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THEV NJ VER SAX CAR . •That Mighty Serviceable Truck THERE 18 this about the Ford one-ton truck that keeps It growing In popularity, namely, tho good reports which the owners of Ford trucks spread abroad among their friends and acquaintances. There Is no testimony of merit quite so strong as the testimony of personal experience. It is not long after a Ford one-ton truck is sold in a community until other sales of the same truck follow, because “its works do follow It.” ' / * —“ Well, “there Is a reason.” Yes, there are many reasons. The Ford one-ton truckwas built to serve and to satisfy. It carries all the Ford virtues: lightness In weight, simplicity in design, strength in construction, flexibility and durability—besides it has the lowest first cost and brings the lowest operating expense In the truck market. It is Just as useful; just as necessary on the farm as It Is in the city. It Is Just as necessary to the tradesmen, manufacturers, contractors, commission men and others In the city as it is necessary for such concerns to have a place to do business In —In other words, the Ford truck Is a general utility, and because of this fact and the further fact of its universal economy It Is in a class by Itself. K We will be glad to take your order for one or more Ford trucks and will give you fairly prompt delivery. You will likewise have the assurance of that reliable and economical after-service which is such a valuable factor In the service of Ford cars. Price, truck $545,000, f. o. b. Detroit, Including demountable rims and pneumatic tires. “ f • Central Sales Co. Phone Three-One-Nine

HE JIM min DMII F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long pictance Telephones Office 315 ■ Residence 311 Entered as second-class mail matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act. of March 5, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday SUBSCRIPTION 12.00 PER ANNUMSTRICTLY IN ADVANCE. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY Twenty cents per inch. Special position, Twenty-five cents inch READERS Per line, first insertion, ten cents. Ver line, additional insertions, five cents. v WANT ADS One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25 cents. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has an open account. CARDS 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 and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1920

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

There are inore Americans today than ever before who understand that international relations are by no means solely political and diplomatis. They never were, of course, but there were, nevertheless, many who could see nothing else in them. The relations are no longer wholly between governments, but between the peoples of the various countries, and even as between governments the relations are -commercial as • well as political. The association will inevitably grow closer and more intimate as the years go by, and people will become more and more dependent on one another. Yet men are thinking of the league of nations as merely a political device, as something that we can accept or Reject without affecting our nonpolitical international relations either favorably or unfavorably. There could hardly be a greater mistake. The New York Times recently said: We belong in it as a peace-loving people, and we ought to be in it in order to live up to our reputation as a shrewd, Yankee nation. For out of the international entanglement into which we have fallen there is no other way of safely and profitably extricating burselves. Good business demands, if the moral argument does not suffice, that as speedily as possible we take the chair left vacant for us at Geneva. It is Indeed a business question, as well as a moral and political one, as is being increasingly realized. Perhaps economic considerations are the

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most Important of all. Business is Interested in peace, stability, clearly defined and cordial relations among the nations of the world, and it must realize how bad it would be for trade wefe this nation to resolve to play a lone hand. Today also Ivar itself Is a great business, and one that can not be carried on except at the cost of other business; it is that greatest of economic sins—waste? In the old days nations were hardly more than fighting groups, which had little relation with one another except political. Now they are bound together by many ties, and no one of theni —■ not even the most powerful and selfcontained —-can live wholly to Itself. Political relations must be powerfully affected by these closer contacts and this greater interdependence.—lndianapolis News.

REPUBLICAN DEFICIT IS $1,500,000

Upham Clears Up Misunderstanding of Report; Lists Totals. Chicago, Nov. 23. —The deficit incurred in the Republican campaign to elect Senator Harding was approximately $1,500,000, Fred W. Upham, national treasurer, announced here today in a statement designed to clear up a misunderstanding of his report filed at Washington yester day. Washington dispatches fixing the committee’s deficit at only $189,428.95 were based on the fact that nearly $1,400,000 in loans, which must be paid, had been added to the total receipts, he said. From July 1 to the end of the campaign, expenditures tqtaled $3,348,468.80, Mr. Upham said. During the same period subscriptions brought in $2,145,970.13, leaving a deficit of $1,340,498.67. To this deficit must be added approximately $200,000 spent between June 14, the Monday after Senator Harding’s and July 1, when the campaign books were opened.

