at RensMlaer, Indiana, under the Act of March K Lili. Published Wednesday and Saturday (The Only All-Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. BUBSCRIPTION |2 00 PBR ANNUM—STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY Twenty cents per inoh. ' Special position. Twenty-five cents Rich READERS Per Une, first insertion, ten cents. Per line, additional insertions, five •Ants WANT ADS One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25 cents. Special price If run •oe or more months. Cash must ax;company order unless advertiser has an •pen account. „ CARD OF THANKS Not to exceed ten lines, fifty cents; eash with order. ACCOUNTS All due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. . . . No advertisements accepted for ths first page. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920.

"REPUBLICANS PERPLEXED"

Under the above heading—•which in plain English means “Up Against It”—the Lafayette Journal, the Republican organ of Tippe- 1 canoe county, says of the proposal to call an extra »session of the legislature to amend the tax and county unit road laws and make provision for other things that are practically imperative because of. the inefficiency of the regular session held in 1919: The Republican state committee 'lias designated May 12-13 as the dates on which the state convention will be held in Indianapolis for the purpose of adoring a platform, selecting delegates and alternate delegates at large to the national convention, presidential electors at large and contingent electors at large, and nominating state candidates.

The meeting of the state committee was also the ‘ occasion for the assembling of State candidates and party workers who engaged in rather lengthy discussion of political conditions in the state and matters that are considered of vital importance from a party standpoint. For some time there has been considerable discussion of a special cession of the legislature and the impression has gone forth that sooner or later Governor Goodrich rwcxuld convene the legislators for the purpse of transacting business that it was thought could not wait until the convening of the regular session next January. Unanimous opposition to such a proceeding was registered by the state committee, however, and the majority of the candidates also expressed opposition to the plan. The responsibility for a special session has been placed squarely up tv Governor Goodrich who must be guided by his own knowledge of existing conditions. If the affairs of the state legitimately necessitate a special session then there can be little doubt but that it will be called, but seemingly there is divi-

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sion of opinion on this subject. From a political point of view a special session in a camipaign year is to be. avoided if possible and the longer the call is delayed the more dangerous such a session becomes for the party responsible for it. In this instance if there was assurance that only needful measures and amendments would be dealt with there might be less objection, if the legislature assembled soon. But delay will merely add to any attendant embarrassment Republicans are still shy of special sessions in caimipaign years, recollection of J. Frank Hanly’s experiment in that direction being fresh in their minds.

AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IS NEEDED

The extent to which the world is out of joint—and there is need for co-operation to get it back into smooth working condition —is illustrated by ‘the reports from Paris, Ramie and Kansas City. Italy is about to restore the food card system of rationing that was in force during the war. Paris has imposed restrictions on restaurants, limiting the menus to two courses. It is reported that if the situation is unimproved, soon Paris will order the observance of two meatless days each week. Kansas City reports 2,500 men laid off at the packing houses because of the slump in exports. The food situation in Paris, no doubt, is due very largely to the railway strike inaugurated in France, but that does not apply in Italy. There is shortage of food in Italy just as there is in Austria and some other parts of Europe/ While thousands across the Atlantic are getting along on, reduced rations, the packers in Kansas City have had ito shut down because of a surplus of products piled up in this country. We have more food than we can use and a large proportion of the people do not have enough because of the trade resulting from the war.

The solution of the problem for hungry Europeans and ifor our packers and producers who are obliged to curtail operations is in such readjustment of international trade relations as will make it possible for those who need our prodimcts to buy them. Some nearstatesmen in the senate may contend that we can get along satisfactorily without belonging to the league Of nations, but they can not show how it is possible for us to keep out of foreign markets and not suffer industrial depression. Italy not only wants our food and awr coal, but urgently needs them and is willing to pay, if that 'is made possible. • It is to'our advantage, as well as >to the interest of Europeans, to get the world back to a stable peace basis at the earliest possible moment. We can not hope for normal trade relations so long as exchange conditions practL cally bar prospective customers from our markets. There should be such helpful co-operation on our

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part as will enable less fortunate people to weather the present crisis. —lndianapolis Star.

