Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — Page 4

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DO YOU KNOW it is BOY’S DAY at the Christian Bible School NEXT SUNDAY Go to Bible School somewhere next Sunday. May 30 is MEN’S DAY in this school.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. DEMOCRATS ADOPT PLATFORM Indorse Wilson Administration and Demand Ratification of Treaty—Denounce Congress for Attempt to Create Condition of Peace. Indianapolis, May 21.—Indorsement of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, the record of whose “achievements is unsurpassed in the history of the republic,” demand for the ratification of the treaty of Versailles and American membership in the League of Nations as presented by the president to the senate, and denunciation of the “unlawful and unwarranted effort of the present congress to create a condition of peace by so-called peace resolution are chief points in the platform adopted by the Democratic state convention here. Although vigorous efforts had been made to insert a wet plank in the platform, no liquor plank, either wet or dry entered the party’s “declaration of principles." A boom started for Vice President Thomas R. Marshall for the presidential nomination at San Francisco, Cal., was nipped by the vice president. A “lawful way to lessen what seem to be the rigors” of the federal prohibition amendment will be found by the people, Thomas Riley Marshall, vice president of the United States, declared at the convention. Asserting that “equal and exact justice for all men means for minorities as well as for majorities,” and questioning wheth er “we went forward when we passed the prohibition amendment and then immediately began openly and avowedly to seek ways to evade it,” the vice president said that “while the prohibition amendment remains it must be enforced.” . “Let us quit talking about the profiteer and begin jailing him,” was the vice president’s advice. “Let us not delude ourselves into the belief that the currency and credit of this country can double, the population increase and the production remain at a standstill, and yet that the high cost of living may be reduced and peace, plenty and prosperity abound in the land.- Let us quit talking about the profiteer and begin jailing him. And let the man who works understand that in greater production he benefits himself as well as ds fellow man. “Equal, and exact justice to the people of tins country was not guaranteed to them under old Republican rule ’when it justified special privileges upon the ground of the common good of the American people, for it knew that the legislation was 1 per cent common and 99* per cent preferred. There will not be in the future equal and exact justice if there be but a gamble between cunning and cupidity. Who doubts that in this enlightened age equal and exact justice applied as a principle, would give to labor a fait and honest wage, would demand of labor a fair and honest day’s work, would induce both labor and capital to see their duty to the ultimate consumfer, would punish the profiteer and teach the laborer that he alone can make of himself a cojnmodity?

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“Equal and exact justice means legislation for American citizens. They alone have a right to present thelt grievances. Their laws should be readjusted in the Interests of the entire people. Men are not entitled to equal protection of the law because they are bankers or bakers, millionaires or mechanics, lawyers or laborers. For their private good and for the advancement of their own interests, they have a perfect right to form, for Instance, manufacturing associations and federations of labor, but neither has a right to present a grievance to congress as a class grievance. It has every right to present it as an American grievance If it be one.” A woman will be a member of the Indiana big four at the San Francisco convention and three wofnen will be alternates. The big four chosen follow: Vice President Marshall, Thomas Taggart, senatorial nominee; Samuel Ralston and Alice Foster McCulloch of Fort Wayne. Alternates will be: Mrs. Fred Lauensteln of Evansville, Mrs. Mary K. McNutt, Indianapolis ; Mrs. Hortense Tapp Moore, Rockville, and Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes.

Higher Street Car Rate. Indianapolis, May 21. —The public service commission authorized the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company to discontinue the sale of six tickets for 25 cents on the Richmond city street car lines. The company was authorized to charge a straight 5-cent fare. The Home Telephone and Telegraph company of Fort Wayne was authorized to continue in effect its present rates at the New Haven exchange. The commission estimated that the annual operating expenses of the exchange would be $7,000 and that the rates will yield $8,500. That will allow a return of 7 per cent, the order said. Distribute Library Books. . Indianapolis, Maj' 21. —William J. Hamilton, secretary of the public library commission, is distributing among the 200 libraries of the state several thousand books allotted to Indiana by the American library association from volumes collected for war service.