CAPTURED GERMAN SIEGE GUN

Is Again Mounted in City Park at Sheboygan, Wis. Sheboygan, Wis., Nov. 24. —Led bya band and a contingent of former service men, citizens last night hauled a captured German siege gun from a storehouse where it was consigned by the majority vote of the nine Socialist aidermen of the common council and mounted it in the municipal park. The Socialist aidermen were forced to watch the procession pass the city hall, where they were in session, while the minority aidermen, who had voted against banishment of the relic, sent up cheer after cheer. The former service men carried a coffin labeled “the nine votes,” and mounted on the gun was an effigy of Councilman Henze, which, following the placing of the gun, was burned. Councilman Henze, it was said, led the council in its action.

ROADS AND ROAD CONDITIONS

(By Charles P: Root.) Charles P. Root, field secretary of the Chicago Motor club, has recently completed, an automobile trip from Chicago to Los Angeles on behalf of the club and has written an extremely interesting summary of his trip. The information in this story will be of value to motorists all over the

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United States. This trip was made on behalf of and at the expense of the Chicago Motor club. Mr. Root is an authority on motoring subjects and is an experienced newspaper man, having been formerly associated with the Chicago Examiner, Motor Age and various other newspapers and magazines Resides having for several years been midwestern representative of the contest board of the American Automobile association. Mr. Root’s article follows: As in all cases, weather has 9. good deal to say about roads and conditions on trans-Atlantic highways; it is a case of “It all depends.” All know what Illinois roads are—not so bad when dry, but rather unpleasant following a rain. Still it

“MY DUIY TO TELL," SAYS L. & L. MAN

Feels Others Should Know How Tanlac Has Overcome His 15 Yea r s of Suffering. “While I have taken only four bottles of Tanlac, I have actually gained seventeen pqunds in weight and feel better than I have in fifteen years,” §aid John M. Williams, 204 Broadway street, Evansville, Ind., who wotks at the L. & N. railroad shops. . “For at least fifteen years I had suffered from stomach trouble and rheumatism. Nothing I ate agreed with me. After every meal I would bloat up with gas until I could hardly breathe, and have such intense pains in the pit of my stomach they nearly drew me double. There was always a bad taste in my mouth, my kidneys worried me a great deal and I was never free from pain across the small of my back. I had rheumatism just about all over my body, and could never get easy, either day or night. Why, the muscles in jny legs hurt like-they were tied in knots, and my knee joints would swell and get so stiff I could hardly walk or get up and down. In fact, I was in a mighty bad fix, and although I tried many different medicines, nothing seemed to do me a particle of good. “But I am one of those fellbws who do not believe in giving up, so I kept hunting for something that might help me, and as I had heard so much about how Tanlac was benefiting others, decided I would try it. Well, sir, I had taken only a few doses before I knew I had at last found the very thing I needed, and in a short while was feeling like my old self. I can now eat anything I want and enjoy it, for I know I will not suffer any more, and the pains have entirely gone out of my back. I never feel the slightest sign of rheumatism, and, in fact, I am a well man. I certainly feel thankful for what Tanlac has done for me, and am not only glad to recommend it, but believe it is a duty I owe to my fellowmen to tell .them about this grand medicine.” Tanlac is sold In Rensselaer by Larsh & Hopkins, and in Remington by Frank L. Peck; in Wheatfield by Simon Fendig.—Advt.