U. S. INCOME TAX EXEMPTS NOBODY

Every Person Who Had Income in 1919 Must Determine Own Liability. MARCH 15 LAST FILING DATE. Surest Way Is to Follow Form 1040 A. Free Advice in Doubtful Cases. Severe Penalties In Law. ✓ Nobody is exempt from Income Tax. An obligation is laid directly on the shoulders of each citizen and resident to consider his own case and to get his return in on time if one is due. With each return showing a tax due a payment must accompany the return in the full amount of the tax or at least one-quarter of the tax. All returns for 1919 must be filed on or before March 15. Must Show True Figures. In figuring up his earnings for income tax purposes a person must take Into consideration all items of taxable income, and each item itself must be accurate in amount. Guesses and estlmtiies uuifil be avoided, for the return is made under oath. Everybody who had an income dur.ng 1919 must now determine whether his or her net income was sufficient in mount to require an Income Tax return. The best way to find out is to get a Form 1040 A and follow the in structions printed on it. That form will serve as a reminder of every item of income; ami if a return is due, it tells how to prepare ami file it. One of the important points to keep in mind is that a person's net income is found by a computation prescribed in the law, and that each item of income from every source must be considered, unless specifically exempted. Another thing.to remember is that the personal exemption allowed taxpayers by law has no relation whatever to the requirement to file return. This exemption is not to be considered until a person has figured out his net income and determined whether it was sufficient to require him to file a return. Then, if a return must be filed, he should read carefully the instructions for claiming exemption, and complete his return. If in doubt on any point as to Income or deductions, a person may secure free advice and aid from the nearest Internal Revenue office. Many banks and trust companies are also furnishing similar service during banking hours.

Heavy Penalties in Law. For failing to make a return on time the penalty is a fine of not more than SI,OOO and an addition of 25 per cent to the tax, if any. For making a false or fraudulent return the penalty is a fine of not more than SIO,OOO or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both; and, in addition, 50 per cent of the tax. There are other penalties for failing to pay tax when due and for understatement of the tax through negligence. Many Sources of Income. Asid/ from what one may earn by his services, there are many other sources of income. If he sold any property during 1919 he must figure out the gain Realized. If he rented buildings, land, apartments or rooms such rents must be considered taxaable, and he may claim deductions for necessary expenses incidental to rents. Bank interest is a common source of Income and is taxable whether withdrawn or not. Any amounLof interest credited to a depositor is income to the depositor. Interest on mortgages and notes 5 is taxable; also bond interest received from corporations. A taxpayer who cashed his insurance during 1919 must report as in.come any excess received over the total of premiums paid. Members of partnerships or personal service corporations or beneficiaries of an estate or trust must report theft shares of Income distributable to them whether or not actually withdrawn. Dividends of domestic corporations must be reported. Many other forms of income are taxable, unless specifically exempted.

INCOME TAX IS OUTMARCH 15 Penalties for Delay and Failure to Make Returns—Early Compliance Urged. All income tax returns covering the year 1919 must be filed by Monday, March 15. Each taxable return must ba accompanied by check or money order for the full amount or at least onequarter of the amount of tax due. Cash payments are accepted only at the collector’s main office; if by maiL they are at the sender’s risk. Residents* of Indiana should file their returns with, and make payments of Income Tax to, William L. Elder, Collector of Internal Revenue, Indianapolis. Duplicate order books. Fairbanks scale books, etc., carried In stock In The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department.