THINKS HARD TIMES FAR OFF

Chicago Banker Says Panics and Bread Lines Not Imminent. Chicago, May 21.—Panics, business depressions, bread lihes are not Imminent. In fact, according to George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial National bank, who returned from the Washington conference of bankers, on the present industrial, money and business ‘situation, there will be nothing of that kind at all if the people of the country—meaning everybody,.not just here and there a merchant or a manufacturergets together in old war-time co-opera-tion and reduces the pressure upon money and business by liquidating stocks, stopping extravagance and ceasing borrowing money for unnecessary operations.

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Cut Prices 50 Per Cent.

Ottumwa. la., May 21.—Department sh.es. men’s furnishing, ladies’ ready-to-wear and ahoe shops In Ottumwa are announcing reductions in prices ranging 20 to 50 per cent.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

DANIELS BACKS NAVY PERSONNEL

Secretary Reviews All Legislation During His Term of Office. REPLIES TO FISKE'S ATTACK Says U. S. Had 520,021 Against 415,162 In the British Navy When the Armistice Was Signed—Blocked “Slackers’ Paradise.” Washington. May 21.— Secretary Daniels replied to the criticisms of naval officers that he did not take adequate steps to secure sufficient personnel for tile navy before the United States entered the war. He told the senate committee Investigating the navy s conduct of the war that efforts to link his personnel policies in 1914 with the world war had been “abortive” and declared that if fie erred then it was because lie followed the precedents established by those who preceded him in office. He had been criticized by Rear Admiral Fiske and other officers because in 1914 lie only asked congress for enough men to fill the peace complements of the ships, Mr. Daniels said, although he was only following recommendations of the general board, made In conformity with established policies of the department. Mr. Daniels reviewed at length all of the personnel legislation during his term of office and told the committee that what the navy did in enrolling and training young men during the world war has had no precedent in any navy during the last or any previous war. The British navy, he said, totaled 415,162. officers and men when the armistice was signed, against 520,021 for the United States.

Recommended 10,000 Men. In May, 1916, the general board recommended 10,000 men as the number necessary for the navy for war in the Atlantic. Mr. Daniels said. In August of that year he recommeni|ed, and congress authorized just 3,000 less than that number, he declared. “Nobody in the navy in 1915 or 1916 dreamed that in any war so many as 500,000 men would be needed,” he declared. It was not until after the United States entered the war that it became evident preparations must be made on a much larger scale than 100,000 men, Mr. Daniels said. Efforts of Admiral Fiske to convey to the committee an Impression that the secretary directed the general board in 1914 to cut out certain recommendations with regard to the personnel were unjust to the board and to him, Mr. Daniels said. He did not ask for a large increase in personnel that year, he said, because he did not believe congress or the country was disposed to spend the money necessary, adding, however, that he did not order any part of the board’s recommendations withheld/- He did suggest that the board stress the building program and eliminate reference to any particular increase in men that year, the witness said. Blocks Slackers. Only drastic actions prevented the naval reserve force from becoming a “slacker’s paradise” early in the war, Mr. Daniels said. The awarding of commissions in class 4 to unqualified young men by naval officers went so far, he said, that he was forced to issue orders prohibiting further enrollments in this class. “Commissions in the naval reserve had been cheapened by lax issues of commissions to men who ought to have been enlisted in the ranks and told that the only way to get a commission was to earn it by service in the lower grades,” said Mr. Daniels. “It had gone to such an extent as to threaten a public scandal.” Mr. Daniels concluded his direct statement before the committee.

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DRY FRONT HAS ACTIVE DAY

“Booze Sniffers" in Chicago Arrest Nineteen Suspects. Chicago, May 21. —With the arrest of 19 men for violating the national prohibition act Major'Dalrymple and his agents believe they have uncovered the largest conspiracy yet discovered to evade the federal liquor law. Receipts for the transfer of liquor valued at $22,500 were found on Louis Greenberg, 4346 Lincoln avenue, one of the men arrested. The men are held in custody at Major Dalrymple’s office and warrants will be asked from the United States commissioner. The total amount of liquor involved is said to be from $250,000 to $500,000.