would be possible to drive through Illinois from Chicago over club route 7 even after a fairly heavy downpour. This is not true of the roads in lowa, Nebraska, New Mexico and Arizona; nor of that part of California froin Needles to Victorville, across the desert. lowa has well dragged dirt roads; they are kept in fair condition and dragged after rains. They are no better than much of the Illinois highway system, however. But while they are good when dry, they are almost impassable immediately after a rain. A day’s delay, however, is about the longest period after a downpour. Nebraska is similar. Gumbo has no bottom after a hard rain, but when dry and the drags have been over the O. L. D. route —which Is the state highway for the greater part of the stretch across the state —there is left a level road that has a face dome forty feet wide, no bad culverts to worry about and places where the maximum speed of the car is the safe limit. This applies to the eastern twothirds of the state, but west of MoCook on the O. L. D. the road is worse than any Illinois road ever dared to be. That Is why I suggested the Chicago Motor club send its members south from Oxford to Norton, Colby and Limon to Colorado Springs or Denver as desired. This is not the route I followed, however, for I went to Holyoke and Ft. Morgan and then down to Denver. Once you hit Colorado you know it by the roads, which are well graded, smooth, mostly hard and are worked all of the time. The r6ad system of that state may be called ideal. I hurried to get there because I knew rain would not seriously affect them. It must be remembered that because of the mountains, the slopes carry off the rain, whereas in Illinois, lowa and Nebraska the water is permitted to lodge in pools and keep the ground wet and soggy.

When Trinidad is left and you have gone over Raton Pass you soon find the end of the good roads; you jump into New Mexico and here is a mixture of surfaces from adobe to rock. There are some short —very short —stretches of half-way decent roads on the old national trail, but I must have had on blinders; I did not find many of them. There is fair going out of Socorro to Magdalena, but that is about all. Just as soon as you cross the New Mexico-Arizona border you know it from the improvement in the highway conditions. The good road begins, but unfortunately it diminishes as you get to the middle of the state and then it makes up for all its decency by setting down a low averof California’s wonderful roads come when the motorist approaches Needles, but he forgets he has still nearly 250 miles of more or less desert road ere he hits the boulevards out of San Bernadino. The desert is not to be feared in any way. It does have heat in the summer, as high as 120 degrees—but when I crossed it, October 8 and 9, there was none. It was warm out of Needles for twenty miles, then it clouded and was cool. To show this let me say I filled my radiator at Kingman, ran to Needles, 48 miles? and to Los Angeles without evaporating more than three pints of water. Out of Needles the motometer went to the summer heat mark for twenty miles, then dropped well below that point and never was higher. The fact is that, despite the heat while crossing lowa on September 19 worse than the heat of the desert - the overheating mark never was approached except during that hour out of Needles and that temperature was only what it should have been for efficiency. The desert road is a mixture of asphalt, sand, rock and dirt. The asphalt strip is narrow and comes in sections, but covers perhaps a quarter of the distance. It is now worn out and rough. There are some grades, but nothing worth mentioning except where they are rough they are rough in places. The sand is a comfort, for it is a relief from the bumping one receives for so many miles. West of Ludlow the road improves and west of Barstow it really becomes quite good, at least by comparison. You can hit the Tajan grade and hold it at twenty-five miles per hour or better and then, suddenly, you come to the summit and — glory be! —the beautiful, wide asphalted grade winding down Tajan Pass into San Berdoo, which is the native’s way of saying Sdn Bernadino. From there into Los Angeles, Michigan boulevard has nothing on the foothill boulevard and Huntington drive. Rain will not seriously affect the Colorado roads, but crossing New Mexico and Arizona I saw evidences of the havoc that rain can play with roads. There were ruts that must have been more than two feet deep. It rains in Arizona in the middle of the summer only. I saw no rain during the entire trip, so all I can talk about are dry weather roads. After the rains there is nothing doing across lowa, Nebraska, New Mexico and Arizona; you just wait for it to dry out. There are grades, hills and mouff tains to go up and to go down, but none that cannot be negotiated and none to fear so long as the engine is functioning and the brakes holding. Raton Pass, twenty miles out of Trinidad, is steep, very winding and requires the use of second gear with any car; likewise the engagement of second gear in descending. But the road is good and the scenery grand. Twenty miles out of Santa Fe you go down the La Bajada hill, and that is the most dangerous of all. It is narrow and rough and cars of long wheelbase must frequently back and cut to make the hairpin curves. The state, however, is now widening and improving the road, so that next year it will be in better shape. , You will find another climb at Socorro—through Blue Canyon—short* not bad, but beautiful. When you hit the Datil Canyon and cross ‘ the continental divide at 8,500 feet elevation, you will never know it because the climb has been so gradual.