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Universal military training as an issue in tire coming campaign will be left for definition to the national conventions. The program of Republican house leaders to omit the training question from the army reorganization bill was accepted by the house military’ committee at Washington. • * * Bainbridge Colby of New York, who was one of the leaders in the Progressive party under Theodore Roosevelt, will succeed Robert Lansing as secretary of state. Announcement of his selection by President Wilson was made at the White House in Washington. • * • Charles R. Crane of Chicago is understood to have been selected by President Wilson as minister to China to succeed Dr. Paul Reinsch, who recently resigned. « • * Tlie president sent to the senate the nomination of William S. Phillips of Massachusetts, to be minister to the Netherlands. Mr. Phillips is now assistant secretary of state at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington was asked by George P. Hampton, ■ managing director of the Farmers’ National council, to veto the railroad bill on the “grounds of public policy.’’ •* ♦ 4 The last act of legislation required of congress at Washington to provide for the return of the railroads to their owners was completed when the senaate, voting 47 to 17, adopted the conference report on the Cummins-Esch bill. • • • Efforts of the government at Washington to force down the high cost of living are still futile, the bureau of labor statistics announcing that retail prices advanced 2 per cent between December 15, 1919, and January 15, 1920. Washington, capital of the nation, has a population of 437,414, according to the first returns of the 1920 census just made public, an Increase of 106.345 since 1910. • e • The senate commerce committee at Washington ordered a favorable report on Chairman Jones’ bill prohibiting the sale of the 30 former German passenger liners, except as may hereafter be provided by congress. That it now appears certain estimates for annual appropriations will be reduced by congress at least SL--000,000,000, was asserted by Republican Leader Mondell In the house at Washington. • • • One-cent postage for local or drop letters was approved by the senate post office committee at Washington. Domestic Penitentiary and jail sentences rariging from three to fifteen months were imposed at Cincinnati by United States Judge Peck upon 13 socialists convicted of conspiracy to defeat the military draft. • * ♦ Mexican aviators stationed opposite Eagle Pass, Tex., crossed to Eagle Pass In a body with floral offerings for the funeral of Lieut. Horace Corey of Chicago, an American army aviator killed In a fall. ♦ * • The Farmers’ State bank at Valparaiso. Ind., was closed by state examiners. The last statement showed, December 31, resources, $936,239. There were deposits of $706,487. The Hobart bank also was closed. • * e Miss Anita Whitney was sentenced at Oakland, Cal., to from one to fourteen years In the state penitentiary on a charge of criminal syndicalism. She is well known as a gocial and charity worker and lecturer. * * • Sixty-one still outfits have been seized In and near Okmulgee, Okla., In a week and eight alleged moonshiners arrested. A large quantity of corn whisky and 2,000 gallons of sour mash were confiscated. * * * True bills were voted against Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, and his manager. Jack Kearns, by the United States grand jury at San Francisco, charging violation of the draft law. e e 3 Prohibition closed the doors of the Case de Paris, formerly known as “Rector’s,” one of New York’s most famous restaurants. -, • • • “There hasn’t been such a hoax put over on the country since the fake armistice report as this report of the ‘rum rebellion’ in Iron county,” said District Attorney Marlon McDonough *t Iron River, Mich. “There is no rebellion in Iron county. It is a clean county. Prohibition is being enforced to the limit and my office is giving the federal agents every aid possible.”

Prohibition Commissioner Kramer halted Dalrymple’s drive on the socalled rum rebellion in northern Michigan. After destroying 450 gal- । lons of home-made “chlantl” at Iron River, the colonel and his men returned to Chicago without making any arrests. * • • Miss Florence Housel, fifty, owner of the Huntington Hall School for Girls in South Pasadena, Cal., was shot and killed in her room by an unknown assailant. • • ♦ Because of the acute newsprint shortage the publicity bureau of the army at New York announced that it had decided to discontinue temporarily its syndicate service to 2,800 newspapers. • e e Eight masked gunmen entered the Tammany club, Eighth assembly district, New York, and robbed 40 members who were playing cards of about $5,000. They escaped before an alarm could be given. Lobbying by class interests at Washington more seriously menaces the government than foreign complications over the League of Nations, Senator Thomas of Colorado declared in a speech at New York. * * * United States customs inspectors at Key West seized about SI,BOO worth of spirituous liquors aboard the auxiliary schooner-yacht Genesee, belonging to W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., of New York city. Personal Franklin Murphy, former governor of New Jersey, is dead at Palm Beach, Fla. was seventy-four years old. ♦ * ♦ Foreign British interests are planning to establish five large banks in Danzig and a steamer service between Danzig, Copenhagen and London, according to Polish radvices to the Vorwaerts at Berlin. e e • Undersecretary of State Moesle has been selected to succeed Mathias Erzberger. who resigned Tuesday as minister of finance at Berlin. Moesle was appointed a deputy to Erzberger on January 27. • • • Heavy losses have been inflicted by French troops upon Turkish irregular forces near Marash, vilayet of Aleppo, Syria, it was announced In the house of lords at London by the earl of Crawford. • ♦ » One hundred and ninety thousand prisoners of war, including 43,110 officers, have been from French camps since January 20, according to an announcement from the French war office at Paris. • * • An attempt has been made to assassinate Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia and Premier Protltch, according to a dispatch from Triest. Both the prince regent and the premier were wounded. • • • Twenty-one thousand kegs of American whisky, Imported by a group of Americans for consumption by thirsty American tourists, have been confiscated at Havre on the ground of illegal importation. • ♦ * Of the 719 deputies chosen In the recent Moscow election 650 -were communists, 24 were sympathizers with communism, 37 were nonpartisan and eight were mensheviki. e e e Workers at Preve di Sollgo, Italy, have seized the municipal buildings and proclaimed a soviet government, according to a Rome dispatch. • * ♦ Food riots are reported at Ludwigshaven. Mobs are said to be plundering shops. Numerous arrests have been made, according to advices received at Berlin. • • e Schools, churches and other public meeting places at Mexico City, Mex., have been closed indefinitely because of Influenza. ♦ ♦ * Mathias Erzberger, minister of finance, voluntarily resigned from the cabinet at Berlin. Erzberger’s resignation came as a climax to a day of sensational testimony In his libel suit against Dr. Karl Helfferlch. • • * Herr Fault, formerly German minister to Cuba and later minister to Bra-zil,-is said at Berlin to have been selected for the post of German charge d’affaires at Washington. ♦ • ♦ It is reported from Damascus that 400 French troops either have been killed or made prisoners by a force of Turks and Arabs near Houran, Palestine. * * • Reports of serious living conditions at Petrograd have been received by Prof. Hermann Zeldler of Viborg, showing that typhus, cholera, and Influenza are taking a heavy toll of the depleted population. Up to January 15 deaths In Petrograd were reaching a total of 8,000 a day. • * * Bolshevik forces have seized Murmansk and shipping In the harbor there, following a revolution which broke out at that port Saturday afternoon, according to a Lloyds dispatch from Vardo, Norway. /

WEDNESDAY, MARGp 3, IMO.

i'lillM wi* * RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect March 30, 1919. NORTHBOUND. No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:34 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indlanap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indlanap’s to Chicago 2:61p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 2:27 a.m. No 6 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Indlanap’s 11:13 a.m. No. 33 Chgo to Indpls and FL 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indlanap’s 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Charles G.‘ Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Bands Civil Engineer . ...L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden ... .J. J. Montgomery Councllmen J Ward No. 1 Ray Wood Wart! 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-i* Nichols Sheriff True D. Woodworth Auditor S. C. Robinson Treasurer John T. Biggs Recorder George Scott Surveyor L. D. Nesbitt Coroner ..... W. J. Wright Assessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural agent.... S. Learning Health Officer . ...F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS District No. 1 H. W. Marble District No. 2 Bert Amsler District No. 3 Charles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevre Gillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff Jordan . Alfred Duggleby Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener . Charles W. Postill Marion Charles C. Wood Milroy 1 John Rush.. Newton Walter Harrington Union ‘ John F. Petet Walker , John Bowie Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent , C. M. Sands, Truant officer.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Ko cate Loans. Will practice In all the courts. Offlct 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. Farm Loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN A. DUNLAP • LAWYER (Successor tp Frank Folts) Practise in all courts Estates settled Farm loans Collection department Notary in the office Over T. & 8. bank. ’Pnone No. 13 Rensselaer, Indiana. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE A 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 2 to 3. Evening, 7 to 8. Phons 89. Rensselaer, Indiana. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State bank Office ’Phone No. 177 Residence ’Phone No. 177-B Rensselaer, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to typhoid pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendlg’s drug stor_. ’Phones: Office No. 442; Ites. No. 442-B. Rensselaer, Indiana. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteop athy. Post-graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder. Dr. A T. Still. Office hours: 8-12 a. m.; 1-3 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Indiana. Office 1-2 Murray building Rensselaer, Indiana. J. W. HORTON DENTIST JOHN N. HORTON MECHANICAL DENTIST Dentistry In all Its branches practiced here. Office Opposite Court House Square. H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larch A Hopkins’ drug store Rensselaer, Indiana.

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