OHIO VILLAGE IS “SHOT UP”

Bandits Get $12,000 in Wild West Raid on Toledo Suburb. Toledo, 0., May 21. —In true western style six bandits shot up the main street of Delta, O.', near here, serlously wounded James Warner, a baker, invaded the People’s Savings bank and escaped with $12,000 in cash and Liberty bonds. Townspeople scurried for shelter as the bandits sped through the main street in a touring car, shooting in all directions. More than fifty shots were fired.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, May 20. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— Ing. ~est est. ing. May ...1.85% 1.87% 1.85*4 1-86% July ...1.67%-66 1.68% 1.66 1.67% Sept. ..1.57-56% 1.58% 1.56% 1.58 Oats— r May ...1.04 1.05% 1.04 1.05% July 89%-89 .90% .88% .90-% Sept ....74%-% .75% .74% .75% RyeMay ...2.10 2.10 2.09% 2.10 July ...2.01-2.00 2.02% 2.00% 2.01% Sept. ..1.87% 1.90*4 1.87% 1.90% FLOUR—Car lots, per brl, 98 lb sack basis: Rye, white, in Jute, [email protected]; dark rye, [email protected]; spring wheat, special brands, [email protected]; to retail trade, »16.25@ 16.50; hard spring, [email protected]; first clears, |[email protected]; second clears, [email protected]; hard winter, [email protected]; soft winter, $12.75@ 13.00. HAY—Choice and No. 1 timothy, f48.00@ 50.00; standard and No. 1 clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 1 and No. 2, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, $4 [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery extras, 92 score, 56%c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, 91 score, 55%c; 88-90 score, 63@55c; seconds, 83-87 score, 47@51c; centralized, 56%c;• ladles, 44c; renovated, 49c; packing stock, 34@29%c. Price to retail trade: Extra tubs, 59c; prints, 61c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 41@42c; ordinary firsts, 37@38c; miscellaneous lots, cases Included, 39%@40%c; cases returned, 39@40c: extras, packed in whitewood cases, 48© 49c; checks, 33@34%c; dirties, 35@35%c; storage firsts, 43%@43%c; extras, 44c. LIVE POULTRY—FowIs, 37c; broilers. [email protected] per doz; roosters, 20c; ducks. 36c: geese. 20c. ICED POULTRY — Turkeys, 48@50c: fowls. 36@37c: roosters, 20@22c; ducks, 34@35c; geese. 23@24c. POTATOES —Per 100 lbs, northern, round, [email protected]<). NEW POTATOES—Per brl, [email protected]: hampers, [email protected]. CATTLE —Choice to prime steers, $12.75 @13.50; good to Choice steers,' $12.00© 12.75: fair to good steers. [email protected]; yearlings, fair to choice, [email protected]; stockers anil feeders. [email protected]; good to prime cows [email protected]; fair to good heifers, slo.oo© 13.00: fair to good cows, [email protected]: canners, $4 50©5.60; cutters. [email protected]; veal calves. [email protected]; bologna bulls, $7.75@ 8.50. HOGS—Choice light butchers. $14.00@ 14.40: medium wt. butchers, [email protected]: heavy butchers. 270-350 lbs. [email protected]: fair to fancy light, [email protected]; mixed packing. [email protected]; heavy packing. $11.75 @13.00; rough packing, [email protected]; pigs. [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Colorado wool lambs. $19.50@ 20.00: native lambs. [email protected]; sprfhg lambs, [email protected]; feeding lambs and shearers, [email protected]; clipped lambs, $17.00 @17.25; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, $12.00@ 14.00. Buffalo, N. Y., May 20. CATTLE —Receipts, 250; steady. CALVES— Receipts, 1,200 ; 50c lower; $6.00 @15.50. • HOGS— Receipts, 4,000; steady; heavy, [email protected]; mixed and yorkers, $15.25; light yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, f14.60@ 14.75; roughs, $12.'[email protected]; stags, $7.00@ 9.00.’ SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 1,600; slow, unchanged.

NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS, NEWTON TOWNSHIP Saturday, May 22, will be the last day for paying dog tax without the $1 penalty.— C. C. PARKS, Assessor.