If the‘motorist goes from Kingman to Needles over the “Ferry route" — but don’t do it —he will find a stiff grade up the Black Mountains to the deserted mining town of Goldroads, t»ut the .'Toad is fine, well protected and scenically wonderful. Then he will slide down to Oatman and keep going down all the way to the ferry over the Colorado river above Needles. It’s a long, long trail. From the Chicago Motor club' 4to the heart of Los Angeles a speedometer should register 2,627.6 miles if no detours are needed and no side trips are made. I made 118 extra miles one way and another, tor I covered just 2,746 miles on the trip. Here are the principal mileages, which will be of some Interest to i tourists: * Place Distance Total • 1 Between from . Places Chicago Chicago 0.0. 0.0 Davenport, la 189.6 189.6 Des Moines, la 177.2' 376.8 Omaha, Neb 152.7 529.5 Lincoln „ 66.5 596.0 Minden 141.0 '737.0 Holyoke, Colo. 220.7 957.7 Ft’. Morgan ...... 107.8 1,066.5 Denver 86.4 1,151.9 Colorado Springs .... 73.2 1,225.1 Pueblo 43.6 1,268.7 (The half-way point is about Walsenburg.) Trinidad - 91.3 1,360.0 i Las Vegas, N. M. 144.4 1,504.4 Santa Fe 74.3 1,578.7 Albuquerque ...... 65.2 1,643.9 Socorro 87.4 1,731.3 Magdaleia 24.8 1,756.1 Springerville — 134.2 1,890.3 Holbrook, Ariz. ...... 100.3 1,990.6 Winslow - 33.7 2,024.3 Flagstaff 64.2 2,088.5 Seligman 82.0 2,170.5 Kingman ~v .:.— 94.1 2,264. , 6 Needles, Cal 50.6 2,315.2 Barstow 166.2 2,481.4 San Bernadino 82.9 2,564.3 Los Angeles 63.3 2,627.6 When a traveler reaches Las Vegas or Albuquerque he may be told to go over the route through Gallup to reach Holbrook. True, he will save some 95 miles, but the best authorities do not recommend that way. It seems that ’ there are two mercantile corporations, one plugging for the Socorro-Springerville route and the other boosting the Gallup way, with the Becker a bunch the campaigners.

Average 125 Miles a Day. Traveling about 125 miles a day will consume just three weeks of time and will permit easy driving, plenty of time for sight-seeing and not make work of the trip. There are times when a little more or less will be required in order to make hotels and procure supplies. The better way is to make time in lowa, Nebraska and parts of Colorado and then slow down through New Mexico and Arizona, visiting in Colorado and the last named states. There would be, however, no difficulty in driving from Chicago to the coast in two weeks. Accommodations are Ample. The hotel and garage accommodations all fflong the route are ample; in fact, good. In every one of the towns mentioned may be found good hotels, even in the -far-away-from-the-railrcad towns of Socorro and Springerville, where new hotels have been established. Furthermore, the rates are by no means exorbitant and in addition there are good eating houses everywhere except In Winslow and Kingman. Where the Santa Fe railroad is met, which is frequent, there are the Harvey hotels and eating houses and these are known the world over. Every little burg along the route boasts a surplus of garages, tire supply houses and repair shops. Practically anything can be procured and, unless a car is somewhat exclusive, parts can be secured. Popular makes like the Dodge, Ford, Buick, Overland and such cars can be supplied with parts in almost any town on the route. _ There is ample gasoline and oil, water stations where needed even in the desert; »still it is a good practice, and is generally followed, to carry along well-filled water bottles or canteens strapped to the running board. You will need water for the radiator and to drink and when hot you need plenty of it. Gasoline averaged 37 cents from Chicago to Los Angeles. It was 60 cents at Springerville, but that town is eighty miles from a and on either side for some distance it was 45 cents. At the Pacific coast end of the trip it will be found to be 27 cents, but it is not by any means as good a grade as is served in Chicago, although made on the ground. l You can stop at hotels with comfort and no excessive cost; but there are hundreds who camp out and cook enroute, for supplies are easy to procure. Most every town has a free public camping ground with water and lights. Denver, Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Socorro, and Springerville all have good places; the worst was at Winslow, alongside a railroad yard.

There la more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be Incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by ‘constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c s Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.—Advt.

The largest stage in Europe is that of the Grand opera house in Paris. It is 100 feet wide, nearly 200 feet in depth and 80 feet high.

BATORDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1920

RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect July 11, 1920. — NORTHBOUND No. 86 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:24 a.m. No. 4 .Louisville to Chicago 6:01 a.m. No. 16 •Cincinnati to Chic’go 6:17 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:14 a.m. No. 12 |lndlanap’a to Chicago 10:86 a.m. No, 38 Cincinnati to Chicago 2:61 p.m. NO. 6 Louisville to Chicago 8:36 p.m. No. 10 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:10 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No, 16 •Chic’go to Cincinnati 1:40 a.m. No. 36 Chicago to Cincinnati 3:37 a.m. No. 6 Chicago to Louisville 10:66 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indianan’s 7:81 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Loniavllle 11:10 p.m. •Stop on signal to take on or let off passengers to or from points south of Indiana polis. ..

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Charles O. Spltlsr Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands •Civil Engineer ....L. ▲. 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 Waymiro At large—Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL OFFICIALS Circuit Judge C. W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty...J. C. Murphey Torme of court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICIALS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff True D. Wood worth Auditor S. C. Robinson Treasurer John T. Biggs Recorder George Scott Surveyor 1. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright Assessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural Agent—D. Mawhorter Health Officer ....F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS District No. 1 H. -W. Marble District No. 2 Bert Amsler District No. 2.. . .Charles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Brant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpentar Benj. F. LaFevre Gillam George Parker Hanging Grove Julius Huff Jordan Alfred Duggleby Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Charles W. PostiU ..Marlon Charles C. Wood Milroy John Rush Newton Walter Harrington Union John F. Petet Walker John Bowie Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendsat C. M. Sands. Truant officer.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW LAw, Abstracts, Real Estate Loan*. Will practice in all the courts. Office over O’Riley’s bakery. Rensselaer, Indians. 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 Ns. 18 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 staeo. Office hours: 10 to 12 and I 4* I. Evening, 7 to 8. Phone 88. Rensselaer, Indiana. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State bank , Office 'Phone No. 177 Residence 'Phone No. 17T-B Reneselser, Indians. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to typhoid, peeomonla and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig's drug Star.. 'Phones: Office No. 442: Kes. No. 448-B. Rensselaer, Indiana. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC - PHYSICIAN Graduate American School ot Osteo* athy. Poet-graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder, Dr. A. T. BtllL Office hours: 8-12 a. m.; 1-6 p. sa Tuesdays and Fridays at Monttoefio, India Office 1-2 Murray building Rensselaer, Indians. DR. W. E. RUSSELL Veterinarian Telephone 443 Rensselaer, tnd.

Jasper Reduction Co REED & HEED, Props. ,If you lose any livestock, notify us and We will send for the carcass promptly. We also take old, crippled or diseased animals off your hands. Telephone 906-1 or 17-Black. Prepare For the Cold I am prepared to give you the best of service in repairing your side curtains and Detroit winter tops. Any auto top re-covered and made as good as new from sl2 up, or make a closed top of your old one. I have celluloid and top dressing. Call and see me. R. W. KNICKERBOCKER Phone 482.