THE ECONOMY GROCERY TOBACCO “Old Kentucky,” three 20c packages 50c “Way-Up,” “Granger,” “Rough Cut,” “Oceanic,” “Giant” or "Peachy,” 3 packages > 25C . (Good Luck, per pound 42c Oleomargarine 1 M kt . j (Nucoa Nut, per pound ouc Sugar Corn, 2 cans 25c Tomato (with Puree) No. 2% can.. .. 18c "Sunshine” Honey Cakes, assorted, per pound 30c "Excello” Cake Flour, vanilla 35c Coco, 17-ounce Mason jar 50c 10 pound pail Black Beauty Axle Grease SI.OO I LAUNDRY SOAP Lenox, 10 bars . 48c Santa Claus, 6 bars 33c Jack Rabbit or Jinx Mechanics Soap, 2 for 25c Oranges, Bananas, Grapefruit, New Potatoes* Head Lettuce, Radishes, Asparagus, Etc. Phone 71 C. L. MURPHY Phone7l

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toWrnsw (Under this head notices win 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 25 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 SALE For Sale—B head of shotes, wt. about 70 pounds each, 6 miles south on Rensselaer-Remington road. — JULIUS KLINGER. m 22 For Sale—Large size sheetiron woodstove, good as new.—RICE PORTER, phone 435. x m 22 For Sale—Good house and lot, cheap for quick sale. —M cCORMICK MONUMENT WORKS, telephone No. 218. ’ m 29 For Sale—J4 h. p. electric motor, Fairbanks Morse, 1200 r. p. m., 3-phase, 110 volts. This motor is practically good as new, and will be sold at two-thirds cost of new motor if taken at once. —THE DEMOCRAT. -ts For Sale—Durham heifer, now giving milk. Will sell for cash or bankable note. —JAMES THOMPSON, phone 938-D. mi2B For Sale—Nicely located residence property on Park avenue, only 2 blocks from business part of Rensselaer—H. S. HOPKINS, 306 No. R. R. St., Monticello, Ind. jl For Sale—lo-room modern house, close in. Might trade for farm. — GEO. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale—s-room house and 4 lots, 1 block from Main street in Fair Oaks. This is a good property and will sell cheap.—C. E. WOLFE, Laporte, Ind. m 22 For Sale at Bargains— All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, In tne white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale—Nicely located city property, corner lot, house of 7 rooms with bath, one or two lots, each 75x150, Improved streets on three sides, fine shade, fruit, cistern, etc. An attractive price on this property if taken soon.—C. W. DUVALL. ts Eggs for Setting—Pure-bred Buff Orpingtons, $1 per 15 if taken from my place; $1.50 if to be shipped via parcel post.—JAMES E. GILMORE, Rensselaer, R-2. jnl

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SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1920-

For Sale—National cash register, registers up to $29.99, total adder and ticket delivery. Latter can be used or not, as desired. Copper finish and a handsome machine. Will sell for about % original price. —THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—lOO-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 SBO per acre.—CHAS. J. DEAN 4 SON. 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 sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home. — HARVEY DAVISSON. ts Pasture for Rent by the Acre—9o acres east of Pleasant Ridge, and two pastures of 90 acres each and one of 200 acres at Fair Call ERNEST BEAVER, 938-1. ts WANTED ■ Wanted—Two waiters, boys or girls. Apply at once at the BARbtES RESTAURANT. m 22 Rug Cleaning—Having purchased a new electric vacuum cleaner, I solicit your spring rug cleaning.— CHAS. COLLINS, phone 62. m 22 Wanted —Lawn mowers to sharpen, at the county heating plant, by the jail.—Phone 639, LEN GRIGGS. - ■—W J List your farms with us before our new spring booklet goes out to other agents with whom we are working.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts Wanted—Trucks or teams to haul rock on stone road contract in Barkley township; haul from Moody, on C. & W. V. Ry.—WM. STALBAUM, Tefft, R-l, phone Medaryville or Moody. Jl Wanted—Men to put In 400 rods of tile.—Call ERNEST BEAVER, 938I. ts Trucking Wanted —I . have a new ton truck and solicit business in this line. If you have moving or any other trucking to do, call 473. —FRANK HAMER. if FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. ts Money to Loan—(JHAS. 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%% *ud usual commission or 6 % without commission, as desired. Loans will be made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. Bee me about these various plans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts